October 24, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Bombing boats in Venezuela, oil/gas drilling in Alaska, energy prices & costumes
- The Reagan ad in Canada heavily edited
- NBA gambling scandal & the amazing cheating tactics
- Not using the same words to deliver the same message
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and Gatty,
and He.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Armstrong and Getty. After participating in last night's My Oral Debate,
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo attended the next game. Well,
Curtis Sliwall, watch some cats fight a pigeon in central part.
(00:38):
He's not gonna win, but I kind of wish you
would win. For the old monologue, it wouldn't be mad
that May went there. You know, you're gonna have a
communist to talk about, so that's fun. I'm gonna run
through a couple of different things that are in the
news that might beginning obliterated with, you know, the lead
stories like our trade war with Canada or the gambling
(00:59):
scam or any of that sort of stuff. We bombed
some more people in a boat near Venezuela last night.
Here's that one thing.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Was very clear that these strikes are not going to
stop anytime soon, and in fact, they appear to just
be getting started. President Trump saying he didn't believe he
needed to go to Congress to continue to strike these boats,
and then threatening once again to strike on land.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
And mister President, if you are declaring war against these
cartels and Congress is likely to approve of.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
That process, why not just ask for a declaration of war.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Well, I don't think we're going to necessarily ask for
a declaration of war. I think we're just going to
kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. Okay,
we're going to kill them. You know they're going to
be like dead.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Okay? Sorry? Was that an outtake from the Godfather movies?
Speaker 5 (01:53):
So?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
What's with all the marines and the bombers and those
amphibious boats were you can like do a D Day
sort of landing on the beaches? What's what's all that
stuff going on? Yeah? I don't know. Are we gonna
do that with HM davidating Maduro into something? But no,
we're not invade Venezuela. You don't think so? Surely?
Speaker 6 (02:16):
Not?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Good Lord, I've been assuming that at some point we're
going to with the amount of equipment and personnel that
we've sent down there. All right, somebody was reading David
Ignatius in the Washington Post and he was bringing up,
you know, the famous Bay of Pigs incident. If you
haven't read about it. You should. It's an interesting historic
story where we the CIA, with the help of some
(02:39):
mobsters and everybody else, tried to storm the beaches there
in Cuba and we're met with great resistance and it
went very very polar poorly. Yes, yeah, fraught with screw ups. Yeah,
I said, I can't remember when I said this. A
couple of months now. That was a Kennedy plan, right,
And as somebody needs to mark this these words. I
(03:04):
have thought for a very long time the Trump presidency
is accomplishing amazing things and feels like something that's going
to spin out of control. Well, they're true, I don't Yeah,
I don't know about the second part. We'll have to
wait and see. But I liked this announcement from the
Trump administration last night. The US will allow oil and
(03:26):
gas drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Of course,
this being the New York Times, it'said a vast tract
of pristine wilderness. They're against it, but that opening up
some more of our land to drill domestically obviously makes
us more independent in terms of oil and really hurts Russia,
as a price of oil is quite low now and
we'll drive it down with that news. Love it. And
(03:49):
we are the most responsible and careful oil drillers on earth,
So if the oil is going to get used, we
might as well be the ones drilling for it. Yeah,
the sanctions that Trump announced on Russia with their two
biggest oil companies, and China and India sign and on
saying yeah, we won't buy oil from him anymore. With
those sanctions, and we announced we're opening up more drilling here,
(04:12):
we really could be squeezing Russia into a situation where
they're going to have to back down. I hope that's
what happens, right right. Speaking of energy and energy use,
electricity prices are rising, according to energy writer Steve Gorham,
and Democrats are making it a campaign issue. They blame
the price icon President Trump and those damn congressional Republicans
(04:33):
who ended Biden era green energy subsidies, and that's why
energy prices are going up. But prices are actually soaring
because of plant closures and natural gas shortages in blue states,
all in the name of green energy. For instance, according
to Energy Department to data, electricity prices in California, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,
(04:55):
and New York have risen more than thirty percent in
the last five years. The average is about twenty two
percent nationally, but keep in mind that average includes the
super high numbers. Because of climate policy, these Blue states
closed most of their coal fired power plants and nuclear
facilities over the past fifteen years. In comparison, prices in Florida, Georgia, Missouri,
(05:17):
Texas and other states hampered less by green energy initiatives
arising significantly less than the US average. Man my energy,
California's electricity prices up fifty eight percent over the past
five years, more than doubled since two thousand and eight.
I'm glad you mentioned that before I said this. So
California's electric prices up fifty eight percent over the last
five years. I am now. I'm like my parents were
(05:37):
in the seventies, the last really big energy crunch, where
I tell mek it, hey, hey, hey, don't leave the room,
leave the light on, or let's open the window and
cool it off in here, and so the air conditioner
to do it, or that sort of stuff. I didn't
worry about that five years ago. I mean, I may
I could have been more frugal, but it wasn't a note.
My energy bills are insane. Air conditioning about air conditioning
(06:01):
my house. My bills this year are one thousand dollars
a month. Yeah, that's insane. It's like that sort of
thing that only used to happen if you lived in
some sort of ginormous mansion or something. Well, I was
just gonna say, yeah, and your house is not enormous. Well,
it's just a regular house. Yeah, and a regular housand
dollars a month. Yeah. I don't know how people afford
(06:22):
to live. Yeah. You know what's happening if you want
to get down to the basic political science of it is, uh,
the cronies of democrats in the energy industry. They get
money and then you pay for that through your higher bills.
That's the way the money flows. So enjoy that. Massachusetts
(06:45):
similar third eyzed in the nation. State produced about half
as much electricity as it did in twenty ten because
the closures of coal plants, which might be due. But
they also closed the a big nuclear power plant in
twenty nineteen because of the bizarre lefty dislike of nuclear
energy because of the radioactive waste, And anybody who studies
(07:08):
energy at all knows nuclear energy is the only kind
of energy that contains its waste. The rest goes out
into the air or whatever. Oh, renewables, windmills and that
sort of stuff. That just doesn't They just don't deliver.
The technology isn't ready anyway. Enough of that screen, Oh Jack,
See this is hilarious. I don't care that I'm out
(07:28):
of touch with youth culture. Really, my youths are all adults.
I'd rather worry about the constitution, the state of the country,
blah blah blah. I just don't have the bandwidth, as
they say. But this one amused me. The Halloween costume, No,
that does not amuse me at all. It annoys me.
It annoys Katie. I could her head just fell in
despair and hatred, yes, Katie, Oh no, I just recoiled,
(07:53):
That's all.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I don't know why that bugs me so much, but
it does. It's crushing. It's crushing anyway. I've got to
admit I was amused when I learned about the Halloween
costume that is so hot. Parents are going to extraordinary lengths,
paying extraordinary figures to get it for their kids because
their kids are desperate for that Halloween costume. It is
(08:18):
the various characters from the Netflix show K Pop Demon Hunters. Yeah,
K Pop demon My kids aren't into it, but I'm
aware of it because so many people are into it.
