Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Katty and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: No apologies Media. At my new company, we're gonna do
Speaker 3: a all ladies talk show that.
Speaker 2: Won't be like the View. Is it the opposite of
Speaker 2: the View.
Speaker 3: It could be it'll be the opposite because this will
Speaker 3: be entertaining.
Speaker 2: Yeah, funny women on it.
Speaker 3: They're gonna tell jokes and have funny stories and health
Speaker 3: and wellness.
Speaker 2: We have a lot of.
Speaker 3: When we like and it's household names and you're gonna
Speaker 3: love it. I don't know what we're gonna call it
Speaker 3: the lip service or the other View.
Speaker 2: We're not sure yet.
Speaker 4: Rob Schneider, who was on Saturday Night Live thirty years ago,
Speaker 4: is going to have a version of the view that's
Speaker 4: not crazy left. It reminds me of I just saw
Speaker 4: Van Jones CNN say fringe media. I don't think that's
Speaker 4: the right term, but he said fringe media has replaced
Speaker 4: mainstream media. We're on cable news getting one million people
Speaker 4: while they're getting fourteen million streams. Yeah, I already established
Speaker 4: popular programs, don't have hardly any viewership, So good luck,
Speaker 4: Rob Schneider.
Speaker 2: I hope you can make a dent or whatever.
Speaker 4: But I think the we're going to influence the world
Speaker 4: by having a TV show days are over.
Speaker 2: Right, Although a lot of TV shows have an echo
Speaker 2: online that get far more views of individual videos, for instance.
Speaker 2: So we learned that about Fallon's show. Yeah, I remember
Speaker 2: a couple of years.
Speaker 4: He crafts it for the YouTube clips, not for the
Speaker 4: people doning in at night.
Speaker 2: Right, And Rob Schneider's pretty smart guy. I bet he's
Speaker 2: got that sort of thing in mind.
Speaker 4: We have an update on the drones of New Jersey,
Speaker 4: the drones of New Jersey, and which the governor says
Speaker 4: that is their number one priority right now figuring out
Speaker 4: what's going on. A Pentagon spokesman has said is it's
Speaker 4: not US military thing of any kind, And I would
Speaker 4: assume they wouldn't say that as blanket as that, as
Speaker 4: clear as that if there was a chance it was.
Speaker 4: She said, there's also no evidence that it's a foreign adversary,
Speaker 4: but that's just saying there's no evidence doesn't mean it's not. Well,
Speaker 4: as far as I can tell, there's no evidence of anything.
Speaker 2: Nobody knows anything on a completely different topic, and we
Speaker 2: will be talking more about the healthcare CEO murder, the
Speaker 2: reaction of that, and the current state of healthcare in
Speaker 2: America with Craig the healthcare Guru next hour. I hope
Speaker 2: you can join us for that. If you can't grab
Speaker 2: the podcast later, I'm strong in getting on demand. In fact,
Speaker 2: you could subscribe. On the topic of I'm going to
Speaker 2: use the standard term and then we're going to explode
Speaker 2: it and never use it again, the homeless problem. We've
Speaker 2: been searching for a better term to describe what's going
Speaker 2: on because, as I'll be sharing with you in a moment,
Speaker 2: that is a miss well, it's a misnomer. Literally, it's
Speaker 2: a misnaming of the problem. It's like, you know, somebody
Speaker 2: with the flu has a catastrophic gunshot wound and the
Speaker 2: doctors just keep calling him the flu patient and treating
Speaker 2: him for the flu. It's not the problem. But this
Speaker 2: is from We'll just say, uh.
Speaker 4: Like, if someone had a heart attack with COVID and
Speaker 4: you called it COVID, nobody would do that a COVID death, No,
Speaker 4: instead of bums and junkies, I like the very accurate
Speaker 4: term transient drug addicts, right's anonymous.
Speaker 2: I think the most interesting take is this. It's really good,
Speaker 2: by the way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's kind of what I say with the kids,
Speaker 4: but street people drug addicts TDA is transient drug addicts.
Speaker 2: Uh. I think the most interesting take is this, we
Speaker 2: should all we all agree we should help the homeless,
Speaker 2: i e. Productive law abiding people who fell on hard times,
Speaker 2: but we spend so much money supporting the transient drug
Speaker 2: addicts that we don't have enough to help the actual homeless.
Speaker 2: Anyone who wants to help the homeless should agree that
Speaker 2: the best way to have more resources to support the
Speaker 2: homeless is to stop spending it on the transient drug
Speaker 2: addicts obs. Yeah, yeah, clearly. And then this note again
Speaker 2: from all or a lean anonymous. I'll share part of
Speaker 2: it with you, although the whole thing's great. Says some
Speaker 2: very nice things about the show. You've got a way
Speaker 2: of breaking down complex issues with refreshing common sense, like
Speaker 2: a breath of fresh air. Thank you very much. I
Speaker 2: work with the homeless in I don't see any reason
Speaker 2: I shouldn't mention the town. This person wants to remain anonymous.
