1 00:00:01,880 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:10,920 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and 3 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:17,280 Speaker 1: Getty and know he Armstrong and Getty. 4 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 2: With that fire danger looming, families in southern California are 5 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 2: shell shot and worried a new inferno could break out. 6 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:33,840 Speaker 2: They've got everything prepared. You can see the monumental amount 7 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 2: of resources of fire truck here, one tucked in there, 8 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:38,840 Speaker 2: another one. 9 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 3: In that driveway five six, and. 10 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 2: On down almost every block as fire trucks here in 11 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:48,159 Speaker 2: this canyon. We spoke with La County Fire Chief Anthony Broni. 12 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:51,160 Speaker 2: There is another Santa Ana wind event. 13 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:52,280 Speaker 1: Forecast for next week. 14 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 4: Yes, yes, the La County Fire Department's going to be ready. 15 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 1: So the farks continue and hopefully the word of it 16 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 1: is over in terms of creating more damage. If you're 17 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 1: if you lost everything, the worst of it is not over. 18 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 1: You're it's still in the middle of the worst of it, 19 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 1: and you might be in the worst of it for 20 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:12,680 Speaker 1: a very long time. Then you got the weird situations 21 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 1: we were talking about a little bit ago about neighborhoods. 22 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:17,399 Speaker 1: We know a few people like this where everything is 23 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:20,480 Speaker 1: gone except for your house for whatever reason. And uh, 24 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:23,119 Speaker 1: how weird that would be if you're the one house 25 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 1: in the block that survived, or you're you're you're the 26 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 1: part of the homes where the fire stopped for some reason, 27 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 1: but everything next to it and the neighborhood has gone, 28 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 1: and so you're surrounded by you know, it looks like Gaza, 29 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 1: your local gas station and grocery stores burnt down. Your 30 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:41,760 Speaker 1: kid's school is gone. I mean, it's not near the 31 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 1: same neighborhood you used to live in, even though your 32 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: house is still there. I'd be that'd be wild. How 33 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 1: many years before that comes back? 34 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 5: Well, and you're living in a burnout healthscape and yeah, 35 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 5: I don't know what the air quality is going to be. 36 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:59,080 Speaker 5: And then there is going to be eventually never ending 37 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 5: clearing of row I mean, oh my god, eighteen hours 38 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 5: a day, and then never ending infrastructure repair and construction, 39 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 5: like you're living in the middle of a brand new subdivision. 40 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:15,239 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, just it's unthinkable. 41 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:17,920 Speaker 5: And the rebuilding, of course, no matter your imagination, you 42 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 5: cannot fully imagine the just the suffering and the annoyance 43 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 5: and the stress. 44 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 1: A lot of pressure already on the government to streamline 45 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 1: making that easier, and Gavin Newsom's done away with a 46 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 1: lot of the permits and environmental regulations and everything like that. 47 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 1: Reason Magazine tweeted out yesterday, they're the libertarian outfit. If 48 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:45,520 Speaker 1: removing permit and review processes will help California communities recover 49 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 1: faster and stronger after the wildfires, wouldn't there permanent removal 50 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 1: help the state deal with its housing shortages? Of course, 51 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:56,520 Speaker 1: pretty impossible to counter that thought. 52 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 5: Wow, yeah, it's it's ridiculous. California's problems are entirely of 53 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:04,520 Speaker 5: its own making. 54 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 1: Oftentimes things are so Bill Burr, comedian, was on Jimmy 55 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:11,919 Speaker 1: Kimmel last night. This gets into a topic we've covered 56 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:13,359 Speaker 1: quite a bit, but we'll cover it again in case 57 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 1: you don't understand it yet. How is Bill Burr the 58 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 1: father the husband in an emergency situation? I don't know. 59 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 1: I'm all right, I'm alright. When big stuff happens, I 60 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 1: get ridiculously calm my achilles, heel stop that. Sorry, we 61 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:30,640 Speaker 1: need six, not seven. I don't know why we get 62 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 1: some six. 63 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 2: Yes, and they are talking about looting, but CNN and 64 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:36,480 Speaker 2: Fox News are not going to bring up the insurance 65 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 2: companies that are just going to keep everybody's. 66 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 3: Premiums and still give themselves a bonus. 67 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 1: Free Luigi. 68 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 3: They acted surprise, Why did that happen? I have no 69 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 3: he wrote on the bullets, why it happened? 70 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:56,680 Speaker 1: Oh we're back to Luigi. 71 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, yeah, I never left Luigi. 72 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 1: Wow. The hilarity ensues around Luigi the Murderer. Wow. And 73 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 1: the crowd thought it was funny. A crowd just nah. 74 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 5: Of course they might have been shocked. Sometimes people laugh 75 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 5: whim shocked. Kimil thought it was hilarious. Bill Burr obviously 76 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 5: thinks it's good material for his crowd. I like, I'm 77 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:22,480 Speaker 5: a Bill Bill Burr fan, but again, just so everybody 78 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:26,039 Speaker 5: sends it. And I have been screwed by a number 79 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:28,479 Speaker 5: of insurance companies and I'm sure I will be again. 80 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 1: In my life, it has always seemed to me that 81 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 1: you pay your whole life, and then when you need them, 82 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 1: they either drop you or raise the rates enough to 83 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 1: cover how much they just gave you. I mean, that's 84 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:40,760 Speaker 1: been like mostly my experiences. So I'm not, you know, 85 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 1: all about helping out the insurance companies. But in California 86 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 1: they passed a law that you were not allowed to 87 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 1: raise your premiums, even though with inflation and all kinds 88 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 1: of other things happening throughout the pandemic in the last 89 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 1: four years, it costs so much more to fix your house. 