Kelly Binnings nine year old daughter badly wanted to dress
up for Halloween. Is the knife slinging rapper named Zoe
from K Pop Demon Hunters, the Global Phenomenon Surprise It
(08:41):
movie of the Year. I had never heard that phrase
in my life. So huge. Yeah, oh wow, that's interesting. Yeah,
it's an omni present. Yeah anyway, Yeah, it's scrambling to
find options to dress their kids as the demon slaying
singers of Hunters and their rivals the Saja Boy. Oh yeah,
(09:03):
and the music is a really really big deal for
a certain segment of society. Yess, Michael. It's like the
Banana Splits, but with better production values. Yes, I'm hearing that.
Grade school girls love thish Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's ginormous.
It's as big as anything has ever been. K Pop
Demon Nutters. Wow. Netflix is selling the trademark yellowjacket worn
(09:24):
by yet another character for eighty nine to ninety five,
and that's before the cost of her zippered blue shorts
combat boots. And waist length purple braid. Some parents are
breaking out sewing machines and glue guns they haven't used
in years. Others are panicking. Really, it's sold out. We
(09:46):
can't afford it. You get addresses, something else. It's the
first in a series of many, many disappointments you're going
to endure in life, honey. So we're at one of
the big Halloween stores a week ago, and my high
school son really wanted the penis costume and I said, no,
(10:06):
pardon me, it's actually really funny. It's very popular this year,
this penis costume. And I said, no, you're not going to.
You're not going to. He kept saying it's so funny.
My friends would think it's so funny. I'm sure they would,
But you're not. You're not going to be walking the
streets of our town going to your friend's parents' house
(10:29):
dressed as a penis.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
But there were so many different varieties of penis hats, costumes,
t shirts, whatever, and they're not like in some hidden
section of the Halloween costume store, it's the same, you know.
It's next to the snow white stuff where the girls
are walking around. I thought, when did displaying penis has
(10:57):
become so popular. I wish I were more religious, because
I have a sudden urge to become a monk and
go study and take a vow of silence and then
read ancient scrolls or whatever they do in the monk business.
I think I'm done. He came my fifteen My fifteen
year old came running over because we're looking at variou stuff,
and he said, look how cool this is. And he
(11:18):
put on this penis at and it looked like a
you know, the top end of a pen. You know,
you've seen him. Yeah, probably we get it on board. Yeah,
I can picture it. Yeah, apparently you're still talking. I'm
going to take it off my headphones for thirty seconds
at a time and just putting them back on to check.
I said, I am not buying that for you. Well
that's good. I'm glad to hear that. But again, why
(11:43):
these the nasty stuff right there with all the other stuff.
I guess that's just the way we are as a society.
Absolute lack of cultural agreement. We no longer have what
could be properly described as a common culture in the
United States, which includes more rays as they say, rules
do's and don'ts what is acceptable what is unacceptable If
(12:06):
there is no commonality in those those guidelines, there are
no guidelines. We did buy the six foot dummy that
we keep dressing up in different clothes and leaving it
around the house, and every one of us gets scared regularly.
Walked into the living room today, dah, this guy sitting
on the couch see that. I would that's rough, that
(12:31):
jolt of animal terror first thing in the morning. Yeah. Wait,
are you gonna have it in first Huh? I'm gonna
write a book about why it's good for you. It's
better than a cold plunge to get a six foot dummy.
Dress it up, dummy, I have it standing in the
kitchen when you walk in. That it'll wake you right up,
helps blood flow, your mind is more alert. Dummy shock
exactly better than the cold plunge dummy. Maybe I'd have
(12:52):
been better off letting him get the penis costume, so
I have that dummy scaring me all the time. We
got more news on the way. Stay here, do you
guys see this? General Motors says they plan to launch
a new eyes off driving technology where drivers don't have
to steer or watch the road. That's great. Now your
uber driver can sit in the back and talk with it,
(13:15):
will you hear my band?
Speaker 6 (13:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
I guess so who said that at the very beginning?
Who's announced the new General motors? General Motors? Huh, I'll
be darned. I'm going to be surprised if if there
is a car that can actually say you don't need
to pay attention, it'll drive you around because Tesla's not
there yet. So this kind of happened overnight. The Canadians
(13:41):
put out an ad of Ronald Reagan talking about how
tariffs are a terrible idea, and Trump did not like
that and then so imposed some new tariffs on Canada,
which once again, we need to get to this Supreme
Court ruling where the Supreme Court decides. Can one guy
inside these sorts of major, major economic decisions for the planet.
(14:05):
Getting an update on the Supreme Court next hour with
the Pacific Legal Foundation. Stay with us. But here's a
little bit of the Ronald Reagan ad that they put out.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
When someone says, let's impose tariffs on foreign imports, it
looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American
products and jarms and sometimes for a short wirew it works.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Okay, So that's what it sayss like, it's Ronald Reagan
from a radio address back in the eighties, and he
lays out in a very long way the the long
held Republican position that tariffs are a bad idea ultimately,
But the reason that he made this address was he
was trying to explain why he had imposed tariffs on
(14:49):
Japan around semiconductors. So, like Bloomberg is reading made the
point that the Canadians selected parts of Reagan's speech, pasted
them together, and that it was not the entirety of
the thing, or blah blah blah. Both sides have a
(15:11):
decent argument here on the whole Reagan ad in that
it is selected quotes, it leaves out the stuff. The
Canadian version leaves out the stuff. For Reagan says, but
in this instance, because Canada is not treating our agreement fairly,
or in Japan, Japan's not treating our agreement fairly, we
are imposing these tariffs. This is a special instant. We
(15:33):
believe in fair trade, free trade, but also fair trade,
and Japan's not the other side of the argument is
he makes a long long, I mean very long argument
for while tariffs in general are a terrible long term idea,
and that is just flat out true, that was Reagan's position, right,
(15:54):
So both sides can use some of this for amunition. Well,
we've cut off trade negotiations with the Canada now just
walked out of the room on the eve of the
World Series, which could turn turn ugly. It's going to
be like a South American soccer match. The umpster are
gonna have to shoot their way out of the stadium.
I think a better I think a better angle if
they had put more thought into it from the Trump
(16:15):
administration would have been able. Would have been a would
been to choose the portion of the speech where Reagan
explains why they're putting tariffs on Japan because they're not
following the agreement. Since that's his argument with some of
these other countries, I think that would have been a
better way to handle it. Yeah. Yeah, tweeting at each
other in general is probably no way to hold trade negotiations.
(16:38):
But no, no, it's not like I said earlier. It's
going to be interesting to see if nationalism raises its
head during the World Series tonight. How loud will the
booze be for the US national anthem, which hasn't happened
in previous World series when Toronto was playing. Well, it
happened in the NHL a lot last season. Yeah, I
(17:00):
guarantee it happens. Guarantee, and the booing will be lusty. Wow,
that's interesting. Huh. Okay, we got a lot more on
the way. If you missus Sacment, get the podcast Armstrong
and Getty. No, you know, I don't. I don't. That
pressure thing is nothing to me, man. I'll do the
best I can and let the chips fall what they may.
(17:21):
You know that about me? But now quick, there's nothing
to that clip other than that's the coach, Chauncey Billups
using the phrase let the chips fall where they may guilty. Oh,
I get it, let the chips fall the guilty Saturday again.
So he's the coach for the Portland Trails Blazers, Hall
of Famer, former star player, NBA champion Chauncey Billups, who
(17:42):
got caught up in this whole gambling thing, and uh,
this story and then we're gonna hear it a little
bit from a gambling expert. Forget about it. He's going
to explain how this all goes down. But here's here's
more or less. The story from CNN Curtain Trail.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
Blazer head coach and Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups is
kind of a very complicated scheme involving rigged poker.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
Games that did include members of the Mafia.
