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Visit Vonsoralbertsons.com for more deals and ways to save broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty, and now he 's Armstrong Strong and Getty Nick Lee. A fan just ran on the floor and wants to take a selfie security quickly takes him away . Crowd gives him the appropriate move. You saw the security guard in pursu Mitchell Robinson, like, what's this dude doing? Scott Farson, you're gonna come over and explain it to us. So I thought, wow, somebody could actually get clear to the middle of the court to a player before a security guard stops him. How do you have access like that? What are you gonna do? Build a fence? Walls? Well you'd have to be either had to have a really, really expensive ticket or the immediate person or something, I guess. Yeah. Although I have a I have a friend, she um she went to like a Final Four NCAA game because the school she went to, Yukon, made it to the Final Four that year and she wanted to go. So she made uh oh she got a lanyard and made with the bull of plastic thing, a thing that said pressed with her picture on it and she just walked in and sat like right there under the basket with a camera. Wow. Really? That wasn't even that many years ago. Yeah. Man, I've been grilled at smaller events than that. That's crazy. I know, isn't it? So I would like to do it. It's all about the lanyard and the laminated picture. If you have a laminated picture of yourself, you can go pretty much anywhere. Nobody could do that on their own. Right. I'm going to begin the uh following discussion with the quote one of my favorites from James Lindsay Mars Marks take two If you screw up the first word, I mean by God that is just a bad sign . You start into a long story. I got kids, uh, before the we leave the dinner table, I've got a story. This is very important. Yeah. This is one of the most important things that ever happened in my life. Blinchka ah crap dammit Alright, here we go. Take two. Marxists just lie . They lie so overtly and blatantly that people begin to question their own perceptions. It works because no one expects another person to lie so overtly. They don't believe in shared truth. They use words as weapons. Until you learn to keep this in mind during every interaction, you will continue to get played. They rely on you implicitly assuming that they have good intentions and are aiming at shared truth, and so dialogue can be productive. That's a deception. For Marxists, dialogue is not a way of obtaining truth, it is a forum for manipulation. Having said that, we have all those of us concerned with the whole transgender craze amongst adolescents and the terrible medical experiments that were done to these poor confused kids, many of them autistic or abused or whatever. Um we've all been acutely aware of the famous, famous study that was authored by researchers from the Trevor Project that said if your kid is not affirmed in their gender change, they will kill themselves . And that horrible threat was repeated so many times to so many poor confused parents who thought uh well, uh would you rather have a dead son or a live daughter? They were asked over and over. Yeah, and that's tough, especially in the early going of this story when not as much was known. If you were told , look, there's been a study done. Exper ts have proven, they would say , that your child is at high risk to commit suicide unless you go through with this. That's a tough position to put a parent in. Well, researchers researchers have gotten hold of the uh the study and the raw data attached to it and have finally been able to take this quote unquote study apart. And what what it was studying was rates of self-reported suicide attempts, we're talking to thirteen to seventeen year olds, from before and after so-called anti-transgender laws were passed in respond ent stat es . And uh pre legislation it was point five four per whatever, hundred thousand. Uh researchers set specific time periods following the implet implementation of laws in treatment states to track the estimated increase in reported suicide attempts that could be linked to said laws. I'm going to skip some of the technical stuff, but they noted the Trevor Project researchers, and there ought to be quotes around that, they're activists, noted an approximately seventy-two percent rise in attempted uh suicide attempts, uh average suicide attempts, um from point five four to point nine three. Um this in turn appears to have driven the group's public messaging regarding a large statistical increase in suicides among transgender and non bar binary youth if there was an unless there was an affirmation only approach. Uh blah blah blah. Quote enacting state level anti-transgender laws increased incidence of past year suicide attempts among TGNB young people by seven to seventy-two percent are Our findings highlight the need to consider the mental health impact of recent anti-transgender laws and to advance protective policies, meaning affirming only . And they use this like a cudgel now for years. If you get into