WEBVTT - I've Done Drugs, Folks! 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.200 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:07.680 Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:10.320 Jack Armstrong is Joe Getty. 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:23.479 Armstrong and Jetty, and he Armstrong and Getty. So there's 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:30.960 a giant fraud problem in California if this investigation is 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:32.839 true that just came out. We're about to tell you 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:35.839 about it in a second. And it matters to the 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:38.680 whole country because it's just an example of when government 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:43.080 gets big and programs get giant at the behest of lefties, 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:44.640 that lots of waste happens. 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:47.960 And because Gavy Newsom is absolutely dead set on being 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:51.000 the president, and there's a lot of smart democratic money, 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:56.280 semi smart behind that effort. And I feel about Gavin 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:59.080 running for president roughly the same way I would feel 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:00.840 as if like I had a neighbor who is a 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:04.920 big bully and he'd, like, you know, hit me several times, 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:07.480 but I couldn't do anything about it, and he announced 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:09.880 he was going to fight like the heavyweight champion of 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:10.279 the world. 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:12.440 That's how I feel Kevin Newsom. 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:16.280 I can't wait to see him get battered anyway politically, 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:17.880 of course, not physically. 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:18.840 I am horror violence. 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:22.080 Here is Gavy boy before we get to the enormous 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:24.319 Medicaid fraud. 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:26.440 Here is the gov. 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:29.960 Himself and he was Lieutenant governor in twenty fourteen talking 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:31.640 about the bullspit train. 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:35.200 He started with thirty three billion, it went to ninety six. 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:37.600 We valued engineered it, so it's no longer quote unquote 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:42.040 high speed rails higher speed rail. We wildly overstated the 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:46.600 rydership projections. We manipulated some of the revenue projections. There's 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:48.840 only one true high speed rail system in the world 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:51.680 that generates real profit. I thought there were two, and 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:56.240 I remember when President France was here a few months ago. 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:58.680 I complimented him on being one of the two, and 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:01.920 he laughed. His ministers laughed. I said, what do you mean. 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:04.640 They said, well, don't believe what you read about us 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:07.840 joint grant generating profits on our high speed rail. The 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:10.919 only one is Osaka that generates and that's a different 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:13.880 kind of concentration, urban concentration. 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.000 So this is this is going to be a. 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:18.600 Subsidy the bonds, and you double the cost of the bonds. 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.280 It is the actual cost of the taxpayers are repaying them. 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:26.079 That sounds like a normal smart guy looking at a 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:29.320 ridiculous project to the bullet train and speaking the truth. 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.240 Where did he explaining why it's an absolute no, it's 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:35.560 a hard no. Where did he say that when I 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.280 was in twenty fourteen? Does anybody know the context of that? 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:41.720 I don't, actually, I mean, that's all completely true, by 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.760 the way, on their own website, it's no longer a 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:49.040 high speed train, it's a slightly faster regular train. And 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:52.200 the numbers he sided have ballooned one and a half 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:54.000 to two times as high as even. 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:57.160 He was talking about. Wow, yeah, it's astonishing. 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:04.440 That's highly troubling. Sorry, so this is about to explode. 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:07.800 I think the California Post editorial board with a piece 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:12.559 about the amount of fraud and waste going on in California. 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:16.800 According to a new City Journal investigation that has just 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:20.120 come out. The investigator's writing, and this came out yesterday, 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:23.400 the best estimates suggests that on the governor's watch that 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:25.320 since twenty eighteen, you know, to be fair of that 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:29.440 is quite a few years, but fraudster, scammers and organized 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:34.160 crime rings have stolen at least in California alone, one 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:37.760 hundred and eighty billion dollars from taxpayers. 