May 21, 2024 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- The latest edition of California's crumbling...
- Jack on Smell-O-Vision...
- The Best/Worst Economy, ever...
- Costello's testimony in the Trump Hush Money...
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Search illicit drugs on social media and messaging apps, and
you'll see dealers claiming their drugs have been tested for fentanyl.
While test strips do work, investigators say for accurate results,
the entire pill or batch needs to be tested, which
police say is not understood or practical for most users.
The DEA says seventy percent of the counterfeit pills it
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tested last year contained a deadly dose of fentanyl. In
Los Angeles, accidental overdoses from fentanyl are up more than
sixteen hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Nationwide.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for Americans
ages eighteen to forty five.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah. I feel like they buried the lead there, h
Fentanyl the leading cause of death for adult under forty five.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
That's unbelievable, great, Scott. Yeah, and we need to catch
up to this as a society again. Yeah, she buried
the lead. Are you kidding me? It's not like a
way some people die. No, that's the most likely way
you're gonna die. Prior to the age of forty five.
Just astounding, it really is, and uh, why don't I
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see more PSAs about this?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Or why are my kids not hearing about it in school?
And more often it's incredible.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Yeah, well, people dying of overdose don't have a lobbyist.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
That's part of it. That first part though, was interesting.
So the way you find these drugs as you go
on various messaging apps which I probably don't even know
the names of most of them, and just you can
just put on your messaging app, Hey, I got illegal
drugs for sale. That's the thing.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Well, in ef fact, there are ways they find each other. Sure,
code word, slang, et cetera. Yeah, slang, you got the hooch,
that sort of thing. Oh yeah, but it's you're right.
The entirety of society ought to be talking about this.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
It's amazing.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
I watched all sorts of news last night, and well,
I watched all sorts of news, read all sorts of
news every single day. I had not heard that that
it's the leading cause of death eighteen to forty five.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I'm looking for some hooch that's the bee's knees. Anybody
got I don't.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
I don't think you're gonna get any fentanyls, so you're
better off. Yeah, it's terrible. It's absolutely terrible.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Michael. You know what, did you hear the conversation off
the air. I couldn't.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
I didn't notice whether you were in your cage or not.
We've got a California's crumbling.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
We keep Michael in a cage, and he's complained a
few times. It's working its way through hr, but we
just either I.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Get straw in the corner if he wants to lie
down at people.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
They're straw in the corner in case he wants to
lie down, and one of those big hamster feeders if
he gets thirsty. I just feel like it's safer for
him and us if he's in.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
A cage, or it is the control room.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
But anyway, there is that beating Wando.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Well that's right, step out of line, the beating Wand
that's just it's we're doing you a favor.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
You enjoy we know parameters right right anyway, Oh my god,
I feel like this has gone further than I wanted. Yeah,
but I'm enjoying it.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
So the California is crumbling, He says, hang on, now
that I'm feeling better from my COVID. I'm coughing even more,
which is highly annoying as my body tries to get
rid of the vestiges of the disease. So from distasteful
to distasteful. Anyway, moving along California's crumbling. A couple of
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warm up acts and then we'll get to the main event,
the story I really.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Want to talk about.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Wall Street Journal with a piece Gavin Newsom's battleground gift
to Donald Trump talking about his wild ass virtue signaling
green energy, get rid of combustion engine cars thing and
is punishing of the gas companies and refineries are raising
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gas prices throughout the West because California's gas prices affect
gas prices in Nevada and Arizonas especially California's highest in
the country. The difficulty of operating refineries in the Golden
State has caused many to shut down.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
This is so good.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
More than sixty percent of the refineries that open in
California during the past one hundred years are no longer operating,
and ECON one to one teaches us that reduce supply
increases prices, and Gavvy is escalating his war on the
oil industry. The California Energy Commission is planning to impose
a tax on refineries quote gross margins. Okay, attacks on
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gross margins, which is the difference between wholesale gasoline and
crude prices plus certain regulatory costs. But the gross margin
notably doesn't include refiners operating costs, which include employee pay,
and so they're completely ignoring the economics of how the
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industry works. And just as a symbol of stiggy, it
too the oil guys. They're imposing this brand new gross
margins tax, and it's it's driving companies out of the state.
They're refusing to invest in refineries, refusing to repair them,
and it's just it's it's awful and getting worse. But
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moving along, New York Post picking up the story of
the Oakland intersection that's removed all of the traffic lights
because the junkies keep stealing all the wires and now
they've just given up and thrown up their hands and
put in stop signs.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
That is the most amazing story of the week in
a major US city. They've gotten rid of the stop
lights and just put in stop signs because you just
can't figure out a way to keep people from stealing
the stoplights. So what are you gonna do? For one
hundred and twenty years or how long stoplights have been around,
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We've been able to have stoplights, but you can't now,
and so there's nothing else you can do.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
You just go back to stop signs. Whow local homes,
homeowners and businesses are mad about it.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
That's that's not crazier than I've got to go find
a twenty year old with a key to buy my
deodorant because it's locked up. I mean, it's not crazier.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Than that big junkie camp that Oakland's permitted nearby, and
all the junkies constantly steal wire and the local people
be damned. The junkies have gotten their way and you
lost your stoplight. Moving along a little hilariously unfair reporting
is California's crumbling, Michael, and the.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Media plays around.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
That's right, metal Gun, I love this headline. This Californi
you bill aims to stop theft at self checkout lanes.
Why are stores against it? Stupid stores? The stages wants
to help you stop theft?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Why are you against it?
Speaker 4 (07:11):
This is the San Francisco tyonical, Absolutely hilarious. While Supporters
of the Retail Theft Prevention in State Staffing Acts say
the bill with Thwart would be shoplifters blah blah blah.
Blowback from retailor's groups who say its measures are overly
burdensome and lack evidence they'd reduce theft. The author, Senator
Lola Smallwood of Los Angeles, she had said she was
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surprised at the bill's criticism given the growing amount of
losses attributed to retail theft.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Are you really surprised?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Lola Smallwood Quavis that's her name, said, the bill is
envisioned as more than just an anti theft measure. It's
about protecting workers from artificial intelligence technologies that are quickly
replacing humans in a number of growing industries. Oh oh
oh oh, okay, wait a minute now, so you're going
to protect jobs from AI? Swallow e Quavis a former
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labor union organizer. Oh okay, now we're getting somewhere.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
It's the old you'd be.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
You're a union goon, then your union gets you elected
to the legislature, when you do the bidding of the
union goons, and then you go back to where it
can for the union when you're turned out right, So
it's all a big union measure trying to unionize cashiers
and prevent self service checkouts from taking hold. But the Chronicle,
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with a straight face, their headline, this California bill aims
to stop theft at self checkout lanes.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Why are stores against it? Jeez, Louise.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
All a lead up to this, This is jack. You've
been banging this gong, this drum for a very long time.
There are any budget problems in California, the governor informs
you with a sad face, we're going to have to
cut money for teachers and firefighters and cops, an insulin
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for poor dying children.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Right, because those are the only thing and things in
the budget. If you if you run up against it
terms of money in your county, your city, of your state,
you're gonna have to fire teachers and Policemen's not eight
million other programs that don't do anything, or gazillions of bureaucrats.