Speaker 8 (18:04):
Phillips was the loure who brought wealthy betters into these
poker games where things like illegal card shuffling machines were
used and so they could not possibly win.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
They took those profits and split.
Speaker 8 (18:17):
Them up, and then Mafia went on and did what
they usually did in the other I guess more traditional case,
if you will. Terry Rozier, who plays with the Miami Heat,
was involved in what.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
Is essentially point shaving.
Speaker 8 (18:29):
He would give players and or give people insider information
about his status and in some cases remove himself from
a game with an injury so that they were able
to bet on his points, assists and rebounds prop bets
as they're called, and profit off of that insider information.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yeah, you got this, So there's different levels of that.
You got this. Damon Jones, guy who played with Lebron,
who supposedly would tip people off. Hey, Lebron's hurt he
ain't gonna play Thursday night, so we're probably going to lose,
and then people would bet. Accordingly, that's a you know,
it's illegal, and you don't want that to cause all
(19:07):
kinds of propertly not but it's a different level, definitely
a different level than a guy pretending to be hurt
and pulling himself out of the game having tipped people off.
I'm gonna score way fewer than my average eighteen points tonight,
right right, are we planning? I don't remember on running
the next Well. I wanted to get to the expert
(19:29):
first and then we can get into the players. So
this is okay, that's that I was just gonna say
the lady on CNN. She said the card shuffling machine.
She left out the fun stuffs. They had a damn
X ray table. Yeah, here you could read the cards.
Here's this guy sal Italian, last name H who's a
cheating expert, explaining how it goes down.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
They allegedly also used high tech equipment to rig play,
like this X ray machine, which Authorady said could read
cards that were faced down on the table, also used
hidden cameras and altered.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah, we're playing the cheating Expert thirty seven. The X
ray table.
Speaker 9 (20:05):
That's just a table that has cameras built into it
that look upward at the cards. It can actually see
through the green felt so you can use any deck
of cards as long as the cards lie above the camera.
The camera can see what that card is and then
transmit it to shuffle machines. What happens is the deck
(20:27):
may too has a camera in it. The cameras know
every card and can actually sweat that deck out and
put it back in.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Order for you.
Speaker 9 (20:35):
Well, the cheats came up with ways of utilizing that
camera as well to note what cards are being dealt
and who's getting them, And that shuffle machine is altered
to transmit to an earpiece to tell the people who
are going to win.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
That seems awfully complicated. You'd have to keep track of
You need almost multiple people when you watch different players' hands,
and then unless you're some sort of idiot savants, that'd
be a lot to keep track of. No, because really,
well I don't know, because this is way more sophisticated
than I was guessing it was yesterday. As I said earlier,
(21:12):
I was going on like riverboat Gambler or neighborhood poker
game wild Bill Hiccock. Yeah, this is really sophisticated cheating.
But all I have to know as a cheater is
whether to fold or not. Folder's day. That's all I
need to know. It's like one bang on the trash
(21:35):
can this world series appropriate one bang on the trash
cans fastball two bangs is a breaking pitch, That's all
I need to know. Well, how about the cameras staring
up through the felt and actually looking at all the cards?
I mean, obviously that's a tremendous advantage. Oh please, that's
what I'm saying, all of it, And it's almost ridiculous.
(21:55):
How many layers. I mean, this was so iron it's
almost overkill. What you need the card shuffling machine and
the X ray table and the special contact lenses and
or glasses that could read the markings on the back
of other cards. Right, Well, I suppose you cover all
(22:16):
your bases in case the guy doesn't lay his cards
down on the table over the camera. You got the
markings on the back. But yeah, if I'm playing with
some guy who's got an earpiece, and hey, what's what
the ear priest there? Sal what you're listening to I'm
just listening to baseball game. Love them Yankees. Yankees are
(22:37):
off tonight. I don't know much about the game. So again,
so you got two angles to this whole thing. You
got the illegal card games going on that the NBA
tie in there is just that star players would be
the lure to get rich people to show up. And
we're learning there's a big culture of super high dollar
(22:59):
poker in the NBA. And then you get into the
players and what they might have been doing in games
and that sort of stuff, which seems like a smaller
amount of I don't know, do you think so well
from a law enforcement perspective, yeah, but from a running
a sports league, it's devastating. Oh yeah, from a it's
(23:21):
exciting to hear about. I'm way more excited about the
NBA stuff than I assume. There's lots of card sheets
in the world. Oh right, right, this this could, I
don't know what, bring the league to its knees whatever
that means. This could be enormous in the history of
American sports. Well, here's a former NBA star, Gilbert Arenas.
Was he a king for a while? Was he like
(23:42):
a Gilbert Area Now now he's a warrior. He's a warrior.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Anyway, he's a local somehow. Anyway, he's telling a story
about the two thousand and six NBA Playoffs and this guy,
Damon Jones, go ahead, that's thirty four.
Speaker 10 (23:55):
You got two free throws, and Lebron comes by and
tap you on the chant and whispers up to you.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
What did What did he tell you?
Speaker 10 (24:01):
He said, if you missed these free.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Throws, you know who's gonna win it.
Speaker 10 (24:04):
What makes it worse because we gambled at Lebron's house, me,
Damon Jones. You know, that was our group. So Damon
Jones was horrible horward cards. He owed me money like
every time we played them. I always used to scream
out the landlords, hit the landlord.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
He's drint money. So he doesn't even play in game six.
Speaker 10 (24:26):
So when he when he whispers, you know who's gonna
hit it, everybody assumed it was him. I knew what
he was talking about, Like I was. I was balling
that game, just hit the three to get us in overtime.
And then I see Damon Jones in there stretching, and
they really put the man in. And the fact that
Lebron even passing the ball is what hurt the most, Jones?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
How do you play the second game.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
Shot?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
So what is being suggested there that Lebron told Gilbert
Arenas that if he misses the free throw, Damon Jones
is gonna win a bet. Is that the way we
interpreted that, That's the way Hanson, executive producer, interpreted it. Well,
(25:18):
why did that would imply that Lebron knew that Damon
Jones was gambling on the game or I'm not sure
I'm confident in that interpretation. Well, this would be the
biggest scandal, one of the biggest scandals in sports history, obviously.
So if the suggestion there is that, oh god, how
(25:40):
many people would have to be involved if Damon Jones,
who hadn't played the entire game, now he is, he's
one of the people arrested, right, we know he's dirty. Uh, yes,
he's one of the guys arrested. So he's absolutely dirty.
But so, oh yeah, we're innocent until proven guilty. Jack,
This is shocking whatever. So he doesn't play the entire
game and they put him at the very end so
(26:03):
that he could presumably then Lebron passes him the ball.
So you got somebody who can count on who will
miss it on purpose. I mean, is that what you're suggesting,
Because if you're suggesting that Lebron, one of the biggest
sports stars in the history of any sport on Earth,
is involved, the coach would have to be involved for
putting the guy in. I mean, what are you suggesting here? Yeah,
(26:26):
I'm not sure I understood everything I needed to about
that clip. It might just be if you can work
Lebron into the story, it's very exciting, That's what I'm
thinking it is. I mean, it's kind of interesting that
this guy that was arrested as a regular card player
at Lebron's house. That's kind of interesting. Yeah. Yeah, well
we ought to play the next clip of Jeff Tigue.
