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Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, it's time now for the Conservative Curmudgeon Radio Show.
Now here's grouchy.
Speaker 11 (04:54):
Good evening and welcome. Yes, I have my voice back,
and you're gonna suffer because of it. Ah, good to
be with you again. Yeah, I know everybody's sad. They were,
they were ready to hear me struggle again.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Oh no, we just we were just laughing about how
often you send it, like Jimmy Stewart last week.
Speaker 11 (05:21):
So oh well, you know it can happen.
Speaker 12 (05:28):
Anyway anyway.
Speaker 11 (05:32):
Yeah, So wow, another week, another show. I still have
a nice big glass of Herbal Honey tea with me
for my throat. I feel a whole lot better, but
I don't want any kind of sliding back or anything
like that. So we're just gonna take it nice and
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easy and treat the throat good.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
And this just proves how old we've gotten. When we
first started doing this together, you were always sipping on scotch.
Now it's herbal tea and ship.
Speaker 13 (06:01):
What the hell I mean?
Speaker 11 (06:03):
You know, I would still sip on some scotch, but
you know, you just gotta do what you gotta do sometimes.
You know, Hey, we've uh we we've uh well, I
have gone from uh well, I guess I'm technically still
(06:24):
middle age, so I got a little ways to go
before we before we crown that senior on me, you
know whatever. I've gone from early middle age to solidly
in middle age doing this show. So oh, what the
(06:45):
hell I mean? Yeah? Anyway, Uh okay, uh programming tonight, Rick,
what do we got cued up?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
After you was behind it? Me like radio because Stacey's
buried at work, and then it will be me and
the amish one before we start playing the sh stuff.
Speaker 11 (07:08):
Okay, so there you have it. About one two am.
We're good and.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Well, yeah, be about two am our time, so about
three Eastern unfortunately, because you.
Speaker 13 (07:18):
Know, there you go.
Speaker 11 (07:19):
So if you're an insomniac or you just like to
stay up late and torture yourself to go and work
off an hour.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Hour van like me, because I'm both.
Speaker 11 (07:30):
Yeah, I mean, you know, whatever it is, we got
you covered between an hour ago. You should have been
listening to uh to the to those guys you should
be hold over from from uh elf and damn it,
help me Rick, leave me struggle it? So yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
How you forget Steven's name?
Speaker 11 (07:54):
It's you know, Stephen is the name of the guy
that cuts my yard too? That that should not be
a name that slips my tongue.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
So just just to be clear, the guy who cuts
your name your yard's name is not Esteban.
Speaker 11 (08:08):
No, it is not. Well see, being Hispanic, at least
partly Hispanic. I I refuse to hire Hispanics to do
that kind of labor. So I hire white boys.
Speaker 12 (08:24):
Gringo, you hire the green I get the gringo.
Speaker 11 (08:27):
And and you know what, I got me a good gringo.
He likes to be outside. He likes to not be
at home with his wife who's a decade older than him,
and her adult daughter who lives with him, and her
two children that live with them.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
That just that just seems like a recipe for a
bad reality TV show right there.
Speaker 11 (08:48):
He is the only male in the house.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Reminds me of that old bit from damn It? Why
can I not think of his name?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Do that?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Does the Puppets. Jeff Dunham. He he's talking about being
locked in the den with his dog and all the
women in the house are scratching to the door. Let
us say the dogs door, open the door.
Speaker 11 (09:12):
It's uh yeah, yeah. It's like the opposite of the
old David Lee Roth thing that he sprung on the
nineteen eighty four tour with Van Halen. He said, you know,
he said, I got to give it up for this town.
He said that the chicks are hot and they love it,
you know, they they love Van Halen. He said. Just
last night there was this girl kicking and screaming and
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shouting and clawing at my hotel room door. I finally
called downstairs and said, fuck it, would somebody let her out?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Okay, that's kind of awesome. I never heard of them.
Speaker 11 (09:51):
Oh, it was a great show. Great show. I remember
that finally from my high school days. Anyway, we got
things to talk about. We always got things to talk about,
but we got things to talk about pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I mean, it's been a pretty slow newsweek, you know,
I mean it really has.
Speaker 11 (10:12):
I was I was gonna do a little mocking to
start the show, you know, keep it a little lighthearted.
Because of all the people that have been just running
off at their mouths incessantly. And there's no shortage of them,
mind you, on either side of the aisle, but especially
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the left. But they they dug a fossil out This
past week and Joe Biden emerged from his political exile
to speak with probably the only people who seem to
appreciate his presidency, and that would be foreigners. In his
(11:07):
first interview since he left the White House, he sat
down with the BBC's Nick Robinson, not to be confused
with kl r ns Rick Robinson. That's a good fun interview, though,
wouldn't it?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Nick? And Rick? What's going on?
Speaker 11 (11:27):
Yeah? Would you like to interview Joe? Uh?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
No, I'd probably fall asleep faster than he would.
Speaker 11 (11:34):
Oh no, no, I would. I would definitely be down
to interview Joe. I would. I would. I would prep
my ass off so hard for that and spin him
in such circles. Oh, it would be hilarious. He would Uh,
he would think he just got off the tea cup
right at Disney World. But uh, anyway, Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
You were also hot to into interview Ambassador John Boltlan.
Look where that got us?
Speaker 11 (12:03):
I mean, you know, at the time, it was a
great and it was you know what I'm gonna I'm
gonna stop. We got to address this. Is he batshit crazy?
Yes he is. At the time, however, he was a
peak news story. He was rumored to be running for president.
(12:25):
He was showing up at the conference, the Republican Leadership Conference,
and had literally just hours before the interview that I
conducted with him, backed out of running for president. So
it was it was truly timely with a very newsworthy
(12:47):
person at the time. I can't help what they become afterwards,
you know. And I had I had him dead to rights.
It was a great interview you if I do say
so myself.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
It's just too bad we didn't figure out until afterwards
you were actually speaking to the mustache running the human
meat suit.
Speaker 11 (13:09):
I mean, you know, for what it is, it is.
But we we got him, We had him, and we
had him when he was still sane mostly so you know,
feather in the hat.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I was proud of that. Don't get me wrong, but yeah,
I'm like, dude, I can't believe you know in the
brain is real. You know, I'm just saying I.
Speaker 11 (13:37):
Would take an interview with Joe I would. I would
prep my ass off for it. And like I said,
I would wear him out. He wouldn't know where to begin.
He'd just start calling me names and storm off.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Giggy Giggy, Giggley.
Speaker 12 (13:51):
Good.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
You can't say you'd wear him out without expecting that
just saying.
Speaker 11 (13:56):
I mean, I'd wear him out mentally.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
But anyway, clarify, So you left the door open.
Speaker 11 (14:06):
Yeah, Well I deserved it, didn't I. So Biden sat
down with Nick Robinson for a conversation in which the
former president succumbed to the understandable temptation to rewrite the
history of his own administration. It's so funny to watch
(14:27):
the revisionism. It's you know it was. We'll call it multifocal.
Biden has many scores to settle with his own record
in office, but none proved as grating as his attempts
(14:48):
to leverage Russia's war in Ukraine against his successor. Quote
quoting Biden, here, listen to what Putin said when we
talked about going from Kiev to Ukraine, And why then
the President muttered incomprehensibly to the incurious nods of mister Robinson.
(15:16):
He can't stand the fact that the Russian dictatorship that
he runs that the Soviet Union has collapsed. Well, first
of all, he wasn't in office when the Soviet Union collapsed. No,
he doesn't like that it collapsed. He's never made any
bones about he wanted to reinstall the Soviet Union. That's
(15:40):
been almost since day one, a public thing that Putin
has said he wants the reformation of the Soviet Union.
