June 4, 2026 • 36 mins
Hour Four of A&G features...
- Jack succumbs to a scam...
- A complete lack of professionalism...
- Scott Pelley is a pompous as hat...
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Getty, I know he Armstrong and Getty.
Some business news.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Game Style just reported their highest profit ever by selling
Action figures.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
And Pokemon cards.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yeah, and if you wink at the cashier weed.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
I think I got stolen from by a by some
sort of scam artist. I don't know that I've ever
been stolen from. I probably have been, don't know of it.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I got a.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Letter, an email allegedly from the d m V saying
how much I owed on my to register for something
that I had some vehicle that we don't use that
had lapsed or something anyway, owed some money, And I thought,
is this a scam thing? Or because I went to
the DMV website and I couldn't come up with it
(01:11):
anywhere there.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
But it's very hard to use that.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Website and it's not user friendly at all, and so
it doesn't necessarily mean that any who. It had the
last five numbers of my vin so I thought, that's
a pretty good indication that this is real.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I would I have the last fit but.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Anyway, I paid it and I didn't get any confirmation
email from the DMV like you usually do.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I can't come up with anything anywhere. I think.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
I think I just paid somebody because about that made
me think that this has happened. Is I got another
one today for a larger amount.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Oh, oh boy, I just got it, got a live one. Yeah,
they thought, okay, we got an idiot here.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
You owed twenty four hundred and fifty dollars for this vehicle,
you know, and all our informations floating around out there
sign on to Incogniti as we been talking about.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Probably my vin from who knows what?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Uh, it's floating around for somewhere because your insurance company
has it or who knows.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Who has it? Well, your car dealer has it. Car
dealer has it, and I don't think there's any agreement
that that's private, probably right.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Or maybe I got the windshield replaced once and one
of those window replacement places has it, or.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Who knows who?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Lots of people do, and everybody sells your info because
there's money in it.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, yeah, god dang it, that's mad ton. How much
do you get you for? Uh, twelve hundred dollars?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Oh man, I don't leave a mark oof m moron
and this everywhere, everywhere, all the time. These scams. Never
pay your bills, that's the only defense. Pay nothing.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Mortgage?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
What mortgage? I don't know about any mortgage. You moved
in your house, right, you didn't pay cash for.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
The whole thing. Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Maybe what's your points? I've never heard of you. We've
been your bank for twenty years, Harry. I've been trying
to me the other day with the bill collector.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Who was wrong?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
I had paid the bill, but he called me up
and said, is this says my name? I said, who's this?
Who's this? He asks me, like, how dare you ask
me that question? I said, in an even louder voice,
who's this?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Oh you win? I'm with so and so company? Who
are you? And I said, maybe you are, maybe you aren't.
I'm not going to give you.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
But he asked for amillion, my address and a whole
bunch of different stuff. I said, I don't know who
you are. I'm who I said, I was. Okay, Well
then oh wow, that settles it.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
But you enda with that standoff all the time. It
says it's really hard to mail down what's real and
what's not. I'll bet that there is.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Oh my god, well, I'll finish my sentence then disagreement
with myself. I'll bet there is some AI generated encryption
slash ID.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
System coming.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I hope, so, I hope so, But then I realized, well,
the bad guys will harness the very same powers somehow
to overcome it.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
And screw it up in the rest of them.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah, so it's getting harder and harder. Uh so we've
we've spent. It's worse than that, and amusingly most of
this segment. Yes, it's worse than that now that I
think about it.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
To pay the bill, I clicked on the link in
the perhaps fake d MV email, So not only did
I pay that bill, but clicking on a link they
could be into my phone all kinds of different ways.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
It's possible. Yeah, they didn't have you download the app,
did they or anything like that?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
No, And I used Apple Pay, so at least it's
not straight into my bank account.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
But AnyWho, I have finally fallen for one of these.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Michael Cliff number sixteen in another story.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
He doesn't have a sixteen. Joe made that.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Up a question for the the whole Armstrong and getting
through you miss you misspoke my eyes. As you know,
I have progressive glasses. I don't know right things I
progressed to you say, Wow, don't you call them progressive.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
They're Marxists. They're Marxist glasses.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
You don't have the healthcare In another story. Second, that's
the sound of a Bulgarian man being attacked by a bear.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Well, al Andy, apparently there was.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Some other video going on and there is in the
background be set by a bear.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I'm confused. It's a rough day.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Why is the guy yelling in the background and the
guy the loud guy who's getting.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Attacked by the bear, the loud in the background, the
guy in the background shrieking for his latch. So he's
on the phone with some dude.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Who then some sort of videotaping or something. They're like
zoom call and then somebody gets attacked by her get right.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
In the background. Yeah, yeah, one second, one second.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
I have the detailed I have the details, Hanson, just
give me. It's two dudes in a car, they see
a bear, they stop, one guy.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Gets out, he gets attacked by the bear. Wow.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Wow, really make you reconsider the hole getting out and
looking at the bear thing.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Well, so that guy and I should get together.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Don't click on a d m V link without and
don't get out of your car to say hello to
the bear.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Boris, Boris, I have idea, So we stay in car
to watch bear.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Stay in car, Boris, come back. I'm told. I'm told
that's not quite right. The bear climbed into the window
and attacked him. Okay, so the bear climbed into the window.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
What the car window, Boris, roll window up again quickly.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
I'm being told it was a high speed chase. The
bear overtook them in his own car. Okay. We will
straighten us all out and have more for you coming
up next. I just got an email from the DMV
that says scam alerts for DMV click on here to
(07:42):
be alerted how to find a scam, which is probably
a scam from that same company.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
One hundred percent of scam.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Oh wow, I wonder if they heard you saying I
just got scammed.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Oh no.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
So here's what we were going to talk about last
segment before the show got derailed by DMV scams in
Romanian bear attacks. We're going to start with the serious
stuff and then the kind of funny stuff. Here's my premise,
and I have absolutely zero fear of being contradicted. Islamism
is coming to the United States, the Islamic form of government,
fundamentalist Islam. It's already done enormous damage to Great Britain
(08:17):
and France, and it's coming here. It's in the person
of Ilhan Omar and Rashida Talib and others who would
put the Quran before the constitution.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
You mean certain towns or counties or no, just that
their philosophy need them.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
The way you stated it sounds like it is going
to take over. It's not gonna take over the country.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Uh No, but it will know that it starts in
small places and metastasizes outward. And just for the sake
of the argument, if you're thinking, well, I'm a Christian
and I put Christ at the top of my list
even before country, the fundamental difference that you have to
understand is not only does Christianity have the concept of
the secular, but Christianity is the soul of the idea
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that every human being has worth and that there's the
spiritual kingdom and then there's the physical kingdom, and that
the two are unrelated. Islam ignores both of those things,
and it's fundamentally different to put Islam before the Constitution
than Christianity. Anyway, This Adam Hamaway won the primary in
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Michigan to become a congressman. This is the guy you
may have heard of who testified on behalf of the
mastermind of the nineteen ninety three World Trade Center bombing,
the Blind Shake. He's a plastic surgeon, retired Army doctor.
