WEBVTT - Listen Here You Scabby Hag 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.200 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:17.239 Armstrong and get Katy. I know he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:27.920 The website Boston dot com is saystaking hey, what is 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:30.880 the best of Boston movie tournament style bracket? And they 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:33.360 have asked that you please stop writing in your mother 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:38.239 sex tape. 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:41.640 That's pretty funny. Yeah, I'm looking at the guy, Katie. 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:43.520 This is the guy that walked away from the plane 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:48.480 crash where it looks like everybody else died. Not amazing. 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:53.080 He's literally walked away like, Wow, that sucked. I should 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:55.680 probably go to a hospital. He's talking to people. People 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:58.520 are talking to him like and they're frantic, and he's 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:01.520 he's slightly dis oriented, and yeah, they took him to 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:03.880 the hospital, probably thinking, you know, maybe he's got some 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:06.800 brain trauma or hurt his back or something. But here 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:09.520 is he's standing up talking to people before somebody said, yatta, 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:10.880 go to the hospital. He looks fine. 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:15.160 Yeah, and his brother was seated somewhere else on the plane. 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:17.400 And it looks like everybody else is dead. Two hundred 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:18.440 and forty two people. 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:21.760 The Miracle of the seat eleven A. 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:24.959 I gotta charge more for that seat on every flight 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:25.680 from here on out. 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:30.480 That's sick. You're sick. That's not funny, that's sick. The 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:34.080 old That was the slogan of the National Lampoon magazine 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.679 by really nineteen seventies. Yeah, yeah, oh man, I love 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:42.399 that magazine. So a quick just to take a quick 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:45.319 look at some news stories that we've talked about previously 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:49.880 or haven't yet, But US has begun evacuating non essential 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:52.680 staff from embassies and military basis throughout the Middle East 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:55.560 as tensions rise with Iran. Would not surprise me an 0:01:55.560 --> 0:02:00.760 iota to hear at any point today that explosions were 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:03.680 seen at the what you call it a nuclear site 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:08.160 in Tehran, probably be Israel with our go ahead. It's 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:11.560 not our active help. Trump announced a successful end of 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:15.840 trade talks with China today, Saya saying, China will supply 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:19.200 the US with crucial rare earth minerals. Wow, the US 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:22.639 will allow Chinese foreign students to attend US colleges and universities. 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:25.560 China said, wait, what, No, we didn't what. We just 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:30.360 got a framework. That's the presumptive clothes. If you're familiar 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:34.760 with sales techniques. That's Trump doing something I'm sure he's 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:38.320 done many times. So we have a deal. The other 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:39.800 party's like, wait, what. 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:41.880 So we'll get that car in there and we'll we'll 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:43.840 get it shined up, washed for you, and then it'll 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:45.239 be Wait a second, I didn't say one of the 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:46.480 US sign those papers. 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:50.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. The White House says it's preparing to 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:53.560 ramp up its transfer of foreign nationals to Guantanamo Bay. 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:58.839 Uh wow, that's uh. 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:00.480 So you're a bus boy in LA. When you get 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:03.040 round it up, he might end up. 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:07.120 A get moo. I don't know. I don't know the 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:09.920 gittmo thing. It's a publicity sun, but I's kind of 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:15.480 like it. David Hog was officially ousted as the vice 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:16.520 chair of the DNCA. 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:19.160 So the kid's last name is Hog spelled with two g's, 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:21.400 and then you decided to make a pig noise before 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:21.919 you wrecked? 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:26.640 Okay, exactly. Yes. After he launched a campaign to unseat 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:30.520 Asleep at the Wheel incumbent Democrats, he then put out 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:35.839 a statement that, interestingly enough, was actually quite good. Yeah, 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.800 I saw most of it. Saw it was essentially, look, 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:44.720 these government people are there for themselves. These thirty year incumbents. 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:46.960 They don't care about their constituents. They just care about 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:49.280 growing their own power in that of the government. That 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:54.240 is correct, mister Swine. On the other hand, your policy 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:57.960 prescriptions all are terrible, but you're right about that pass. 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:02.120 Now go wee wee wee all the way home. You 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:07.160 have a winner. It's the punch line I was looking for. Yeah, 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:10.480 let's see, you're on your inflation lower number than many 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:15.960 had feared. Let's see. Oh and yes, Jack, you know, 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:19.480 one of my favorite political stories right now is how 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:25.760 all these conservative outlets are backing Andrew Cuomo for mayor 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:29.720 of New York because he's the least horrible choice. He's 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:34.360 running against social various brands of socialists and full out communists, 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.159 and so, yeah, Andrew Cuomo is the guy. Let's go 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:40.320 with Andrew Cuomo. Let's all rally around Andrew Cuomo. We 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:42.640 can't have him a communist win the marriage him. And 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:45.719 so yeah, all kinds of people have endorsed him, and 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:46.880 I love you. 