But Biden eventually stumbled across the point he was trying
to make he meaning Dimir Putin, believe it meaning Russia
(16:06):
has historical rights to Ukraine. As a display of modern
day appeasement. We gave them everything they needed to pur
(16:34):
be said of Ukraine, and we were prepared to respond
more aggressively if Putin moved again, to which I say, bullshit,
And you say, why is that bullshit? Gee, well, I'm
glad you asked. See, it was only late in February
(17:00):
last year, you know, about two years from the outset
of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, that the Biden administration reluctantly
dropped its objection to providing Kiev with long range ordinance
for use in army tactical for another nine months, didn't
(17:36):
consent to providing Ukraine with ATACMS until September of twenty three,
even though Ukraine had specifically requested access to those platforms
of weapons from the start of Russia's campaign of conquest.
(17:58):
So that's one defined by the Biden administration's persistent self
doubt and halting qualified often insufficient support for Ukraine's cause,
only to be abruptly reversed after the damage had already
been done. The same sequence of events describes the administrations
(18:21):
with holding an eventual, reluctant provision of high Mobility Artillery
rocket system high MARS. Yeah, that's an acronym, high MARS.
(18:45):
The administration's first thought was always America's furnishment of weapon platforms,
an ordinance that Moscow was already using on Ukraine's battlefields.
The Biden administration concern was wasn't irrational, but the President
and his subordinates refused to revisit their assumptions. Moscow would
(19:07):
draw a red line, Washington would observe that red line,
and when that red line was crossed without broader incident,
the White House would move on to obsess over the
next illusory red line. Biden declined to revise this doctrine.
Even when it became obvious that Russia's table pounding objections
(19:29):
to America's support of Ukraine would amount to just that,
Biden failed to deter Russia's war. Indeed, it responded to
months of provocative indications that Putin was ready to attack
by rewarding the Russian despot with bilateral symmetry. And when
(19:52):
Putin's forces poured over the Ukrainian border anyway, the former
president didn't just fail to handle over everything they needed
to provide for their independence. Rather, the administration provided Ukraine
with just enough to prevent it from being wholly subsumed
into the Russian Federation, and that only easily that the
(20:29):
Biden administration never trusted the Ukrainians to provide for their
own defense. Instead, Biden signaled to the Kremlin that the
US would not respond to a minor incursion into Ukrainian territory,
and his instinct in response to Moscow's full scale invasion
(20:50):
was to establish a Ukrainian government in exile. The fight
is here, said Zelensky in his famous reject of Biden's
hustlanimous behavior. I need ammunition, not a ride. Now. You
(21:13):
may not agree with Trump's approach to the war. You might,
you might not. There are things that he could be
doing a little bit differently, but he too is plagued
by misapprehensions and misplaced sympathies, and his eagerness to state
Moscow's hunger for territorial conquest will only whet Putin's appetite.
(21:35):
But neither Trump nor Ukraine occupies the most advantageous position
right now. That unfortunate circumstance is of Joe Biden's making.
It takes a lot of gall to tacitly fault the
Ukrainians for coming up short on the battlefield, as Biden
did in his interview. He's attempting to recast his record
(21:59):
for this three books. And yet the assumption of malice
on Biden's part, it just assumes that the former president
is even aware of his own record when it comes
to Ukraine. And you know, you probably shouldn't take for
granted that he is. I mean, we are talking about
(22:20):
everybody's favorite vegetable, right, I mean, seriously, the guy's not
all there. There's no ifs, hands or butts about that.
It's just absolutely insane that this guy thinks he is
what he is and who he is. It's like he
(22:41):
didn't live through his own administration. Woh yeah. So anyway,
he's got that going for him. He can't remember anything,
so he doesn't know how bad he truly was. You know,
(23:01):
I guess there's some things to be grateful for.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
I just, uh, I.
Speaker 11 (23:07):
Don't know why he decided to roll out of bed
and do an interview with BBC of all people and
places and things, and you know, I don't I don't know,
I don't know. He also just as an aside, he
also said he regretted stepping aside in the political race.
(23:27):
He really thought that he was well positioned to win again. Yeah, yeah,
same guy. What do you do? I mean, really, what
do you do? He also said he thought Kamala was
a great candidate, although he couldn't come up with a
(23:48):
single reason as to why. Again, that's this is where
this is where the whole left is right now. Everybody's
better than Trump, but nobody can stipulate why. You know,
I just and then you know you got you got
(24:11):
the whole uh Trump, Jerome Powell, few thing going on
since we're going to talk presidents for a minute. And
I almost believe that Powell is using his position to
play politics because he doesn't like Trump, and I think
(24:31):
that he's taking that out on the American people and
abusing his position, and there needs to be a way
to I'm not saying that Trump should be able to
just arbitrarily remove him, but there needs to be a
way to get him out of there and get somebody
else in there. Not somebody that will necessarily colt out
(24:52):
of what Trump wants, but somebody that'll do the right
thing when the indicators are there to show the right thing.
And uh, I just for the life of me, I
don't when they said why they weren't lowering interest rates
what yesterday Monday something like that, I don't see what
(25:15):
they say they're seeing. So for what it's worth, Hi, Uh,
what should we do here? We should hymn haul for
a couple of minutes and then take the break. That's
(25:37):
what we should do. Rick, you want to hem ha
with me?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Maybe what you want to haul out?
Speaker 11 (25:44):
I don't know. We just got to kill about two
minutes so we can take the bottom of the hour
break before I go into the next story, because it's
a little long and I'm not going to wrap it
up in two minutes.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
That's what she said.
Speaker 11 (25:54):
Uh, well, you know, and she's right. I don't wrap
it up in two minutes.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
I was talking about a little bit longer part two.
Speaker 11 (26:01):
Oh well, I am a little long. I can't help that.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Oh so, do you hear Trump dump dumped his surgeon
general nominee?
Speaker 11 (26:12):
Yeah, I did hear something about that. I wasn't I
didn't read the whole thing. But is this the the
guy they were trying to get in.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
At CDC, no, doctor Jeannette Nisar. Oh, yeah she was.
She was one of the people that was promoting all
the COVID nonsense. And yeah, okay, I only figured out
she wasn't a good fit. I guess.
Speaker 11 (26:37):
Oh well, you know, you have to wonder about this
guy sometimes. You know, he's been in office before, he
should know better.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Now, well, I mean he is he is a former Democrat,
so occasionally I think that kind of creeps in a
little bit.
Speaker 11 (26:51):
I definitely agree with that. You know, I guess you
can't can't change it.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
But you know, that's the funny thing about watching all
the Democrats freak out over the cabinet. Half the cabinet
used to be Democrats.
Speaker 11 (27:06):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Why do you hate them?
Speaker 11 (27:09):
Now?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I'm confused. If anything, if anything, we should be worried
on our side. Why are you guys like.
Speaker 14 (27:14):
Oh my god, these people are I mean they've played
the long game of infiltrating just about everything else to
win the culture war and the education war and all
that crap like that.
Speaker 11 (27:24):
Why not the political war by former Democrats becoming Republicans
and then coming into the majority and then swinging and then.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Before you know what, the pineapple goes upside down? Oh wait,
roun kind of swinging.
Speaker 11 (27:37):
Hey, you definitely don't do the upside down pineapples here, so.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Hey, speak speak for yourself.
Speaker 11 (27:45):
I'm single now, Hey, you knock yourself out, man.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Not really. The world's too weird for that ship now.
Speaker 11 (27:52):
Just one piece of advice, man, wrap it before you
tap it.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
I mean that's always that's always been my plan.
Speaker 11 (27:59):
But yeah, that's just smart these days. Yeah shit, I mean,
HIV is nothing anymore. Who knows what you can track
these days? Dude?
Speaker 1 (28:09):
The world is too crazy.
Speaker 11 (28:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
I've just decided I think I'm pretty much done dating altogether,
because you know, when I got married the last time,
three on the tree had a completely different meaning than
it does today. I think I'm out.
Speaker 11 (28:24):
You know you're a little young for that. But I'm
gonna just sit here and say I can't say I
blame you.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
I'm not that much younger than you, sir. I'll be
fifty two in a couple of months. I mean, you know,
I think I think I'm kind of okay with single
life anymore. I've put myself out there a couple times
since the divorce and it hasn't gone well. So I'm
just like, you know, I think I'm done.