He won a crowded primary I'm sorry for New Jerseys
safely blue twelfth Congressional district and is expected to win
(09:44):
the seat in November.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
And it was known as people were voting that he
was a character witnessed for a terrorist.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah, that's correct. And Andy McCarthy Andrew McCarthy in the
National Reviews written a terrific article.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I'm going to quote some of it.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
The Democratic for a House seat in New Jersey was
a sympathizer of the Blind Shak, who inspired the first
World Trade Center bombing. Goes into Adam Hamaway, who testified
at the trial in ninety five. Andy says, I'm not
surprised to last for reasons I explained last month here,
and we could get into that, but he said to recap.
The Blind Shak was already a notorious figure in global
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jihadist circles when he was permitted to relocate to the
US in nineteen ninety. Astonishingly, federal immigration authorities first admitted
him on a tourist visa, then issued him a green card,
rationalizing that he was a religious worker. He had publicly
taken credit for issuing the fatwah that greenlighted the murder
of Egyptian President on Mar Sadat. He was in a
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position to give such directives and to lead recruit and
raise funds return networks because he was a renowned scholar
of Islamic jurist prudens at a university in Cairo, the
seat of Sunni Islamic learning for more than a millennium.
He figured prominently, along with Osama Laden and others in
the formation of al Qaeda during the Jahad in Afghanistan
against the Soviets, and after the Soviets, Withdrew b and
(11:07):
Lauden decided to take the jihad global. But anyway, this
Hamoway character was a friend and aid to the Blind Shake,
which is why he voluntarily appeared as a witness for him.
What he's testifying about was a trip to Detroit in
nineteen ninety one, and a government informative testified that during
the trip, when the informant was discussing his time in
the Egyptian Army, the blind Shak asked him, why didn't
(11:28):
you turn your gun on Mubarik, who succeeded Saddat after
Saddat was wiped out by fundamentalist Muslims. Hamoway claimed, not
very convincingly, that he hadn't heard that conversation. The blind
Shak didn't ask me that. But the evidence that abdal Raman,
the blind Shak, inspired to murder Barak and repeatedly called
for his association was overwhelming. Everybody heard him say it,
(11:51):
and the jury convicted him of conspiracy and incitement and
connection with Mubarik, as well as seditious conspiracy to levy
war against the United States, among other terrorism related charges.
Hamway conceded on cross examination that although the economics was
the supposed subject of the Detroit conference they went to,
(12:11):
Abdul Raman used the occasion to urge violent jihad against
the United States and Israel. And in fact, this Hamaway
guy who is about to be a congressman, said, of
course that's what he always talked about. He talked about jihad.
You know, so this guy, good old buddy of a
global leader in Islamist terrorism, is about to become a congressman,
(12:34):
and he will push gently at first, and then more
and more firmly for you know, I'll call it Palestinian rights,
or the ability for people to live according to their
own beliefs. In America, you have freedom of religion, so
we want to have Sharia courts decide divorce and child
abuse cases.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
And you ever one more hoof inside the tent?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah, exactly true, exactly true. And this is not the
only guy. I want to talk about Qatar's influenced buying
in America, but I don't know that was serious enough.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
So I'll go with this.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
As it fights anti Semitism lawsuits from the federal government,
Harvard University says that federal funding cuts are threatening its
life saving research and so the Feds need to call
off the dogs. But at the same time, the university's
Divinity School is putting resources, admittedly not a ton, but
resources behind a new publication devoted to queerness and Palestinian
(13:30):
liberation that's named after a Canaanite Goddess again. This is
the Harvard Divinity School where he studied, get a.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
PhD in religion or whatever.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
The first issue of Asherah, a Harvard Divinity School journal,
is a project of anti Israel Jewish studies. Professor Shaol
Magid writes Aristol in the Free Beacon, it's really something
to behold, even by the provocative and sophomore e standards
of student publications. It includes statement from the student editors
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to women, naturally, who write that they are not scholars
of the ancient texts, did not go to Yeshiva, are
not rabbis in quotes for some reason, but are instead
coming and I'm quoting now, coming from the sidelines of
mainstream Jewish life, largely because of our queerness or anti racism,
our support for Palestinian liberation. They also note that this
(14:23):
publication finds itself at a moment encumbered by war, by
fascism and genocide, by religious and ethno nationalism, by reckoning,
with the rapid development of AI, to which you're like, wait.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
A minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
We're covering a lot of ground here and its impact
on planet and people, by climate collapse, ah, by pandemics,
and by the pervasive presence of disconnection and loneliness.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
So what a great tutorial.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
And you've got to use all those terms queerness, anti racism,
Palestinian liberation. You throw in war or fascism, genocide, global warming.
AI should have mentioned that flesh eating worm pandemics the
screw worm, right exactly. It's the the eternal omni cause,
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which is neomarxism. Everybody with any gripe get together and
overthrow Western civilization.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
But here we go. Later on the issue includes some
erotic poetry.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Oh, here we go. Settle in everybody as Uncle Joe
reads you. Erotic poetry from the Harvard Divinity School Journal Queerness,
Palestinian Climate Change, AI pandemic screwworm magazine. We fell asleep, laughing,
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blanketed in heavy tonguing prayer temple worshippers also called trans bedmakers.
I have never sexted so well, stomach thigh. I wonder
if God hears bed prayer in two different ears, consummating
interfaith with fingers, and then Iristoll writes to clear up
(16:06):
any confusion. The latter verse was not written by a
Graham Platner, although he may take inspiration from it. Oh
my lord, anti Israel students and professors producing a queer
erotic poetry magazine named after a Canaanite goddess with the
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university's financial support.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
That's havd hey speaking of the whole uh not funding
universities whatever. I heard somebody make this argument a while back,
Remember when DOGE was really going and then they were
cutting funding for various things, and people were screaming, We're
this close to curing cancer and you've pulled our funding.
And I heard somebody make the argument the other day,
(16:51):
you've got a fifty billion dollar endowment. Yeah, so if
you're close to curing cancer, how about you take a
little bit of that money. Since if this eighty thousand
dollars or the varieties of amounts of money that were
being cut, is the difference between cre and cancer or not,
how about take some of that fifty billion.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Dollars you're sitting on and spend the month it starts
flowing again.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Yeah, I think if it's important, maybe you would. Anyway,
more on the way Stater, Armstrong and.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Getty CBS just fired longtime sixty minutes. Correspondent Scott Pelly, Yeah,
the story gets more bizarre because today CBS and Now
is they were placing Scott Pelley.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
With Byron Allen.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
In the last few months, sixty minutes has lost multiple
producers and correspondence. You can tell that they got rid
of a lot of people because the show is now
called sixty seconds.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Wow, that's beneath him. Wow. Um uh crowd boom. You
could joke for eight year old.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Crowd booing to the firing of Scott Pelly. Pompous ass
hat Scott Pelly. I'm telling you, if you want the
definition of pompous, go back three weeks and watch his
interview with Senator Ben Sas, who's dying of cancer. That
is the most pompous display of all time. I mean,
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it is something else.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
You highlighted one particular gesture of his and I came
across this on the Twitter.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Brandy Cruz wrote this.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I was an intern at CBS News when Pelly would
fill in for Katie Kirk on the Evening News. I
watched in the control room one day as he directed
them to slowly put the shot, push the shot in
on him as he took his glasses off. It was
so fake. I've remembered it for fifteen years carefully Orchid Trade,
and then Cheryl Atkinson wants a good friend of the
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Armstrong and Getty show said. Perhaps David Bloom put it
best quote. When Scott Pelly gets in line at Starbucks
and orders coffee, he doesn't order what he really wants.