Speaker 11 (26:49):
Anytime you say anything about Bron, people call you and say, hey, man,
you might want I want you. I know you got
some fun stories. Hey lea Lebron alone, I'm like, damn,
I came on here and apologize. I'm sorry, I'm talking. He'
some real people like you know what I mean, Like, hey,
(27:11):
you're funny.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
You're a little too funny, all right, my fuck brother?
Speaker 11 (27:15):
So I know, ain'ting getting by They hold they hold camp.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
They run the lead. They whole camp run the lead.
Bro they too plug. Yeah, all right, there's a lot
of language there. I don't understand. But okay, anytime you
see something about Lebron, people come to you and say, hey,
shut up. Well, it's like the Caitlin Clark thing. This
is your biggest star, bringing in the most money. Don't
go around bad mouth and Caitlin Clark. All right, it's stupid. Yeah, yeah,
(27:44):
that could be again, some of the straight lingo escapes
me say, Zoey suburban dad. But yeah, people call you
real people, heavy people. Whatever he said, and he did,
He did what sounded like a little bit like a
(28:06):
mob accent, a little hey shamed of something happening in
nice Miami beach mansion. Don't you think that Cash Patel
tease of all people, Cash Patel, FBI, if there was
a sniff that Lebron was involved, they would hung onto
this stuff until they could have nailed that down. Cash
me outside Patel. I don't know, because that would be
(28:29):
such a big score. Oh my god. Oh I don't
think Lebron's involved in throwing games in point shaming. I
just don't no, But I'll bet he gambles a lot,
a lot more than the league would be comfortable with.
People know, but he is too so most NBA stars,
it seems like, could he Yeah, yeah, I'm not really
worried about that. I would like to know how many
(28:49):
a Rosiers are out there though, that guy, people that
most people have never heard of, who were missing shots
on purpose to pay off gambling debts. I'd like to
know how many of those people were in the NBA. Well.
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It's good to be right. Let the tips fall what
(29:55):
they make exactly, That's what I'm saying. No, I don't
think Lebron's involved it. It's exciting to to like take
some of these difficult to follow stories and try to
pretend there's something around that. But I don't know right right,
I don't want to get the call from the heavy
guy with the accent. Yeah, hey, Joe Getty, you're funny.
(30:16):
Maybe a little too funny, just trying to shut up
about Bron, huh. I'm just so surprised that there's so
many rich people that are willing to sit down with
strangers and get fleeced at a card game, and that
was just kind of surprising to me. M Yeah, a
lot of people with a lot of money have that
(30:37):
money because they're fanatically competitive, and you know, playing cards
is fun. It's fun. It's a mind game, it's a
mental exercise. It's all the bluffing and all. I love it.
I don't. I don't play much poker anymore because you've
been cheated. Well that's not really the reason why, but
you haven't I suspect so. Yes, yeah, anyway, somebody's wearing
(31:03):
the X ray glasses. Uh no, no, it was the
old fashioned way, just a syndicate, as they call it.
He and another guy were cooperating, and that's enough to
stack the deck in you're in their favor again, no
pun intended. It's funny how sports and gambling lingo is
so pervasive in our language. I heard Noahrothman of the
(31:26):
National Review, who's not a sports fan at all. He
used three sports related like metaphors in the span of
twenty seconds, and he's not even a sports fan. He
hit behind the eight ball. I can't remember what they were,
but anyways, hit it out of the bar, that sort
of stock yeah, something like that. Yeah, yeah, anyway, but
(31:50):
the nose, you put your finger on the nose, just
that means I got a good hand. My allergies, No
bad idea, a bad idea. He gets shot for that.
So the guy wants to be a senator who's got
a Nazi tattoo. We got to look into that story
some more. We were talking about it the other day.
There's another wrinkle to that. You probably shouldn't have Nazi
tattoos if you're running for the senate. Let me get
(32:11):
that colored them democrat Nazi. Can't you get that turned
into a rose or something like that before you announce
your running for senate. Well, he got it turned into
something else, and that's part of the punchline. Okay, cool.
We got a lot of the hoist toy here, making
it clear this is a comedian. This is not actually
(32:31):
the president of the United States.
Speaker 12 (32:33):
Give me what you got for a pork job. I
don't know who said it, but whoever said it was a.
Speaker 7 (32:37):
Genius Looking at it. It's actually one of the most
beautiful things in this through the world.
Speaker 12 (32:42):
And you look at this Rosio Donald woneath that because
that's called cannibalism.
Speaker 7 (32:47):
Right to be eating herself pains right, she's a very
very nasty person. But this is a beautiful.
Speaker 12 (32:53):
Pork job, and a lot of people know about it.
Nobody can cook them like I do. We have a
Blackstone in the White House. They call me a racist.
We have a Blackstone in the White House, and we
make fantastic pork jobs. Thank you for your attention to
this matter.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
What the heck Rosekil'donnald won't eat them? They call it cannibalism.
The pause and then the barking out the word that's good. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (33:23):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
The defining a word or phrase as if it's something
other people don't know what it means. That's a that's
a common Trump things always funny. In our three, we'll
get to the Senate candidate who has had a giant
Nazi tattoo, according to some on his chest for quite
some time. And he's a Democrat. He's he's trying to
(33:44):
run against that kind of squishy Republican Maine senator what's
her name, Susan Collins, Susan Collins, Yeah, and take her down,
which you know happen. Yeah. Well, the more it comes
out against the about this guy, the more dim his prospects. Look,
he's a joke. Anyway more On that next hour, Bloomberg
(34:06):
headline Trump sudden shift on Putin's spurred by Russia critic Rubio.
So apparently the Secretary of State Marco Rubio has convinced
Trump that Russia is not in the least bit serious
about any sort of cease fire or backing down, or
you can't trust them and all those sorts of things,
and has been finally got through to the old man. Yeah,
(34:27):
I wonder what those dynamics were like, because it's not
like Marco Rubio just figured that out. No, Mark Rubio
has known that the whole time, and he's a really
smart guy. I'm guessing Mark Rubio feels like my job
is to stay here and try to push my point
of view, however slowly it takes, yeah to get the
(34:48):
right outcome. And maybe that's what has actually happened here
with the oil sanctions kicking in two days ago, which
almost everybody I read of any political stripe thinks is
a bit deal like MSNBC taking him very very seriously.
In addition to right wingers. Yeah, it's a real art.
You remember that a couple of radio executives that we
(35:09):
dealt with way back in the day. One wanted to
hire us, and then the other one did, But the
first guy got fired, even though he's great at his job,
and the second guy described it as he was right,
but you can't say the same thing in the same
way over and over again. You've got to be more
(35:29):
subtle and creative about it. He you know, he was
right along, but he just so chafed his bosses that
they dumped him. And Rubio must be really skilled at
not doing that, really aware of the need to not
do that. I got to think about that with a
couple of teenagers that I regularly talked to and not
use exactly the same packed every single time. Yeah, well, yeah,
(35:53):
you've got to keep a person's ear right or you
have note true. Okay, so we had a lot of
good stuff on the way. Yeah, it's funny. If a
Republican had a Nazi tattoo, that would be the lead
story of every news organization in America. They must have
not heard about it or not knows. That's an excellent
point of Republican had a giant nut Nazi tattoo on
(36:17):
their chest, you would have heard that story. Armstrong and
Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and Gatty,
and He.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Armstrong and Getty. After participating in last night's My Oral Debate,
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo attended the next game. Well,
Curtis Sliwall, watch some cats fight a pigeon in central part.
