Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and get Katy. I know he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: The website Boston dot com is saystaking hey, what is
Speaker 3: the best of Boston movie tournament style bracket? And they
Speaker 3: have asked that you please stop writing in your mother
Speaker 3: sex tape.
Speaker 2: That's pretty funny. Yeah, I'm looking at the guy, Katie.
Speaker 2: This is the guy that walked away from the plane
Speaker 2: crash where it looks like everybody else died. Not amazing.
Speaker 2: He's literally walked away like, Wow, that sucked. I should
Speaker 2: probably go to a hospital. He's talking to people. People
Speaker 2: are talking to him like and they're frantic, and he's
Speaker 2: he's slightly dis oriented, and yeah, they took him to
Speaker 2: the hospital, probably thinking, you know, maybe he's got some
Speaker 2: brain trauma or hurt his back or something. But here
Speaker 2: is he's standing up talking to people before somebody said, yatta,
Speaker 2: go to the hospital. He looks fine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and his brother was seated somewhere else on the plane.
Speaker 5: And it looks like everybody else is dead. Two hundred
Speaker 5: and forty two people.
Speaker 4: The Miracle of the seat eleven A.
Speaker 5: I gotta charge more for that seat on every flight
Speaker 5: from here on out.
Speaker 2: That's sick. You're sick. That's not funny, that's sick. The
Speaker 2: old That was the slogan of the National Lampoon magazine
Speaker 2: by really nineteen seventies. Yeah, yeah, oh man, I love
Speaker 2: that magazine. So a quick just to take a quick
Speaker 2: look at some news stories that we've talked about previously
Speaker 2: or haven't yet, But US has begun evacuating non essential
Speaker 2: staff from embassies and military basis throughout the Middle East
Speaker 2: as tensions rise with Iran. Would not surprise me an
Speaker 2: iota to hear at any point today that explosions were
Speaker 2: seen at the what you call it a nuclear site
Speaker 2: in Tehran, probably be Israel with our go ahead. It's
Speaker 2: not our active help. Trump announced a successful end of
Speaker 2: trade talks with China today, Saya saying, China will supply
Speaker 2: the US with crucial rare earth minerals. Wow, the US
Speaker 2: will allow Chinese foreign students to attend US colleges and universities.
Speaker 2: China said, wait, what, No, we didn't what. We just
Speaker 2: got a framework. That's the presumptive clothes. If you're familiar
Speaker 2: with sales techniques. That's Trump doing something I'm sure he's
Speaker 2: done many times. So we have a deal. The other
Speaker 2: party's like, wait, what.
Speaker 5: So we'll get that car in there and we'll we'll
Speaker 5: get it shined up, washed for you, and then it'll
Speaker 5: be Wait a second, I didn't say one of the
Speaker 5: US sign those papers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. The White House says it's preparing to
Speaker 2: ramp up its transfer of foreign nationals to Guantanamo Bay.
Speaker 2: Uh wow, that's uh.
Speaker 5: So you're a bus boy in LA. When you get
Speaker 5: round it up, he might end up.
Speaker 2: A get moo. I don't know. I don't know the
Speaker 2: gittmo thing. It's a publicity sun, but I's kind of
Speaker 2: like it. David Hog was officially ousted as the vice
Speaker 2: chair of the DNCA.
Speaker 5: So the kid's last name is Hog spelled with two g's,
Speaker 5: and then you decided to make a pig noise before
Speaker 5: you wrecked?
Speaker 2: Okay, exactly. Yes. After he launched a campaign to unseat
Speaker 2: Asleep at the Wheel incumbent Democrats, he then put out
Speaker 2: a statement that, interestingly enough, was actually quite good. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I saw most of it. Saw it was essentially, look,
Speaker 2: these government people are there for themselves. These thirty year incumbents.
Speaker 2: They don't care about their constituents. They just care about
Speaker 2: growing their own power in that of the government. That
Speaker 2: is correct, mister Swine. On the other hand, your policy
Speaker 2: prescriptions all are terrible, but you're right about that pass.
Speaker 2: Now go wee wee wee all the way home. You
Speaker 2: have a winner. It's the punch line I was looking for. Yeah,
Speaker 2: let's see, you're on your inflation lower number than many
Speaker 2: had feared. Let's see. Oh and yes, Jack, you know,
Speaker 2: one of my favorite political stories right now is how
Speaker 2: all these conservative outlets are backing Andrew Cuomo for mayor
Speaker 2: of New York because he's the least horrible choice. He's
Speaker 2: running against social various brands of socialists and full out communists,
Speaker 2: and so, yeah, Andrew Cuomo is the guy. Let's go
Speaker 2: with Andrew Cuomo. Let's all rally around Andrew Cuomo. We
Speaker 2: can't have him a communist win the marriage him. And
Speaker 2: so yeah, all kinds of people have endorsed him, and
Speaker 2: I love you.