He orders what he wants. People behind him to hear
him order.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
That's really good. Oh boy.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
So though I don't know what's going on here, So
Scott Pelly is a pompous asset despite the fact that
I'm a sixty minutes fan. What do we want first?
We want to pushback or be reminded of what he's like.
Maybe we'll do that first. So Scott Pelly from last year,
I guess he gave a commencement address.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Yeah, yes, jo.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah, his claim being that the new management dared to
interject politics into their pure hearted reporting and now outrageous
that was because they're straight down the middle journalists.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yeah, but in this go ahead, But.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
In this moment, this moment, this morning, our sacred rule
of law is underattack, is it? Journalism is under attack,
Universities are under attack, freedom of speech is under attack,
and insidious fear.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Is reaching through our schools.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Our businesses, our homes, and into our private thoughts.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Who the fear to speak in America.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Power can rewrite history with grotesque, false narratives. They can
make criminals heroes and heroes criminals. That power can change
the definition of the words we use to describe reality.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
People are twisting.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
The diversity is now described as illegal, equity is to
be shunned, inclusion is.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
A he were.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
This is an old playbook, my friends.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
There's nothing new.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
In this wow to summarize. Progressives are not allowed to
speak their minds on college campuses, and DEI is being
demonized even though those words we all know what those
words are. Good Lord, I don't think he's a dedicated
neo Marxist.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I don't think so either. He's a dupe.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
He actually believes that his crowd using diversity, equity, inclusion.
They're using it in a completely honest way.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
That's what DEI programs are after. And the whole reaching
into your thoughts. What is that all about?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
AnyWho?
Speaker 4 (21:56):
I don't know how you get that far off track
where you think. I mean, I have a side I
like better than the other side, but I would never
in a million years claim that my side doesn't lie
and cheat and twist and everything that goes on in
the world of trying to win arguments that's more included.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
To include fraudsters and poultroys. Like Candace Owens is in
Moscow right now, toubting how wonderful Russia is?
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Is she really what a joke?
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Yeah, but I'm kind of confused by this part of it.
So if you've been following this story at all, or
listen to us. So Scott Pelly got fired the other day.
It sounds like, at least according to Barry Weiss, who
runs the news organization, and then that guy under him
who runs sixty minutes, I forget under her who runs
sixty minutes.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Forget his name? Is that here might be here built
in nick Builton. So they have this meeting.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
But they knew they were going to have this meeting
with the sixty minute people, and they knew Scott Pelly
was going to be a bit of an obstacle because
he'd been out there saying some controversial things.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
So they got a hold of him. They called him.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
They tried to head this off and say, hey, can
we come to some sort of agreement or meet before
hand before the big meeting in Scott Pelly didn't want to.
And then they walk into the meeting in Scott Pelly
immediately hits him with a why are you here? Knowing
nobody wants you here, and everybody cheered, and dude Nick
Bilton says, you're not gonna intimidate me in front of
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this crowd, and Scott Pelly goes on about Barry Weiss
is unqualified and trying to murder this program. And so
he gets up and says, enjoy your bagels and walks out,
and Nick Bilton does AnyWho. Scott Pelly says it didn't
happen that way at all. He put out a letter yesterday.
I'm saddened to see the transcript of the CBS News
Morning editorial meeting. Barry Weiss knows what she said is
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not true. And the meeting on Tuesday in which I
was effectively fired, there is no effort effort of any
kind to find a way back. As Weiss said in
the editorial meeting, at no point did anyone in the
Tuesday meeting suggest that there gonna be steps taken by
either side that would lead to a resolution. Weiss and
this other dude were openly hostile from the start. Firing
(23:59):
was raised them in the first fifteen seconds. No CBIs
executive at any time, suggested a way back, and then
he goes through specific things. In fact, Weiss, the Sabrowski,
and Nick Bilton refused to answer my questions. I asked
WWI a number of questions about why she fired the
entire staff a few days before and without cause. I'm
(24:20):
not answering that question, she said. I asked why did
she not come to the sixty minutes officers to explain
her actions.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I'm not answering that question. Anyway.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
He goes through all this stuff. He's disputing there accounting
of what happened in the meeting, that meeting in beforehand, so.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
He's pretty specific. Also, So what do you think that's
going on there? I don't know. He's such an a hole.
I assume he's lying.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
So you had the big meeting where there was the
blow up, and then they got him to show up
to a small meeting with the people you mentioned in
private to see if they could find a way forward,
and they're claiming he was completely intransigent, and he's saying no,
they opened up with hostility mentioned and firing me and
never gave me a chance and wouldn't answer my questions.
They had no chance, intention of a pathway forward, he said,
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She said go away, go you want me to go? Yes, go.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
I am pained that the staff I want to actually
read it at his pace because we have time limits.
I am pained that the staff of CBS News was
misled in the conference call. These executives cannot gain the
trust of the staff with lies. This is antithetical to
everything we stand for and reveals contempt for what journalists do.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
And Michael, the fact that it would happen here in America,
it's even worse.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
They pervert language diversity is those.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
It's possible, having been in the real world for a
long time, in particularly media, possible that they had decided
to fire him and there was no keeping his job.
And because we've seen that, we've seen that. Oh, I see,
they had a plan and they act like, you know,
there are other options on the table, but they had
a plan, usually around cutbacks, usually around financial cutbacks. That
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so we have to get rid of these people. We're
getting rid of these people. We're gonna act like there's
a dialogue involved or anything like that. They do that
I've seen it, so that's possible that that's what happened
at CBS's and Pelly's just angry that they pretended there
was an option for.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Him to stay. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Nobody's debating that he gave the speech he gave at
the meeting and told Nick Bilton he wasn't welcome, Barry
Weiss was completely unqualified and trying to murder the program.
