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Speaker 3: The writer Kurt Vonnegut, who I'm a big fan of,
Speaker 3: said that the semi colon said of the semi colon,
Speaker 3: it's showy. It's chiefly used to show you've been to college.
Speaker 3: More than two thirds of young Americans say they know
Speaker 3: how to use it. About the same number test prove
Speaker 3: actually don't. That's pretty funny. Two thirds of people say
Speaker 3: they know how to use a semon colan two thirds.
Speaker 3: Actually don't. Kurt Vonnegett says, you only use it to
Speaker 3: show you've been to college. That's pretty funny, you know what.
Speaker 3: I actually use it semi frequently. It to me takes
Speaker 3: the same role, has the same role as like dot,
Speaker 3: it's it's it's well.
Speaker 4: I've heard it described as a soft period, stronger than
Speaker 4: a comma, but not quite the full stop of a period.
Speaker 4: I have a big meeting tomorrow, semi colon. I need
Speaker 4: to prepare tonight.
Speaker 2: Less cramping. Oh, you're an idiot.
Speaker 3: So my dot, which I'm a big fan of, is
Speaker 3: basically using a semi coolon. Yeah, yeah, okay, I think
Speaker 3: so that's fantastic. So I did want to talk about this.
Speaker 3: This is actually important. So the stat from a week
Speaker 3: or so ago really got my attention. Consumer spending is
Speaker 3: doing okay, pretty good, hanging in there, because when consumer
Speaker 3: spending goes, the economy collapses, because two thirds of our
Speaker 3: economy is consumer spending. But right now, half of consumer
Speaker 3: spending is just the top ten percent. So the burden
Speaker 3: of consumer spending is being is on a small number
Speaker 3: of people.
Speaker 4: M I find myself wondering, what's the usual percentage. That's
Speaker 4: the top ten percent actions. I actually they have more money.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I actually had that, and I don't remember
Speaker 3: what it was, but it was significantly significant change. Okay,
Speaker 3: because I wondered that too. I'll have to look that
Speaker 3: stet up because that is important to the whole thing.
Speaker 3: But so this news out of that is not that surprising.
Speaker 3: While the wealthy prosper, middle class Americans increasingly feel the pinch.
Speaker 3: There is something called the Michigan Index, which I've heard
Speaker 3: before whenever you get into this topic. It's a common
Speaker 3: and well respected consumer sentiment gauge that.
Speaker 2: Factors in a bunch of different things.
Speaker 3: The Michigan Index, anyway, consumer sentiment was at seventy not
Speaker 3: that long ago. In the summer, it collapsed. It's down
Speaker 3: to fifty five, where the number one hundred signals neutral
Speaker 3: feelings on the economy. When you're at one hundred, you're
Speaker 3: just like, Eh, it's okay, and it's not great, it's
Speaker 3: not bad.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Below that, you're mostly negative. But it went from seventy,
Speaker 3: which was already somewhat negative, to fifty five for the
Speaker 3: middle class. Economic anxiety as running particularly strong among lower
Speaker 3: and middle income consumers, and it fell off a cliff
Speaker 3: this summer higher income Americans, And for this study, they're
Speaker 3: calling anybody that makes more than one hundred thousand a year.
Speaker 3: You make one hundred and one thousand dollars a year
Speaker 3: in the Bay Area, you do not consider yourself a
Speaker 3: higher income individual. Probably they have buoyant sentiments. I rarely
Speaker 3: describe myself as Hey, Joe, how are you doing?
Speaker 2: Buoyant? I'm gonna start doing that more often. You should.
Speaker 3: How's it going buoyant? Af I'll say, But in June,
Speaker 3: middle class confidence gave out and the index went down
Speaker 3: a lot. And this concern is economists. Course, everything concerns economists,
Speaker 3: and they disagree on everything.
Speaker 2: But that doesn't surprise me. Really, things are still expensive.
Speaker 4: Yeah, uh well, And as I've said before, doesn't everything
Speaker 4: just feel a little precarious?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it does. Well if you're you know, you
Speaker 3: follow the stock market at all. My life experience is
Speaker 3: when it's setting records, like every other day, there's a
Speaker 3: correction coming. Like my dad, who's been retired for quite
Speaker 3: some time, says I've lost everything. I've half of everything
Speaker 3: I've got like three times since I retired. I mean
Speaker 3: it happens now and then where you get the big correction.
Speaker 4: And the correction isn't going to be like the gentle
Speaker 4: parenting craze. It's going to be more like an angry
Speaker 4: Catholic school nun in nineteen fifty. Okay, the ruler is
Speaker 4: going to come down with a resounding smack.