90 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 1: There was just no mathematical way they could continue to 91 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 1: be in business in California. If it costs, you know, 92 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:06,480 Speaker 1: one and a half times what it used to cost 93 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 1: to fix your house, they can't charge the same premium. 94 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 1: Obviously it doesn't work. 95 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 5: Yeah, costs your up seventy percent. You can raise your 96 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:18,159 Speaker 5: premiums ten percent. We're leaving, was the answer, right, appropriately, Right. 97 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 1: It's the biggest market in America, might even be statistically 98 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:26,840 Speaker 1: the world California for insurance companies, and all the big 99 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 1: companies left because it didn't make mathematical sense anymore. 100 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 3: Free Luigi, Yeah, talk. 101 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 1: About looters, talk about the insurance companies, says Bill Burr. 102 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 1: I just wish more people understood that, so we could 103 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:40,160 Speaker 1: come to some sort of Okay, the insurance companies, I 104 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 1: hate them too, but let's figure out what they should 105 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:45,479 Speaker 1: be doing in a fair world where they're allowed to 106 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 1: function well, and the things that they do that are indefensible, 107 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 1: then regulations can reasonable regulations can be put in place 108 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,479 Speaker 1: and are in place to prevent that sort of screwing. Actually, 109 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:04,280 Speaker 1: in terms of consumer friendliness, California is very much insurance 110 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 1: wise to the point of absurdity, driving all the companies 111 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:10,159 Speaker 1: out of the state for political purposes. 112 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:13,599 Speaker 3: It's just not realistic as usual. 113 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 1: That Free Luigi thing and the reaction of Jimmy Kimmel. 114 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:19,800 Speaker 1: I'm trying to think, has there been anything like that 115 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:21,040 Speaker 1: that I can think of in my life? 116 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:26,599 Speaker 5: A cold blooded murder of a husband and father celebrated 117 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:27,720 Speaker 5: because people don't. 118 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 3: Like his company. I don't know. Wow, I don't know. 119 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 5: Troubling Bill Burr is a comedian who primarily, you know, 120 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:41,840 Speaker 5: performs for youngish people and is irreverent and says things 121 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 5: he might not necessarily believe to get a rise. 122 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:45,160 Speaker 3: I get what comedy is. 123 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 5: But seriously, now, if we were to accept that any 124 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:52,920 Speaker 5: industry that. 125 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 3: Had a history of activity that. 126 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 5: Most consumers resent their executives open season for their murder. 127 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:05,040 Speaker 1: Airlines shoot the shoot the guy runs southwest, shoot him 128 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 1: in the street. Yeah, I hate the way they treated 129 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:12,040 Speaker 1: me all these years. United Airlines, whatever hospital serves, you 130 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 1: know that the doctor's companies. Rennakarker whatever, whatever company you 131 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:18,040 Speaker 1: don't like, the phone company, pharmaceuticals. 132 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 3: You think of dozens of them. 133 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 1: Now you're electric bill. Yeah, obviously there's the endless list 134 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 1: of companies you're not really pleased with. You don't get 135 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:25,680 Speaker 1: to murder them. 136 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:28,400 Speaker 5: Yeah, there are a lot of good people trying to 137 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 5: do better within those companies, and you might murder one 138 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 5: of them. 139 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:35,800 Speaker 1: Plus murder is wrong anyway. Uh Well, once you start 140 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 1: down that road. We've had this discussion ever since the murder. 141 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 1: Once you start down that road, it's all over. 142 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:49,360 Speaker 5: It's all over civilization. You may yes, it's crazy wild West. 143 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:52,720 Speaker 5: You're you're living in uh. I don't know where's lawless 144 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 5: the Sudan. 145 00:07:54,600 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 1: So a couple of factoids for you, uh borrows. Homes 146 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 1: burned down are still on the hook for monthly mortgage 147 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:06,240 Speaker 1: payments in the long run, even though there is not 148 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 1: a house there, but many will get temporary relief. Homeowners 149 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 1: usually have the option to pause mortgage payments for as 150 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:16,240 Speaker 1: much as a year if they are impacted by a 151 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 1: natural disaster. 152 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:18,680 Speaker 3: Have you heard anybody even take a. 153 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 5: Wild guess as to the average time till the rebuilding 154 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:26,840 Speaker 5: of the average home in Los Angeles? 155 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 1: I haven't. I haven't even heard of speculation. But like 156 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 1: you tell me, off the top of your head, off 157 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 1: the top of my head, if I just lost my house, 158 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:38,720 Speaker 1: I'm thinking it's two or three years before I live 159 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:39,959 Speaker 1: in a home on that spot. 160 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 5: Again, what do you think, Oh, that's a minimum, Yeah, 161 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:45,840 Speaker 5: minimum fare minimum. 162 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:49,960 Speaker 1: I mean there are only so many contractors, right, It'd 163 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 1: be so long from now. I wouldn't even really be 164 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,560 Speaker 1: thinking about it because I'd know that for years I'm 165 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:57,800 Speaker 1: living somewhere else, So I got to figure out what 166 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 1: that is with the schooling and my work and everything else. 167 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 5: I would agree, I can't even imagine what it's gonna 168 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 5: be like to sort this out. 169 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:07,200 Speaker 1: And just as an aside, I also don't know about you, 170 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:11,440 Speaker 1: but I would be looking into some sort of situation 171 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 1: where I'm gonna try to buy a new house somewhere 172 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 1: else and start my life and then when that gets built, 173 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:19,080 Speaker 1: sell it or something. I mean, what are you gonna 174 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:20,840 Speaker 1: put your life on a hold and go back there? 