I mean, everybody agrees that happened.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Right, I'm just saying it could be possible that there
was no path for him to stay, that they had
decided he had to go, and we're just looking for
the smoothest way to enact that because.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
I think he had to go.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
He's expensive, and he doesn't fit in with what they're
trying to do. They want to bring sixty minutes back
to something that is more respectable journalism, and there's no
way he was going to be part of that.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I don't agree that that's true necessarily, just because Barry
Weiss and Nick what's his name reached out multiple times
before the big meeting where here he tried Pelly tried
to stage the coup to say, hey, can we get together,
can we have dinner.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Can we talk about the future too, he refused. Every time.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
They're more optimistic than I would have been, though. I mean,
so if he's calling what they want to do distortions
and lies because he feels like what he was doing
was the straight down the middle of the honest truth, right,
give me a break to twist it if you have one,
you're on social media at all. There's all kinds of
clips going around from Sixty Minutes episodes over the last
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several years of Scott Pelly completely allowing, for instance, FBI
director Andrew McKay go on and on on about about
a whole bunch of crap about the Russian collusion thing
that was not true, and everybody knew it wasn't true,
but Scott Pelly with his glasses off.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
And one stem in his mouth, looking off in the distance. Hm,
and we didn't play this yesterday.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
But then there was the sixty Minutes extra in which
he and the producer got together and talked about how
incredibly sound a source mackab was, how he's completely unimpeachable
as a source. Just before he did just lied up
and down to Congress and others got this note from
Frankie and Georgia. I just wanted to reach out to
you during these difficult times and say that I'm concerned
(28:32):
about Scott Pelly, not for him personally, but for the
future of your Scott Pelly impressions.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
You've almost perfected them.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Bernie Sanders' clips and your impressions of him always cracked
me up, but those have slowly dwindled away. I'm not
sure I can handle losing another one.
Speaker 7 (28:47):
In America, we need to cut down the millionares and
billion ass We need to cut down the millionaires and billionaires.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Need to cut them down. Cut them down there, Frankie,
I hope you enjoyed that.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Scott Pelly is the perfect example of mistaking fame for importance.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Yeah, oh yeah, in his own head. Oh where do
you think we ought to eat tonight?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Scott?
Speaker 4 (29:22):
He got any ideas? Where would I like, I'm gonna
eat with someone else. I'm gonna door dash. Never mind, Okay,
we will finished strong next In America.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Did you do an eighth grade graduation when you were
a kid? No, I have no memory of it.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
I think we did, which I did. I don't remember
thinking about much at the time, but in retrospect, it's
what the heck is that? And then they've added in
kindergarten graduations. I've seen these online. We did one, my
kids did one, but it was just a certificate and
juice boxes, I think, but I saw one.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Do they call him completion ceremonies.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
I don't know people in their ceremonies, but I saw
one the other day where they had actually had caps
and gowns for these kindergarteners. You know why, because it
looks adorable. That's why these things exist. Like you've always
talked about with the sports things, the uniforms, you don't
need to have a full baseball uniform as a five
year old, but you shouldn't be on a field at all.
(30:29):
You sure look cute in it, so there you go.
But anyway, a different topic is my son gets done
with his sophomore year today, and this will be the
first year since his kindergarten year that I don't pick
him up from his school.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
He drives now.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Plus he's going out with friends afterwards and they're going
to go just do stuff, which is what you should
do when you're sixteen years old.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
You're dead probably, but it'll be the.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
First year I don't pick him up jamming schools out
for summer out the windows of my truck in the
parking lot when he gets it Alice Cooper school forever.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Which is not except it's not.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
It's out for a measly ten weeks in the modern
world before school starts back up again. But you know,
it's all of the stuff with kids getting older, especially
when they get older. I had a friend who was
talking the other day about their nephew graduated from high
school and they'd been picking them up from school to
help out with the family for years and that that
era was over and they're really sad about it. Well,
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at the same time, you know, the alternative is no good,
what them staying at home forever or staying in school
forever or whatever. But you know, the whole bittersweetness of
the whole thing. I mean, I'm glad my son is
to the age of he drives himself and he hangs
out with friends as opposed to being with his mom
and dad, But you know, I'm not excited about it.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Yeah, yeah, that last day of school feeling.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Boy, if they could put that in a pill, everybody'd
be addicted. There'd be even more junkies laying around on
the sidewalks of America.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Kidding.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
I hated school so much. I mean, so it was
even more for me than the average person. I hated school,
and so it being over for a little while, and
you know, when you're a kid, summer seems like forever.
So it was like schools out forever, because oh my god,
schools out so far off when it starts to get
I don't even need to think about it.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Wishing an adult.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
He goes by that, Oh yeah, yeah, uh but.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Yeah, as a high schooler, when you first start to
get summer jobs and or you're required to get a
summer job, and every day you don't have one, you
hear about it.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
I remember that.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Yeah, yeah, that changes the complexion of the summertime a bit.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
True.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
This is going to be his first year summer where
he's working, as opposed to just you know, woafing with
his friends.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
That's a different thing.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Yeah, that was different because I worked a hard job
during the summer starting.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
When I was fifteen, I guess, well fourteen.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
And so when schooliers started it was a few I
get to take a little break for a while.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Yeah, yeah, I still remember the feeling of gladys I
think I was like a was after my freshman or
maybe sophomore year of high school and a couple of
my friends were a couple of years older than me,
and we had for summer after summer played whiffleball until
our throwing arms were hanging from our shoulders. We couldn't
even lift them because we just played and played and played.
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And I remember the first time I gave him a call,
I guess and said, hey, you want to whiffle this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
He's like, no, I gotta work, Like wait what? Yeah,
that's funny.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
That's That's exactly what happened with my son, because the
weekends have started to become like that one of them's
got a job or this or that or whatever, and
it's a lot harder to get.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Together than it used to be.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Two points. Number one, childhood had come to a close.
Number two, Yes, we used whiffle as a verb.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
The Thoughts Final Final.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Here's your host for final Thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap ups show for the day.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Wouldn't that be delightful? Michael Angelow lead us off.
Speaker 6 (34:07):
Which final thought the closest I ever got to getting
scammed was when I was younger. I got the I
R S call and they wanted to collect on my
tax debt. And I thought it was legit, and I
got about halfway through and then something said this isn't right,
and I just quickly hung up.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Hmmm, yeah, good call. Good call. Your instinct serve you well,
young men. Jack A final thought for us, that.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
Feeling of school being out and you walk out that door.
It's just what comes Is there anything that comes close
to that that that same feeling?
Speaker 2 (34:40):
No, there isn't. You would think there would be, but
I don't think there is. I can't come up with it.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Hey, that Friday afternoon when you walk out of work
and it's vacation, you're taking a week off or whatever.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
That's like, Yeah, I wonder if we haven't retired, So
maybe when you retire you get that feeling.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Perhaps, yes, Gosh, my final thought is I don't really
have one. Don't have a final thought.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Wow, No more thoughts.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Used up all your thoughts, Eat a balance, diet, take
care of yourself.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Suddliness is next to godliness. Used up all your thoughts today.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
If you're in Romania and you see a bear stay
in your car and multiple thoughts.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
Armstrung and getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
So many people to thanks, so a little time, pick
up some ange swag? Would you a cool T shirt
or hat or hoodie? Did these enforce the law? T
shirt flying off the shelves?
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (35:40):
Those are very very cool. I wish I could grow
mustache like Timothy shallow may. I just saw him on
the TV.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
How many talents does this boy have? Acting, singing, mustache growing?
Speaker 2 (35:53):
We will see tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
God bless America.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
I'm strong and getchet show Heyo Tani.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
He's gotta be like the equivalent of Europeans eight foot tall,
doesn't he?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
They gotta fear him like Godzilla, I mean man.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
When he comes back to Tokyo, he's probably walking through
the streets and.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
They got airplanes flying around and try to stop him.
Makes those noises. I've never heard it makes that noise.
