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It's chiefly used to show you've been to college. 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:09.640 More than two thirds of young Americans say they know 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:12.199 how to use it. About the same number test prove 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:17.080 actually don't. That's pretty funny. Two thirds of people say 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:18.840 they know how to use a semon colan two thirds. 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:22.760 Actually don't. Kurt Vonnegett says, you only use it to 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:27.400 show you've been to college. That's pretty funny, you know what. 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:35.639 I actually use it semi frequently. It to me takes 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:37.880 the same role, has the same role as like dot, 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:42.319 it's it's it's well. 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:46.720 I've heard it described as a soft period, stronger than 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.760 a comma, but not quite the full stop of a period. 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:53.400 I have a big meeting tomorrow, semi colon. I need 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:54.160 to prepare tonight. 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:58.240 Less cramping. Oh, you're an idiot. 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:02.480 So my dot, which I'm a big fan of, is 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:06.280 basically using a semi coolon. Yeah, yeah, okay, I think 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.480 so that's fantastic. So I did want to talk about this. 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:12.280 This is actually important. So the stat from a week 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:15.920 or so ago really got my attention. Consumer spending is 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:20.440 doing okay, pretty good, hanging in there, because when consumer 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:23.360 spending goes, the economy collapses, because two thirds of our 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:28.240 economy is consumer spending. But right now, half of consumer 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:32.720 spending is just the top ten percent. So the burden 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:35.960 of consumer spending is being is on a small number 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:36.360 of people. 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:41.120 M I find myself wondering, what's the usual percentage. That's 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:43.880 the top ten percent actions. I actually they have more money. 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.680 Yeah yeah, I actually had that, and I don't remember 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:50.880 what it was, but it was significantly significant change. Okay, 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:54.680 because I wondered that too. I'll have to look that 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:56.799 stet up because that is important to the whole thing. 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:01.960 But so this news out of that is not that surprising. 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:06.040 While the wealthy prosper, middle class Americans increasingly feel the pinch. 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.080 There is something called the Michigan Index, which I've heard 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:13.160 before whenever you get into this topic. It's a common 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:18.000 and well respected consumer sentiment gauge that. 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:19.600 Factors in a bunch of different things. 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:26.800 The Michigan Index, anyway, consumer sentiment was at seventy not 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:30.519 that long ago. In the summer, it collapsed. It's down 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:36.000 to fifty five, where the number one hundred signals neutral 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:38.640 feelings on the economy. When you're at one hundred, you're 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:40.760 just like, Eh, it's okay, and it's not great, it's 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:41.120 not bad. 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:41.560 I don't know. 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:46.240 Below that, you're mostly negative. But it went from seventy, 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:52.760 which was already somewhat negative, to fifty five for the 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:58.200 middle class. Economic anxiety as running particularly strong among lower 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:03.160 and middle income consumers, and it fell off a cliff 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:08.040 this summer higher income Americans, And for this study, they're 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:11.000 calling anybody that makes more than one hundred thousand a year. 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:14.200 You make one hundred and one thousand dollars a year 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:16.560 in the Bay Area, you do not consider yourself a 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:25.240 higher income individual. Probably they have buoyant sentiments. I rarely 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:27.360 describe myself as Hey, Joe, how are you doing? 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:30.360 Buoyant? I'm gonna start doing that more often. You should. 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:38.720 How's it going buoyant? Af I'll say, But in June, 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:41.680 middle class confidence gave out and the index went down 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:47.080 a lot. And this concern is economists. Course, everything concerns economists, 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:49.080 and they disagree on everything. 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:52.400 But that doesn't surprise me. Really, things are still expensive. 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:57.280 Yeah, uh well, And as I've said before, doesn't everything 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:58.760 just feel a little precarious? 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:06.680 Yes, yes, it does. Well if you're you know, you 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:10.320 follow the stock market at all. My life experience is 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:14.000 when it's setting records, like every other day, there's a 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:19.200 correction coming. Like my dad, who's been retired for quite 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:22.120 some time, says I've lost everything. I've half of everything 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:24.880 I've got like three times since I retired. I mean 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:27.440 it happens now and then where you get the big correction. 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:30.400 And the correction isn't going to be like the gentle 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.599 parenting craze. It's going to be more like an angry 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:38.960 Catholic school nun in nineteen fifty. Okay, the ruler is 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:41.000 going to come down with a resounding smack. 