Speaker 6: And I mean he's he's all kinds of a crook
Speaker 6: and a liar and and horrible judgment and you know,
Speaker 6: grew up in rom Yeah, just all kinds of But
Speaker 6: he's a best choice.
Speaker 2: He's better than a communist Excelsior.
Speaker 6: He's gonna be the freaking mayor of New York. I mean,
Speaker 6: I mean it might be.
Speaker 2: It's a it's a mayor as opposed to the president.
Speaker 2: So Trump still wins, but it might be in a
Speaker 2: more amazing comeback than Trump. I mean, it's just he
Speaker 2: was he killed old people in light about it, right,
Speaker 2: There is a greater truth here about the nature of
Speaker 2: the electorate in deep blue cities. I mean, you look
Speaker 2: at Chicago for instance. Brandon Johnson is he is a
Speaker 2: Union hack, He's a social he's a Marxist, he's a
Speaker 2: moron two. Michael, Yeah, the great I remember a few
Speaker 2: stand ups ago when I talked about what terrorism looks like.
Speaker 2: This is it.
Speaker 1: There should be no question to what our country would
Speaker 1: look like had the Confederacy won.
Speaker 2: What we're seeing it on full display. Are we talking
Speaker 2: about the Ice Raids? Is a full display of what
Speaker 2: America would have been like if the Confederacy had won.
Speaker 2: Except a couple of things there, Brandon, and I'll speak
Speaker 2: slowly because you're an fing idiot. The Confederacy wasn't trying
Speaker 2: to take over the Union. Okay, So if they'd have won,
Speaker 2: it just would have been there, just those few states. Okay. Uh. Secondly,
Speaker 2: what the idea that? Wow? Wow? So this is the
Speaker 2: what terrorism looks like. And if the KKK had won,
Speaker 2: what a jackass? Anyway, what do we do other than
Speaker 2: voting with our feet? With an electorate? And granted, don't
Speaker 2: just picture ordinary voters when I say the electorate in
Speaker 2: the big cities like Chicago and New York and to
Speaker 2: a large degree in Sacramento, the capitol of California too.
Speaker 2: It's it's the unions, the concentrated interests of various pressure groups,
Speaker 2: primarily public employee unions, that win the day every single time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because you know, obviously there's got to be something like
Speaker 2: that going on, or you'd end up with a better
Speaker 2: candidate than Andrew freaking Cuomo.
Speaker 5: And how old is he, Katie? How old Isandra Cuomo?
Speaker 5: Can you look that up for me?
Speaker 2: So he's super old. He's a crook, he's a groper.
Speaker 2: He lied about killing old people, so its judgment is horrible.
Speaker 2: But he's i's a mobster.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but he's sixty seven.
Speaker 2: Okay, he's a young man compared to oh, he's a
Speaker 2: child in American politics these days. Boy, that's a troubling story.
Speaker 2: And speaking of troubling, you know this was going to
Speaker 2: be my bridge to another story. I'll hold off on that.
Speaker 2: I will tell you this, Jack, beloved American institution that
Speaker 2: you're a big fan of might be bought by the
Speaker 2: Katari royal family. Oh what is it? Papa John's Pizza?
Speaker 2: Something happened with Papa John's. I don't know.
Speaker 5: I feel like they changed the recipe. That happens a
Speaker 5: lot with pizza joints they get popular.
Speaker 2: I don't know that this happened with Papa John's. I
Speaker 2: do know that it's happened with some of my other
Speaker 2: favorite national pizzas where they lay hashtag me too. Papa
Speaker 2: John himself right and drove them away. But there's like
Speaker 2: one of my pizza favorite piece of places. I mean,
Speaker 2: if you were trying to stay out of the rain,
Speaker 2: maybe you would craft a hut to keep the rain
Speaker 2: off your head. But their pizza used to be great
Speaker 2: back in the day. It started in Kansas, and then
Speaker 2: the price stayed the same for decades. How'd you do
Speaker 2: that with the ingredients going down to where it's just horrible.
Speaker 2: Now in my mind, I said, there's a huge sector
Speaker 2: of the pizza market that's all about cheap. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: there's only one way to win that sector.
Speaker 5: By being the cheapest. We'll so you go with a squeak, squeak,
Speaker 5: whatever meat you gotta use.
Speaker 2: And the cheese is just congealed grease from the taco
Speaker 2: stand next door. It's allegedly anyway. I don't know what
Speaker 2: sounded apossum makes or I would make it, but whatever's andy, man,
Speaker 2: whatever's Andy? What do we have in the bin? So
Speaker 2: the Kutaris are buying Papa John's. Yeah, more on that
Speaker 2: and yeah, it's just more on that to come. The
Speaker 2: Great Brian Wilson considered in a moment or two, what
Speaker 2: a crazy life? Would you consider him a musical genius?
