October 23, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- The Venezuelan drug conflict & Field Station Dinos!
- NBA sports betting scandal
- NYC mayoral debate
- Jay Jones is the worst
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong is Joe Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jetty and now he Armstrong and Yetti.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
For the first time.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
The US launching a deadly air strike on a suspected
drug boat in the Eastern Pacific Ocean off Central America,
a major expansion of President Trump's war on the cartels.
Secretary Pete Hegseth saying the vessel was involved in illicit
narcotics smuggling as part of a designated terrorist organization, but
did not provide evidence. He added that two people were
killed this newest strike, targeting the Eastern Pacific. It's where
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roughly seventy percent of all the cocaine that enters the
US is smuggled.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
That's interesting. That was a fact from ABC News. That's
seventy percent of the drugs entering the United States coming
from that little area there.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
That's a lot of it.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I don't have strong opinions on this particular topic this show,
for better or worse, or at least for me, for
better or worse, I only get worked up about certain things.
I don't get worked up about every story that comes along.
And this isn't what I'm getting worked up about. But
some of my actual conservative or libertarian friends are very
concerned about this. Yeah, I get that. I get it too,
(01:27):
Just you know, you can only get for me anyway.
I can only really emotionally get involved in so many
different stories. Here's Trump explaining blasting people, perhaps fishermen, perhaps
drug dealers.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Who knows out of the water.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
When you look at the people we're dealing with, and
we know them, we know the people coming in, we
know the boats, we know everything else.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
We're allowed to do it. It's in international waters.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
If we don't do it, we're going to lose hundreds
of thousands of people.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I gotta believe that for real.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Even with all the jokes we've been making about fishermen,
I wouldn't want to get into a boat and go
out fishing in that area, would you.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
Well, I would not do it in a super powered
what do they call them cigarette boat? Those those super
high powered speed boats. I'd make mine look good and
fishing y.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
You know, got a bunch of poles sticking out, got
the cabin door, fentanyls worms.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Right, and then you know, give the give the boat
a name.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Like the Heidi Ho three or something like that, an innocent,
fun loving name, because all these boats look the same.
They're super high powered speed boats. They do boats zooming
across the Caribbean or in this case, and the news
was making a big the.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Trump's controsio practices have now expanded to the Eastern Pacific.
You know, I don't think the name of the body
on the wall of water on the app is really
that significant a wrinkle, right, it's how sure we are
who this is? And you know what's the process for determining?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Right?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Well? Yeah, in short, drug routes from South and Central
America to the US. Some are going to be on
that side of the Panama it is Smiths, some are
going to be on the other, all right, David Muha,
calm down. Excellent use of the word isthmus, thank you,
which doesn't.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Make it under the show enough. So Marco Rubio is
what it is? Mus.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, was there in the Oval
Office and was asked about this and stood up for
our current policy.
Speaker 7 (03:40):
Well, I mean the question is, bottom line, these are
drug voats. If people want to stop seeing drug voats
blow up, stop sending drugs to the United.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
States, doesn't matter in the United States.
Speaker 7 (03:49):
Well, these are all in international waters.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
The voat you is strike in the United States or.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
Well, that's a different man. Now you're talking about law
enforcement matter. In this particular case, there are people traveling
on international waters headed towards the United States with how
hostilities in mind, which includes flooding our country with dangerous,
deadly drugs, and they're going to be stopped. And that's
what's happening. And yeah, in the case last week you
saw there was a submarine. It was a submarine. It
was a submersible. That's a drug boat. All the way through.
We know what these boats are, the President just said it.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
We tracked them from the very beginning.
Speaker 7 (04:16):
We know who's on them, who they are, where they're
coming from, what they have on them. And you know,
if you're running drug boats, you're in you're in grave danger.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I hope that's true. I hope we know who's on them,
we know them they're drug boats. I hope it's as
thorough as they're presenting.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah, yeah, you don't wanna get blown up, don't don't
drive a drug boat through that area.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
That's his advice.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
So we're following a big breaking news story today with
the NBA season starting what two days ago, thirty one
people arrested, including a head coach and current player, at
least one in a gambling scandal. So the FBI is
going to have a big press conference today and we'll
find out more about what was going on there. But
like Joe said, this could be one of the biggest
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sports gamblings stories ever.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Oh, it absolutely could be. Yeah, yeah, now you're working
that desk. I'm not really following it. But have they
even leaked? Is that the end of the list of
players and coaches or are among the thirty one arrested?
Are there more NBA figures? Are they all just mobsters
and gambler?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
My guess would be that those are the two big
names and the rest of the movie people.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
You never heard of a coach and a player, but
an actual.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Head coach arrested though in one of the major sports leagues. Wow, yeah, crazy, crazy,
Wonder what he was doing. Uh, you know, I could
do the dinosaurs now if you want. I just came
across so they don't bounce.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
No, No, I tell you what though, if I'm an
NBA GM and I've got some like some guy paid
a zillion dollars to a few years ago and he's
gotten fat and lazy and ineffective. Man, I'm planting evidence.
I'm planting evidence in that guy's locker or something to
get him out of there. That's a funny idea.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Yeah, Plus, you can't make me pay the guy's salary
if he's a damn gambler.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I won't have it. Shocked shocked, I say.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Anyway, all right, here it is guys, this is just
for you, and I tell you what and women.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
If you are.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
Among the people who think, oh my god, that's so cool,
well then you get an honorary guy card and welcome
to the club.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
All right, here's the story.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
In New Jersey, for fourteen years, you have one of
these quasi educational, quasi entertainment stop your car with the
kids places called field Station Dinosaurs which among their their
their attractions, or a bunch of big giant animatronic dinosaurs.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I've stopped it.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Well, I've stopped that with my kids or my parents
stopped that. These sorts of things, oh many many times
in my life.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Oh yeah, there's one in Arizona.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
We used to stop with stop at with the kids
whenever we'd go see my mom and dad for years.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Oh it was so good. I enjoyed it as much
as they did. But so anyway, this field.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Station dinosaurs shut down in November, and some employee said, hey,
I bet we could sell these dinosaurs just to you know,
cover some of the costs and stuff like that. And
so the general manager said, yeah, okay, I suppose we
could try it, and they put it online, but like
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put absurdly low prices, like the t Rex, which is
thirty nine feet tall, was priced at twenty seven hundred
dollars that, oh yeah, please put it. And this guy
who's got a rural home in Connecticut sits along a
busy road farms and farm stands, and he thought, wow,
that'd be great.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I'm going to put that on my land.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
He says, quote. My wife thought it was absolutely the
worst idea in the world. But once word got out,
it's gone viral and now they're getting all sorts of
crazy offers. Although, as the GM says, everybody wants the
t Rex or the triceratops. Although one guy bought a
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six foot velociraptor because he thought, yeah, it's six and
a half feet. He thinks, yeah, I could fit that
on a flatbed truck. Quote, anything larger would be a
logistical nightmare. Yeah, get involving hiring a private ship. Or
that's just too much effort, he said, too much effort
for a gigantic t rex on your lawn.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
You're out of the bidding.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
You don't deserve that t rex, sir.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, the velociraptor I could put in the living room.