175 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 3: I guess a lot of people are right. I can't. 176 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 5: I can't imagine how you deal with it, honestly, very 177 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:28,040 Speaker 5: obviously a person of person, but it's it's to call 178 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 5: it disruptive is not nearly enough. Some of the most 179 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:34,840 Speaker 5: famous real estate in the world burnt to the ground. 180 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 5: There was that mansion, that hilltop mansion that cost fifty 181 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:42,400 Speaker 5: million dollars to build over a dozen years, whatever it was, 182 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:44,320 Speaker 5: and it's sold for eighty three million or something like that. 183 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 3: I can't remember. 184 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:47,040 Speaker 5: It's got a name, Jimmy the house, I don't know. 185 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 5: I don't name my houses. I should, though it's classic. 186 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:54,680 Speaker 3: But that place is ruined. It's done, it's burnt. 187 00:09:55,920 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 1: All sorts of ten twenty seventy million dollar houses are 188 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:02,320 Speaker 1: just gone. Tony. I heard a story from somebody yesterday. 189 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 1: I didn't know this was a thing. Somebody whose friend 190 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 1: their house survived. The firefighters got there, came in, took 191 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 1: all the furniture out of the living room that was 192 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:17,680 Speaker 1: made out of wood and threw it in their pool, 193 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:21,840 Speaker 1: and then hosed down the walls with some sort of 194 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 1: fire retardant and went to the next house and then 195 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:27,840 Speaker 1: the house. The house survived the flames coming by that interesting. 196 00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 1: I didn't know that was a thing. 197 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:31,880 Speaker 3: Well, that's the best case, and that's going to be horrendous. 198 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:34,679 Speaker 3: I didn't know it. Repairs there new placements. 199 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 5: And in the context of the other two hundred and 200 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:40,880 Speaker 5: seventy five houses in your little development there are gone, 201 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:44,680 Speaker 5: and they're trying to hire contractors, repair people. 202 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:45,920 Speaker 3: And the rest of it, I can't even imagine. 203 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 5: No anyway forbearans is what they call pausing your mortgage 204 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 5: payments for a certain amount of time. Mortgage companies are 205 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:54,720 Speaker 5: required to offer it on the roughly forty percent of 206 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 5: mortgages backed by Fanny Mae and Freddie Mack. Loans backed 207 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:02,440 Speaker 5: by the FAHA and the VA have similar guidance. Loans 208 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:05,920 Speaker 5: that do not have federal backing, like jumbo mortgages, may 209 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:09,600 Speaker 5: also be eligible for for barants. That depends on mortgage 210 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:11,440 Speaker 5: companies that service these loans. 211 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:16,160 Speaker 1: But if you were not eligible for this, so you go. 212 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 1: You got to keep taking making your house payment for 213 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 1: that three to five years we were talking about while 214 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:22,960 Speaker 1: you're living renting a place. 215 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:23,680 Speaker 3: Wow. 216 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:28,280 Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, and residents whose homes were damaged or destroyed 217 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:32,240 Speaker 5: might also be eligible for property tax relief. But paying 218 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:35,720 Speaker 5: a mortgage and property tax on a pile of ash 219 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 5: wife one more somewhat sobering headline. Right south West's pilots 220 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 5: would like to listen to this sobriety seems to be 221 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 5: a bit of a challenge. 222 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:47,360 Speaker 1: Wow, that's unfair. 223 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:53,080 Speaker 5: A little noticed rule change last year by California's insurance 224 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:55,840 Speaker 5: regulator will likely shift a large chunk of the cost 225 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:58,400 Speaker 5: of the LA wildfires two homeowners. 226 00:11:57,920 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 3: Across the state. 227 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:01,679 Speaker 5: Pushed by insurers, the change puts California homeowners on the 228 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:04,319 Speaker 5: hook to pay directly toward the cost of rebuilding from 229 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 5: very large disasters, even though fatter insurance built I'm sorry 230 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:11,319 Speaker 5: through fatter insurance bills, whether they were exposed to the 231 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:15,680 Speaker 5: LA fire or not. Dave Jones, former California insurance commissioner, 232 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:19,559 Speaker 5: who was not a crook unlike the current cabal, says 233 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 5: that would be a huge wake up call for Californian 234 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:24,720 Speaker 5: is because they have no idea that the rules have changed. 235 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:29,800 Speaker 5: The new policy effects the backstop for California's Fare Plan, 236 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 5: which is the insurer of last resort because so many 237 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,679 Speaker 5: thousands and thousands and thousands of homeowners in cal Unicornea 238 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:40,240 Speaker 5: can't get coverage because the aforementioned bad rules. So the 239 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:43,080 Speaker 5: rule change means insurance companies can build their customers if 240 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:45,959 Speaker 5: they're forced to bail out the plan, which has an 241 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:49,680 Speaker 5: estimated two hundred million dollars in cash and two point 242 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:53,520 Speaker 5: five million billion dollars in reassurance, which is not going 243 00:12:53,559 --> 00:12:55,720 Speaker 5: to be nearly enough to cover their share of the 244 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:56,720 Speaker 5: losses from the fires. 245 00:12:56,720 --> 00:12:58,080 Speaker 3: That could be double or triple. 246 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:00,080 Speaker 1: So all of our insurance is going to go up. 247 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:04,440 Speaker 3: Skyrocket probably nice. I know. 248 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:08,440 Speaker 1: Looking for good news somewhere else. 249 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:10,200 Speaker 3: We'll keep looking and get back to you. 250 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 1: The ceasefire deal decent chance it falls apart. If you 251 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:20,800 Speaker 1: haven't heard the latest, explain that among other things on 252 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:26,480 Speaker 1: the way. You know, one of the best things about 253 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:28,360 Speaker 1: being a next big leaguer is getting preties to the 254 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:30,680 Speaker 1: game call the front office bingo, and. 255 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:33,400 Speaker 4: Once these fans recognize me, I probably won't even have 256 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:34,760 Speaker 4: to pay for my life pere from Miller. 