Speaker 2: God, dang it.
Speaker 3: Have you all looked at your four to oh one k?
Speaker 3: I rarely do. I just had to for some form
Speaker 3: the other day. I looked at my phone kind of like,
Speaker 3: holy crap. I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised with
Speaker 3: the stock market constantly set in records and it's pretty
Speaker 3: tied into that, but eh, yeah, should.
Speaker 2: I a hardcore long term investor guy.
Speaker 4: If you miss the drop by a day and the
Speaker 4: rally by a day, you will lose out on an
Speaker 4: enormous amount of wealth. That's why you just thrie it out.
Speaker 4: On the other hand, I look at what's going on
Speaker 4: right now, and I think, oh God, cash out, cash out,
Speaker 4: just cash out now, cash out my gold bars or bitcoiner,
Speaker 4: doge coiner game stop stock? Is that still going on?
Speaker 3: I don't know, gold bars, Maybe that's the answer. This
Speaker 3: is breaking news Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya, who spoke
Speaker 3: on the phone with the Prime Minister of Qatar and
Speaker 3: apologized for violating Qatar's sovereignty in the strike on Doha
Speaker 3: and expressed regret for the killing of a Katari security
Speaker 3: guard while they were taking out the various Home Oth leaders.
Speaker 2: There. See, everybody's fine, now.
Speaker 3: Nen Ya, who's sitting with the president at right as
Speaker 3: we are. I wonder if that was that part of
Speaker 3: the deal. Trump said, you gotta call him, apologize, tell
Speaker 3: him you're sorry, tell him you're sorry and mean it.
Speaker 2: Someday.
Speaker 4: I wish they would release the Trump Net and Yahoo
Speaker 4: tapes like they did the Nixon tapes. I don't know
Speaker 4: if there are tapes, but you know, like after the
Speaker 4: Katario attack, the word was Trump just let him up.
Speaker 2: He yelled at him.
Speaker 4: But then they subsequently, whether it was a couple hours
Speaker 4: later or the next day, had a very good column
Speaker 4: productive chat. So they've obviously got a couple of alpha male,
Speaker 4: hot tempered yelling at each other, you know, a relationship.
Speaker 4: I'd love to hear it someday or just read the transcripts,
Speaker 4: but I don't know if that'll ever.
Speaker 2: Ask Semi colon that would all be amusing, agreed.
Speaker 4: An anti ice protester in Massachusetts forgot to put her
Speaker 4: car in park while yelling at agents making interest of
Speaker 4: an illegal alien, and her car rolled into a lake
Speaker 4: and sunk.
Speaker 2: That's disappointed, tells Fox News.
Speaker 4: It happened Upton at Massachusett's a small, very blue town
Speaker 4: in Blue Worcester County, forty miles west of Boston, and
Speaker 4: a clip of voice can be heard saying, well, that sucks.
Speaker 4: Look at that, Lucy her car got lost. As the
Speaker 4: woman's car drifts further into the water.
Speaker 3: Had a lesson for all of us. Oh, that reminds me.
Speaker 3: I was practicing driving with my son yesterday. We were
Speaker 3: driving around on county highways in his truck as he
Speaker 3: is coming up on getting his license, and so I
Speaker 3: took him over to a friend's house and a Saturday night,
Speaker 3: and his friend, who is a few months older than him,
Speaker 3: has his license now, and I saw him pull up
Speaker 3: and it was just like it was I'm sure you've
Speaker 3: had this experience, just so. It was so weird to
Speaker 3: see this kid that I've known since he was in
Speaker 3: kindergar driving a car.
Speaker 2: It's like, well, I know he's sure, this is all right,
Speaker 2: this is really.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Times change, people grow. Hey do you guys have a
Speaker 2: student driver on your on your bumper a little sign?
Speaker 2: Oh no, I don't. Can you get those? Are you
Speaker 2: supposed to have those? I guess? I mean I don't.
Speaker 2: Does it carry any legal weight? Do you get any?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 2: You get me? It doesn't care legal weight. But I
Speaker 2: appreciate it. Honestly.
Speaker 4: If I'm on a city thoroughfare where nobody ever goes
Speaker 4: the speed limit, and somebody's going the speed limit and
Speaker 4: I say patience, please, student driver, I see that.
Speaker 2: You're oh, okay, got it, got it, got it? Yep.
Speaker 4: I won't get up on Not that I would like
Speaker 4: dangerously tailgate anyway, but I get it.