Speaker 11 (28:47):
There is nothing wrong with the occasional drunken one night
stand and Kicker asked the hell on out the door.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
I'm kind of too olver that shit too.
Speaker 12 (28:56):
I think.
Speaker 11 (28:59):
You're younger than me.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
You're fine, not by much.
Speaker 11 (29:05):
Take a break, and when we come back, we'll we'll
talk about Palestinian well sort of, we'll talk about some
crazy Arab activists at Columbia University.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Besides, if we count all the all the mileage things
we've done in our lives, I think we're a little
closer in age than we want to admit.
Speaker 11 (29:23):
We started mile Yeah, well.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Our fights. Yeah, we should probably take.
Speaker 11 (29:30):
A break now though, Yeah, my show would become rated X.
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Only one X. You're slacking sack. What you do? You
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what can I say? I got that silver tongue. Anyway,
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Lots of great programming with you tonight. It does not
end at the top of the hour. It goes all
night long and into the wee hours of the morning.
So do your ass a favor and stay right here
with KLRN Radio tonight unless you have to go to
sleep like I do. But you know, if you're if
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you're one of those weirdos, and there's plenty of us
out there.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I resembles.
Speaker 11 (35:21):
Hey, Look, if I didn't have anywhere to go or
anything to do, I'd sit up most of the night
every night anyway, So I mean i'd be listening. I'm
not going to sit here and lie about it. You know.
I just have to get up at five in the
morning and go do that thing so I can get
that other thing, and then I can do other things
with that thing. So you know the thing already everybody, Yes,
(35:52):
the damn job thing, with the paycheck thing, and yeah, anyway,
an Arab activist at Columbia University who calls himself a Palestinian,
which so you know he's lying right off the bat,
because there's no such place as Palestine. He spooked neighbors
(36:17):
in a small Vermont town where he used to live
by bragging about his hatred of Jews and also bragging
about his background of building weapons for terrorist groups. The
person in question motion Madawi. I'm going I think it's Madawi.
(36:40):
Is that how he says? They say it? I don't know. Anyway.
He had recently moved to Windsor, Vermont, from the West Bank,
told multiple people in town that he had previously worked
in Palestinian camps building guns for terrorists. He said that
(37:00):
was his job in the camp, and he bragged about
friends and family wanting to kill Israelis Madali, a leader
in Colombia's pro Haamas movement whom Ice detained and later released,
is suing the Trump administration for revoking his green card.
(37:21):
He described himself as a quote unquote peacemaker in a
sycophantic and sympathetic interview with CBS News, and also as
a human rights advocate under his op ed piece in
The New York Times. He even got a visit from
(37:43):
Senator Peter Welch, Democrat of Vermont, who called him a
quote friend who worked with quote unquote Jewish brothers and
sisters at Columbia. Yeah. If you call berating them, harassing them,
and inciting violence against them, working with them, good job,
(38:04):
Senator Welsh. Fortunately, police records and interviews about his time
living in Windsor paint a drastically different picture. He was
a very angry young man at the time. A local
who knew him in twenty fifteen said the Trump administration
(38:26):
has argued that mcdowi's presence in the country, where he
has organized anti Israel demonstrations undermines American national security. In
court filings, the administration cited the twenty fifteen Windsor police
report noting that mcdowie had expressed to neighbors that he
liked to kill Jews. Mdali's lawyers have dismissed the report
(38:51):
as hearsay, adding that a subsequent FBI investigation into their
client never led to charges. Well that doesn't matter, No, sir,
that does not matter. Secretary of State Rubio knows how
to make the right statement that what your client is
doing is undermining American undermining American policy, and he will
(39:17):
be subject to removal. One of his attorneys declined to
confirm whether his client built weapons during his time in
the camps there. Instead, the lawyer referred everyone to a
recent statement from the judge in the federal lawsuit, which
(39:37):
said police reports about Madawi from twenty fifteen were not
enough to support a finding of dangerousness. Well, we can
do better than that. Despite those claims, both local and
federal law enforcement took the case seriously at the time.
(39:58):
After interviewing mostultiple witnesses, police referred the matter to the
Department of Homeland Security. The FBI then launched an investigation,
which included an undercover operation into whether Madowie was an
active terrorist threat. A source familiar with the probe said
the investigation did not lead to charges, but the Trump
(40:20):
administration denies that it was ever officially closed. The twenty
fifteen police report includes direct interviews with several of Madowi's
neighbors and Windsor, who feared him and thought he was
planning a gun heist. According to the report, a local
(40:42):
firearms store told police that Madowie visited his business and
said he was interested in seeking employment here at the
gun makeshop. The gun makeshop making guns and modifying guns,
and even off effort to work for no monetary payment,
(41:05):
which means he wanted equipment in return. Madowie told the
gunsmith that he had considerable firearm experience and used to
build modified nine millimeters submachine guns to kill Jews while
he was in the West Bank. He also appeared to
have a lot of knowledge about gun design and function.
(41:28):
The gunsmith said he spotted Madowi on the store's external
surveillance camera outside taking pictures of the shop several weeks later,
when the owner confronted him to ask what he was doing.
Mdowi said he planned to give the store owner the
photos so that he could post them on Facebook. However,
he never did provide the owner with copies of the photographs.
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Madowie also took photos of the gun inventory in the store.
He said he wanted to purchase a sniper rifle end
machine gun, and provided the owner with a copy of
his Vermont operator's license. The owner later turned the documents
over to police. Police also interviewed a guide at the
(42:13):
neighboring Vintage Firearms Museum who gave a similar account of
Madowie visiting and taking extensive photographs of the gun displays.
The museum employee told police that Madowie said he was
interested in purchasing an automatic rifle and a sniper rifle,
which the guide said he thought was an odd topic
(42:35):
of conversation to be having with a man he's never
met before. It was during that conversation when Madowie allegedly
told the guide I like to kill Jews. The museum
employee told police the comment made him very nervous and
(42:57):
he thought there may be some truth to the man's statement.
The contents of the police report align with some of
Madawi's social media comments. The Columbia activist has praised his cousin,
a slain terrorist leader in the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade,
as a fierce resistance fighter and defended Hamas's October seven attacks,
(43:21):
saying Israel had provoked the massacres. Yes, how dare they
listen to music? They need to cook this piece of
shit one way or the other. They either need to
get him out of here or he just needs to
be Ciad and his cousin, Masara Masharka, took part in
(43:49):
shooting attacks against Israeli communities according to IDF, and was
killed alongside a Hamas commander in the West Bank in
August of twenty four. Masharka in twenty twelve, admitted to
making bombs and throwing explosives at IDF soldiers on a
large number of occasions and from a short distance. Madowi's uncle,
(44:14):
Yusef Madowi, planned a two thousand and three suicide bombing
in the Israeli city of Natanya, injuring over sixty people,
while he received over three hundred thousand dollars from the
Palestinian authority while serving a prison sentence. When Yusuf Madowi's
name appeared on the list of prisoners to be released
(44:36):
in exchange for four Israeli hostages. Motion Madowi, the man
in question, wrote in an Instagram post that quote justice
is inevitable. People like this should never be given a
(44:59):
green to begin with. They should never come into this country.
If we don't stop it, it's going to stop us.
There's no right or wrong. And I'll tell you what,
We'll take it a step further. We'll just throw the
(45:21):
whole immigration casting net out there. And let me just
say right now, it should be as easy to get
rid of undocumented illegal immigrants as it was for them
to come in. I don't know what exactly that means,
(45:44):
other than it shouldn't take an Act of Congress to
deport one of them. I just I don't know what
else we can do, because if we don't start, we're
doing it. We're screwed, and we're already screwed. So take
(46:09):
it for what it's worth. Calling it here. It's been
on my calendar for a long time, but it's out
there now, closer to home. Going back in the way
back machine with Sherman and mister Peabody. Here a big
(46:32):
problem arrived in Fulton County District Attorney Fanny Willis's email
inbox on the afternoon of November sixteenth, twenty twenty one.
