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From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio

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at the George Washington Broadcast Center.

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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong

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and Getty show.

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People are stripping down and plunging into ice

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baths with strangers, hoping to form lasting

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relationships. Dust in the waters

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for a lasting connection with a three minute

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first date inside a tub filled with icy

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water.

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Yeah, freezing

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water works so well for Jack and Rose and Titanic.

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So people

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like, sorry, I'm really not feeling this.

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And by this I mean my legs.

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Wow, some

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gimmicky things some health club in Venice

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Beach in LA did and you

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plunge into the ice bath for three minutes and

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try to talk to each other and it's a speed dating

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thing.

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Whatever.

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Okay, I'm not feeling this

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and by this I mean my legs. Umm.

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The crypto king who made

1:04

cryptocurrency the most popular it ever

1:06

was and convinced a whole bunch

1:08

of people that that was the future of everything and it still might

1:10

be, was actually

1:12

stealing from people and the whole thing

1:14

came crashing down and he just got sentenced to twenty

1:17

five years in prison. How long will the actually

1:19

spend in prison? As a guy who almost went

1:21

to law school.

1:23

I think the Feds keep you for three quarters

1:25

of your sentence minimum.

1:27

I think it's three so it's gonna be quite

1:29

a way a while anyway.

1:31

Yeah, you don't want to get convicted of

1:33

federal charges and go to the federal prison system,

1:36

although it's better in some ways,

1:38

but no, you stay.

1:40

So a couple of things on this.

1:43

In a contrast like cal Youn

1:45

Cornea, where you get sentenced to twenty years, you

1:47

do six months, and then you go to shoot somebody

1:49

else.

1:50

Slight exaggeration. It was just like a year

1:52

and a half ago that it all

1:54

came tumbling down. I mean, up until November

1:57

of twenty twenty two, he

1:59

was still a big deal on covers

2:01

of magazines, going on

2:03

all the big shows, hanging out

2:05

with Steph Curry and Tom Brady

2:07

because they were endorsers

2:10

for his product, and he'd be in the front row Warriors

2:12

games. I remember that and just all that sort of stuff.

2:15

So what happened in November of twenty twenty

2:17

two, Well, one of these magazines,

2:20

that Coin Desk, which was a

2:22

crypto website, they somebody

2:24

leaked to them the balance

2:26

sheet from FTX, his crypto

2:29

company, and it got leaked

2:31

to coin desk, they put it out and everybody's like, WHOA, wait,

2:33

that looks bad. And so there was a run on people

2:37

trying to get their money out of FTX, and they collapsed

2:39

immediately. Fraudulent

2:41

businesses often will. And it fell apart

2:44

that fast. And he went from to be in

2:46

the top of the top to the bottom of the bottom. And now

2:49

he's going to spend a couple of decades in prison. He's

2:51

only thirty two years old. Where

2:53

does this rank? Twenty

2:55

five years pretty high

2:58

up there, because the worst white

3:01

collar crime sentence so far ever

3:03

is Bernie made Off. He got

3:05

sentenced to one hundred and fifty years. Now,

3:08

boy, you gotta eat well and exercise

3:11

to make sure you still have any life left to live

3:13

when you get out after one hundred and fifty

3:15

years sentence. Bernie

3:17

Ebbers of WORLDCLM CEO. I

3:19

don't remember that scandal or that one. He got

3:21

twenty five years, Dennis

3:24

calls Walski. I remember that guy. What

3:26

a douchebag. The CEO of TYCHO

3:28

got twenty five years. Jeffrey Skillon got fourteen,

3:31

so he was.

3:33

Enron right, Yeah, SBF, SBF

3:36

is up there.

3:37

Tied for the second longest white collar

3:40

sentence ever, So

3:42

it's a pretty big deal. His

3:45

lawyer was arguing that he's not a ruthless

3:47

financial serial killer who's looking

3:49

to hurt people. He does

3:51

not make decisions with malice in his heart. He

3:53

makes decisions with math in his head.

3:56

Okay to that, that's a good quote

3:58

to that point. Here is his girlfriend,

4:01

who was supposedly the mathematician

4:03

behind the whole thing, in an interview

4:05

she did after the whole thing fell apart. Do

4:08

you think that you have been able to pull

4:10

this thing off without your mathematics

4:12

degree or it has been the pillar

4:15

of your trading activity. Uh?

4:19

Yeah, absolutely could pull it off without my math degree.

4:22

Use very little math. When you start out as

4:24

like an intern and you, you know, do

4:26

something and accidentally lose you know, maybe

4:28

a thousand dollars or your desk, you're like, oh God,

4:31

like everyone's gonna hate me now, Like this is

4:33

terrible, And

4:36

yeah, over time you have to sort

4:39

of, yeah, get comfortable with larger

4:42

and larger swings of

4:45

money. Yeah.