Speaker 2: M is there need to mention the town? Significant sized
Speaker 2: city in cal Unicornia. There you go and he or
Speaker 2: she lists I think maybe he, I don't know, uh
Speaker 2: lists the various places just about every street with significant
Speaker 2: homeless encampments and quotes. I was listening to you this
Speaker 2: morning yesterday, Well you were dropping truth bombs about the
Speaker 2: homeless on the radio, and I found myself yelling, yes,
Speaker 2: finally someone gets it, because you're abs at right. We
Speaker 2: don't have a homeless problem. What we have is a
Speaker 2: drug problem. Because my mindless person works with these people
Speaker 2: every day.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The biggest problem I have with that praise is it
Speaker 4: seemed obvious for quite some time that that's what's going on.
Speaker 4: But yeah, eighty five percent of the folks I work
Speaker 4: with are battling drug addiction. Eighty five percent, another ten
Speaker 4: percent are mentally ill because of drug addiction. They're remaining
Speaker 4: five percent they're just mentally ill and need confinement in
Speaker 4: a place that can help them. What do we do
Speaker 4: with people who ruined their brains because of drugs? I
Speaker 4: guess you treat them like the mentally ill.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I guess. While many homeless advocates and quotes
Speaker 2: argue that most homeless individuals are simply struggling abused moms
Speaker 2: or families in need of assistance to my five pardon me,
Speaker 2: red's too high. Oh yeah, we need control. In my
Speaker 2: five years of experience working in the toughest parts of
Speaker 2: my city, I have encountered only one such family one Wow.
Speaker 2: The rest mostly middle aged men and women trapped in
Speaker 2: a cycle of addiction, who will say or do anything
Speaker 2: to feed their habit and the solutions. Again in quotes
Speaker 2: we keep hearing about like tiny homes are just band
Speaker 2: aids on bullet wounds. The county's current plan is to
Speaker 2: build hundreds of tiny homes near particular location. Unless there's
Speaker 2: a serious plan for dealing with addiction, you're just creating
Speaker 2: a drug camp, of course, And by serious plan I
Speaker 2: mean more than the tired old line we hear that
Speaker 2: support services will be provided. Politicians love the optics of
Speaker 2: tiny homes because people see something that looks like actions
Speaker 2: solve the problem. But when the rules are broken at
Speaker 2: the tiny home settlements, as they inevitably are, these folks
Speaker 2: end up right back on the street. The turnover rate
Speaker 2: is astounding. I don't know if anyone in power is noticed,
Speaker 2: but drug addicts don't obey rules very well. Add to
Speaker 2: the fact that it takes forty five days. He has
Speaker 2: forty five days to have a person cleared for intake services. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: that's typically forty four days after they've disappeared back into
Speaker 2: the fog. Why not force rehab, Jack, you're gonna love this.
Speaker 2: Rehab has a ninety four percent failure rate the first
Speaker 2: time around, and politicians, no voters. What's stomach a program
Speaker 2: that's nine hundred and forty thousand dollars of failure for
Speaker 2: every million dollars spent. Plus ninety percent of addicts refuse
Speaker 2: services outright because it cuts into their high time. Wow,
Speaker 2: so you're looking at a very small percent who even
Speaker 2: agreed to give it a try, and then ninety four
Speaker 2: percent fail. At least for context, thirty five dollars can
Speaker 2: purchase an eight ball in Sacramento. It's a measure of drugs.
Speaker 2: Kids providing a high for several days, provided they do
Speaker 2: not share. Five dollars keeps them high for a day.
Speaker 2: All you people handing out cash at stoplights, stop, they
Speaker 2: use the cash to buy drugs. They throw the food away.
Speaker 2: Addicts aren't known for huge appetites. Fine, I'll skip to
Speaker 2: the final paragraph. Even though again this is all terrific.
Speaker 2: If we want real change, we need drug courts back,
Speaker 2: We need accountability, we need punishment. We need to stop
Speaker 2: pretending this problem is something it's not. We need to
Speaker 2: stop acting like a long term drug addict has the
Speaker 2: same mental capacity and rights that everyone else does. Most
Speaker 2: addicts will not seek help for their addiction until they've
Speaker 2: reached the lowest point. It's just too easy, and as
Speaker 2: he made the point, cheap to stay high, and there's
Speaker 2: very little incentive for them to change. Interestingly, we have
Speaker 2: a chance to save them if they reach their lowest
Speaker 2: point within the first two years of their addiction. After that,
Speaker 2: to sitch a situation becomes unpredictable. Thanks for keeping it real.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 4: I don't know how long it's going to take for
Speaker 4: society to catch up with this. But so you look
Speaker 4: at those people and you think, well, who would live
Speaker 4: like that? You see somebody on a bridge and they're dirty,
Speaker 4: and it's cold outside.