Speaker 2: Fair to say? Yeah? I think so, absolutely, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: Absolute musical genius. And I was listened to his bunch
Speaker 5: of his stuff. There were some Spotify lists yesterday of
Speaker 5: you know, best examples of Beach Boys music, including a
Speaker 5: whole bunch of songs I'd never heard before my life,
Speaker 5: especially when considered the time that they were recorded. I mean,
Speaker 5: some of the stuff was recorded like sixty three it's
Speaker 5: like wow.
Speaker 2: And I include a controversial statement that will anger many
Speaker 2: of you in our discussion of the Beach Boys. But
Speaker 2: he was mentally ill. He was a drug addict. He
Speaker 2: signed onto a guru that the state of California then
Speaker 2: forbid to ever work again. It was so crazy, all
Speaker 2: kinds of different stuff. I'll tell you about some of
Speaker 2: it coming back. So the news broke while we were
Speaker 2: on the area yesterday that Brian Wilson of the Beach
Speaker 2: Boys had died at age eighty two.
Speaker 5: I wasn't sure how much attention it would get.
Speaker 2: But it got a ton throughout the day, every newscast,
Speaker 2: and then as I was watching the news today, a
Speaker 2: lot of coverage and I can't figure out if it's
Speaker 2: what's probably a combination of how big the Beach Boys were,
Speaker 2: even though it's sixty years ago, was their heyday, and
Speaker 2: the fact that the audience for cable news is so old.
Speaker 5: But he was one of the great musical geniuses. Joe
Speaker 5: knows way more about this stuff than I do. I
Speaker 5: used to know a lot more about music, but I
Speaker 5: purposefully purged it from my brain and it's worked pretty well.
Speaker 2: There's lots of stuff that I don't do that. Apparently
Speaker 2: you can. I've done it with sports, statistics and music,
Speaker 2: tons of stuff that I know. I knew, you used
Speaker 2: to know that. I no longer know because I just
Speaker 2: decided that's useless information that has done me no good.
Speaker 2: I'm not holding on that anymore. I don't know that
Speaker 2: I can will that to happen. I have's a this
Speaker 2: is a farm? Well you have maybe? Uh, it's a
Speaker 2: fascinating concept.
Speaker 5: I wish I could will back into my brain like
Speaker 5: my password from my bank account, so I don't have
Speaker 5: to look it up every single time.
Speaker 2: Yes. So my controversial statement that people will be angry
Speaker 2: at is the Beach Boys hits that made them huge.
Speaker 2: They're fine. They're heavily Chuck Berry inspired, very catchy, well sung.
Speaker 2: How did they are fine? I know they got sued
Speaker 2: for one song for sounding too much like Chuck Berry
Speaker 2: and put his name on it. But how about the
Speaker 2: one that starts with the Johnny be Good guitar riff?
Speaker 2: I mean that's one hundred percent stolen. How did they
Speaker 2: get away with that? Because you can't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I copyright riffs the way you can lyrics or melodies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's interesting. I don't know or was that
Speaker 2: the one that they had to get know it was
Speaker 2: a different song, that's what.
Speaker 5: But I listened to it yesterday, I thought, because I
Speaker 5: have learned that note from note, that is one hundred
Speaker 5: percent that Johnny be good opening anyway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But so it's the the three chord hits that
Speaker 2: they had early. That's not why people refer to Brian Wilson.
Speaker 2: Wilson as a musical genius. I mean, he was a
Speaker 2: fine songwriter and hit maker. It was, you know, the
Speaker 2: stuff he did later in his career that was, uh,
Speaker 2: that was really uh innovative. But because it's weird.
Speaker 5: For people who don't know, you said this yesterday, he
Speaker 5: was He was the Beach Boys to a great extent, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah. In fact, his brother Dennis Wilson said
Speaker 2: as much. He said, no, Brian is the Beach Boys. Yeah.
Speaker 2: He was their creative genius, their writer. They're a ranger.
Speaker 2: He produced and co produced everything they recorded. He just
Speaker 2: envisioned all the sounds and all the weirdness and innovation
Speaker 2: and all that. Like had the Beatles, for instance, when
Speaker 2: they heard pet sounds, saying oh my god, okay, they've
Speaker 2: opped the Annie, We've got to do something big, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and they wrote Sergeant Peppers.
Speaker 5: I had a few things I want to read from
Speaker 5: this New York Times piece that they did on at
Speaker 5: their big They probably had this uh obituary in the
Speaker 5: can for quite a while, right, but.
Speaker 2: Just some of this.