4:47

I'm trying to think of a good example

4:49

of a trade where

4:52

I've lost a ton of money.

4:56

Well, I don't know. I probably don't want to go into specifics too

4:58

much. With that.

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A couple of things. What is with the trend of there

5:02

has to be music playing. Secondly,

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as I've said many times, there's

5:07

a huge gulf between intelligence

5:10

and wisdom.

5:12

Well, those are not the same thing.

5:14

And these two geeky

5:17

like kind of misfitty people, him

5:20

and his girlfriend were able to

5:22

pull this off for a while. His

5:26

lawyer also made the argument that his

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struggles with depression, autism, and

5:32

ahidonia the

5:34

inability to feel happiness, should

5:36

have weighed in favor of a lighter sentence. He has

5:39

anhedonia, Oh, we

5:42

talked about that a couple of weeks ago. He has

5:44

the inability to feel happiness. Well,

5:46

he must have felt some happiness, or you wouldn't have bought

5:48

a You must have gotten something out of a thirty

5:50

million dollar Caribbean

5:53

view penthouse, or I wouldn't have thought

5:55

you'd have bought it. Right, you

5:58

must have looked at the place and thought, oh, this is awesome, which

6:00

sounds like happiness to me.

6:02

Yeah, all these things are interesting. And if he has

6:05

anne hidonia, I feel for him.

6:07

And if he is more a fool than

6:09

a villain, I feel for him. That's too bad. I'm

6:11

a merciful man and a dad. I

6:14

understand that people sometimes do stupid

6:16

things when they're young. On the other hand, you have these laws,

6:19

he violated them. Look, here are the penalties

6:21

for violating those laws.

6:22

We're through here. I hadn't

6:24

heard this part. Carmine Simpson,

6:26

the ex police officer, said

6:29

that the FTX founder was a selfless person who

6:31

adhered to his beliefs even in jail. Even

6:33

though twelve out of every fourteen of Sam's

6:35

weekly meals are just undercooked rice,

6:38

a scoop of disgusting looking beans, and weak

6:40

old brown lettuce, Sam stayed

6:42

true to his commitment not to participate in

6:44

the maltreatment of animals.

6:48

Yeah, this is a correctious officer

6:50

who befriended him while he was in the Hoo's gow.

6:52

I guess, and I guess as he was committed to

6:54

eating crappy vegetarian food. Again,

6:56

let me show you this list of charges.

6:59

And oh, we've gone over this once

7:01

already, having me hmmm, now are

7:03

you gonna tell me he raised rabbits as

7:05

a kid or or what did he

7:07

never cheated at checkers?

7:09

Again? The list of the charges. I think

7:11

you noticed them, all right. I've

7:14

never really paid attention to one of these sentencing

7:16

things where they do this sort of stuff. So they're trying to make

7:18

the argument that because you didn't

7:20

eat the undercooked ham, you

7:23

ate the mushed up beans, we should lower

7:25

your sentence. What the hell.

7:27

He's a decent fellow. He sticks to his principles,

7:31

except for the principle of not stealing billions

7:33

of dollars from investors. Again,

7:35

at the risk of being annoying, I would like

7:37

to show.

7:37

You this list of charges, and at

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some point.

7:41

The risk of being annoying.

7:43

At some point, it's not about

7:46

him as an individual. It's about us

7:48

as a society. Human beings

7:50

respond to incentives and disincentives.

7:52

You have to have a hell of a disincentive

7:56

in the face of somebody who thinks I just figured

7:58

out how I can spend how I can steal

8:01

or drain people of ten billion

8:03

dollars because I'm gambling with their

8:05

money to try to get even richer. What's

8:08

the disincentive for this, Well, it's a lot

8:10

less if I eat bad beans instead

8:12

of ham. So I think I'm gonna go ahead and give

8:15

it a try. Well, I can't have that I

8:17

was looking at this the wrong way when I went into it. I was thinking,

8:19

God, we got so many murderers. You know, that poor cop

8:21

that died in New York and they're having the wake today.

8:24

The guy who killed that cop should

8:26

have been in jail like probably

8:28

fifty different times.