Speaker 2: And they're under there, and they're.
Speaker 4: Drug addicts, and you think, well, they can't want to
Speaker 4: do that.
Speaker 2: Well they do.
Speaker 4: It's hard for us to imagine looking at them that
Speaker 4: they want to do that as opposed to not do that.
Speaker 4: But they do today, they want to, and so we
Speaker 4: got to all just you know, take that in and
Speaker 4: understand that there are a lot of people that, once
Speaker 4: they're addicted, want to continue doing that.
Speaker 2: Somehow we need to blow up this notion.
Speaker 4: Maybe that's these intervention shows or whatever, but somehow we
Speaker 4: need to blow up this notion that if there is
Speaker 4: a rehab, you can put them in there and fix them.
Speaker 2: I don't know where that came from. That idea.
Speaker 4: It's never been true, it's not true now, it never
Speaker 4: will be true.
Speaker 2: So we got to blow up that idea too. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they're batting. Average is catastrophically low. People don't understand that.
Speaker 2: You know, you can't be cynical enough about this. What
Speaker 2: government does is it identifies problems, real and imagined, and
Speaker 2: then spreads money out to buy votes and influence. That's
Speaker 2: what it does. It has no problem whatsoever with either
Speaker 2: imaginary problems or misdiagnosing problems as long as the money
Speaker 2: goes out.
Speaker 4: The money going out is the point. It is for
Speaker 4: a certain crew, no doubt about it. They're scumbags and
Speaker 4: they're willing to take taxpayer money just so they can
Speaker 4: stay in office and people get rich while you cantinue
Speaker 4: to have the same horrible lifestyle for both the drug
Speaker 4: addicts and the average citizen like myself who wants to
Speaker 4: you know, have to take their kid to the park.
Speaker 4: But I know personally several people that work in the
Speaker 4: you know, lower level world of trying to help drug addicts.
Speaker 4: They're not Marxists and they're not they're not in on
Speaker 4: the scam. They actually want to help the problem. How
Speaker 4: do we reach all those people and convince them the
Speaker 4: strategy isn't working, It's never gonna work.
Speaker 2: Compulsory listening to the Armstrong Ngetty shows is the only
Speaker 2: thing that leaps to mind. That's the solution, government mandated listenership.
Speaker 4: I think as I sit here today thinking about it,
Speaker 4: I think the only thing in this will take a
Speaker 4: very long time, and many people will have to die,
Speaker 4: and we'll all have to live with a bunch of
Speaker 4: street people around us for a long time, is to
Speaker 4: get the next generation of young people convinced that going
Speaker 4: down the road of hard drugs is a horrible idea. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and it's got to seep into society at such a
Speaker 4: high level that very few people decide.
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Speaker 4: How we've ever done for some reason. Got some immigration
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Speaker 2: With you, not with the TV hosts love those stories.
Speaker 4: And oh we got we got to play a little
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Speaker 4: Exchange today. Man, that has got to be one guy
Speaker 4: who's feeling pretty good about himself today, named Times Person
Speaker 4: of the Year and rings the New York Stock Exchange bell.
Speaker 2: I thought I was Hitler. Well, never mind. Is anybody
Speaker 2: on earth more pleased with themselves at this moment than
Speaker 2: Donald J. Trump? Well, and you can understand why anyway,
Speaker 2: Lots on the way, stay here Armstrong yetie so one of.
Speaker 4: The interesting slash horrifying things going on in Syria right
Speaker 4: now is the opening up of all those prisons, which
Speaker 4: in some cases have terrible Al Qaeda guys, but in
Speaker 4: some cases just have regular families, kids, moms, dads, whatever
Speaker 4: that got rounded out by the secret police.
Speaker 2: Many many, many young men who are guilty of nothing.
Speaker 4: And tens of thousands of people died over the years,
Speaker 4: but they continue to get into those prisons, prisons. This
Speaker 4: happened live on CNN yesterday.
Speaker 2: I can't tell them. It might just be a blanket,
Speaker 2: but it's the only cell that's locked.
Speaker 1: The guard makes us turn the camera off while he
Speaker 1: shoots the lock off the cell door.
Speaker 2: We go in to get a closer look. Is someone there.
Speaker 1: I'm a civilian, he says. I'm a civilian. He tells
Speaker 1: the fighter. He's from the city of Humps, has been
Speaker 1: in the cell for three months.
Speaker 2: Okay, you're walking.