Speaker 2: So cool, You're cool. I'll just call it.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 2: I pull around in front of my brake, check him.
Speaker 2: Then I roll coal on them.
Speaker 5: I do.
Speaker 3: I'll do everything you drive them from me, not rolling coal.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that happened to me just the other day.
Speaker 3: I was was that a weird four way stop situation?
Speaker 3: And I said, what is that person doing? And Sam
Speaker 3: said they got the student drivers sticker? And I was like, oh, okay, Yeah,
Speaker 3: they're trying to figure it out. And yeah, my patients
Speaker 3: went way way, way up right.
Speaker 4: I shouldn't have screamed, go you f fing mf or
Speaker 4: I if i'd seen the sign, I wouldn't have.
Speaker 2: You know, my son, I think figured out the other day.
Speaker 3: We were having a conversation about a particular group of
Speaker 3: people that seemed to struggle with driving.
Speaker 2: Oh, and I think he came upon this realization. And no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: he was.
Speaker 3: He's very aware of it. He's very aware of the
Speaker 3: existence of this. And I won't say why, but I
Speaker 3: think he figured out why. And it's always been a mystery.
Speaker 3: Why does this particular group of people struggle with driving
Speaker 3: so much when they seem to excel at other things.
Speaker 3: I won't I won't name the group, but I've got
Speaker 3: a great punchline. But it would end our careers today,
Speaker 3: and I can't. I can't explain why. But it reminded
Speaker 3: me of one of the many are strung and get
Speaker 3: any I don't know, laws of social physics or whatever
Speaker 3: things that we've come across over the years. The fact
Speaker 3: that you can point out the strength of a racial
Speaker 3: group or ethnic group or whatever, or really any group.
Speaker 3: You can point out their strengths as divided out from
Speaker 3: other people, but not the weaknesses. And it makes no
Speaker 3: sense whatsoever that any group could have only positives and
Speaker 3: no negatives. I mean, that doesn't make sense on any
Speaker 3: face of it whatsoever.
Speaker 4: No, you want another layer of irony if you were
Speaker 4: to say, because you didn't.
Speaker 3: Say that group has high home or owner owner high
Speaker 3: home owner rates less, crime gets divorced less. But if
Speaker 3: there's a negative stat you can't say that out louder.
Speaker 3: You're in trouble. Well, so here's the extra load of
Speaker 3: irony for time.
Speaker 4: Can't dry for instance, and particularly in particularly if if
Speaker 4: you were to suggest that sort of thing, even a
Speaker 4: positive I remember, if you were to suggest that, yeah,
Speaker 4: Indian kids, you know, they work really hard and they
Speaker 4: value education. And you weren't even supposed to say that,
Speaker 4: because that reduces the individual to just his group.
Speaker 2: And that's ugly. That's a stereo tap type.
Speaker 4: Even positive stereotypes are a racism and wrong. And then
Speaker 4: the woke crowd came along and took over the left
Speaker 4: and they're like, everybody is the stereotype of the race.
Speaker 4: All white people are evil white supremacists, all black.
Speaker 2: People are victims. There are no individuals.
Speaker 4: You will not be judged on your individual achievements or
Speaker 4: efforts or character.
Speaker 2: You will be painted with the color of your race. Period.
Speaker 2: And that was the Left again. But the new Left. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I wish I could talk about this more, but I can't.
Speaker 2: Would end our careers.
Speaker 4: And people so weak and stupid that they they really
Speaker 4: they ought.
Speaker 2: To be at the end of the leash that their
Speaker 2: dog is holding.
Speaker 4: People so damn stupid they couldn't recognize what was going
Speaker 4: on selford all. And they're sick in our nation's universities
Speaker 4: and schools and blue towns.
Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, they believe every word of it.
Speaker 4: And when the new new Left comes along and utterly
Speaker 4: contradicts that but yells at them a little bit, they'll
Speaker 4: go along with that.
Speaker 2: Next man man the Irish. The Irish can't drive. And
Speaker 2: I said it out loud. The Armstrong and Getdy Show, Yeah,
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Speaker 3: And my son got My thirteen year old got braces yesterday,
Speaker 3: and I was wondering what percentage of kids get braces
Speaker 3: in the modern world. As we decided at some point
Speaker 3: that everybody needs to have perfectly straight teeth, and they
Speaker 3: need to be as bright as the sun in terms
Speaker 3: of whiteness. That's what we decided. It's if you watch
Speaker 3: a movie from the nineties, all the actors like not
Speaker 3: bright white teeth are just kind of you know, John
Speaker 3: Travolta's got kind of yellowish.