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:51.000 And I mean he's he's all kinds of a crook 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:56.840 and a liar and and horrible judgment and you know, 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:59.680 grew up in rom Yeah, just all kinds of But 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:00.520 he's a best choice. 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:02.919 He's better than a communist Excelsior. 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:09.280 He's gonna be the freaking mayor of New York. I mean, 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:10.479 I mean it might be. 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:13.440 It's a it's a mayor as opposed to the president. 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:15.800 So Trump still wins, but it might be in a 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:19.520 more amazing comeback than Trump. I mean, it's just he 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:23.080 was he killed old people in light about it, right, 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:28.919 There is a greater truth here about the nature of 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:33.960 the electorate in deep blue cities. I mean, you look 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:39.440 at Chicago for instance. Brandon Johnson is he is a 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:44.279 Union hack, He's a social he's a Marxist, he's a 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:52.680 moron two. Michael, Yeah, the great I remember a few 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:57.800 stand ups ago when I talked about what terrorism looks like. 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:00.080 This is it. 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:02.520 There should be no question to what our country would 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:03.960 look like had the Confederacy won. 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:08.239 What we're seeing it on full display. Are we talking 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:12.520 about the Ice Raids? Is a full display of what 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:15.320 America would have been like if the Confederacy had won. 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:20.919 Except a couple of things there, Brandon, and I'll speak 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:25.479 slowly because you're an fing idiot. The Confederacy wasn't trying 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:29.960 to take over the Union. Okay, So if they'd have won, 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:36.520 it just would have been there, just those few states. Okay. Uh. Secondly, 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:43.400 what the idea that? Wow? Wow? So this is the 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:47.720 what terrorism looks like. And if the KKK had won, 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:54.520 what a jackass? Anyway, what do we do other than 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:59.960 voting with our feet? With an electorate? And granted, don't 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:04.960 just picture ordinary voters when I say the electorate in 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:08.360 the big cities like Chicago and New York and to 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:10.960 a large degree in Sacramento, the capitol of California too. 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:18.280 It's it's the unions, the concentrated interests of various pressure groups, 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:23.000 primarily public employee unions, that win the day every single time. Yeah, 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:25.280 because you know, obviously there's got to be something like 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:27.040 that going on, or you'd end up with a better 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:29.120 candidate than Andrew freaking Cuomo. 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:31.320 And how old is he, Katie? How old Isandra Cuomo? 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:32.200 Can you look that up for me? 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:35.080 So he's super old. He's a crook, he's a groper. 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.800 He lied about killing old people, so its judgment is horrible. 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:40.400 But he's i's a mobster. 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:42.920 Yeah, but he's sixty seven. 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.040 Okay, he's a young man compared to oh, he's a 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:49.280 child in American politics these days. Boy, that's a troubling story. 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:51.040 And speaking of troubling, you know this was going to 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:54.440 be my bridge to another story. I'll hold off on that. 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:59.360 I will tell you this, Jack, beloved American institution that 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:02.400 you're a big fan of might be bought by the 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:08.040 Katari royal family. Oh what is it? Papa John's Pizza? 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:10.160 Something happened with Papa John's. I don't know. 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:14.520 I feel like they changed the recipe. That happens a 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:17.480 lot with pizza joints they get popular. 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:19.640 I don't know that this happened with Papa John's. I 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:21.440 do know that it's happened with some of my other 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:26.320 favorite national pizzas where they lay hashtag me too. Papa 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:29.640 John himself right and drove them away. But there's like 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:33.160 one of my pizza favorite piece of places. I mean, 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:35.040 if you were trying to stay out of the rain, 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:36.679 maybe you would craft a hut to keep the rain 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.920 off your head. But their pizza used to be great 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:42.600 back in the day. It started in Kansas, and then 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:45.400 the price stayed the same for decades. How'd you do 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:49.600 that with the ingredients going down to where it's just horrible. 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:52.000 Now in my mind, I said, there's a huge sector 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:54.840 of the pizza market that's all about cheap. Yeah, and 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:57.319 there's only one way to win that sector. 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:03.360 By being the cheapest. We'll so you go with a squeak, squeak, 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:05.120 whatever meat you gotta use. 