Speaker 1: We start to walk him outside. This is the third
Speaker 1: prison they brought me to, he says. After three months
Speaker 1: in a windowless cell, you can finally see the sky.
Speaker 2: And shaking.
Speaker 1: My face is shaking, he says. The rebel tells him
Speaker 1: there's no more army, no more prisons. No more checkpoints.
Speaker 1: Are you serious? He says, Suriaja Syria is free. He
Speaker 1: tells him it's the first time he has heard those words.
Speaker 4: We have the full video at armstrong Engetti dot com.
Speaker 4: And you know, he's one of the lucky ones, many
Speaker 4: many hundreds of thousands over the years in Syria and
Speaker 4: Iraq and Egypt and Saudi Arabia and practically all of
Speaker 4: those countries over there. And I'm throwing China in Russia
Speaker 4: have those kind of u secret police in prison systems
Speaker 4: and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Siria posts the uprising what was that fourteen years ago?
Speaker 2: Has been especially aggressive and naked and it's it's horrors.
Speaker 2: But I'll tell you what this is, and I don't
Speaker 2: mean to reduce the human horror of it and all
Speaker 2: to American politics. But Tulci Gabbard can't get confirmed. She
Speaker 2: cannot get confirmed in the wake of the full horrors
Speaker 2: of Asad's regime being exposed. She was very soft down,
Speaker 2: very friendly with him, made excuses for him, repeated some
Speaker 2: of his talking points. Was she one hundred percent wrong
Speaker 2: about all of it? No, nobody is, But it's this
Speaker 2: is just too ugly. Am I wrong on that.
Speaker 4: Unless she's got some really good explanation for why she
Speaker 4: was misled or something, she's got to uh, you know,
Speaker 4: she's got to do a full throated denial of her
Speaker 4: previous position to have a chance. In my opinion, I'm
Speaker 4: reading the Achilles Trap. I've mentioned that several times. It's
Speaker 4: about the Sadam Hussein, the CIA, and the origins of
Speaker 4: America's invasion of Iraq. But it's been so interesting about
Speaker 4: that kind of country. It's exactly the same as the
Speaker 4: way Syria has been and most of those countries around
Speaker 4: there have been. And I can understand why these people
Speaker 4: are so happy to be liberated from the regime, even
Speaker 4: if they know it might be a civil war or
Speaker 4: al Qaida might take over for a while or whatever.
Speaker 4: That living under the whole secret police gulog, the infrastructure
Speaker 4: that gets put in place over.
Speaker 2: Decades would be so awful. Yeah, anything would be better
Speaker 2: than that. Well yeah, and if you had like a
Speaker 2: one to ten chance of something better, but you for
Speaker 2: sure would leave behind the status quo. Most people living
Speaker 2: under those those horrific regimes would say, let's take the chance.
Speaker 4: Well, and I think the random, awful violence of a
Speaker 4: civil war would be better than the infrastructure of the
Speaker 4: whole like goolog torture system. Just again, reading several chapters
Speaker 4: this of Iraq book, just all these different people describing
Speaker 4: how you know, people showed up in the middle of
Speaker 4: the night and took you out of the house and
Speaker 4: they're never seen again because somebody heard you say something
Speaker 4: about whatever.
Speaker 2: Right, oh my god.
Speaker 4: And the way everybody lives in fear constantly, everyone man,
Speaker 4: woman and child.
Speaker 2: Well, and there's little documentation that's available to civilians anyway
Speaker 2: of what happened to their loved one, Why were they taken,
Speaker 2: where were they taken? Are they still alive? They just
Speaker 2: that's part of the terror Satam's can take you by
Speaker 2: the regime.
Speaker 4: Satam's goal was if anybody bad mouths me at a
Speaker 4: diner on the other side of the world, I want
Speaker 4: them caught. And I think that's the way it is
Speaker 4: for Asad and you know all these other countries that
Speaker 4: I mentioned, that's the way they operate.
Speaker 2: Right, horrible, horrible, horrible.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: Indeed, are racial relations going the right way or the
Speaker 4: wrong way? Well, everybody agrees with you, turns out. Among
Speaker 4: other things we're gonna talk about coming up state tuned,
Speaker 4: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, can you believe it? Wrongly officially two weeks away
Speaker 2: from Christmas.
Speaker 4: Wo today, every Amazon driver looked at the family and said, well, see,
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Five, you have just two weeks to go. We're close
Speaker 2: to the point where you stopped thinking what's the best
Speaker 2: gift and start thinking what I'll show up in time? Yeah?
Speaker 2: What if they love pizza? The tracker says that pizza
Speaker 2: will get there by Christmas. Man. When I worked at
Speaker 2: UPS loaded trucks, I think it was crunch week. Do
Speaker 2: you remember, Hanson?