Speaker 4: Teeth, like people have normal colored teeth. Yeah, it's striking,
Speaker 4: and I love this. This is my favorite aspect of
Speaker 4: modern movies. If the you got a movie it's a Western,
Speaker 4: it's set in eighteen forty and you got a character
Speaker 4: who's a town drunk who's dying of consumption.
Speaker 2: He's still got gleaming white teeth.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: About seventy percent of kids in the US currently get
Speaker 3: some sort of orthodonic treatment, braces being the number one,
Speaker 3: and at least a third or only a third truly
Speaker 3: need braces in the trade sense, like it would be
Speaker 3: a quality of life situation if you didn't get your
Speaker 3: teeth straightened out. It's it's cosmetic in other words, for
Speaker 3: two thirds of them, which you know, if we've decided,
Speaker 3: you know, I had a person really berating me for
Speaker 3: the fact that I hadn't got my son braces yet yet.
Speaker 2: Uh, if we've decided that you gotta have straight teeth?
Speaker 2: Is that kind of like.
Speaker 3: We use the example of the cracked phone screen, that's
Speaker 3: like the modern day missing tooth, and that's because nobody's
Speaker 3: missing teeth anymore.
Speaker 2: So, uh, are you are?
Speaker 3: Are you really setting yourself aside as you can't be
Speaker 3: part of even mid level or above society if you
Speaker 3: didn't get your teeth straightened.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know what it's like out there. I have
Speaker 3: straight teeth just naturally, so I don't know what it
Speaker 3: would be like. I don't know how self conscious I
Speaker 3: would be. Lots of people had crooked teeth when I
Speaker 3: was younger, but like every kid has braces, and also socioeconomically,
Speaker 3: depending on your you know, your social strata.
Speaker 2: The higher you go up the income, the more. It's
Speaker 2: like one hundred.
Speaker 3: Percent of the kids get bracelest for even mildly crooked teeth,
Speaker 3: according to this article, hence the social pressure. Sure right, yeah,
Speaker 3: so it's kind of self reinforcing. I'll be in Britain
Speaker 3: next week, so boy, well that'll be interesting. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: it's it's it's it is interesting that that is it's
Speaker 3: not uniformly a Western society thing. I mean, a United
Speaker 3: States that leads the way in like needing to have
Speaker 3: perfectly straight teeth for cosmetic reasons. And it's expensive and painful,
Speaker 3: but yet we do it, and I just find it interesting.
Speaker 2: You know, we did it, I'm doing it. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: it's a conundrum.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you were a real activist, you'd say,
Speaker 4: all right, this is an artificially imposed social norm, a
Speaker 4: status Norman eminence front is Pete Townsend who just turned
Speaker 4: eighty of the who Pete Townsend of the who is
Speaker 4: eighty lord? Anyway as he would put it. But if
Speaker 4: indeed it is a barrier to achievement, acceptance stating whatever
Speaker 4: certain relationships.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and are you gonna die on that hill? As
Speaker 2: people like to say, far as we can?
Speaker 3: And that's not even that. Am I gonna have my
Speaker 3: kid die on that hill? Because it's not me's who's
Speaker 3: living with it? Right, So that's what every parent is
Speaker 3: dealing with. But it's expensive. Men, IM shocked by the price.
Speaker 7: Yo, Jack Armstrong and Joe The Armstrong and Getty Show,
Speaker 7: The Armstrong and Getty Show to talk.
Speaker 2: To the former Border Patrol.
Speaker 3: Grand Pooba twenty sixth Chief of the United States Border Patrol.
Speaker 3: Now retired, Jason Owens joins the Armstrong in Getty's Show
Speaker 3: this morning.
Speaker 2: Jason, how are you today?
Speaker 6: Good Jack, I've never been called a grand puba before.
Speaker 2: Thank you for that, the big cheese. So what years
Speaker 2: were you the guy in charge? So I was.
Speaker 6: I was the Chief of the Border Patrol from the
Speaker 6: summer of twenty three until March of twenty five.
Speaker 3: Okay, what do you know what the history is of
Speaker 3: our border enforcement? I mean, did we used to have
Speaker 3: much stricter border enforcement and people just chose not to come,
Speaker 3: or or did the economics change to where people want
Speaker 3: to come across and so we now we need more
Speaker 3: border agents.
Speaker 2: I actually don't know that. I know the whole dynamic
Speaker 2: has changed.
Speaker 6: It's not just about the traffic that we're seeing, but
Speaker 6: it's about the public's awareness and attention to the issue.
