WEBVTT - A Piece Of Pie Everyday 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.200 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:17.599 Armstrong and Katty and he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:26.520 No apologies Media. At my new company, we're gonna do 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:28.920 a all ladies talk show that. 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:32.040 Won't be like the View. Is it the opposite of 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:32.400 the View. 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:35.159 It could be it'll be the opposite because this will 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:35.760 be entertaining. 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:37.040 Yeah, funny women on it. 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:40.520 They're gonna tell jokes and have funny stories and health 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:41.120 and wellness. 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:41.839 We have a lot of. 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:43.880 When we like and it's household names and you're gonna 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:45.400 love it. I don't know what we're gonna call it 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:47.120 the lip service or the other View. 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:47.880 We're not sure yet. 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:51.560 Rob Schneider, who was on Saturday Night Live thirty years ago, 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:54.520 is going to have a version of the view that's 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:58.720 not crazy left. It reminds me of I just saw 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:04.920 Van Jones CNN say fringe media. I don't think that's 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:07.240 the right term, but he said fringe media has replaced 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:10.199 mainstream media. We're on cable news getting one million people 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:14.560 while they're getting fourteen million streams. Yeah, I already established 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:18.640 popular programs, don't have hardly any viewership, So good luck, 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:19.199 Rob Schneider. 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:20.959 I hope you can make a dent or whatever. 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:24.399 But I think the we're going to influence the world 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:27.960 by having a TV show days are over. 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:32.559 Right, Although a lot of TV shows have an echo 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:37.000 online that get far more views of individual videos, for instance. 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:39.479 So we learned that about Fallon's show. Yeah, I remember 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:40.160 a couple of years. 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:42.920 He crafts it for the YouTube clips, not for the 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:44.280 people doning in at night. 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:46.959 Right, And Rob Schneider's pretty smart guy. I bet he's 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:48.320 got that sort of thing in mind. 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.040 We have an update on the drones of New Jersey, 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:54.440 the drones of New Jersey, and which the governor says 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:57.040 that is their number one priority right now figuring out 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:59.480 what's going on. A Pentagon spokesman has said is it's 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:02.840 not US military thing of any kind, And I would 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:07.800 assume they wouldn't say that as blanket as that, as 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:09.480 clear as that if there was a chance it was. 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:13.120 She said, there's also no evidence that it's a foreign adversary, 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.680 but that's just saying there's no evidence doesn't mean it's not. Well, 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:19.120 as far as I can tell, there's no evidence of anything. 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:23.720 Nobody knows anything on a completely different topic, and we 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:26.359 will be talking more about the healthcare CEO murder, the 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:30.560 reaction of that, and the current state of healthcare in 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.960 America with Craig the healthcare Guru next hour. I hope 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:35.440 you can join us for that. If you can't grab 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:37.639 the podcast later, I'm strong in getting on demand. In fact, 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:41.400 you could subscribe. On the topic of I'm going to 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:44.760 use the standard term and then we're going to explode 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:49.120 it and never use it again, the homeless problem. We've 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:52.160 been searching for a better term to describe what's going 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:55.480 on because, as I'll be sharing with you in a moment, 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:59.120 that is a miss well, it's a misnomer. Literally, it's 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:01.880 a misnaming of the problem. It's like, you know, somebody 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:05.600 with the flu has a catastrophic gunshot wound and the 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:08.400 doctors just keep calling him the flu patient and treating 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:11.880 him for the flu. It's not the problem. But this 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:14.519 is from We'll just say, uh. 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:17.440 Like, if someone had a heart attack with COVID and 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:20.880 you called it COVID, nobody would do that a COVID death, No, 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:24.120 instead of bums and junkies, I like the very accurate 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:27.560 term transient drug addicts, right's anonymous. 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:30.280 I think the most interesting take is this. It's really good, 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:30.880 by the way. 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:32.400 Yeah, that's kind of what I say with the kids, 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:36.400 but street people drug addicts TDA is transient drug addicts. 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:40.240 Uh. I think the most interesting take is this, we 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:42.920 should all we all agree we should help the homeless, 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:45.480 i e. Productive law abiding people who fell on hard times, 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:48.640 but we spend so much money supporting the transient drug 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:52.080 addicts that we don't have enough to help the actual homeless. 