You don't have the slightest idea what they do. You
can't lay them off. You got to lay off the firefighter,
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his firefighter and his wife's a teacher to two for
one Calo.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Here's your headline from the incredibly dishonest left wing Sacramento
b California Democrats want Gavin Newsom to close more prisons
over cutting childcare and welfare, because, of course, those are
the only two choices right for the enormous budget deficit.
You either feed children or you let the prisoners out.
Those are your choices, right, California Democrats worried about childcare
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and social safety netcuts and Gavin Newsom's revised budget. Boy,
do you think Gavin accidentally made that false choice in
his budget or do you think maybe.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
He realized me will say, don't do that. Oh boy,
fall for this crap over and over and over again.
I don't know, I really I understand I fell for
it when I was twenty. But don't you wise up
at some point, think, Hey, every time you run low
on money, you claim it's teachers and firefighters that have
to pay the price. Never any other government section, sector,
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or employee. Just firefighters and teachers. What's that all about?
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Or in this case, I mean, because firefighters and teachers
no longer is compelling for voters apparently, so now it's
starving children and foster use.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
That's the only place you.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Can get any budgetary dollars I'm sorry, starving children. They'll
have to starve. You'll see their bones on the street.
But it was either that or emptied the prisons, and
you said keep the bad guys in prison.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
So we let the children starve. And you couldn't, for instance,
say how about we just flat out cancel at three
o'clock this afternoon the bullet train project and save billions
upon billions, tens of billions of dollars and just give
up on that project. Now we just wanted to stop laugh, well,
stop feeding foster children instead.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Oh, mister governor, how about you stop funneling billions of
dollars a year or two so called homeless programs that
nobody usn't bothered to ask whether they work or not.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
No, no, it's the starving children. One has got a
salt in his hand.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Quick, slap that cracker out of that child's hands, so
they stop, good and quick.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
That's our only choice, or a bunch of different green
projects that could disappear and nobody would ever notice.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
So all these Democrats have concerns about Newsom's plan to
cut money from programs that provide food assistance, help foster youth,
and subsidize childcare, among others. They're joining with organizations, urging
leaders to find ways to preserve funding for those those priorities.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
And of course they've gone right to.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
More money would be gotten by closing five more prisons,
as the LAO the Legislative Analyst's Office suggested in.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
February, We've got this budget deficit, and the only way
we can close the budget holes either raised taxes or
shoot healthy live puppies. It's come down to this, people.
We've either got to shoot healthy live puppies as you
can see this puppy right here, or raise taxes.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Somebody explained this with all the criminals running around on
the streets and the prosecutors who don't prosecute. The Legislative
Analyst's Office, which is as crooked as legislature, reported California
prisons would operate with fifteen thousand empty beds during next
fiscal year, which would reach nineteen thousand by twenty twenty eight.
The five prison closures could save the state of billion
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dollars annually. So we have way more prison cells than
we need in California.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
What yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Prison closures are also a Legislative Black Caucus priority, said
the chair, Lorie Wilson, a Democratic assembly woman from Sassoon City.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
How many criminals do we have? That's how many beds
we need, That's how many jail cells we need? Enough
for all the criminals, people who have broken the laws
that say you got to go to jail. Yeah, exactly
so anyway, and you know what, gavynus people will win
the next election. Of course, what do you do? I
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don't know what do you do? I guess and theory.
Things to have to get bad enough that people are
willing to try something different, But I don't know how
bad things have to get. Apparently worse than this.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
You close five more prisons, you're going to mean making
a few big steps in that direction.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
That's right, Metal guy, thanks for that great coverage, Sacramento B.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
God dang it, that was a depressing segment. Yeah, it was. Hey,
you don't live here, you don't have to feels depressed.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Lindsey Holden, lovely looking gall who covers the California legislature
for the Sacramento B. Let's see, I'm scanning. I'm making
sure this is correct. Let's see scanning scanning. Scanning did
not quote a single Republican or anybody who opposed this
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in any way.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Not a single one. Nice journalism. Oh we got a
lot more on the wayst to here.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Armstrong brother the Disney World said that it's going to
disperse smells into the line at his new Bayu adventure.
Right yet, while over Bush Gardens descent is whatever vape?
The guy behind you is smoking winter Green?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Where was I went to something recently that had the
smell of vision? Where was that? I know they had
it on the Simpsons ride at Universal Studios. There was
some smellovision going on. It was a VR ride. You
sit in a thing and it moves around and it
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feels like you're on a roller coaster. I got immediately sick.
But you went through different places and you smell things
like lard, lad donuts. Use smell donuts, and that smelled donuts,
smelled diaper cream when they're changing the diaper for Maggie. Uugh.
But it was really like evoked some feelings and memories. Sure,
that's amazing. Yeah, it was pretty cool. How much of
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a time have I got, Michael, If I used up
all my time on smellovision, got about a minute thirty.
This is in the Atlantic headline the best worst economy ever.
Listen to this. Americans tend to say that even though
they are personally doing well, the overall economy is doing poorly.
Political scientists think this has to do with the news
there can assuming social media puts a gloomy filter on
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the news. Even many Democrats are not convinced that this
is a good economy, perhaps because they're all reading and
watching those glum news reports. So The Atlantic out with
a big backed up by political science article saying it's
the bad news coverage that's making you feel pessimistic about
the economy, not reality, Not the fact that every single
thing I pay for, every single thing, I'm shocked at
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how much it is, including the stuff of life, food
and medicine, everything. I booked a hotel room tonight because
I'm getting my custom laser, custom lens replacement surgery today.
So I've got a hotel by the way I'm getting
it done. Oh shocked, I what it costs to say
at this hotel. The gas I put in my car
will be shocking, The food I stop to eat will
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be shocking. Every single thing you buy is shocking. Atlantic.
It's not the media reports that make us feel gloomy.
How do they not get that? Do they not live lives?
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
They are so wrapped up in their ideology and their
ivory towers.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
I guess no. But they go to grocery stores and
gas stations and stuff the movie theater. Doesn't it impact them.
I don't get it. They're so overwhelmed by their ivory
towers they don't notice their everyday costs. I guess it's wild.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Yeah, they're ignoring the evidence of their eyes and ears
and getty.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
I'm still kind of reeling from the revelation that Michael
Cohen stole money from the Trump organization, and that wasn't,
at least to my knowledge, that the prosecution didn't get
that out earlier.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
The prosecution is painted Michael Cohen as sort of this bumbling,
pathetic character whose only sins were his misguided, undying loyalty
to Donald Trump. But now you see something a little different.
Now there's an argument to be made that actually, you're
just an opportunistic thief.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
The fact that he was ever charged with larsening is
important because stealing sixty dollars through, which would be larceny
in New York State, is more serious of a crime
than falsifying business.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
They knew about this, they minimized it. The prosecutor misled
this jury. That's what I would are.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Are you allowed to say that, yes, sir, Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
That's entirely I think non Fox coverage of the bombshell
of the day yesterday in the Trump trial that Cohen
had stolen at least sixty thousand dollars from Trump, probably
more through the years. Other than this one instance, I
liked whoever it was saying there that he's just an
opportunistic fiefit.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Well, yeah, the contrast, I thought that whole ab was
really good. They're trying totray him as a bumbling but
well meaning man whose only mistakes were out of fierce
loyalty than Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
They turns on to be a good knifing thief, all right,
and secretly recording him when he's talking to him and everything.
So okay, all right, anyway, here's a little Jonathan Turley
on Fox his take on how that whole thing.
Speaker 9 (19:00):
This isn't the first time he's taken the stand to
admit criminal acts. You know, he went on the stand
under oath and admitted that he previously committed perjury in
a trial over his prior perjury, and the Department of
Justice did nothing. I mean, they had a ready made
case of a witness saying, yes, under oath, I swear
to God, I committed perjury in the previous trial, and
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the Department of Justice just shrugged and walked away. And
here you have someone who admitted to a major larceny
case and the prosecutor had the audacity to get up
and say, well, you remind the jury that you're not
charged with anything, are you? And I wanted to stand
up and say that's the point. I mean, there's a
guy in this courtroom which most certainly should be charged
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and he's your star witness.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Wow. I keep going back though, to Katie Green's dad said,
who's judged a hell of a lot of trials, he
would not be the least bit surprised if there's not
a felony conviction of Donald Trump come out of this
based on what he's seen.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Yeah, yeah, I think it's extraordinarily unlikely, but who knows.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Who knows? I love the idea of.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
You know, you're on trial for shoplifting and I testify
and say, yeah, your honor, he told me all about
the great toaster of and he stole I was on
my way to murder my wife's lover, and he showed
me the toaster of it. It's like, wait, well you were,
you were doing what? And I'm testifying against you? Come on,
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the whole thing is a joke. No way, there's a conviction.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
No way. I disagree with the judge. There's no way
you're thinking twelve right jurors. I mean, uh, if there
is a felony conviction, I don't know where this leaves
us going forward. Were you really you can, because it's
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going to happen.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
The other side's going to do it too. A red
state almost have to.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
A red state is going to drag in a Democrat
candidate and tie them up for a month on some
complicated case that not quite understands in a jury pool
that is overwhelmingly against them, to try to sideline them.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Right, right, and again, I would argue that you almost
have to do that. As the Republicans. There has to
be a sanction, a negative effect for that sort of activity,
or you're going to get more of it. I'm not
saying that would be good, but that's the only way
you stop it. If both sides realize, all right, mutually
assured destruction. This is crazy because Lord knows patriotism and
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morality won't restrain them.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
The thing I'm looking for punditry about that I haven't
found is why closing arguments and then you're going to
wait a week? Why are we way a week? Why
did we decide to wait a week?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Well, the other thing the judge couldn't couldn't guess at
he thought that was crazy, especially in such a high
profile case.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
These jurors are going to go off for a Memorial
Day weekend.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
They are going to get dragged into conversations about the case.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Of course they are, yeah, yeah, And I would just think,
as as a favor to jurors, let's get this wrapped up.
We'll be done, you know, middle of the week, and
then you're done, get back to your regular life Memorial
Day weekend and back to your regular job or taking
care of your kids, whatever it is you do. Have
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you have you heard anybody explain why the judge decided
to because that came out of nowhere, everybody. All I've
taken in cable news shows from the three different networks
to get three different points of view. Well, including ABC
and NBC, but CNN, Fox, everybody had been talking about
this being wrapped up this week. Then all of a
sudden yesterday it was they're going to wait a whole
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week in between. Where did that go? Right?
Speaker 4 (23:03):
You know what I think it is is they take
Wednesday off, right, and so you got Thursday? And then
it could be that the court calendar is Fridays off
for Memorial Day weekend. And even if it's not, the
judge has a problem because you have closing arguments probably
take one day I would guess at max, maybe not
even the court day, but you have to have ample
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time for the jury to deliberate. What if they want
to deliberate for four or five days and so you
got them, you give them like a day to deliberate
and then they take three days off and go off, And.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
That wouldn't be good. But the hanging around your friends
and family over Memorial Day weekend and you're not going
to talk about this is come on, hilarious. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
So during the testimony yesterday, I had this Bob Costello
character who was an attorney who is representing Cohen for
a while and advising Cohen, and he got into it
with the judge, which was super dramatic. I love the
yin and yang of a couple of different looks at
it from different media figures. This is I'm pretty sure
this is the right clip. This is Christy Greenberg on MSNBC.
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Is that right? Or who was the one who was
talking about clearing the courtroom for safety? Is that Christy Greenberg?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
No, it's the CNN clip that I grabbed Paula Reid,
Oh you do yeah? Forty four?
Speaker 10 (24:27):
Yeah, yeah, that's the question. I'm texting sources inside the
courtroom mine are close to Costello, asking them effectively that
what the hell I mean? Rob Costello certainly wants to
testify in this case. He has personal animis towards Michael Cohen.
He's clearly there to undercut his credibility. But to get
in such a tussle with the judge over seeing this
case that he cleared the courtroom receiving some sort of
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security risk, I mean that is extraordinary. I've spoken to
the Costello for years, I know him quite well.
Speaker 11 (24:54):
This is my character.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
We get stopped there. Yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
The idea that it was clear because of security risk,
because the judge was trade he was going to go
crazy to kill everybody is actually kind of funny. They
cleared the courtroom because the judge wanted to chew him
out good and hard, chow him a.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
New one, as they say. And who came up with
the expression originally ripple? That's not even dwell? What how
did that catch on and become like a common phrase
that I hear normal people use, probably probably horrible? A
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new opening in his body, Yeah, a new orifice. Who
decided that was going to be our go to phrase
for really got after him, really gave him a good
dressing down, created in him a new orifice. What kind
of a phrase is that? Again?
Speaker 4 (25:47):
I think the origin, if you knew it would probably
be too horrifying to contemplate. But so anyway, you got
this this out of breath. Reporter at cleared it for
safety reasons. Anyway, Jonathan, I'm sorry. Andy McCarthy had a
more sober analysis of what he thought was going on
with Costello in fifty two.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Yeah. I think it got very contentious at the end.
Speaker 12 (26:10):
There was clearly a lot of tension between Bob Costello,
the witness who was called by the defense case, and
Judge march On. Judge march On's rulings seemed to be
a little bit erratic.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Bob Costello is a.
Speaker 12 (26:25):
Very experienced, savvy New York defense lawyer, obviously didn't understand
how the same question seemed to produce a sustained objection
and an overruled objection siriatum. And he got a little
bit exasperated, and then the judge got exasperated because Bob
got exasperated. So that's the kind of closeout we had today.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Remind my note to self, reminder that to use syriatum more.
I had a glass of red wine than another glass
of red wine than a Scotch in syriatum, I think
he was trying to say one after the other.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Yeah. Wow. So the judge did not throw that guy
in jail or anything like that. They were claiming on
one of the cable news channels that that was a
clear example of a double standard here where afraid of
how and this could be true, Afraid of how this
would be so explosive to take a Trump witness and
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throw him in jail. They didn't treat him like you'd
treat a normal person who's strying. God, I gotta think
if you're a judge if somebody's trying to stare you down,
you're gonna go to jail until you cal him down.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
You can't be staring me down. That is not okay.
What do you think what is staring you down?
Speaker 13 (27:39):
Me?
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Holding your gaze? Come on to stare down.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
It's you can't throw somebody in jail over holding your gaze.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
You can if the you know the difference as well
as anybody. If the guy's holding your gaze in such
of a I'm gonna punch you in the face. If
that's what he's doing, nets reunion interpret it, I would
throw him in jail.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
And if he was, and if he was doing it
in a clown suit, I would have called him a clown.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
But that's not what occurred.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
The judge said, all right, clear the courtroom. He chewed
the guy out, the guy behaved, period.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
That's it. It's as simple as that.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
I am sorry to deny the cable news their excitement.
An experienced trial attorney got mouthy with the judge. The
judge shut it down and said, boy, I'm in charge here,
and the boy said, yeah, I guess you are, and
everything went fine.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
I don't know, it sounds a little in seriotum to me, Well,
that's your opinion. Man, Oh what a clown show it is.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Everybody ought to be wearing clown shoes, the red nose,
the wig, the miniature car with so much interior space,
the whole clown genre.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I can't believe that Costello guy got so far down
the road of out a line that he was saying,
oh Jesus, like what that judge would make a ruling.
I wasn't there. What does that mean? Everybody has the
capability of losing their composure sometimes? Or was he trying
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to make a point. Oh he was. He was disgusted
with the judge. The judge is terrible.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
And I was watching uh CNN yesterday and I was amused,
and look, I'm in this business, I get it.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
But I was amused at.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
How jeez turned into awe jeez, which turned into Jesus
after Christ on the cable. They just kept exaggerating it
a little more, a little more to make get exciting.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
And that is a good point that you'd have to
hear it, because there's a huge difference between that Jeesus,
oh jeez and that last one you did, or just
looking at a guy like really or giving him the
I'm gonna beat you when this is Overlook, there's a
big difference between those two. And I don't know which
one it was because I didn't see it.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
It went from two New York lawyers looking at each
other to we're on the streets of Tombstone and Costello's
there with a six gun in each hand staring him down.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Everybody calm down, right, it's the end of reservoir Dogs. Yeah. Yeah. Meanwhile,
Trump is probably thinking finally had some entertainment. Oh, that's
the music they should play when they bring everybody into
the courtroom. They should all get out of one car.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
The defense out of one side, prosecution out of the other, right.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Flowers, Right, Yeah, we'll finish strong next arm strong.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
And yet.
Speaker 11 (30:55):
How did we get to this point when it comes
to Graceland.
Speaker 10 (30:58):
Well, in the lawsuit, he said that last year.
Speaker 11 (31:01):
Nausny Investment and Private Lending LLC presented documents that claimed
her mother had borrowed three point eight million dollars from
the company and use the deed for Graceland as security
collateral if you will. The firm claims Lisa Maried defaulted
on that loan, so therefore Graceland is now their property.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
But Keio's lawsuit.
Speaker 11 (31:22):
Says that those documents presented are fake. Her mother never
borrowed the money and never used Graceland as collateral. The
court documents go even further, identifying a Florida notary.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
All right, I think you've already gotten into it further
than I care. Graceland, where Elvis used to live, is
up for sale or going to sale or somebody's, isn't
it or something like that. Anyway, I was thinking before
we even played that clip, how much purchase does Elvis
Presley have at all in America anymore? For anybody under fifty.
I don't know. It's got to take the wayne, no doubt. Absolutely,
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it's got to be diminishing, like all celebrities do. And yeah,
it's just the way it works. I mean, Al Jolson
was the biggest singing star in America in like nineteen twenty.
Nobody's going to go visit his boyhood home at this point, probably, oh,
unless you're a because I'm super fan and Elvis's home Graceland,
(32:19):
which I've visited. But I'm older, and I was big
into Elvis when I was a kid. I don't know
how important it is to society anymore. Were it not kitchy,
it's kookie.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
If it were not kooky, would it get nearly the
uh the number of curiosity seekers that it did if
it was a standard suburban Memphis home.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Katie, you're young, Elvis have any without a jungle room
and the rest of it is right. I'm saying, Elvis
mean anything to you and your friends minimal? Yeah, I'm
guessing yeah. And then people after you it'll be nothing
Like my kids, it means nothing less whoever. And I've
tried to play them the music and get me to
catch on, but they didn't really dig it either.
Speaker 13 (33:00):
Now fire thoughts, yes, with your hosts Jack Armstrong and
Joe Getty.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
See, that's the sort of pop music this hot these days.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Instead I met in person as a kid. I'll make
that part of my final thought, Katie. Here's your o's
for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew.
There is our technical director, Michael Agelo. Michael final thong.
Speaker 13 (33:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (33:32):
In the tenth grade, I actually got in the Elvis
suit and he imitated Elvis in front of the whole class.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
It went well, Yeah, it was embarrassing. But it was fun.
What'd you sing? I can't even remember which one it was.
I tried to block it out.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
I think so many choices. Katie green Arse deemed to
use woman as a final thought.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Katie, this one's for Jack.
Speaker 9 (33:53):
Since you're ditching the glasses today, now's the perfect time
to bust.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Out the wig, dye the goatee. Do you go the
whole fallmakers ram fright from geek to chic or whatever
they call that.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
Yeah, get a queer eye going over on the way
there or something.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Actually, have a final thought for us. Yeah. We lived
in Memphis when I was a little kid, and not
that far from Graceland, when Elvis still lived there. And
we went by Graceland one day and they had the
gates open, and Elvis was riding his horses around and
came up to the gate and talked to people, and
it was just a handful of us there and hung
out with Elvis on his horse. And what an interesting memory.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
Yeah, wow, oh gosh, My final thought is not nearly
as charming as we discussed earlier. Public schooling, including colleges
and universities in the United States are so diseased the
need to be torn down built again.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Let's get started, no doubt about that. Of course. My
Elvis story is like somebody told me I met Betty
Page in nineteen forty. Okay, great, good for Armstrong and
Geddy wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
So many people, thanks a little time, got Armstrong Yeddy
dot com. Got a lot of great hot links there
for you. Great pick up a T shirt, see you tomorrow.
God bless America.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
The United States had no part to play. And I'm
strong and Gette. This is one of the low moments
in American history. What the hell was behind all that?
Speaker 11 (35:15):
This has to stop, and it has to stop like
the day before yesterday?
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Are you sure, oh dead Shore, Yeah, absolutely. I think
it got very contentious at the end. This isn't the
first time. This is garbage.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
This thing is the farest so everyone knows that that's
the point.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
This is lunacy and it's got to stop. Thanks very much,
Armstrong and Getty.
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Search illicit drugs on social media and messaging apps, and
you'll see dealers claiming their drugs have been tested for fentanyl.
While test strips do work, investigators say for accurate results,
the entire pill or batch needs to be tested, which
police say is not understood or practical for most users.
The DEA says seventy percent of the counterfeit pills it
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tested last year contained a deadly dose of fentanyl. In
Los Angeles, accidental overdoses from fentanyl are up more than
sixteen hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Nationwide.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for Americans
ages eighteen to forty five.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah. I feel like they buried the lead there, h
Fentanyl the leading cause of death for adult under forty five.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
That's unbelievable, great, Scott. Yeah, and we need to catch
up to this as a society again. Yeah, she buried
the lead. Are you kidding me? It's not like a
way some people die. No, that's the most likely way
you're gonna die. Prior to the age of forty five.
Just astounding, it really is, and uh, why don't I
(01:23):
see more PSAs about this?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Or why are my kids not hearing about it in school?
And more often it's incredible.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Yeah, well, people dying of overdose don't have a lobbyist.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
That's part of it. That first part though, was interesting.
So the way you find these drugs as you go
on various messaging apps which I probably don't even know
the names of most of them, and just you can
just put on your messaging app, Hey, I got illegal
drugs for sale. That's the thing.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Well, in ef fact, there are ways they find each other. Sure,
code word, slang, et cetera. Yeah, slang, you got the hooch,
that sort of thing. Oh yeah, but it's you're right.
The entirety of society ought to be talking about this.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
It's amazing.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
I watched all sorts of news last night, and well,
I watched all sorts of news, read all sorts of
news every single day. I had not heard that that
it's the leading cause of death eighteen to forty five.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I'm looking for some hooch that's the bee's knees. Anybody
got I don't.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
I don't think you're gonna get any fentanyls, so you're
better off. Yeah, it's terrible. It's absolutely terrible.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Michael. You know what, did you hear the conversation off
the air. I couldn't.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
I didn't notice whether you were in your cage or not.
We've got a California's crumbling.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
We keep Michael in a cage, and he's complained a
few times. It's working its way through hr, but we
just either I.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Get straw in the corner if he wants to lie
down at people.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
They're straw in the corner in case he wants to
lie down, and one of those big hamster feeders if
he gets thirsty. I just feel like it's safer for
him and us if he's in.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
A cage, or it is the control room.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
But anyway, there is that beating Wando.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Well that's right, step out of line, the beating Wand
that's just it's we're doing you a favor.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
You enjoy we know parameters right right anyway, Oh my god,
I feel like this has gone further than I wanted. Yeah,
but I'm enjoying it.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
So the California is crumbling, He says, hang on, now
that I'm feeling better from my COVID. I'm coughing even more,
which is highly annoying as my body tries to get
rid of the vestiges of the disease. So from distasteful
to distasteful. Anyway, moving along California's crumbling. A couple of
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warm up acts and then we'll get to the main event,
the story I really.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Want to talk about.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Wall Street Journal with a piece Gavin Newsom's battleground gift
to Donald Trump talking about his wild ass virtue signaling
green energy, get rid of combustion engine cars thing and
is punishing of the gas companies and refineries are raising
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gas prices throughout the West because California's gas prices affect
gas prices in Nevada and Arizonas especially California's highest in
the country. The difficulty of operating refineries in the Golden
State has caused many to shut down.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
This is so good.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
More than sixty percent of the refineries that open in
California during the past one hundred years are no longer operating,
and ECON one to one teaches us that reduce supply
increases prices, and Gavvy is escalating his war on the
oil industry. The California Energy Commission is planning to impose
a tax on refineries quote gross margins. Okay, attacks on
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gross margins, which is the difference between wholesale gasoline and
crude prices plus certain regulatory costs. But the gross margin
notably doesn't include refiners operating costs, which include employee pay,
and so they're completely ignoring the economics of how the
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industry works. And just as a symbol of stiggy, it
too the oil guys. They're imposing this brand new gross
margins tax, and it's it's driving companies out of the state.
They're refusing to invest in refineries, refusing to repair them,
and it's just it's it's awful and getting worse. But
(05:33):
moving along, New York Post picking up the story of
the Oakland intersection that's removed all of the traffic lights
because the junkies keep stealing all the wires and now
they've just given up and thrown up their hands and
put in stop signs.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
That is the most amazing story of the week in
a major US city. They've gotten rid of the stop
lights and just put in stop signs because you just
can't figure out a way to keep people from stealing
the stoplights. So what are you gonna do? For one
hundred and twenty years or how long stoplights have been around,
(06:09):
We've been able to have stoplights, but you can't now,
and so there's nothing else you can do.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
You just go back to stop signs. Whow local homes,
homeowners and businesses are mad about it.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
That's that's not crazier than I've got to go find
a twenty year old with a key to buy my
deodorant because it's locked up. I mean, it's not crazier.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Than that big junkie camp that Oakland's permitted nearby, and
all the junkies constantly steal wire and the local people
be damned. The junkies have gotten their way and you
lost your stoplight. Moving along a little hilariously unfair reporting
is California's crumbling, Michael, and the.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Media plays around.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
That's right, metal Gun, I love this headline. This Californi
you bill aims to stop theft at self checkout lanes.
Why are stores against it? Stupid stores? The stages wants
to help you stop theft?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Why are you against it?
Speaker 4 (07:11):
This is the San Francisco tyonical, Absolutely hilarious. While Supporters
of the Retail Theft Prevention in State Staffing Acts say
the bill with Thwart would be shoplifters blah blah blah.
Blowback from retailor's groups who say its measures are overly
burdensome and lack evidence they'd reduce theft. The author, Senator
Lola Smallwood of Los Angeles, she had said she was
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surprised at the bill's criticism given the growing amount of
losses attributed to retail theft.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Are you really surprised?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Lola Smallwood Quavis that's her name, said, the bill is
envisioned as more than just an anti theft measure. It's
about protecting workers from artificial intelligence technologies that are quickly
replacing humans in a number of growing industries. Oh oh
oh oh, okay, wait a minute now, so you're going
to protect jobs from AI? Swallow e Quavis a former
(08:05):
labor union organizer. Oh okay, now we're getting somewhere.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
It's the old you'd be.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
You're a union goon, then your union gets you elected
to the legislature, when you do the bidding of the
union goons, and then you go back to where it
can for the union when you're turned out right, So
it's all a big union measure trying to unionize cashiers
and prevent self service checkouts from taking hold. But the Chronicle,
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with a straight face, their headline, this California bill aims
to stop theft at self checkout lanes.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Why are stores against it? Jeez, Louise.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
All a lead up to this, This is jack. You've
been banging this gong, this drum for a very long time.
There are any budget problems in California, the governor informs
you with a sad face, we're going to have to
cut money for teachers and firefighters and cops, an insulin
(09:04):
for poor dying children.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Right, because those are the only thing and things in
the budget. If you if you run up against it
terms of money in your county, your city, of your state,
you're gonna have to fire teachers and Policemen's not eight
million other programs that don't do anything, or gazillions of bureaucrats.
You don't have the slightest idea what they do. You
can't lay them off. You got to lay off the firefighter,
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his firefighter and his wife's a teacher to two for
one Calo.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Here's your headline from the incredibly dishonest left wing Sacramento
b California Democrats want Gavin Newsom to close more prisons
over cutting childcare and welfare, because, of course, those are
the only two choices right for the enormous budget deficit.
You either feed children or you let the prisoners out.
Those are your choices, right, California Democrats worried about childcare
(09:58):
and social safety netcuts and Gavin Newsom's revised budget. Boy,
do you think Gavin accidentally made that false choice in
his budget or do you think maybe.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
He realized me will say, don't do that. Oh boy,
fall for this crap over and over and over again.
I don't know, I really I understand I fell for
it when I was twenty. But don't you wise up
at some point, think, Hey, every time you run low
on money, you claim it's teachers and firefighters that have
to pay the price. Never any other government section, sector,
(10:33):
or employee. Just firefighters and teachers. What's that all about?
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Or in this case, I mean, because firefighters and teachers
no longer is compelling for voters apparently, so now it's
starving children and foster use.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
That's the only place you.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Can get any budgetary dollars I'm sorry, starving children. They'll
have to starve. You'll see their bones on the street.
But it was either that or emptied the prisons, and
you said keep the bad guys in prison.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
So we let the children starve. And you couldn't, for instance,
say how about we just flat out cancel at three
o'clock this afternoon the bullet train project and save billions
upon billions, tens of billions of dollars and just give
up on that project. Now we just wanted to stop laugh, well,
stop feeding foster children instead.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Oh, mister governor, how about you stop funneling billions of
dollars a year or two so called homeless programs that
nobody usn't bothered to ask whether they work or not.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
No, no, it's the starving children. One has got a
salt in his hand.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Quick, slap that cracker out of that child's hands, so
they stop, good and quick.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
That's our only choice, or a bunch of different green
projects that could disappear and nobody would ever notice.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
So all these Democrats have concerns about Newsom's plan to
cut money from programs that provide food assistance, help foster youth,
and subsidize childcare, among others. They're joining with organizations, urging
leaders to find ways to preserve funding for those those priorities.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
And of course they've gone right to.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
More money would be gotten by closing five more prisons,
as the LAO the Legislative Analyst's Office suggested in.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
February, We've got this budget deficit, and the only way
we can close the budget holes either raised taxes or
shoot healthy live puppies. It's come down to this, people.
We've either got to shoot healthy live puppies as you
can see this puppy right here, or raise taxes.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Somebody explained this with all the criminals running around on
the streets and the prosecutors who don't prosecute. The Legislative
Analyst's Office, which is as crooked as legislature, reported California
prisons would operate with fifteen thousand empty beds during next
fiscal year, which would reach nineteen thousand by twenty twenty eight.
The five prison closures could save the state of billion
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dollars annually. So we have way more prison cells than
we need in California.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
What yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Prison closures are also a Legislative Black Caucus priority, said
the chair, Lorie Wilson, a Democratic assembly woman from Sassoon City.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
How many criminals do we have? That's how many beds
we need, That's how many jail cells we need? Enough
for all the criminals, people who have broken the laws
that say you got to go to jail. Yeah, exactly
so anyway, and you know what, gavynus people will win
the next election. Of course, what do you do? I
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don't know what do you do? I guess and theory.
Things to have to get bad enough that people are
willing to try something different, But I don't know how
bad things have to get. Apparently worse than this.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
You close five more prisons, you're going to mean making
a few big steps in that direction.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
That's right, Metal guy, thanks for that great coverage, Sacramento B.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
God dang it, that was a depressing segment. Yeah, it was. Hey,
you don't live here, you don't have to feels depressed.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Lindsey Holden, lovely looking gall who covers the California legislature
for the Sacramento B. Let's see, I'm scanning. I'm making
sure this is correct. Let's see scanning scanning. Scanning did
not quote a single Republican or anybody who opposed this
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in any way.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Not a single one. Nice journalism. Oh we got a
lot more on the wayst to here.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Armstrong brother the Disney World said that it's going to
disperse smells into the line at his new Bayu adventure.
Right yet, while over Bush Gardens descent is whatever vape?
The guy behind you is smoking winter Green?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Where was I went to something recently that had the
smell of vision? Where was that? I know they had
it on the Simpsons ride at Universal Studios. There was
some smellovision going on. It was a VR ride. You
sit in a thing and it moves around and it
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feels like you're on a roller coaster. I got immediately sick.
But you went through different places and you smell things
like lard, lad donuts. Use smell donuts, and that smelled donuts,
smelled diaper cream when they're changing the diaper for Maggie. Uugh.
But it was really like evoked some feelings and memories. Sure,
that's amazing. Yeah, it was pretty cool. How much of
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a time have I got, Michael, If I used up
all my time on smellovision, got about a minute thirty.
This is in the Atlantic headline the best worst economy ever.
Listen to this. Americans tend to say that even though
they are personally doing well, the overall economy is doing poorly.
Political scientists think this has to do with the news
there can assuming social media puts a gloomy filter on
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the news. Even many Democrats are not convinced that this
is a good economy, perhaps because they're all reading and
watching those glum news reports. So The Atlantic out with
a big backed up by political science article saying it's
the bad news coverage that's making you feel pessimistic about
the economy, not reality, Not the fact that every single
thing I pay for, every single thing, I'm shocked at
(16:27):
how much it is, including the stuff of life, food
and medicine, everything. I booked a hotel room tonight because
I'm getting my custom laser, custom lens replacement surgery today.
So I've got a hotel by the way I'm getting
it done. Oh shocked, I what it costs to say
at this hotel. The gas I put in my car
will be shocking, The food I stop to eat will
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be shocking. Every single thing you buy is shocking. Atlantic.
It's not the media reports that make us feel gloomy.
How do they not get that? Do they not live lives?
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
They are so wrapped up in their ideology and their
ivory towers.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
I guess no. But they go to grocery stores and
gas stations and stuff the movie theater. Doesn't it impact them.
I don't get it. They're so overwhelmed by their ivory
towers they don't notice their everyday costs. I guess it's wild.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Yeah, they're ignoring the evidence of their eyes and ears
and getty.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
I'm still kind of reeling from the revelation that Michael
Cohen stole money from the Trump organization, and that wasn't,
at least to my knowledge, that the prosecution didn't get
that out earlier.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
The prosecution is painted Michael Cohen as sort of this bumbling,
pathetic character whose only sins were his misguided, undying loyalty
to Donald Trump. But now you see something a little different.
Now there's an argument to be made that actually, you're
just an opportunistic thief.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
The fact that he was ever charged with larsening is
important because stealing sixty dollars through, which would be larceny
in New York State, is more serious of a crime
than falsifying business.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
They knew about this, they minimized it. The prosecutor misled
this jury. That's what I would are.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Are you allowed to say that, yes, sir, Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
That's entirely I think non Fox coverage of the bombshell
of the day yesterday in the Trump trial that Cohen
had stolen at least sixty thousand dollars from Trump, probably
more through the years. Other than this one instance, I
liked whoever it was saying there that he's just an
opportunistic fiefit.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Well, yeah, the contrast, I thought that whole ab was
really good. They're trying totray him as a bumbling but
well meaning man whose only mistakes were out of fierce
loyalty than Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
They turns on to be a good knifing thief, all right,
and secretly recording him when he's talking to him and everything.
So okay, all right, anyway, here's a little Jonathan Turley
on Fox his take on how that whole thing.
Speaker 9 (19:00):
This isn't the first time he's taken the stand to
admit criminal acts. You know, he went on the stand
under oath and admitted that he previously committed perjury in
a trial over his prior perjury, and the Department of
Justice did nothing. I mean, they had a ready made
case of a witness saying, yes, under oath, I swear
to God, I committed perjury in the previous trial, and
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the Department of Justice just shrugged and walked away. And
here you have someone who admitted to a major larceny
case and the prosecutor had the audacity to get up
and say, well, you remind the jury that you're not
charged with anything, are you? And I wanted to stand
up and say that's the point. I mean, there's a
guy in this courtroom which most certainly should be charged
(19:43):
and he's your star witness.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Wow. I keep going back though, to Katie Green's dad said,
who's judged a hell of a lot of trials, he
would not be the least bit surprised if there's not
a felony conviction of Donald Trump come out of this
based on what he's seen.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Yeah, yeah, I think it's extraordinarily unlikely, but who knows.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Who knows? I love the idea of.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
You know, you're on trial for shoplifting and I testify
and say, yeah, your honor, he told me all about
the great toaster of and he stole I was on
my way to murder my wife's lover, and he showed
me the toaster of it. It's like, wait, well you were,
you were doing what? And I'm testifying against you? Come on,
(20:33):
the whole thing is a joke. No way, there's a conviction.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
No way. I disagree with the judge. There's no way
you're thinking twelve right jurors. I mean, uh, if there
is a felony conviction, I don't know where this leaves
us going forward. Were you really you can, because it's
(21:02):
going to happen.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
The other side's going to do it too. A red
state almost have to.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
A red state is going to drag in a Democrat
candidate and tie them up for a month on some
complicated case that not quite understands in a jury pool
that is overwhelmingly against them, to try to sideline them.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Right, right, and again, I would argue that you almost
have to do that. As the Republicans. There has to
be a sanction, a negative effect for that sort of activity,
or you're going to get more of it. I'm not
saying that would be good, but that's the only way
you stop it. If both sides realize, all right, mutually
assured destruction. This is crazy because Lord knows patriotism and
(21:47):
morality won't restrain them.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
The thing I'm looking for punditry about that I haven't
found is why closing arguments and then you're going to
wait a week? Why are we way a week? Why
did we decide to wait a week?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Well, the other thing the judge couldn't couldn't guess at
he thought that was crazy, especially in such a high
profile case.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
These jurors are going to go off for a Memorial
Day weekend.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
They are going to get dragged into conversations about the case.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Of course they are, yeah, yeah, And I would just think,
as as a favor to jurors, let's get this wrapped up.
We'll be done, you know, middle of the week, and
then you're done, get back to your regular life Memorial
Day weekend and back to your regular job or taking
care of your kids, whatever it is you do. Have
(22:40):
you have you heard anybody explain why the judge decided
to because that came out of nowhere, everybody. All I've
taken in cable news shows from the three different networks
to get three different points of view. Well, including ABC
and NBC, but CNN, Fox, everybody had been talking about
this being wrapped up this week. Then all of a
sudden yesterday it was they're going to wait a whole
(23:01):
week in between. Where did that go? Right?
Speaker 4 (23:03):
You know what I think it is is they take
Wednesday off, right, and so you got Thursday? And then
it could be that the court calendar is Fridays off
for Memorial Day weekend. And even if it's not, the
judge has a problem because you have closing arguments probably
take one day I would guess at max, maybe not
even the court day, but you have to have ample
(23:25):
time for the jury to deliberate. What if they want
to deliberate for four or five days and so you
got them, you give them like a day to deliberate
and then they take three days off and go off, And.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
That wouldn't be good. But the hanging around your friends
and family over Memorial Day weekend and you're not going
to talk about this is come on, hilarious. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
So during the testimony yesterday, I had this Bob Costello
character who was an attorney who is representing Cohen for
a while and advising Cohen, and he got into it
with the judge, which was super dramatic. I love the
yin and yang of a couple of different looks at
it from different media figures. This is I'm pretty sure
this is the right clip. This is Christy Greenberg on MSNBC.
(24:12):
Is that right? Or who was the one who was
talking about clearing the courtroom for safety? Is that Christy Greenberg?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
No, it's the CNN clip that I grabbed Paula Reid,
Oh you do yeah? Forty four?
Speaker 10 (24:27):
Yeah, yeah, that's the question. I'm texting sources inside the
courtroom mine are close to Costello, asking them effectively that
what the hell I mean? Rob Costello certainly wants to
testify in this case. He has personal animis towards Michael Cohen.
He's clearly there to undercut his credibility. But to get
in such a tussle with the judge over seeing this
case that he cleared the courtroom receiving some sort of
(24:48):
security risk, I mean that is extraordinary. I've spoken to
the Costello for years, I know him quite well.
Speaker 11 (24:54):
This is my character.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
We get stopped there. Yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
The idea that it was clear because of security risk,
because the judge was trade he was going to go
crazy to kill everybody is actually kind of funny. They
cleared the courtroom because the judge wanted to chew him
out good and hard, chow him a.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
New one, as they say. And who came up with
the expression originally ripple? That's not even dwell? What how
did that catch on and become like a common phrase
that I hear normal people use, probably probably horrible? A
(25:31):
new opening in his body, Yeah, a new orifice. Who
decided that was going to be our go to phrase
for really got after him, really gave him a good
dressing down, created in him a new orifice. What kind
of a phrase is that? Again?
Speaker 4 (25:47):
I think the origin, if you knew it would probably
be too horrifying to contemplate. But so anyway, you got
this this out of breath. Reporter at cleared it for
safety reasons. Anyway, Jonathan, I'm sorry. Andy McCarthy had a
more sober analysis of what he thought was going on
with Costello in fifty two.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Yeah. I think it got very contentious at the end.
Speaker 12 (26:10):
There was clearly a lot of tension between Bob Costello,
the witness who was called by the defense case, and
Judge march On. Judge march On's rulings seemed to be
a little bit erratic.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Bob Costello is a.
Speaker 12 (26:25):
Very experienced, savvy New York defense lawyer, obviously didn't understand
how the same question seemed to produce a sustained objection
and an overruled objection siriatum. And he got a little
bit exasperated, and then the judge got exasperated because Bob
got exasperated. So that's the kind of closeout we had today.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Remind my note to self, reminder that to use syriatum more.
I had a glass of red wine than another glass
of red wine than a Scotch in syriatum, I think
he was trying to say one after the other.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Yeah. Wow. So the judge did not throw that guy
in jail or anything like that. They were claiming on
one of the cable news channels that that was a
clear example of a double standard here where afraid of
how and this could be true, Afraid of how this
would be so explosive to take a Trump witness and
(27:24):
throw him in jail. They didn't treat him like you'd
treat a normal person who's strying. God, I gotta think
if you're a judge if somebody's trying to stare you down,
you're gonna go to jail until you cal him down.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
You can't be staring me down. That is not okay.
What do you think what is staring you down?
Speaker 13 (27:39):
Me?
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Holding your gaze? Come on to stare down.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
It's you can't throw somebody in jail over holding your gaze.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
You can if the you know the difference as well
as anybody. If the guy's holding your gaze in such
of a I'm gonna punch you in the face. If
that's what he's doing, nets reunion interpret it, I would
throw him in jail.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
And if he was, and if he was doing it
in a clown suit, I would have called him a clown.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
But that's not what occurred.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
The judge said, all right, clear the courtroom. He chewed
the guy out, the guy behaved, period.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
That's it. It's as simple as that.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
I am sorry to deny the cable news their excitement.
An experienced trial attorney got mouthy with the judge. The
judge shut it down and said, boy, I'm in charge here,
and the boy said, yeah, I guess you are, and
everything went fine.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
I don't know, it sounds a little in seriotum to me, Well,
that's your opinion. Man, Oh what a clown show it is.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Everybody ought to be wearing clown shoes, the red nose,
the wig, the miniature car with so much interior space,
the whole clown genre.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I can't believe that Costello guy got so far down
the road of out a line that he was saying,
oh Jesus, like what that judge would make a ruling.
I wasn't there. What does that mean? Everybody has the
capability of losing their composure sometimes? Or was he trying
(29:20):
to make a point. Oh he was. He was disgusted
with the judge. The judge is terrible.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
And I was watching uh CNN yesterday and I was amused,
and look, I'm in this business, I get it.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
But I was amused at.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
How jeez turned into awe jeez, which turned into Jesus
after Christ on the cable. They just kept exaggerating it
a little more, a little more to make get exciting.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
And that is a good point that you'd have to
hear it, because there's a huge difference between that Jeesus,
oh jeez and that last one you did, or just
looking at a guy like really or giving him the
I'm gonna beat you when this is Overlook, there's a
big difference between those two. And I don't know which
one it was because I didn't see it.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
It went from two New York lawyers looking at each
other to we're on the streets of Tombstone and Costello's
there with a six gun in each hand staring him down.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Everybody calm down, right, it's the end of reservoir Dogs. Yeah. Yeah. Meanwhile,
Trump is probably thinking finally had some entertainment. Oh, that's
the music they should play when they bring everybody into
the courtroom. They should all get out of one car.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
The defense out of one side, prosecution out of the other, right.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Flowers, Right, Yeah, we'll finish strong next arm strong.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
And yet.
Speaker 11 (30:55):
How did we get to this point when it comes
to Graceland.
Speaker 10 (30:58):
Well, in the lawsuit, he said that last year.
Speaker 11 (31:01):
Nausny Investment and Private Lending LLC presented documents that claimed
her mother had borrowed three point eight million dollars from
the company and use the deed for Graceland as security
collateral if you will. The firm claims Lisa Maried defaulted
on that loan, so therefore Graceland is now their property.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
But Keio's lawsuit.
Speaker 11 (31:22):
Says that those documents presented are fake. Her mother never
borrowed the money and never used Graceland as collateral. The
court documents go even further, identifying a Florida notary.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
All right, I think you've already gotten into it further
than I care. Graceland, where Elvis used to live, is
up for sale or going to sale or somebody's, isn't
it or something like that. Anyway, I was thinking before
we even played that clip, how much purchase does Elvis
Presley have at all in America anymore? For anybody under fifty.
I don't know. It's got to take the wayne, no doubt. Absolutely,
(31:56):
it's got to be diminishing, like all celebrities do. And yeah,
it's just the way it works. I mean, Al Jolson
was the biggest singing star in America in like nineteen twenty.
Nobody's going to go visit his boyhood home at this point, probably, oh,
unless you're a because I'm super fan and Elvis's home Graceland,
(32:19):
which I've visited. But I'm older, and I was big
into Elvis when I was a kid. I don't know
how important it is to society anymore. Were it not kitchy,
it's kookie.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
If it were not kooky, would it get nearly the
uh the number of curiosity seekers that it did if
it was a standard suburban Memphis home.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Katie, you're young, Elvis have any without a jungle room
and the rest of it is right. I'm saying, Elvis
mean anything to you and your friends minimal? Yeah, I'm
guessing yeah. And then people after you it'll be nothing
Like my kids, it means nothing less whoever. And I've
tried to play them the music and get me to
catch on, but they didn't really dig it either.
Speaker 13 (33:00):
Now fire thoughts, yes, with your hosts Jack Armstrong and
Joe Getty.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
See, that's the sort of pop music this hot these days.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Instead I met in person as a kid. I'll make
that part of my final thought, Katie. Here's your o's
for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew.
There is our technical director, Michael Agelo. Michael final thong.
Speaker 13 (33:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (33:32):
In the tenth grade, I actually got in the Elvis
suit and he imitated Elvis in front of the whole class.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
It went well, Yeah, it was embarrassing. But it was fun.
What'd you sing? I can't even remember which one it was.
I tried to block it out.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
I think so many choices. Katie green Arse deemed to
use woman as a final thought.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Katie, this one's for Jack.
Speaker 9 (33:53):
Since you're ditching the glasses today, now's the perfect time
to bust.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Out the wig, dye the goatee. Do you go the
whole fallmakers ram fright from geek to chic or whatever
they call that.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
Yeah, get a queer eye going over on the way
there or something.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Actually, have a final thought for us. Yeah. We lived
in Memphis when I was a little kid, and not
that far from Graceland, when Elvis still lived there. And
we went by Graceland one day and they had the
gates open, and Elvis was riding his horses around and
came up to the gate and talked to people, and
it was just a handful of us there and hung
out with Elvis on his horse. And what an interesting memory.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
Yeah, wow, oh gosh, My final thought is not nearly
as charming as we discussed earlier. Public schooling, including colleges
and universities in the United States are so diseased the
need to be torn down built again.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Let's get started, no doubt about that. Of course. My
Elvis story is like somebody told me I met Betty
Page in nineteen forty. Okay, great, good for Armstrong and
Geddy wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
So many people, thanks a little time, got Armstrong Yeddy
dot com. Got a lot of great hot links there
for you. Great pick up a T shirt, see you tomorrow.
God bless America.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
The United States had no part to play. And I'm
strong and Gette. This is one of the low moments
in American history. What the hell was behind all that?
Speaker 11 (35:15):
This has to stop, and it has to stop like
the day before yesterday?
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Are you sure, oh dead Shore, Yeah, absolutely. I think
it got very contentious at the end. This isn't the
first time. This is garbage.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
This thing is the farest so everyone knows that that's
the point.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
This is lunacy and it's got to stop. Thanks very much,
Armstrong and Getty.
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