Speaker 5: At the same time, the round faced, soft spoken mister Wilson,
Speaker 5: who didn't surf, became one of pop's most gifted and
Speaker 5: idiosynocratic studio tours, crafting complex and innovative productions at awed
Speaker 5: hiss beers that ear Bob Dylan once remarked, I mean, Jesus,
Speaker 5: he's got a will that to the Smithsonian. Mister Wilson
Speaker 5: indulged his every eccentricity, no matter how expensive or fruitless,
Speaker 5: and his growing drug habit fueled paranoia and delusion. Recording
Speaker 5: a song called Fire, he outfitted studio musicians in toy
Speaker 5: firefighters helmets and placed a smoldering bucket in their midst.
Speaker 5: When he later learned that a nearby building had burned
Speaker 5: down at about the same time as the session, he
Speaker 5: scrapped that track, spooked by the thought that his studio
Speaker 5: witchcraft was responsible for the fire.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he actually tried to destroy the master tapes for
Speaker 2: that song because he thought they were somehow magically causing fires.
Speaker 5: He spent much of his life trying to escape the
Speaker 5: yokes of two men, his abusive father and a controlling
Speaker 5: psychotherapist named Eugene Landy. Mister Landy's unorthodox methods, which included
Speaker 5: monitoring mister Wilson twenty four hours a day and pad
Speaker 5: locking is a refrigerator.
Speaker 2: I need a snack.
Speaker 5: No, we're effective in nursing mister Wilson back to health
Speaker 5: during two periods of treatment in the seventies and eighties.
Speaker 5: Yet mister Landy also went into business with his patient,
Speaker 5: sharing copyrights or forcing his name onto the copyrights and
Speaker 5: taking a whole bunch of the money and writing credits
Speaker 5: with his from his songs.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Landy eventually came under the scrutiny of the California authorities
Speaker 5: and had to surrender his license after an intervention by
Speaker 5: mister Wilson's family. A court order also blocked Landy from
Speaker 5: contact with me Wilson, and he ran Brian's life for
Speaker 5: like twenty years or something.
Speaker 2: How horrifying is that, yeah, mister Wilson.
Speaker 5: Brian Wilson spoke openly about his struggles with mental illness,
Speaker 5: including his experience with Schitzio effective disorder and condition characterized
Speaker 5: by hallucinations and delusions. The condition led to the conservative
Speaker 5: ship granted by his business associates last year.
Speaker 2: Surfer Girl, Well, before we get past that, the whole
Speaker 2: the delusions thing, he had constant voices giving him terrible
Speaker 2: messages in his head, and he played music constantly to
Speaker 2: distract himself from wowses wow.
Speaker 5: Surfer Girl, which was their first big hit, went to
Speaker 5: number seven in nineteen sixty three.
Speaker 2: That's sixty two years ago.
Speaker 5: Was perhaps the first pop hit and ever written, arranged, produced,
Speaker 5: and sung by the same person. You know, it's common now,
Speaker 5: not common, but people do it, but nobody'd ever done
Speaker 5: it before. His father had long tormented him physically and
Speaker 5: emotionally in one form of punishment that left Brian Wilson,
Speaker 5: and he described many times his father would remove his
Speaker 5: glass eye and force his terrified son to stare into
Speaker 5: the empty socket. That's a sick f that's a weird punishment.
Speaker 5: And my dad was violent and cruel, he wrote in
Speaker 5: his biography. That's not a good story anyway. I You know,
Speaker 5: if you have a certain age, you've heard all these
Speaker 5: Beach Boys songs a million times, but perhaps on an
Speaker 5: AM radio coming out of a little speaker in a
Speaker 5: car or at home. They've been remastered. Listen to him
Speaker 5: remastered on a good stereo, whole different experience I found yesterday.
Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, that'd be a treat. I don't have to
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 5: I didn't realize he basically did good vibrations while the
Speaker 5: whole band was on tour. He did the whole thing
Speaker 5: himself more or less. Well, they were all gone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not surprised. That's quite amazing. Yeah, an amazing
Speaker 2: guy to put a tragic story. Oh, oh my god. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you don't want to be crazy, even if it leads
Speaker 2: to that. It sounds horrible Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5: So black woman in road rage at a Mexican dude,
Speaker 5: I'm calling Trump on you.
Speaker 2: You wait again, Hm, that's not going to bring understanding
Speaker 2: among the people of America.
Speaker 5: No, that's sort of rhetoric. No, just came across sis.
Speaker 5: You're about to talk about the aging aging this and that.
Speaker 2: Axios is reporting more than half of Democratic reps, the
Speaker 2: Democratic Party, the House of Representatives? Is that? What did
Speaker 2: I see?
Speaker 5: Seventeen percent approval or something like that among Democrats.