It was a legal notice from an attorney representing Amanda Timpson,
a former member of Willis's executives staff who had been
(46:54):
blowing the whistle on the District Attorney's office for allegedly
trying to mishandle federal grant funds. Willis, the eight page
letter stated, had violated a slew of whistleblower protection laws
when she reassigned Timpson to serve as a glorified file
(47:14):
clerk following a brief meeting in July of twenty one
in which the District attorney attorney refused to hear Timpson's allegations.
Timpson believed she had grounds for a lawsuit against Willis,
but was willing to drop the matter in return for
a modest severance package and a positive letter of recommendation.
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Oh but Fanny had other ideas. Quote, we are absolutely
not settling disclaim, she wrote to her deputy Chief operating
Officer Dexter Bond and legal counsel Don Geary. Nearly two
hours later, at just about nine that night, Willis sent
(48:01):
another email to Bond and Geary directing them to hop
on a conference call with the county attorney. So much
of the letter is inaccurate, Willis wrote, according to records. Willis,
who later testified during a deposition in November in twenty
twenty four, that she hardly skimmed the first two paragraphs
(48:24):
of the letter, fired Timpson in January of twenty two
on charges that she was derelict in performing her job
duties and posed a physical threat to high ranking members
of her administration. Timpson, however, provided records of a spotless employee.
(48:45):
Record and audio recordings show alleged threats of physical violence
appear to be fabrication by Willis's deputy chief of staff,
Epiphany Henry. The recordings add to a growing body of
(49:06):
evidence that Willis is running an office rife with dysfunction.
Timpson alleges in a whistleblower lawsuit that Willis, after receiving
her November sixteenth legal letter, embarked on a retaliatory campaign
to destroy her reputation. Her attorneys say her case, filed
in August of twenty twenty two, could go to trial
(49:28):
as soon as July. Lawmakers in the House and Senate
and Georgia State Legislature opened investigations into Timpson's whistleblower claims
last year, after she had secretly recorded a private conversation
with Willis in November of twenty one. During that meeting,
(49:49):
Timpson informed the district attorney that one of Willis's top
aides had tried to misappropriate federal grant funds for quote
unquote swag and computers. Willis did not dispute the allegation,
apologized to Timpson, and said the aide, Michael Cuffey, had
failed her administration. Willis now says that Timpson's allegations were incorrect.
(50:16):
The district attorney testified during her deposition in November that
Timpson was an underling who didn't deserve an explanation. I
don't owe it to her. She's an underling, Willis testified,
I don't owe her anything. Timpson's case could mark yet
another embarrassing setback for Willis. The liberal darling was once
(50:40):
a rising star in the progressive legal world. When she
indicted Donald Trump on state racketeering charges in twenty three,
she proved to be her own worst enemy, though, and
the case derailed last year, after an attorney for Trump
discovered the district attorney had romantic entanglement with Nathan Wade,
(51:01):
the man Willis had hired to lead the prosecution. A
Fulton County judge forced Wade to resign from the case,
and the Georgia Court of Appeals in December blocked Willis
in her office from prosecuting the matter further after Trump's
victory in November. Now, Timson's whistleblower retaliation case centers around
(51:24):
the actions of Willis and her top lieutenant's deputy District
Attorney Ramona tool distant relative of plenty O tool I Hear,
and deputy chief of Staff Epiphany Henry. After the District
attorney received Timson's legal notice two days later, Willis, Henry,
(51:47):
and Toole sent emails to Timpson outlining a new work assignment.
Timson was to create a new behavioral health class for
Willis's pre trial Diversion department, which would take the form
of ten course modules, each containing at least sixty minutes
worth of content. Emails verify this. Timson said it was
(52:13):
the first time she had ever heard of this task,
which she was given twenty six hours to complete. Her
failure to complete the project would be tantamount to tendering
her resignation, Willis wrote. Timpson said it was an impossible
task designed to give Willis the ammunition to depict her
(52:33):
as underperforming, charge Willis repeated during her deposition in November
of last year. Timpson believed she was being set up
to fail. The following day, Timpson secretly recorded two meetings,
one with Willis and another with Henry and Toole. Henry
and Timpson during that meeting, expressed a desire to violently
(52:56):
attack Cuffee. The Willis officials said she alleged had tried
to misappropriate federal funds. Henry's allegation, detailed in a memo
dated January twenty eighth of twenty two, was sufficient for
Willis to consider Timpson a violent threat to her staff.
(53:17):
The district attorney had seven armed investigators escort her out
of her office on January fourteenth of twenty twenty two. Quote.
Miss Timpson made comments during staff meetings with myself and
Deputy da Tool that she wanted to violently attack her
(53:38):
previous supervisor, and that I'm from Compton, I don't know
how to respond to emails. I'd be ready to fight,
and I want to punch him in the fucking head
whatever I mean. That's from Henry wrote in the memo.
I started to fear for my own sein. Do you
(54:00):
wind dealing with Timpson because she had previously expressed to
me that she wanted to be violate, not violent, She
wanted to be violate her other supervisor. I do not
take types of statements lightly. Hey, yeah, okay, Timson's recordy.
(54:24):
At no point in the twenty seven minute conversation did
she threaten physical harm to anyone, nor did Henry or
Tool indicate they felt physically threatened by her. Miss Timpson
never threatened violence, and Miss Henry invented words that Amanda
never said, making her seem violent when she isn't. This
(54:45):
is gonna be an interesting little court case. I got
a feeling that Willis is gonna get her ass handed
to her again, and that's gonna take some big ass hands,
if you know what I mean. The rim shot. Thank you?
(55:10):
All right, Well, we're getting to that point. It is
time music undecided, yet.
Speaker 1 (55:18):
You shall get it again.
Speaker 11 (55:21):
For Gee's guaranteed indeed, and we're gonna take it close
to the mother ship. An eleven year old girl from
is being hailed as a hero after quick thinking saved
her family from a devastating house fire caused by a
lightning strike. You hear about this one, Rick.
Speaker 1 (55:46):
I did not, actually, Surprisingly.
Speaker 11 (55:48):
So, Mandy Eggleston was watching TV in her family's living
room on the morning of April thirtieth when a loud
boom shook the house near Southeast eighty ninth Street and
Sooner Road.
Speaker 1 (56:08):
Holy. There, there's a trailer park right there. I think
I'm pretty sure I used to live there, like years ago.
Speaker 11 (56:19):
The lightning strike caused an immediate fire, sending smoke throughout
the home. I just heard a loud bang, like a bomb,
a boom, said her mother. Mandy quickly ran to check
on her mother and younger brother, Ryan, who had both
been asleep. Without hesitation. She pushed them towards the door
(56:40):
and out of harm's way, even helping her mom, who
apparently sprained her ankle while trying to get out of
the house. She said, I remember trying to push them
out of the house. Mom was a big struggle, Mandy said,
they usually are, Mandy, they usually are. When I got
(57:01):
to the door, it was locked, so I was fidgeting
with that to get it open. In the midst of
the chaos, she remained calm enough to grab her phone
and call nine to one one, and later even stayed
in adult mode at the hospital, responding to calls and
texts from concerned loved ones. Battalion Chief Greg Lindsay of
(57:24):
the Oklahoma City Fire Department praised her bravery. What she
did is a very incredible thing. She got everybody out
and managed to stay calm and didn't go back into
the house. The family's home burned nearly to the ground.
Her father, Kevin, who was out of town at the time,
(57:44):
believes the timing of the lightning strike. He said, just
based on the time, and it very likely could have
killed them. Days after the fire, the Eggleston family had
(58:09):
an emotional reunion with the firefighters from Station thirteen who
responded to the blaze. They expressed heartfelt gratitude, thanking them profusely.
I know it could have been a lot worse if
it wasn't for what y'all do, and I just have
so much more appreciation and Dad added that despite the trauma,
(58:29):
they are staying put. They've received several acts of kindness
from random folks in the community and there's no way
we're leaving. We are definitely rebuilding, and folks, that's happy.
I don't care how you slice it. And that's the show.