(00:38):
He's not gonna win, but I kind of wish you
would win. For the old monologue, it wouldn't be mad
that May went there. You know, you're gonna have a
communist to talk about, so that's fun. I'm gonna run
through a couple of different things that are in the
news that might beginning obliterated with, you know, the lead
stories like our trade war with Canada or the gambling
(00:59):
scam or any of that sort of stuff. We bombed
some more people in a boat near Venezuela last night.
Here's that one thing.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Was very clear that these strikes are not going to
stop anytime soon, and in fact, they appear to just
be getting started. President Trump saying he didn't believe he
needed to go to Congress to continue to strike these boats,
and then threatening once again to strike on land.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
And mister President, if you are declaring war against these
cartels and Congress is likely to approve of.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
That process, why not just ask for a declaration of war.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Well, I don't think we're going to necessarily ask for
a declaration of war. I think we're just going to
kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. Okay,
we're going to kill them. You know they're going to
be like dead.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Okay? Sorry? Was that an outtake from the Godfather movies?
Speaker 5 (01:53):
So?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
What's with all the marines and the bombers and those
amphibious boats were you can like do a D Day
sort of landing on the beaches? What's what's all that
stuff going on? Yeah? I don't know. Are we gonna
do that with HM davidating Maduro into something? But no,
we're not invade Venezuela. You don't think so? Surely?
Speaker 6 (02:16):
Not?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Good Lord, I've been assuming that at some point we're
going to with the amount of equipment and personnel that
we've sent down there. All right, somebody was reading David
Ignatius in the Washington Post and he was bringing up,
you know, the famous Bay of Pigs incident. If you
haven't read about it. You should. It's an interesting historic
story where we the CIA, with the help of some
(02:39):
mobsters and everybody else, tried to storm the beaches there
in Cuba and we're met with great resistance and it
went very very polar poorly. Yes, yeah, fraught with screw ups. Yeah,
I said, I can't remember when I said this. A
couple of months now. That was a Kennedy plan, right,
And as somebody needs to mark this these words. I
(03:04):
have thought for a very long time the Trump presidency
is accomplishing amazing things and feels like something that's going
to spin out of control. Well, they're true, I don't Yeah,
I don't know about the second part. We'll have to
wait and see. But I liked this announcement from the
Trump administration last night. The US will allow oil and
(03:26):
gas drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Of course,
this being the New York Times, it'said a vast tract
of pristine wilderness. They're against it, but that opening up
some more of our land to drill domestically obviously makes
us more independent in terms of oil and really hurts Russia,
as a price of oil is quite low now and
we'll drive it down with that news. Love it. And
(03:49):
we are the most responsible and careful oil drillers on earth,
So if the oil is going to get used, we
might as well be the ones drilling for it. Yeah,
the sanctions that Trump announced on Russia with their two
biggest oil companies, and China and India sign and on
saying yeah, we won't buy oil from him anymore. With
those sanctions, and we announced we're opening up more drilling here,
(04:12):
we really could be squeezing Russia into a situation where
they're going to have to back down. I hope that's
what happens, right right. Speaking of energy and energy use,
electricity prices are rising, according to energy writer Steve Gorham,
and Democrats are making it a campaign issue. They blame
the price icon President Trump and those damn congressional Republicans
(04:33):
who ended Biden era green energy subsidies, and that's why
energy prices are going up. But prices are actually soaring
because of plant closures and natural gas shortages in blue states,
all in the name of green energy. For instance, according
to Energy Department to data, electricity prices in California, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,
(04:55):
and New York have risen more than thirty percent in
the last five years. The average is about twenty two
percent nationally, but keep in mind that average includes the
super high numbers. Because of climate policy, these Blue states
closed most of their coal fired power plants and nuclear
facilities over the past fifteen years. In comparison, prices in Florida, Georgia, Missouri,
(05:17):
Texas and other states hampered less by green energy initiatives
arising significantly less than the US average. Man my energy,
California's electricity prices up fifty eight percent over the past
five years, more than doubled since two thousand and eight.
I'm glad you mentioned that before I said this. So
California's electric prices up fifty eight percent over the last
five years. I am now. I'm like my parents were
(05:37):
in the seventies, the last really big energy crunch, where
I tell mek it, hey, hey, hey, don't leave the room,
leave the light on, or let's open the window and
cool it off in here, and so the air conditioner
to do it, or that sort of stuff. I didn't
worry about that five years ago. I mean, I may
I could have been more frugal, but it wasn't a note.
My energy bills are insane. Air conditioning about air conditioning
(06:01):
my house. My bills this year are one thousand dollars
a month. Yeah, that's insane. It's like that sort of
thing that only used to happen if you lived in
some sort of ginormous mansion or something. Well, I was
just gonna say, yeah, and your house is not enormous. Well,
it's just a regular house. Yeah, and a regular housand
dollars a month. Yeah. I don't know how people afford
(06:22):
to live. Yeah. You know what's happening if you want
to get down to the basic political science of it is, uh,
the cronies of democrats in the energy industry. They get
money and then you pay for that through your higher bills.
That's the way the money flows. So enjoy that. Massachusetts
(06:45):
similar third eyzed in the nation. State produced about half
as much electricity as it did in twenty ten because
the closures of coal plants, which might be due. But
they also closed the a big nuclear power plant in
twenty nineteen because of the bizarre lefty dislike of nuclear
energy because of the radioactive waste, And anybody who studies
(07:08):
energy at all knows nuclear energy is the only kind
of energy that contains its waste. The rest goes out
into the air or whatever. Oh, renewables, windmills and that
sort of stuff. That just doesn't They just don't deliver.
The technology isn't ready anyway. Enough of that screen, Oh Jack,
See this is hilarious. I don't care that I'm out
(07:28):
of touch with youth culture. Really, my youths are all adults.
I'd rather worry about the constitution, the state of the country,
blah blah blah. I just don't have the bandwidth, as
they say. But this one amused me. The Halloween costume, No,
that does not amuse me at all. It annoys me.
It annoys Katie. I could her head just fell in
despair and hatred, yes, Katie, Oh no, I just recoiled,
(07:53):
That's all.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I don't know why that bugs me so much, but
it does. It's crushing. It's crushing anyway. I've got to
admit I was amused when I learned about the Halloween
costume that is so hot. Parents are going to extraordinary lengths,
paying extraordinary figures to get it for their kids because
their kids are desperate for that Halloween costume. It is
(08:18):
the various characters from the Netflix show K Pop Demon Hunters. Yeah,
K Pop demon My kids aren't into it, but I'm
aware of it because so many people are into it.
Kelly Binnings nine year old daughter badly wanted to dress
up for Halloween. Is the knife slinging rapper named Zoe
from K Pop Demon Hunters, the Global Phenomenon Surprise It
(08:41):
movie of the Year. I had never heard that phrase
in my life. So huge. Yeah, oh wow, that's interesting. Yeah,
it's an omni present. Yeah anyway, Yeah, it's scrambling to
find options to dress their kids as the demon slaying
singers of Hunters and their rivals the Saja Boy. Oh yeah,
(09:03):
and the music is a really really big deal for
a certain segment of society. Yess, Michael. It's like the
Banana Splits, but with better production values. Yes, I'm hearing that.