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:54.800 Anyone who wants to help the homeless should agree that 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:56.840 the best way to have more resources to support the 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.320 homeless is to stop spending it on the transient drug 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:05.080 addicts obs. Yeah, yeah, clearly. And then this note again 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:07.560 from all or a lean anonymous. I'll share part of 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:12.840 it with you, although the whole thing's great. Says some 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:14.400 very nice things about the show. You've got a way 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:17.279 of breaking down complex issues with refreshing common sense, like 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:20.760 a breath of fresh air. Thank you very much. I 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:27.000 work with the homeless in I don't see any reason 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:32.200 I shouldn't mention the town. This person wants to remain anonymous. 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:38.279 M is there need to mention the town? Significant sized 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:42.760 city in cal Unicornia. There you go and he or 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:45.040 she lists I think maybe he, I don't know, uh 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:49.400 lists the various places just about every street with significant 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:52.120 homeless encampments and quotes. I was listening to you this 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:54.520 morning yesterday, Well you were dropping truth bombs about the 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:57.080 homeless on the radio, and I found myself yelling, yes, 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:00.800 finally someone gets it, because you're abs at right. We 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.080 don't have a homeless problem. What we have is a 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:07.839 drug problem. Because my mindless person works with these people 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:08.360 every day. 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:08.600 Yeah. 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.159 The biggest problem I have with that praise is it 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:14.240 seemed obvious for quite some time that that's what's going on. 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:17.560 But yeah, eighty five percent of the folks I work 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:20.600 with are battling drug addiction. Eighty five percent, another ten 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:23.839 percent are mentally ill because of drug addiction. They're remaining 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:27.320 five percent they're just mentally ill and need confinement in 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:32.120 a place that can help them. What do we do 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.120 with people who ruined their brains because of drugs? I 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:35.480 guess you treat them like the mentally ill. 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:39.679 But yeah, I guess. While many homeless advocates and quotes 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:43.240 argue that most homeless individuals are simply struggling abused moms 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:47.440 or families in need of assistance to my five pardon me, 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:51.400 red's too high. Oh yeah, we need control. In my 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.359 five years of experience working in the toughest parts of 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:58.599 my city, I have encountered only one such family one Wow. 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.880 The rest mostly middle aged men and women trapped in 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:04.320 a cycle of addiction, who will say or do anything 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:07.400 to feed their habit and the solutions. Again in quotes 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:09.520 we keep hearing about like tiny homes are just band 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:12.280 aids on bullet wounds. The county's current plan is to 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:15.840 build hundreds of tiny homes near particular location. Unless there's 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:18.320 a serious plan for dealing with addiction, you're just creating 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:22.120 a drug camp, of course, And by serious plan I 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:24.159 mean more than the tired old line we hear that 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:28.040 support services will be provided. Politicians love the optics of 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:30.679 tiny homes because people see something that looks like actions 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:32.960 solve the problem. But when the rules are broken at 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.400 the tiny home settlements, as they inevitably are, these folks 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:38.000 end up right back on the street. The turnover rate 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:41.160 is astounding. I don't know if anyone in power is noticed, 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:44.440 but drug addicts don't obey rules very well. Add to 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:46.680 the fact that it takes forty five days. He has 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:51.280 forty five days to have a person cleared for intake services. Unfortunately, 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:54.440 that's typically forty four days after they've disappeared back into 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:59.200 the fog. Why not force rehab, Jack, you're gonna love this. 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.799 Rehab has a ninety four percent failure rate the first 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:06.080 time around, and politicians, no voters. What's stomach a program 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:08.719 that's nine hundred and forty thousand dollars of failure for 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:12.440 every million dollars spent. Plus ninety percent of addicts refuse 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:16.239 services outright because it cuts into their high time. Wow, 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:18.080 so you're looking at a very small percent who even 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:19.840 agreed to give it a try, and then ninety four 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:23.000 percent fail. At least for context, thirty five dollars can 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:26.480 purchase an eight ball in Sacramento. It's a measure of drugs. 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:31.040 Kids providing a high for several days, provided they do 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:33.600 not share. Five dollars keeps them high for a day. 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:37.720 All you people handing out cash at stoplights, stop, they 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:40.000 use the cash to buy drugs. They throw the food away. 