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:42.400 God, dang it. 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:45.440 Have you all looked at your four to oh one k? 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:48.680 I rarely do. I just had to for some form 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:50.840 the other day. I looked at my phone kind of like, 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:54.440 holy crap. I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised with 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:57.520 the stock market constantly set in records and it's pretty 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:01.680 tied into that, but eh, yeah, should. 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:04.240 I a hardcore long term investor guy. 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:08.520 If you miss the drop by a day and the 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:11.800 rally by a day, you will lose out on an 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:15.320 enormous amount of wealth. That's why you just thrie it out. 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:17.880 On the other hand, I look at what's going on 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.400 right now, and I think, oh God, cash out, cash out, 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:28.720 just cash out now, cash out my gold bars or bitcoiner, 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:34.400 doge coiner game stop stock? Is that still going on? 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:42.440 I don't know, gold bars, Maybe that's the answer. This 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:46.440 is breaking news Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya, who spoke 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:49.640 on the phone with the Prime Minister of Qatar and 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:54.719 apologized for violating Qatar's sovereignty in the strike on Doha 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:58.840 and expressed regret for the killing of a Katari security 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.960 guard while they were taking out the various Home Oth leaders. 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.760 There. See, everybody's fine, now. 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.000 Nen Ya, who's sitting with the president at right as 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:09.520 we are. I wonder if that was that part of 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:12.600 the deal. Trump said, you gotta call him, apologize, tell 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.040 him you're sorry, tell him you're sorry and mean it. 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:16.760 Someday. 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:19.120 I wish they would release the Trump Net and Yahoo 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.800 tapes like they did the Nixon tapes. I don't know 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.120 if there are tapes, but you know, like after the 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:26.880 Katario attack, the word was Trump just let him up. 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:27.960 He yelled at him. 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:30.920 But then they subsequently, whether it was a couple hours 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:33.120 later or the next day, had a very good column 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:39.160 productive chat. So they've obviously got a couple of alpha male, 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:46.000 hot tempered yelling at each other, you know, a relationship. 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:51.000 I'd love to hear it someday or just read the transcripts, 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:52.120 but I don't know if that'll ever. 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:55.400 Ask Semi colon that would all be amusing, agreed. 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:59.600 An anti ice protester in Massachusetts forgot to put her 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:02.280 car in park while yelling at agents making interest of 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.040 an illegal alien, and her car rolled into a lake 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:05.680 and sunk. 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.320 That's disappointed, tells Fox News. 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:13.440 It happened Upton at Massachusett's a small, very blue town 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:17.840 in Blue Worcester County, forty miles west of Boston, and 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:20.240 a clip of voice can be heard saying, well, that sucks. 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:22.880 Look at that, Lucy her car got lost. As the 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:25.400 woman's car drifts further into the water. 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:33.200 Had a lesson for all of us. Oh, that reminds me. 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:35.360 I was practicing driving with my son yesterday. We were 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:39.800 driving around on county highways in his truck as he 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:44.920 is coming up on getting his license, and so I 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:47.960 took him over to a friend's house and a Saturday night, 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:50.320 and his friend, who is a few months older than him, 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:52.679 has his license now, and I saw him pull up 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:54.760 and it was just like it was I'm sure you've 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:57.600 had this experience, just so. It was so weird to 0:08:57.640 --> 0:08:59.520 see this kid that I've known since he was in 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:01.680 kindergar driving a car. 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:06.920 It's like, well, I know he's sure, this is all right, 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:08.240 this is really. 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:11.240 Yeah. 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:15.839 Times change, people grow. Hey do you guys have a 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:18.960 student driver on your on your bumper a little sign? 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:20.880 Oh no, I don't. Can you get those? Are you 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:22.640 supposed to have those? I guess? I mean I don't. 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:25.000 Does it carry any legal weight? Do you get any? 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:25.280 Uh? 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:27.640 You get me? It doesn't care legal weight. But I 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:29.079 appreciate it. Honestly. 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:33.120 If I'm on a city thoroughfare where nobody ever goes 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:35.679 the speed limit, and somebody's going the speed limit and 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.120 I say patience, please, student driver, I see that. 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:40.760 You're oh, okay, got it, got it, got it? Yep. 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:42.959 I won't get up on Not that I would like 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.800 dangerously tailgate anyway, but I get it. 