Speaker 4: You worked at UPS too, Crush week or whatever they
Speaker 4: called it, like the week of Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: It was just brutal.
Speaker 4: I mean you worked a three hour shift. Normally only
Speaker 4: a three hour shift because that's all you could physically take,
Speaker 4: even as a twenty one year old, there's no way.
Speaker 4: But on that week you'd work like six or seven
Speaker 4: hours and just drag your body out of there.
Speaker 2: I mean it was just insane, the number of packages
Speaker 2: flying around the country. Ho ho ho peak season. Right.
Speaker 4: Hanson was actually in the management, so he knows more
Speaker 4: about it than I. I was a lowly, lowly truckloader.
Speaker 2: Appropriately is exactly. I don't know why he took that shot.
Speaker 2: A couple of things.
Speaker 4: We're gonna talk to our favorite guy to talk to
Speaker 4: about healthcare. In the third hour, Craig gotwalls, And I'm
Speaker 4: a little uncomfortable with this since s A. I mean,
Speaker 4: we have him on regularly to talk about healthcare in
Speaker 4: America and insurance and all that sort of stuff. But
Speaker 4: are we having them on here because a guy was
Speaker 4: shot to death?
Speaker 2: Oh more?
Speaker 4: Well, yes, yeah, in essence, and because of the reaction
Speaker 4: to it. Well, some of it is pushing back against
Speaker 4: that murderous scumbag's arguments. And I want to get to
Speaker 4: that next segment because the biggest thing he had in
Speaker 4: his manifesto was our life. Expecting he's going down while
Speaker 4: the profits are going up is completely wrong. And can
Speaker 4: explain that to you next segment, And it's definitely worth
Speaker 4: knowing in case you run into people that throw.
Speaker 2: Around that very simple, untrue phrase. Yeah. At the risk
Speaker 2: of sounding like we're petting ourselves on the back as
Speaker 2: usual with these things, we're not coming at it from
Speaker 2: a particular angle or another. We're trying to understand what
Speaker 2: is true.
Speaker 4: No, I'm not helpy happy with the health insurance industry
Speaker 4: or the healthcare I'm not happy about that. On the
Speaker 4: topic of race, this is going to end up being
Speaker 4: good news you're going to be happy about. Okay, this
Speaker 4: is not a downer segment when I get to some
Speaker 4: statistics that back up what you think, what you what
Speaker 4: we think, what your neighbors think, as opposed to what
Speaker 4: you're being told every single day.
Speaker 2: But first, this what are we about to hear? Katie?
Speaker 5: So this is from an YouTube podcast called so True,
Speaker 5: and it's Caleb Herron, who is a gay comedian and
Speaker 5: Nori Reid, who is queer and I believe trans talking
Speaker 5: about their one of them.
Speaker 2: Is gay and one of them is queer. I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't use the term queer. I refuse, and I
Speaker 2: spank you verbally for using it. It's an all purpose
Speaker 2: term that just means I'm against the man. Man anyway,
Speaker 2: go ahead. My dad is white and I can't do
Speaker 2: anything about that. Yeah, there's nothing I can do. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna cry because I can't do anything about that.
Speaker 2: I hate that you had to go through that. Thank you.
Speaker 2: As somebody of white experience, I know how bad it
Speaker 2: can be. But my mom is full on Asian. Thank you,
Speaker 2: that's beautiful.
Speaker 6: When my dad died, I cheered because I said, that's
Speaker 6: one last white man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how progressive I am. Oh my god, I
Speaker 2: like talk about ally. I said, get him out of here,
Speaker 2: get him out of here. I said, take him away, Satan.
Speaker 2: And that's kind of how it works, right.
Speaker 6: It's like if one white person dies, then you say that,
Speaker 6: like a person of color can come into the world. Yeah,
Speaker 6: a diverse story gets elevated. It's kind of like a
Speaker 6: spiritual experience. Here's the problem with everything in modern society.
Speaker 6: You play that for me ten years ago, I know
Speaker 6: they're jerking me around, that they're just saying that to
Speaker 6: be provocative.
Speaker 2: But now everything is so crazy.
Speaker 4: That could be them saying that to jerk me around,
Speaker 4: or it could be one hundred percent what they believe.
Speaker 2: And I have no idea. I suspect it's sincere. Really yes,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, I mean they should be locked up. I
Speaker 2: have insane folder of stories ready to go about the
Speaker 2: so called DEI programs and universities and various corporations in
Speaker 2: the government and how utterly racist and twisted they are. Yeah, Katie,
Speaker 2: would you like to weigh in on the authenticity or
Speaker 2: sincerity of the two gentlemen. Well, it seemed quite sincere.
Speaker 5: And that's kind of the theme of this podcast is
Speaker 5: megal left progressive hitting all the talking points that the
Speaker 5: media salivates over.