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:46.680 Addicts aren't known for huge appetites. Fine, I'll skip to 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:49.520 the final paragraph. Even though again this is all terrific. 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:52.520 If we want real change, we need drug courts back, 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:55.520 We need accountability, we need punishment. We need to stop 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:58.440 pretending this problem is something it's not. We need to 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:00.840 stop acting like a long term drug addict has the 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:03.760 same mental capacity and rights that everyone else does. Most 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.000 addicts will not seek help for their addiction until they've 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:09.560 reached the lowest point. It's just too easy, and as 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:11.840 he made the point, cheap to stay high, and there's 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:15.000 very little incentive for them to change. Interestingly, we have 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:16.920 a chance to save them if they reach their lowest 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:19.440 point within the first two years of their addiction. After that, 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.920 to sitch a situation becomes unpredictable. Thanks for keeping it real. 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:23.480 Thank you. 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:25.160 I don't know how long it's going to take for 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:29.680 society to catch up with this. But so you look 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:31.800 at those people and you think, well, who would live 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:34.040 like that? You see somebody on a bridge and they're dirty, 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:36.000 and it's cold outside. 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:37.680 And they're under there, and they're. 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:40.200 Drug addicts, and you think, well, they can't want to 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:40.520 do that. 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:42.200 Well they do. 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:45.120 It's hard for us to imagine looking at them that 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.400 they want to do that as opposed to not do that. 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:52.400 But they do today, they want to, and so we 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:54.240 got to all just you know, take that in and 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:56.920 understand that there are a lot of people that, once 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.160 they're addicted, want to continue doing that. 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.040 Somehow we need to blow up this notion. 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:05.880 Maybe that's these intervention shows or whatever, but somehow we 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:08.280 need to blow up this notion that if there is 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:11.160 a rehab, you can put them in there and fix them. 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.120 I don't know where that came from. That idea. 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:16.800 It's never been true, it's not true now, it never 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:17.559 will be true. 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:20.240 So we got to blow up that idea too. Yeah, 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:23.880 they're batting. Average is catastrophically low. People don't understand that. 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:28.720 You know, you can't be cynical enough about this. What 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:33.760 government does is it identifies problems, real and imagined, and 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:37.880 then spreads money out to buy votes and influence. That's 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:44.199 what it does. It has no problem whatsoever with either 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:47.720 imaginary problems or misdiagnosing problems as long as the money 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:48.120 goes out. 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.839 The money going out is the point. It is for 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.720 a certain crew, no doubt about it. They're scumbags and 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.760 they're willing to take taxpayer money just so they can 0:09:56.800 --> 0:10:00.280 stay in office and people get rich while you cantinue 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:03.360 to have the same horrible lifestyle for both the drug 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:06.040 addicts and the average citizen like myself who wants to 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:07.560 you know, have to take their kid to the park. 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:10.840 But I know personally several people that work in the 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:13.800 you know, lower level world of trying to help drug addicts. 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:17.560 They're not Marxists and they're not they're not in on 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:20.360 the scam. They actually want to help the problem. How 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:23.400 do we reach all those people and convince them the 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:26.520 strategy isn't working, It's never gonna work. 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:30.920 Compulsory listening to the Armstrong Ngetty shows is the only 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:36.319 thing that leaps to mind. That's the solution, government mandated listenership. 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:40.000 I think as I sit here today thinking about it, 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.080 I think the only thing in this will take a 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:44.120 very long time, and many people will have to die, 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:45.679 and we'll all have to live with a bunch of 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:49.120 street people around us for a long time, is to 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:52.080 get the next generation of young people convinced that going 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:55.520 down the road of hard drugs is a horrible idea. 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That 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:31.280 is one of those that goes opposite of what you're 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:33.959 told by the media. Another one of those. We love those. 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:36.120 That's our favorite, where it turns out you're right and 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:38.840 everything you're being told is wrong and everybody agrees. 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:41.760 With you, not with the TV hosts love those stories. 