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Yeah, it's time now for the Conservative Curmudgeon Radio Show.
Now here's grouchy.
Speaker 11 (04:54):
Good evening and welcome. Yes, I have my voice back,
and you're gonna suffer because of it. Ah, good to
be with you again. Yeah, I know everybody's sad. They were,
they were ready to hear me struggle again.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Oh no, we just we were just laughing about how
often you send it, like Jimmy Stewart last week.
Speaker 11 (05:21):
So oh well, you know it can happen.
Speaker 12 (05:28):
Anyway anyway.
Speaker 11 (05:32):
Yeah, So wow, another week, another show. I still have
a nice big glass of Herbal Honey tea with me
for my throat. I feel a whole lot better, but
I don't want any kind of sliding back or anything
like that. So we're just gonna take it nice and
(05:53):
easy and treat the throat good.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
And this just proves how old we've gotten. When we
first started doing this together, you were always sipping on scotch.
Now it's herbal tea and ship.
Speaker 13 (06:01):
What the hell I mean?
Speaker 11 (06:03):
You know, I would still sip on some scotch, but
you know, you just gotta do what you gotta do sometimes.
You know, Hey, we've uh we we've uh well, I
have gone from uh well, I guess I'm technically still
(06:24):
middle age, so I got a little ways to go
before we before we crown that senior on me, you
know whatever. I've gone from early middle age to solidly
in middle age doing this show. So oh, what the
(06:45):
hell I mean? Yeah? Anyway, Uh okay, uh programming tonight, Rick,
what do we got cued up?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
After you was behind it? Me like radio because Stacey's
buried at work, and then it will be me and
the amish one before we start playing the sh stuff.
Speaker 11 (07:08):
Okay, so there you have it. About one two am.
We're good and.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Well, yeah, be about two am our time, so about
three Eastern unfortunately, because you.
Speaker 13 (07:18):
Know, there you go.
Speaker 11 (07:19):
So if you're an insomniac or you just like to
stay up late and torture yourself to go and work
off an hour.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Hour van like me, because I'm both.
Speaker 11 (07:30):
Yeah, I mean, you know, whatever it is, we got
you covered between an hour ago. You should have been
listening to uh to the to those guys you should
be hold over from from uh elf and damn it,
help me Rick, leave me struggle it? So yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
How you forget Steven's name?
Speaker 11 (07:54):
It's you know, Stephen is the name of the guy
that cuts my yard too? That that should not be
a name that slips my tongue.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
So just just to be clear, the guy who cuts
your name your yard's name is not Esteban.
Speaker 11 (08:08):
No, it is not. Well see, being Hispanic, at least
partly Hispanic. I I refuse to hire Hispanics to do
that kind of labor. So I hire white boys.
Speaker 12 (08:24):
Gringo, you hire the green I get the gringo.
Speaker 11 (08:27):
And and you know what, I got me a good gringo.
He likes to be outside. He likes to not be
at home with his wife who's a decade older than him,
and her adult daughter who lives with him, and her
two children that live with them.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
That just that just seems like a recipe for a
bad reality TV show right there.
Speaker 11 (08:48):
He is the only male in the house.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Reminds me of that old bit from damn It? Why
can I not think of his name?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Do that?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Does the Puppets. Jeff Dunham. He he's talking about being
locked in the den with his dog and all the
women in the house are scratching to the door. Let
us say the dogs door, open the door.
Speaker 11 (09:12):
It's uh yeah, yeah. It's like the opposite of the
old David Lee Roth thing that he sprung on the
nineteen eighty four tour with Van Halen. He said, you know,
he said, I got to give it up for this town.
He said that the chicks are hot and they love it,
you know, they they love Van Halen. He said. Just
last night there was this girl kicking and screaming and
(09:35):
shouting and clawing at my hotel room door. I finally
called downstairs and said, fuck it, would somebody let her out?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Okay, that's kind of awesome. I never heard of them.
Speaker 11 (09:51):
Oh, it was a great show. Great show. I remember
that finally from my high school days. Anyway, we got
things to talk about. We always got things to talk about,
but we got things to talk about pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I mean, it's been a pretty slow newsweek, you know,
I mean it really has.
Speaker 11 (10:12):
I was I was gonna do a little mocking to
start the show, you know, keep it a little lighthearted.
Because of all the people that have been just running
off at their mouths incessantly. And there's no shortage of them,
mind you, on either side of the aisle, but especially
(10:38):
the left. But they they dug a fossil out This
past week and Joe Biden emerged from his political exile
to speak with probably the only people who seem to
appreciate his presidency, and that would be foreigners. In his
(11:07):
first interview since he left the White House, he sat
down with the BBC's Nick Robinson, not to be confused
with kl r ns Rick Robinson. That's a good fun interview, though,
wouldn't it?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Nick? And Rick? What's going on?
Speaker 11 (11:27):
Yeah? Would you like to interview Joe? Uh?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
No, I'd probably fall asleep faster than he would.
Speaker 11 (11:34):
Oh no, no, I would. I would definitely be down
to interview Joe. I would. I would. I would prep
my ass off so hard for that and spin him
in such circles. Oh, it would be hilarious. He would Uh,
he would think he just got off the tea cup
right at Disney World. But uh, anyway, Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
You were also hot to into interview Ambassador John Boltlan.
Look where that got us?
Speaker 11 (12:03):
I mean, you know, at the time, it was a
great and it was you know what I'm gonna I'm
gonna stop. We got to address this. Is he batshit crazy?
Yes he is. At the time, however, he was a
peak news story. He was rumored to be running for president.
(12:25):
He was showing up at the conference, the Republican Leadership Conference,
and had literally just hours before the interview that I
conducted with him, backed out of running for president. So
it was it was truly timely with a very newsworthy
(12:47):
person at the time. I can't help what they become afterwards,
you know. And I had I had him dead to rights.
It was a great interview you if I do say
so myself.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
It's just too bad we didn't figure out until afterwards
you were actually speaking to the mustache running the human
meat suit.
Speaker 11 (13:09):
I mean, you know, for what it is, it is.
But we we got him, We had him, and we
had him when he was still sane mostly so you know,
feather in the hat.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I was proud of that. Don't get me wrong, but yeah,
I'm like, dude, I can't believe you know in the
brain is real. You know, I'm just saying I.
Speaker 11 (13:37):
Would take an interview with Joe I would. I would
prep my ass off for it. And like I said,
I would wear him out. He wouldn't know where to begin.
He'd just start calling me names and storm off.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Giggy Giggy, Giggley.
Speaker 12 (13:51):
Good.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
You can't say you'd wear him out without expecting that
just saying.
Speaker 11 (13:56):
I mean, I'd wear him out mentally.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
But anyway, clarify, So you left the door open.
Speaker 11 (14:06):
Yeah, Well I deserved it, didn't I. So Biden sat
down with Nick Robinson for a conversation in which the
former president succumbed to the understandable temptation to rewrite the
history of his own administration. It's so funny to watch
(14:27):
the revisionism. It's you know it was. We'll call it multifocal.
Biden has many scores to settle with his own record
in office, but none proved as grating as his attempts
(14:48):
to leverage Russia's war in Ukraine against his successor. Quote
quoting Biden, here, listen to what Putin said when we
talked about going from Kiev to Ukraine, And why then
the President muttered incomprehensibly to the incurious nods of mister Robinson.
(15:16):
He can't stand the fact that the Russian dictatorship that
he runs that the Soviet Union has collapsed. Well, first
of all, he wasn't in office when the Soviet Union collapsed. No,
he doesn't like that it collapsed. He's never made any
bones about he wanted to reinstall the Soviet Union. That's
(15:40):
been almost since day one, a public thing that Putin
has said he wants the reformation of the Soviet Union.