Speaker 2: The fact that a philosophy that insane and insanely stupid
Speaker 2: would have any currency in the modern world is frightening
Speaker 2: to me. It is so post enlightenment, it is so
Speaker 2: post to you know, racial healing. It's ugly, it's obscene,
Speaker 2: and yet it has infected so many of our institutions.
Speaker 4: Well, I remember when in California, and this is probably
Speaker 4: ten fifteen years ago, white people were going to cease
Speaker 4: being the majority. They were still going to be the
Speaker 4: biggest group, but they weren't the majority of California, and
Speaker 4: the line got crossed. There were more people that weren't
Speaker 4: white than were white for the first time ever. And
Speaker 4: the cheering and celebration about that, it's just so weird
Speaker 4: to me. Not that I cheer having more white people
Speaker 4: than every who's cheering percentage of of race.
Speaker 2: That's not folks who have been convert to the Church
Speaker 2: of Dei of Wochism.
Speaker 4: Before it was it was called that I remember when
Speaker 4: I remember, I can remember, like I just there. I
Speaker 4: won't mention the name, but our newsman, Marshall Phillips did
Speaker 4: the story, and another person who was a person of
Speaker 4: color on the show cheered, all right, yeah, that's like,
Speaker 4: why is that thrilling for you? That will be now
Speaker 4: less way? I mean, what do you think is going
Speaker 4: to happen because of that? I don't think they think
Speaker 4: about that much at all. They've just been recruited again
Speaker 4: into the cult of.
Speaker 2: Racial politics and that's been super successful through the years.
Speaker 2: But if you want to see how that works, go
Speaker 2: to the Middle East to go to you know, any
Speaker 2: of your capitals of your Muslim states and announce that
Speaker 2: you're a proud Christian or an atheist. That's worse you'll
Speaker 2: be treated. Tell them you're a gay atheist. Okay, if
Speaker 2: you want to see how sectarian politics works, go ahead.
Speaker 4: So a poll that is good news. Then this is
Speaker 4: from the Manhattan Institute Serious organization.
Speaker 2: All polls, not this one.
Speaker 4: But polls have shown we've gone backwards on race since
Speaker 4: the nineties. Things have actually gotten worse racially in this
Speaker 4: country in terms of attitudes since the nineties, with you know,
Speaker 4: being more focused on race and theory to make it
Speaker 4: better has made it worse. I think we're all pretty
Speaker 4: much aware of that. And so they ask people the question,
Speaker 4: are you're given two choices here? Actually you're given three.
Speaker 4: Not sure is always a choice, and you always have
Speaker 4: you know, a tiny percentage of people. So oh no,
Speaker 4: I just want to hang out with those people. Think
Speaker 4: about it for a minute.
Speaker 2: I'll wait. I don't know. Wait when you look around,
Speaker 2: I mean, in your real life has gotten better or worse?
Speaker 2: I don't know, no opinion.
Speaker 4: But the other two choices you have are we should
Speaker 4: focus on creating a race conscious society to repair the
Speaker 4: harms of the past by developing policies that benefit marginalized groups.
Speaker 4: That's what we have been doing since the early nineties.
Speaker 4: The other choice was we should focus on creating a
Speaker 4: color blind society where everyone is treated equally regardless of
Speaker 4: the color of their skin. That's what we were doing
Speaker 4: more or less post Martin Luther King Junior, pre the
Speaker 4: early nineties, when things were actually getting better overall.
Speaker 2: It's sixty sixty eight percent.
Speaker 4: The second choice, almost seventy percent of Americans say we
Speaker 4: should focus on creating a color blind society. Sorry, the
Speaker 4: most popular book in America, at least according to all
Speaker 4: the TV hosts, was that Ibram Kenny crap about there's
Speaker 4: no such color blind is code for racist, and there's
Speaker 4: no such thing as being I'm kick about color that means.
Speaker 2: You're a racist.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, seventy percent of America doesn't agree with that,
Speaker 4: and you start breaking it down by different groups, and
Speaker 4: it's just astounding. First of all, it's every single group,
Speaker 4: it's majority. The smallest majority of just fifty percent is
Speaker 4: Black people said that. But even fifty percent of Black
Speaker 4: people said that versus thirty seven percent who chose the other.
Speaker 4: So fifty thirty seven You always say it's a good
Speaker 4: idea to because it's not always just doesn't always add
Speaker 4: up to one hundred, right, right, So only thirty seven
Speaker 4: percent of Black people choose the we should focus on
Speaker 4: race conscious society and make everything about race for all
Speaker 4: the other groups.
Speaker 2: It's not. And I would like to see the black folks,
Speaker 2: uh divide by age in that answer, I think over
Speaker 2: forty it'd be vanishingly small.