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:10.480 And the cheese is just congealed grease from the taco 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:15.000 stand next door. It's allegedly anyway. I don't know what 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:20.080 sounded apossum makes or I would make it, but whatever's andy, man, 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:23.640 whatever's Andy? What do we have in the bin? So 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:27.079 the Kutaris are buying Papa John's. Yeah, more on that 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:29.480 and yeah, it's just more on that to come. The 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:32.760 Great Brian Wilson considered in a moment or two, what 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:35.880 a crazy life? Would you consider him a musical genius? 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:39.240 Fair to say? Yeah? I think so, absolutely, Yeah, yeah. 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:41.880 Absolute musical genius. And I was listened to his bunch 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:45.600 of his stuff. There were some Spotify lists yesterday of 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:48.920 you know, best examples of Beach Boys music, including a 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:50.800 whole bunch of songs I'd never heard before my life, 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:56.079 especially when considered the time that they were recorded. I mean, 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:58.280 some of the stuff was recorded like sixty three it's 0:09:58.280 --> 0:09:59.079 like wow. 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:03.360 And I include a controversial statement that will anger many 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:06.120 of you in our discussion of the Beach Boys. But 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.000 he was mentally ill. He was a drug addict. He 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:11.400 signed onto a guru that the state of California then 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:15.760 forbid to ever work again. It was so crazy, all 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:17.319 kinds of different stuff. I'll tell you about some of 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:23.240 it coming back. So the news broke while we were 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.760 on the area yesterday that Brian Wilson of the Beach 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:27.439 Boys had died at age eighty two. 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:30.520 I wasn't sure how much attention it would get. 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:33.679 But it got a ton throughout the day, every newscast, 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:35.600 and then as I was watching the news today, a 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:37.560 lot of coverage and I can't figure out if it's 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:41.280 what's probably a combination of how big the Beach Boys were, 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:46.199 even though it's sixty years ago, was their heyday, and 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.480 the fact that the audience for cable news is so old. 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:52.480 But he was one of the great musical geniuses. Joe 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:54.280 knows way more about this stuff than I do. I 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.760 used to know a lot more about music, but I 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:00.560 purposefully purged it from my brain and it's worked pretty well. 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:03.079 There's lots of stuff that I don't do that. Apparently 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:06.280 you can. I've done it with sports, statistics and music, 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:08.679 tons of stuff that I know. I knew, you used 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:10.400 to know that. I no longer know because I just 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:12.920 decided that's useless information that has done me no good. 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:16.720 I'm not holding on that anymore. I don't know that 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:20.240 I can will that to happen. I have's a this 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:23.760 is a farm? Well you have maybe? Uh, it's a 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:24.880 fascinating concept. 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:27.520 I wish I could will back into my brain like 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:29.320 my password from my bank account, so I don't have 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:30.640 to look it up every single time. 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:35.320 Yes. So my controversial statement that people will be angry 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:39.320 at is the Beach Boys hits that made them huge. 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:46.160 They're fine. They're heavily Chuck Berry inspired, very catchy, well sung. 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:48.520 How did they are fine? I know they got sued 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:50.720 for one song for sounding too much like Chuck Berry 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:52.400 and put his name on it. But how about the 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:55.360 one that starts with the Johnny be Good guitar riff? 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:58.679 I mean that's one hundred percent stolen. How did they 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:00.000 get away with that? Because you can't. 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:04.559 Yeah, I copyright riffs the way you can lyrics or melodies. 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:07.679 Yeah, yeah, that's interesting. I don't know or was that 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:09.400 the one that they had to get know it was 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:11.040 a different song, that's what. 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:13.160 But I listened to it yesterday, I thought, because I 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:15.360 have learned that note from note, that is one hundred 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:17.440 percent that Johnny be good opening anyway. 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:21.160 Yeah, But so it's the the three chord hits that 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:23.760 they had early. That's not why people refer to Brian Wilson. 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.120 Wilson as a musical genius. I mean, he was a 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:28.040 fine songwriter and hit maker. It was, you know, the 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:30.959 stuff he did later in his career that was, uh, 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:35.160 that was really uh innovative. But because it's weird. 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:37.520 For people who don't know, you said this yesterday, he 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.280 was He was the Beach Boys to a great extent, right. 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:43.280 Yeah, oh yeah. In fact, his brother Dennis Wilson said 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:46.480 as much. He said, no, Brian is the Beach Boys. Yeah. 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:49.480 He was their creative genius, their writer. They're a ranger. 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:54.240 He produced and co produced everything they recorded. He just 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:58.760 envisioned all the sounds and all the weirdness and innovation 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:02.199 and all that. Like had the Beatles, for instance, when 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:05.920 they heard pet sounds, saying oh my god, okay, they've 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:09.359 opped the Annie, We've got to do something big, Yeah, 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:11.080 and they wrote Sergeant Peppers. 