June 6, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- The Boulder, CO terrorist & fake news
- Billy Joel documentary
- The EV regulations & Tesla stock
- Ghost networks & Trump's meeting with the German Chancellor
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Jetty and no He Armstrong and Jetty.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
A man accused of fire bombing a peaceful Jewish demonstration
in Colorado facing a judge, Ahamed Sabri Solomon.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
He's now formally.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Charged with one hundred and eighteen crimes, including twenty eight
counts of attempted murder. A federal judge temporarily blocking efforts
to deport the entire family until they get a hearing
next week.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I heard somebody say yesterday that they think it's too
bad that the term Molotov cocktail caught on because it
sounds too like fun, like a child's toy, as opposed
to what it is. Maybe it's just because I've read
enough war stuff that I I don't look at it
that way.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Yeah, it does sound kind of clever. It's a fire bomb,
it's setting people on fire.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, Yeah, it's a it's.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
A weapon of death and torture.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
And you're right, and you could make one this afternoon
easily at home, which is one of the great one
of the reasons it's such a great invention for the
terrorist or the you know, low funded insurgency.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Right, exactly.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Yeah, the term Molotov cocktail is a wry, sarcastic joke
created by people who are in life or death struggles.
It's like, if familiar with cops sense as of humor,
it's pretty dark.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Yeah, yeah, you're right. It's an interesting point.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Uh So, I sort of pride myself in being able
to combine several different stories into a little feature atte
and bring you various aspects of a bigger story. I'm
struggling with this one because there are several elements to
this and they're all so important. It has to do
with Islamism, speaking of the would be Islamic supremacist or
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a pro Palestinian activist or anti Semite monster.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
However you want to describe this.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Guy in Boulder, Colorado who set fire to a bunch
of Jews and old people in well, Americans, he said
fire to a bunch of Americans. I was doing some
research earlier to remind myself of some great examples of
the alliance between elements of the far left and Islamists
through you know, the last seventy five one hundred years
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or so, and there are a lot of different examples
of it, and the main point being, wait a minute,
you want to tear down the West. I want to
tear down the West. Maybe we can work together. And
then each side thinks, once the tearing down of the
West occurs, we'll just get rid of those lunatics and
we'll be in charge. And if you're in you know,
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in World War Two, the Islamists ended up on the
short end of the stick. But if you were a
Marxist in Iran who helped overthrow the Shah, the Iyatolas
got got the power and ended up hanging and disappearing
the Marxists.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
But it's an old, old.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Thing, and nobody ever wants to talk about it, especially
in the mainstream media because they're so uncomfortable telling the
truth about uncomfortable things. But yeah, the college kids demonstrating
in favor of the Palestinians and screaming about how Israel
is a colonial press or state or whatever the hell,
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that's the nexus between, you know, the neo Marxists and
the Islamists that you're watching it play out in real time.
How the hell can there be some angry twenty year
old woman with purple hair screaming queers for Palestine.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
I mean, it's so absurd, it's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
But that's it.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
That's that nexus. Anyway.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Maybe more on that another time, but there are a
bunch of stories on that topic, like did you follow
Jack the Washington Post Israel kill over thirty gozens of
the Humanitarian Aid site covers.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
And that they then apologized for it.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Oh boy, you skipped from And then the death star
exploded the galaxy far far away than the staring.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Out Bruce Willis was dead the whole time.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Well what spoiler alert?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
So what happened was the Washington Post published this story
blaming Israel for killing over thirty gozzins, and then it
very notably significantly edited this story but did not issue
a correction or explanation, which is kind of the rule
if you're a news organization, If you completely alter the
facts in a story, you have to own it and
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explain why. They didn't for days until the howling got
too loud and they finally put out a mealy mouthed
the statement. Earlier versions of the article on Sunday stated
that Israeli troops killed more than thirty feetple near a
US eight site with the headline attributing the action to
health officials. In a correction no blah blah, the article
failed to make clear if attributing the death to Israel
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was the position of the Gaza Health Ministry or a
fact verified by the Post.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Blah blah blah was updated.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Yeah, nice job taking the word of the Gaza Health
Ministry and running with the story. I mean, that's just
I don't.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
And gave no weight in fact, pretended as if the IDF,
the Israeli Defense Forces hadn't said anything about it. It
was it was as if, you know, the Muslim Brotherhood
had their own newspapers.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah, anyway, the Washington that is worth pointing out because
NPR does this all the time. They'll quote something will happen,
then they'll quote the Gaza Health Ministry. They don't quote Israel.
Israel always makes a statement to always. Of course they
do all the freaking time. They're not gonna let you know,
a whole bunch of people die at the where they're
handing out the food and just let headlines run wild
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around the world.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
They make a stake. But NPR, Washington Post other news outlets.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Act like, well, the only people we've heard from is
the God, the help God, the health Ministry.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
And they never lie.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Isa.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I mean it's it's embarrassingly bad journalism. Yeah, yeah it is,
but it's it's not journalism, it's the thing. It's it's
advocacy for a radical UH philosophy, Mass creating his journalism.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Moving along to Eli Lake's fabulous piece for the Free Press,
who profits from Gaza's desperation, and he goes into the
aid distribution debacle. There have been a number of deaths
and shootings and chaos, and as a US backed charity
has taken over aid distribution from the UN because Hamas
was stealing all the UN food and selling it at
high profits to the Palestinians.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I was watching some videos of that the other day
and thinking, you know, if you, if you can can
get away from the how this all occurred and what
brought all these circumstances together, and the complications there and
everything like that, just being a human being in that area,
you and your family, Starvin trying to literally fight for
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a box of rice or something. I just I can't
imagine how awful that would be.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I mean, that is hell, That is hell.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
I would argue it's the inevitable result of an Islamist,
militant Islamist government declaring war on its neighbor, but it
is horrible. So the headline of Eli lakes story is
who profits from Gaza's desperation, and he talks about how
Israel's currently rolling out a new process for disturbing the aid.
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If it's successful, it will bypass Amas completely. This should
be a shared goal for everyone but the terrorists. And
yet the coverage of the new aid distribution system has
been dominated by scandal mongering. And he makes the greater
point that if the good things that people are trying
to do work in Gaza, it's a death sentence for Hamas.
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And the idea that the Israelis are trying to decimate
the new aid program, which they.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Have backed and it's not Hamas.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Doing it is absurd.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Hamas is desperate to derail list desperate, and anybody who
thinks about it for five minutes can figure that out.
But the mainstream US media, which are a bunch of
Columbia grad school would be Marxists, are reporting the opposite. Again,
we don't have time to go into detail. I'm just
gonna hit a couple more headlines and maybe tease the
fact that we'll get into them in a significant way.
(08:38):
Congress is nearing a move to designate the Muslim Brotherhood
a terrorist organization. Our Congress, keep that in mind when
I hit you with this headline.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I'm surprised we hadn't already. I thought we had.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
I know, I know. And this is by a writer.