257 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:37,679 Speaker 1: I love them, these fans. 258 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:37,719 Speaker 2: No. 259 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:40,319 Speaker 1: I drink white because it's less pilling and it tastes great. 260 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 2: Good. 261 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:43,280 Speaker 4: See, sir, we're in a row scape, buddy, Come on, no, 262 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:44,320 Speaker 4: I must. 263 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:44,520 Speaker 3: Be in the front. 264 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:47,840 Speaker 1: My light beer from Miller everything you always wanted in 265 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:48,600 Speaker 1: a beer. 266 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:53,040 Speaker 3: And less Let's see, Hey, buddy, he missed the tag. 267 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 3: He missed attack. The great Bob Bucker has passed. 268 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:02,320 Speaker 5: Ladies and gentlemen, ball player, actor, a commentator and funny man. 269 00:14:02,679 --> 00:14:04,439 Speaker 1: You gotta be a certain age to remember when he 270 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:06,559 Speaker 1: used to go on Carson back in the day when 271 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 1: I was a kid. Loved his appearances. Yeah, he was 272 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 1: a major league baseball player turn comedian, really hilarious guy. 273 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:16,520 Speaker 1: Well he was a He was a very mediocre player, 274 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:19,080 Speaker 1: and he made a career of it making a joke, 275 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,760 Speaker 1: really self great, self deprecating humor. He is in the 276 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:27,880 Speaker 1: movie Major League, just doing his act again. We'll tell 277 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 1: his stories about how I wasn't very fast runner, so 278 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:31,840 Speaker 1: when i'd run, I'd move my hand up like this 279 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:33,480 Speaker 1: and knock my hat off to look like it was 280 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:34,520 Speaker 1: I was going faster. 281 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:39,479 Speaker 3: Oh that's beautiful. 282 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:41,240 Speaker 1: I have one more clip. 283 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:42,000 Speaker 3: Would you like to hear it? 284 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:44,320 Speaker 1: Sure? When the most Game Show is brought to you 285 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 1: by christ I can't find it. 286 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:52,760 Speaker 3: The hell with it? That's all. We got one damn hit. 287 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:55,360 Speaker 1: You can't say damn on the air. 288 00:14:55,440 --> 00:15:03,360 Speaker 5: I don't worry, nobody's listening anyway. The Great Bob Buker's 289 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:08,200 Speaker 5: pass Jack more disappointing news. A famous cartoonist who is 290 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 5: syndicated by the Washington Post, has made a career out 291 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:16,840 Speaker 5: of portraying Republicans as Nazis and perverts and sickos and 292 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 5: the rest of it. Has been arrested for child porn charges. 293 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:25,840 Speaker 5: Who in the Sacramento, California area. Oh my god, one 294 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 5: forty nine year old Darren Bell, who again had I 295 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:32,200 Speaker 5: was just looking at a collection of his cartoons portrayed 296 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:37,600 Speaker 5: Trump as Hitler, among other things. Ah, there was a 297 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 5: tip to the Child Sex Abuse National Center for Missing 298 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 5: and Exploited Children Child Sex Abuse material Line, and he 299 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 5: was arrested with one hundred and thirty four videos. 300 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:51,320 Speaker 3: And many many images, et cetera. Has been tried. 301 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 1: That is so disgusting. 302 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:54,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, it is. It is. 303 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:57,240 Speaker 1: First of all, it's disgusting and twisted, and I think 304 00:15:57,240 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 1: those people's brains are broken and can't be fixed. But 305 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:02,280 Speaker 1: how do you think you're gonna get away with it? 306 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:04,960 Speaker 1: You really think that nobody's going to get into your 307 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 1: computer somehow and find you. I just can't imagine that. 308 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:12,120 Speaker 3: I guess the compulsion is that strong. 309 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 1: Oh that's horrifying. That is horror. 310 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 5: If you're looking for a logical explanation, yeah, I can't 311 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:21,480 Speaker 5: even imagine. It's an affliction. I think in a sickness. 312 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:26,119 Speaker 1: So coming up a quick review of America's college campuses. 313 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:29,240 Speaker 1: It feels like we're kind of winning the war against 314 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:33,160 Speaker 1: woke and DEEI, oh my lord, we have miles to 315 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:36,040 Speaker 1: go before we sleep. The wah Pole has announced their 316 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:39,040 Speaker 1: new slogan. Remember it used to be democracy dies in darkness. 317 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:40,680 Speaker 1: I do think this is a better direction for them, 318 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:42,080 Speaker 1: and we got to check it. On the Middle East 319 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 1: peace deal, which maybe falling apart, I got dang it. 320 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:47,600 Speaker 1: I've spent so much time reading about this I left 321 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 1: out maybe the key, probably the key why Israel is 322 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:54,960 Speaker 1: pursuing this, because I've been saying all morning long, I 323 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 1: understand why they would make this deal. Well, there is 324 00:16:56,880 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 1: a good reason for them to make this deal. 325 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:03,840 Speaker 5: Who gets the most credit? A very silly discussion between 326 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:06,720 Speaker 5: Trump and Biden. How's this likely to come out? Is 327 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 5: it a good deal? And what about the hostages? So 328 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 5: many questions. We'll have some answers. If you can't stick around, 329 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:12,560 Speaker 5: grab the podcast Armstrong You Getty. 330 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:14,280 Speaker 3: On demand Armstrong and Getty. 