Grade school girls love thish Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's ginormous.
It's as big as anything has ever been. K Pop
Demon Nutters. Wow. Netflix is selling the trademark yellowjacket worn
(09:24):
by yet another character for eighty nine to ninety five,
and that's before the cost of her zippered blue shorts
combat boots. And waist length purple braid. Some parents are
breaking out sewing machines and glue guns they haven't used
in years. Others are panicking. Really, it's sold out. We
(09:46):
can't afford it. You get addresses, something else. It's the
first in a series of many, many disappointments you're going
to endure in life, honey. So we're at one of
the big Halloween stores a week ago, and my high
school son really wanted the penis costume and I said, no,
(10:06):
pardon me, it's actually really funny. It's very popular this year,
this penis costume. And I said, no, you're not going to.
You're not going to. He kept saying it's so funny.
My friends would think it's so funny. I'm sure they would,
But you're not. You're not going to be walking the
streets of our town going to your friend's parents' house
(10:29):
dressed as a penis.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
But there were so many different varieties of penis hats, costumes,
t shirts, whatever, and they're not like in some hidden
section of the Halloween costume store, it's the same, you know.
It's next to the snow white stuff where the girls
are walking around. I thought, when did displaying penis has
(10:57):
become so popular. I wish I were more religious, because
I have a sudden urge to become a monk and
go study and take a vow of silence and then
read ancient scrolls or whatever they do in the monk business.
I think I'm done. He came my fifteen My fifteen
year old came running over because we're looking at variou stuff,
and he said, look how cool this is. And he
(11:18):
put on this penis at and it looked like a
you know, the top end of a pen. You know,
you've seen him. Yeah, probably we get it on board. Yeah,
I can picture it. Yeah, apparently you're still talking. I'm
going to take it off my headphones for thirty seconds
at a time and just putting them back on to check.
I said, I am not buying that for you. Well
that's good. I'm glad to hear that. But again, why
(11:43):
these the nasty stuff right there with all the other stuff.
I guess that's just the way we are as a society.
Absolute lack of cultural agreement. We no longer have what
could be properly described as a common culture in the
United States, which includes more rays as they say, rules
do's and don'ts what is acceptable what is unacceptable If
(12:06):
there is no commonality in those those guidelines, there are
no guidelines. We did buy the six foot dummy that
we keep dressing up in different clothes and leaving it
around the house, and every one of us gets scared regularly.
Walked into the living room today, dah, this guy sitting
on the couch see that. I would that's rough, that
(12:31):
jolt of animal terror first thing in the morning. Yeah. Wait,
are you gonna have it in first Huh? I'm gonna
write a book about why it's good for you. It's
better than a cold plunge to get a six foot dummy.
Dress it up, dummy, I have it standing in the
kitchen when you walk in. That it'll wake you right up,
helps blood flow, your mind is more alert. Dummy shock
exactly better than the cold plunge dummy. Maybe I'd have
(12:52):
been better off letting him get the penis costume, so
I have that dummy scaring me all the time. We
got more news on the way. Stay here, do you
guys see this? General Motors says they plan to launch
a new eyes off driving technology where drivers don't have
to steer or watch the road. That's great. Now your
uber driver can sit in the back and talk with it,
(13:15):
will you hear my band?
Speaker 6 (13:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
I guess so who said that at the very beginning?
Who's announced the new General motors? General Motors? Huh, I'll
be darned. I'm going to be surprised if if there
is a car that can actually say you don't need
to pay attention, it'll drive you around because Tesla's not
there yet. So this kind of happened overnight. The Canadians
(13:41):
put out an ad of Ronald Reagan talking about how
tariffs are a terrible idea, and Trump did not like
that and then so imposed some new tariffs on Canada,
which once again, we need to get to this Supreme
Court ruling where the Supreme Court decides. Can one guy
inside these sorts of major, major economic decisions for the planet.
(14:05):
Getting an update on the Supreme Court next hour with
the Pacific Legal Foundation. Stay with us. But here's a
little bit of the Ronald Reagan ad that they put out.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
When someone says, let's impose tariffs on foreign imports, it
looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American
products and jarms and sometimes for a short wirew it works.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Okay, So that's what it sayss like, it's Ronald Reagan
from a radio address back in the eighties, and he
lays out in a very long way the the long
held Republican position that tariffs are a bad idea ultimately,
But the reason that he made this address was he
was trying to explain why he had imposed tariffs on
(14:49):
Japan around semiconductors. So, like Bloomberg is reading made the
point that the Canadians selected parts of Reagan's speech, pasted
them together, and that it was not the entirety of
the thing, or blah blah blah. Both sides have a
(15:11):
decent argument here on the whole Reagan ad in that
it is selected quotes, it leaves out the stuff. The
Canadian version leaves out the stuff. For Reagan says, but
in this instance, because Canada is not treating our agreement fairly,
or in Japan, Japan's not treating our agreement fairly, we
are imposing these tariffs. This is a special instant. We
(15:33):
believe in fair trade, free trade, but also fair trade,
and Japan's not the other side of the argument is
he makes a long long, I mean very long argument
for while tariffs in general are a terrible long term idea,
and that is just flat out true, that was Reagan's position, right,
(15:54):
So both sides can use some of this for amunition. Well,
we've cut off trade negotiations with the Canada now just
walked out of the room on the eve of the
World Series, which could turn turn ugly. It's going to
be like a South American soccer match. The umpster are
gonna have to shoot their way out of the stadium.
I think a better I think a better angle if
they had put more thought into it from the Trump
(16:15):
administration would have been able. Would have been a would
been to choose the portion of the speech where Reagan
explains why they're putting tariffs on Japan because they're not
following the agreement. Since that's his argument with some of
these other countries, I think that would have been a
better way to handle it. Yeah. Yeah, tweeting at each
other in general is probably no way to hold trade negotiations.
(16:38):
But no, no, it's not like I said earlier. It's
going to be interesting to see if nationalism raises its
head during the World Series tonight. How loud will the
booze be for the US national anthem, which hasn't happened
in previous World series when Toronto was playing. Well, it
happened in the NHL a lot last season. Yeah, I
(17:00):
guarantee it happens. Guarantee, and the booing will be lusty. Wow,
that's interesting. Huh. Okay, we got a lot more on
the way. If you missus Sacment, get the podcast Armstrong
and Getty. No, you know, I don't. I don't. That
pressure thing is nothing to me, man. I'll do the
best I can and let the chips fall what they may.
(17:21):
You know that about me? But now quick, there's nothing
to that clip other than that's the coach, Chauncey Billups
using the phrase let the chips fall where they may guilty. Oh,
I get it, let the chips fall the guilty Saturday again.
So he's the coach for the Portland Trails Blazers, Hall
of Famer, former star player, NBA champion Chauncey Billups, who
(17:42):
got caught up in this whole gambling thing, and uh,
this story and then we're gonna hear it a little
bit from a gambling expert. Forget about it. He's going
to explain how this all goes down. But here's here's
more or less. The story from CNN Curtain Trail.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
Blazer head coach and Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups is
kind of a very complicated scheme involving rigged poker.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
Games that did include members of the Mafia.