But he might be on shun Ain't jetty so arshrong
and
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Getty, I know he Armstrong and Getty.
Some business news.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Game Style just reported their highest profit ever by selling
Action figures.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
And Pokemon cards.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yeah, and if you wink at the cashier weed.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
I think I got stolen from by a by some
sort of scam artist. I don't know that I've ever
been stolen from. I probably have been, don't know of it.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I got a.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Letter, an email allegedly from the d m V saying
how much I owed on my to register for something
that I had some vehicle that we don't use that
had lapsed or something anyway, owed some money, And I thought,
is this a scam thing? Or because I went to
the DMV website and I couldn't come up with it
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anywhere there.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
But it's very hard to use that.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Website and it's not user friendly at all, and so
it doesn't necessarily mean that any who. It had the
last five numbers of my vin so I thought, that's
a pretty good indication that this is real.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I would I have the last fit but.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Anyway, I paid it and I didn't get any confirmation
email from the DMV like you usually do.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I can't come up with anything anywhere. I think.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
I think I just paid somebody because about that made
me think that this has happened. Is I got another
one today for a larger amount.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Oh, oh boy, I just got it, got a live one. Yeah,
they thought, okay, we got an idiot here.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
You owed twenty four hundred and fifty dollars for this vehicle,
you know, and all our informations floating around out there
sign on to Incogniti as we been talking about.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Probably my vin from who knows what?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Uh, it's floating around for somewhere because your insurance company
has it or who knows.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Who has it? Well, your car dealer has it. Car
dealer has it, and I don't think there's any agreement
that that's private, probably right.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Or maybe I got the windshield replaced once and one
of those window replacement places has it, or.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Who knows who?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Lots of people do, and everybody sells your info because
there's money in it.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, yeah, god dang it, that's mad ton. How much
do you get you for? Uh, twelve hundred dollars?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Oh man, I don't leave a mark oof m moron
and this everywhere, everywhere, all the time. These scams. Never
pay your bills, that's the only defense. Pay nothing.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Mortgage?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
What mortgage? I don't know about any mortgage. You moved
in your house, right, you didn't pay cash for.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
The whole thing. Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Maybe what's your points? I've never heard of you. We've
been your bank for twenty years, Harry. I've been trying
to me the other day with the bill collector.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Who was wrong?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
I had paid the bill, but he called me up
and said, is this says my name? I said, who's this?
Who's this? He asks me, like, how dare you ask
me that question? I said, in an even louder voice,
who's this?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Oh you win? I'm with so and so company? Who
are you? And I said, maybe you are, maybe you aren't.
I'm not going to give you.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
But he asked for amillion, my address and a whole
bunch of different stuff. I said, I don't know who
you are. I'm who I said, I was. Okay, Well
then oh wow, that settles it.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
But you enda with that standoff all the time. It
says it's really hard to mail down what's real and
what's not. I'll bet that there is.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Oh my god, well, I'll finish my sentence then disagreement
with myself. I'll bet there is some AI generated encryption
slash ID.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
System coming.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I hope, so, I hope so, But then I realized, well,
the bad guys will harness the very same powers somehow
to overcome it.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
And screw it up in the rest of them.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah, so it's getting harder and harder. Uh so we've
we've spent. It's worse than that, and amusingly most of
this segment. Yes, it's worse than that now that I
think about it.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
To pay the bill, I clicked on the link in
the perhaps fake d MV email, So not only did
I pay that bill, but clicking on a link they
could be into my phone all kinds of different ways.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
It's possible. Yeah, they didn't have you download the app,
did they or anything like that?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
No, And I used Apple Pay, so at least it's
not straight into my bank account.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
But AnyWho, I have finally fallen for one of these.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Michael Cliff number sixteen in another story.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
He doesn't have a sixteen. Joe made that.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Up a question for the the whole Armstrong and getting
through you miss you misspoke my eyes. As you know,
I have progressive glasses. I don't know right things I
progressed to you say, Wow, don't you call them progressive.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
They're Marxists. They're Marxist glasses.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
You don't have the healthcare In another story. Second, that's
the sound of a Bulgarian man being attacked by a bear.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Well, al Andy, apparently there was.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Some other video going on and there is in the
background be set by a bear.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I'm confused. It's a rough day.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Why is the guy yelling in the background and the
guy the loud guy who's getting.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Attacked by the bear, the loud in the background, the
guy in the background shrieking for his latch. So he's
on the phone with some dude.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Who then some sort of videotaping or something. They're like
zoom call and then somebody gets attacked by her get right.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
In the background. Yeah, yeah, one second, one second.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
I have the detailed I have the details, Hanson, just
give me. It's two dudes in a car, they see
a bear, they stop, one guy.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Gets out, he gets attacked by the bear. Wow.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Wow, really make you reconsider the hole getting out and
looking at the bear thing.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Well, so that guy and I should get together.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Don't click on a d m V link without and
don't get out of your car to say hello to
the bear.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Boris, Boris, I have idea, So we stay in car
to watch bear.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Stay in car, Boris, come back. I'm told. I'm told
that's not quite right. The bear climbed into the window
and attacked him. Okay, so the bear climbed into the window.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
What the car window, Boris, roll window up again quickly.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
I'm being told it was a high speed chase. The
bear overtook them in his own car. Okay. We will
straighten us all out and have more for you coming
up next. I just got an email from the DMV
that says scam alerts for DMV click on here to
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be alerted how to find a scam, which is probably
a scam from that same company.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
One hundred percent of scam.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Oh wow, I wonder if they heard you saying I
just got scammed.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Oh no.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
So here's what we were going to talk about last
segment before the show got derailed by DMV scams in
Romanian bear attacks. We're going to start with the serious
stuff and then the kind of funny stuff. Here's my premise,
and I have absolutely zero fear of being contradicted. Islamism
is coming to the United States, the Islamic form of government,
fundamentalist Islam. It's already done enormous damage to Great Britain
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and France, and it's coming here. It's in the person
of Ilhan Omar and Rashida Talib and others who would
put the Quran before the constitution.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
You mean certain towns or counties or no, just that
their philosophy need them.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
The way you stated it sounds like it is going
to take over. It's not gonna take over the country.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Uh No, but it will know that it starts in
small places and metastasizes outward. And just for the sake
of the argument, if you're thinking, well, I'm a Christian
and I put Christ at the top of my list
even before country, the fundamental difference that you have to
understand is not only does Christianity have the concept of
the secular, but Christianity is the soul of the idea
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that every human being has worth and that there's the
spiritual kingdom and then there's the physical kingdom, and that
the two are unrelated. Islam ignores both of those things,
and it's fundamentally different to put Islam before the Constitution
than Christianity. Anyway, This Adam Hamaway won the primary in
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Michigan to become a congressman. This is the guy you
may have heard of who testified on behalf of the
mastermind of the nineteen ninety three World Trade Center bombing,
the Blind Shake. He's a plastic surgeon, retired Army doctor.