Speaker 6: That the border has always been an issue in some
Speaker 6: form or fashion. It's just that we didn't pay as
Speaker 6: much attention to it. You know, back in the nineties
Speaker 6: when I started, you know, the Border Patrol was a
Speaker 6: small agency that not many people knew about. We only
Speaker 6: had a few thousand agents and predominantly focused on immigration
Speaker 6: along the southwest border with Mexico. Nobody really gave any
Speaker 6: thought to the economic migration. Most of the folks came
Speaker 6: from Mexico. They'd come up and they'd try and find work,
Speaker 6: they'd center emittances home and during the holidays they'd go
Speaker 6: back home visit their family, and then they'd try again
Speaker 6: as soon as the holidays were over. And that's really
Speaker 6: the extent of you know, what was border security during
Speaker 6: that time and throughout the agents. We've had those surges
Speaker 6: where we've had very busy times. And I'm sure you
Speaker 6: know being out there in California, you know, back in
Speaker 6: the nineties, San Diego was incredibly busy, But it was
Speaker 6: a different demographic that was crossing then. It was a
Speaker 6: very different mission because nine to eleven hadn't happened yet,
Speaker 6: and our awareness of the threats that are out there
Speaker 6: didn't exist.
Speaker 3: In what way was it a different demographic that was
Speaker 3: crossing back then versus down Well, like I.
Speaker 6: Said, predominantly had a lot of folks from Mexico and
Speaker 6: they were mostly single adult males. They were coming forth
Speaker 6: to find jobs in the US and send money back home,
Speaker 6: and they would go home to their families. Well, over
Speaker 6: time that started to shift because people started to see that, well,
Speaker 6: the situation got a little bit rougher in Mexico. You
Speaker 6: had people from Central and South America that were interested
Speaker 6: in coming up as well, and people started to see
Speaker 6: that it was more difficult for us to remove people
Speaker 6: from the country if they didn't come from Mexico. Most
Speaker 6: of the time, if you caught Jason Owens from Mexico
Speaker 6: and you said, hey, do you want to go before
Speaker 6: an immigration judge and see if you're going to be
Speaker 6: deported or if you can stay here, most of the
Speaker 6: time they would say, you know what, I'm going to
Speaker 6: voluntarily return and skip all of that, knowing that it
Speaker 6: is probably going to turn right around and try and
Speaker 6: cross again, and eventually that they made it because of
Speaker 6: the sheer. You know how big the border is and
Speaker 6: how few agents we had. Well, you can't do that
Speaker 6: with folks from other countries, because Mexico is an or
Speaker 6: no obligation to take those folks back if they're not
Speaker 6: citizens of Mexico, and we don't have those those processes
Speaker 6: and procedures in place with these other countries. In many
Speaker 6: cases and in many cases it's a lot more expensive
Speaker 6: than just walking them across the border to the authorities
Speaker 6: in Mexico.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Also, there is no place in the country you're going
Speaker 3: to get free healthcare as someone here illegally not that
Speaker 3: many years ago, and now you can. So there are
Speaker 3: different magnets rather than just jobs. Well, also, didn't have
Speaker 3: anything like fentanyl or meth way back in the day.
Speaker 3: How much different has that made the drugs that are
Speaker 3: available in our appetite for them here in the United States.
Speaker 6: Well, and talking about how the dynamic has changed along
Speaker 6: the border, make no mistake about it. The cartels control
Speaker 6: everything that's coming across illicitly across our borders.
Speaker 2: And that's whether that's.
Speaker 6: People, whether that's you know, ilicitus substances, whether that's money,
Speaker 6: you name it. And so back in the again in
Speaker 6: the early two thousands and nineties, and you know, it
Speaker 6: was all about marijuana, and you had cocaine, and you
Speaker 6: had some meth cases and the like and heroin. Those
Speaker 6: are the traditional narcotics that we would come across. And
Speaker 6: of course, you know, the world's view on marijuana has changed,
Speaker 6: and so the cartels adapted and they look for the
Speaker 6: next best thing because at the end of the day,
Speaker 6: there's a business and they're looking at how can I
Speaker 6: make money off of you know what it is I'm
Speaker 6: doing well, they took a pivot to two things. Number One,
Speaker 6: fentnel started becoming much more prominent because of how potent
Speaker 6: it is and how easy it is to make comparatively.
Speaker 6: And then also they got into the people business. They
Speaker 6: got into human trafficking because for the longest time, there
Speaker 6: was not as much risk associated. People would be a
Speaker 6: little more sympathetic to folks that were smuggling people across
Speaker 6: the border than they would somebody bringing across kilos of cocaine,
Speaker 6: and so they shifted to the product that was going
Speaker 6: to be in more demand and where they stood to
Speaker 6: make the most money with less risk. That's officially been
Speaker 6: with the cartel's business model has been and how it
Speaker 6: has impacted the dynamic along particularly the southwest border.