Speaker 2: That's young Democrats.
Speaker 5: More than half of the Democratic reps who are seventy
Speaker 5: five or older are running for reelection in the Young
Speaker 5: People Party, the people over seventy five, half of them
Speaker 5: are running for reelection. As opposed to saying maybe we
Speaker 5: should get to somebody a little young, I mean a
Speaker 5: lot of Democrats.
Speaker 2: They want a thirty five year old or a twenty
Speaker 2: two year old, not an eighty year old. Why don't
Speaker 2: think Republicans want an eighty year old either? Honestly, I
Speaker 2: didn't mean to talk about that.
Speaker 5: So I jump into my car yesterday and I flip
Speaker 5: on NPR because I don't know, I hate myself from
Speaker 5: a masochist or something.
Speaker 2: I mean, why would you do that?
Speaker 5: I get done doing this and I listen to NPR,
Speaker 5: like to get a half asked, annoying version of the
Speaker 5: news I just did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know what that's but anyway, they were
Speaker 2: doing this story. Seniors are the fastest growing group of
Speaker 2: people experiencing homelessness. Musing their terms.
Speaker 5: I don't say experiencing homelessness, I say drug experiencing homelessness.
Speaker 5: Drug addicts who've made poor choices in their lives is
Speaker 5: generally what it is, but in some of these stats
Speaker 5: are interesting, and I wondered if you had a reason
Speaker 5: better than theirs for why this is happening. First of all,
Speaker 5: in the nineties, the average age of a homeless person
Speaker 5: was thirty. Now it's fifty. Fairly recently, people aged fifty
Speaker 5: and older were about ten percent of the homeless population.
Speaker 5: It is now half. It went from ten percent to half. Wow,
Speaker 5: this according to them, and this might now be true.
Speaker 5: The trend is being driven by factors such as rising inflation. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's what it is.
Speaker 2: Just hear what the price of eggs is. Screw it.
Speaker 2: I'm going to live under a bridge and do meth.
Speaker 2: Rising inflation. I'm shaking my head, mystified how anybody could
Speaker 2: say that with a straight face and think, oh, that'll land. Wait. Wait,
Speaker 2: wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Speaker 5: All right, most of us, rising inflation meant, okay, instead
Speaker 5: of eating at the stake restaurant, I'll lead at Applebee's,
Speaker 5: or stead of eating an Applebe's, I'll lead at home
Speaker 5: or whatever.
Speaker 2: We didn't become methacts for the millionth time. You eliminate
Speaker 2: to luxuries, you go cheaper. You get a room made,
Speaker 2: you do one hundred and fifty things before you end
Speaker 2: up in a tent, under and overpass, doing meth riding
Speaker 2: a kid's bicycle in the dark.
Speaker 5: Right, The trend is being driven by factors such as
Speaker 5: rising inflation, a lack of affordable housing, and challenges faced
Speaker 5: by older adults with disabilities.
Speaker 2: What a what weak tea? That is well? And where
Speaker 2: was that report when Joe Biden was pouring gasoline on
Speaker 2: the inflation fire NPR, You just didn't get around to it.
Speaker 2: Good point. But assuming it is true that people fifteen
Speaker 2: over have gone from ten percent to over half, what's
Speaker 2: your explanation? Part of it is? And progress did this.
Speaker 2: They outlawed those residence hotels where people would pay a
Speaker 2: monthly fee to live in a room, generally a shared
Speaker 2: bathroom down the hall. They'd have a hot plate or whatever.
Speaker 2: It was decided by the Democratic Party that those were
Speaker 2: not acceptable living conditions for people and we should shut
Speaker 2: them down. But they didn't provide a useful alternative, I mean,
Speaker 2: other than here's a ten apartments in LA that are
Speaker 2: going to cost one point eight million dollars each and
Speaker 2: we'll never be done. That's a factor among your older
Speaker 2: alcoholics and people with borderline mental conditions and that sort
Speaker 2: of thing.
Speaker 5: I'm just spitballing here a term that I find discussing.
Speaker 5: I wish we'd come up with a better term for
Speaker 5: randomly going through ideas off the top of my head
Speaker 5: that I might not actually believe myself.
Speaker 2: Mucus pitching now, Yeah, I'm just sputum hurling. I'm fecal
Speaker 2: guessing here. But what, oh why are we using body
Speaker 2: excrements as I don't know any chance that the younger
Speaker 2: crowd does the craziest hardcore fentanyl stuff, the older crowd
Speaker 2: stays away from it, and so many younger people have
Speaker 2: just died any of that, And I don't think so.