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:47.439 So cool, You're cool. I'll just call it. 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:47.719 I do. 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:49.679 I pull around in front of my brake, check him. 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:50.840 Then I roll coal on them. 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:51.000 I do. 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:54.319 I'll do everything you drive them from me, not rolling coal. 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:56.760 But yeah, that happened to me just the other day. 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:59.240 I was was that a weird four way stop situation? 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:02.440 And I said, what is that person doing? And Sam 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:05.520 said they got the student drivers sticker? And I was like, oh, okay, Yeah, 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:08.280 they're trying to figure it out. And yeah, my patients 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:10.079 went way way, way up right. 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:13.360 I shouldn't have screamed, go you f fing mf or 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:16.120 I if i'd seen the sign, I wouldn't have. 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:20.160 You know, my son, I think figured out the other day. 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:23.559 We were having a conversation about a particular group of 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.000 people that seemed to struggle with driving. 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:31.800 Oh, and I think he came upon this realization. And no, no, no, no, no, 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:32.480 he was. 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:35.480 He's very aware of it. He's very aware of the 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:39.599 existence of this. And I won't say why, but I 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:42.640 think he figured out why. And it's always been a mystery. 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:45.920 Why does this particular group of people struggle with driving 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:48.440 so much when they seem to excel at other things. 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:51.079 I won't I won't name the group, but I've got 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:53.440 a great punchline. But it would end our careers today, 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:56.920 and I can't. I can't explain why. But it reminded 0:10:57.000 --> 0:11:00.679 me of one of the many are strung and get 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:04.160 any I don't know, laws of social physics or whatever 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:07.200 things that we've come across over the years. The fact 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:11.760 that you can point out the strength of a racial 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:14.640 group or ethnic group or whatever, or really any group. 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:18.200 You can point out their strengths as divided out from 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:21.400 other people, but not the weaknesses. And it makes no 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:26.480 sense whatsoever that any group could have only positives and 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:29.080 no negatives. I mean, that doesn't make sense on any 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:30.200 face of it whatsoever. 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:34.400 No, you want another layer of irony if you were 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:37.760 to say, because you didn't. 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:40.440 Say that group has high home or owner owner high 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:46.000 home owner rates less, crime gets divorced less. But if 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.480 there's a negative stat you can't say that out louder. 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.280 You're in trouble. Well, so here's the extra load of 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:53.800 irony for time. 0:11:55.320 --> 0:12:00.480 Can't dry for instance, and particularly in particularly if if 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.120 you were to suggest that sort of thing, even a 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:06.360 positive I remember, if you were to suggest that, yeah, 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:09.520 Indian kids, you know, they work really hard and they 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:12.040 value education. And you weren't even supposed to say that, 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:16.320 because that reduces the individual to just his group. 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:20.120 And that's ugly. That's a stereo tap type. 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:26.160 Even positive stereotypes are a racism and wrong. And then 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:29.920 the woke crowd came along and took over the left 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:33.520 and they're like, everybody is the stereotype of the race. 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:37.599 All white people are evil white supremacists, all black. 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:40.280 People are victims. There are no individuals. 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:43.360 You will not be judged on your individual achievements or 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:44.360 efforts or character. 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:48.760 You will be painted with the color of your race. Period. 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:53.200 And that was the Left again. But the new Left. Yeah, 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:55.320 I wish I could talk about this more, but I can't. 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:56.199 Would end our careers. 0:12:56.920 --> 0:13:00.680 And people so weak and stupid that they they really 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:01.640 they ought. 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:03.319 To be at the end of the leash that their 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:04.240 dog is holding. 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:07.400 People so damn stupid they couldn't recognize what was going 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:11.319 on selford all. And they're sick in our nation's universities 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:12.960 and schools and blue towns. 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:15.679 Yes, indeed, they believe every word of it. 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:18.600 And when the new new Left comes along and utterly 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:21.960 contradicts that but yells at them a little bit, they'll 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:22.679 go along with that. 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:28.599 Next man man the Irish. The Irish can't drive. And 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.800 I said it out loud. The Armstrong and Getdy Show, Yeah, 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:34.200 morshack your show. 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:41.480 Podcasts and our hot links, the Armstrong and Getdy Show. 