331 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:18,239 Speaker 4: There's some question about whether Hamas knows where each one 332 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:20,919 Speaker 4: of these hostages are, how long it may take to 333 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:23,520 Speaker 4: get them all together. There are thirty three in this 334 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:26,920 Speaker 4: first group, we're not sure how many are alive. Beyond that, 335 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:31,679 Speaker 4: it'll be a joyous occasion when those thirty three get reunited, 336 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:35,000 Speaker 4: but it's going to be pretty tense about all of 337 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:35,480 Speaker 4: the rest. 338 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:38,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's pretty up in the air. Question how many 339 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:40,520 Speaker 1: hostages are alive and what kind of condition are they 340 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 1: in is a heck of a thing. As David Sanger 341 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:44,880 Speaker 1: of The New York Times talking about the peace deal 342 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:50,520 Speaker 1: before this happened last night. So the acting leader of AMAS, 343 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:53,560 Speaker 1: you might remember the former leader of HAMAS threw a 344 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 1: chunk of wood at a drone and then got his 345 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:58,119 Speaker 1: head bloot off. Remember that whole story. 346 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:01,600 Speaker 3: It has passed. Yes, Jack has passed. 347 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:04,760 Speaker 1: A timely death, actually untimely. It'd have been better if 348 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:07,920 Speaker 1: he died before October seventh. But that guy is dead, 349 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:10,159 Speaker 1: and so this is the current acting leader of HAMAS 350 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:14,480 Speaker 1: releases this video last night after the news breaks of 351 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:15,160 Speaker 1: a peace deal. 352 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:18,119 Speaker 6: We also got a statement overnight from the de facto 353 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:21,000 Speaker 6: leader of HAMAS, who released this about the deal. 354 00:18:22,119 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 7: What happened on October seventh a miracle, a military achievement, 355 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:28,199 Speaker 7: and a security achievement carried out by al casombriad Or 356 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:30,600 Speaker 7: remain a source of pride for our people and our resistance, 357 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:33,880 Speaker 7: though will we passed down from generation to generation after 358 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:35,320 Speaker 7: it struck a fatal blow to the end. 359 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:39,400 Speaker 6: That statement's important because it illustrates the type of pressure 360 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:43,200 Speaker 6: that is currently being faced by the Israeli government. Hamas 361 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:46,280 Speaker 6: is claiming victory. We saw images last night from inside 362 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:49,880 Speaker 6: the Gaza strip of Hamas gunman freely going around and 363 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:53,800 Speaker 6: celebrating what they are calling an achievement, promising to conduct 364 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:57,640 Speaker 6: yet another October seventh attack, and it raises real questions 365 00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:00,919 Speaker 6: about how this agreement is going to be accepted, especially 366 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 6: among the right wing coalition of the Israeli Prime Minister. 367 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:08,200 Speaker 1: So imagine somebody kidnaps your kid, you make a deal 368 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:10,680 Speaker 1: with him, and as you're making the deal, they say 369 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:11,919 Speaker 1: to you, I'm going to as soon as I can, 370 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:15,840 Speaker 1: I'm gonna kidnap your kid again. Yeah, what kind of 371 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:17,919 Speaker 1: a deal I'm making here. So apparently that took the 372 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:21,360 Speaker 1: right wingers in the people that are to the right 373 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:24,040 Speaker 1: of net and Yahoo in his government said no freaking way, 374 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:25,760 Speaker 1: we're on this, and that's why they have not had 375 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:29,000 Speaker 1: a vote now. They were supposed to vote yesterday, but 376 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:32,480 Speaker 1: now they have not had a vote on whether or 377 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:33,640 Speaker 1: not they're going to go forward with this deal. 378 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:36,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, the deal has not been agreed to. 379 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:38,760 Speaker 5: I also wanted to point out the statement by the 380 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:41,800 Speaker 5: leader of mo Oswell, I get it in his world 381 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:44,720 Speaker 5: of extremists quote unquote domestic politics, why he would say 382 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:48,160 Speaker 5: something like that. It also just illustrates the utter insanity 383 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:52,680 Speaker 5: of two days after October seventh, the Biden administration saying Israel, 384 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 5: you've got to have a ceasefire. A good lord. It's 385 00:19:56,880 --> 00:20:02,200 Speaker 5: unspeakably dumb. Anyway, a few more details. BB Netniaho announced 386 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:05,000 Speaker 5: earlier today that the long waited ceasefire deal is on 387 00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:09,959 Speaker 5: hold because of a last minute crisis, which including the 388 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:14,280 Speaker 5: bragging about the pride in October seventh. Net Nyahu delayed 389 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:18,200 Speaker 5: his cabinet voting Thursday, accusing Hamas of a last minute 390 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:22,159 Speaker 5: blackmail attempt. There's more to this. In part that included 391 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 5: the terror group objecting to a part of the agreement 392 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:27,439 Speaker 5: that gave Israel the right to refuse the release of 393 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:32,520 Speaker 5: certain Palestinian prisoners accused of murders, said net Nyahoo's office 394 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:35,080 Speaker 5: in a statement. Quote Hamas is demanding that it determined 395 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:38,240 Speaker 5: the identity of the terrorists to be released and that 396 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:40,600 Speaker 5: was not agreed to, and Israel said that we can't 397 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:43,560 Speaker 5: agree to that. So you know, I'm swear I'm not 398 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:45,919 Speaker 5: saying this to pat myself on the back. But I 399 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:48,919 Speaker 5: didn't believe yesterday that it was a done deal, and 400 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:51,800 Speaker 5: I sure as hell don't believe that today is a 401 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:55,040 Speaker 5: done deal. You are trying to come to an agreement 402 00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:59,320 Speaker 5: with a foe that will not until the last days 403 00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:01,919 Speaker 5: of mankind mind negotiating good faith. 404 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 1: Well, the mainstream media is all reporting it. I heard 405 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:07,520 Speaker 1: it on NPR, I heard it on CNN, I heard 406 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:11,240 Speaker 1: it on MSNBC as Netna who once again scuggling a 407 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:14,440 Speaker 1: peace deal. Hamas has agreed to it, but Netna who 408 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:17,760 Speaker 1: once again backing away from a peace deal. That is 409 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:19,680 Speaker 1: not the way these have gone down over the last 410 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:21,600 Speaker 1: year and a half. And as you just heard from 411 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:23,879 Speaker 1: Joe there, there's reasons why he would not agree to this. 412 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:26,240 Speaker 1: And I've been trying to figure out why would you 413 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:26,760 Speaker 1: agree to it? 414 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 5: I mean, I realized that it is terrible, it's worth 415 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 5: mentioning that go ahead. 416 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:33,200 Speaker 1: So only Fox is the only place I've seen play 417 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:36,480 Speaker 1: that video from the Hamas leader doing the touchdown dance 418 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:39,640 Speaker 1: over this thing. They didn't even mention it on any 419 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 1: of the other news outlets. I think that's a pretty 420 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:45,640 Speaker 1: key piece of information when your opponent is vowing more 421 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:47,880 Speaker 1: October seventh, as soon as we can get our act 422 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:49,920 Speaker 1: together and get enough people. Oh, we'd love to murder 423 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:51,840 Speaker 1: more babies and old people and rape a bunch of 424 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:54,280 Speaker 1: college girls, I'd be fantastic. That's who you're supposed to 425 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:55,000 Speaker 1: do the peace deal with. 426 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:56,359 Speaker 3: Good Lord. 427 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:59,000 Speaker 5: It's difficult to say whether that was the key point 428 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:02,399 Speaker 5: or the Hamas stating that we get to choose the 429 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:05,320 Speaker 5: guys you released, by the way in Israel saying whoa, whoa, whoa. 430 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:07,240 Speaker 3: We never agreed to that. Yeah, it doesn't not be 431 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:09,399 Speaker 3: one of these of both factors, right exactly. 432 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:11,600 Speaker 1: There's the piece that I've been missing. I knew this, 433 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:15,240 Speaker 1: but I forgot about it. Richard Engel reported it, and 434 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:17,960 Speaker 1: I read about it so in the Bob Woodward book. 435 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:23,879 Speaker 1: One of the weird turns of history. They were within 436 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:29,920 Speaker 1: days of normalizing relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel when 437 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:33,639 Speaker 1: October seventh happened. It was all the pieces were in place, 438 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:37,600 Speaker 1: and that you talk about an historic shift in the 439 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 1: Middle East. Why would Saudi Arabia do that because then 440 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:44,080 Speaker 1: they would be part of the whole US umbrella of 441 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:49,560 Speaker 1: protection against Iran and any other foe. So Israel and 442 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:53,359 Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia were going to become friends and then their forces. 443 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:56,040 Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia's a friend in the United States just changed 444 00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:58,080 Speaker 1: the entire balance of power in the entire Middle East. 445 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:00,480 Speaker 1: There were days from that happening when not over seven 446 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:03,840 Speaker 1: the cord obviously then it was off because the Arab 447 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,600 Speaker 1: street as they call it in Saudi Arabia was horrified 448 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:08,640 Speaker 1: at the way the Palestinians would be treated. Blah blah 449 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:12,520 Speaker 1: blah blah blah. Well, apparently that's back in the works again. 450 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:16,439 Speaker 1: There's a decent chance if Israel agrees to this, that 451 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:19,960 Speaker 1: MBS thinks, Okay, this will appease my people enough. They're 452 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:22,879 Speaker 1: no longer bombinum, the food aids getting in, We're going 453 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:25,480 Speaker 1: to normalize relations, and it's back on. Saudi Arabia is 454 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:28,080 Speaker 1: under the US nuclear umbrella again. 455 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:32,919 Speaker 5: Talking about Iran, right, and MBS, for all of his 456 00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:37,399 Speaker 5: many sins, is a practical man, and he understands a 457 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:43,360 Speaker 5: backward oil kingdom with a bunch of people running around 458 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:47,639 Speaker 5: shouting fundamentalist slogans from the year eight hundred ain't the 459 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:49,960 Speaker 5: way to run a country in the twenty first century. 460 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:54,920 Speaker 5: He is trying desperately to modernize his country and diversify 461 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:57,080 Speaker 5: the economy too, But he understands he's got to be 462 00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:59,239 Speaker 5: plugged into the international community and he can't do that 463 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:03,080 Speaker 5: as a fundamental Muslim pariah. So yeah, he has every 464 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:05,480 Speaker 5: interest in cementing this deal. 465 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:08,159 Speaker 1: He also believes another thing from a Woodward book. He 466 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:10,880 Speaker 1: fully believes Iran's going to get a bomb. Oh yeah, 467 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:13,119 Speaker 1: and RAN's going to have a nuclear weapon and we're not, 468 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:15,200 Speaker 1: And so we need to be friends with the United 469 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:18,760 Speaker 1: States and Israel, which is also a nuclear power, though 470 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:21,720 Speaker 1: they claim they're not right, Oh they are. 471 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:25,960 Speaker 5: Yeah, so yeah, so much for the peace deal, the 472 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:31,159 Speaker 5: cease fire. 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You want to hear 509 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:23,960 Speaker 3: that a vestige of my childhood. 510 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,480 Speaker 1: You want to hear another amazing I've never Okay, I've 511 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:30,320 Speaker 1: never had strawberry ice cream, great. 512 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:32,200 Speaker 3: Scott, were you raised on the moon? 513 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:35,880 Speaker 1: No, It's been available to me many, many Unlike what 514 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:37,480 Speaker 1: was the sandwich you were talking about, which I'd never 515 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 1: come across in my life. 516 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:40,439 Speaker 3: Uh, hot pastrami sand I never. 517 00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:42,480 Speaker 1: Come in contact with a potrami sandwich. I've had a 518 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:44,680 Speaker 1: lot of opportunities for strawberry I scream. It just always 519 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:46,399 Speaker 1: sounded gross to me, so I've never tried it. 520 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:50,159 Speaker 5: Katie has a look on her face like she's watching 521 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:53,320 Speaker 5: a documentary on some weird tribe that's never brushed up 522 00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:54,440 Speaker 5: against modernity. 523 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:57,600 Speaker 1: I basically am listening to this. 524 00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:02,879 Speaker 5: Yeah, I know the list of things Jack has never done, eaten, 525 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:06,080 Speaker 5: gone to it, or it's astonishing because you've actually lived 526 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:09,360 Speaker 5: a very interesting life in ways. 527 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,359 Speaker 1: Unless you find eating strawberry ice cream part of the 528 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:13,840 Speaker 1: richness of life, because I've missed out on that. 529 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:16,240 Speaker 3: It is part of life's rich paget. 530 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:20,119 Speaker 1: No doubt, We've got more on the way. Stay here. 531 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:24,720 Speaker 3: Some business news. Amazon announced it is phasing out his 532 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:28,240 Speaker 3: try before you buy option. That's too bad. I'm going 533 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,600 Speaker 3: to miss buying underwear that ten people have already tried. 534 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:37,359 Speaker 1: That's interesting because I remember watching Jeff Bezos on Charlie 535 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,639 Speaker 1: Rose back when he had hair, talking about this is 536 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:42,760 Speaker 1: one of the great things about Amazon. You know, you're 537 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,080 Speaker 1: not sure your size, buy a pair of shoes you 538 00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:47,280 Speaker 1: know a size bigger that size, and try them on. 539 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:49,360 Speaker 1: You send back the ones that don't fit. I mean, 540 00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:51,320 Speaker 1: that was part of their whole why you should start 541 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:54,320 Speaker 1: buying through online. He must think that it's caught on 542 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,680 Speaker 1: enough that they don't need to do that anymore. And yes, 543 00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:01,320 Speaker 1: and it must be a negative somewhere or bad. 544 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:03,680 Speaker 5: People are exploiting it in a way that is too costly, 545 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:07,800 Speaker 5: like so many others trying underwear. Yeah, that's right. Normally 546 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,000 Speaker 5: don't we have introductory music. Michael, it's a campus madness update. 547 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:12,800 Speaker 3: I forget to warn you. Don't worry about it. 548 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:17,200 Speaker 5: It's just a digest of stories about colleges in universities. 549 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:20,280 Speaker 1: Right now, we're going to zoom through it. The good, 550 00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:21,800 Speaker 1: the bad, and the ugly. 551 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:24,760 Speaker 5: As I've often said, you have to remember in the 552 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,919 Speaker 5: war against Woke, the war against Dei, the neo Marxism, 553 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 5: the racializing everything. We're not at the beginning of the 554 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:34,520 Speaker 5: end or at the end of the beginning. The war 555 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:38,000 Speaker 5: has just begun. Some examples again, the good, bad, and 556 00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:40,640 Speaker 5: the ugly. This is really quite a story. Columbia University, 557 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,080 Speaker 5: you remember them with the madness and the occupation and 558 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:46,640 Speaker 5: the pro terrorism and anti jew and blocking Jews from 559 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:49,040 Speaker 5: going to classes and just all that stuff. Well they've 560 00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:51,840 Speaker 5: cleaned up their act. No, they have not even a 561 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:55,320 Speaker 5: little bit. As the kids returned to school this year, 562 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:58,600 Speaker 5: the Columbia Literary Society Alpha Delta Phi set up a 563 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 5: two day event in the these Hen's House, named after 564 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,640 Speaker 5: a five year old Gosen girl who died in the conflict. 565 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:08,440 Speaker 5: It's tragic. Obviously, nobody likes that, except for Hamas they 566 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:13,880 Speaker 5: like that but it is a two day festival celebrating 567 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:17,840 Speaker 5: the campus protests of last year. They've set up a 568 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:24,760 Speaker 5: museum of themselves celebrating Hamas and the protests on the 569 00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:29,640 Speaker 5: Columbia University campus. They have a table with the wrenches, hammers, ropes, 570 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:33,720 Speaker 5: and wirecutters used by the anti Israel protesters to break 571 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:37,239 Speaker 5: in and occupy Columbia's Hamilton Hall last to April, with 572 00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:40,400 Speaker 5: a sign do not get your fingerprints on these, because 573 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,240 Speaker 5: of course the man might crack down. 574 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 3: Very strange. 575 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:49,560 Speaker 5: From the Wall Street Journal headline, the higher education is 576 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:53,280 Speaker 5: in trouble, among other things, schools should curtail DEI and 577 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:56,280 Speaker 5: stop taking political sides. They're quite right, but they cite 578 00:29:56,320 --> 00:30:03,040 Speaker 5: some astonishing statistics. Confidence in America's colleges and universities has 579 00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:08,480 Speaker 5: declined modestly among Democrats, but it has collapsed among Republicans. 580 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:13,120 Speaker 5: A decade ago, a mere decade ago, fifty six percent 581 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:18,240 Speaker 5: of Republicans expressed high confidence in higher education. Now only 582 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,720 Speaker 5: and only eleven percent expressed little or no. It was 583 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:25,360 Speaker 5: fifty six to eleven, it is now twenty to fifty. 584 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:29,160 Speaker 5: I'm a little or no, me too, Yeah, Only twenty 585 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 5: percent of Republicans expressed high confidence in higher education, and 586 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:34,600 Speaker 5: fifty percent have little or no confidence. 587 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:38,880 Speaker 1: What is it for Democrats? Do you have that? Oh? 588 00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:42,719 Speaker 5: Goodness, I'm not sure they gave that specific number, right. 589 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:45,800 Speaker 1: I told the story as this is Halloween before last, 590 00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:49,000 Speaker 1: so it's probably gone further this direction now. But I 591 00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:52,479 Speaker 1: was out walking with other parents for Halloween. These are 592 00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:57,680 Speaker 1: all college educated, super liberal town people, and I was 593 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,480 Speaker 1: shocked by most of them saying, yeah, not going to 594 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:03,920 Speaker 1: college unless there's some specific reason. I thought, Wow, this 595 00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:07,080 Speaker 1: crowd's turned against college. There's really something. 596 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,840 Speaker 5: And then this, do you have an insatiable desire to 597 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:16,560 Speaker 5: read about al chemical hermaphrodites, gender fluid angels, Ethiopian eunuchs, 598 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:19,959 Speaker 5: trans saints, sects, workers, and gender queer monks. 599 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:24,560 Speaker 1: Man, I'm gonna go see Ethiopia Eunichs this weekend. They're 600 00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:26,000 Speaker 1: doing a special MLK show. 601 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:31,560 Speaker 5: They're they're opening for John Mayer. Or would you like 602 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:36,400 Speaker 5: to contemplate how these medieval techs speak to the historical, theoretical, 603 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:40,200 Speaker 5: and political concerns that animate contemporary trans studies. Well, if 604 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:43,440 Speaker 5: you'd like to, you can take at Boston University the 605 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:53,360 Speaker 5: upcoming course Medieval trans Studies. Boy the kids can't read, write, 606 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:54,480 Speaker 5: or do engineering. 