Speaker 4: Even Democrats, it's a twenty point win for let's be color.
Speaker 2: Blind on all this sort of stuff.
Speaker 4: It's a twenty point win for Democrats for young people,
Speaker 4: which might be most susceptible to this sort of crap. Uh,
Speaker 4: it's fifty six to thirty, twenty six point win for
Speaker 4: let's be a colorblind society.
Speaker 2: Wow. Wow, you were quite right when you mentioned we
Speaker 2: were going to be talking about this. This is absolutely
Speaker 2: the polar opposite of what you would be led to
Speaker 2: believe by taking in the mainstream media.
Speaker 4: Maybe you think the college crowd would be into this stuff. Nope,
Speaker 4: it's sixty five twenty eight. We should be a colorblind
Speaker 4: society for the college crowd. Yet we've all.
Speaker 2: Been hammered with DEI and Robin DeAngelo and Ibram Kendy
Speaker 2: and all of that garbage. There's a big study out
Speaker 2: that we touched on. We didn't really go into it.
Speaker 2: We should have that the eight billion dollars spent every
Speaker 2: year on diversity training in the US. In the US
Speaker 2: is demonstrably accomplishing the opposite of what it claims, which
Speaker 2: is not surprising because as I and you and James
Speaker 2: Lindsay and other people have been trying to communicate, DEI
Speaker 2: isn't intending to get diversity. That's not what it's there
Speaker 2: for it's an instrument of the takeover of institutions with
Speaker 2: the excuse of racial justice. That's a dodge. It's the
Speaker 2: sheep's clothes thing the wolf is wearing.
Speaker 4: It also shows that it's the minority opinion by a
Speaker 4: lot that's into it's the first Hispanic quarterback to ever
Speaker 4: win a super Bowl, or this is the first Indian
Speaker 4: American to go into space, or this is all that
Speaker 4: never ending crap. Is the minority opinion. Most people don't
Speaker 4: want that. They don't want to focus on who's what
Speaker 4: color or whatever. Just tell me Jim won the super
Speaker 4: Bowl or Sandy became secretary or whatever or what, but
Speaker 4: leave that out of it.
Speaker 2: Amen to that. Yeah, man's heartening. That's some excellent news.
Speaker 2: I agree. Yeah, and just and this has been the
Speaker 2: message of our show for a very very long time.
Speaker 2: The truth is is what you live and what you
Speaker 2: see and what you and your friends think, and don't
Speaker 2: be talked out of the truth by the weirdos of
Speaker 2: the mainstream media or you know, seeing their influence decrease
Speaker 2: moment by moment. Anyway, it's it's easy to feel alone
Speaker 2: because we have this electronic media driven life that in
Speaker 2: one hundred years. We've gone from ninety eight percent of
Speaker 2: our interactions were in person in the same room with
Speaker 2: a human being to most of our perception of the
Speaker 2: world comes from media that is feeding it to us,
Speaker 2: and it has perverted our sense of reality.
Speaker 4: I think, well, all of society's become Plato's Cave, except
Speaker 4: it's the Internet now instead of shadows on a wall.
Speaker 2: I got my kids Plato's Cave for Christmas. They played
Speaker 2: before with it for like two days, and then it
Speaker 2: went back in the closet. Right the Plato Cave now
Speaker 2: tell us about Plato's cave, you have to jump over
Speaker 2: Chesterton's fence to get in. See, these people are in
Speaker 2: a dark cave and they're just seeing shadows from a fire,
Speaker 2: and they come up with these perceptions of what the
Speaker 2: world is, and then they finally get out of the
Speaker 2: cave and realize that they are completely wrong, I mean,
Speaker 2: completely mis led by the perceptions that they were given
Speaker 2: by that.
Speaker 4: And it's got long philosophical philosophical legs and tentacles going
Speaker 4: from there.
Speaker 2: But that is what we're doing with all this stuff,
Speaker 2: I would agree. Yeah, the media, we've used the term
Speaker 2: funhouse mirrors or whatever, but Plato's cave is a good
Speaker 2: illustration of it too. I have had a piece of
Speaker 2: pie every single day for five straight days, and let
Speaker 2: me tell you, if you haven't tried that, it's not
Speaker 2: good for your digestive system. Wow. I can only imagine
Speaker 2: the horror. Just the heads up. Yes, Michael, Hey, how
Speaker 2: you doing another cheesecake?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that. I was kind of hoping that the
Speaker 2: cheesecake would be a binding agent after I eat the pie,
Speaker 2: which is a bit of a theory. Amateur gastro entrologist
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong all right, hey, I got interrupt quick on
Speaker 2: air meeting Katie. We need your help. Just I got
Speaker 2: a text from a friend who will remain anonymous, and
Speaker 2: he uses a terribly unfortunate variation on Caitlyn Clark's name, Oh,
Speaker 2: preserving the sea in her first name. Oh, I just
Speaker 2: say that. Did you guys rip Caitlyn Clark yet? What
Speaker 2: is happening? What has she said? What has she done?