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:46.559 And my son got My thirteen year old got braces yesterday, 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:52.480 and I was wondering what percentage of kids get braces 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:57.440 in the modern world. As we decided at some point 0:13:57.600 --> 0:13:59.920 that everybody needs to have perfectly straight teeth, and they 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:04.040 need to be as bright as the sun in terms 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:08.440 of whiteness. That's what we decided. It's if you watch 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:13.679 a movie from the nineties, all the actors like not 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:15.760 bright white teeth are just kind of you know, John 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:17.600 Travolta's got kind of yellowish. 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:21.840 Teeth, like people have normal colored teeth. Yeah, it's striking, 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:25.400 and I love this. This is my favorite aspect of 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:29.800 modern movies. If the you got a movie it's a Western, 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:33.120 it's set in eighteen forty and you got a character 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.240 who's a town drunk who's dying of consumption. 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:38.280 He's still got gleaming white teeth. 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:39.880 Right. 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:46.360 About seventy percent of kids in the US currently get 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:51.440 some sort of orthodonic treatment, braces being the number one, 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:57.320 and at least a third or only a third truly 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:02.000 need braces in the trade sense, like it would be 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:05.080 a quality of life situation if you didn't get your 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:08.120 teeth straightened out. It's it's cosmetic in other words, for 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:11.720 two thirds of them, which you know, if we've decided, 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:14.520 you know, I had a person really berating me for 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:17.240 the fact that I hadn't got my son braces yet yet. 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:23.720 Uh, if we've decided that you gotta have straight teeth? 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:24.960 Is that kind of like. 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:30.600 We use the example of the cracked phone screen, that's 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:34.320 like the modern day missing tooth, and that's because nobody's 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:35.320 missing teeth anymore. 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:37.280 So, uh, are you are? 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.000 Are you really setting yourself aside as you can't be 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:44.320 part of even mid level or above society if you 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:45.560 didn't get your teeth straightened. 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:46.400 I don't know. 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:48.080 I don't know what it's like out there. I have 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:50.000 straight teeth just naturally, so I don't know what it 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.120 would be like. I don't know how self conscious I 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:56.040 would be. Lots of people had crooked teeth when I 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:59.960 was younger, but like every kid has braces, and also socioeconomically, 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.480 depending on your you know, your social strata. 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.080 The higher you go up the income, the more. It's 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:06.240 like one hundred. 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:09.120 Percent of the kids get bracelest for even mildly crooked teeth, 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:13.320 according to this article, hence the social pressure. Sure right, yeah, 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:16.400 so it's kind of self reinforcing. I'll be in Britain 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:20.840 next week, so boy, well that'll be interesting. Yeah, it's 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:24.160 it's it's it's it is interesting that that is it's 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:31.320 not uniformly a Western society thing. I mean, a United 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:34.760 States that leads the way in like needing to have 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:40.600 perfectly straight teeth for cosmetic reasons. And it's expensive and painful, 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:43.080 but yet we do it, and I just find it interesting. 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:46.200 You know, we did it, I'm doing it. Yeah, that's 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:47.080 it's a conundrum. 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:48.960 I mean, if you were a real activist, you'd say, 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:52.720 all right, this is an artificially imposed social norm, a 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:57.040 status Norman eminence front is Pete Townsend who just turned 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:59.360 eighty of the who Pete Townsend of the who is 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:04.520 eighty lord? Anyway as he would put it. But if 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:12.280 indeed it is a barrier to achievement, acceptance stating whatever 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:13.560 certain relationships. 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:16.479 Yeah, and are you gonna die on that hill? As 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:18.080 people like to say, far as we can? 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:20.159 And that's not even that. Am I gonna have my 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.560 kid die on that hill? Because it's not me's who's 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:26.720 living with it? Right, So that's what every parent is 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:29.879 dealing with. But it's expensive. Men, IM shocked by the price. 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:36.440 Yo, Jack Armstrong and Joe The Armstrong and Getty Show, 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.439 The Armstrong and Getty Show to talk. 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:45.200 To the former Border Patrol. 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:50.840 Grand Pooba twenty sixth Chief of the United States Border Patrol. 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:55.240 Now retired, Jason Owens joins the Armstrong in Getty's Show 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:55.800 this morning. 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:56.760 Jason, how are you today? 0:17:57.280 --> 0:17:59.800 Good Jack, I've never been called a grand puba before. 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:06.040 Thank you for that, the big cheese. So what years 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:10.600 were you the guy in charge? So I was. 