That'd be cool.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I'll have it, thirty nine foot tall, t rep four stories.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I don't know what. I don't know what rules might
be in your neighborhood that allow you to have that
or not. I don't know. I gotta check with my hoa.
I live in one of those places.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
But yeah, the Triceratops is really attractive, although the stegosaurus
also very attractive. Here's one guy I wanted to buy.
The Stegosaurus's thirty feet long. It's only twelve hundred and
sixty bucks.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Wow, man, if I had land, I would, seriously I would.
I couldn't, but again, I couldn't tell my wife. It
would just have to show up one day, honey, there's
a truck outside. Oh really, that's weird.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
What's with the t rex? What t rex? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Oh, I was gonna mention that, Yeah, I bought a
forty foot tall t Rex.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
You remember the other night when I stayed up a
little late drinking Scotch and watching concert videos. Well, anyway,
oh boy, so we can put.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
A link to this.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I'm not sure are there any for sale now, I'm
not sure if they're all sold out, but oh forty
foot dinosaur.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Please.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
So there was a second, I believe in last debate
last night for the New York mayoral race, which in
general I don't care about New York's local politics, but
you got a communist running against a crook.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Oh yeah, this is a serious, like medical checkup for
the American people, and.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
It got pretty hilarious, got pretty firely fire ree last night.
We've got the highlights of that debate, among other things
on the way.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Stay here.
Speaker 8 (10:18):
But as you now know, individuals such as Chauncey Billups,
Damon Jones, and Terry Rozier were taking into custody today
former current NBA players and coaches. What you don't know
is that this is an illegal gambling operation and sports
rigging operation that spanned the course of years, the FBI
led a coordinative takedown across eleven states to arrest over
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thirty individuals today responsible for this case, which is very
much ongoing. Not only did we crack into the fraud
that these perpetrators committed on the grand stage of the NBA,
but we also entered and executed a system of justice
against La Casinoshra to include the Banano, Gambino, Genevesi, and
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lu Chase crime families.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
So this includes some of the biggest crime families in
American history. That's Cash Pattel, FBI director, just moments ago
with his press conference as thirty one people have been
arrested involving an NBA gambling and he said they're fixing scandal.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Didn't he did? He use the word fixing.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I don't recall something that the game that involved games though, rigging.
He used the word rigging, sports, rigging, fair So yeah,
story so uh, Because I had been reading the New
York Times version of it and this is all just
coming out and it sounded like a lot of poker
and gambling, and I thought, Okay, is this not going
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to be as big a deal? But no rigging poker
games Okay, rigging poker games is different than rigging NBA games.
You got to figure out why are we rigging poker
or rigging NBA games here? Those are different things. Anyway,
here's more from Cash Betel.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
The charges and the arrests that were taken down across
this country range from wire fraud, money laundering, extortion, robbery,
illegal gambling, and the fraud is mind boggling. It's not
hundreds of dollars, it's not thousands of dollars. It's not
tens of thousands of dollars. It's not even millions of dollars.
We're talking about tens of millions of dollars in fraud
and theft and robbery across a multi year investigation.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Okay, so wait a second, you told me sure enough.
Is this a deal where cause you know, Michael Jordan,
famous like big time gambler, Charles Barkley, famous big time
gambler like have gambling problems, They spend crazy amounts of money.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Is this just about some.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Sort of illegal poker games that they were rigging that
happened to be sports players and doesn't really have anything
to do with NBA games.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
They happen to be rich guys who were somehow involved.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
But the excuse me, the wording is very vague. Is
that on purpose to make this seem like it's attached
to the NBA so far, and it seems to me
like the only attachment is you got rich NBA players
involved in some illegal gambling.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
But that's not got anything to do with the league.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
Let's see the case, which involves at least two criminal
schemes according to people with knowledge of the matter. Uh,
some people participated in both schemes. According to a person
with knowledge of the matter, one involved illegal poker games
that were set up by organized crime families and also
involved at least one NBA coach and former player in
the league. According to three law enforcement officials, the case
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is expected to involve more than two dozen people.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I think, what's the other aspect of it? Well, let
me what's the one. Let me say this and then
you can tell me if I'm right or not.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Cash Ptel has got a reputation of a bit of
a like, likes to get headlines and uh, you know,
put on a bit of a show, get a lot
of attention. Is he purposely saying rigged games to confuse people?
When this is about poker games and not about NBA games.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Okay, I'm getting live updates. The indictments charged two different schemes.
One a sports betting conspiracy that exploited confidential information.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Okay, there you go, and the other the nationwide scheme
to rig poker games.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
The poker games thing is kind of interesting, but not
a whatever. But if it, you know, you get into
the actual sports that people bet on by the billions
of dollars, and some of them were fixed this way
or that.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
That's that's a major that's a major.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Story, right, yeah, yeah, it's both.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Wow. Huh.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
And how about those you know, if you're into mafia's stories,
you know those names. Those are the big Mafia families.
I didn't think they were up to much these days,
although rigging games.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Allegedly, huh. This is exciting.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
But I see my brother from the Old Country sitting
in the gallery. So I'll not be testifying on the show. Sorry,
I got nothing to say.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
You have to be a fan of the Godfather to
enjoy that. What was I gonna say? It's gonna say
something if you're not watch it again.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
The NBA and the gambling and I don't know I
had some point to make about that.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Well, there will be time. There will be time.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
The head coach is done.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
The head coach is done as a coach. Ye, yeah,
of course he is. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Sorry Portland, you got junkies on the streets and crooks
running your basketball team.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
It's a shame.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Anyway.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
A couple of things I'm excited to talk about. A
think tank, a good one has re ranked universities and
colleges and ranked them on free speech, the school's approach
to politics on campus, how well students do after graduation,
whether they've exhibited some sort of pluralism among faculty. In short,
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do they behave like a university supposed to behave or
do they behave like an indoctrination factory for progressive thought?
And the top ten are out at least, and it's
not the usual suspects. If you want your kid or
you're just concerned about this in general, but if you
want your kid to go to university where they'll actually
be challenged and learn, got the list for you coming up.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Cool, And then we're going to get the highlights of
the debate last night between the communists and the crook
So that's fun. They got a little spicy. So I'm
looking at CNN. Their headline up there is historic arrest.
This is in quotes, historic arrest over years of sports rigging.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Okay, you got to be more specific about the sports rigging.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Are you talk about the sport of gambling or the
sport of national the basketball in the National Basketball Association?
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Yeah, it's not clear to me where the one ends
and the other one starts. There being fudgie on this
and purpose because it's more exciting if it's NBA games
than if it's we're talking about CNN. Right, yeah, right,
Well but did did Cash Pttel make it a little
fudgy on purpose to make it more exciting?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Make it clear to us, please Armstrong and Getty. First
of all, we're trying to wrap our heads around exactly
what's happening with this giant NBA gambling scandal. Is it
mostly poker games? That's what all the headlines seem to be,
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and that's the main thing they're talking about in the
press conference. There's these rigged poker games spanning eleven states,
and all the crime families and NBA players, coaches and
people that are involved in them. They're not talk giving
any details on anything about games as of yet, NBA
games just poker games, So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
What's going on there. I guess we'll find out when
we find out.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
New York Times is definitely talking about game scandals, a
game fixing scandals too, but they didn't They certainly didn't
lead with that, and they haven't given any details whatsoever.