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:46.080 And oh we got we got to play a little 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:48.320 bit Trump ringing the bell at the New York Stock 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:50.520 Exchange today. Man, that has got to be one guy 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:54.240 who's feeling pretty good about himself today, named Times Person 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:56.719 of the Year and rings the New York Stock Exchange bell. 0:12:57.000 --> 0:13:01.040 I thought I was Hitler. Well, never mind. Is anybody 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:04.320 on earth more pleased with themselves at this moment than 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:08.200 Donald J. Trump? Well, and you can understand why anyway, 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:13.560 Lots on the way, stay here Armstrong yetie so one of. 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.520 The interesting slash horrifying things going on in Syria right 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:19.960 now is the opening up of all those prisons, which 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:23.679 in some cases have terrible Al Qaeda guys, but in 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:28.360 some cases just have regular families, kids, moms, dads, whatever 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:30.080 that got rounded out by the secret police. 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:33.920 Many many, many young men who are guilty of nothing. 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.040 And tens of thousands of people died over the years, 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:39.839 but they continue to get into those prisons, prisons. This 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:42.080 happened live on CNN yesterday. 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:44.679 I can't tell them. It might just be a blanket, 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:46.480 but it's the only cell that's locked. 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:48.880 The guard makes us turn the camera off while he 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:50.800 shoots the lock off the cell door. 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:55.760 We go in to get a closer look. Is someone there. 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:04.240 I'm a civilian, he says. I'm a civilian. He tells 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:07.000 the fighter. He's from the city of Humps, has been 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:08.760 in the cell for three months. 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:10.480 Okay, you're walking. 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:14.520 We start to walk him outside. This is the third 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:18.200 prison they brought me to, he says. After three months 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:21.440 in a windowless cell, you can finally see the sky. 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:23.720 And shaking. 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:27.280 My face is shaking, he says. The rebel tells him 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:30.600 there's no more army, no more prisons. No more checkpoints. 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:37.440 Are you serious? He says, Suriaja Syria is free. He 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:41.400 tells him it's the first time he has heard those words. 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:46.080 We have the full video at armstrong Engetti dot com. 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:48.800 And you know, he's one of the lucky ones, many 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:52.040 many hundreds of thousands over the years in Syria and 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:55.360 Iraq and Egypt and Saudi Arabia and practically all of 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.600 those countries over there. And I'm throwing China in Russia 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:03.560 have those kind of u secret police in prison systems 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:04.520 and all that sort of stuff. 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:08.640 Yeah, Siria posts the uprising what was that fourteen years ago? 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:14.080 Has been especially aggressive and naked and it's it's horrors. 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:17.040 But I'll tell you what this is, and I don't 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:20.480 mean to reduce the human horror of it and all 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:25.480 to American politics. But Tulci Gabbard can't get confirmed. She 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:29.800 cannot get confirmed in the wake of the full horrors 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:34.280 of Asad's regime being exposed. She was very soft down, 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:36.960 very friendly with him, made excuses for him, repeated some 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.440 of his talking points. Was she one hundred percent wrong 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:42.120 about all of it? No, nobody is, But it's this 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:45.240 is just too ugly. Am I wrong on that. 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:49.600 Unless she's got some really good explanation for why she 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:52.560 was misled or something, she's got to uh, you know, 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:54.800 she's got to do a full throated denial of her 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:59.440 previous position to have a chance. In my opinion, I'm 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:02.240 reading the Achilles Trap. I've mentioned that several times. It's 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:04.760 about the Sadam Hussein, the CIA, and the origins of 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:08.200 America's invasion of Iraq. But it's been so interesting about 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:10.880 that kind of country. It's exactly the same as the 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:14.680 way Syria has been and most of those countries around 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:17.040 there have been. And I can understand why these people 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:20.840 are so happy to be liberated from the regime, even 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.400 if they know it might be a civil war or 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:26.200 al Qaida might take over for a while or whatever. 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:33.400 That living under the whole secret police gulog, the infrastructure 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:34.800 that gets put in place over. 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:40.000 Decades would be so awful. Yeah, anything would be better 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:43.240 than that. Well yeah, and if you had like a 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:46.800 one to ten chance of something better, but you for 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:50.200 sure would leave behind the status quo. Most people living 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:54.080 under those those horrific regimes would say, let's take the chance. 