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:13.320 I was the Chief of the Border Patrol from the 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:17.360 summer of twenty three until March of twenty five. 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:22.080 Okay, what do you know what the history is of 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:25.800 our border enforcement? I mean, did we used to have 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:30.520 much stricter border enforcement and people just chose not to come, 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:36.480 or or did the economics change to where people want 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:38.160 to come across and so we now we need more 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:38.879 border agents. 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:41.240 I actually don't know that. I know the whole dynamic 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:41.959 has changed. 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:45.399 It's not just about the traffic that we're seeing, but 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:49.200 it's about the public's awareness and attention to the issue. 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:52.359 That the border has always been an issue in some 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:55.159 form or fashion. It's just that we didn't pay as 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:56.960 much attention to it. You know, back in the nineties 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:59.800 when I started, you know, the Border Patrol was a 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:02.199 small agency that not many people knew about. We only 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:05.840 had a few thousand agents and predominantly focused on immigration 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:09.680 along the southwest border with Mexico. Nobody really gave any 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:12.840 thought to the economic migration. Most of the folks came 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:15.960 from Mexico. They'd come up and they'd try and find work, 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:19.119 they'd center emittances home and during the holidays they'd go 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:21.320 back home visit their family, and then they'd try again 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:23.840 as soon as the holidays were over. And that's really 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:28.240 the extent of you know, what was border security during 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:32.120 that time and throughout the agents. We've had those surges 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:34.879 where we've had very busy times. And I'm sure you 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:36.800 know being out there in California, you know, back in 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:40.520 the nineties, San Diego was incredibly busy, But it was 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:43.080 a different demographic that was crossing then. It was a 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:46.239 very different mission because nine to eleven hadn't happened yet, 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:48.480 and our awareness of the threats that are out there 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:49.679 didn't exist. 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:52.760 In what way was it a different demographic that was 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:55.439 crossing back then versus down Well, like I. 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:57.520 Said, predominantly had a lot of folks from Mexico and 0:19:57.560 --> 0:20:01.120 they were mostly single adult males. They were coming forth 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:04.920 to find jobs in the US and send money back home, 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:07.760 and they would go home to their families. Well, over 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:12.280 time that started to shift because people started to see that, well, 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:14.800 the situation got a little bit rougher in Mexico. You 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:19.919 had people from Central and South America that were interested 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:21.840 in coming up as well, and people started to see 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:26.080 that it was more difficult for us to remove people 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:28.720 from the country if they didn't come from Mexico. Most 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:31.720 of the time, if you caught Jason Owens from Mexico 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:34.520 and you said, hey, do you want to go before 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:36.399 an immigration judge and see if you're going to be 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:38.840 deported or if you can stay here, most of the 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:40.639 time they would say, you know what, I'm going to 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:45.080 voluntarily return and skip all of that, knowing that it 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:46.720 is probably going to turn right around and try and 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:50.119 cross again, and eventually that they made it because of 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:54.119 the sheer. You know how big the border is and 0:20:54.200 --> 0:20:56.600 how few agents we had. Well, you can't do that 0:20:56.760 --> 0:21:00.159 with folks from other countries, because Mexico is an or 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:02.480 no obligation to take those folks back if they're not 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:06.760 citizens of Mexico, and we don't have those those processes 0:21:06.800 --> 0:21:08.800 and procedures in place with these other countries. In many 0:21:08.840 --> 0:21:10.920 cases and in many cases it's a lot more expensive 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:13.480 than just walking them across the border to the authorities 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:14.359 in Mexico. 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:15.200 Yeah. 0:21:15.200 --> 0:21:17.679 Also, there is no place in the country you're going 0:21:17.760 --> 0:21:21.600 to get free healthcare as someone here illegally not that 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:24.040 many years ago, and now you can. So there are 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:30.359 different magnets rather than just jobs. Well, also, didn't have 0:21:30.440 --> 0:21:34.040 anything like fentanyl or meth way back in the day. 0:21:35.680 --> 0:21:38.159 How much different has that made the drugs that are 0:21:38.200 --> 0:21:40.679 available in our appetite for them here in the United States. 0:21:42.000 --> 0:21:44.600 Well, and talking about how the dynamic has changed along 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:48.040 the border, make no mistake about it. The cartels control 0:21:48.560 --> 0:21:52.280 everything that's coming across illicitly across our borders. 0:21:52.280 --> 0:21:53.520 And that's whether that's. 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:58.080 People, whether that's you know, ilicitus substances, whether that's money, 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:01.600 you name it. And so back in the again in 0:22:01.680 --> 0:22:04.200 the early two thousands and nineties, and you know, it 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:08.040 was all about marijuana, and you had cocaine, and you 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:12.280