Speaker 2: I think it's more likely that I mean, addiction to
Speaker 2: hard drugs is skyrocketed, I mean skyrocketed compared to you know,
Speaker 2: we've talked about when Nixon started the DEA because there
Speaker 2: were what eight thousand overdose deaths around the country, or
Speaker 2: I remember the number was shockingly small, and then you
Speaker 2: know a few years ago we had one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifteen thousand people the Great War on I'm sorry, and
Speaker 2: you don't just do that those drugs for a number
Speaker 2: of years then say, you know, that was a crazy
Speaker 2: period of my life, but I'm moving on now. Your
Speaker 2: brain is toast. So I think a lot of those
Speaker 2: older homeless people are drug casualties. I would suspect, although
Speaker 2: I don't know. I would like to know the answer.
Speaker 5: So it could be possibly good news then that there
Speaker 5: aren't it's kind of like our aging population of you know,
Speaker 5: we're not replacing older people with younger workers because when
Speaker 5: i'm young people.
Speaker 2: Is it just.
Speaker 5: There aren't as many young people getting into the super
Speaker 5: hard drugs and ended up on the street, and the
Speaker 5: crowd that was already there is just aging.
Speaker 2: Is that possibly? Yeah, that feels a little quick to me. Well,
Speaker 2: it's got to be something. I don't think there is
Speaker 2: no validity to the inflation and housing thing because housing
Speaker 2: is extremely expensive, usually all over the country. But try
Speaker 2: to be the ninety nine percent of people that have shelter,
Speaker 2: figure out a way and and you know, and as usual,
Speaker 2: I drove by lots of street people on the way
Speaker 2: to work today. There's no getting around it. They're all
Speaker 2: drug addicts. So don't be a drug addict would be
Speaker 2: a good start. Oh yeah, absolutely, yeah, But as always
Speaker 2: I'm in favor of separating the transient drug addicts from
Speaker 2: the people NPR quite dishonestly implies is everybody. But there
Speaker 2: is that group of unfortunate people who can't make their
Speaker 2: way and can't pay for housing. Joe's all compassion there
Speaker 2: but for the grace of God. Blah blah blah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I would.
Speaker 5: I remember when they did the big study in Seattle,
Speaker 5: it was ninety percent of.
Speaker 2: More drug addicts.
Speaker 5: We would have plenty of money for the people who
Speaker 5: actually have mental illness or you know, fall through the
Speaker 5: cracks or whatever other ways. Sure, we'd have plenty of
Speaker 5: money for those people if you somehow fixed the drug problem,
Speaker 5: which is to.
Speaker 2: Me damn near proof. I mean, like we need proof
Speaker 2: that the Gavins Newsom of the world, the homeless industrial complex,
Speaker 2: they are about making the money. They are about enriching themselves. Now,
Speaker 2: there are some people of good conscience and soft skull
Speaker 2: who are involved in that, and they don't understand that
Speaker 2: they are part of a scam. They think they're doing
Speaker 2: the right thing. But the people on top who are
Speaker 2: distributing the money and making the money, they know one
Speaker 2: hundred percent what they're doing. If they really cared they
Speaker 2: would have years and years and years ago, because we
Speaker 2: have been shouting this for a couple of decades now.
Speaker 2: If you don't specify the different groups of the so
Speaker 2: called homeless, you are well you're perpetrating a scam. You
Speaker 2: don't separate the drug addicts from the people the poor, unfortunate,
Speaker 2: medally ill, autistic, handicapped, whatever, who just can't make enough
Speaker 2: money to get by. If you don't do that, you
Speaker 2: are a liar, in a scumbag, or a moron.
Speaker 5: It's mostly a drug problem, and so if you don't
Speaker 5: start barrier, it's crazy. You know what's most effective, I
Speaker 5: think effort to make people realize the whole drug thing.
Speaker 5: I see this floating around social media.
Speaker 2: I wish, I wish I passed a billboard of this
Speaker 2: every single day that my kids would see or that.
Speaker 2: Although they see enough homeless people, but if you grew
Speaker 2: up in a in one of your blue cities or
Speaker 2: blue states where you see a lot of homeless people,
Speaker 2: I would love to know in the future how many
Speaker 2: of those kids end up doing drugs, Because my kid's
Speaker 2: view of what drugs do for you is that and
Speaker 2: it doesn't look good. But an I think every parent
Speaker 2: ought to drive by these camps full of transient drug
Speaker 2: addicts with their kids and say, this is drug This
Speaker 2: is what drugs get you, hard drugs. That's what I
Speaker 2: said to my son Sam when we I purposely walked
Speaker 2: through the Tenderloin in San Francisco, just a corner of
Speaker 2: it to see it.
Speaker 5: Like, none of these people started with this in mind.
Speaker 5: They thought they were having a good time on a
Speaker 5: Saturday night watching a band or or something. But anytime
Speaker 5: you see those timelines, our friend Jesse, who emails the
Speaker 5: show a lot, has one on his.