But Biden eventually stumbled across the point he was trying
to make he meaning Dimir Putin, believe it meaning Russia
(16:06):
has historical rights to Ukraine. As a display of modern
day appeasement. We gave them everything they needed to pur
(16:34):
be said of Ukraine, and we were prepared to respond
more aggressively if Putin moved again, to which I say, bullshit,
And you say, why is that bullshit? Gee, well, I'm
glad you asked. See, it was only late in February
(17:00):
last year, you know, about two years from the outset
of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, that the Biden administration reluctantly
dropped its objection to providing Kiev with long range ordinance
for use in army tactical for another nine months, didn't
(17:36):
consent to providing Ukraine with ATACMS until September of twenty three,
even though Ukraine had specifically requested access to those platforms
of weapons from the start of Russia's campaign of conquest.
(17:58):
So that's one defined by the Biden administration's persistent self
doubt and halting qualified often insufficient support for Ukraine's cause,
only to be abruptly reversed after the damage had already
been done. The same sequence of events describes the administrations
(18:21):
with holding an eventual, reluctant provision of high Mobility Artillery
rocket system high MARS. Yeah, that's an acronym, high MARS.
(18:45):
The administration's first thought was always America's furnishment of weapon platforms,
an ordinance that Moscow was already using on Ukraine's battlefields.
The Biden administration concern was wasn't irrational, but the President
and his subordinates refused to revisit their assumptions. Moscow would
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draw a red line, Washington would observe that red line,
and when that red line was crossed without broader incident,
the White House would move on to obsess over the
next illusory red line. Biden declined to revise this doctrine.
Even when it became obvious that Russia's table pounding objections
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to America's support of Ukraine would amount to just that,
Biden failed to deter Russia's war. Indeed, it responded to
months of provocative indications that Putin was ready to attack
by rewarding the Russian despot with bilateral symmetry. And when
(19:52):
Putin's forces poured over the Ukrainian border anyway, the former
president didn't just fail to handle over everything they needed
to provide for their independence. Rather, the administration provided Ukraine
with just enough to prevent it from being wholly subsumed
into the Russian Federation, and that only easily that the
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Biden administration never trusted the Ukrainians to provide for their
own defense. Instead, Biden signaled to the Kremlin that the
US would not respond to a minor incursion into Ukrainian territory,
and his instinct in response to Moscow's full scale invasion
(20:50):
was to establish a Ukrainian government in exile. The fight
is here, said Zelensky in his famous reject of Biden's
hustlanimous behavior. I need ammunition, not a ride. Now. You
(21:13):
may not agree with Trump's approach to the war. You might,
you might not. There are things that he could be
doing a little bit differently, but he too is plagued
by misapprehensions and misplaced sympathies, and his eagerness to state
Moscow's hunger for territorial conquest will only whet Putin's appetite.
(21:35):
But neither Trump nor Ukraine occupies the most advantageous position
right now. That unfortunate circumstance is of Joe Biden's making.
It takes a lot of gall to tacitly fault the
Ukrainians for coming up short on the battlefield, as Biden
did in his interview. He's attempting to recast his record
(21:59):
for this three books. And yet the assumption of malice
on Biden's part, it just assumes that the former president
is even aware of his own record when it comes
to Ukraine. And you know, you probably shouldn't take for
granted that he is. I mean, we are talking about
(22:20):
everybody's favorite vegetable, right, I mean, seriously, the guy's not
all there. There's no ifs, hands or butts about that.
It's just absolutely insane that this guy thinks he is
what he is and who he is. It's like he
(22:41):
didn't live through his own administration. Woh yeah. So anyway,
he's got that going for him. He can't remember anything,
so he doesn't know how bad he truly was. You know,
(23:01):
I guess there's some things to be grateful for.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
I just, uh, I.
Speaker 11 (23:07):
Don't know why he decided to roll out of bed
and do an interview with BBC of all people and
places and things, and you know, I don't I don't know,
I don't know. He also just as an aside, he
also said he regretted stepping aside in the political race.
(23:27):
He really thought that he was well positioned to win again. Yeah, yeah,
same guy. What do you do? I mean, really, what
do you do? He also said he thought Kamala was
a great candidate, although he couldn't come up with a
(23:48):
single reason as to why. Again, that's this is where
this is where the whole left is right now. Everybody's
better than Trump, but nobody can stipulate why. You know,
I just and then you know you got you got
(24:11):
the whole uh Trump, Jerome Powell, few thing going on
since we're going to talk presidents for a minute. And
I almost believe that Powell is using his position to
play politics because he doesn't like Trump, and I think
(24:31):
that he's taking that out on the American people and
abusing his position, and there needs to be a way
to I'm not saying that Trump should be able to
just arbitrarily remove him, but there needs to be a
way to get him out of there and get somebody
else in there. Not somebody that will necessarily colt out
(24:52):
of what Trump wants, but somebody that'll do the right
thing when the indicators are there to show the right thing.
And uh, I just for the life of me, I
don't when they said why they weren't lowering interest rates
what yesterday Monday something like that, I don't see what
(25:15):
they say they're seeing. So for what it's worth, Hi, Uh,
what should we do here? We should hymn haul for
a couple of minutes and then take the break. That's
(25:37):
what we should do. Rick, you want to hem ha
with me?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Maybe what you want to haul out?
Speaker 11 (25:44):
I don't know. We just got to kill about two
minutes so we can take the bottom of the hour
break before I go into the next story, because it's
a little long and I'm not going to wrap it
up in two minutes.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
That's what she said.
Speaker 11 (25:54):
Uh, well, you know, and she's right. I don't wrap
it up in two minutes.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
I was talking about a little bit longer part two.
Speaker 11 (26:01):
Oh well, I am a little long. I can't help that.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Oh so, do you hear Trump dump dumped his surgeon
general nominee?
Speaker 11 (26:12):
Yeah, I did hear something about that. I wasn't I
didn't read the whole thing. But is this the the
guy they were trying to get in.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
At CDC, no, doctor Jeannette Nisar. Oh, yeah she was.
She was one of the people that was promoting all
the COVID nonsense. And yeah, okay, I only figured out
she wasn't a good fit. I guess.
Speaker 11 (26:37):
Oh well, you know, you have to wonder about this
guy sometimes. You know, he's been in office before, he
should know better.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Now, well, I mean he is he is a former Democrat,
so occasionally I think that kind of creeps in a
little bit.
Speaker 11 (26:51):
I definitely agree with that. You know, I guess you
can't can't change it.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
But you know, that's the funny thing about watching all
the Democrats freak out over the cabinet. Half the cabinet
used to be Democrats.
Speaker 11 (27:06):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Why do you hate them?
Speaker 11 (27:09):
Now?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I'm confused. If anything, if anything, we should be worried
on our side. Why are you guys like.
Speaker 14 (27:14):
Oh my god, these people are I mean they've played
the long game of infiltrating just about everything else to
win the culture war and the education war and all
that crap like that.
Speaker 11 (27:24):
Why not the political war by former Democrats becoming Republicans
and then coming into the majority and then swinging and then.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Before you know what, the pineapple goes upside down? Oh wait,
roun kind of swinging.
Speaker 11 (27:37):
Hey, you definitely don't do the upside down pineapples here, so.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Hey, speak speak for yourself.
Speaker 11 (27:45):
I'm single now, Hey, you knock yourself out, man.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Not really. The world's too weird for that ship now.
Speaker 11 (27:52):
Just one piece of advice, man, wrap it before you
tap it.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
I mean that's always that's always been my plan.
Speaker 11 (27:59):
But yeah, that's just smart these days. Yeah shit, I mean,
HIV is nothing anymore. Who knows what you can track
these days? Dude?
Speaker 1 (28:09):
The world is too crazy.
Speaker 11 (28:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
I've just decided I think I'm pretty much done dating altogether,
because you know, when I got married the last time,
three on the tree had a completely different meaning than
it does today. I think I'm out.
Speaker 11 (28:24):
You know you're a little young for that. But I'm
gonna just sit here and say I can't say I
blame you.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
I'm not that much younger than you, sir. I'll be
fifty two in a couple of months. I mean, you know,
I think I think I'm kind of okay with single
life anymore. I've put myself out there a couple times
since the divorce and it hasn't gone well. So I'm
just like, you know, I think I'm done.