the actual data , virtually the entire increase in suicides was in Idaho , using an extremely small sample size that statistically, if you go from two to three, that's a fifty percent rise. It's a shocking rise. And what's even crazier about leaning on Idaho and those numbers was that there were only two laws in Idaho even remotely related to transgender status, including H B five hundred, which banned males from participating in female sports, and H B 509, a law concerning how sex is recorded on birth certificates. Neither of these laws banned or even addressed procedures or treatments for gender dysphoric youth. So you've got a tiny sample size of one state , correlation not causation, and it was such a small number, it might have just been the phenomenon which is just established psychological science at this point. Teen suicides tend to run in clusters. Um and and so there's absolutely correlation correlation but no causation here. Um and then they compared apples to oranges or it was just it's absolutely scientifically complet ely invalid. It's to get back to the James Lindsay quote, it's live But that launched uh God, I maybe not a thousand, but damn close to it, a thousand sets of terrified parents who didn't dare say Oh you don't think it's you don't think it's a thousand? Oh but it's well more than that. It could be fifty thousand. I don't know. I I really don't know. But the Trevor Project's claim has been cited hundreds of times in defense of looser restrictions on so-called gender affirming treatments for youth patients in legislatures, in the press, um, all over the place. If you can come up with a stat to back your argument, nobody checks where that came from or the validity of it. And uh you can get a lot done. And certainly in the years that we've been doing this radio show, we've seen that over and over again. Whether it's the nine-year-old kid and the straws with the turtle, where states ban straws because of that. I mean, all you need is a stat. It doesn't you you might as well just make it up on a thin air. I mean, it's barely more ridiculous than a nine year old termpaper or uh you know an instant instance of a couple of people in Idaho. Right. Why why even go through the trouble of having it be that real? And if as James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose and Peter Bagoshin so hilariously uh illustrated with their fake studies for your uh grievance studies uh papers, if you dress it up to look like a legitimate scientific study or paper, something like that, then nobody questions it. And what's really shocking about this fake study uh is that it made it to the Supreme Court . The plaintiffs last year in that United States versus Scurmetti, which ultimately upheld Tennessee's law banning puberty blockers and hormone therapy for minors, the plaintiffs cited the Trevor Project 's peer-reviewed study and its 72% statistic right there at the Supreme Court . A scientific joke of a study. That's frustrating . It is. It it lets you know, which is why I started with the quote I did. Let you know what you're up against. These people are cultists in their uh utter lack of desire to examine their own you know precepts and claims. Anyway, enough said . Got some kind of breaking news. The likely new attorney General, Todd Blanche, as named by President Trump, has announced a massive crackdown on fraud. All kinds of uh indictments, defendants, many, many millions of dollars. This is something that's long overdue at every level of government across the country. We can touch on that story and a whole bunch of other stuff. Stay here. Armstrong and Getty . This bizarre incident unfolding just after 9 p.m. on Saturday with a suspect showing up at a TSA checkpoint at the Sacramento Airport. Authorities say Kamani Jones was wearing a scarf covering his face and a latex gloves. When they check Jones's carry-on bag, they say they allegedly discovered this explosive device, a lighter as well as a knife, scissors, more blades, and zip ties. According to the TSA, if the explosive device had detonated next to a window, it could have caused significant damage and a loss of cabin pressure. If convicted, Jones faces a maximum of five years in prison. FBI says Jones has a history of par anoia. Okay, so that's a complete nut job. I mean you show up with a scarf around your face and rubber gloves on to go through TSA , so you're not exactly with it. With all your tools of uh hij ack or damage, yeah. With your mayhem 101 kit in your bag. Labeled, still in the package. Um but as Noah Roth man told us yesterday, author of Blood in Progress, when they recorded a podcast about left wing violence. I don't know what this guy's violence was. I think it was probably just crazy person violence. But uh crazy people have changed history. So yeah. Doesn't matter where you're crazy or not if you take out a president or whatever. Whatever, that changes history. Um All the s uh big wigs in the Justice Department uh uh in the Trump administration having a press conference right now, big crackdown on fraud. We're gonna talk about that next