Speaker 2: Twitter feed or whatever. Your first picture, your first mugshot
Speaker 2: when you're sixteen and kind of a handsome young man,
Speaker 2: and then your next one, in your next one, and
Speaker 2: the next one as you go through the years, and
Speaker 2: now you've got less teeth than you look worse, and
Speaker 2: you've aged thirty years but you're still in your twenties
Speaker 2: and all that sort of stuff, and with the women
Speaker 2: the same thing.
Speaker 5: It's fantastic. I think. I think that's very very powerful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, these hotties who turn into toothless, scabby hags at
Speaker 2: thirty two. Yeah, you want to be a scabby hag?
Speaker 2: Do you? No, that's not a good term. Scabby hag.
Speaker 2: That's what makes it such a good term. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: guess that's just so awful.
Speaker 5: Let's not use that in case, and let's let's keep
Speaker 5: that in your holster unless you're really.
Speaker 2: Are trying to make a point. It was good here,
Speaker 2: But I just I don't want to hear listen, you've
Speaker 2: scabby hag. Yeah. I don't want it to catch on
Speaker 2: as a no, no, indeed, that would be ungentlemanly among
Speaker 2: other problems. Yeah, you know who's the scabby hagging accounting?
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 2: I don't want it to become one of those. Oh lord, No,
Speaker 2: you're right. It's very harsh, and you don't see it coming.
Speaker 2: We will finish strong next arm strong and.
Speaker 1: Yetty, the President learned that any protests on Saturday would
Speaker 1: be met with force.
Speaker 6: Can you clarify what kind of protest President Trump does
Speaker 6: support or find acceptable.
Speaker 1: The President absolutely supports peaceful protests. He supports the First Amendment.
Speaker 1: He supports the right of Americans to make their voices heard.
Speaker 1: He does not support violence of any kind. He does
Speaker 1: not support assaulting law enforcement officers who are simply trying.
Speaker 4: To do their job.
Speaker 1: It's very clear for the president what he supports and
Speaker 1: what he does not. Unfortunately, for Democrats, that line has
Speaker 1: not been made clear, and they've allowed this unrest and
Speaker 1: this violence to continue, and the President has had to
Speaker 1: step in question. So, if there were peaceful protests on
Speaker 1: Saturday for the military parade, President Trump would allow that.
Speaker 1: Of course, the President supports peaceful protest.
Speaker 2: What a stupid question. Here is a stupid question. I
Speaker 2: would have I would have like wanted to plant that
Speaker 2: if I was a Trump guy, till here's this giant,
Speaker 2: fat softball to hit out of the park. Yeah, what
Speaker 2: did you think? Did you think you're going to catch
Speaker 2: him in a trap? No?
Speaker 5: Donald Trump does not believe in any protests of any kind.
Speaker 2: Not for his big parade. No, we'll be cracking ads.
Speaker 2: First Amendment will die tomorrow at noon. I he might
Speaker 2: not like it, but yeah, what a stupid question, is right?
Speaker 5: Trump just did an hour plus press conference. Remember the
Speaker 5: old guy who did like one in four years. Anyway,
Speaker 5: he said this.
Speaker 2: But I will say this.
Speaker 7: Look, I want them to go away saying how great
Speaker 7: our country is and how great our military is. And
Speaker 7: I was making all these calls for some reason. I
Speaker 7: spoke to like four different places, Sir, are you celebrating?
Speaker 7: And I said, you know, we won World War two
Speaker 7: and World War One?
Speaker 2: Right, we want them.
Speaker 7: And yet we're the only country that doesn't celebrate. Everybody
Speaker 7: celebrating except us.
Speaker 2: And I said, we should celebrate too. What if there
Speaker 2: are protests, Oh quash them violently during the big parade. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know that we need to celebrate winning World
Speaker 2: War one. Honestly, fair amount of water under the bridge.
Speaker 2: I just as I've said on the big military parade
Speaker 2: on Saturday, I lean against, but not strongly. This is
Speaker 2: not an issue I think is that big a deal.