607 00:31:55,360 --> 00:32:01,200 Speaker 1: It's interesting In Gladiator two, the slave holder of the 608 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:06,200 Speaker 1: gladiator this time around, Denzel Washington is clearly flaming gay, 609 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:14,080 Speaker 1: like really really gay, and the two emperors are both 610 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:17,680 Speaker 1: kind of transish, And I thought, okay, I mean, I 611 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:19,479 Speaker 1: know that sort of thing went on in Greek and 612 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:23,960 Speaker 1: Roman life, but I imagine they got a kickout of alerting 613 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:25,960 Speaker 1: the world. See this was always happening's always been this 614 00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:27,440 Speaker 1: way not of course. 615 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:29,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll touch on this briefly. 616 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:34,320 Speaker 5: A Columbia University professor who called the Hamas October seventh, 617 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:38,840 Speaker 5: rape murder, child murder, burning people, live, attack on Israel awesome. 618 00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:43,680 Speaker 5: We'll teach an upcoming course on Zionism at beautiful Columbia. 619 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:47,920 Speaker 3: University this term. So that's great, that's just super. That's 620 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:48,520 Speaker 3: enough said. 621 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:52,080 Speaker 5: But this from our friends at FIRE, the Foundation for 622 00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:56,240 Speaker 5: Individual Rights and Expression that fight on both sides of 623 00:32:56,240 --> 00:33:00,520 Speaker 5: the aisle. They want to make sure there's free expression speech. 624 00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:05,440 Speaker 5: They've got a new report that finds half of faculty 625 00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,880 Speaker 5: say mandatory DEI statement pledges in hiring are rarely are 626 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:10,800 Speaker 5: never acceptable. 627 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:13,960 Speaker 3: But only half. One of the headlines is. 628 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:22,360 Speaker 5: Five nearly half of conservative faculty report they feel unable 629 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:26,160 Speaker 5: to voice their opinions because of how others might react. 630 00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:30,560 Speaker 5: Half on campus, it's only a fifth of liberal faculty, 631 00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:34,760 Speaker 5: and more than a third of faculty say they self 632 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:38,440 Speaker 5: censor their written work because of social pressor, which is 633 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:42,280 Speaker 5: quadruple the number of scientists who said the same thing 634 00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:44,400 Speaker 5: at the height of McCarthyism. 635 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:49,440 Speaker 1: Wow, if you're a liberal professor afraid to espouse your 636 00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:54,240 Speaker 1: views on campus, you have no testicles and or ovaries. Really, 637 00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:55,600 Speaker 1: what are you afraids gonna happen? 638 00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:57,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no kidding. 639 00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:00,920 Speaker 5: Eighty seven percent of faculty find it difficult to have 640 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,520 Speaker 5: an open and honest conversation on campus about at least 641 00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:07,440 Speaker 5: one hot button political topic one in seven report and 642 00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:11,480 Speaker 5: being disciplined or threatened just for their opinions. Thirty five 643 00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:14,560 Speaker 5: percent report toning down their written work to avoid controversy 644 00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:18,359 Speaker 5: and where there was one more headline that I really liked. 645 00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:22,839 Speaker 5: Only twenty percent of university faculty say a conservative would 646 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:27,480 Speaker 5: fit in well in their department, only twenty percent in 647 00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:29,360 Speaker 5: a fifty to fifty country, And how. 648 00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:36,879 Speaker 1: Could you possibly, as a liberal not progressive, think that 649 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:37,440 Speaker 1: that's good? 650 00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:43,960 Speaker 5: They are cultists and they're so self righteous. They're convinced 651 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,400 Speaker 5: that they're good and anybody who disagrees with them is evil. 652 00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:50,120 Speaker 5: It is a dichotomous view of the world, the second 653 00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:51,840 Speaker 5: use of the day of the term Menichaean. 654 00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:55,200 Speaker 1: Everything's one or the other in the world. Everything you're 655 00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:57,399 Speaker 1: either good or evil, and if you're progressive, you're good. 656 00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,960 Speaker 1: If you're not your evil. People actually believe this crap. 657 00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,480 Speaker 1: Life and politics isn't a series of trade offs and 658 00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:07,200 Speaker 1: people who have different opinions and see the world differently. 659 00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:11,760 Speaker 5: It doesn't take all kinds in the world of these people, 660 00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:14,520 Speaker 5: It just takes one kind their kind. The rest should 661 00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:19,880 Speaker 5: die anyway. Another quick headliner too. Civic education is making 662 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:23,000 Speaker 5: a much needed comeback on a number of different campuses, 663 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:28,080 Speaker 5: so there is hope. Colleges from Arizona, Texas, to Florida, Tennessee, 664 00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:32,920 Speaker 5: North Carolina and Ohio are starting up American government and 665 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,040 Speaker 5: politics and civic education programs. 666 00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:38,160 Speaker 3: It's making your assertions. There is hope. 667 00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:43,280 Speaker 5: And even the University of San Francisco has severed ties 668 00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:47,400 Speaker 5: with one of your racist anti racists who is accredited 669 00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:51,360 Speaker 5: online class Understanding the roots of racism and bias, anti Blackness, 670 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:54,240 Speaker 5: and it's links to whiteness, white racism, privilege and power. 671 00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:58,920 Speaker 5: This lunatic. They've severed ties with them. There's hope. We 672 00:35:59,000 --> 00:35:59,840 Speaker 5: just got to keep fighting. 673 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:03,239 Speaker 1: I wonder if we reached the high point of the 674 00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:08,120 Speaker 1: craziness and for my lifetime that's over, I hope. 675 00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:08,279 Speaker 2: So. 676 00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:11,319 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was a nutty time, wasn't Hey. If 677 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:13,040 Speaker 1: you missed a segment Orn Hour, get the podcast arm 678 00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:16,320 Speaker 1: Strong and Getty on demand. You should just subscribe Armstrong 679 00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:16,960 Speaker 1: and Getty