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:12.400 I had a few things I want to read from 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:14.480 this New York Times piece that they did on at 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:18.840 their big They probably had this uh obituary in the 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:20.360 can for quite a while, right, but. 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:21.720 Just some of this. 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:25.560 At the same time, the round faced, soft spoken mister Wilson, 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:28.880 who didn't surf, became one of pop's most gifted and 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:33.080 idiosynocratic studio tours, crafting complex and innovative productions at awed 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:36.640 hiss beers that ear Bob Dylan once remarked, I mean, Jesus, 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:39.959 he's got a will that to the Smithsonian. Mister Wilson 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:44.240 indulged his every eccentricity, no matter how expensive or fruitless, 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:48.160 and his growing drug habit fueled paranoia and delusion. Recording 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:51.679 a song called Fire, he outfitted studio musicians in toy 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:55.720 firefighters helmets and placed a smoldering bucket in their midst. 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:58.720 When he later learned that a nearby building had burned 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.000 down at about the same time as the session, he 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:04.120 scrapped that track, spooked by the thought that his studio 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:06.160 witchcraft was responsible for the fire. 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:09.560 Yeah, he actually tried to destroy the master tapes for 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:13.760 that song because he thought they were somehow magically causing fires. 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:16.800 He spent much of his life trying to escape the 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:20.320 yokes of two men, his abusive father and a controlling 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:25.760 psychotherapist named Eugene Landy. Mister Landy's unorthodox methods, which included 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:29.400 monitoring mister Wilson twenty four hours a day and pad 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:30.840 locking is a refrigerator. 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:32.040 I need a snack. 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:36.400 No, we're effective in nursing mister Wilson back to health 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:39.000 during two periods of treatment in the seventies and eighties. 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:41.960 Yet mister Landy also went into business with his patient, 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:45.480 sharing copyrights or forcing his name onto the copyrights and 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:47.720 taking a whole bunch of the money and writing credits 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:48.800 with his from his songs. 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:49.880 Yeah. 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:53.320 Landy eventually came under the scrutiny of the California authorities 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:56.640 and had to surrender his license after an intervention by 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:59.320 mister Wilson's family. A court order also blocked Landy from 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:02.600 contact with me Wilson, and he ran Brian's life for 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:04.520 like twenty years or something. 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:09.120 How horrifying is that, yeah, mister Wilson. 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:13.000 Brian Wilson spoke openly about his struggles with mental illness, 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:19.240 including his experience with Schitzio effective disorder and condition characterized 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:22.600 by hallucinations and delusions. The condition led to the conservative 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:24.960 ship granted by his business associates last year. 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:30.000 Surfer Girl, Well, before we get past that, the whole 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:35.600 the delusions thing, he had constant voices giving him terrible 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:39.480 messages in his head, and he played music constantly to 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:41.760 distract himself from wowses wow. 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:44.960 Surfer Girl, which was their first big hit, went to 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:46.520 number seven in nineteen sixty three. 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:47.880 That's sixty two years ago. 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:52.040 Was perhaps the first pop hit and ever written, arranged, produced, 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:54.840 and sung by the same person. You know, it's common now, 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:57.600 not common, but people do it, but nobody'd ever done 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:02.200 it before. His father had long tormented him physically and 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:05.520 emotionally in one form of punishment that left Brian Wilson, 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:08.920 and he described many times his father would remove his 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:12.760 glass eye and force his terrified son to stare into 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:18.440 the empty socket. That's a sick f that's a weird punishment. 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:21.800 And my dad was violent and cruel, he wrote in 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:28.560 his biography. That's not a good story anyway. I You know, 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:30.000 if you have a certain age, you've heard all these 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:32.280 Beach Boys songs a million times, but perhaps on an 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:34.120 AM radio coming out of a little speaker in a 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:37.600 car or at home. They've been remastered. Listen to him 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:41.800 remastered on a good stereo, whole different experience I found yesterday. 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:44.760 Wow. Yeah, that'd be a treat. I don't have to 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:45.120 do that. 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:48.080 I didn't realize he basically did good vibrations while the 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:50.160 whole band was on tour. He did the whole thing 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:52.760 himself more or less. Well, they were all gone. 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:58.160 Yeah, I'm not surprised. That's quite amazing. Yeah, an amazing 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:01.200 guy to put a tragic story. Oh, oh my god. Yeah, 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:04.240 you don't want to be crazy, even if it leads 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:09.840 to that. It sounds horrible Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:21.480 So black woman in road rage at a Mexican dude, 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:23.480 I'm calling Trump on you. 