It's a terrific piece. It's long. I wish I could
read you the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
How opis the Egyptians consider the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
So does Jordan and the UAE and several others.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Yeah, how the Muslim Brotherhood is capturing Europe.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
And I'm just going to hit you with a little
bit of this.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
And if you read Holliback was that his name, the
guy who wrote Submission novel, It got a tremendous amount
of attention, what like five years ago or so, is
about how France becomes a Muslim country, not like a
country with Muslims, but like Iran.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
And it's a very believable scenario. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
The scary part of it is how mundane a lot
of it is. It's just kind of the slow movement
of politics and pressure and money and the rest of it.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
It's also got some very vivid explicit sex scenes in
that book, so I don't want you to be caught
unaware if you're horrified by that sort of thing.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Helped the jazz it up a little bit.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
So anyway, this woman Simone raw Don Benzaquin Benzequin, who
I've never heard of before, but she's a terrific writer.
France didn't I'm going to read this for just a minute.
France didn't plan to blow the whistle on the Muslim
Brotherhood's attempt to take over Europe.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
But that's exactly what it did.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
A couple of weeks ago when a classified report from
the Ministry of the Interior leaked to the newspaper Le Figaro,
which is a big newspaper. Funny Jack is an aside.
Have you heard about that leak? No nobody has. US
media has held it at the end of a ten
foot pole, big leak of a confidential report. The seventy
(10:30):
three page document marked Confidential Defense, was meant for top
officials only. Based on intelligence files, field investigations, and dozens
of interviews, it laid out a stark diagnosis the Muslim
Brotherhood has built an extensive ideological infrastructure in France, not
through violence, but through schools, charities, mosques and soft power.
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It states quote the Brotherhood's strategy is to install a
form of ideological hegemony by infiltrating civil society under the
guise of religious and educational activities. It's the most detailed
governmental study to date of the Brotherhood's present in presence
in Europe. Its conclusion is blunt. The Brotherhood operates as
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a political project. Is Its goal is not sudden revolution
but gradual transformation. Its targets our hearts and minds. It
strength lies not in secrecy, but in strategic ambiguity. And
it is not coming just for France, It is coming
for all of the West, our allies. The French just
put out a confidential report saying the Muslim Brotherhood is
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trying to conquer the West, and we slumber.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Here in the US thinking our oceans will.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Protect us and talk about Twitter feuds, speaking of which, well,
it's a damn good Twitter feud.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
I mean, if you're going to be distracted, be distracted
by something entertaining.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Speaking of which, Donald and Elon are shinned deep in
urine after their whizzing match yesterday and it continue overnight
in today, colorful yet unnecessarily graphic.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
More of not coming up stated.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
Forty new study from the American Medical Association, use of
cannabis among senior citizens increased forty six percent over two years.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
And you've thought old people drove slow.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Before coming up, we'll get into a little of the
elon Trump feud where it is and and some of
the commentary around it, which I find kind of entertaining.
This is kind of heavy, but damned interesting. I didn't
know there was a new documentary out about Billy Joel.
Is that just a coincidence that there's a documentary out
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when he announced he's got this horrible brain condition and
he had to cancel our his tour. It's called a
Billy Joel and so it goes, which I was just
reading the other day. He thinks that's the best song
he ever wrote. That's a heavy song. Speaking of heavy,
I don't know it.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Oh oh wow?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Really okay, you got to check that that That is
his most powerful heartbreak song of all time?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Oh yeah, it is. It is absolutely something.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Anyway, I liked Uptown Girl. I thought that was a
great song.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
He earned his powerful emotions in some songs by being
a certain sort of guy. You find out in the documentary,
and I've been all I was a Billy Joel freak
in high school. And I think I wrote a paper
about him once. Didn't know any of this stuff. He
tried to kill himself twice in his twenties. Oh wow,
like really tried to kill himself twice in his twenties,
which I'll get to in a second. He had a
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music act with another dude. They were living together. The
other dude was married. Billy Joel falls in love with
his best friend and music partner's wife ends up having an.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Affair with her.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Dude punches him in the nose, which Billy Joel says
was perfectly appropriate.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
They had a kid. I was a homewrecker.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I felt so bad about it that I just so
horrible about myself that I tried to kill myself twice.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
He was.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
He got kicked out of that house obviously, you know
they don't stay there once you start doing that. And
he was sleeping in laundromats, and he said he was
almost psychotic. He was so sad and crazed at the time.
His sister gave him a bottle of sleeping pills to
help him sleep. He took the mall. He ended up
in a coma for many days in the hospital. I
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didn't know Billy Joel was in a coma in the
hospital for days, trying to kill himself. Then when he
got out, he tried to kill himself a second time,
drinking an entire bottle of lemon pledge.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Sing us a song, You're the piano man, drank.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
An entire bottle of lemon pledge, ended up in the
hospital again with great fresh breath.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
And a shine.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
This is a man in despair trying to end his
own life. I apologize.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
He got rid of that hazy tabletop. Look beautiful, shine,
you can see a reflection in it.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yes, so.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
He earned some of his you know, like a lot
of artists. Yeah, I'll probably watch that documentary.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Whoo, that's heavy.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
How did he keep that? Being as big as he is,
how did he keep that part of his life a
secret all these years? Usually you know this stuff about
the big giant stars.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Well, right, was the gossip press just not quite as
well developed?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Or I guess dude and his wife didn't go to
the press with it. And good for them, you know,
they didn't write a tell all book My years with
Billy Joel the Homewrecker.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
You know, they didn't.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
They didn't try to profit from it, and his sister
didn't either, apparently, because that's what it usually takes is
for stuff like this to come out.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Is somebody needs a few bucks and they go to
You're right, those those kind of books are just disgusted me.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
You go to a bookstore, there's always tons of them,
whether it's about politicians or athletes or movie stars, singers
or whatever. You know, you slept with him for a
couple of weeks, and now I want to tell your
story and make money off of it whatever.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Disgusting.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Hm, I must not go to that section of the
bookstore or something. Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Well, they're always they're always prominently displayed. Maybe they sell well,
I don't know what.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Uh so Elon and Trump, where are we on that?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
So I woke up this morning to the Politico headline
that Trump and Elon both had calmed down, become grown
ups and they were gonna have a phone call today.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Well, that's completely over fake news.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I don't know where political Well, Trump told Politico that
I don't know what point he changed his mind, because
then he told CNN and then the Washington Post later
that no, I'm not talking to Elon and I'm moving
on and care about the bill, and he's gonna get
rid of his tesla has read tesla, according to uh
mirork Post, and Elon's got some things. Is Elon continuing
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late into the night last night to link Epstein's stories
with Trump in them to who is two hundred and
twenty million follow words?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
For some reason. I don't know what he thinks he's
going to get there.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Well, I've been following the minute by minute updates on
the feud. I have some recent developments for you. Ted
Cruz has weighed in wrong.
Speaker 8 (17:14):
And you know, Elon's upset because we took the EV
mandate and you know, which was a lot of money
for electric vehicles and you know they're having a hard
time the electric vehicles and they want us to pay
billions of dollars in subsidy. And you know, I Elon
knew this from the beginning. He knew it for a
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long time ago. That's been in there. That's been I
would say, j D. That hasn't changed. That's been right
from the beginning.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Mister.