And if that were the bulk of us, you would
lead with that. We have evidence that in an NBA
game they shaved points or pulled a player or whatever,
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and they got it's all. It's been going on for
a half an hour now, and it's like ninety nine percent.
It's Operation Royal Flush, which is the name of the sting,
which would lead you to believe it's mostly poker. It's
not Operation you know, missed that free throw on purpose.
It's Operation Royal Flush. So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
We'll see thirty one people arrested though, that's something uh.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
The attorney for the Eastern District in New York said
that the sports betting scheme involved hundreds of thousands of
dollars in fraudulent bets involving network of proxies or straw betters.
Most of the allegedly fraudulent bets were successful. Okay, well
we'll update updates come, but that's hundreds of thousands of dollars.
They're talking about tens of millions of day total, so
we'll see.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
You know, when people regularly decide to cross that line
historically in terms of cheating in sports, that's when they've
gotten themselves into gambling debt. They've gotten themselves into a
real problem. It's what you throw a fight or whatever.
It's because you got your gambling on other things and
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you got yourself in such a bad situation that you
cross that line and willing to do so. Well, the
mobsters come to you and say, you're never going to
pay us off.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
So here's an idea how you can get square, and
you have to take it. It's an offer you can't refuse.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Look, butch I need you to go down in the
third That sting you feel is pride. You got to
fight that s right. That's from pulp fiction, second classic
movie reference of the hour. So they had another debate
last night in New York with the communist, the crook,
and then that other dude, which you'll hear from all
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three of them.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
And these are some of the highlights from the debate.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
My opponents, who spend more time trying to convince the
other to drop out than actually proposing their own policies,
will speak only of the past because that's all that
they know. I am the sole candidate running with a
vision for the future of this city.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Zoron is a great actor. He missed his calling.
Speaker 9 (20:24):
Since I left, homeless rate is more than double. When
I left, the vacancy rate on housing was four point
five percent.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
It's now one percent.
Speaker 9 (20:35):
This man never even proposed the bill.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Andrew, you didn't leave. You fled from being impeached.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
By the Democrats of the state legislature.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
You fled.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
So that's funny.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Say that's Curtis sleewa guy who we met at a
couple of different things anyway, But he runs for mayor
every single election and and gets on the stage and
everything like that.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
He hates Andrew Cuomo so much in.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
The Cuomo family because he's been in politics in New
York City and state for his whole life. He hates
the Cuomo family so much. He spends all his time
trying to take down the guy who ain't gonna win
instead of the guy that's gonna win the communists.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
But that is he'll let the communist win if he
can damage Cuomo. And and Curtis Lee was defense. He
was a hero in New York for a long time.
Got shot the mob Hello tried to murder him, shot
him micing five times or something like that in a cab.
And he doesn't appreciate the mobbed up Cuomo allegedly according
to some sort But it's pretty funny Cuomo saying when
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I left, we had whatever percentage of you left. He
had to resign because you're about to be put in prison.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
That is a pretty funny thing to say. That's hair
a little more.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
I will be the mayor who doesn't just protect Jewish
New Yorkers but also celebrates and cherishes them.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Not everything is a TikTok video. You're the savior of
the Jewish people.
Speaker 9 (21:58):
You won't denounce globalize they which means killed jus. You
have never had a job, You've never accomplished anything.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
There's no reason to believe you have any merit or qualification.
For eight and a half.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Million lives, that's a good shot.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
It's tell your damn COMI.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
It's tough though hearing it from a crook, a corrupt
womanizing woman secretary, touching, lying, shredding documents.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I mean, he's just an awful human being.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Yeah, I mean, it's the pot calling the kettle black.
It's it's it's terrible, terrible. What is the matter with
our political system? No, can we keep belching up horrible
candidates like this?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
It is amazing. A little more.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Trees the rent sounds great.
Speaker 9 (22:48):
Yeah, it effectual about twenty five percent of the number
of housing units in the City of New York.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
It's not a new idea.
Speaker 9 (22:53):
If the mayor doesn't have the power to do it anyway,
the Rent Guidelines Board does, and he doesn't control the
rent guide so nothing is going to happen.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
It's all this.
Speaker 9 (23:05):
It's just more political blatherer.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
I've heard the both of them again, fighting like kids
in the schoolyard or on your resume could fit on
a cocktail napkin. And Andrew, your failures could fill a
public school library in New York City. We've been saying
this for years. You got to get rid of crowds
and debates. Just what are we doing?
Speaker 2 (23:30):
What are we doing?
Speaker 3 (23:31):
What?
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Entertainment? It's entertainment. It's a TV show. Okay, so you know.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Communists, what what do you got? This is what kind
of related the communist is going to win? He's still
going to win? Zor run MONI donie all right.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
I came across this email from Charles C. W. Cook
at the National Review, entitled apparently we still need to
explain why communism is wrong and and this is actually
I think it's a plea to subscribe or something like that.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
But it's very good. I love this.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
I don't think I've heard this before. Charles writes, I
have long agreed with TS. Eliot that quote there is
no such thing as a lost cause, because there is
no such thing as a gained cause, the point being
because human nature does not fundamentally change over time, it's
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incumbent upon every generation to learn anew the eternal lessons,
because it'll.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Go away, The good stuff will go aways.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
Reagan put it famously, no more than in a generation
or two away from losing our liberty. We've got to
teach our children how precious it is. And he says
he's long believed that. But still, he writes, I must
confess to having been a little shocked of late by
how many topics remain open for debate. I had not,
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for example, expected to see the flourishing of anti Semitism
to stain the United States, Britain and beyond since the
attack of October seventh. I did not consider it likely
that New York City would consider electing a Communist as
its mayor. And I had not anticipated that the sensible
and effective reforms that were ushered in by President Reagan
and Prime Minister Thatcher would be at risk of being replaced.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Quite this soon.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
I had, not, in other words, expected these battles to
return to test us once more.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
On so compressed a timetable.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
So true. It's a little tiring. Honestly.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
It's like in Cuomo, the crook could have done a
better job of explaining why rent control is such a
miserable failure.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
But it's funny.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
As you attain a certain age, you're like, wait a minute,
people are running this up the flagpole again. It's completely
discredited over and over again, but you got to do
it again. It's like doing the laundry or or you know,
washing your car. You don't just do it once. It's
a periodic thing. Explaining why communism sucks.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Before we take a break, the press conference in the
big FBI is arrested thirty one people in this gambling thing.
This headline from the NYPD just came across. Players altered
their performances in scheme, so that is part of it.
So they altered their performance in a game in the scheme.
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The way I'm taking this in because this is going
on while we're on the air, I think from a
legal standpoint, it's mostly an illegal gambling thing that the
big crime families were running from an entertainment interest. To
us standpoint, it's a some of the players got themselves
into trouble gambling and they got forced into altering the
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performances to pay off gambling thats. But that seems to
be like a minor part of I mean, it's a
big part of the of an NBA story, but it's
a minor part of this big bust because it's tens
of millions of dollars in the crime family gambling stuff
and poker games and everything like that, because they were
cheating people all across the right. So what some NBA
players got caught up in it, and so that you know,
(27:05):
it's kind of interesting. What was the name of the
former mobster Michael friend Ceci what was his name.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
He became really.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
Well known ten fifteen years ago when he left the mob.