Speaker 11 (28:47):
There is nothing wrong with the occasional drunken one night
stand and Kicker asked the hell on out the door.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
I'm kind of too olver that shit too.
Speaker 12 (28:56):
I think.
Speaker 11 (28:59):
You're younger than me.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
You're fine, not by much.
Speaker 11 (29:05):
Take a break, and when we come back, we'll we'll
talk about Palestinian well sort of, we'll talk about some
crazy Arab activists at Columbia University.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Besides, if we count all the all the mileage things
we've done in our lives, I think we're a little
closer in age than we want to admit.
Speaker 11 (29:23):
We started mile Yeah, well.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Our fights. Yeah, we should probably take.
Speaker 11 (29:30):
A break now though, Yeah, my show would become rated X.
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Speaker 1 (35:19):
I resembles.
Speaker 11 (35:21):
Hey, Look, if I didn't have anywhere to go or
anything to do, I'd sit up most of the night
every night anyway, So I mean i'd be listening. I'm
not going to sit here and lie about it. You know.
I just have to get up at five in the
morning and go do that thing so I can get
that other thing, and then I can do other things
with that thing. So you know the thing already everybody, Yes,
(35:52):
the damn job thing, with the paycheck thing, and yeah, anyway,
an Arab activist at Columbia University who calls himself a Palestinian,
which so you know he's lying right off the bat,
because there's no such place as Palestine. He spooked neighbors
(36:17):
in a small Vermont town where he used to live
by bragging about his hatred of Jews and also bragging
about his background of building weapons for terrorist groups. The
person in question motion Madawi. I'm going I think it's Madawi.
(36:40):
Is that how he says? They say it? I don't know. Anyway.
He had recently moved to Windsor, Vermont, from the West Bank,
told multiple people in town that he had previously worked
in Palestinian camps building guns for terrorists. He said that
(37:00):
was his job in the camp, and he bragged about
friends and family wanting to kill Israelis Madali, a leader
in Colombia's pro Haamas movement whom Ice detained and later released,
is suing the Trump administration for revoking his green card.
(37:21):
He described himself as a quote unquote peacemaker in a
sycophantic and sympathetic interview with CBS News, and also as
a human rights advocate under his op ed piece in
The New York Times. He even got a visit from
(37:43):
Senator Peter Welch, Democrat of Vermont, who called him a
quote friend who worked with quote unquote Jewish brothers and
sisters at Columbia. Yeah. If you call berating them, harassing them,
and inciting violence against them, working with them, good job,
(38:04):
Senator Welsh. Fortunately, police records and interviews about his time
living in Windsor paint a drastically different picture. He was
a very angry young man at the time. A local
who knew him in twenty fifteen said the Trump administration
(38:26):
has argued that mcdowi's presence in the country, where he
has organized anti Israel demonstrations undermines American national security. In
court filings, the administration cited the twenty fifteen Windsor police
report noting that mcdowie had expressed to neighbors that he
liked to kill Jews. Mdali's lawyers have dismissed the report
(38:51):
as hearsay, adding that a subsequent FBI investigation into their
client never led to charges. Well that doesn't matter, No, sir,
that does not matter. Secretary of State Rubio knows how
to make the right statement that what your client is
doing is undermining American undermining American policy, and he will
(39:17):
be subject to removal. One of his attorneys declined to
confirm whether his client built weapons during his time in
the camps there. Instead, the lawyer referred everyone to a
recent statement from the judge in the federal lawsuit, which
(39:37):
said police reports about Madawi from twenty fifteen were not
enough to support a finding of dangerousness. Well, we can
do better than that. Despite those claims, both local and
federal law enforcement took the case seriously at the time.
(39:58):
After interviewing mostultiple witnesses, police referred the matter to the
Department of Homeland Security. The FBI then launched an investigation,
which included an undercover operation into whether Madowie was an
active terrorist threat. A source familiar with the probe said
the investigation did not lead to charges, but the Trump
(40:20):
administration denies that it was ever officially closed. The twenty
fifteen police report includes direct interviews with several of Madowi's
neighbors and Windsor, who feared him and thought he was
planning a gun heist. According to the report, a local
(40:42):
firearms store told police that Madowie visited his business and
said he was interested in seeking employment here at the
gun makeshop. The gun makeshop making guns and modifying guns,
and even off effort to work for no monetary payment,
(41:05):
which means he wanted equipment in return. Madowie told the
gunsmith that he had considerable firearm experience and used to
build modified nine millimeters submachine guns to kill Jews while
he was in the West Bank. He also appeared to
have a lot of knowledge about gun design and function.
(41:28):
The gunsmith said he spotted Madowi on the store's external
surveillance camera outside taking pictures of the shop several weeks later,
when the owner confronted him to ask what he was doing.
Mdowi said he planned to give the store owner the
photos so that he could post them on Facebook. However,
he never did provide the owner with copies of the photographs.
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Madowie also took photos of the gun inventory in the store.
He said he wanted to purchase a sniper rifle end
machine gun, and provided the owner with a copy of
his Vermont operator's license. The owner later turned the documents
over to police. Police also interviewed a guide at the
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neighboring Vintage Firearms Museum who gave a similar account of
Madowie visiting and taking extensive photographs of the gun displays.
The museum employee told police that Madowie said he was
interested in purchasing an automatic rifle and a sniper rifle,
which the guide said he thought was an odd topic
(42:35):
of conversation to be having with a man he's never
met before. It was during that conversation when Madowie allegedly
told the guide I like to kill Jews. The museum
employee told police the comment made him very nervous and
(42:57):
he thought there may be some truth to the man's statement.
The contents of the police report align with some of
Madawi's social media comments. The Columbia activist has praised his cousin,
a slain terrorist leader in the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade,
as a fierce resistance fighter and defended Hamas's October seven attacks,
(43:21):
saying Israel had provoked the massacres. Yes, how dare they
listen to music? They need to cook this piece of
shit one way or the other. They either need to
get him out of here or he just needs to
be Ciad and his cousin, Masara Masharka, took part in
(43:49):
shooting attacks against Israeli communities according to IDF, and was
killed alongside a Hamas commander in the West Bank in
August of twenty four. Masharka in twenty twelve, admitted to
making bombs and throwing explosives at IDF soldiers on a
large number of occasions and from a short distance. Madowi's uncle,
(44:14):
Yusef Madowi, planned a two thousand and three suicide bombing
in the Israeli city of Natanya, injuring over sixty people,
while he received over three hundred thousand dollars from the
Palestinian authority while serving a prison sentence. When Yusuf Madowi's
name appeared on the list of prisoners to be released
(44:36):
in exchange for four Israeli hostages. Motion Madowi, the man
in question, wrote in an Instagram post that quote justice
is inevitable. People like this should never be given a
(44:59):
green to begin with. They should never come into this country.
If we don't stop it, it's going to stop us.
There's no right or wrong. And I'll tell you what,
We'll take it a step further. We'll just throw the
(45:21):
whole immigration casting net out there. And let me just
say right now, it should be as easy to get
rid of undocumented illegal immigrants as it was for them
to come in. I don't know what exactly that means,
(45:44):
other than it shouldn't take an Act of Congress to
deport one of them. I just I don't know what
else we can do, because if we don't start, we're
doing it. We're screwed, and we're already screwed. So take
(46:09):
it for what it's worth. Calling it here. It's been
on my calendar for a long time, but it's out
there now, closer to home. Going back in the way
back machine with Sherman and mister Peabody. Here a big
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problem arrived in Fulton County District Attorney Fanny Willis's email
inbox on the afternoon of November sixteenth, twenty twenty one.
It was a legal notice from an attorney representing Amanda Timpson,
a former member of Willis's executives staff who had been
(46:54):
blowing the whistle on the District Attorney's office for allegedly
trying to mishandle federal grant funds. Willis, the eight page
letter stated, had violated a slew of whistleblower protection laws
when she reassigned Timpson to serve as a glorified file
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clerk following a brief meeting in July of twenty one
in which the District attorney attorney refused to hear Timpson's allegations.