Speaker 8 (17:43):
I think mister secretary, that hasn't changed it all right
from the beginning.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
You know, just this and aside before we get into
the ongoing Hatfields and McCoy's battle between Trump and Elon
Musk read a great piece about how GM has been
whip sawd as administrations come and go on like massive policies,
and how their CEO has to come out and say,
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we embrace the new ev revolutionists.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
It will lead us to a brighter future.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
And then you know, as soon as Biden's out office,
thank god that hiad is over. Hey, let's guess up
America and kick some ass.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Just it's just not good.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I know, somebody who's at a high level in one
of the other very famous American automobile manufacturers found on
road dead Fixer repaired daily. I drive lots of words,
but yeah, they said, yeah, So they tell us, we
got to build all these electric charge stations on our lot.
So we're going to spend millions of dollars on that
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when there's a good chance that nobody wants the cars,
nobody's buying them, nobody's biting the Ford lightning. We've done
the story before from Wall Street Journal about how many
gazillions of dollars they've lost on all of these things,
doing it because the government tells them, and then the
next administration comes along is no, no, we ain't doing this.
Nobody wants them. And Trump said that yesterday about Elon.
We're taking out the uh, the subsidies for the.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Electric cars because people don't want them.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Just crew right, right. But Elon and Giant Corporation and
shareholders had, you know, planned their business future based on
government policy, which has now changed completely. And that's just
not the way a market ought to operate. But that's
kind of an aside to the clown show, which is
the Musk Trump feud.
Speaker 9 (19:32):
Who signed time for the clowns and the acrobats and
the dancing palo whatever?
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Whose side are you on? When I wanted that clip?
But forget it.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
You got to pick a side.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
From the way I understand it, You're either on Elon
side or Trump side. That's the only way you can
do it. There's no nuance, there's no this but that
you pick a side. This is the United States of
America looking around for a coin. I don't carry coins.
Let's see, how about I'll twist the pen if the
pen point toward me. It's Trump, it's a way, it's musk.
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Oh shoot, I just threw the pen on myself. I
line side's about the way you'd have to do it.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Jack.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
I'm on the side of America. The reason I asked
for the Ted Cruz clip, which I said I would cue,
is that I'm following the minute by minute updates on
a couple of different publications and frankly, they're now milking.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
This and because it's not not much as happening, but.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Ted Cruz has entered the fray Ted Cruz, Ted Cruz.
Speaker 9 (20:36):
The time for the clowns and the acrobats and the
dancing bears has passed.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Is this part of the delicious scandal? Milk?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
The problem with Ted Cruz is that saying that is
he he is one of the acrobatic clown bears, which
is weird because if you meet Ted in person, he
is a very sincere, down to earth.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Guy from serious person. But now he is a bear
doing summer resaults on a tight wire.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Hyah.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
It's a guy who recognized, okay, showmanship in hyperbole is
the way to get head these days.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
But that's not his game, that's not his groove. Anyway.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Ah, but he said, he said, let's hug and makeup.
He said on his podcast Friday that he was in
the Oval Office with President Trump while the fight with
Elon Musk was unfolding, and that the President was pissed
in that moment, but he said the country would be
better off if Trump and Musk reconciled.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Quote.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
I think a lot of conservatives are feeling like this
is not good. Let's hug and make up. He added
that both Musk and Trump are right about the budget bill.
The country needs for it to pass, but it can
be made better.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Wow. How about that?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
So I said this earlier, and you gave me your
squinty look, like I know if I believe you're muttering
squinty look when tweeted out yesterday. Without me, Trump would
have lost the election, Dems would control the House, Republicans
would be fifty one to forty nine per centate. I
believe that you don't think that's true. You think Trump
would have won without.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Elon in the three hundred million dollars, I.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Think it's it's impossible to say that with any certainty.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I mean, I think it helped a lot.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
It sure made a big difference to me, like, God,
do we'd want to do this again? Sort of you know,
Trump supporter and Elon being so hardcore about you know,
doge over and over and over again in fiscal responsibility.
Sure brought me along. I don't know how many other
people it did.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Oh yeah, I think you're right in principle one hundred percent.
I'm just very cynical about the whole this is what
won the election thing, because that's crap most of the time.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
But yeah, it was, it was, it was significant, hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
The Nazi salute brought all the Nazis into the party.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Oh that was valuable. Yep, yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
New York Times you reported on Cory Booker's Nazi salute.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
Yet no, I didn't think so.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
So Steve Bannon, who helped Trump get elected, say this
morning on one of the gazillion podcasts that exist that
Trump should sign an executive order and sees SpaceX tonight
before midnight. Wow, the government's gonna seize the most successful
rocket company in world history, just at a butt hurtness.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Well, you know, Bannon, he just he wants to tear
the whole thing down. He's he's a Marxist, he says himself.
He's a weird sort of Marxist, but he just wants
to tear it down and start again. The only other
headline update really anything happening is that Tesla stock has
turned around. It had lost fourteen percent yesterday.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Yeah. Yeah, that's a hell of a lot of mine.
And why do you think that was?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Just because I theres a lot of people have been
making these jokes about how you know liberals are out
there trying to scrape there. I bought this car before
Elon became a Nazi. Bumper stickers off their Tesla now, right,
and you know put on I'm with Elon bumper sticker
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back on it or something.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Like that, right.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
So why did that hurt Tesla's stock, that Elon turned
against Trump?
Speaker 4 (24:14):
I think because of the enormous regulatory power of the
federal government, regulatory slash, subsidies, the rest of it. Because
the government has way, way, way too much power over
the economy. So you've been quoting this Constantine kiss in person, yeah,
a couple of times lately.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
And he tweeted this out. Yes, this is where I
am on the whole thing. What Elon Musk is doing
is genuinely heroic. He will win no friends in politics
and will be ostracized by the current administration, but he
is totally right. We the entire Western world, simply cannot
go on pretending our way of life is sustainable. Historically,
countries build up surpluses in peacetime and then go into
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debt to fight wars. We're going into more and more
debt during peacetime. Clever economists will tell you this is sustainable.
It is not, and someone has to do something about it.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I only want to add, also, you will go into
debt during times of recession and depression, but during times
of economic growth you replenish the reserves and actually build surpluses.
We're doing the opposite of that as well. It's suicidal.
My only response to that, you know, somewhat negative, is
that if Elon could have done it without being such
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an a hole, it would have been really helpful to
the cause.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
You mean, while he was just running dog or yesterday,
no yesterday.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Well, I'm sorry, in the whole run of him criticizing
the ugly abomination or whatever it was, the horrific See
if they but.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Got the guy's short on sleep, he's got thirteen kids.
He's changing diapers, he's teaching it how to ride a bike.
He's helping somebody with their finals the last week of school.