8:31

And stayed in there. And we let a guy like that out,

8:33

and we're gonna put Sam Bengman free, who I'm

8:35

not worried about at all, in prison

8:37

for twenty five years. But yeah, it's got

8:39

to be a disincentive for other people to do it, because

8:42

if the penalty is like you go to jail, you go to

8:44

a white collar prison for two years,

8:46

a lot of smart people are gonna risk

8:48

that to steal your money. Sure,

8:51

oh yeah, and we don't want that. His mom

8:54

wrote a letter to the judge saying, this is not just a

8:56

personal tragedy. The ease with which we

8:58

consign young lives with so much promise

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to the trash heap is a societal

9:02

tragedy as well. Yeah,

9:05

thanks for your opinion, sweetheart. Yeah.

9:09

Wells as the old

9:12

saying goes, do

9:14

not do the crime if

9:16

for some reason you think it would be inconvenient

9:19

or unpleasant to do the time.

9:22

Hmmm, wisdom there. H

9:28

he It doesn't give me any pleasure. I

9:30

think this guy is more fool than villain. Oh

9:32

absolutely, absolutely, there's

9:35

a little villain in there, no doubt.

9:37

You know what.

9:37

I feel bad he's gonna spend all that time

9:39

in a cage with his freedom denied to him.

9:42

But don't steal from people, right

9:45

and again that that, that

9:47

really is the message to send all these other crypto

9:50

kings out there or anybody else. The penalty

9:52

for doing this is stiff. Don't

9:55

roll the dice thinking you can pull it off, because

9:57

you're gonna spend a good, chunkier life

10:00

life in prison. Don't have a

10:02

crime. If you can do the

10:04

time, don't

10:08

do it.

10:09

You got all sorts of banks all over the place

10:12

that have their you

10:14

know, they hold deposits, and

10:17

then they have their investment arm.

10:19

And then if the investment arm makes

10:22

disastrous choices and loses zillions

10:24

of dollars, and they say, you know, let's not

10:26

keep the books on this for a while. Let's just

10:28

go ahead and use all the unsuspecting people's

10:31

money in wild investments against

10:33

the law to try to catch up to our

10:35

losses. Why don't we do that, I'm sure we'll

10:37

be able to pay them back soon. Yeah,

10:40

yeah, let's do that. Well, every

10:42

banking executive in America, it's

10:44

going to hear this dude got twenty five years.

10:46

That's one thing I ain't doing.

10:48

Plus, I didn't follow all the testimony, and we don't

10:50

know all of the emails and phone calls

10:52

and everything like that that prosecutors were

10:55

pretty too. We don't know what he sounds like behind closed

10:57

doors, and he might not sound quite so

11:01

aw shucks. I didn't know what

11:03

was going on ish when you hear

11:05

his actual communications with him and his friends.

11:07

And that might be why the assistant US attorney

11:10

behind trying to prosecute him said, if mister brankmin

11:12

Freed thought the mathematics would justify it, he would

11:14

do it again. That's what

11:16

his belief is, having looked

11:18

into the guy's personality.

11:20

My final note on this, having studied the

11:22

death penalty for a very long time

11:25

and criminal justice in general, the

11:28

severity of the punishment plays

11:31

a role into terrence, but it doesn't

11:33

play nearly as big a role as

11:35

the certainty of punishment. That

11:38

is the one thing, and this doesn't apply to SBF

11:40

specifically. In fact, you could argue it's kind of the opposite.

11:42

But that's the one thing we're getting completely

11:44

wrong is a society and our current

11:47

woke soft on crime garbage.

11:50

There's got to be a certainty of

11:52

a sanction and that's

11:55

what stops crime, and.

11:56

We've gotten completely away from that. It's

11:59

hard to imagine the emotions

12:02

of most of

12:04

us, almost all of us never get

12:06

to live any sort of lifestyle as high flying as

12:08

his was, and then to go to the very bottom when you're in prison.

12:10

Wow, that that dynamic in a

12:12

two year period

12:15

be hard to wrap your head around. He's

12:17

got a lot of time reason not to do it. He's got a lot

12:20

of time to think about it. Though, latest

12:22

poll about the war between Israel

12:24

and Hamas ain't good for Israel.

12:27

We'll get to that at some point, and a bunch of other stuff.

12:38

Former Connecticut senator and vice presidential candidate

12:40

Joe Lieberman has died at day

12:42

two after complications from a fall.

12:45

Yeah, Joe Lieberman, Jewish senator

12:47

a long time. We talked about him a

12:50

fair amount earlier, but he

12:53

first jew on a presidential

12:56

ticket as Al Gore's vice presidential

12:58

running mate. I'm assuming if you were alive

13:00

today and a US senator, he would be hard

13:03

pushing for our support of Israel against

13:05

Amas and probably not wanting Israel

13:07

to stop until they finished the job

13:10

that is, eliminate Hamas.

13:12

Well. Polling has gone the wrong direction for Israel.

13:15

This is the latest Gallop polling from

13:17

yesterday. Back in November,

13:20

it was only fifty percent Americans

13:22

that supported Israel's military action in Gaza.

13:25

It is now thirty six percent, and

13:29

that's troubling for Israel. Now. I don't

13:32

know about issue polling. One

13:34

of my favorite pundits, Sarah Isger, who knows

13:36

way more about it than I would ever know, working in a

13:38

bunch of presidential administrations and that sort

13:40

of stuff, says it's practically worthless.

13:43

It's all about how you word it and who you ask, and

13:45

all these different sorts of things, but same

13:48

question, same polling organization. That's quite

13:51

a drop just

13:53

in terms of who's paying attention. This is good, This

13:55

is interesting for Joe and I. Three quarters

13:57

of US adults say they're following the Israeli Hama

14:00

Hamas situation closely three

14:02

quarters That

14:04

hasn't changed much. In one third say they're

14:06

following the situation very closely.

14:09

So I'm

14:12

into this story, but it justifies certainly

14:14

talking about it. I did think it was kind

14:16

of interesting that of people who say

14:18

they're not paying attention they

14:20

have no opinion on the matter. That seems

14:23

to fit. Thank

14:25

you. Yeah, I'm not paying attention because

14:27

I don't care either way.

14:29

So yeah,

14:31

I'm not paying attention to it. Hmm, what's your

14:33

opinion on it? No, No,

14:35

that's fine, that's great. If you're not paying attention, be

14:37

quiet.

14:39

You break it down by party, and there's quite

14:41

a difference, and that's going to matter a lot

14:43

to whether Joe

14:45

Biden continues to support Israel.

14:49

A lot of the people who worry about

14:51

Joe Biden and his support for Israel

14:53

think the administration has

14:55

made the turn by not

14:58

vetoing that see fire

15:00

on Monday. That was a pretty

15:02

big deal. We didn't say

15:04

yes, but we didn't veto it either. China

15:07

and Russia vetoed one on Friday because

15:09

it would have required returning the hostages

15:11

and denouncing hamas they vetoed

15:14

it want to help them. We didn't veto it

15:16

when it helped us or Israel. He said, no, I'll go ahead

15:18

with that a cease fire is

15:22

all win for Hamas

15:24

and all lose for Israel. It's

15:27

not a compromise of any kind.

15:29

Correct, Yeah, I thought it was interesting.

15:32

I love Ian Bremer, I like him personally.

15:34

He's crazy smart, I think he's wrong sometimes.

15:37

But he had

15:40

the headline that bb net

15:42

Yahu is scapegoating Biden

15:45

in the ceasefire negotiations

15:48

by saying that the US

15:50

just undermined him made it much

15:52

easier for Hamas to take a hard line,

15:55

made it more difficult for Israel

15:57

to make the demands that they had

16:00

had been making because the UN's action

16:02

in the US letting it do it. And I thought, that's

16:04

not scape coding, that's explaining. I

16:06

think the math that Vbntnyakho cited

16:09

is correct. So

16:11

I thought that was an odd way to put it. Well, it absolutely

16:14

undermined Israel.

16:15

If you're concerned that Joe Biden is going to abandon

16:17

Israel, these numbers should make you damned concern.

16:20

So Joe Biden's got an approval rating

16:22

on his handling of the Middle East at twenty

16:24

seven percent. That's his lowest

16:27

rating among the five big issues tested,

16:29

twenty seven percent. How

16:31

do Democrats feel about it. Well, there's a sixty

16:33

four percent approval of Israel's military

16:36

efforts by Republicans sixty four

16:38

percent. Even that's down from

16:41

the seventies Democrats.

16:43

Eighteen percent of Democrats

16:45

approve of what Israel's doing militarily

16:47

in Gaza. So Biden's got his lowest

16:50

number of all the big issues, and eighteen

16:52

percent of Democrats are with him. He's

16:54

not going to stick with Israel. I don't think based

16:57

on those numbers.

16:58

I think the question is, and we've

17:00

discussed this before, is that you have

17:03

all out war, a war of we must

17:05

defeat them completely in the modern

17:07

day with modern news coverage and

17:10

a totalitarian state like Russia can

17:12

do that. They can conduct it. They're doing it right now

17:15

in Ukraine because they have a dictator.

17:17

But can a democracy watch

17:19

that unfold or will they panic?

17:24

Armstrong and Getty He's

17:27

got a good text about the whole sam bankmin

17:29

Free getting sentenced to twenty five years in prison,

17:32

Texters saying basically he should

17:34

have run a giant banking system, then

17:37

he could have broken the entire world's economy

17:39

and not gone to jail at all. Too

17:41

big to fail exactly, then you can, you

17:43

can, you can? What is it? Gamble

17:46

with people's money and socialize the losses

17:48

if you decide to yep,

17:51

fool the immortal words

17:53

of Bob.

17:54

Dylan, steal a little in the thrilling in

17:56

jail, steal a lot, and they make you king.

17:59

Oh oh devastating. So

18:02

I want to play you a little audio. This is from

18:05

the University of Michigan Honors

18:08

commencement.

18:10

What was this?

18:10

It was like the superachievers at

18:13

Michigan being honored. It's getting

18:15

to be graduation time. Let's hear how it

18:17

went, Michael.

18:18

This is the one hundredth and first year

18:21

that our most outstanding students have gathered

18:23

in this extraordinary hall to

18:26

be celebrated as the University of Michigan's

18:29

leaders and bests. It

18:31

is a fitting venue to

18:33

honor our achievements for.

18:52

Among other things, they're

18:57

chanting at University President

18:59

Santa ya Oh no, you can turn that down, Michael,

19:02

Oh no, you can't hide you are funding

19:04

genocide. Those are pro Palestinian

19:07

soft on Hamas protesters who

19:10

are trying to get the University of Michigan

19:12

system to divest from any companies

19:15

that do business with Israel because

19:18

that will halt the genocide,

19:20

as they put it. Obviously,

19:23

this sort of thing is completely untenable.

19:26

You can't have universities

19:29

if you have students chanting and interrupting

19:32

ceremonies, classes, and

19:34

so far the university systems because they're so

19:37

woke or just letting it happen.

19:39

Well, if those polls

19:41

we mentioned earlier, gallopos of eighteen

19:43

percent of Democrats, only eighteen percent

19:46

support what Israel is doing in

19:49

Gaza right now, man, it's

19:51

not just a small sliver.

19:54

Well, I don't know mister Ono,

19:56

and as an Illinois fan, I despise the

19:58

University of Michigan, but he

20:01

wrote a letter to everybody

20:03

in the wake of this the campus, and I thought

20:05

it was really good. The

20:08

disruption of the university's one hundred and first honors

20:10

convocation by anti Israel protesters

20:13

on Sunday, wow, okay, thank

20:15

you sir. At the point number one they

20:17

are anti Israel protesters brought

20:20

profound disappointment of students, parents, grandparents,

20:22

siblings, and other relatives and friends. The crowds

20:24

of well wishers, including many faculty and staff,

20:27

had come to Hill Auditorium to celebrate

20:29

undergrad students who through countless hours in

20:31

exemplary dedication have achieved the university's

20:33

highest academic honors. Like

20:36

many of you, I'm proud of our university's history of

20:38

protests, but none of us should be proud of what happened

20:40

on Sunday. We almost understand that

20:42

while protest is valued and protected,

20:44

disruptions are not.

20:47

One group's right.

20:48

To protest does not supersede the right of others

20:50

to participate in a joyous event.

20:52

The protesters intrusion on one of the university's

20:55

most important academic traditions was unacceptable.

20:58

It was not in keeping with our student code and our long

21:00

standing policy on freedom of speech and artistic

21:02

expression. It was painful for everyone

21:04

who had gathered, and especially so for members

21:06

of our Jewish community. This

21:10

guy is gaining on my favorite academic.

21:12

He's going to have to pass Ben Sass and a

21:14

few others. But in recent days I've

21:16

been asked about disciplinary measures that might

21:18

be taken against particular students regarding disruption

21:21

of activities and other acts. The university

21:23

cannot share that kind of information he's

21:25

talking about because we can't talk about individual

21:28

kids, But declining to discuss a particular

21:30

case does not imply that disciplinary

21:32

action did not or will not occur.

21:35

We must always uphold the rights of everyone to

21:37

participate in our most cherished traditions. Tomorrow

21:40

we will be in seeking feedback from the university

21:42

community on a draft policy governing disruption

21:45

of university operations. You already

21:47

ought to have one, sir, but I

21:50

do appreciate him saying we can't.

21:52

Run a university like this.

21:54

And as I've said twenty seven times,

21:56

human beings respond to incentives and disincentives,

21:59

and we're going to have some good disincentives for you.

22:01

So good luck, President. Oh no, well, we need

22:03

this in a lot of areas. The whole Heckler's veto

22:05

thing has just gained too much power in recent

22:08

years over a lot of issues, and

22:10

this has made it even worse. I mean,

22:12

whether it's closing down a bridge

22:14

so people can't get to work, or throwing

22:16

paint on a painting or running out on a basketball

22:19

floor, or just disrupting

22:21

every speaker that you don't agree with of

22:23

every kind.

22:23

We just we got it. We got to end this.

22:26

Well, yeah, and again, what's

22:28

I think what we have is a crisis of

22:30

realism in this country. To a large extent,

22:33

the idea that well, yeah, they blocked

22:35

traffic, they ruin the painting, they glued themselves

22:37

to the basketball court, they were disrupted

22:40

this ceremony the parents from all over the country

22:42

had flown to participate

22:44

in. But they are well meaning,

22:47

and they're they're they're protesting.

22:50

It's it's civil disobedience. And you remember

22:52

Martin Luther King. We kind of look

22:54

back on that and say that was good and

22:57

all. Here's what you soft heads

22:59

don't get. Your heads are soft

23:02

if you the need to wear a helmet. No,

23:04

what you don't get is if

23:08

you make this sanction free,

23:11

cost free,

23:13

you're not going to limit it to righteous

23:16

people of good conscience willing to

23:18

pay that cost.

23:19

You're gonna have every about

23:21

issues that you agree with. Well,

23:25

it's not always going to be stuff you agree with.

23:27

Well, right, but anyway, I was saying, you're

23:29

not going to limit it to serious

23:32

people with serious issues

23:34

who are willing to pay the cost of civil

23:37

disobedience. You're going to have every

23:39

a hole on earth who wants to make

23:41

noise because you've taken.

23:44

Away the cover charge.

23:46

You've made your nightclub free for anybody,

23:48

anybody who wants to wander in and

23:51

so you get jackasses like these students

23:54

with their half baked down with Israel

23:56

because they seem mean garbage.

23:59

Well, I think like people like this, they

24:01

they think it will only be people

24:04

with their politics that disrupt

24:06

things. Their things that they care about won't

24:08

get disrupted. Well, they will eventually,

24:10

like Joe said, when when we all decide that

24:12

this is just the way we live. And what's

24:15

weird about this is the

24:17

areas that happens in. I mean, the people you

24:19

stop going across the Bay Bridge, they

24:21

probably ninety five percent of them agree

24:23

with you. Those University Michigan

24:26

kids that were about to get some of their special degree,

24:28

they probably all agree with you. You ruined

24:31

their moment, right right.

24:34

But again, you have to have the sanction

24:37

or this sort of thing will be everywhere all

24:39

the time. And you've got to

24:41

Antifa who attacked a federal courthouse

24:43

one hundred and eight knights in a row or whatever

24:46

it was, many of whom got much much

24:48

much lighter sentences, if they got sentences at

24:50

all. Then people who wandered around the Capitol

24:52

on January sixth, I'm not talking about

24:54

people who bashed cops in the face. I'm talking

24:57

about tourists essentially, and

24:59

then, as

25:02

you pointed out, if

25:04

you agree with their cause,

25:06

well then there can there need not be any

25:09

sanction for blocking the bridge, hitting

25:11

the painty whatever. Now, people who

25:13

disagree with us, we're gonna hammer like

25:15

crazy. You can't have

25:17

a society that runs like that. You're

25:21

always talking about these brave, often

25:24

young dumbasses with their

25:26

faces covered like the revolutionaries

25:29

we're sand in eastas here, knowing that

25:31

they'll suffer no consequences

25:33

for their so called civil disobedience.

25:37

Come on, everybody.

25:39

So back to the UN vote

25:41

the other day on the whole Israel Hamas thing. I don't

25:44

think a lot of people know this. I didn't know it till yesterday.

25:46

The media does such a bad job of covering this stuff,

25:48

and I think it's more not

25:52

enough hands on deck and lack of perspective.

25:54

But so, there had been how

25:56

many different attempts at a ceasefire

25:58

resolution in the UN, and we vetoed them

26:01

all, and then we had put out a bunch

26:03

that didn't make it because we're demanding

26:06

return of the hostages and often

26:10

condemning Hamas. So

26:13

we finally didn't veto one that

26:16

didn't demand to return the hostages or condemn

26:18

Hamas, and the administration

26:20

says, that's not a change in policy. I

26:24

thought, I don't know, well,

26:26

it clearly was a change in policy. When smarter

26:29

people than me pointed out

26:30

a little

26:33

speech that Linda Thomas Greenfield

26:35

is our current ambassador to the UN under the

26:37

Biden administration, so she voted

26:40

against the resolution on Friday. That

26:43

was the we voted for the resolution on

26:45

Friday. That was the one that China and Russia vetoed,

26:48

the resolution like all our other resolutions, where

26:50

you got to get back to hostages and Hamas

26:53

is a bad guy China and Russia. And then

26:55

her statement afterwards was a

26:57

long, eloquent explanation of why

26:59

we've voted for it, and why a resolution

27:02

like this passed to pass, and the importance

27:04

of getting the hostages back, and if we don't

27:06

demand the hostages back, then that gives a

27:09

free pass to anybody in the world for any cause,

27:11

to take hostages and know they won't be condemned for

27:13

it. And then three days later

27:16

we allow a resolution to

27:18

pass without a demand for the hostages.

27:20

That is clearly a change in policy,

27:23

and that poor woman Linda Thomas Greenfield

27:25

then had to put out a statement on Monday counterdicting

27:28

all the things she said on Friday. Right,

27:31

that is a change in policy from

27:34

our country.

27:36

So it goes when you serve at the whim

27:38

of the president or the pleasure of the president. Also,

27:40

let me point out that China and Russia, we're going

27:42

to veto anything we backed

27:45

just because that's what they did, which

27:48

makes you wonder what the hell are we doing here

27:50

at the UN.

27:51

Right. But instead of some

27:54

negotiation where they move a little closer

27:56

to us and we move a little closer to them, or whatever they

27:58

held firm, we did not. That's

28:00

all there is to that. More brave and

28:02

decisive leadership from Joseph R. Biden.

28:05

That sucks. He's

28:07

going to be on stage with a couple of past presidents tonight

28:09

with what they're calling the biggest fundraiser in US political

28:12

history. If you don't know the details of that is pretty entertaining.

28:14

We can get to that next. Armstrong

28:18

and I've

28:24

been through the Armstrong and Getty

28:27

show. This

28:33

is the Lizzo song my kids like when they

28:35

owned she first hit the scene. You bout damn

28:37

time it's

28:42

sick o'clock anyway, whatever

28:45

happened with Lizzo. And remember she's in a bunch of

28:47

trouble cut she got canceled

28:49

somewhere. She got canceled on a

28:51

bunch of radio stations when she uh

28:54

she fat shamed her. The dancers.

28:56

Her dancers, right, she was abusing them behind the scenes,

28:59

were as big as her. I don't know how she was fat

29:01

shaming them in

29:04

what sense? Yeah, Wow,

29:06

the world of Lizzo. I'm just not

29:09

that up on it. Anyway. She's performing tonight

29:11

at the big fundraiser with Barack

29:15

Biden and Bill

29:19

Clinton all on the same stage. Three presidents.

29:21

That's a pretty big deal. Yeah, I'd say

29:23

it's huge. They think it could be the biggest of all

29:25

time. Is that fundraiser in terms of dollars

29:28

adjusted for inflation? I don't know. Harding might have had

29:30

a bigger one, who knows, but he

29:33

could throw a wing thing. Yeah.

29:34

They hope to bring in more than twenty five million

29:36

dollars. Radio City Music

29:38

Hall late night talk show host Stephen

29:41

Colberar will moderate the conversation

29:43

between the three potuses, two

29:45

of whom are not senile, even

29:48

though they served many years ago.

29:50

Biden is Biden

29:52

is twenty years

29:54

older than Barack Obama,

29:58

and he is five

30:01

years old or four years older than Bill frorfive,

30:03

who was elected president in ninety two.

30:06

Got a joke.

30:08

Yeah, yeah, So depending

30:10

on what tier of donor you are, there's all

30:12

sorts of perks you want to run Clip fifty one,

30:15

let's do it.

30:16

Tickets for this event started at two hundred

30:19

and twenty five dollars, went all the way up to five hundred

30:21

thousand dollars with the more you pay, the

30:23

more access you're getting, including one

30:26

batch of supporters who will have a photo

30:28

taken by famed photographer Annie

30:30

Leibovitz of themselves and the three

30:32

president.

30:33

Yeah, that's one hundred thousand dollars to

30:35

get a photo with all three. Then a donation

30:37

of two hundred and fifty thousand earns

30:39

donors access into one reception.

30:42

If you donate five hundred thousand

30:45

dollars, you get into an even more exclusive

30:47

gathering. Boy

30:50

for five hundred thousand dollars, I need

30:53

three presidents to go on a cross country

30:55

drive with me and we talk about the old

30:57

times or something. I mean, it better be a very

30:59

exclusive gathering.

31:01

Right, tell me to Monica stories leave

31:03

nothing out, Billy.

31:04

And this is my favorite part. You get to smoke pot with Barack

31:07

Obama for five hundred thousand dollars. But

31:09

the party doesn't stop there. According

31:11

to the campaign, First Lady

31:13

Jill Biden and DJ d Nice

31:15

are hosting an after party at Radio

31:18

City Music Hall with only five hundred

31:20

guests. Are

31:24

the presidents going to be there? I doesn't

31:26

say Biden doesn't stay

31:28

up past seven forty five.

31:32

Here's a question for you, because

31:34

I've done I've been like

31:37

two political things or

31:39

whatever where you do a grip and grin get your picture

31:41

taken or goodness knows, we've taken

31:44

hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of pictures

31:46

maybe with folks who wanted

31:48

to picture with us, which is fine, We're happy to do it.

31:51

But do you really need any

31:53

leap of its for a gripp and grin shot?

31:56

I mean, what is she going to have? Like stage?

31:59

Every single one? All right?

32:00

Now, you are going to have your shirt

32:02

three quarters open, sweat dripping

32:04

from your nose.

32:05

It's going to be in black and white.

32:06

We're going to be in front of a rusted out nineteen

32:08

fifty three Ford pickup truck with

32:11

a broken down windmill.

32:12

In the back that I want you to be. I want

32:14

you to be holding a duck. Why look

32:17

look into the distance. I'm an artist. Have

32:20

the duck look into the distance too. That's

32:22

good, that's beautiful. The click now hold

32:24

it, click click, make me believe it? Click click click

32:26

click click click.

32:27

Okay, now the next people, we

32:29

need to travel to Oklahoma.

32:30

There's an oil well.

32:32

I need you to pout, you know, any

32:35

leave of it. She's got to be thinking, well, she did

32:37

signed on for this. They didn't make her do it. But I'm

32:41

kind of overqualified for quick

32:43

snaps for gripping grins.

32:45

But whatever, Barack Obama, I'm put

32:48

the duck back. Michael.

32:52

I'm sure Barack Obama and Bill

32:54

Clinton believe as

32:56

Democrats that would be better to have Biden

32:58

president than Trump. But there's no way

33:01

they both think Biden should be president,

33:03

right.

33:04

Obama thought Biden was a jackass

33:07

when he was in his prime.

33:12

His final thoughts,

33:19

so well, your

33:21

comments and.

33:25

Yes closure for

33:29

the show.

33:32

Something something genocide, something

33:35

something genocide. I'm gonna ruin it for

33:37

everybody, and I don't expect there.

33:38

To be any cost. Here's

33:40

your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.

33:42

Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap

33:45

up the show. There is our technical director, Michelangelow.

33:47

Michael final thought.

33:48

I would you like to spend one hundred thousand dollars to get

33:50

a photo with three presidents? And then you're looking

33:52

the wrong way or the president's looking the wrong way.

33:54

You got something in your teeth that would be painful,

33:57

miserable. Katie Greenersteemed Newswoman

33:59

as final thought.

34:00

Katie, I'm just thinking that this fundraiser

34:02

sounds like my hell.

34:03

And then after all of it, you have to go to an after

34:05

party with Jill Biden. A

34:10

fund doesn't stop there.

34:11

The campaign said doctor

34:13

Jill, not a real doctor Jack.

34:15

Final thought for us. I had all these big plans

34:17

with my kids to try to do a spring break

34:19

sort of thing, and this weekend in the weather not

34:22

cooperating. It's gonna be in the fifties and raining

34:24

everywhere we're planning to go. So I think

34:26

just a good long game of monopoly

34:28

indoors with healthy snacks,

34:31

that's probably what we'll end up doing.

34:33

My final thought from the Babylon b Ten changes

34:35

Trump made to the God Bless the USA

34:37

Bible.

34:37

Number one Moses has to.

34:39

Hold up the American flag so Israelites

34:41

can win in battle. Two Proverbs

34:43

is replaced with the collection of Trump's finest tweets.

34:46

Three The New Testament now includes the full text

34:48

of Trump The Art of the Deal, and

34:51

and number five we'll skip to that Jesus

34:54

is betrayed by a kiss from Mike

34:56

Pence.

34:58

I'm strong in Getty wrapping up another grueling

35:00

for our workday. So many people

35:02

to thank, so little time.

35:03

Go to Armstrongandgetty dot

35:05

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35:11

We will see you tomorrow or sometime. God

35:13

bless America.

35:16

I've heard young leaders talk with me about

35:18

a term they've coined.

35:20

Cal I'm strong and Getty. Hear me

35:22

plainly. I will not sugarcoat this. You're about

35:24

to open a pit of home to our sacred

35:27

airwaves. Wait no,

35:29

no, no, no, no you

35:30

you you resist

35:35

We much right? Okay, And so it

35:37

feels like it's hard to be celebratory

35:39

from that high note.

35:40

Have an amazing, amazing day.

35:43

Wow, Armstrong and Getty