segment a little bit, some of the things they said, and I got a great piece from the California Post about nonprof its. It's time to completely unmask the whole non-profit charade. And non-governmental organizations, NGOs. Um Different topic though. I mak'ming an effort to open my mind about modern art. I've been on this I've been on this for a week or so now. I don't I don't remember what got me started on it exactly. So I have uh are you familiar with the frame? There might be other companies that make it, but Samsung makes one uh called the frame. I saw it at Best Buy the first time and I thought what a great idea. It's a tiny, very, very thin television, but you can mount it on your wall, it looks like a picture, and then there's a subscription thing you sign up for and you pick out different art and it looks like you got framed art on your wall and and and and then you can change it up is what I like so much as opposed to being invested in one thing on that wall. I can keep changing it in different stuff. That's what I like. And uh I've always gone with like real art in my opinion. Uh but I was me and Hitler, the only thing we have in common is we both hate modern art. Think it's a charade. But I've been trying to I've been watching oh I know what it was. I just got randomly fed a video on YouTube because it figured out my algorithm or whatever. Steve Martin and the comedian is one, of the great correct collectors of art in the world. He's got I think like a hundred million dollars with of worth of art. Wow. Oh it it's a tremendous collection. They display it at various art museums around the world , um, where they'll have the Steve Martin collection uh being uh on display at any given time. He's super into it. But anyway, he he would he had a uh it was a YouTube video of him explaining modern art with somebody uh uh an art teacher and discussing what this and that and everything you know i ought to I ought to try to learn more about this so I'm attempting to but what I can't tell is how you tell the difference between something that's just crap and something that is meaningful? I'm not there yet. Not even close. Yeah, I I do like a lot of abstract art and maybe modern art. The problem is uh I find the permission structure a bit too odd too broad for modern art. Bananas taped to walls, etc. Exactly. The the famous DuCamp, is that the guy with the toilet way back a hundred years ago? Kind of kicked off this whole craze with that sort of stuff. Um yeah, abstract art, modern art. I I don't know. I don't know how you tell the difference. I don't I don't know how you get your brain to work in such a way that you are just amazed by what you see versus the common expression that everybody says. I think there are books with this title. My kid could do that. Because it often looks like you're what's the difference? Um in fact there was one study where they took a bunch of people's like kindergarten kids art and then actual artists' art and gave it to art professionals and how often they could tell the difference. And they usually could tell the difference, but not always. And I feel like it should be closer to always. All right, everybody has to come up with a modern art idea. Here's mine real quick. It's a vacuum cleaner with a pile of dirt on top of the vacuum cleaner, and it's entitled Now What ? That's a good one. Makes you think about time and space and vacuum cleaners. I haven't finished the description. Henry had a big cardboard box with nothing in it. Philistines. And it was just the idea of, you know, wondering what's in the box. Could be anything and all the different things that could be in the box and that sort of thing. I like it. Yeah. Michael, you got one for us? Yeah I do. A young child staring straight at the television. The title is A Boy's Obsession. It's just a kid just staring away. Wow. Makes you think stop and. I only have one title and then you can apply it to whatever you want it to be. I've always had the same title. Yeah. Man's Inhumanity to Man. I've always liked that title. Just for anything. A bunch of bicycle. One piece of unassembled bicycle parts in a pile. Man's inhumanity to man. Perfect. Yeah. Banana taped to a mango taped to the wall. Man's inhumanity to man. Of course. The one piece of modern art that I'll never forget, I was at the San Francisco MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art. The giant porcelain Michael Jackson with a chimp sculpture. Yeah. It was enormous. It was right in the middle of a room. Yeah. That's on display in uh Los Angeles at whichever museum that is. They don't want to give me credit for anything. Um I just did you freak. But like I was listening to somebody explain how Jackson Pollock, the famous splatter painter, you know, those were very deliberate. That wasn't just haphazard. It was all kinds of deliber and I've I've watched videos of him doing it and it sure looks haphazard. Doesn't look like he's putting a lot of thought into it as he runs around splattering paint. That's how good he was. He made it look effortless. Apparently. If you had any culture, you'd appreciate it. Trying to do something about fraud. Good luck, but at least they're trying. Stay tuned. Armstrong and Getty . I am not a fraudster. I got yelled at by a bill collector the other day. Who was wrong? He was just wrong. When do they call you back and apologize and say, sorry for using that tone of voice where I acted like you were some sort of scumbag when turns out we're wrong . I realize they deal with scumbags all the time, so they probably get a certain attitude. But sometimes you're wrong. Sometimes you call people and that bill is paid. And then I, you know, got them back. Say, here's the information, here's the date it was paid, here's the receipt. Right. There's no sorry for yelling at you like that. Anyway. The medical stuff. That's the tough one. Is all the medical bills floating around and you don't and sometimes, at least as I've been told, if you don't pay it right away 'cause they try to get you to pay it before the insurance pays it, and sometimes if you don't pay it right away, then the insurance pays it. That whole game is complicated. Then you you pay the big chunk, but then there's another $80 with some other entity somewhere that exists. Right. And you're thinking I paid this already. Or you'd never heard of the company before, so you get a text saying you owe eighty-two dollars for the Okay, is this a is this real or is this one of the eight million fraudulent using cogniz um uh you know bill collector fraud schemes or whatever? It's anyway in, the modern world, it's tough to tell . Um big press conference they just had right now with the new acting attorney general who might end up being the attorney general. Trump announced him, Todd Blanche is his pick to be attorney general, on uh they're gonna crack down on fraud and make this a really big thing. So they went out there and he was there, and Cash Patel was there, and he announced the ten most wanted fraudsters in America, which I'm gonna hit you with a couple of those here in just a second or whatever. But Dr. Oz was there and had one particular example of fraud. I was visiting a facility called Nab Labelle Home Health, it's run by woman Nizumi Tatsing. You may not see her here today because she's in jail. And she went to jail because she was accused and convicted of taking billing practices to a level we had not seen before. She was billing for people who are deceased. Billing for dead people is a bad-looking court. And it showed at her conviction when she was accused and appropriately taken out for doing things that we find reprehensible. Now, if she was the only one, we wouldn't be here in force. Unfortunately, this area around Columbus is responsible in Franklin County for one third of all of the one and a half billion dollars spent on home health care in Ohio. Home health care is a huge one. This just breaking on CBS News. Federal authorities have busted what they say is a thirty million dollar fraud conspiracy involving billing for children's behavioral health services. What a gold mine that is for fraud. Autism counseling. Yep. Oh my God . Yeah. And there are aspects of state and federal laws. I usually don't bring the stories to you because they're fairly dry and I don't want to discourage everybody to death. But some of the the legal according to the letter of the law exploitations of the public teat run into the hundreds of millions of dollars and are never at all what Congress or the state legislature intended. As I said, uh I came up with this about six months ago, America's uh what w what would you call it, w the welfare state is a giant fraud network that occasionally helps out the needy. Yeah . Yeah. Um I wish everybody could get on board with that, as I've been saying for years. I don't understand why progressives don't want to crack down on fraud as just as much as fiscal conservatives, so that that money can actually be used for the things that you care about more than I care about? You're the ones that care about the downtrodden. I would think you would want the money to be spent on the downtrodden and not stolen. But for whatever reason, the left is I want to keep my money. I don't care about the downtrodden that much. I want my money to stay with me. I earned it. I went to work. You're the one who cares about all these different people. So I would think you would want the money to get to them. I I just think they they believe that pointing out fraud or admitting fraud is to an So on this one, there's different kinds of fraud. It's all bad, but man, some of them are extra bad like this one, the one with the children's behavior health services. Four defendants busted in an investigation, fourteen vehicles including a Maserati, a Mercedes, a Bentley, a McLaren. So these scumbags are not only stealing money from you, but they're living just a ridiculous. What are you doing driving a Bentley and a McLaren when you're stealing from parents who sent your kids there attending summer camps, church groups, rec programs and everything like that for all kinds of different psychotherapy around autism or OCD or anxiety or depression or all these problems that a lot of us have with our kids and you're freaking stealing from these poor parents and these poor kids and driving around in a Maserati. You should be executed. Thanks for taking my money. I want capital punishment for those people. You are the scummiest of scumbags. Yeah. Yep. And where there is third party payment, there is theft and fraud, and the government's a third party. Everybody knows it. It's just it's discouraging. I I I love this. This is one of my favorite things the Trump administration has done. Yeah. Go crazy. Take take this all the way to the wall. See how much you can get done. So Cash Patel was up there and first of all, just one of my little jihads I've been doing for years. Hey, government people . This whoever invented this idea of you have a press conference and you spend the first 15 minutes congratulating each other . Stop. You want to do that behind closed doors or you want to do that at the end? Go ahead. But those of us who pay your salaries and are paying your organiz ation want to know what's going on. Tell us that. Do the congratulations and the back slappin' later. Hate that. Cash Patolin, they all they went on for fifteen minutes. Also like to thank the assistant director is doing a really good job . Okay, whatever. I finally got around to the information. So the FBI announced the top ten fraudsters out there. They always have a list going. It's kind of like the ten most wanted, but this is particularly around fraud. I just click ed. I just clicked on a couple at random just to see what they were. Here's this woman , a young attractive woman, Elaine Esco, who's disappeared. She's wanted for obtaining over thirty-two million dollars in federal COVID-19 relief funds. Wow. She and a couple other people submitted more than 90 fraudulent applications for funds from the paycheck protection program. That's funny, I got a friend with an actual business who actually needed protection and had to jump through all kinds of hoops and made it almost impossi ble for him to get the money. Anyway, this woman and her four friends stole thirty-two million dollars that they didn't deserve or need at all . These people have disappeared, these fraudsters that are on the list. This guy, Christopher Burns, uh, he defrauded victims out of 10 million dollars and he disappeared in 2020. Last he was seen, uh, he left his home in 2020, the day before he was supposed to turn over documents to the SEC and has never been seen again. That's six and a half years ago. You'll never see him again. Yeah. He's living a wonderful life in some other part of the world, I'm guessing. Anyway, his scheme was he allegedly falsely told victims he was investing their money in a peer-to-peer lending program , and the loans are backed by collateral. Apparently he did not have the collateral, and all he was doing was stealing their money , but how do you do that to the tune of ten million dollars? That's really quite amazing. So okay, this is the so they're taking on private fraud as well as f fraudulently bilking taxpayer programs? Yeah. All kinds of fraud. All kinds of product. Interesting fraud. But I wanted I wanted to get to this . Uh bah . I'll find it here . The nonprofit state, this was from the California Post they put out last night about how California leads the America like we do in so many different things. Sometimes we lead America by being the worst in America, for instance, that business climate . The nonprofit state. The the fraudsters have perfected nonprofits in the state of California . Uh and a whole bunch of them are getting cracked down on finally . There are San Francisco particularly the mayor of San Francisco, the guy that helped clean up the streets and get so many of the homeless people off the streets and all that sort of stuff and and change the direction when people got finally got fed up is trying to crack down on all these different nonprofits that they've got going on that are um are are crap. Um mayor Lurie trying to trim the city budget. Hundreds of nonprofit organizations across San Francisco rake in one point six three billion dollars annually at one city. Just in San Francisco, one point six three billion dollars for things like as it says here in the California Post, hosting street fairs next to open drug markets in the tenderloin, giving free money to undocumented immigrants . Repairing historic harms is one of them. I'd be great at that. One point seven billion dollars for all these different non profits. Uh and then it goes through some of the expenses of these nonprofits. A lot of the nonprofit money goes to staff. That's where a ton of this goes. And some nonprofits almost all the money goes to staff using my finger . The Dream Keeper Initiative, for example, that is supposed to help. That sounds good . How could you be against something called the Dreamkeeper Initiative? And everybody that works for the nonprofit, they're not in it for profit. They're in here to help black residents of San Francisco. They spent six million dollars in on other things uh like m a trip to Martha's Vineyard for everybody, spa days for execs, a bulk order of employees' children books. So one of them wrote a book, then ordered gazillion copies of it at the money of the nonprofit. Anyway, there's all kinds of examples of that. I'm hoping the whole nonprofit world is finally being exposed for what it is. And you have to be an actual nonprofit with a lot of scrutiny on you to survive this wave of non profit. You don't get to just say that anymore and I automatically assume you're doing good stuff. Please the salaries are the profit. The benefits are the profit. Right. Wake up America . Uh Michael, which of the fabulous incogni messages are we uh oh that's uh that's the best one script two. Uh your information is valuable, far more accessible than you realize, though every time you shop online your data's collected, packaged, and sold to data brokers. But that's why we both use Incogni now. Works quietly in the background to wipe your personal data from people search sites, data brokers, and hidden databases none of us knew existed. 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And you you you have a one sheet about all the good things you're gonna do. And then you apply to something or you go to speak at a rotary club or whatever the hell you do to get these things going. And money starts flowing your way and you drive around in a nice car. I got I'm the CEO of this nonprofit. I gotta get I wanna walk places, I gotta have a car. It just happens to be a McLaren. And I and I need to travel to various places to talk to other groups that do similar work as me. And what am I supposed to walk there? Of course I need to fly and I got long legs. I need to sit in first class and I need a nice bed so I get a good night's sleep to go to the conference. So I'm staying in a nice hotel. And I'm managing a hell of a lot of money. So of course I make 400K a year on top of the rest of the stuff. I was lucky, I guess, that uh I think I'm pretty sure it was my dad who explained to me when excuse me, I was guess I was a teenager growing up in Chicagoland, how the whole nonprofit thing works. That the government takes taxpayers, it hands the money, taxpayers' money, hands it to the cronies. The cronies then do just enough work to barely justify their existence, but then they keep the money and in return they turn out the vote every single time so the machine stays in power. And so heck, from before I like uh uh uh kissed a girl uh you know effectively. Um I knew what that looked like, which uh unfortunately puts me in a very, very small minority of people because I think the nonprofit is one of those scams. It's like socialism. You have to knock it back every single generation because it seems attractive on its face and nobody goes beyond that. Nobody digs any deeper. People throw that term around as if it is uh a solid stamp of goodness. Well, it's a nonprofit. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. All right . Oh my God. $1.7 billion dollars going out to nonprofits just in San Francisco. How much of that is legitimate making the world a better place? Uh huh. People not drawing exorbitant salaries or getting a car or all the stuff we were just talking about. Remember when Gavin Newsom admitted that they didn't even have a mechanism for weighing the effectiveness on of so called homeless programs? That wasn't an oversight, folks. That was intentionally. You laugh. I laugh. An NBA player just got busted for gambling. I meant to talk about that 'cause of some of the ads they had for gambling during the finals game last night. Anyway, lots to talk about. Stay here . Armstrong and Getty . It's now twelve consecutive wins for the Knicks as they take game one of the NBA finals , their seventh consecutive road game. One of the great playoff runs in NBA history is still alive. Yeah, I'd say 12 straight. What's interesting is how much how loud that crowd was . Usually you went on an opponent's court and it's like a library in there. There's a lot of Knicks fans in that crowd in San Antonio that made the trip, apparently, including Timothy Chalamet. Um uh I didn't want to mention a sports thing about this, just a uh a gambling thing. So I just saw a headline some NBA player I'd never heard of is gonna have to forfeit his entire salary from last year, two million dollars or something like that, because he was involved in some sort of gambling ring . Anywho, it used to be it was just such a great separation between any sort of gambling and sport s broadcasts, because they didn't want them to touch in any way ver whatsoe. Because it would taint the product or could possibly and people's minds think blah blah blah. And obviously as we all know it's gone the other direction I was amazed at how many times during the finals of the NBA last night, they'd, you know, give a guy stats and say, Let's take a look at the DraftKing project projections. Oh, they had Wemby at ten rebounds for the game and he's already halfway there. So that would be a good, you know, bet. I mean it's a during the game. They're promoting gambling on it as it's happening.