He's got another kid headed off to college, trying to
get to Mars Burpen. One kid told one of his
girlfriend's baby, mama's can side pieces can get a night's
sleep while he's taking.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Our transgender kid who hates him tiring.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
That would be that lifestyle.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
That's a good point.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Yeah, yeah, so I feel like the missing piece of
this whole story all ever since last week when he
first turned on the bill, the focus on the drama
of the bro.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Ship or marriage or whatever coming to an end, as opposed.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
To the guy is sticking with something he's been talking
about for years. He believes that wanting to have a
dollar forty for every dollar that you give the government
a dollar forty of services for every dollar you give
the government can't go on. Obviously, it's simple math. So
we got to stop. I didn't realize Great Britain's doing
the same thing. They're not as far down the road
(26:45):
as us. We're at one hundred and thirty percent of
our GDP, they're at one hundred percent. So that's why
this guy mentioned Western civilization.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
In a time of growing economy.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Yeah, yeah, there's part of me that things and this
is really discouraging and I shouldn't even say it out
loud on Friday, but it reminds me of the Biden
crime family, the idea that you could just pull one
thread and that would be one thread.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Their whole economic model was selling influence, selling access the
rest of it. There are twenty three you LLCs and
untraceable money and mysterious loans that were never paid off
as sources of income and all that stuff. The US
government is the same are gigantic expenditures on all of
(27:36):
social programs are all built on lies. Compensation rates for
doctors and hospitals that are utterly unsustainable. You know, Congress,
as you've pointed out many times lately, Jack saying we're
gonna spend this much, but we're gonna cut this much.
The expenditures are upfront, the cuts are in seven years,
and they never ever happen. It's a giant house and
(27:58):
cards built on lies.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
A couple more witty things around this, because we might
not talk about it again this show. I don't know
unless one of them goes off again. It's a popular
female pundit said, so Elon goes kill the bill and
Trump goes. Elon has TDS, so Elon goes I'm the
reason Trump won.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
So Trump goes, we waste billions on Elon.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
So Elon goes Epstein and Flunky goes to port and
Elon goes impeach. And that's why women are too emotional
to be president, says this woman.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Thought that was pretty clear. Shot my dear, Yeah, I
thought that was pretty good. And one more from Mark Halprin.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Today, he as I mentioned earlier Nelly Bowls of the
Free Press described it as Real Housewives of Pennsylvania eviden
it's pretty funny.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
So Mark Alprin and his nude letter went through the
stuff that actually happened, and he said, I mean that
was right before Trump referred to Musk as a clown
car of bad ideas in a tesley chassis, and Musk
fired back. I liked it better when President's got banned
from Twitter, and then the riffing when Trump called Musk
a blinking libertarian who's just Jeff Bezos, with memes prompting
(29:04):
most Musk to post an AI generated image of a
but jeweled Trump hugging a cyber truck.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
And it went on from there that all could happen today.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Oh okay, that was imagination.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Well, it's difficult to parody this.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
You can't.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
You can't if if tell me this, So New York
Post says Trump is going to get rid of his
red tesla s that must come play. If Trump is
out on the White House lawn with a hammer beating
on that car today in front of cameras, would you
be shocked?
Speaker 1 (29:36):
No?
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Yes, I would think, oh my god, where will this end?
But I wouldn't be shocked.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
He'd be shocked, shocked, but not surprised.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Okay, we got more. Oh you gonna weigh in on this?
Where are you Trump or Elon? You gotta choose one.
It's the way life works. Four one KFTC.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Ghost networks.
Speaker 10 (30:00):
Insurance companies show a robust list of available healthcare providers
on paper, but not in practice. Ghost networks exist nationwide.
A recent study by the New York Attorney General's Office
of thirteen health plans found eighty six percent of the
listed in network. Mental health provider's staff called we're ghosts
experts we spoke with say, first, get.
Speaker 11 (30:21):
The care that you need, then go back to your
insurance company and file for an exemption or an appeal
if you had to seek care from an out of
network provider, and finally report that ghost network to your
safe department of insurance so they can investigate.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Well, is this mostly mental health stuff they're talking about?
They mentioned that.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Does it happen more in the mental health world than
it does in like the regular doctor world.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
I would be taking a wild guest. I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
I was just going to throw out a therapist I
know says chat GPT is completely replacing us. You got
a question about something mental help wise, ask chat GPT.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
It's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Yeah, how interesting? So, speaking of people who need emotional help,
Trump and Elon Musk getting into a feud.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
One of the more uncomfortable and weird.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Aspects of it was that Friedrich Merrittz, yeah, or the
German chancellor was chancellor prime minister?
Speaker 5 (31:12):
What is he these days? I don't know. Later he
was in pardon no no, oh nine nine nine nine.
You don't you?
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Is that?
Speaker 8 (31:21):
What?
Speaker 7 (31:22):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Anyway, so he was in town to visit with Trump
and it was extremely annoying. He was on a show
and they asked him all about the Trump Elawn feud.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
I was like, are you serious anyway?
Speaker 4 (31:33):
So Trump asks about defense spending and and and and
I wish we had more time. I think we do
have time. Play forty eight real quick, Michael reporter and Trump.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Is Germany doing enough on defense?
Speaker 5 (31:48):
It's mister President enough on defense?
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Enough defense? Or Chancellor wants Germany doing want to Well,
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (32:00):
I mean, I haven't discussed it very much. I know
that you're spending more money on defense now, and quite
a bit more money, and that's a positive thing. I'm
not sure that General MacArthur would have said it's positive.
You know, he couldn't like it, but I sort of
think it's good.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
You understand what I mean.
Speaker 8 (32:18):
But he may have stay and never let Germany re arm.
And I said, I always think about that. When he says, sir,
with spending more money on defense, I say, oh, is
that a good thing or a bad thing?
Speaker 1 (32:30):
I think it's a good thing.
Speaker 8 (32:32):
But you know, at least a certain point, there'll be
a point when I'll see, please don't arm anymore.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
If you don't want it, you watch.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
It get it well, that is, it gets more wild
nomadic train wreck. Yeah, yeah, but nobody paid attention to it.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
I mean, that's an astonishing effort at conversation.
Speaker 9 (32:54):
That was.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Yeah, anyway, I think it stands on his own. But
then this next clip actually has got and a bit
of attention.
Speaker 12 (33:02):
May I remind you that we are having June sixth tomorrow.
This is D Day anniversary when the Americans once ended
the war in Europe, and I think this is in
your hand in specific in ours hell.
Speaker 8 (33:17):
Is not a pleasant day.
Speaker 12 (33:19):
No, that was not a pleasant in the long run,
mister president. This was the liberation of my country from
Nazi Nazi dictator, and we know what we owe you.
But this is the reason why I'm saying that America
is again in a very strong position to do something
on this war and ending this war. So let's talk
(33:41):
about what we can do jointly.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
Yeah. So D Day not a good day for you all?
Speaker 4 (33:47):
Huh wow, Wow, you know, it's fine, It's fine.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
That's a hell of a thing.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
And then so I didn't watch the interview when he
was on Brett Bair, and I thought I should have
because did anybody ask the German FEU or Trump about
the dude Merc's statement last week that limits are off
on Ukraine using the weapons. They can fire mo wherever
they want. In Ukraine, we say so, Britain says so.
(34:23):
Franciso in the United States says so. Did anybody ask
Trump did we say so or not?
Speaker 5 (34:28):
I'm ashamed of this. I tuned out of it.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
I was so annoyed with Aisha Hasney's attempt to interview him.
I was thinking, boy, she's the rising star. She's been
filling in three days this week. I think for Brett
Behar her like global geopolitics, chops are not good.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Well, then they ask about Elon and Trump.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
The German chancellor had to leave thinking this is why
Ukraine is doomed.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
America is so inner looking.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
You're not adults? Yeah, wow, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Wasn't a good good day to look like adults.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
No, No, these are odd times, folks say.