Speaker 2: That's interesting. So that doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 3: But you say the cartel, nothing's really happening without their approval,
Speaker 3: Absolutely not.
Speaker 6: And there's different ones that are out there. And if
Speaker 6: you talk to anybody in the national security space, especially
Speaker 6: with CDP and Border patrol, they will tell you that
Speaker 6: that is our true adversary. The smugglers, the criminals, the
Speaker 6: cartel members, those are the ones that we face off
Speaker 6: against every single day, and when we go out.
Speaker 2: There to help secure the border, that is who we
Speaker 2: have in mind.
Speaker 6: The immigration issue, it's an important one. We have to
Speaker 6: have law and order, but the national security aspect of
Speaker 6: border security is really what is first and foremost on
Speaker 6: our minds because that represents by far the greatest threat
Speaker 6: to our country.
Speaker 2: And the Mexican go just can't get control of those cartels.
Speaker 6: Apparently, it's a tough situation. They You know, if you
Speaker 6: think about an adversary like the cartels, that the amount
Speaker 6: of money that they make. And I'll use Del Rio
Speaker 6: sector in Texas as an example, because I was the
Speaker 6: I was the sector chief there before I took over
Speaker 6: as chief of the Border Patrol. And that's a that's
Speaker 6: a pretty remote, small sector. And of course, back a
Speaker 6: couple of years ago, that was front and center with
Speaker 6: Eagle Pass and you've all the and the Haiti the
Speaker 6: Haitian migration. Well that little sector just off of human
Speaker 6: trafficking alone, we estimated that the cartels were pocketing upwards
Speaker 6: of thirty thirty five million dollars a week. Wow, you
Speaker 6: do the you do the math, and that's not narcotics.
Speaker 6: That's nothing but human smuggling in one sector of nine
Speaker 6: across the southwest border, you know.
Speaker 2: For and again my Oklahoma.
Speaker 6: Math that that's over one point five billion dollars a
Speaker 6: year and one sector that they're making. So you're talking
Speaker 6: about an adversary that is well funded, unlimited resources, and
Speaker 6: nothing but time to sit there and think about how
Speaker 6: they're going to defeat whatever security measures we have in place.
Speaker 6: And part of that is destabilizing the communities and the
Speaker 6: governments in Mexico so that they can maintain a foothold
Speaker 6: and keep an advantage. And that's been a persistent problem
Speaker 6: for our partners over in Mexico for for years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a very gentle way of saying it destabilize
Speaker 3: the communities, as in, if you're the cops in that town,
Speaker 3: you're going to die if you try to take them on.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 6: And I would have conversations with my counterparts these they
Speaker 6: would be the Satana generals, or they would be the
Speaker 6: colonels over some are and they would tell you it's
Speaker 6: not that we don't want to respond or we don't
Speaker 6: want to help out. It's just that the life we're
Speaker 6: living down here is very different.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 6: They literally deal with at times gun battles in the streets,
Speaker 6: people that are being murdered, dismembered. There are legitimate threats
Speaker 6: to their families, and they go out there and do
Speaker 6: the job. So you have to you have to respect
Speaker 6: and empathize with the situation that they're in. So I
Speaker 6: don't always buy into, Oh, it's just it's just a
Speaker 6: matter of corruption. No, There's there's a lot of factors
Speaker 6: that get taken into account and that I think any
Speaker 6: of us in that situation would be faced with.
Speaker 3: Yeah, culturally, that's why we've got to hang on to
Speaker 3: our culture of not having very much corruption, because man,
Speaker 3: once you lose that, it's tough to turn it around.
Speaker 2: That's rough.
Speaker 3: So talking about it, talking about the border, when we
Speaker 3: just say the border, we all assume the border between
Speaker 3: US and Mexico, but you say, there's a lot more
Speaker 3: going on between the United States and Canada, now the
Speaker 3: longest unde defended border in the world.
Speaker 6: It was always funny to me every time I would
Speaker 6: talk to a member of Congress or staffers or in
Speaker 6: many cases reporters, and it still didn't get covered as
Speaker 6: much as I would have liked. People forget, Yeah, yes,
Speaker 6: there's about two thousand miles between US and Mexico, but
Speaker 6: there's four thousand miles a border between US and Canada
Speaker 6: if you don't count that vertical slash that Alaska shares,
Speaker 6: which is another fifteen hundred miles. And oh, by the way,
Speaker 6: we have thousands of miles of coast and most people
Speaker 6: don't think about it in these terms. We actually share
Speaker 6: a border, a coastal border with Russia because of Alaska.