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:41.760 As I said earlier, Minnesota says, hey, we do fraud 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:46.440 in California, says, hold my chardonnay. Watched this Since twenty eighteen, 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:53.480 one hundred and eighty billion dollars worth a fraud, scams 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:57.600 and organized crime rings. Shocking yet unsurprising in a state 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:00.400 that doesn't even have a mechanism for measuring whether their 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:04.000 homeless industrial complex waste is doing any good. 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:06.680 They don't even have a way to check. 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:10.280 And the numbers will make your eyes gloss over and 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:12.320 you So that's where we go with the total as 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:16.400 as you to understand. But it's unemployment benefits, subsidized healthcare 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:23.760 for the poor, in home healthcare benefits, welfare programs, homelessness programs, 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:28.920 all these different things that people sign up for that 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:33.080 don't deserve it, or programs that don't accomplish anything, and 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:36.360 nobody's paying any attention to whether or not they accomplish anything, 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:41.640 and all those different things. Fraud against taxpayers has saturated California. 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.599 Christopher Ruffo, one of the authors of the investigation, estimates, 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:48.239 based on intel from federal officials, that twenty five percent 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:51.120 of the state's one hundred and ninety seven billion dollar 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:55.839 annual medical budget was lost to fraud. That's about fifty 0:04:55.960 --> 0:05:02.200 billion dollars in one year in one program. Fifty billion dollars. 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:05.000 And a quarter of it is fraud every year. 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:11.719 Yeah, so I'm interested to see the pushback on this, 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:15.080 if they even need to push back. I am so 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:19.160 cynical about the modern world and people getting any information 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:22.400 from any source that doesn't you know, algorithms and whatnot. 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:27.800 If you're a lean left sort of person, blue if 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:31.400 you will, will disinformation from the California Post reach you 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:33.039 at all? Probably not. 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:38.240 Two competing answers. Number One, they see the name Chris Rufohen, 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:41.560 reject it immediately in the mainstream media because Chris has 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:45.479 been such a great writer about the idiocy and dishonesty 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:49.720 of DEI programs. But on the other hand, the Minnesota 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:54.719 fraud got a fair amount of attention. That doesn't mean 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:58.920 because I'm thinking from the twisted perspective of lefty journalist, 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:03.479 you might be able to sell that as Minnesota's off track. 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:06.680 But these giant social programs are overall a good idea. 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:10.919 But if you have to admit that California is with 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:14.479 that enormous volume, every bit is corrupt and wasting money, 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:17.560 that might be too big an admission for lefty journalists. 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.920 And it's likely getting worse or going to get worse 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:24.839 starting as of last year. So in California, April twenty 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:28.440 twenty five, we had a bill that raised the threshold 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:31.720 for felony welfare fraud from nine hundred and fifty bucks 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:36.880 to twenty five thousand dollars Oh my gosh, which Republican 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:40.200 State Assemblyman Carl Demio said that if that bill becomes law, 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:45.000 it will effectively legalize welfare fraud in California, which is 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:46.400 likely what happened. 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:49.760 Carl's right, Well, look at what never well, lifting the 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:52.040 limit for shoplifting and then never prosecuting it. 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:57.719 Look at that did for shoplifting. That is something. In 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.120 a related story, I have newsoms on drugs. Stay tuned. 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:01.200 I want to hear that. 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:02.440 I'm ready for. 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.560 Yeah, yeah, yeah, that fraud thing. I'm gonna be interested 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:07.719 to see if that explodes, if that gets legs. Like 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:11.360 the Minnesota welfare fraud thing, the numbers are so giant 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:17.120 it's just jaw dropping. But sometimes if something's so big, 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:20.560 it almost doesn't get attention for some weird reason, like 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:23.440 it doesn't register, you can't believe it's true or something 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:25.680 or it seems like too big a problem to even 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:26.240 deal with. 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:32.080 Well, and again, I think from the lefty journalists point 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:34.120 of view, and that's virtually all of them, this is 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:38.000 just too much of a confession about how our dear 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:42.000 programs are terrible and badly run and squandering taxpayer dollars. 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:43.280 That's too much of an indu. 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:46.160 We As it points out in this California post piece 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:49.280 from the Editorial Board, California has the highest taxes in 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:53.360 the country on almost everything, you know, gas and this 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:55.160 and that and everything like that. With the idea that 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:57.920 we're gonna fix the roads, fix the schools, deal with 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:00.320 the homeless program. We have the homeless people in the 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:03.200 whole country here. The road sucked, the schools are failing. 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:05.880 So I mean, so if you have the highest taxes 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:09.760 and the worst results, now money is going somewhere. 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:11.040 Sure of course it is. Yep. 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:15.480 So back to the gavinzan drugs thing. He had a 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:17.320 he was part of a ceremony the other day about 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:21.240 the California Service Corps and while the other speakers were speaking, 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:24.280 and this kind of went semi viral online, he was 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:30.000 doing like the you know, the equivalent of the twitchy 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:32.960 peepee dance. I mean, but for a grown man, it 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:37.160 was just moving and going to his nose and twitching 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:37.880 and looking around. 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:39.400 I mean, he was agitated. 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:41.840 I haven't seen it, and it was kind of funny, 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.040 but I, you know, being a charitable fellow, believe it 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:46.880 or not either I thought maybe he was just bored, 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:50.239 or I don't maybe it's his allergies or something like that. Well, 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:54.520 we'd missed when he actually got up to speak, in 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:56.959 which he was. And we'll show the video and we'll 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.240 post it at armstrong a getty dot com and Jack 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:02.720 you'll see. But he's sweating, he's twitchy's wiping in his 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:04.880 eyes and dabbing in his nose and stuff. 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:11.079 And here's what he had to say, h b Avenue. 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:15.120 I mean, everything about this is I feel like I'm home. 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:22.280 You know, dyslexics are surrounded by, you know, these special folks, 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.120 particularly the young folks there. So I'm grateful. 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:26.760 I'm also. 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:35.520 Weird, Sean, I'm you know, I'm trying to forget what 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:42.000 this is embarrassing. He can turn all that off just 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:44.800 because all the noise, you know that we just need 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:49.080 to turn off. And this is this is this, Listen 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:52.400 to this, this is it, man, This is it? You 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:54.080 want to fix all this stuff? 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:56.200 This is it? Listen to these guys. 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.720 You know, we'll just sitting there yelling and screaming at 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.680 each other there. Everybody's getting each other's throats and trying 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:04.880 to tear everybody down, and you know, how are we 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:06.520 going to get out of this? 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:07.040 This is it? 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:13.360 You heard these guys programs like this, community leaders like this, 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:17.760 and I just it's like, why are we so stupid? 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:21.320 Why can't we just get this? It's so obvious what 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:25.400 we need to do. And so I'm just deeply proud 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:25.719 of this. 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:32.480 It's hard to fall he is, uh, there's something wrong 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:38.400 with him right there. He's probably a microdosing ketamine because 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:41.760 that's very hip among your NAPA Valley elite. 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:43.960 So you're doubling down there. He's on drug thing. 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:47.960 There's something very odd going on there, very odd. That 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:50.800 opening forty seconds was mystifying. 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:51.840 Okatie. 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:55.720 That video circulated on a couple of different platforms yesterday 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.880 and there were a lot of comments saying. 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:00.280 Hey, I was a drug app act. 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:02.880 This is drugs. 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:07.240 Like a lot of people play the first chunk again, Michael. 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:10.040 H. 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:11.559 B Avenue. 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:15.640 I mean everything about this is I feel like I'm home. 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:22.800 You know, dyslexics are surrounded by you know, these special folks, 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.600 particularly young folks there, so I'm grateful. 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:27.199 I'm also. 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:33.520 Weird tean, I'm you. 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:35.959 Know, it's just damn it in his face. Touch give me, 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:39.960 this is embarrassing. He can turn all that off, super. 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:44.920 Touchy, just because all the noise, you know that we 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:45.960 just need to turn off. 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:49.680 And this is this is all right. Look, I've done drugs, folks. 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:56.480 There is something very odd happening there, and obviously I 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:59.520 can't nail down what it is. But as Katie said, 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:04.160 drug counselors drug addicts are saying, oh dude, please. 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:06.400 Right, and it's not They're not trying to pull it, 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:09.040 size it or make it like because it's him. They're like, 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:11.400 I've definitely seen this before. 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:13.240 Hmmm. 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:21.320 The difficulties stringing together coherent well strings of verbiage, thoughts 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:25.800 popping up and not being finished and bopping from sensory 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:29.679 impression to sensory impression, just kind of reacting to it 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:32.240 and throwing out a couple of words and then uh, 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:33.760 and then the visual. 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:36.599 Was he he was he was wiping his eyes and 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:38.680 his nose in the corners of his mouth. He was 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:42.720 looking around kind of sporadically, and then when he went weird, 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:45.240 he did that thing like trying to crack both sides 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:47.160 of his neck, and it was just there was a 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:51.040 lot going on visually with him. Wow, during that whole 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:54.680 however long, that was yeah. 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:56.720 Wow. 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.760 For some reason me, I was watching a Bill Barr 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:05.000 comedian thing and he said, ladies, here's a dating tip. 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:06.760 If you're ever on a first date with a guy 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:08.839 and he cracks his neck, run. 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:16.720 Wow, anti anti neck tracker. We need to take a break. 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:21.040 But uh so he cracks his neck weird. 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:23.240 Yeah, Gavin, get the help you need. 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:27.320 Seriously, it's not an admission of weakness. 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:28.839 You're you're addicted to kidding me. 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:31.280 I can tell you're here to help him. That's what 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:36.200 you're here for. What are your thoughts on that text line? 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:44.680 Four one five nine k FTC. I just saw Kanye 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:48.480 did a what they're calling comeback concert in La last night. 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:49.360 I wonder how that went. 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:52.000 Surprised he's wearing his clan robes. 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:55.120 Was he brought his daughter North on stage to perform 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:57.320 with Apparently he's. 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:58.839 Past that hate in the Jews thing, right. 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:03.280 Apology well, I think he's passed his manic phase, unmadicated 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:04.400 manic phase for now. 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:05.880 Yeah, it might on the men. 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:12.480 Yeah, so the No Kings rallies continue to be a gift, uh, 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:13.760 in that a lot of the people that were at 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:16.920 the No King's rallies, it's interesting that don't really follow 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:18.800 the news that much. So you're motivated enough to get 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:20.760 out on the streets and protests, but you don't follow 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:22.520 what's going on in the news that much because and 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:25.800 you wouldn't have to follow the news a lot to 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.960 be familiar with the whole Strait of Hormuz Straits of 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:33.400 Hormuze situation. I mean, it's gas prices. Every gas price 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:37.440 story includes the term Straits of Hormuz. But uh, Anyway, 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.320 this person being interviewed by a comedian on the street 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:42.800 at the No King's rally apparently hadn't heard of it. 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:45.680 Isn't it a little bit homophobics that was so focused 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:49.160 on the straits of Homus and not the gaze of Homos? 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:50.520 I agree, yes for sure. 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:52.560 Why do you think something to leave the gaze of 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:53.680 Homus behind? 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:58.640 I think it's just history. Historically, like you know, gays 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:01.640 have always been very discriminated against, which is wrong on 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:02.360 so many levels. 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:03.000 Even in war. 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:06.000 Yeah, even in war. It just takes more reform in 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:09.360 government obviously, and then also educating society. 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.080 I just feel like, if we're gonna go and say 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:13.440 we can't leave to gay people behind, I don't think 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:15.320 we should go and say at all. But if we're 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:19.120 going to the moods, we could turn it into faire 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:20.440 Island for sure. 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:26.800 So she speaks with the confidence of the youth that 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:30.560 thinks they know much, quoting her professors in three or 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:31.320 four different ways. 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:32.280 I recognized all of that. 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:36.520 Yeah, and you just having come across the whole streets 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:39.080 of Hormuz and seen a map and oh a straight 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:44.000 like a little area of water between two Maryland passage. 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:46.840 Okay, yeah, exactly. 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:49.120 It was interesting, though you're interested enough in the news 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:52.960 to be out of the protest. Yeah, But just reciting her, 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:57.360 you know, postmodernists and neo Marx's talking points, historical discrimination 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:00.400 blah blah blah, colonialism blah blah blah. 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:02.600 That's a good one. The gaze of horror move. 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:06.840 Wow, And that Fire Island joke, if you're not familiar, 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:10.000 that's the famous island off New York that for many, 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.120 many many years was known with a nod and a 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:12.920 wink is where the. 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:14.280 Gay people went to get it on. 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:17.120 I wonder how many people he had to ask that 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.680 question before he came across somebody who bit on that. 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:27.480 Do you remember the Dugger family and they're like twenty 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:33.360 seven kids? Yeah, got an update on that horror show. Yeah, 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:36.280 oh boy, that went sideways. Anyway, we got lots of 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:37.640 stuff to talk about. We're gonna have We have a 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:39.440 great guest coming up a little bit later to talk 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:43.480 about the Supreme Court oral arguments from yesterday on the 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:47.200 Constitution and whether or not birthright citizenship should continue and 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:51.040 this and that. Based on most of the analysis I've heard, 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:53.800 they seem to think the justices are going to say no, 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:58.280 Donald Trump, you can't get around this. If anybody born 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:01.000 on our land as a citizen, it would be a 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:05.439 big stretch. And as a strong advocate for the administration's position, 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:07.639 I got to admit some of the logistical challenges that 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:10.239 were pointed out are significant. Okay, I want to hear 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:12.159 about that, among other things on the way. If you 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:14.440 missed a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:17.119 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:22.960 The Vietnam War lested for nineteen years, five months and 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:27.560 twenty nine days. Iraq went on for eight years, eight 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:32.280 months and twenty eight days. We are in this military operation, 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:35.800 so powerful, so brilliant, against one of the most powerful 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:40.960 countries for thirty two days, and the country has been 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:46.000 eviscerated and essentially is really no longer a threat. 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:50.439 Yeah. I heard somebody make the point yesterday that Iran 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:54.760 is a top twenty military in the world. They're nowhere 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:59.640 near the United States, but they're not nothing. And we've been. 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:03.440 At the NCAA tournament. You rarely see a twelve five 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:06.159 upset though in the military rankings. 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:09.560 Right, But the idea that it should be over in 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:13.719 I don't know what mainstream media thought or the public. 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:15.679 Maybe I don't know what the public, how long the 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:18.359 public thought the war should last. If you go to 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:22.800 war with Iran courses a number of people have wointed out, 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:26.760 maybe you should have given the speech selling the war 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:27.960 like day. 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:30.640 One absolutely legit point of view. 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:33.440 Yeah, I think so too. Maybe I'll do this later. 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:40.639 But for instance, I wasn't aware until yesterday how close 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:46.119 the whole Venezuela thing came to going completely sideways and 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:49.760 being a disaster. I mean, it came really really close 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:55.440 to being a entirely failed effort. And if that had 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:59.240 happened in one way, just a nickel version, well I 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:04.200 could through it here. Why it's pretty damned interesting. And 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:09.240 and the point of that being if it had. First 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:12.560 of all, all military operations, even you know, even when 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:16.600 you got the upper hand by far, can go south 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:19.200 because they're very, very complicated, and there's lots of moving parts. 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:22.680 And secondly, if it had not worked out, I think 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:26.359 pretty damned obviously, we wouldn't have been going into Iran. 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:33.240 There would have been no public mood for going into Iran. Sure, see, 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:35.240 if I can find this, there ain't much one now. 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:45.560 So and this is the the Army chief officer that 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:49.320 got the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the State of 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:52.520 the Union address, and Trump gave an abbreviated story about 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:57.399 what he did. But he was the lead Chinook helicopter 0:19:57.560 --> 0:20:02.080 pilot going in. If the Special Forces troops that were 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:05.520 going to run in and secure the ground and set 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:09.080 up the whole thing, they started firing on us, fired 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:12.160 on that helicopter, he took four bullets in the leg. 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:17.040 Oh and continued to fly his helicopter on the mission 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:20.679 landed it, got the guys off so they could secure 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:24.040 the ground so the next helicopters could come in and 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:27.160 complete the mission. Then he went up and flew over 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:31.119 and his gunman took out the dudes that were shooting 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:34.040 at him that almost killed him. He then said to 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:36.520 his co pilot, you need to take over. I'm about 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:40.400 to pass out, and they got the helicopter out of there. 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:42.679 If one of those bullets had hit him in the 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:45.399 stomach or the head or the chest, he goes down. 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:49.119 Mission's over. Mission is over. I read some analysis of 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:53.480 it by a variety of experts that it almost certainly 0:20:53.760 --> 0:20:58.040 would have failed spectacularly if one of those bullets bullets 0:20:58.040 --> 0:20:59.840 had killed him, or if he wasn't able to continue 0:20:59.880 --> 0:21:02.280 to fly with four bullets in his legs and everything 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:06.199 else like that. And it's just a point that the 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:09.640 success or failure these military missions hangs on so many 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:14.160 tiny little things going right. Yeah, and at some point 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:16.639 we're going to have that in Iran. Maybe we already have. 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:20.200 Honestly, four bullets all missing, the big arteries in the 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:22.520 leg is a bit of a miracle. I find myself 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:26.960 surprised that the loss of one helicopter could have doomed 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:31.040 the mission like that, But it was a fairly small 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:33.840 hit and run mission, so I get it, I guess right. 0:21:34.080 --> 0:21:36.159 Yeah, Well, you know, I could read the whole thing 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:38.439 if you want to. But the military people explaining on 0:21:38.520 --> 0:21:41.639 how that helicopter getting in there, landing, the guys getting 0:21:41.640 --> 0:21:43.680 off to secure this so the next helicopters could land, 0:21:43.720 --> 0:21:45.800 blah blah blah. It just it all hinged on him 0:21:45.800 --> 0:21:48.639 getting through there and landing. They also didn't know, they 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:50.199 didn't think there was any chance he was gonna get 0:21:50.200 --> 0:21:55.359 shot at again. The point being that things could go 0:21:55.440 --> 0:22:00.200 sideways so fast, and as we get further in to 0:22:00.800 --> 0:22:04.480 trying to secure various islands or chunks of land, or 0:22:04.760 --> 0:22:08.880 or or landing an expeditionary force to get the uranium 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:10.760 back or anything like that, we got a long way 0:22:10.760 --> 0:22:13.280 to go on this war. And if we're already at 0:22:13.359 --> 0:22:15.280 the why isn't this over already? 0:22:15.280 --> 0:22:15.720 Period? 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:19.600 I don't know if you can sell a war in 0:22:19.680 --> 0:22:22.600 the TikTok world lasting very long. 0:22:23.440 --> 0:22:25.040 You know, this is a bit of a tangent. I 0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:27.760 think Trump may be a little complicit in that, having 0:22:27.840 --> 0:22:31.280 sold the general euro escapade is a perfect flawless, easy 0:22:31.320 --> 0:22:32.040 and easy out. 0:22:32.280 --> 0:22:32.920 Don't do that. 0:22:33.119 --> 0:22:36.560 Tell the people all right, look, because you know the 0:22:37.000 --> 0:22:39.080