He got out of prison and he went on speaking tours,
especially to colleges, to explain to college athletes how the
whole gambling thing works. And one of the major components
of its Jack has pointed out is you have a
player likes to gamble, not on his own sport, maybe
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it's poker for instance, gets into serious gambling debt. Only
way to pay it off is they make an offer
you can't refuse. You gotta shave some points or do
something like that, and they tell you, look, you just
do it twice in the slatest wipe clean. You do
it twice, They've got you even more than they did before.
They come to you and say, yeah, we need you
to do it a third time. What are you gonna
say no, I'm standing on principal. I'm gonna say no,
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We'll just turn over rock solid evidence that you've shaved
points to the league and your career is over. Or
you can just intentionally miss a couple of free throws tonight.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Plus, if you got yourself into that kind of gambling debt,
you're probably a gambling addict. So you're continuing to gamble
and lose because you mostly lose when you gamble. I've
never understood why people don't get that you mostly lose.
So if you keep gambling, you are going to lose,
and then you'll be in debt again, and then you'll
have to miss another handful of free throws. It'll be
interesting to see what players what games. People will go
(28:30):
back and look at them. Okay, I wondered about that game,
you know, two Novembers ago on when they played the Lakers,
and you know whatever, Sure he is an eighty four
percent free throw shooter, but oh we misses both of them.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Yeah, that'll be fun to watch. We got a lot
more on the way. Hope you can stay here.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Well, guys, everyone's having fun with the six seven trend.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
That's everywhere right now.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Even news anchors are starting to get in on the action.
Watch this.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
You know, all the kids are doing the six seven
six six seven six seven six seven.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
Six seven six seven six seven.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
I still don't understand, and it's over.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Okay, So I was.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
That was more depressing than the actual news. I watch
this video yesterday about the end of pop culture or
the end of culture maybe in general in the United States.
This whole six seven thing would fit into it and
shared experiences. We'll have to talk about that later. It's
really an interesting thought. Oh okay, yeah, I like it.
Here's your headline of the day. How French is this
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surveillance camera pointed the wrong way? Allowed love heist?
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Go Frands. You remember when you mattered, Oh, you're supposed
to have it pointed toward the window.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Oh okay, Hey, I wanted to update this because this
story matters much more than the race for Attorney General
in Virginia. This Jay Jones, piece of garbage who openly
fantasized about murdering the Republicans and their children dying in
their arms, and then when he was called on it,
he didn't say, Look, I was out of control.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I had a couple of drinks. I was joking. No,
he said, I'm serious.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
You have to cause people physical pain before they changed
their policies. This guy is a pro political violence monster.
One part of the story that we hadn't really thrown in.
I hadn't thrown in just for the length of you
know time, you know, the amount of time we're.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Going to spend on. It is his whole drunk driving
conviction story. I didn't know that one. Oh yeah, yeah,
this is part of his history.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
He was convicted of reckless driving after being pulled over
driving one hundred and sixteen miles per hour in a
seventy mile per hour.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Zone in twenty twenty two. Okay.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
He was ordered to pay a fifteen hundred dollars fine
and serve one thousand hours of community service. Now I
knew the first part of this. You had the first
cot and drove one hundred and twenty miles an hour.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
That is awful.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
Reckless driving. I don't think he was drunk. Oh, okay, anyway,
So the New Kent County that's the county General District
Court received sign certificates of completion in twenty twenty four
attesting the jones that served five hundred of those community
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service hours for his own political action committee and then
five hundred of the other ones for the Virginia chapter
of the naacp okay, which is an activist leftist organization
at this point, and would be more than happy to
sign the paperwork even though he never darken their doorway,
I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
But so the fless driving.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
Cases come under scrutiny after the Richmond Times Dispatch exposed
the conviction earlier this month, disrupting the guy's campaign for
attorney general. And now a judge has said, hey, we're
going to appoint a special prosecutor to look into this,
because while this guy was allegedly doing ten hours a
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week for two different organizations, he was also working full
time at his law firm and traveling the state for
the Democratic Party doing politics stuff.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
In essence, it was completely phony. He did not do
any of.
Speaker 6 (32:36):
His community service. And there's a special prosecutor now appointed.
I hope desperately this guy loses.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
That's one of the big problems with the whole community
service racket. Anyway, I personally have known people. You don't
have to be very connected to anything at all to
get out of community service. You got any friend who's
like on your side, who's willing to sign your piece
of paper that you volunteered over the weekend to feed whatever,
and it's.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Taking care of it. It's a nothing, right, right.
Speaker 6 (33:05):
It's more an intelligence test than a practically demand for time. Yeah,
or more appropriately, a test of how connected you are.
So maybe tomorrow this is two notes on the same topic.
Maybe tomorrow we'll get to a great email questioning our
discussion of the great feminization for the other day, and
(33:27):
we did it this hour, so I kind of want
to do the reply this hour, really good smart email
questioning some of the premises that I.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Want to deal with.
Speaker 6 (33:35):
But on a related note, the Cincinnati police chief who
was in charge until very briefly and dealt with that
viral downtown brawl video where the gang of black folks
we're beating and kicking and just destroying a white couple.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Particularly that woman. The way she goes down like a
sack of hour and starts getting kicked.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
That's just horrible. Oh, it's horrible. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
Cincinnati Police Chief Terry Siege has been placed on administrative
leave pending an investigation into her leadership. A lot of
this stems from how she handled the arrests and her
now viral rant after the July attack, in which she
scolded media for taking the fight out of context.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Yeah, what's the context for that? That could possibly make
it okay?
Speaker 6 (34:28):
Well, and she was trying to make the argument that
at some point during the fight, the white woman threw
a punch. Therefore was partly by trying to defend herself
was partly to blame for the incredible violence visited upon them,
but also at this point, there are multiple male white
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guys in the police force saying this woman gave minority
lieutenants seventy nine percent desirable aside signments. Female lieutenants got
eighty nine percent desirable assignments, and males white males got
forty four percent preferred assignments, as they call them. She
was a DEI affirmative action keep the white man down
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police chief, and a woman in charge of a police
the number. There are plenty of good lady cops out there,
plenty of them, and some of them will probably be
police chiefs, and they deserve it because they kick ass.
But the disproportionate number of fire chiefs and police chiefs,
particularly in Bluish areas, because they're women. It's part of
(35:37):
the whole feminization of America thing, and they run the
department in a very different way than a lot of
guys would. Anyway, So she's been placed on leave, the
city's investigating her various hijinks.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
So an how our three, we'll get back into this
big NBA gambling bus that's going on the FBA arrested
thirty one people, including a head coach and a player,
among others. This player at least once faked an injury
to leave a game as part of his rigging things,
probably to try to pay off gambling debts. It's it's
(36:11):
quite the scandal. We'll have more of that now or three.