Speaker 8 (18:04):
Phillips was the loure who brought wealthy betters into these
poker games where things like illegal card shuffling machines were
used and so they could not possibly win.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
They took those profits and split.
Speaker 8 (18:17):
Them up, and then Mafia went on and did what
they usually did in the other I guess more traditional case,
if you will. Terry Rozier, who plays with the Miami Heat,
was involved in what.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
Is essentially point shaving.
Speaker 8 (18:29):
He would give players and or give people insider information
about his status and in some cases remove himself from
a game with an injury so that they were able
to bet on his points, assists and rebounds prop bets
as they're called, and profit off of that insider information.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yeah, you got this, So there's different levels of that.
You got this. Damon Jones, guy who played with Lebron,
who supposedly would tip people off. Hey, Lebron's hurt he
ain't gonna play Thursday night, so we're probably going to lose,
and then people would bet. Accordingly, that's a you know,
it's illegal, and you don't want that to cause all
(19:07):
kinds of propertly not but it's a different level, definitely
a different level than a guy pretending to be hurt
and pulling himself out of the game having tipped people off.
I'm gonna score way fewer than my average eighteen points tonight,
right right, are we planning? I don't remember on running
the next Well. I wanted to get to the expert
(19:29):
first and then we can get into the players. So
this is okay, that's that I was just gonna say
the lady on CNN. She said the card shuffling machine.
She left out the fun stuffs. They had a damn
X ray table. Yeah, here you could read the cards.
Here's this guy sal Italian, last name H who's a
cheating expert, explaining how it goes down.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
They allegedly also used high tech equipment to rig play,
like this X ray machine, which Authorady said could read
cards that were faced down on the table, also used
hidden cameras and altered.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah, we're playing the cheating Expert thirty seven. The X
ray table.
Speaker 9 (20:05):
That's just a table that has cameras built into it
that look upward at the cards. It can actually see
through the green felt so you can use any deck
of cards as long as the cards lie above the camera.
The camera can see what that card is and then
transmit it to shuffle machines. What happens is the deck
(20:27):
may too has a camera in it. The cameras know
every card and can actually sweat that deck out and
put it back in.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Order for you.
Speaker 9 (20:35):
Well, the cheats came up with ways of utilizing that
camera as well to note what cards are being dealt
and who's getting them, And that shuffle machine is altered
to transmit to an earpiece to tell the people who
are going to win.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
That seems awfully complicated. You'd have to keep track of
You need almost multiple people when you watch different players' hands,
and then unless you're some sort of idiot savants, that'd
be a lot to keep track of. No, because really,
well I don't know, because this is way more sophisticated
than I was guessing it was yesterday. As I said earlier,
(21:12):
I was going on like riverboat Gambler or neighborhood poker
game wild Bill Hiccock. Yeah, this is really sophisticated cheating.
But all I have to know as a cheater is
whether to fold or not. Folder's day. That's all I
need to know. It's like one bang on the trash
(21:35):
can this world series appropriate one bang on the trash
cans fastball two bangs is a breaking pitch, That's all
I need to know. Well, how about the cameras staring
up through the felt and actually looking at all the cards?
I mean, obviously that's a tremendous advantage. Oh please, that's
what I'm saying, all of it, And it's almost ridiculous.
(21:55):
How many layers. I mean, this was so iron it's
almost overkill. What you need the card shuffling machine and
the X ray table and the special contact lenses and
or glasses that could read the markings on the back
of other cards. Right, Well, I suppose you cover all
(22:16):
your bases in case the guy doesn't lay his cards
down on the table over the camera. You got the
markings on the back. But yeah, if I'm playing with
some guy who's got an earpiece, and hey, what's what
the ear priest there? Sal what you're listening to I'm
just listening to baseball game. Love them Yankees. Yankees are
(22:37):
off tonight. I don't know much about the game. So again,
so you got two angles to this whole thing. You
got the illegal card games going on that the NBA
tie in there is just that star players would be
the lure to get rich people to show up. And
we're learning there's a big culture of super high dollar
(22:59):
poker in the NBA. And then you get into the
players and what they might have been doing in games
and that sort of stuff, which seems like a smaller
amount of I don't know, do you think so well
from a law enforcement perspective, yeah, but from a running
a sports league, it's devastating. Oh yeah, from a it's
(23:21):
exciting to hear about. I'm way more excited about the
NBA stuff than I assume. There's lots of card sheets
in the world. Oh right, right, this this could, I
don't know what, bring the league to its knees whatever
that means. This could be enormous in the history of
American sports. Well, here's a former NBA star, Gilbert Arenas.
Was he a king for a while? Was he like
(23:42):
a Gilbert Area Now now he's a warrior. He's a warrior.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Anyway, he's a local somehow. Anyway, he's telling a story
about the two thousand and six NBA Playoffs and this guy,
Damon Jones, go ahead, that's thirty four.
Speaker 10 (23:55):
You got two free throws, and Lebron comes by and
tap you on the chant and whispers up to you.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
What did What did he tell you?
Speaker 10 (24:01):
He said, if you missed these free.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Throws, you know who's gonna win it.
Speaker 10 (24:04):
What makes it worse because we gambled at Lebron's house, me,
Damon Jones. You know, that was our group. So Damon
Jones was horrible horward cards. He owed me money like
every time we played them. I always used to scream
out the landlords, hit the landlord.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
He's drint money. So he doesn't even play in game six.
Speaker 10 (24:26):
So when he when he whispers, you know who's gonna
hit it, everybody assumed it was him. I knew what
he was talking about, Like I was. I was balling
that game, just hit the three to get us in overtime.
And then I see Damon Jones in there stretching, and
they really put the man in. And the fact that
Lebron even passing the ball is what hurt the most, Jones?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
How do you play the second game.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
Shot?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
So what is being suggested there that Lebron told Gilbert
Arenas that if he misses the free throw, Damon Jones
is gonna win a bet. Is that the way we
interpreted that, That's the way Hanson, executive producer, interpreted it. Well,
(25:18):
why did that would imply that Lebron knew that Damon
Jones was gambling on the game or I'm not sure
I'm confident in that interpretation. Well, this would be the
biggest scandal, one of the biggest scandals in sports history, obviously.
So if the suggestion there is that, oh god, how
(25:40):
many people would have to be involved if Damon Jones,
who hadn't played the entire game, now he is, he's
one of the people arrested, right, we know he's dirty. Uh, yes,
he's one of the guys arrested. So he's absolutely dirty.
But so, oh yeah, we're innocent until proven guilty. Jack,
This is shocking whatever. So he doesn't play the entire
game and they put him at the very end so
(26:03):
that he could presumably then Lebron passes him the ball.
So you got somebody who can count on who will
miss it on purpose. I mean, is that what you're suggesting,
Because if you're suggesting that Lebron, one of the biggest
sports stars in the history of any sport on Earth,
is involved, the coach would have to be involved for
putting the guy in. I mean, what are you suggesting here? Yeah,
(26:26):
I'm not sure I understood everything I needed to about
that clip. It might just be if you can work
Lebron into the story, it's very exciting, That's what I'm
thinking it is. I mean, it's kind of interesting that
this guy that was arrested as a regular card player
at Lebron's house. That's kind of interesting. Yeah. Yeah, well
we ought to play the next clip of Jeff Tigue.