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Speaker 3 (00:44):
I heard somebody say yesterday that they think it's too
bad that the term Molotov cocktail caught on because it
sounds too like fun, like a child's toy, as opposed
to what it is. Maybe it's just because I've read
enough war stuff that I I don't look at it
that way.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Yeah, it does sound kind of clever. It's a fire bomb,
it's setting people on fire.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, Yeah, it's a it's.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
A weapon of death and torture.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
And you're right, and you could make one this afternoon
easily at home, which is one of the great one
of the reasons it's such a great invention for the
terrorist or the you know, low funded insurgency.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Right, exactly.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Yeah, the term Molotov cocktail is a wry, sarcastic joke
created by people who are in life or death struggles.
It's like, if familiar with cops sense as of humor,
it's pretty dark.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Yeah, yeah, you're right. It's an interesting point.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Uh So, I sort of pride myself in being able
to combine several different stories into a little feature atte
and bring you various aspects of a bigger story. I'm
struggling with this one because there are several elements to
this and they're all so important. It has to do
with Islamism, speaking of the would be Islamic supremacist or
(02:03):
a pro Palestinian activist or anti Semite monster.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
However you want to describe this.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Guy in Boulder, Colorado who set fire to a bunch
of Jews and old people in well, Americans, he said
fire to a bunch of Americans. I was doing some
research earlier to remind myself of some great examples of
the alliance between elements of the far left and Islamists
through you know, the last seventy five one hundred years
(02:29):
or so, and there are a lot of different examples
of it, and the main point being, wait a minute,
you want to tear down the West. I want to
tear down the West. Maybe we can work together. And
then each side thinks, once the tearing down of the
West occurs, we'll just get rid of those lunatics and
we'll be in charge. And if you're in you know,
(02:50):
in World War Two, the Islamists ended up on the
short end of the stick. But if you were a
Marxist in Iran who helped overthrow the Shah, the Iyatolas
got got the power and ended up hanging and disappearing
the Marxists.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
But it's an old, old.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Thing, and nobody ever wants to talk about it, especially
in the mainstream media because they're so uncomfortable telling the
truth about uncomfortable things. But yeah, the college kids demonstrating
in favor of the Palestinians and screaming about how Israel
is a colonial press or state or whatever the hell,
(03:30):
that's the nexus between, you know, the neo Marxists and
the Islamists that you're watching it play out in real time.
How the hell can there be some angry twenty year
old woman with purple hair screaming queers for Palestine.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
I mean, it's so absurd, it's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
But that's it.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
That's that nexus. Anyway.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Maybe more on that another time, but there are a
bunch of stories on that topic, like did you follow
Jack the Washington Post Israel kill over thirty gozens of
the Humanitarian Aid site covers.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
And that they then apologized for it.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Oh boy, you skipped from And then the death star
exploded the galaxy far far away than the staring.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Out Bruce Willis was dead the whole time.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Well what spoiler alert?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
So what happened was the Washington Post published this story
blaming Israel for killing over thirty gozzins, and then it
very notably significantly edited this story but did not issue
a correction or explanation, which is kind of the rule
if you're a news organization, If you completely alter the
facts in a story, you have to own it and
(04:41):
explain why. They didn't for days until the howling got
too loud and they finally put out a mealy mouthed
the statement. Earlier versions of the article on Sunday stated
that Israeli troops killed more than thirty feetple near a
US eight site with the headline attributing the action to
health officials. In a correction no blah blah, the article
failed to make clear if attributing the death to Israel
(05:04):
was the position of the Gaza Health Ministry or a
fact verified by the Post.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Blah blah blah was updated.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Yeah, nice job taking the word of the Gaza Health
Ministry and running with the story. I mean, that's just
I don't.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
And gave no weight in fact, pretended as if the IDF,
the Israeli Defense Forces hadn't said anything about it. It
was it was as if, you know, the Muslim Brotherhood
had their own newspapers.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah, anyway, the Washington that is worth pointing out because
NPR does this all the time. They'll quote something will happen,
then they'll quote the Gaza Health Ministry. They don't quote Israel.
Israel always makes a statement to always. Of course they
do all the freaking time. They're not gonna let you know,
a whole bunch of people die at the where they're
handing out the food and just let headlines run wild
(05:58):
around the world.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
They make a stake. But NPR, Washington Post other news outlets.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Act like, well, the only people we've heard from is
the God, the help God, the health Ministry.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
And they never lie.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Isa.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I mean it's it's embarrassingly bad journalism. Yeah, yeah it is,
but it's it's not journalism, it's the thing. It's it's
advocacy for a radical UH philosophy, Mass creating his journalism.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Moving along to Eli Lake's fabulous piece for the Free Press,
who profits from Gaza's desperation, and he goes into the
aid distribution debacle. There have been a number of deaths
and shootings and chaos, and as a US backed charity
has taken over aid distribution from the UN because Hamas
was stealing all the UN food and selling it at
high profits to the Palestinians.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I was watching some videos of that the other day
and thinking, you know, if you, if you can can
get away from the how this all occurred and what
brought all these circumstances together, and the complications there and
everything like that, just being a human being in that area,
you and your family, Starvin trying to literally fight for
(07:06):
a box of rice or something. I just I can't
imagine how awful that would be.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I mean, that is hell, That is hell.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
I would argue it's the inevitable result of an Islamist,
militant Islamist government declaring war on its neighbor, but it
is horrible. So the headline of Eli lakes story is
who profits from Gaza's desperation, and he talks about how
Israel's currently rolling out a new process for disturbing the aid.
(07:38):
If it's successful, it will bypass Amas completely. This should
be a shared goal for everyone but the terrorists. And
yet the coverage of the new aid distribution system has
been dominated by scandal mongering. And he makes the greater
point that if the good things that people are trying
to do work in Gaza, it's a death sentence for Hamas.
(08:01):
And the idea that the Israelis are trying to decimate
the new aid program, which they.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Have backed and it's not Hamas.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Doing it is absurd.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Hamas is desperate to derail list desperate, and anybody who
thinks about it for five minutes can figure that out.
But the mainstream US media, which are a bunch of
Columbia grad school would be Marxists, are reporting the opposite. Again,
we don't have time to go into detail. I'm just
gonna hit a couple more headlines and maybe tease the
fact that we'll get into them in a significant way.
(08:38):
Congress is nearing a move to designate the Muslim Brotherhood
a terrorist organization. Our Congress, keep that in mind when
I hit you with this headline.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I'm surprised we hadn't already. I thought we had.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
I know, I know. And this is by a writer.
It's a terrific piece. It's long. I wish I could
read you the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
How opis the Egyptians consider the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
So does Jordan and the UAE and several others.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Yeah, how the Muslim Brotherhood is capturing Europe.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
And I'm just going to hit you with a little
bit of this.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
And if you read Holliback was that his name, the
guy who wrote Submission novel, It got a tremendous amount
of attention, what like five years ago or so, is
about how France becomes a Muslim country, not like a
country with Muslims, but like Iran.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
And it's a very believable scenario. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
The scary part of it is how mundane a lot
of it is. It's just kind of the slow movement
of politics and pressure and money and the rest of it.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
It's also got some very vivid explicit sex scenes in
that book, so I don't want you to be caught
unaware if you're horrified by that sort of thing.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Helped the jazz it up a little bit.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
So anyway, this woman Simone raw Don Benzaquin Benzequin, who
I've never heard of before, but she's a terrific writer.