He won a crowded primary I'm sorry for New Jerseys
safely blue twelfth Congressional district and is expected to win
(09:44):
the seat in November.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
And it was known as people were voting that he
was a character witnessed for a terrorist.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah, that's correct. And Andy McCarthy Andrew McCarthy in the
National Reviews written a terrific article.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I'm going to quote some of it.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
The Democratic for a House seat in New Jersey was
a sympathizer of the Blind Shak, who inspired the first
World Trade Center bombing. Goes into Adam Hamaway, who testified
at the trial in ninety five. Andy says, I'm not
surprised to last for reasons I explained last month here,
and we could get into that, but he said to recap.
The Blind Shak was already a notorious figure in global
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jihadist circles when he was permitted to relocate to the
US in nineteen ninety. Astonishingly, federal immigration authorities first admitted
him on a tourist visa, then issued him a green card,
rationalizing that he was a religious worker. He had publicly
taken credit for issuing the fatwah that greenlighted the murder
of Egyptian President on Mar Sadat. He was in a
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position to give such directives and to lead recruit and
raise funds return networks because he was a renowned scholar
of Islamic jurist prudens at a university in Cairo, the
seat of Sunni Islamic learning for more than a millennium.
He figured prominently, along with Osama Laden and others in
the formation of al Qaeda during the Jahad in Afghanistan
against the Soviets, and after the Soviets, Withdrew b and
(11:07):
Lauden decided to take the jihad global. But anyway, this
Hamoway character was a friend and aid to the Blind Shake,
which is why he voluntarily appeared as a witness for him.
What he's testifying about was a trip to Detroit in
nineteen ninety one, and a government informative testified that during
the trip, when the informant was discussing his time in
the Egyptian Army, the blind Shak asked him, why didn't
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you turn your gun on Mubarik, who succeeded Saddat after
Saddat was wiped out by fundamentalist Muslims. Hamoway claimed, not
very convincingly, that he hadn't heard that conversation. The blind
Shak didn't ask me that. But the evidence that abdal Raman,
the blind Shak, inspired to murder Barak and repeatedly called
for his association was overwhelming. Everybody heard him say it,
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and the jury convicted him of conspiracy and incitement and
connection with Mubarik, as well as seditious conspiracy to levy
war against the United States, among other terrorism related charges.
Hamway conceded on cross examination that although the economics was
the supposed subject of the Detroit conference they went to,
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Abdul Raman used the occasion to urge violent jihad against
the United States and Israel. And in fact, this Hamaway
guy who is about to be a congressman, said, of
course that's what he always talked about. He talked about jihad.
You know, so this guy, good old buddy of a
global leader in Islamist terrorism, is about to become a congressman,
(12:34):
and he will push gently at first, and then more
and more firmly for you know, I'll call it Palestinian rights,
or the ability for people to live according to their
own beliefs. In America, you have freedom of religion, so
we want to have Sharia courts decide divorce and child
abuse cases.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
And you ever one more hoof inside the tent?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah, exactly true, exactly true. And this is not the
only guy. I want to talk about Qatar's influenced buying
in America, but I don't know that was serious enough.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
So I'll go with this.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
As it fights anti Semitism lawsuits from the federal government,
Harvard University says that federal funding cuts are threatening its
life saving research and so the Feds need to call
off the dogs. But at the same time, the university's
Divinity School is putting resources, admittedly not a ton, but
resources behind a new publication devoted to queerness and Palestinian
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liberation that's named after a Canaanite Goddess again. This is
the Harvard Divinity School where he studied, get a.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
PhD in religion or whatever.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
The first issue of Asherah, a Harvard Divinity School journal,
is a project of anti Israel Jewish studies. Professor Shaol
Magid writes Aristol in the Free Beacon, it's really something
to behold, even by the provocative and sophomore e standards
of student publications. It includes statement from the student editors
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to women, naturally, who write that they are not scholars
of the ancient texts, did not go to Yeshiva, are
not rabbis in quotes for some reason, but are instead
coming and I'm quoting now, coming from the sidelines of
mainstream Jewish life, largely because of our queerness or anti racism,
our support for Palestinian liberation. They also note that this
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publication finds itself at a moment encumbered by war, by
fascism and genocide, by religious and ethno nationalism, by reckoning,
with the rapid development of AI, to which you're like, wait.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
A minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
We're covering a lot of ground here and its impact
on planet and people, by climate collapse, ah, by pandemics,
and by the pervasive presence of disconnection and loneliness.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
So what a great tutorial.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
And you've got to use all those terms queerness, anti racism,
Palestinian liberation. You throw in war or fascism, genocide, global warming.
AI should have mentioned that flesh eating worm pandemics the
screw worm, right exactly. It's the the eternal omni cause,
(15:12):
which is neomarxism. Everybody with any gripe get together and
overthrow Western civilization.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
But here we go. Later on the issue includes some
erotic poetry.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Oh, here we go. Settle in everybody as Uncle Joe
reads you. Erotic poetry from the Harvard Divinity School Journal Queerness,
Palestinian Climate Change, AI pandemic screwworm magazine. We fell asleep, laughing,
(15:43):
blanketed in heavy tonguing prayer temple worshippers also called trans bedmakers.
I have never sexted so well, stomach thigh. I wonder
if God hears bed prayer in two different ears, consummating
interfaith with fingers, and then Iristoll writes to clear up
(16:06):
any confusion. The latter verse was not written by a
Graham Platner, although he may take inspiration from it. Oh
my lord, anti Israel students and professors producing a queer
erotic poetry magazine named after a Canaanite goddess with the
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university's financial support.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
That's havd hey speaking of the whole uh not funding
universities whatever. I heard somebody make this argument a while back,
Remember when DOGE was really going and then they were
cutting funding for various things, and people were screaming, We're
this close to curing cancer and you've pulled our funding.
And I heard somebody make the argument the other day,
(16:51):
you've got a fifty billion dollar endowment. Yeah, so if
you're close to curing cancer, how about you take a
little bit of that money. Since if this eighty thousand
dollars or the varieties of amounts of money that were
being cut, is the difference between cre and cancer or not,
how about take some of that fifty billion.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Dollars you're sitting on and spend the month it starts
flowing again.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Yeah, I think if it's important, maybe you would. Anyway,
more on the way Stater, Armstrong and.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Getty CBS just fired longtime sixty minutes. Correspondent Scott Pelly, Yeah,
the story gets more bizarre because today CBS and Now
is they were placing Scott Pelley.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
With Byron Allen.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
In the last few months, sixty minutes has lost multiple
producers and correspondence. You can tell that they got rid
of a lot of people because the show is now
called sixty seconds.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Wow, that's beneath him. Wow. Um uh crowd boom. You
could joke for eight year old.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Crowd booing to the firing of Scott Pelly. Pompous ass
hat Scott Pelly. I'm telling you, if you want the
definition of pompous, go back three weeks and watch his
interview with Senator Ben Sas, who's dying of cancer. That
is the most pompous display of all time. I mean,
(18:09):
it is something else.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
You highlighted one particular gesture of his and I came
across this on the Twitter.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Brandy Cruz wrote this.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I was an intern at CBS News when Pelly would
fill in for Katie Kirk on the Evening News. I
watched in the control room one day as he directed
them to slowly put the shot, push the shot in
on him as he took his glasses off. It was
so fake. I've remembered it for fifteen years carefully Orchid Trade,
and then Cheryl Atkinson wants a good friend of the
(18:41):
Armstrong and Getty show said. Perhaps David Bloom put it
best quote. When Scott Pelly gets in line at Starbucks
and orders coffee, he doesn't order what he really wants.