Speaker 5: I just would like a better understanding of why we
Speaker 5: haven't done it in the past. There's some reason we
Speaker 5: never did it before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I said earlier, I just think it was
Speaker 2: kind of a We're not a militaristic power. We're a
Speaker 2: friendly power that wants to do business with an incredibly
Speaker 2: capable and powerful military. But we're not gonna We're not
Speaker 2: gonna walk into every room and say I could whoop
Speaker 2: your ass, by the way. I mean, whether it's a
Speaker 2: dental appointment or a job interview, it's just no way
Speaker 2: to behave. Are you here for a cleaning. I could
Speaker 2: kick your ass if I wanted to. Yes, you know,
Speaker 2: I've got a little pain here on the upper right,
Speaker 2: a little cold sensitivity. Yeah. I think it's probably a
Speaker 2: version of that, honestly, But again, I just and I
Speaker 2: don't feel very strongly about it either way either. I
Speaker 2: hate I like the idea better before I heard Trump
Speaker 2: explain it, which is not uncommon. I think our military,
Speaker 2: the men and women, the gear, the innovation, the cohesion,
Speaker 2: the training, all of it is just awe inspiring. I
Speaker 2: think it's amazing, and I love the idea of American
Speaker 2: kids seeing that on display. So there's a real pro
Speaker 2: to the idea.
Speaker 5: So it's June fourteenth, Flag Day, Saturday, the same day
Speaker 5: the no Kings, No Crowns protest is being organized nationwide,
Speaker 5: eleven different spots. They're hoping to They're hoping to take
Speaker 5: back the flag of patriotism from the evil Republicans with
Speaker 5: the no Kings, No Crowns protest. I have no idea
Speaker 5: if this is gonna be a big USA Today says
Speaker 5: it's gonna be the biggest protest this year, okay, which
Speaker 5: I super make it pretty big actually, And then what
Speaker 5: I don't know if I'd go in and say I
Speaker 5: could whoop your ass by the way to somebody who's
Speaker 5: about have that sharp hook in your mouth in a
Speaker 5: vulnerable position.
Speaker 2: That's the point exactly. That's no way to.
Speaker 8: Be aged.
Speaker 2: Down.
Speaker 8: Strong, Strong, You're ready.
Speaker 2: That's the last thing Brian Wilson recorded for a staff.
Speaker 5: It was during his crazy period that he wrote, here
Speaker 5: is your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
Speaker 2: to wrap up the show. There is Michael Angelow pressing
Speaker 2: the buttons. Michael final thought, speaking of the Beach Boys.
Speaker 2: That was a great childhood memory my parents.
Speaker 9: They would drive us kids around in the car and
Speaker 9: we'd be in the backseat and they'd be singing to
Speaker 9: the Beach Boys and doing the harmonies. And that's cool
Speaker 9: as little kids that we were kind of embarrassed about it,
Speaker 9: you know, seeing mom and dad enjoy themselves.
Speaker 2: Like that, right right is from Vacation Mock Yeah birth Yeah,
Speaker 2: oh boy. Yeah. Katie Greeners deemed Newswoman as a final thought, Katie, Well,
Speaker 2: speaking of.
Speaker 4: Bands, I don't know about you guys, but I cannot
Speaker 4: wait to get the debut album from Joe Getty and
Speaker 4: the scabby hags.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, yeah, yeah, the audition process was gruesome. Jack.
Speaker 5: A final thought for us, I gotta get a hold
Speaker 5: of the Boy Scout leaders. I'm part of the driving
Speaker 5: team to drive from northern California to Long Beach for
Speaker 5: this big Boy Scout camp with the possible ice para
Speaker 5: it protests and this thing that surely will be a
Speaker 5: big deal in LA.
Speaker 2: But no Crowns thing. There's not a chance that the
Speaker 2: highways aren't going to be blocked off, is there? We'll see.
Speaker 2: My final thought, like my thought early in the show,
Speaker 2: was we need to hear more sea bombs dropped, not
Speaker 2: that sea bomb. Congress. Oh why is nobody talking about
Speaker 2: Congress passing immigration law and we as a country following
Speaker 2: the law. Jeez, I heard you say that it seems
Speaker 2: like a decent starting place. I heard you say the
Speaker 2: first part. I wish you would have clarified. I've just
Speaker 2: been walking around the office. C ce ce cec oh
Speaker 2: no no no no. Congress is the word that would
Speaker 2: explain the looks Armstrong and Getty right, pick up another
Speaker 2: grueling four hour workday. So many people, thank so little
Speaker 2: time go to Armstrong in Getdy dot Com a lot
Speaker 2: of great hot lengths. Check out Katie's corner pick up
Speaker 2: some swag. We'll see tomorrow. God bless America. I'm Strong
Speaker 2: and Gettee. Oh okay are you?
Speaker 7: It's so interesting and so vicious and horrible and it's
Speaker 7: so beautiful, so bad it's almost good.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? Can I understand the word
Speaker 2: you're saying?
Speaker 8: So let's go with a bang.
Speaker 2: I don't know whether to stand on my head and
Speaker 2: poop wood Nichols or move into the woods and live
Speaker 2: like a bear. I don't know what to do. That
Speaker 2: first trick would be cool. I'd pay to see.
Speaker 8: Then that I know.
Speaker 2: Thanks all very much, Armstrong and Getty.