France didn't I'm going to read this for just a minute.
France didn't plan to blow the whistle on the Muslim
Brotherhood's attempt to take over Europe.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
But that's exactly what it did.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
A couple of weeks ago when a classified report from
the Ministry of the Interior leaked to the newspaper Le Figaro,
which is a big newspaper. Funny Jack is an aside.
Have you heard about that leak? No nobody has. US
media has held it at the end of a ten
foot pole, big leak of a confidential report. The seventy
(10:30):
three page document marked Confidential Defense, was meant for top
officials only. Based on intelligence files, field investigations, and dozens
of interviews, it laid out a stark diagnosis the Muslim
Brotherhood has built an extensive ideological infrastructure in France, not
through violence, but through schools, charities, mosques and soft power.
(10:53):
It states quote the Brotherhood's strategy is to install a
form of ideological hegemony by infiltrating civil society under the
guise of religious and educational activities. It's the most detailed
governmental study to date of the Brotherhood's present in presence
in Europe. Its conclusion is blunt. The Brotherhood operates as
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a political project. Is Its goal is not sudden revolution
but gradual transformation. Its targets our hearts and minds. It
strength lies not in secrecy, but in strategic ambiguity. And
it is not coming just for France, It is coming
for all of the West, our allies. The French just
put out a confidential report saying the Muslim Brotherhood is
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trying to conquer the West, and we slumber.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Here in the US thinking our oceans will.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Protect us and talk about Twitter feuds, speaking of which, well,
it's a damn good Twitter feud.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
I mean, if you're going to be distracted, be distracted
by something entertaining.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Speaking of which, Donald and Elon are shinned deep in
urine after their whizzing match yesterday and it continue overnight
in today, colorful yet unnecessarily graphic.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
More of not coming up stated.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
Forty new study from the American Medical Association, use of
cannabis among senior citizens increased forty six percent over two years.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
And you've thought old people drove slow.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Before coming up, we'll get into a little of the
elon Trump feud where it is and and some of
the commentary around it, which I find kind of entertaining.
This is kind of heavy, but damned interesting. I didn't
know there was a new documentary out about Billy Joel.
Is that just a coincidence that there's a documentary out
(12:47):
when he announced he's got this horrible brain condition and
he had to cancel our his tour. It's called a
Billy Joel and so it goes, which I was just
reading the other day. He thinks that's the best song
he ever wrote. That's a heavy song. Speaking of heavy,
I don't know it.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Oh oh wow?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Really okay, you got to check that that That is
his most powerful heartbreak song of all time?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Oh yeah, it is. It is absolutely something.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Anyway, I liked Uptown Girl. I thought that was a
great song.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
He earned his powerful emotions in some songs by being
a certain sort of guy. You find out in the documentary,
and I've been all I was a Billy Joel freak
in high school. And I think I wrote a paper
about him once. Didn't know any of this stuff. He
tried to kill himself twice in his twenties. Oh wow,
like really tried to kill himself twice in his twenties,
which I'll get to in a second. He had a
(13:36):
music act with another dude. They were living together. The
other dude was married. Billy Joel falls in love with
his best friend and music partner's wife ends up having an.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Affair with her.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Dude punches him in the nose, which Billy Joel says
was perfectly appropriate.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
They had a kid. I was a homewrecker.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I felt so bad about it that I just so
horrible about myself that I tried to kill myself twice.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
He was.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
He got kicked out of that house obviously, you know
they don't stay there once you start doing that. And
he was sleeping in laundromats, and he said he was
almost psychotic. He was so sad and crazed at the time.
His sister gave him a bottle of sleeping pills to
help him sleep. He took the mall. He ended up
in a coma for many days in the hospital. I
(14:23):
didn't know Billy Joel was in a coma in the
hospital for days, trying to kill himself. Then when he
got out, he tried to kill himself a second time,
drinking an entire bottle of lemon pledge.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Sing us a song, You're the piano man, drank.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
An entire bottle of lemon pledge, ended up in the
hospital again with great fresh breath.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
And a shine.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
This is a man in despair trying to end his
own life. I apologize.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
He got rid of that hazy tabletop. Look beautiful, shine,
you can see a reflection in it.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yes, so.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
He earned some of his you know, like a lot
of artists. Yeah, I'll probably watch that documentary.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Whoo, that's heavy.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
How did he keep that? Being as big as he is,
how did he keep that part of his life a
secret all these years? Usually you know this stuff about
the big giant stars.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Well, right, was the gossip press just not quite as
well developed?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Or I guess dude and his wife didn't go to
the press with it. And good for them, you know,
they didn't write a tell all book My years with
Billy Joel the Homewrecker.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
You know, they didn't.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
They didn't try to profit from it, and his sister
didn't either, apparently, because that's what it usually takes is
for stuff like this to come out.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Is somebody needs a few bucks and they go to
You're right, those those kind of books are just disgusted me.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
You go to a bookstore, there's always tons of them,
whether it's about politicians or athletes or movie stars, singers
or whatever. You know, you slept with him for a
couple of weeks, and now I want to tell your
story and make money off of it whatever.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Disgusting.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Hm, I must not go to that section of the
bookstore or something. Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Well, they're always they're always prominently displayed. Maybe they sell well,
I don't know what.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Uh so Elon and Trump, where are we on that?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
So I woke up this morning to the Politico headline
that Trump and Elon both had calmed down, become grown
ups and they were gonna have a phone call today.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Well, that's completely over fake news.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I don't know where political Well, Trump told Politico that
I don't know what point he changed his mind, because
then he told CNN and then the Washington Post later
that no, I'm not talking to Elon and I'm moving
on and care about the bill, and he's gonna get
rid of his tesla has read tesla, according to uh
mirork Post, and Elon's got some things. Is Elon continuing
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late into the night last night to link Epstein's stories
with Trump in them to who is two hundred and
twenty million follow words?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
For some reason. I don't know what he thinks he's
going to get there.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Well, I've been following the minute by minute updates on
the feud. I have some recent developments for you. Ted
Cruz has weighed in wrong.
Speaker 8 (17:14):
And you know, Elon's upset because we took the EV
mandate and you know, which was a lot of money
for electric vehicles and you know they're having a hard
time the electric vehicles and they want us to pay
billions of dollars in subsidy. And you know, I Elon
knew this from the beginning. He knew it for a
(17:36):
long time ago. That's been in there. That's been I
would say, j D. That hasn't changed. That's been right
from the beginning.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Mister.
Speaker 8 (17:43):
I think mister secretary, that hasn't changed it all right
from the beginning.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
You know, just this and aside before we get into
the ongoing Hatfields and McCoy's battle between Trump and Elon
Musk read a great piece about how GM has been
whip sawd as administrations come and go on like massive policies,
and how their CEO has to come out and say,
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we embrace the new ev revolutionists.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
It will lead us to a brighter future.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
And then you know, as soon as Biden's out office,
thank god that hiad is over. Hey, let's guess up
America and kick some ass.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Just it's just not good.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I know, somebody who's at a high level in one
of the other very famous American automobile manufacturers found on
road dead Fixer repaired daily. I drive lots of words,
but yeah, they said, yeah, So they tell us, we
got to build all these electric charge stations on our lot.
So we're going to spend millions of dollars on that
(18:44):
when there's a good chance that nobody wants the cars,
nobody's buying them, nobody's biting the Ford lightning. We've done
the story before from Wall Street Journal about how many
gazillions of dollars they've lost on all of these things,
doing it because the government tells them, and then the
next administration comes along is no, no, we ain't doing this.
Nobody wants them. And Trump said that yesterday about Elon.
We're taking out the uh, the subsidies for the.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Electric cars because people don't want them.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Just crew right, right. But Elon and Giant Corporation and
shareholders had, you know, planned their business future based on
government policy, which has now changed completely. And that's just
not the way a market ought to operate. But that's
kind of an aside to the clown show, which is
the Musk Trump feud.
Speaker 9 (19:32):
Who signed time for the clowns and the acrobats and
the dancing palo whatever?
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Whose side are you on? When I wanted that clip?
But forget it.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
You got to pick a side.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
From the way I understand it, You're either on Elon
side or Trump side. That's the only way you can
do it. There's no nuance, there's no this but that
you pick a side. This is the United States of
America looking around for a coin. I don't carry coins.
Let's see, how about I'll twist the pen if the
pen point toward me. It's Trump, it's a way, it's musk.
(20:02):
Oh shoot, I just threw the pen on myself. I
line side's about the way you'd have to do it.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Jack.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
I'm on the side of America. The reason I asked
for the Ted Cruz clip, which I said I would cue,
is that I'm following the minute by minute updates on
a couple of different publications and frankly, they're now milking.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
This and because it's not not much as happening, but.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Ted Cruz has entered the fray Ted Cruz, Ted Cruz.
Speaker 9 (20:36):
The time for the clowns and the acrobats and the
dancing bears has passed.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Is this part of the delicious scandal? Milk?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
The problem with Ted Cruz is that saying that is
he he is one of the acrobatic clown bears, which
is weird because if you meet Ted in person, he
is a very sincere, down to earth.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Guy from serious person. But now he is a bear
doing summer resaults on a tight wire.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Hyah.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
It's a guy who recognized, okay, showmanship in hyperbole is
the way to get head these days.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
But that's not his game, that's not his groove. Anyway.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Ah, but he said, he said, let's hug and makeup.
He said on his podcast Friday that he was in
the Oval Office with President Trump while the fight with
Elon Musk was unfolding, and that the President was pissed
in that moment, but he said the country would be
better off if Trump and Musk reconciled.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Quote.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
I think a lot of conservatives are feeling like this
is not good. Let's hug and make up. He added
that both Musk and Trump are right about the budget bill.
The country needs for it to pass, but it can
be made better.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Wow. How about that?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
So I said this earlier, and you gave me your
squinty look, like I know if I believe you're muttering
squinty look when tweeted out yesterday. Without me, Trump would
have lost the election, Dems would control the House, Republicans
would be fifty one to forty nine per centate. I
believe that you don't think that's true. You think Trump
would have won without.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Elon in the three hundred million dollars, I.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Think it's it's impossible to say that with any certainty.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I mean, I think it helped a lot.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
It sure made a big difference to me, like, God,
do we'd want to do this again? Sort of you know,
Trump supporter and Elon being so hardcore about you know,
doge over and over and over again in fiscal responsibility.
Sure brought me along. I don't know how many other
people it did.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Oh yeah, I think you're right in principle one hundred percent.
I'm just very cynical about the whole this is what
won the election thing, because that's crap most of the time.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
But yeah, it was, it was, it was significant, hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
The Nazi salute brought all the Nazis into the party.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Oh that was valuable. Yep, yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
New York Times you reported on Cory Booker's Nazi salute.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
Yet no, I didn't think so.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
So Steve Bannon, who helped Trump get elected, say this
morning on one of the gazillion podcasts that exist that
Trump should sign an executive order and sees SpaceX tonight
before midnight. Wow, the government's gonna seize the most successful
rocket company in world history, just at a butt hurtness.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Well, you know, Bannon, he just he wants to tear
the whole thing down. He's he's a Marxist, he says himself.
He's a weird sort of Marxist, but he just wants
to tear it down and start again. The only other
headline update really anything happening is that Tesla stock has
turned around. It had lost fourteen percent yesterday.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Yeah. Yeah, that's a hell of a lot of mine.
And why do you think that was?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Just because I theres a lot of people have been
making these jokes about how you know liberals are out
there trying to scrape there. I bought this car before
Elon became a Nazi. Bumper stickers off their Tesla now, right,
and you know put on I'm with Elon bumper sticker
(24:04):
back on it or something.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Like that, right.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
So why did that hurt Tesla's stock, that Elon turned
against Trump?
Speaker 4 (24:14):
I think because of the enormous regulatory power of the
federal government, regulatory slash, subsidies, the rest of it. Because
the government has way, way, way too much power over
the economy. So you've been quoting this Constantine kiss in person, yeah,
a couple of times lately.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
And he tweeted this out. Yes, this is where I
am on the whole thing. What Elon Musk is doing
is genuinely heroic. He will win no friends in politics
and will be ostracized by the current administration, but he
is totally right. We the entire Western world, simply cannot
go on pretending our way of life is sustainable. Historically,
countries build up surpluses in peacetime and then go into
(24:53):
debt to fight wars. We're going into more and more
debt during peacetime. Clever economists will tell you this is sustainable.
It is not, and someone has to do something about it.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I only want to add, also, you will go into
debt during times of recession and depression, but during times
of economic growth you replenish the reserves and actually build surpluses.
We're doing the opposite of that as well. It's suicidal.
My only response to that, you know, somewhat negative, is
that if Elon could have done it without being such
(25:25):
an a hole, it would have been really helpful to
the cause.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
You mean, while he was just running dog or yesterday,
no yesterday.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Well, I'm sorry, in the whole run of him criticizing
the ugly abomination or whatever it was, the horrific See
if they but.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Got the guy's short on sleep, he's got thirteen kids.
He's changing diapers, he's teaching it how to ride a bike.
He's helping somebody with their finals the last week of school.