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
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For the first time.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
The US launching a deadly air strike on a suspected
drug boat in the Eastern Pacific Ocean off Central America,
a major expansion of President Trump's war on the cartels.
Secretary Pete Hegseth saying the vessel was involved in illicit
narcotics smuggling as part of a designated terrorist organization, but
did not provide evidence. He added that two people were
killed this newest strike, targeting the Eastern Pacific. It's where
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roughly seventy percent of all the cocaine that enters the
US is smuggled.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
That's interesting. That was a fact from ABC News. That's
seventy percent of the drugs entering the United States coming
from that little area there.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
That's a lot of it.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I don't have strong opinions on this particular topic this show,
for better or worse, or at least for me, for
better or worse, I only get worked up about certain things.
I don't get worked up about every story that comes along.
And this isn't what I'm getting worked up about. But
some of my actual conservative or libertarian friends are very
concerned about this. Yeah, I get that. I get it too,
(01:27):
Just you know, you can only get for me anyway.
I can only really emotionally get involved in so many
different stories. Here's Trump explaining blasting people, perhaps fishermen, perhaps
drug dealers.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Who knows out of the water.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
When you look at the people we're dealing with, and
we know them, we know the people coming in, we
know the boats, we know everything else.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
We're allowed to do it. It's in international waters.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
If we don't do it, we're going to lose hundreds
of thousands of people.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I gotta believe that for real.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Even with all the jokes we've been making about fishermen,
I wouldn't want to get into a boat and go
out fishing in that area, would you.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
Well, I would not do it in a super powered
what do they call them cigarette boat? Those those super
high powered speed boats. I'd make mine look good and
fishing y.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
You know, got a bunch of poles sticking out, got
the cabin door, fentanyls worms.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Right, and then you know, give the give the boat
a name.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Like the Heidi Ho three or something like that, an innocent,
fun loving name, because all these boats look the same.
They're super high powered speed boats. They do boats zooming
across the Caribbean or in this case, and the news
was making a big the.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Trump's controsio practices have now expanded to the Eastern Pacific.
You know, I don't think the name of the body
on the wall of water on the app is really
that significant a wrinkle, right, it's how sure we are
who this is? And you know what's the process for determining?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Right?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Well? Yeah, in short, drug routes from South and Central
America to the US. Some are going to be on
that side of the Panama it is Smiths, some are
going to be on the other, all right, David Muha,
calm down. Excellent use of the word isthmus, thank you,
which doesn't.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Make it under the show enough. So Marco Rubio is
what it is? Mus.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, was there in the Oval
Office and was asked about this and stood up for
our current policy.
Speaker 7 (03:40):
Well, I mean the question is, bottom line, these are
drug voats. If people want to stop seeing drug voats
blow up, stop sending drugs to the United.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
States, doesn't matter in the United States.
Speaker 7 (03:49):
Well, these are all in international waters.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
The voat you is strike in the United States or.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
Well, that's a different man. Now you're talking about law
enforcement matter. In this particular case, there are people traveling
on international waters headed towards the United States with how
hostilities in mind, which includes flooding our country with dangerous,
deadly drugs, and they're going to be stopped. And that's
what's happening. And yeah, in the case last week you
saw there was a submarine. It was a submarine. It
was a submersible. That's a drug boat. All the way through.
We know what these boats are, the President just said it.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
We tracked them from the very beginning.
Speaker 7 (04:16):
We know who's on them, who they are, where they're
coming from, what they have on them. And you know,
if you're running drug boats, you're in you're in grave danger.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I hope that's true. I hope we know who's on them,
we know them they're drug boats. I hope it's as
thorough as they're presenting.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah, yeah, you don't wanna get blown up, don't don't
drive a drug boat through that area.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
That's his advice.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
So we're following a big breaking news story today with
the NBA season starting what two days ago, thirty one
people arrested, including a head coach and current player, at
least one in a gambling scandal. So the FBI is
going to have a big press conference today and we'll
find out more about what was going on there. But
like Joe said, this could be one of the biggest
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sports gamblings stories ever.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Oh, it absolutely could be. Yeah, yeah, now you're working
that desk. I'm not really following it. But have they
even leaked? Is that the end of the list of
players and coaches or are among the thirty one arrested?
Are there more NBA figures? Are they all just mobsters
and gambler?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
My guess would be that those are the two big
names and the rest of the movie people.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
You never heard of a coach and a player, but
an actual.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Head coach arrested though in one of the major sports leagues. Wow, yeah, crazy, crazy,
Wonder what he was doing. Uh, you know, I could
do the dinosaurs now if you want. I just came
across so they don't bounce.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
No, No, I tell you what though, if I'm an
NBA GM and I've got some like some guy paid
a zillion dollars to a few years ago and he's
gotten fat and lazy and ineffective. Man, I'm planting evidence.
I'm planting evidence in that guy's locker or something to
get him out of there. That's a funny idea.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Yeah, Plus, you can't make me pay the guy's salary
if he's a damn gambler.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I won't have it. Shocked shocked, I say.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Anyway, all right, here it is guys, this is just
for you, and I tell you what and women.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
If you are.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
Among the people who think, oh my god, that's so cool,
well then you get an honorary guy card and welcome
to the club.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
All right, here's the story.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
In New Jersey, for fourteen years, you have one of
these quasi educational, quasi entertainment stop your car with the
kids places called field Station Dinosaurs which among their their
their attractions, or a bunch of big giant animatronic dinosaurs.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I've stopped it.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Well, I've stopped that with my kids or my parents
stopped that. These sorts of things, oh many many times
in my life.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Oh yeah, there's one in Arizona.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
We used to stop with stop at with the kids
whenever we'd go see my mom and dad for years.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Oh it was so good. I enjoyed it as much
as they did. But so anyway, this field.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Station dinosaurs shut down in November, and some employee said, hey,
I bet we could sell these dinosaurs just to you know,
cover some of the costs and stuff like that. And
so the general manager said, yeah, okay, I suppose we
could try it, and they put it online, but like
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put absurdly low prices, like the t Rex, which is
thirty nine feet tall, was priced at twenty seven hundred
dollars that, oh yeah, please put it. And this guy
who's got a rural home in Connecticut sits along a
busy road farms and farm stands, and he thought, wow,
that'd be great.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I'm going to put that on my land.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
He says, quote. My wife thought it was absolutely the
worst idea in the world. But once word got out,
it's gone viral and now they're getting all sorts of
crazy offers. Although, as the GM says, everybody wants the
t Rex or the triceratops. Although one guy bought a
(08:16):
six foot velociraptor because he thought, yeah, it's six and
a half feet. He thinks, yeah, I could fit that
on a flatbed truck. Quote, anything larger would be a
logistical nightmare. Yeah, get involving hiring a private ship. Or
that's just too much effort, he said, too much effort
for a gigantic t rex on your lawn.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
You're out of the bidding.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
You don't deserve that t rex, sir.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, the velociraptor I could put in the living room.
That'd be cool.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I'll have it, thirty nine foot tall, t rep four stories.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I don't know what. I don't know what rules might
be in your neighborhood that allow you to have that
or not. I don't know. I gotta check with my hoa.
I live in one of those places.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
But yeah, the Triceratops is really attractive, although the stegosaurus
also very attractive. Here's one guy I wanted to buy.
The Stegosaurus's thirty feet long. It's only twelve hundred and
sixty bucks.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Wow, man, if I had land, I would, seriously I would.
I couldn't, but again, I couldn't tell my wife. It
would just have to show up one day, honey, there's
a truck outside. Oh really, that's weird.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
What's with the t rex? What t rex? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Oh, I was gonna mention that, Yeah, I bought a
forty foot tall t Rex.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
You remember the other night when I stayed up a
little late drinking Scotch and watching concert videos. Well, anyway,
oh boy, so we can put.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
A link to this.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I'm not sure are there any for sale now, I'm
not sure if they're all sold out, but oh forty
foot dinosaur.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Please.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
So there was a second, I believe in last debate
last night for the New York mayoral race, which in
general I don't care about New York's local politics, but
you got a communist running against a crook.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Oh yeah, this is a serious, like medical checkup for
the American people, and.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
It got pretty hilarious, got pretty firely fire ree last night.
We've got the highlights of that debate, among other things
on the way.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Stay here.
Speaker 8 (10:18):
But as you now know, individuals such as Chauncey Billups,
Damon Jones, and Terry Rozier were taking into custody today
former current NBA players and coaches. What you don't know
is that this is an illegal gambling operation and sports
rigging operation that spanned the course of years, the FBI
led a coordinative takedown across eleven states to arrest over
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thirty individuals today responsible for this case, which is very
much ongoing. Not only did we crack into the fraud
that these perpetrators committed on the grand stage of the NBA,
but we also entered and executed a system of justice
against La Casinoshra to include the Banano, Gambino, Genevesi, and
(11:05):
lu Chase crime families.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
So this includes some of the biggest crime families in
American history. That's Cash Pattel, FBI director, just moments ago
with his press conference as thirty one people have been
arrested involving an NBA gambling and he said they're fixing scandal.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Didn't he did? He use the word fixing.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I don't recall something that the game that involved games though, rigging.
He used the word rigging, sports, rigging, fair So yeah,
story so uh, Because I had been reading the New
York Times version of it and this is all just
coming out and it sounded like a lot of poker
and gambling, and I thought, Okay, is this not going
(11:51):
to be as big a deal? But no rigging poker
games Okay, rigging poker games is different than rigging NBA games.
You got to figure out why are we rigging poker
or rigging NBA games here? Those are different things. Anyway,
here's more from Cash Betel.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
The charges and the arrests that were taken down across
this country range from wire fraud, money laundering, extortion, robbery,
illegal gambling, and the fraud is mind boggling. It's not
hundreds of dollars, it's not thousands of dollars. It's not
tens of thousands of dollars. It's not even millions of dollars.
We're talking about tens of millions of dollars in fraud
and theft and robbery across a multi year investigation.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Okay, so wait a second, you told me sure enough.
Is this a deal where cause you know, Michael Jordan,
famous like big time gambler, Charles Barkley, famous big time
gambler like have gambling problems, They spend crazy amounts of money.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Is this just about some.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Sort of illegal poker games that they were rigging that
happened to be sports players and doesn't really have anything
to do with NBA games.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
They happen to be rich guys who were somehow involved.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
But the excuse me, the wording is very vague. Is
that on purpose to make this seem like it's attached
to the NBA so far, and it seems to me
like the only attachment is you got rich NBA players
involved in some illegal gambling.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
But that's not got anything to do with the league.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
Let's see the case, which involves at least two criminal
schemes according to people with knowledge of the matter. Uh,
some people participated in both schemes. According to a person
with knowledge of the matter, one involved illegal poker games
that were set up by organized crime families and also
involved at least one NBA coach and former player in
the league. According to three law enforcement officials, the case
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is expected to involve more than two dozen people.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I think, what's the other aspect of it? Well, let
me what's the one. Let me say this and then
you can tell me if I'm right or not.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Cash Ptel has got a reputation of a bit of
a like, likes to get headlines and uh, you know,
put on a bit of a show, get a lot
of attention. Is he purposely saying rigged games to confuse people?
When this is about poker games and not about NBA games.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Okay, I'm getting live updates. The indictments charged two different schemes.
One a sports betting conspiracy that exploited confidential information.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Okay, there you go, and the other the nationwide scheme
to rig poker games.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
The poker games thing is kind of interesting, but not
a whatever. But if it, you know, you get into
the actual sports that people bet on by the billions
of dollars, and some of them were fixed this way
or that.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
That's that's a major that's a major.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Story, right, yeah, yeah, it's both.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Wow. Huh.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
And how about those you know, if you're into mafia's stories,
you know those names. Those are the big Mafia families.
I didn't think they were up to much these days,
although rigging games.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Allegedly, huh. This is exciting.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
But I see my brother from the Old Country sitting
in the gallery. So I'll not be testifying on the show. Sorry,
I got nothing to say.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
You have to be a fan of the Godfather to
enjoy that. What was I gonna say? It's gonna say
something if you're not watch it again.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
The NBA and the gambling and I don't know I
had some point to make about that.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Well, there will be time. There will be time.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
The head coach is done.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
The head coach is done as a coach. Ye, yeah,
of course he is. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Sorry Portland, you got junkies on the streets and crooks
running your basketball team.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
It's a shame.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Anyway.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
A couple of things I'm excited to talk about. A
think tank, a good one has re ranked universities and
colleges and ranked them on free speech, the school's approach
to politics on campus, how well students do after graduation,
whether they've exhibited some sort of pluralism among faculty. In short,
(16:08):
do they behave like a university supposed to behave or
do they behave like an indoctrination factory for progressive thought?
And the top ten are out at least, and it's
not the usual suspects. If you want your kid or
you're just concerned about this in general, but if you
want your kid to go to university where they'll actually
be challenged and learn, got the list for you coming up.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Cool, And then we're going to get the highlights of
the debate last night between the communists and the crook
So that's fun. They got a little spicy. So I'm
looking at CNN. Their headline up there is historic arrest.
This is in quotes, historic arrest over years of sports rigging.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Okay, you got to be more specific about the sports rigging.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Are you talk about the sport of gambling or the
sport of national the basketball in the National Basketball Association?
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Yeah, it's not clear to me where the one ends
and the other one starts. There being fudgie on this
and purpose because it's more exciting if it's NBA games
than if it's we're talking about CNN. Right, yeah, right,
Well but did did Cash Pttel make it a little
fudgy on purpose to make it more exciting?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Make it clear to us, please Armstrong and Getty. First
of all, we're trying to wrap our heads around exactly
what's happening with this giant NBA gambling scandal. Is it
mostly poker games? That's what all the headlines seem to be,
(17:33):
and that's the main thing they're talking about in the
press conference. There's these rigged poker games spanning eleven states,
and all the crime families and NBA players, coaches and
people that are involved in them. They're not talk giving
any details on anything about games as of yet, NBA
games just poker games, So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
What's going on there. I guess we'll find out when
we find out.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
New York Times is definitely talking about game scandals, a
game fixing scandals too, but they didn't They certainly didn't
lead with that, and they haven't given any details whatsoever.
And if that were the bulk of us, you would
lead with that. We have evidence that in an NBA
game they shaved points or pulled a player or whatever,
(18:18):
and they got it's all. It's been going on for
a half an hour now, and it's like ninety nine percent.
It's Operation Royal Flush, which is the name of the sting,
which would lead you to believe it's mostly poker. It's
not Operation you know, missed that free throw on purpose.
It's Operation Royal Flush. So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
We'll see thirty one people arrested though, that's something uh.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
The attorney for the Eastern District in New York said
that the sports betting scheme involved hundreds of thousands of
dollars in fraudulent bets involving network of proxies or straw betters.
Most of the allegedly fraudulent bets were successful. Okay, well
we'll update updates come, but that's hundreds of thousands of dollars.
They're talking about tens of millions of day total, so
we'll see.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
You know, when people regularly decide to cross that line
historically in terms of cheating in sports, that's when they've
gotten themselves into gambling debt. They've gotten themselves into a
real problem. It's what you throw a fight or whatever.
It's because you got your gambling on other things and
(19:26):
you got yourself in such a bad situation that you
cross that line and willing to do so. Well, the
mobsters come to you and say, you're never going to
pay us off.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
So here's an idea how you can get square, and
you have to take it. It's an offer you can't refuse.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Look, butch I need you to go down in the
third That sting you feel is pride. You got to
fight that s right. That's from pulp fiction, second classic
movie reference of the hour. So they had another debate
last night in New York with the communist, the crook,
and then that other dude, which you'll hear from all
(20:02):
three of them.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
And these are some of the highlights from the debate.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
My opponents, who spend more time trying to convince the
other to drop out than actually proposing their own policies,
will speak only of the past because that's all that
they know. I am the sole candidate running with a
vision for the future of this city.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Zoron is a great actor. He missed his calling.
Speaker 9 (20:24):
Since I left, homeless rate is more than double. When
I left, the vacancy rate on housing was four point
five percent.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
It's now one percent.
Speaker 9 (20:35):
This man never even proposed the bill.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Andrew, you didn't leave. You fled from being impeached.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
By the Democrats of the state legislature.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
You fled.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
So that's funny.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Say that's Curtis sleewa guy who we met at a
couple of different things anyway, But he runs for mayor
every single election and and gets on the stage and
everything like that.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
He hates Andrew Cuomo so much in.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
The Cuomo family because he's been in politics in New
York City and state for his whole life. He hates
the Cuomo family so much. He spends all his time
trying to take down the guy who ain't gonna win
instead of the guy that's gonna win the communists.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
But that is he'll let the communist win if he
can damage Cuomo. And and Curtis Lee was defense. He
was a hero in New York for a long time.
Got shot the mob Hello tried to murder him, shot
him micing five times or something like that in a cab.
And he doesn't appreciate the mobbed up Cuomo allegedly according
to some sort But it's pretty funny Cuomo saying when
(21:36):
I left, we had whatever percentage of you left. He
had to resign because you're about to be put in prison.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
That is a pretty funny thing to say. That's hair
a little more.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
I will be the mayor who doesn't just protect Jewish
New Yorkers but also celebrates and cherishes them.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Not everything is a TikTok video. You're the savior of
the Jewish people.
Speaker 9 (21:58):
You won't denounce globalize they which means killed jus. You
have never had a job, You've never accomplished anything.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
There's no reason to believe you have any merit or qualification.
For eight and a half.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Million lives, that's a good shot.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
It's tell your damn COMI.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
It's tough though hearing it from a crook, a corrupt
womanizing woman secretary, touching, lying, shredding documents.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I mean, he's just an awful human being.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Yeah, I mean, it's the pot calling the kettle black.
It's it's it's terrible, terrible. What is the matter with
our political system? No, can we keep belching up horrible
candidates like this?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
It is amazing. A little more.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Trees the rent sounds great.
Speaker 9 (22:48):
Yeah, it effectual about twenty five percent of the number
of housing units in the City of New York.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
It's not a new idea.
Speaker 9 (22:53):
If the mayor doesn't have the power to do it anyway,
the Rent Guidelines Board does, and he doesn't control the
rent guide so nothing is going to happen.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
It's all this.
Speaker 9 (23:05):
It's just more political blatherer.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
I've heard the both of them again, fighting like kids
in the schoolyard or on your resume could fit on
a cocktail napkin. And Andrew, your failures could fill a
public school library in New York City. We've been saying
this for years. You got to get rid of crowds
and debates. Just what are we doing?
Speaker 2 (23:30):
What are we doing?
Speaker 3 (23:31):
What?
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Entertainment? It's entertainment. It's a TV show. Okay, so you know.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Communists, what what do you got? This is what kind
of related the communist is going to win? He's still
going to win? Zor run MONI donie all right.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
I came across this email from Charles C. W. Cook
at the National Review, entitled apparently we still need to
explain why communism is wrong and and this is actually
I think it's a plea to subscribe or something like that.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
But it's very good. I love this.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
I don't think I've heard this before. Charles writes, I
have long agreed with TS. Eliot that quote there is
no such thing as a lost cause, because there is
no such thing as a gained cause, the point being
because human nature does not fundamentally change over time, it's
(24:27):
incumbent upon every generation to learn anew the eternal lessons,
because it'll.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Go away, The good stuff will go aways.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
Reagan put it famously, no more than in a generation
or two away from losing our liberty. We've got to
teach our children how precious it is. And he says
he's long believed that. But still, he writes, I must
confess to having been a little shocked of late by
how many topics remain open for debate. I had not,
(24:56):
for example, expected to see the flourishing of anti Semitism
to stain the United States, Britain and beyond since the
attack of October seventh. I did not consider it likely
that New York City would consider electing a Communist as
its mayor. And I had not anticipated that the sensible
and effective reforms that were ushered in by President Reagan
and Prime Minister Thatcher would be at risk of being replaced.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Quite this soon.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
I had, not, in other words, expected these battles to
return to test us once more.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
On so compressed a timetable.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
So true. It's a little tiring. Honestly.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
It's like in Cuomo, the crook could have done a
better job of explaining why rent control is such a
miserable failure.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
But it's funny.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
As you attain a certain age, you're like, wait a minute,
people are running this up the flagpole again. It's completely
discredited over and over again, but you got to do
it again. It's like doing the laundry or or you know,
washing your car. You don't just do it once. It's
a periodic thing. Explaining why communism sucks.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Before we take a break, the press conference in the
big FBI is arrested thirty one people in this gambling thing.
This headline from the NYPD just came across. Players altered
their performances in scheme, so that is part of it.
So they altered their performance in a game in the scheme.
(26:21):
The way I'm taking this in because this is going
on while we're on the air, I think from a
legal standpoint, it's mostly an illegal gambling thing that the
big crime families were running from an entertainment interest. To
us standpoint, it's a some of the players got themselves
into trouble gambling and they got forced into altering the
(26:43):
performances to pay off gambling thats. But that seems to
be like a minor part of I mean, it's a
big part of the of an NBA story, but it's
a minor part of this big bust because it's tens
of millions of dollars in the crime family gambling stuff
and poker games and everything like that, because they were
cheating people all across the right. So what some NBA
players got caught up in it, and so that you know,
(27:05):
it's kind of interesting. What was the name of the
former mobster Michael friend Ceci what was his name.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
He became really.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
Well known ten fifteen years ago when he left the mob.
He got out of prison and he went on speaking tours,
especially to colleges, to explain to college athletes how the
whole gambling thing works. And one of the major components
of its Jack has pointed out is you have a
player likes to gamble, not on his own sport, maybe
(27:35):
it's poker for instance, gets into serious gambling debt. Only
way to pay it off is they make an offer
you can't refuse. You gotta shave some points or do
something like that, and they tell you, look, you just
do it twice in the slatest wipe clean. You do
it twice, They've got you even more than they did before.
They come to you and say, yeah, we need you
to do it a third time. What are you gonna
say no, I'm standing on principal. I'm gonna say no,
(27:58):
We'll just turn over rock solid evidence that you've shaved
points to the league and your career is over. Or
you can just intentionally miss a couple of free throws tonight.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Plus, if you got yourself into that kind of gambling debt,
you're probably a gambling addict. So you're continuing to gamble
and lose because you mostly lose when you gamble. I've
never understood why people don't get that you mostly lose.
So if you keep gambling, you are going to lose,
and then you'll be in debt again, and then you'll
have to miss another handful of free throws. It'll be
interesting to see what players what games. People will go
(28:30):
back and look at them. Okay, I wondered about that game,
you know, two Novembers ago on when they played the Lakers,
and you know whatever, Sure he is an eighty four
percent free throw shooter, but oh we misses both of them.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Yeah, that'll be fun to watch. We got a lot
more on the way. Hope you can stay here.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Well, guys, everyone's having fun with the six seven trend.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
That's everywhere right now.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Even news anchors are starting to get in on the action.
Watch this.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
You know, all the kids are doing the six seven
six six seven six seven six seven.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
Six seven six seven six seven.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
I still don't understand, and it's over.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Okay, So I was.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
That was more depressing than the actual news. I watch
this video yesterday about the end of pop culture or
the end of culture maybe in general in the United States.
This whole six seven thing would fit into it and
shared experiences. We'll have to talk about that later. It's
really an interesting thought. Oh okay, yeah, I like it.
Here's your headline of the day. How French is this
(29:52):
surveillance camera pointed the wrong way? Allowed love heist?
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Go Frands. You remember when you mattered, Oh, you're supposed
to have it pointed toward the window.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Oh okay, Hey, I wanted to update this because this
story matters much more than the race for Attorney General
in Virginia. This Jay Jones, piece of garbage who openly
fantasized about murdering the Republicans and their children dying in
their arms, and then when he was called on it,
he didn't say, Look, I was out of control.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I had a couple of drinks. I was joking. No,
he said, I'm serious.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
You have to cause people physical pain before they changed
their policies. This guy is a pro political violence monster.
One part of the story that we hadn't really thrown in.
I hadn't thrown in just for the length of you
know time, you know, the amount of time we're.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Going to spend on. It is his whole drunk driving
conviction story. I didn't know that one. Oh yeah, yeah,
this is part of his history.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
He was convicted of reckless driving after being pulled over
driving one hundred and sixteen miles per hour in a
seventy mile per hour.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Zone in twenty twenty two. Okay.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
He was ordered to pay a fifteen hundred dollars fine
and serve one thousand hours of community service. Now I
knew the first part of this. You had the first
cot and drove one hundred and twenty miles an hour.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
That is awful.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
Reckless driving. I don't think he was drunk. Oh, okay, anyway,
So the New Kent County that's the county General District
Court received sign certificates of completion in twenty twenty four
attesting the jones that served five hundred of those community
(31:38):
service hours for his own political action committee and then
five hundred of the other ones for the Virginia chapter
of the naacp okay, which is an activist leftist organization
at this point, and would be more than happy to
sign the paperwork even though he never darken their doorway,
I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
But so the fless driving.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
Cases come under scrutiny after the Richmond Times Dispatch exposed
the conviction earlier this month, disrupting the guy's campaign for
attorney general. And now a judge has said, hey, we're
going to appoint a special prosecutor to look into this,
because while this guy was allegedly doing ten hours a
(32:22):
week for two different organizations, he was also working full
time at his law firm and traveling the state for
the Democratic Party doing politics stuff.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
In essence, it was completely phony. He did not do
any of.
Speaker 6 (32:36):
His community service. And there's a special prosecutor now appointed.
I hope desperately this guy loses.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
That's one of the big problems with the whole community
service racket. Anyway, I personally have known people. You don't
have to be very connected to anything at all to
get out of community service. You got any friend who's
like on your side, who's willing to sign your piece
of paper that you volunteered over the weekend to feed whatever,
and it's.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Taking care of it. It's a nothing, right, right.
Speaker 6 (33:05):
It's more an intelligence test than a practically demand for time. Yeah,
or more appropriately, a test of how connected you are.
So maybe tomorrow this is two notes on the same topic.
Maybe tomorrow we'll get to a great email questioning our
discussion of the great feminization for the other day, and
(33:27):
we did it this hour, so I kind of want
to do the reply this hour, really good smart email
questioning some of the premises that I.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Want to deal with.
Speaker 6 (33:35):
But on a related note, the Cincinnati police chief who
was in charge until very briefly and dealt with that
viral downtown brawl video where the gang of black folks
we're beating and kicking and just destroying a white couple.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Particularly that woman. The way she goes down like a
sack of hour and starts getting kicked.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
That's just horrible. Oh, it's horrible. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
Cincinnati Police Chief Terry Siege has been placed on administrative
leave pending an investigation into her leadership. A lot of
this stems from how she handled the arrests and her
now viral rant after the July attack, in which she
scolded media for taking the fight out of context.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Yeah, what's the context for that? That could possibly make
it okay?
Speaker 6 (34:28):
Well, and she was trying to make the argument that
at some point during the fight, the white woman threw
a punch. Therefore was partly by trying to defend herself
was partly to blame for the incredible violence visited upon them,
but also at this point, there are multiple male white
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guys in the police force saying this woman gave minority
lieutenants seventy nine percent desirable aside signments. Female lieutenants got
eighty nine percent desirable assignments, and males white males got
forty four percent preferred assignments, as they call them. She
was a DEI affirmative action keep the white man down
(35:16):
police chief, and a woman in charge of a police
the number. There are plenty of good lady cops out there,
plenty of them, and some of them will probably be
police chiefs, and they deserve it because they kick ass.
But the disproportionate number of fire chiefs and police chiefs,
particularly in Bluish areas, because they're women. It's part of
(35:37):
the whole feminization of America thing, and they run the
department in a very different way than a lot of
guys would. Anyway, So she's been placed on leave, the
city's investigating her various hijinks.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
So an how our three, we'll get back into this
big NBA gambling bus that's going on the FBA arrested
thirty one people, including a head coach and a player,
among others. This player at least once faked an injury
to leave a game as part of his rigging things,
probably to try to pay off gambling debts. It's it's
(36:11):
quite the scandal. We'll have more of that now or three.
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