He orders what he wants. People behind him to hear
him order.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
That's really good. Oh boy.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
So though I don't know what's going on here, So
Scott Pelly is a pompous asset despite the fact that
I'm a sixty minutes fan. What do we want first?
We want to pushback or be reminded of what he's like.
Maybe we'll do that first. So Scott Pelly from last year,
I guess he gave a commencement address.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Yeah, yes, jo.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah, his claim being that the new management dared to
interject politics into their pure hearted reporting and now outrageous
that was because they're straight down the middle journalists.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yeah, but in this go ahead, But.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
In this moment, this moment, this morning, our sacred rule
of law is underattack, is it? Journalism is under attack,
Universities are under attack, freedom of speech is under attack,
and insidious fear.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Is reaching through our schools.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Our businesses, our homes, and into our private thoughts.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Who the fear to speak in America.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Power can rewrite history with grotesque, false narratives. They can
make criminals heroes and heroes criminals. That power can change
the definition of the words we use to describe reality.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
People are twisting.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
The diversity is now described as illegal, equity is to
be shunned, inclusion is.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
A he were.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
This is an old playbook, my friends.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
There's nothing new.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
In this wow to summarize. Progressives are not allowed to
speak their minds on college campuses, and DEI is being
demonized even though those words we all know what those
words are. Good Lord, I don't think he's a dedicated
neo Marxist.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I don't think so either. He's a dupe.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
He actually believes that his crowd using diversity, equity, inclusion.
They're using it in a completely honest way.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
That's what DEI programs are after. And the whole reaching
into your thoughts. What is that all about?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
AnyWho?
Speaker 4 (21:56):
I don't know how you get that far off track
where you think. I mean, I have a side I
like better than the other side, but I would never
in a million years claim that my side doesn't lie
and cheat and twist and everything that goes on in
the world of trying to win arguments that's more included.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
To include fraudsters and poultroys. Like Candace Owens is in
Moscow right now, toubting how wonderful Russia is?
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Is she really what a joke?
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Yeah, but I'm kind of confused by this part of it.
So if you've been following this story at all, or
listen to us. So Scott Pelly got fired the other day.
It sounds like, at least according to Barry Weiss, who
runs the news organization, and then that guy under him
who runs sixty minutes, I forget under her who runs
sixty minutes.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Forget his name? Is that here might be here built
in nick Builton. So they have this meeting.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
But they knew they were going to have this meeting
with the sixty minute people, and they knew Scott Pelly
was going to be a bit of an obstacle because
he'd been out there saying some controversial things.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
So they got a hold of him. They called him.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
They tried to head this off and say, hey, can
we come to some sort of agreement or meet before
hand before the big meeting in Scott Pelly didn't want to.
And then they walk into the meeting in Scott Pelly
immediately hits him with a why are you here? Knowing
nobody wants you here, and everybody cheered, and dude Nick
Bilton says, you're not gonna intimidate me in front of
(23:16):
this crowd, and Scott Pelly goes on about Barry Weiss
is unqualified and trying to murder this program. And so
he gets up and says, enjoy your bagels and walks out,
and Nick Bilton does AnyWho. Scott Pelly says it didn't
happen that way at all. He put out a letter yesterday.
I'm saddened to see the transcript of the CBS News
Morning editorial meeting. Barry Weiss knows what she said is
(23:38):
not true. And the meeting on Tuesday in which I
was effectively fired, there is no effort effort of any
kind to find a way back. As Weiss said in
the editorial meeting, at no point did anyone in the
Tuesday meeting suggest that there gonna be steps taken by
either side that would lead to a resolution. Weiss and
this other dude were openly hostile from the start. Firing
(23:59):
was raised them in the first fifteen seconds. No CBIs
executive at any time, suggested a way back, and then
he goes through specific things. In fact, Weiss, the Sabrowski,
and Nick Bilton refused to answer my questions. I asked
WWI a number of questions about why she fired the
entire staff a few days before and without cause. I'm
(24:20):
not answering that question, she said. I asked why did
she not come to the sixty minutes officers to explain
her actions.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I'm not answering that question. Anyway.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
He goes through all this stuff. He's disputing there accounting
of what happened in the meeting, that meeting in beforehand, so.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
He's pretty specific. Also, So what do you think that's
going on there? I don't know. He's such an a hole.
I assume he's lying.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
So you had the big meeting where there was the
blow up, and then they got him to show up
to a small meeting with the people you mentioned in
private to see if they could find a way forward,
and they're claiming he was completely intransigent, and he's saying no,
they opened up with hostility mentioned and firing me and
never gave me a chance and wouldn't answer my questions.
They had no chance, intention of a pathway forward, he said,
(25:09):
She said go away, go you want me to go? Yes, go.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
I am pained that the staff I want to actually
read it at his pace because we have time limits.
I am pained that the staff of CBS News was
misled in the conference call. These executives cannot gain the
trust of the staff with lies. This is antithetical to
everything we stand for and reveals contempt for what journalists do.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
And Michael, the fact that it would happen here in America,
it's even worse.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
They pervert language diversity is those.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
It's possible, having been in the real world for a
long time, in particularly media, possible that they had decided
to fire him and there was no keeping his job.
And because we've seen that, we've seen that. Oh, I see,
they had a plan and they act like, you know,
there are other options on the table, but they had
a plan, usually around cutbacks, usually around financial cutbacks. That
(26:19):
so we have to get rid of these people. We're
getting rid of these people. We're gonna act like there's
a dialogue involved or anything like that. They do that
I've seen it, so that's possible that that's what happened
at CBS's and Pelly's just angry that they pretended there
was an option for.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Him to stay. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Nobody's debating that he gave the speech he gave at
the meeting and told Nick Bilton he wasn't welcome, Barry
Weiss was completely unqualified and trying to murder the program.
I mean, everybody agrees that happened.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Right, I'm just saying it could be possible that there
was no path for him to stay, that they had
decided he had to go, and we're just looking for
the smoothest way to enact that because.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
I think he had to go.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
He's expensive, and he doesn't fit in with what they're
trying to do. They want to bring sixty minutes back
to something that is more respectable journalism, and there's no
way he was going to be part of that.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I don't agree that that's true necessarily, just because Barry
Weiss and Nick what's his name reached out multiple times
before the big meeting where here he tried Pelly tried
to stage the coup to say, hey, can we get together,
can we have dinner.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Can we talk about the future too, he refused. Every time.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
They're more optimistic than I would have been, though. I mean,
so if he's calling what they want to do distortions
and lies because he feels like what he was doing
was the straight down the middle of the honest truth, right,
give me a break to twist it if you have one,
you're on social media at all. There's all kinds of
clips going around from Sixty Minutes episodes over the last
(27:52):
several years of Scott Pelly completely allowing, for instance, FBI
director Andrew McKay go on and on on about about
a whole bunch of crap about the Russian collusion thing
that was not true, and everybody knew it wasn't true,
but Scott Pelly with his glasses off.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
And one stem in his mouth, looking off in the distance. Hm,
and we didn't play this yesterday.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
But then there was the sixty Minutes extra in which
he and the producer got together and talked about how
incredibly sound a source mackab was, how he's completely unimpeachable
as a source. Just before he did just lied up
and down to Congress and others got this note from
Frankie and Georgia. I just wanted to reach out to
you during these difficult times and say that I'm concerned
(28:32):
about Scott Pelly, not for him personally, but for the
future of your Scott Pelly impressions.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
You've almost perfected them.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Bernie Sanders' clips and your impressions of him always cracked
me up, but those have slowly dwindled away. I'm not
sure I can handle losing another one.