Speaker 6: So we have some legitimate things to think about in
Speaker 6: vulnerabilities that exist along our multiple borders and the threats
Speaker 6: both state and non state actors that are out there.
Speaker 6: And I think that deserves a space and the discussion
Speaker 6: anytime we're talking about national security and especially border security,
Speaker 6: because if you're going to resource an agency that's responsible
Speaker 6: for keeping us safe, you have to take into account
Speaker 6: all that they're responsible for, and not just one piece
Speaker 6: that the mainstream media wants to focus on.
Speaker 3: What percentage of border patrol is on the southern border
Speaker 3: versus the northern border.
Speaker 2: Do you have any idea?
Speaker 6: Typically about ninety percent of our workforce is deployed on
Speaker 6: the southwest border, so if you can, you can do
Speaker 6: the matt roughly twenty thousand agents depending on.
Speaker 2: The season that we're in. You know, you have ninety percent.
Speaker 6: Deployed down to the southwest border and the rest are
Speaker 6: on the northern border, our coastal sectors and in many
Speaker 6: cases overseas and our offices.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Man, if it ever becomes a real problem, or
Speaker 3: maybe you're saying it already is of things coming across
Speaker 3: the Canadian border.
Speaker 2: I remember when I drove into Calgary one time.
Speaker 3: I was headed up to Calgary, just crossing on a
Speaker 3: two lane highway in the middle of nowhere. There's basically
Speaker 3: nothing there. Showed them a driver's license and drove in.
Speaker 3: That's all there was to it.
Speaker 2: How many drugs are coming across the Canadian border at
Speaker 2: this point? Do you have any idea?
Speaker 6: Well, and that's that's the million dollar question, so to speak.
Speaker 6: That we get asked a lot of times what's getting away.
Speaker 6: There's what we catch, and that's between us and the
Speaker 6: Office of Field Operations that works at the ports of entry.
Speaker 6: Ours is the job between the ports of entry. So
Speaker 6: there's what we actually catch. What we may see and
Speaker 6: are not a to get to. But then there's that
Speaker 6: great void, that great unknown and that exists even along
Speaker 6: the Southwest border that a lot of people don't realize
Speaker 6: as well. There's so much of the border that we
Speaker 6: don't have persistent surveillance. We don't know what's coming across
Speaker 6: or what's going on because we're not out there and
Speaker 6: we don't have the technology in today's age, it's hard
Speaker 6: to imagine that there's actually still areas out there where
Speaker 6: there's no cell coverage, there's no reception, and you need
Speaker 6: that for the technology to be effected. So there's a
Speaker 6: lot of spaces out there we don't have that situational awareness,
Speaker 6: and so we can't tell you with any level of
Speaker 6: certainty what's coming across, what's getting away. And that's one
Speaker 6: of the things I always said. It keeps us up
Speaker 6: at night. It worries is because we know the potential
Speaker 6: and you don't want to have something like that happen
Speaker 6: on your watch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, that is true.
Speaker 3: Jason Owen's twenty six chief of the United States Border Patrol.
Speaker 3: Appreciate your time today as very interesting stuff.
Speaker 6: Good talk to you, Jack, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 7: You bet you Jack Armstrong and Joe, The Armstrong and
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Speaker 8: Over the weekend, the rapper known as four Extra lost
Speaker 8: two fingers in a fireworks accident. He's now changed his
Speaker 8: name to three Left. The good news is he's no
Speaker 8: longer throwing up gang signs.
Speaker 4: You know, I saw that first punchline coming, but I
Speaker 4: enjoyed it a lot. Three Left and get it and
Speaker 4: be careful with fireworks, kids, gender matting Madden.
Speaker 2: This update coming up next segment.
Speaker 4: But first, a handful of consumer oriented stories that I
Speaker 4: found intriguing and or amusing. Street journal reporting vanity sizing
Speaker 4: is forcing petit women into kids' clothes, aging styles, and
Speaker 4: the supersizing of apparel is pushing shoppers to unusual lengths
Speaker 4: to find something that fits. And the subheadline is so
Speaker 4: much glitter, Yeah you better like sparkles. Yeah, the petit
Speaker 4: women who have you know, been forced to go for
Speaker 4: children's sizes because the American girth has been increasing.
Speaker 2: More on that in a moment, but everybody knows this right.