Speaker 11 (26:49):
Anytime you say anything about Bron, people call you and say, hey, man,
you might want I want you. I know you got
some fun stories. Hey lea Lebron alone, I'm like, damn,
I came on here and apologize. I'm sorry, I'm talking. He'
some real people like you know what I mean, Like, hey,
(27:11):
you're funny.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
You're a little too funny, all right, my fuck brother?
Speaker 11 (27:15):
So I know, ain'ting getting by They hold they hold camp.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
They run the lead. They whole camp run the lead.
Bro they too plug. Yeah, all right, there's a lot
of language there. I don't understand. But okay, anytime you
see something about Lebron, people come to you and say, hey,
shut up. Well, it's like the Caitlin Clark thing. This
is your biggest star, bringing in the most money. Don't
go around bad mouth and Caitlin Clark. All right, it's stupid. Yeah, yeah,
(27:44):
that could be again, some of the straight lingo escapes
me say, Zoey suburban dad. But yeah, people call you
real people, heavy people. Whatever he said, and he did,
He did what sounded like a little bit like a
(28:06):
mob accent, a little hey shamed of something happening in
nice Miami beach mansion. Don't you think that Cash Patel
tease of all people, Cash Patel, FBI, if there was
a sniff that Lebron was involved, they would hung onto
this stuff until they could have nailed that down. Cash
me outside Patel. I don't know, because that would be
(28:29):
such a big score. Oh my god. Oh I don't
think Lebron's involved in throwing games in point shaming. I
just don't no, But I'll bet he gambles a lot,
a lot more than the league would be comfortable with.
People know, but he is too so most NBA stars,
it seems like, could he Yeah, yeah, I'm not really
worried about that. I would like to know how many
(28:49):
a Rosiers are out there though, that guy, people that
most people have never heard of, who were missing shots
on purpose to pay off gambling debts. I'd like to
know how many of those people were in the NBA. Well.
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It's good to be right. Let the tips fall what
(29:55):
they make exactly, That's what I'm saying. No, I don't
think Lebron's involved it. It's exciting to to like take
some of these difficult to follow stories and try to
pretend there's something around that. But I don't know right right,
I don't want to get the call from the heavy
guy with the accent. Yeah, hey, Joe Getty, you're funny.
(30:16):
Maybe a little too funny, just trying to shut up
about Bron, huh. I'm just so surprised that there's so
many rich people that are willing to sit down with
strangers and get fleeced at a card game, and that
was just kind of surprising to me. M Yeah, a
lot of people with a lot of money have that
(30:37):
money because they're fanatically competitive, and you know, playing cards
is fun. It's fun. It's a mind game, it's a
mental exercise. It's all the bluffing and all. I love it.
I don't. I don't play much poker anymore because you've
been cheated. Well that's not really the reason why, but
you haven't I suspect so. Yes, yeah, anyway, somebody's wearing
(31:03):
the X ray glasses. Uh no, no, it was the
old fashioned way, just a syndicate, as they call it.
He and another guy were cooperating, and that's enough to
stack the deck in you're in their favor again, no
pun intended. It's funny how sports and gambling lingo is
so pervasive in our language. I heard Noahrothman of the
(31:26):
National Review, who's not a sports fan at all. He
used three sports related like metaphors in the span of
twenty seconds, and he's not even a sports fan. He
hit behind the eight ball. I can't remember what they were,
but anyways, hit it out of the bar, that sort
of stock yeah, something like that. Yeah, yeah, anyway, but
(31:50):
the nose, you put your finger on the nose, just
that means I got a good hand. My allergies, No
bad idea, a bad idea. He gets shot for that.
So the guy wants to be a senator who's got
a Nazi tattoo. We got to look into that story
some more. We were talking about it the other day.
There's another wrinkle to that. You probably shouldn't have Nazi
tattoos if you're running for the senate. Let me get
(32:11):
that colored them democrat Nazi. Can't you get that turned
into a rose or something like that before you announce
your running for senate. Well, he got it turned into
something else, and that's part of the punchline. Okay, cool.
We got a lot of the hoist toy here, making
it clear this is a comedian. This is not actually
(32:31):
the president of the United States.
Speaker 12 (32:33):
Give me what you got for a pork job. I
don't know who said it, but whoever said it was a.
Speaker 7 (32:37):
Genius Looking at it. It's actually one of the most
beautiful things in this through the world.
Speaker 12 (32:42):
And you look at this Rosio Donald woneath that because
that's called cannibalism.
Speaker 7 (32:47):
Right to be eating herself pains right, she's a very
very nasty person. But this is a beautiful.
Speaker 12 (32:53):
Pork job, and a lot of people know about it.
Nobody can cook them like I do. We have a
Blackstone in the White House. They call me a racist.
We have a Blackstone in the White House, and we
make fantastic pork jobs. Thank you for your attention to
this matter.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
What the heck Rosekil'donnald won't eat them? They call it cannibalism.
The pause and then the barking out the word that's good. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (33:23):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
The defining a word or phrase as if it's something
other people don't know what it means. That's a that's
a common Trump things always funny. In our three, we'll
get to the Senate candidate who has had a giant
Nazi tattoo, according to some on his chest for quite
some time. And he's a Democrat. He's he's trying to
(33:44):
run against that kind of squishy Republican Maine senator what's
her name, Susan Collins, Susan Collins, Yeah, and take her down,
which you know happen. Yeah. Well, the more it comes
out against the about this guy, the more dim his prospects. Look,
he's a joke. Anyway more On that next hour, Bloomberg
(34:06):
headline Trump sudden shift on Putin's spurred by Russia critic Rubio.
So apparently the Secretary of State Marco Rubio has convinced
Trump that Russia is not in the least bit serious
about any sort of cease fire or backing down, or
you can't trust them and all those sorts of things,
and has been finally got through to the old man. Yeah,
(34:27):
I wonder what those dynamics were like, because it's not
like Marco Rubio just figured that out. No, Mark Rubio
has known that the whole time, and he's a really
smart guy. I'm guessing Mark Rubio feels like my job
is to stay here and try to push my point
of view, however slowly it takes, yeah to get the
(34:48):
right outcome. And maybe that's what has actually happened here
with the oil sanctions kicking in two days ago, which
almost everybody I read of any political stripe thinks is
a bit deal like MSNBC taking him very very seriously.
In addition to right wingers. Yeah, it's a real art.
You remember that a couple of radio executives that we
(35:09):
dealt with way back in the day. One wanted to
hire us, and then the other one did, But the
first guy got fired, even though he's great at his job,
and the second guy described it as he was right,
but you can't say the same thing in the same
way over and over again. You've got to be more
(35:29):
subtle and creative about it. He you know, he was
right along, but he just so chafed his bosses that
they dumped him. And Rubio must be really skilled at
not doing that, really aware of the need to not
do that. I got to think about that with a
couple of teenagers that I regularly talked to and not
use exactly the same packed every single time. Yeah, well, yeah,
(35:53):
you've got to keep a person's ear right or you
have note true. Okay, so we had a lot of
good stuff on the way. Yeah, it's funny. If a
Republican had a Nazi tattoo, that would be the lead
story of every news organization in America. They must have
not heard about it or not knows. That's an excellent
point of Republican had a giant nut Nazi tattoo on
(36:17):
their chest, you would have heard that story. Armstrong and
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