Speaker 7 (28:47):
In America, we need to cut down the millionares and
billion ass We need to cut down the millionaires and billionaires.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Need to cut them down. Cut them down there, Frankie,
I hope you enjoyed that.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Scott Pelly is the perfect example of mistaking fame for importance.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Yeah, oh yeah, in his own head. Oh where do
you think we ought to eat tonight?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Scott?
Speaker 4 (29:22):
He got any ideas? Where would I like, I'm gonna
eat with someone else. I'm gonna door dash. Never mind, Okay,
we will finished strong next In America.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Did you do an eighth grade graduation when you were
a kid? No, I have no memory of it.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
I think we did, which I did. I don't remember
thinking about much at the time, but in retrospect, it's
what the heck is that? And then they've added in
kindergarten graduations. I've seen these online. We did one, my
kids did one, but it was just a certificate and
juice boxes, I think, but I saw one.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Do they call him completion ceremonies.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
I don't know people in their ceremonies, but I saw
one the other day where they had actually had caps
and gowns for these kindergarteners. You know why, because it
looks adorable. That's why these things exist. Like you've always
talked about with the sports things, the uniforms, you don't
need to have a full baseball uniform as a five
year old, but you shouldn't be on a field at all.
(30:29):
You sure look cute in it, so there you go.
But anyway, a different topic is my son gets done
with his sophomore year today, and this will be the
first year since his kindergarten year that I don't pick
him up from his school.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
He drives now.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Plus he's going out with friends afterwards and they're going
to go just do stuff, which is what you should
do when you're sixteen years old.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
You're dead probably, but it'll be the.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
First year I don't pick him up jamming schools out
for summer out the windows of my truck in the
parking lot when he gets it Alice Cooper school forever.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Which is not except it's not.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
It's out for a measly ten weeks in the modern
world before school starts back up again. But you know,
it's all of the stuff with kids getting older, especially
when they get older. I had a friend who was
talking the other day about their nephew graduated from high
school and they'd been picking them up from school to
help out with the family for years and that that
era was over and they're really sad about it. Well,
(31:28):
at the same time, you know, the alternative is no good,
what them staying at home forever or staying in school
forever or whatever. But you know, the whole bittersweetness of
the whole thing. I mean, I'm glad my son is
to the age of he drives himself and he hangs
out with friends as opposed to being with his mom
and dad, But you know, I'm not excited about it.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Yeah, yeah, that last day of school feeling.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Boy, if they could put that in a pill, everybody'd
be addicted. There'd be even more junkies laying around on
the sidewalks of America.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Kidding.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
I hated school so much. I mean, so it was
even more for me than the average person. I hated school,
and so it being over for a little while, and
you know, when you're a kid, summer seems like forever.
So it was like schools out forever, because oh my god,
schools out so far off when it starts to get
I don't even need to think about it.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Wishing an adult.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
He goes by that, Oh yeah, yeah, uh but.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Yeah, as a high schooler, when you first start to
get summer jobs and or you're required to get a
summer job, and every day you don't have one, you
hear about it.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
I remember that.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Yeah, yeah, that changes the complexion of the summertime a bit.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
True.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
This is going to be his first year summer where
he's working, as opposed to just you know, woafing with
his friends.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
That's a different thing.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Yeah, that was different because I worked a hard job
during the summer starting.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
When I was fifteen, I guess, well fourteen.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
And so when schooliers started it was a few I
get to take a little break for a while.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Yeah, yeah, I still remember the feeling of gladys I
think I was like a was after my freshman or
maybe sophomore year of high school and a couple of
my friends were a couple of years older than me,
and we had for summer after summer played whiffleball until
our throwing arms were hanging from our shoulders. We couldn't
even lift them because we just played and played and played.
(33:19):
And I remember the first time I gave him a call,
I guess and said, hey, you want to whiffle this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
He's like, no, I gotta work, Like wait what? Yeah,
that's funny.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
That's That's exactly what happened with my son, because the
weekends have started to become like that one of them's
got a job or this or that or whatever, and
it's a lot harder to get.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Together than it used to be.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Two points. Number one, childhood had come to a close.
Number two, Yes, we used whiffle as a verb.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
The Thoughts Final Final.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Here's your host for final Thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap ups show for the day.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Wouldn't that be delightful? Michael Angelow lead us off.
Speaker 6 (34:07):
Which final thought the closest I ever got to getting
scammed was when I was younger. I got the I
R S call and they wanted to collect on my
tax debt. And I thought it was legit, and I
got about halfway through and then something said this isn't right,
and I just quickly hung up.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Hmmm, yeah, good call. Good call. Your instinct serve you well,
young men. Jack A final thought for us, that.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
Feeling of school being out and you walk out that door.
It's just what comes Is there anything that comes close
to that that that same feeling?
Speaker 2 (34:40):
No, there isn't. You would think there would be, but
I don't think there is. I can't come up with it.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Hey, that Friday afternoon when you walk out of work
and it's vacation, you're taking a week off or whatever.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
That's like, Yeah, I wonder if we haven't retired, So
maybe when you retire you get that feeling.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Perhaps, yes, Gosh, my final thought is I don't really
have one. Don't have a final thought.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Wow, No more thoughts.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Used up all your thoughts, Eat a balance, diet, take
care of yourself.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Suddliness is next to godliness. Used up all your thoughts today.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
If you're in Romania and you see a bear stay
in your car and multiple thoughts.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
Armstrung and getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
So many people to thanks, so a little time, pick
up some ange swag? Would you a cool T shirt
or hat or hoodie? Did these enforce the law? T
shirt flying off the shelves?
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (35:40):
Those are very very cool. I wish I could grow
mustache like Timothy shallow may. I just saw him on
the TV.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
How many talents does this boy have? Acting, singing, mustache growing?
Speaker 2 (35:53):
We will see tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
God bless America.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
I'm strong and getchet show Heyo Tani.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
He's gotta be like the equivalent of Europeans eight foot tall,
doesn't he?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
They gotta fear him like Godzilla, I mean man.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
When he comes back to Tokyo, he's probably walking through
the streets and.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
They got airplanes flying around and try to stop him.
Makes those noises. I've never heard it makes that noise.
But he might be on shun Ain't jetty so arshrong
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