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:56.680 Well, and I think the random, awful violence of a 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:59.640 civil war would be better than the infrastructure of the 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:05.199 whole like goolog torture system. Just again, reading several chapters 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:08.119 this of Iraq book, just all these different people describing 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:10.920 how you know, people showed up in the middle of 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:12.440 the night and took you out of the house and 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:15.480 they're never seen again because somebody heard you say something 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:16.119 about whatever. 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:17.840 Right, oh my god. 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:22.239 And the way everybody lives in fear constantly, everyone man, 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:23.080 woman and child. 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:29.159 Well, and there's little documentation that's available to civilians anyway 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:32.320 of what happened to their loved one, Why were they taken, 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:34.960 where were they taken? Are they still alive? They just 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:38.560 that's part of the terror Satam's can take you by 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:39.000 the regime. 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:42.200 Satam's goal was if anybody bad mouths me at a 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:44.520 diner on the other side of the world, I want 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:47.760 them caught. And I think that's the way it is 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:50.440 for Asad and you know all these other countries that 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:52.360 I mentioned, that's the way they operate. 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:54.600 Right, horrible, horrible, horrible. 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:55.320 Right. 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:58.399 Indeed, are racial relations going the right way or the 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:02.000 wrong way? Well, everybody agrees with you, turns out. Among 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:04.000 other things we're gonna talk about coming up state tuned, 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:07.679 Armstrong and Getty. 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:11.680 Yeah, can you believe it? Wrongly officially two weeks away 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:12.320 from Christmas. 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:17.280 Wo today, every Amazon driver looked at the family and said, well, see, 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:18.160 in twenty twenty. 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:22.440 Five, you have just two weeks to go. We're close 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:24.640 to the point where you stopped thinking what's the best 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:27.720 gift and start thinking what I'll show up in time? Yeah? 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:31.800 What if they love pizza? The tracker says that pizza 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:35.040 will get there by Christmas. Man. When I worked at 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:39.520 UPS loaded trucks, I think it was crunch week. Do 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:40.679 you remember, Hanson? 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:42.840 You worked at UPS too, Crush week or whatever they 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:44.600 called it, like the week of Thanksgiving. 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:46.280 It was just brutal. 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:49.520 I mean you worked a three hour shift. Normally only 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:51.880 a three hour shift because that's all you could physically take, 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:54.040 even as a twenty one year old, there's no way. 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:56.800 But on that week you'd work like six or seven 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:58.959 hours and just drag your body out of there. 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:01.400 I mean it was just insane, the number of packages 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:06.000 flying around the country. Ho ho ho peak season. Right. 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:09.239 Hanson was actually in the management, so he knows more 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:12.720 about it than I. I was a lowly, lowly truckloader. 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:19.040 Appropriately is exactly. I don't know why he took that shot. 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:20.080 A couple of things. 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:24.359 We're gonna talk to our favorite guy to talk to 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:28.640 about healthcare. In the third hour, Craig gotwalls, And I'm 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:31.560 a little uncomfortable with this since s A. I mean, 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:34.119 we have him on regularly to talk about healthcare in 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:37.240 America and insurance and all that sort of stuff. But 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:40.960 are we having them on here because a guy was 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:41.680 shot to death? 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:44.080 Oh more? 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:48.800 Well, yes, yeah, in essence, and because of the reaction 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:51.280 to it. Well, some of it is pushing back against 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:54.280 that murderous scumbag's arguments. And I want to get to 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:57.000 that next segment because the biggest thing he had in 0:19:57.080 --> 0:20:01.480 his manifesto was our life. Expecting he's going down while 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:05.679 the profits are going up is completely wrong. And can 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:08.360 explain that to you next segment, And it's definitely worth 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:10.119 knowing in case you run into people that throw. 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:14.880 Around that very simple, untrue phrase. Yeah. At the risk 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:17.200 of sounding like we're petting ourselves on the back as 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:19.359 usual with these things, we're not coming at it from 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:21.600 a particular angle or another. We're trying to understand what 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:22.240 is true. 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:25.320 No, I'm not helpy happy with the health insurance industry 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:30.359 or the healthcare I'm not happy about that. On the 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:32.480 topic of race, this is going to end up being 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:34.600 good news you're going to be happy about. Okay, this 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:37.159