Speaker 4: The apparel industry for years has been employing vanity sizing,
Speaker 4: making clothes larger and larger while keeping the sizes the same,
Speaker 4: making matters worse for some slender shoppers. Is a current
Speaker 4: fashioned woman in which oversized looks are in vogue. The
Speaker 4: result clothes so big that slender people are swimming in them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know you with young people, they're all wearing
Speaker 2: super giant, baggy clothes. This gallows five to fives.
Speaker 4: Try petite clothing, but because those fits are designed for
Speaker 4: shorter people, the shirt sleeves stop above wrists and the
Speaker 4: genes don't even graze her ankles. Children's clothes fit better,
Speaker 4: but the styles aren't sophisticated. Too many flowers and so
Speaker 4: much glitter. Final note on this, The average American woman
Speaker 4: weighs about one hundred and seventy pounds, which is thirty
Speaker 4: pounds more than she did in nineteen sixty. According to
Speaker 4: the National Center for Health Statistics, average is one seventy
Speaker 4: That is correct? Is that average or median? Because if
Speaker 4: there's like one fifty thousand pound woman, that's why it's
Speaker 4: like the Bill Gates walks into a bar, thing right
Speaker 4: your net worth, your average networth, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 3: Bill Gates could walk into a bar and change the
Speaker 3: average in net worth a fifty thousand pound woman is
Speaker 3: not going to roll into the bar or probably the buffet. No,
Speaker 3: oh my, that was insensitive, and she was presently thousand pounds.
Speaker 2: She needs some tough talk. Look at yourself when you
Speaker 2: hit thirty thousand, didn't you think you know? I got
Speaker 2: to change something. This is terrible. There's something terribly wrong here.
Speaker 5: Because the average height for a woman is five to three,
Speaker 5: So if we're averaging at one seventy, that seems pretty portly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't think that that sounds high to me.
Speaker 2: That sounds really you arguing with the name National Center
Speaker 2: for Health Statistics. I guess I am, But that just
Speaker 2: that sounds high to me. There's a lot more to
Speaker 2: get to, Okay.
Speaker 4: The Brazilian butt lift surgery is a procedure that enhances
Speaker 4: the size and shape of someone's rear ends through a
Speaker 4: fat transfer.
Speaker 2: Don't I know what, I've had two of them.
Speaker 4: It's often considered a dangerous procedure by experts since there's
Speaker 4: a possibility of death, infection, and more. I would restructure
Speaker 4: that sentence. Once you have death. Infection is kind of irrelevant, right,
Speaker 4: but more the more. But this popular and freaking stupid surgery,
Speaker 4: do you seriously think having a bigger butt is going
Speaker 4: to materially change your life.
Speaker 2: It's better. It's for bigger or higher you lift. It's both,
Speaker 2: it's both. I'd like mine higher. It makes it not
Speaker 2: only higher.
Speaker 4: Not only is BBL surgery risky, there's one bizarre, rather
Speaker 4: gross side effect that comes along that the potential patients
Speaker 4: should consider.
Speaker 2: It's called the BBL smell, and it is real. So
Speaker 2: this doctor, what?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 4: There's often a smell expected for BBL patients after sweating
Speaker 4: or sitting for long periods, an aggressive scent.
Speaker 2: Because I'm guessing because you have crevasses. No, no, uh.
Speaker 4: There are uh tissue deaths, which is a BBL complication
Speaker 4: and unhygienic habits that could cause someone with BBBL to
Speaker 4: have a smelly b Huh.
Speaker 3: This is the worst thing you ever done, by a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 3: We're done, horrible.
Speaker 4: I am issuing an important warning to people who might
Speaker 4: fall prey to this insidious procedure. If a patient was
Speaker 4: quote overfilled with fat during the procedure, fat necrosis, which
Speaker 4: is when faty tissue in the butt dies, can occur
Speaker 4: as a result of RADSID smell develops.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I imagine you smell like a dead body.
Speaker 4: Yes, infections that need antibiotics, hospitalizations, and even that leads
Speaker 4: to sepsis.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, this has been a treat, Thanks Joe. What
Speaker 2: is that coloni you're wearing? Black plague? Is that dead raccoon? No,
Speaker 2: that's my BBL surgery gone wrong.
Speaker 4: I'm telling you, ladies, Oh beautiful, the way you are
Speaker 4: all right, God.
Speaker 3: You gotta wear the kids clothes and you smell like
Speaker 3: a dead body, and things are going well for you.
Speaker 2: It's the arm Strong in Getty show. It's because she's
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty