WEBVTT - Why Are We Doing This? 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.200 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.320 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty. 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:17.280 Arm Strong and Jettie and Key Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:28.120 California's Central Valley is without question one of the most 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:33.960 vital agricultural regions in America, producing seventeen billion dollars worth 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:38.240 of crops, twenty five percent of the nation's food supply. 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:42.440 And to help grow and harvest those crops, many farmers 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:47.880 here rely on undocumented workers. The Department of Agriculture estimates 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:51.120 that about half of the hired crop workers do not 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:54.480 have legal status. That is estimated to be more than 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:59.560 three hundred and thirty thousand workers in the Central Valley alone. 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:02.520 Thousand workers in the Central Valley alone, that if you 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:08.080 followed what recent poling says, sixty percent of America wants 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:11.480 would all be booted out of the country. And that 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:13.360 would be obviously, if you did that all at once, 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:18.640 would be quite the wrecking of the whole agricultural system. 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:22.600 Doesn't mean it's not a good idea, though, because you 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:26.880 got to have a system of some sort for having workers, 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:29.800 and that's the job of Congress to come up with and. 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:33.080 Be implied and follow through. 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:35.440 I don't know if they're going to or not, but 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:41.320 Joe and I have been talking about illegal immigration in 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:44.840 farm workers for jeez, twenty five years or whatever being 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:49.640 on the air, and this very part of the a 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:52.080 California in the country that they're talking about on ABC 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:54.760 this week, And we used to talk about it all 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:56.840 the time when we were only on in the Sacramento area. 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:58.640 People wuld always talk, do you want tomatoes to be 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:00.680 five dollars? Well, then you know I was going to 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:03.880 pick the lettuce. Yeah, exactly. It was always the conversation. 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:07.680 And our answer was always somebody or nobody or a machine. 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:09.680 Well, let's hear from a couple of farmers in the 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:13.080 Central Valley and their theories on why you need to 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:14.120 have illegals picking. 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:16.400 Here's more from ABC this week. 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:20.920 We can't afford a labor shortage. Back during Obama, we 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:24.200 had a labor shortage and there were times where we 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:25.639 actually lost some crop. 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:28.480 I think people will look and say, but wait a minute, 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:30.120 they're Americans who are unemployed. 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:31.720 Why can't you just hire them? 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:33.440 They don't want to come out here and work in 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:39.880 this extreme conditions one hundred plus degree temperatures, dust, hard work. 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:43.000 What if you paid them more, it doesn't matter. 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:47.160 You know, we pay some of the highest wages for 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:50.560 farm workers in the nation right here in California, and 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:51.359 they won't come out. 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:54.600 And just so before we have that conversation, here's a 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:56.959 different farmer, same question, same topic there. 0:02:57.360 --> 0:02:58.839 I don't care what you pay them. 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:01.280 I don't care if you pay twenty six dollars an hour, 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:03.120 it ain't gonna happen. 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:05.640 They're not going to get up at four or five 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:09.200 in the morning, drive to the field and pick fruit. 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:13.639 So and the question was, why, uh, why don't you 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:15.839 just hire Americans? They won't do it. I don't care 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:17.480 what you pay them. They're not going to get up 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:19.440 that time of day and come out and do that job. 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:26.080 So I don't understand why that isn't a hold on pause, 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:30.920 let's have a conversation about that sort of revelation on 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:33.560 ABC this week. They just move on to and they 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:36.080 see Americans won't do this work, so it makes sense 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:41.080 to have illegal brown people do it. What what how 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:45.160 do you craft a society like that? How about why 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:51.640 would people who are unemployed or underemployed take the option 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:56.000 of not doing a job even if it paid really well, right, right? 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:57.840 How could they do that? How does that work? How 0:03:57.840 --> 0:03:59.320 does that find? How are they paying the rent? 0:03:59.320 --> 0:03:59.920 How are they eat? 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:03.200 Can you imagine if you went to family counseling and 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:06.760 you said, my children refused to do their chores and 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:09.360 the counselor said, well, let's talk about how you can 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.920 hire someone to do your children's right. No, that's not 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:17.880 the right question, right, Yeah, Oh that's funny. 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:22.479 But we've been talking about this very topic for decades now. 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:26.440 How have we just accepted that people born in this 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.560 country shouldn't have to do work that's not I don't know, 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:32.520 glamorous or kind of hard, or it's outside or whatever. 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:34.359 The reason is people don't want to do it. I 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:36.200 did that kind of work when I was in high school. 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:38.279 Lots of us did. You can't do it in any 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:42.240 many Americans did? But is everybody okay with that? 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:48.560 Creating a welfare state so lavish that people can choose 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:52.559 not to do jobs that they don't find like something 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:55.480 they want to do, even if it pays twenty nine 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:58.359 dollars an hour and one more amusing irony. 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:00.880 This is amusing me for many, many years. The more 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:04.040 quote unquote progressive. You are, the more in favor of 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:07.400 white people, won't do this work. Let's bring in some 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:10.520 of those brown people. I mean, that's the the further 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:12.599 left yard, the more you're a hardcore open up the 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.600 borders and let an in person, which I think is hilarious. 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:22.719 There's also the unspoken, unstated realization that if millions of 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:25.800 people come here and do those jobs they're getting by, 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:28.960 they must be able to live somewhere and have a 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.960 car and eat and you know, do all the things 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:34.320 you want to do with a job right by. 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:37.480 Definition, Yeah, it's just it's it boils down to a 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:40.480 couple of very very simple principles. Number one is the 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:42.479 purpose of getting the reins of government is to be 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:45.159 able to distribute money from the treasury. Doesn't matter what 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:48.200 the system is, they vary in how they do that, 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.720 but that's the point. And in our system you've got 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:55.040 to get a little support from a lot of people. 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.200 Kim Jong un just needs a hell of a lot 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:01.039 of support from a fairly small group of people. But 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:03.680 in a democracy, you need a little support from a 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:05.040 hell of a lot of people. How do you do that? 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:08.960 By handing out money? Government benefits you know three and 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:12.320 a half dozen different social programs that make sure nobody's 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:15.240 going to starve. And so the second, very broad and 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:19.320 easy to understand principle is people go for their best alternative. 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:26.080 They will do their best option. And for Americans working 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:29.000 in a field in the heat and the dust bent 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:33.000 over is not nearly their best option. For some Guatemalan 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:33.440 it is. 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:38.360 I just I don't understand how we got to where 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:41.400 we're okay with that, or think that that's a workable 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:46.120 plan going forward that doesn't end up with like I've 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:48.280 been taking in a lot of French Revolution stuff over 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:53.400 the weekend, you know, that sort of society falling apart. 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:57.960 I believe the French Revolution is your Roman Empire, although 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:00.520 you are quite interested in the Roman Empire as well. 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:03.200 It is. So the answer of how we get there 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:07.039 is because nobody asks the question, the moral question there, 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.200 the one that we keep harping on. It's not part 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:10.840 of the conversation at all. No, it wasn't. 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:14.160 ABC this week did a long segment on this topic 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:17.960 and not a word of Does it seem a little 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:22.800 weird to have a society where you've declared certain jobs 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:26.560 off limits for your citizens, Like no that's too grungy 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:28.400 a job, even at twenty nine dollars an hour. 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:30.520 You just don't want to have to do I mean, 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:32.239 would you do that with your own kids. 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:36.200 I'll keep supporting you, you know, until you're thirty or 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:39.840 a past rather than you go do that job. 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:47.440 What Yeah, who would live their lives like that? Democracy's 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:49.480 end when they realize they can vote themselves money from 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:52.080 the treasury. Can you imagine running on the platform. I'm 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:54.160 going to get you off of your couch and into 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:54.680 the field. 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:58.280 Good luck with a right. 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:00.480 We're a soft decade country. 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:02.880 That's just that's it, we really are, which is what 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.040 France was when they fell apart. Not to get back 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:08.360 to the revolution, but and then here they wrapped up 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:10.600 the conversation with this portion. 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:17.320 Deporting undocumented workers in California is complicated. The state enacted 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:21.800 a measure in twenty seventeen that prevents state resources from 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:25.680 being used for federal immigration enforcement. And while that law 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:29.840 varies by city and county, California is the sanctuary city 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:34.280 capital of America, with dozens of cities and counties protecting 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:40.040 undocumented residents from arrest based solely on their immigration status. 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:44.240 So that's a problem. I mean it all fits together 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:47.240 as part of a puzzle. I hate the whole thing. 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.880 But if you're going to accept I'm not, but apparently 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:56.040 we have accepted that our American born people shouldn't have 0:08:56.080 --> 0:09:00.040 to do those jobs. Well, then you're gonna have to 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:04.199 have illegals here. And then if you're gonna have illegals here, 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:07.040 you can't have them being deported. So you got to 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:10.960 be a sanctuary county. I mean, it all fits together, or. 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:13.640 You just admit all of the above and you design 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.880 a temporary worker program, which is what Congress should do. 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:19.800 Also not a part of the conversation where they said, well, 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:22.000 if you want it to be this way, and apparently 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:24.200 people do well, then Congress needs to sit down and 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:28.160 come up with a very complex system for workers or 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:31.800 making these people citizens or whatever it is you're gonna do. 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:34.040 But you got to come up with a plan. 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:39.120 The all the arguments I seem to see on the 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:43.240 Sunday talk shows, nobody was offering anything other than continuing 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:47.560 to just randomly let people come in buy the millions, 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:50.320 come and go buy the millions, not know who they are. 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:53.320 Martha Radditt's even admitted to whoever was pushing back on 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:59.160 this story. There are six hundred thousand known criminals, not 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:02.480 the crime of being illegal, but like other crimes from 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:07.199 Mexico or Venezuela, six hundred thousand criminals in the United 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:10.280 States right now we don't know where they are, what 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:11.880 kind of who does that? 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:20.040 Yeah? Yeah, that's nuts. Yeah it is. It's self destructive. 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:23.319 It's horrible because we won't get to the root questions 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:27.160 and the final annoying reality I'd like to trot out there. 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:30.439 This is why I don't get many invitations to dinner parties. 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:36.600 Oh you invited, mister annoying reality. Oh good. Is The 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:42.400 Left raises money from soft heads, in my opinion, with 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:46.880 their no human being is illegal, bill bridges, not walls, nonsense, 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:50.559 and the Right raises money on boot them all out, 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:53.760 seal the borders, and to say we're going to craft 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:56.840 a guest worker program that's gonna let one point one 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:59.760 million people in temporarily, we'll keep tracking them, blah blah blah, 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:03.360 a streamline the course. That's just you can't raise money 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:05.520 on that. It's too complicated. The devil is in the details, 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:08.439 and there's always plenty to anger. You know, virtually everybody 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:10.800 in the discussion. So I don't know. I don't mean 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:14.840 to be discouraging, but as long as small money donations 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:18.160 rule politics, it's going to be hard to work out 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:19.000 stuff like this. 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:25.840 I'm just appalled by the idea. I've always cringed when 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:28.480 anybody says those are jobs Americans won't do. That makes 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:35.520 me cringe. You cannot be a strong, functioning, successful society 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:39.320 if you've decided certain jobs are off limits to your citizens. 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:45.800 That's sickening as a notion. That's how empires fall back 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:48.600 to Rome. 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At the end, he goes 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:23.160 over and gives his belt to Trump and everybody's cheering 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:23.720 like crazy. 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:28.280 I mean that is that is something. Yeah, yeah, I 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:30.800 want to talk about the dynamics it works there because 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:31.920 it's brilliant. 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:33.400 So if you haven't heard it, we'll play a little 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.080 of the audio and a bunch of other stuff on 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:35.280 the way. 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:41.559 Stay here. That lady said Settlement a book who is 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:44.839 now making his way to the world. 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:53.520 Fantasatigan Flack by UFC CEO Data White, the President's LEXI 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:55.240 got the truck. 0:13:57.480 --> 0:13:59.080 Please the people that come home? 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:02.640 Doesn't sound in this room? 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:08.840 Is so loud here, it is so loud. It's always how. 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:09.360 Many comes here? 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:13.160 But how many's long now that he's the president of Yes, oh. 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:13.760 My god. 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:21.400 Something Yeah, And if you saw any videos people took 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:23.840 their phones and posted on social media, I mean because 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:25.480 that didn't they didn't have a crowd mic on that 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:28.760 little bit of audio. But yeah, just deafening, like the 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:32.480 championship has just been one noise in a sports arena. 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:34.120 Well, they did a thing up on the screen where 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:36.880 they had Trump's name in forty five and then it 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:39.480 kind of swept away and turned into forty seven. And 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:42.720 then it's when the crowd really went berzerko when Trump 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:49.280 walked out with Elon RFK Junior, Vi Vaig, Tulsey, Kid Rock, 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:53.320 Joe Rogan, Dana White, Jelly Roll the singer, and Don 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:58.840 Junior and the crowd going absolutely berserk. And then I 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:03.840 don't follow. But then whoever supposedly is the current greatest 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:07.040 MMA fighter of all time? He wins this big championship match, 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.680 goes over and gives Trump the belt. Trump holds it up, 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:13.560 crowd goes absolutely ape as Again at the end of 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:16.480 the night, It's just like, if you're trying to run 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:18.600 against that, how do you run against that? 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:23.760 Well, Trump's gift, and the mainstream media in particular is 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:27.280 just tied themselves in knots trying to understand this is Trump, 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:33.560 a billionaire gets working people. And I think, honestly, his 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:36.200 kids have talked about how he always took them to 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:38.960 the work sites and explained what was going on and 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:40.560 why the people were doing this, that and the other, 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:43.040 and how a building takes shape and blah blah, and 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:46.960 spent a lot of time interacting with the contractors and 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.600 the workers and that sort of thing. And you know, 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:54.560 for whatever reason, born to wealth, billionaire developer, he gets 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:59.240 working folks and he does not have contempt for them, 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:03.720 which is an incredible gift politically. How about that picture 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:06.120 from the Trump plane where they are eating all the 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:10.400 McDonald's food. So it's him and Elon and his son 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:13.960 in RFK Junior Mike Johnson all having McDonald's big bax 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:16.800 and stuff like that, and Trump says, make America healthy 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:22.680 again starts tomorrow, which is also a really relatable to 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:26.840 regular people sort of thing. We'll start eating healthy tomorrow. Well, 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:30.080 and again in this I know it's ironic, it's a 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:33.520 hilarious that's not ironic, but be an incredibly down to 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:38.440 earth thing to say down to earth. Oh that is funny. Hey, 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:43.640 I can't help a note in that really interesting group 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:47.520 of folks who entered the UFC arena. No Matt Gates, 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:50.840 who would have crawled across cut glass and turned down 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:53.280 a date with three seventeen year olds to be there. 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:57.600 This was held at Madison Square Garden, the very same 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:02.720 arena where that Nazi rally reminiscent of the one from 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:04.040 nineteen thirty nine was. 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:06.480 Held in a different building that happened to have the 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:09.000 same name. It was just like it. Yes, because there 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:11.800 were people and speeches and shouting. Yes. 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:15.280 First of all, the fact again that Elon is a 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:18.560 Trump's side for everything that's happening all the time. I 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:22.800 can't wait till that story is completely told. And then 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:25.000 RFK Junior. They're holding the big back in his hands. 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:25.960 He's gotta hate that. 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:30.679 Oh he did not look overly pleased. He did not. 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:32.760 I think Trump told him here to grab this. This 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:39.440 will be funny. So so that bromance Trump and Elon? 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:40.879 How long can it last? 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:41.400 Right? 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:44.600 Dang it? I wonder too. I wonder too. 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:48.000 Axios is reporting a blow up between Elon and one 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:53.640 of Trump's advisors over some cabinet pick. But I mean 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:56.720 Trump and mad Dog Trump, and you know, lots of 0:17:56.760 --> 0:18:01.760 people went sideways, and Elon's got a pretty big platform 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:03.960 to bad mouth Trump if it goes wrong. 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:08.600 Oh all right, everybody, everybody keep cool, remember our manners. 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:16.200 All right, generous listening, et cetera. Yeah, right, armstrong and getty. 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:21.280 A Spirit Airlines flight was forced to divert after it 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:25.000 was struck by gunfire from gangs while trying to land 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:29.080 in Haiti. A rare setback for people who fly spirit 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:29.720 to Haiti. 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:40.639 Oh that's really funny delivery too. That one made me 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:41.480 laugh out loud. 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:46.480 One of the great things that's going to come out 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:50.480 of the RFK Junior thing, you know, if he makes 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:52.400 it all the way to being questioned in the Confirmation. 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:54.600 And I don't know, I'm not exactly sure where I 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:57.720 am on him as a running h chess right now. 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:00.200 But like there's an article in the Washington Post today, 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:03.040 I regularly am hearing he wants to end one of 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:06.040 the most successful health programs in world history, fluoride in 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:09.400 the water well the Washington Post today with a one 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:13.560 of their respected opinion writers, RFK Junior's views on fluoride 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:15.680 aren't as crazy as you might think. And I will 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:19.280 run through that next segment maybe, But there's a whole 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:22.160 bunch of Germany, Denmark, a whole bunch of Western countries 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:25.640 that banned fluoride for a bunch of reasons that are decent. 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:26.280 I don't you know. 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:28.720 I've never looked into it myself, but it's not insane. 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:30.439 It's not an insane idea. 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:34.280 I remember that argument slash conversation from my youth as 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:35.840 a matter of fact. So yeah, I'm looking forward to 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:39.560 hearing that. Plus we're talking to the fabulous Mike Lyons 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:45.760 about various developments in war and peace, speaking of which, 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:48.960 I found this so interesting, particularly in the week the 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:50.760 wake of a conversation I had over the weekend with 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:53.080 the guy who's involved in the sciences and knows a 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:55.600 bunch of people in the military. But and I mentioned 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:57.360 this briefly last week, it's peasing in the New York 0:19:57.400 --> 0:20:02.240 Times about how chronic brain trauma is become a terrible, 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:06.920 terrible problem in the Navy's elite speedboat crews. These are 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:11.040 the super fast speedboats that often deliver Navy seals to 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:15.280 their targets. They go across the rough seas at sixty 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:16.760 miles per hour per hour. 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:19.120 And yeah, and I don't know if you've ever done 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:21.560 that before, but it is so incredibly jarring. 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:23.600 We did that. I've done that a couple of times 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:24.080 in my life. 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:26.239 But we were on a boat in Hawaii and we 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:29.679 went flying around, taking us to some caves on the 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:32.920 other side of the island, and just like flying through 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:35.879 the water, bam bam bam, and you had to have 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:37.680 a rope over the top of your feet and hold 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:39.600 on to it with your hands to keep from flying out. 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:41.960 But I thought, what is this doing in my head? 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:44.959 This is a hell of a blow to your whole body, 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:45.800 over and over again. 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:46.760 Yeah. 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:49.200 And the point of this article is you got a 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:52.560 bunch of guys who were in their thirties or early forties. 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:54.720 They're just rising to the point that they ought to 0:20:54.720 --> 0:21:00.000 be in command. But they are exhibiting many, many signs 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:03.119 that are much like NFL players who've had the worst 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:12.160 of the the the chronic brain injury problems, junior seau, delusions, depressions, suicide, 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:16.880 substance abuse, lots of not lots of, but because it's 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:19.240 a fairly small number of people, but a shocking number 0:21:19.240 --> 0:21:22.959 of suicides. As these guys' brains just leave them. And 0:21:23.000 --> 0:21:26.360 I was struck by this sentence. Seeking an edge in combat, 0:21:26.400 --> 0:21:29.679 the Navy has created boats so powerful that riding in 0:21:29.720 --> 0:21:34.000 them can destroy sailor's brains. Wow. And so the theme 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:36.040 is of a couple of stories I've got for you 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:40.920 is the future of unmanned war is clearly the future 0:21:41.200 --> 0:21:43.240 on the land, in the air, and on the sea, 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:46.320 and those technologies are coming on fast and furious. Here's 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:49.199 the adline for it. Kim Jong un orders mass production of 0:21:49.240 --> 0:21:54.720 suicide attack drones, and you know, when he decides, yeah, 0:21:54.760 --> 0:21:57.280 our society, this is our priority, it becomes their priority. 0:21:57.320 --> 0:21:59.359 It's one of the benefits of being a dictator. But 0:21:59.440 --> 0:22:03.240 they are going to produce shocking numbers of these suicide 0:22:03.240 --> 0:22:05.680 attack drones, both for their own use and to export 0:22:05.960 --> 0:22:06.600 to others. 0:22:07.080 --> 0:22:09.600 So if this is the future, and I'm sure it is, 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:13.280 being the biggest economy in the world's got to be 0:22:13.280 --> 0:22:16.440 a huge advantage, since it's not about feeding human beings 0:22:16.480 --> 0:22:20.159 into a meat grinder in a war, it's having the 0:22:20.200 --> 0:22:23.120