Speaker 4: I only saw the headlines and I didn't even read
Speaker 4: him because I didn't want to know. I like Caitlyn Clark.
Speaker 4: I like a lot of stuff about her. According to Megan,
Speaker 4: Kelly really ripped her for going down the white privilege
Speaker 4: road as a you know, she's a young graduates graduated
Speaker 4: from college. I'm sure she was convinced that she is
Speaker 4: suffering from white privilege and should apologize for it. And
Speaker 4: apparently she did, as she was named Time Magazine's Athlete
Speaker 4: of the Year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I see she is.
Speaker 5: Yeah, she is saying that it's difficult having the fame
Speaker 5: that she does in a sport that has been dominated
Speaker 5: by black women historically.
Speaker 2: I have a very controversy'll take on this topic. It'll
Speaker 2: shock you. Stay with us.
Speaker 4: We'll pass Joe the rock and he'll shoot for something
Speaker 4: and I'll let me write it during the commercial.
Speaker 2: Stay tuned. He's an argue with him now.
Speaker 4: Tops many people list. I realize it's trite, but it's
Speaker 4: also a very very good thing. Yeah, this is one
Speaker 4: of those songs. I hear other people cover it and
Speaker 4: I say, don't. Why would you subject yourself?
Speaker 2: Don't do that. It's like covering Stairway to Heaven, trying
Speaker 2: to sing it better than Robert Plant. Just don't even bother.
Speaker 4: So it was on this day in the year two
Speaker 4: thousand that the Supreme Court halted the counting in Florida
Speaker 4: and George Bush became President elect.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump, the current president elect, is at.
Speaker 4: The highest point of his popularity in his life maybe,
Speaker 4: and he's had quite a life as he rang the
Speaker 4: bell to the New York Stock Exchange while being named
Speaker 4: Time Magazine's Person of the Year, and he's being fedted
Speaker 4: by everyone, world leaders and everyone around the world. Time
Speaker 4: magazine also this week named their Athlete of the Year
Speaker 4: as Caitlin Clark, the female basketball player who dominated college
Speaker 4: basketball and then went into the WNBA and has gotten
Speaker 4: all the attention, rightly or wrongly, was also Rookie of
Speaker 4: the Year. She did it, and I didn't read the
Speaker 4: interview in Time Magazine, but Megan Kelly blew her up
Speaker 4: for it, which got a lot of attention because a
Speaker 4: lot of people like Megan Kelly show a lot. Megan
Speaker 4: Kelly blew up Kitlin Clark for referencing white privilege or
Speaker 4: something like that.
Speaker 2: And I don't know. So a couple of comments. Number One,
Speaker 2: speaking of Bush v. Gore next hour, I would like
Speaker 2: to get into how the Democratic Party tried to steal
Speaker 2: the election in Pennsylvania. Nothing but responsible reporting from great sources.
Speaker 2: This story is being completely ignored by the mainstream media. Secondly,
Speaker 2: we've got Craig the healthcare guru, to talk about the
Speaker 2: healthcare situation. CEO is getting assassinated, that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: Next Hour. If you don't get Next Hour, subscribe to
Speaker 2: podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. My somewhat surprising take
Speaker 2: on Caitlin Clark. She is one hundred percent wrong, going
Speaker 2: on and on about white privilege, and she's ashamed and
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. And again I didn't read the interview,
Speaker 2: but I got the gist of it. I grant a
Speaker 2: fair amount of forgiveness to recent college graduates, particularly female
Speaker 2: recent college graduates, who've been indoctrinated by the very system
Speaker 2: that we insist we need to tear down because we do.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, you're in a no win situation. You
Speaker 2: become she's doing harm, there's no question.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah. I disagree with her take, and
Speaker 4: I wish, but what a horrible situation to be in.
Speaker 4: You're twenty two years old or whatever. You become world
Speaker 4: famous and from a small town in Iowa, and all
Speaker 4: of a sudden, they ask you the big questions of
Speaker 4: society and you're supposed to have a comment.
Speaker 2: On it, and young women tend to filter questions like that,
Speaker 2: not through is this true, but through will adopting that
Speaker 2: opinion gain me acceptance? God, she was in a no
Speaker 2: win situation on that one. Less she just said no comment, right,
Speaker 2: But she's wrong, and we and others will try to
Speaker 2: convince folks that she's completely wrong. But I don't hate
Speaker 2: her for it. Oh gosh, No, absolutely not. Armstrong and
Speaker 2: getty