Timpson believed she had grounds for a lawsuit against Willis,
but was willing to drop the matter in return for
a modest severance package and a positive letter of recommendation.
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Oh but Fanny had other ideas. Quote, we are absolutely
not settling disclaim, she wrote to her deputy Chief operating
Officer Dexter Bond and legal counsel Don Geary. Nearly two
hours later, at just about nine that night, Willis sent
(48:01):
another email to Bond and Geary directing them to hop
on a conference call with the county attorney. So much
of the letter is inaccurate, Willis wrote, according to records. Willis,
who later testified during a deposition in November in twenty
twenty four, that she hardly skimmed the first two paragraphs
(48:24):
of the letter, fired Timpson in January of twenty two
on charges that she was derelict in performing her job
duties and posed a physical threat to high ranking members
of her administration. Timpson, however, provided records of a spotless employee.
(48:45):
Record and audio recordings show alleged threats of physical violence
appear to be fabrication by Willis's deputy chief of staff,
Epiphany Henry. The recordings add to a growing body of
(49:06):
evidence that Willis is running an office rife with dysfunction.
Timpson alleges in a whistleblower lawsuit that Willis, after receiving
her November sixteenth legal letter, embarked on a retaliatory campaign
to destroy her reputation. Her attorneys say her case, filed
in August of twenty twenty two, could go to trial
(49:28):
as soon as July. Lawmakers in the House and Senate
and Georgia State Legislature opened investigations into Timpson's whistleblower claims
last year, after she had secretly recorded a private conversation
with Willis in November of twenty one. During that meeting,
(49:49):
Timpson informed the district attorney that one of Willis's top
aides had tried to misappropriate federal grant funds for quote
unquote swag and computers. Willis did not dispute the allegation,
apologized to Timpson, and said the aide, Michael Cuffey, had
failed her administration. Willis now says that Timpson's allegations were incorrect.
(50:16):
The district attorney testified during her deposition in November that
Timpson was an underling who didn't deserve an explanation. I
don't owe it to her. She's an underling, Willis testified,
I don't owe her anything. Timpson's case could mark yet
another embarrassing setback for Willis. The liberal darling was once
(50:40):
a rising star in the progressive legal world. When she
indicted Donald Trump on state racketeering charges in twenty three,
she proved to be her own worst enemy, though, and
the case derailed last year, after an attorney for Trump
discovered the district attorney had romantic entanglement with Nathan Wade,
(51:01):
the man Willis had hired to lead the prosecution. A
Fulton County judge forced Wade to resign from the case,
and the Georgia Court of Appeals in December blocked Willis
in her office from prosecuting the matter further after Trump's
victory in November. Now, Timson's whistleblower retaliation case centers around
(51:24):
the actions of Willis and her top lieutenant's deputy District
Attorney Ramona tool distant relative of plenty O tool I Hear,
and deputy chief of Staff Epiphany Henry. After the District
attorney received Timson's legal notice two days later, Willis, Henry,
(51:47):
and Toole sent emails to Timpson outlining a new work assignment.
Timson was to create a new behavioral health class for
Willis's pre trial Diversion department, which would take the form
of ten course modules, each containing at least sixty minutes
worth of content. Emails verify this. Timson said it was
(52:13):
the first time she had ever heard of this task,
which she was given twenty six hours to complete. Her
failure to complete the project would be tantamount to tendering
her resignation, Willis wrote. Timpson said it was an impossible
task designed to give Willis the ammunition to depict her
(52:33):
as underperforming, charge Willis repeated during her deposition in November
of last year. Timpson believed she was being set up
to fail. The following day, Timpson secretly recorded two meetings,
one with Willis and another with Henry and Toole. Henry
and Timpson during that meeting, expressed a desire to violently
(52:56):
attack Cuffee. The Willis officials said she alleged had tried
to misappropriate federal funds. Henry's allegation, detailed in a memo
dated January twenty eighth of twenty two, was sufficient for
Willis to consider Timpson a violent threat to her staff.
(53:17):
The district attorney had seven armed investigators escort her out
of her office on January fourteenth of twenty twenty two. Quote.
Miss Timpson made comments during staff meetings with myself and
Deputy da Tool that she wanted to violently attack her
(53:38):
previous supervisor, and that I'm from Compton, I don't know
how to respond to emails. I'd be ready to fight,
and I want to punch him in the fucking head
whatever I mean. That's from Henry wrote in the memo.
I started to fear for my own sein. Do you
(54:00):
wind dealing with Timpson because she had previously expressed to
me that she wanted to be violate, not violent, She
wanted to be violate her other supervisor. I do not
take types of statements lightly. Hey, yeah, okay, Timson's recordy.
(54:24):
At no point in the twenty seven minute conversation did
she threaten physical harm to anyone, nor did Henry or
Tool indicate they felt physically threatened by her. Miss Timpson
never threatened violence, and Miss Henry invented words that Amanda
never said, making her seem violent when she isn't. This
(54:45):
is gonna be an interesting little court case. I got
a feeling that Willis is gonna get her ass handed
to her again, and that's gonna take some big ass hands,
if you know what I mean. The rim shot. Thank you?
(55:10):
All right, Well, we're getting to that point. It is
time music undecided, yet.
Speaker 1 (55:18):
You shall get it again.
Speaker 11 (55:21):
For Gee's guaranteed indeed, and we're gonna take it close
to the mother ship. An eleven year old girl from
is being hailed as a hero after quick thinking saved
her family from a devastating house fire caused by a
lightning strike. You hear about this one, Rick.
Speaker 1 (55:46):
I did not, actually, Surprisingly.
Speaker 11 (55:48):
So, Mandy Eggleston was watching TV in her family's living
room on the morning of April thirtieth when a loud
boom shook the house near Southeast eighty ninth Street and
Sooner Road.
Speaker 1 (56:08):
Holy. There, there's a trailer park right there. I think
I'm pretty sure I used to live there, like years ago.
Speaker 11 (56:19):
The lightning strike caused an immediate fire, sending smoke throughout
the home. I just heard a loud bang, like a bomb,
a boom, said her mother. Mandy quickly ran to check
on her mother and younger brother, Ryan, who had both
been asleep. Without hesitation. She pushed them towards the door
(56:40):
and out of harm's way, even helping her mom, who
apparently sprained her ankle while trying to get out of
the house. She said, I remember trying to push them
out of the house. Mom was a big struggle, Mandy said,
they usually are, Mandy, they usually are. When I got
(57:01):
to the door, it was locked, so I was fidgeting
with that to get it open. In the midst of
the chaos, she remained calm enough to grab her phone
and call nine to one one, and later even stayed
in adult mode at the hospital, responding to calls and
texts from concerned loved ones. Battalion Chief Greg Lindsay of
(57:24):
the Oklahoma City Fire Department praised her bravery. What she
did is a very incredible thing. She got everybody out
and managed to stay calm and didn't go back into
the house. The family's home burned nearly to the ground.
Her father, Kevin, who was out of town at the time,
(57:44):
believes the timing of the lightning strike. He said, just
based on the time, and it very likely could have
killed them. Days after the fire, the Eggleston family had
(58:09):
an emotional reunion with the firefighters from Station thirteen who
responded to the blaze. They expressed heartfelt gratitude, thanking them profusely.
I know it could have been a lot worse if
it wasn't for what y'all do, and I just have
so much more appreciation and Dad added that despite the trauma,
(58:29):
they are staying put. They've received several acts of kindness
from random folks in the community and there's no way
we're leaving. We are definitely rebuilding, and folks, that's happy.
I don't care how you slice it. And that's the show.
If you like it, tell your friends. If your friends
(58:50):
like it, you need new ones, but they and you
welcome here with me on KLR and Radio America's podcast network,
home of the conservative mudgin Ship.
Speaker 5 (59:17):
I hate Disclaie. Nothing work here, the medication some work.
I've been here for seven years.
Speaker 19 (59:29):
Stop the fun themselves to mu
Speaker 11 (01:00:00):
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