He's got another kid headed off to college, trying to
get to Mars Burpen. One kid told one of his
girlfriend's baby, mama's can side pieces can get a night's
sleep while he's taking.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Our transgender kid who hates him tiring.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
That would be that lifestyle.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
That's a good point.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Yeah, yeah, so I feel like the missing piece of
this whole story all ever since last week when he
first turned on the bill, the focus on the drama
of the bro.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Ship or marriage or whatever coming to an end, as opposed.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
To the guy is sticking with something he's been talking
about for years. He believes that wanting to have a
dollar forty for every dollar that you give the government
a dollar forty of services for every dollar you give
the government can't go on. Obviously, it's simple math. So
we got to stop. I didn't realize Great Britain's doing
the same thing. They're not as far down the road
(26:45):
as us. We're at one hundred and thirty percent of
our GDP, they're at one hundred percent. So that's why
this guy mentioned Western civilization.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
In a time of growing economy.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Yeah, yeah, there's part of me that things and this
is really discouraging and I shouldn't even say it out
loud on Friday, but it reminds me of the Biden
crime family, the idea that you could just pull one
thread and that would be one thread.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Their whole economic model was selling influence, selling access the
rest of it. There are twenty three you LLCs and
untraceable money and mysterious loans that were never paid off
as sources of income and all that stuff. The US
government is the same are gigantic expenditures on all of
(27:36):
social programs are all built on lies. Compensation rates for
doctors and hospitals that are utterly unsustainable. You know, Congress,
as you've pointed out many times lately, Jack saying we're
gonna spend this much, but we're gonna cut this much.
The expenditures are upfront, the cuts are in seven years,
and they never ever happen. It's a giant house and
(27:58):
cards built on lies.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
A couple more witty things around this, because we might
not talk about it again this show. I don't know
unless one of them goes off again. It's a popular
female pundit said, so Elon goes kill the bill and
Trump goes. Elon has TDS, so Elon goes I'm the
reason Trump won.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
So Trump goes, we waste billions on Elon.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
So Elon goes Epstein and Flunky goes to port and
Elon goes impeach. And that's why women are too emotional
to be president, says this woman.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Thought that was pretty clear. Shot my dear, Yeah, I
thought that was pretty good. And one more from Mark Halprin.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Today, he as I mentioned earlier Nelly Bowls of the
Free Press described it as Real Housewives of Pennsylvania eviden
it's pretty funny.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
So Mark Alprin and his nude letter went through the
stuff that actually happened, and he said, I mean that
was right before Trump referred to Musk as a clown
car of bad ideas in a tesley chassis, and Musk
fired back. I liked it better when President's got banned
from Twitter, and then the riffing when Trump called Musk
a blinking libertarian who's just Jeff Bezos, with memes prompting
(29:04):
most Musk to post an AI generated image of a
but jeweled Trump hugging a cyber truck.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
And it went on from there that all could happen today.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Oh okay, that was imagination.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Well, it's difficult to parody this.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
You can't.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
You can't if if tell me this, So New York
Post says Trump is going to get rid of his
red tesla s that must come play. If Trump is
out on the White House lawn with a hammer beating
on that car today in front of cameras, would you
be shocked?
Speaker 1 (29:36):
No?
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Yes, I would think, oh my god, where will this end?
But I wouldn't be shocked.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
He'd be shocked, shocked, but not surprised.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Okay, we got more. Oh you gonna weigh in on this?
Where are you Trump or Elon? You gotta choose one.
It's the way life works. Four one KFTC.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Ghost networks.
Speaker 10 (30:00):
Insurance companies show a robust list of available healthcare providers
on paper, but not in practice. Ghost networks exist nationwide.
A recent study by the New York Attorney General's Office
of thirteen health plans found eighty six percent of the
listed in network. Mental health provider's staff called we're ghosts
experts we spoke with say, first, get.
Speaker 11 (30:21):
The care that you need, then go back to your
insurance company and file for an exemption or an appeal
if you had to seek care from an out of
network provider, and finally report that ghost network to your
safe department of insurance so they can investigate.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Well, is this mostly mental health stuff they're talking about?
They mentioned that.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Does it happen more in the mental health world than
it does in like the regular doctor world.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
I would be taking a wild guest. I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
I was just going to throw out a therapist I
know says chat GPT is completely replacing us. You got
a question about something mental help wise, ask chat GPT.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
It's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Yeah, how interesting? So, speaking of people who need emotional help,
Trump and Elon Musk getting into a feud.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
One of the more uncomfortable and weird.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Aspects of it was that Friedrich Merrittz, yeah, or the
German chancellor was chancellor prime minister?
Speaker 5 (31:12):
What is he these days? I don't know. Later he
was in pardon no no, oh nine nine nine nine.
You don't you?
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Is that?
Speaker 8 (31:21):
What?
Speaker 7 (31:22):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Anyway, so he was in town to visit with Trump
and it was extremely annoying. He was on a show
and they asked him all about the Trump Elawn feud.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
I was like, are you serious anyway?
Speaker 4 (31:33):
So Trump asks about defense spending and and and and
I wish we had more time. I think we do
have time. Play forty eight real quick, Michael reporter and Trump.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Is Germany doing enough on defense?
Speaker 5 (31:48):
It's mister President enough on defense?
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Enough defense? Or Chancellor wants Germany doing want to Well,
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (32:00):
I mean, I haven't discussed it very much. I know
that you're spending more money on defense now, and quite
a bit more money, and that's a positive thing. I'm
not sure that General MacArthur would have said it's positive.
You know, he couldn't like it, but I sort of
think it's good.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
You understand what I mean.
Speaker 8 (32:18):
But he may have stay and never let Germany re arm.
And I said, I always think about that. When he says, sir,
with spending more money on defense, I say, oh, is
that a good thing or a bad thing?
Speaker 1 (32:30):
I think it's a good thing.
Speaker 8 (32:32):
But you know, at least a certain point, there'll be
a point when I'll see, please don't arm anymore.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
If you don't want it, you watch.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
It get it well, that is, it gets more wild
nomadic train wreck. Yeah, yeah, but nobody paid attention to it.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
I mean, that's an astonishing effort at conversation.
Speaker 9 (32:54):
That was.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Yeah, anyway, I think it stands on his own. But
then this next clip actually has got and a bit
of attention.
Speaker 12 (33:02):
May I remind you that we are having June sixth tomorrow.
This is D Day anniversary when the Americans once ended
the war in Europe, and I think this is in
your hand in specific in ours hell.
Speaker 8 (33:17):
Is not a pleasant day.
Speaker 12 (33:19):
No, that was not a pleasant in the long run,
mister president. This was the liberation of my country from
Nazi Nazi dictator, and we know what we owe you.
But this is the reason why I'm saying that America
is again in a very strong position to do something
on this war and ending this war. So let's talk
(33:41):
about what we can do jointly.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
Yeah. So D Day not a good day for you all?
Speaker 4 (33:47):
Huh wow, Wow, you know, it's fine, It's fine.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
That's a hell of a thing.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
And then so I didn't watch the interview when he
was on Brett Bair, and I thought I should have
because did anybody ask the German FEU or Trump about
the dude Merc's statement last week that limits are off
on Ukraine using the weapons. They can fire mo wherever
they want. In Ukraine, we say so, Britain says so.
(34:23):
Franciso in the United States says so. Did anybody ask
Trump did we say so or not?
Speaker 5 (34:28):
I'm ashamed of this. I tuned out of it.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
I was so annoyed with Aisha Hasney's attempt to interview him.
I was thinking, boy, she's the rising star. She's been
filling in three days this week. I think for Brett
Behar her like global geopolitics, chops are not good.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Well, then they ask about Elon and Trump.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
The German chancellor had to leave thinking this is why
Ukraine is doomed.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
America is so inner looking.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
You're not adults? Yeah, wow, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Wasn't a good good day to look like adults.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
No, No, these are odd times, folks say.
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