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:35.240 You wait again, Hm, that's not going to bring understanding 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:37.200 among the people of America. 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:40.239 No, that's sort of rhetoric. No, just came across sis. 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:43.400 You're about to talk about the aging aging this and that. 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:48.119 Axios is reporting more than half of Democratic reps, the 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:51.399 Democratic Party, the House of Representatives? Is that? What did 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:51.800 I see? 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:55.399 Seventeen percent approval or something like that among Democrats. 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:57.200 That's young Democrats. 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:01.480 More than half of the Democratic reps who are seventy 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:04.760 five or older are running for reelection in the Young 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:09.359 People Party, the people over seventy five, half of them 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:12.119 are running for reelection. As opposed to saying maybe we 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:14.199 should get to somebody a little young, I mean a 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:15.000 lot of Democrats. 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:17.520 They want a thirty five year old or a twenty 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:21.120 two year old, not an eighty year old. Why don't 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:24.240 think Republicans want an eighty year old either? Honestly, I 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:25.360 didn't mean to talk about that. 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:27.080 So I jump into my car yesterday and I flip 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:29.480 on NPR because I don't know, I hate myself from 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:31.080 a masochist or something. 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:32.320 I mean, why would you do that? 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.680 I get done doing this and I listen to NPR, 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:39.040 like to get a half asked, annoying version of the 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:40.000 news I just did. 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:43.080 Yeah, I don't know what that's but anyway, they were 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:48.479 doing this story. Seniors are the fastest growing group of 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:51.960 people experiencing homelessness. Musing their terms. 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:58.119 I don't say experiencing homelessness, I say drug experiencing homelessness. 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:00.719 Drug addicts who've made poor choices in their lives is 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:03.560 generally what it is, but in some of these stats 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:05.919 are interesting, and I wondered if you had a reason 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:09.280 better than theirs for why this is happening. First of all, 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:12.000 in the nineties, the average age of a homeless person 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:19.280 was thirty. Now it's fifty. Fairly recently, people aged fifty 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:22.840 and older were about ten percent of the homeless population. 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:29.280 It is now half. It went from ten percent to half. Wow, 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:32.280 this according to them, and this might now be true. 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:35.640 The trend is being driven by factors such as rising inflation. Yeah, 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:36.239 that's what it is. 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:38.639 Just hear what the price of eggs is. Screw it. 0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:40.320 I'm going to live under a bridge and do meth. 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:46.840 Rising inflation. I'm shaking my head, mystified how anybody could 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:51.440 say that with a straight face and think, oh, that'll land. Wait. Wait, 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:54.240 wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute. 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:59.359 All right, most of us, rising inflation meant, okay, instead 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:02.000 of eating at the stake restaurant, I'll lead at Applebee's, 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:03.760 or stead of eating an Applebe's, I'll lead at home 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:04.480 or whatever. 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:11.840 We didn't become methacts for the millionth time. You eliminate 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:15.879 to luxuries, you go cheaper. You get a room made, 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:18.479 you do one hundred and fifty things before you end 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:23.359 up in a tent, under and overpass, doing meth riding 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:24.840 a kid's bicycle in the dark. 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:28.959 Right, The trend is being driven by factors such as 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:32.920 rising inflation, a lack of affordable housing, and challenges faced 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:34.680 by older adults with disabilities. 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:39.639 What a what weak tea? That is well? And where 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:43.119 was that report when Joe Biden was pouring gasoline on 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:45.639 the inflation fire NPR, You just didn't get around to it. 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:51.000 Good point. But assuming it is true that people fifteen 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:54.320 over have gone from ten percent to over half, what's 0:20:54.359 --> 0:21:00.640 your explanation? Part of it is? And progress did this. 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:05.560 They outlawed those residence hotels where people would pay a 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:08.280 monthly fee to live in a room, generally a shared 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:11.000 bathroom down the hall. They'd have a hot plate or whatever. 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:13.840 It was decided by the Democratic Party that those were 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:17.000 not acceptable living conditions for people and we should shut 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:20.840 them down. But they didn't provide a useful alternative, I mean, 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:24.360 other than here's a ten apartments in LA that are 0:21:24.359 --> 0:21:26.439 going to cost one point eight million dollars each and 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:30.760 we'll never be done. That's a factor among your older 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:34.120 alcoholics and people with borderline mental conditions and that sort 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:34.400 of thing. 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:37.440 I'm just spitballing here a term that I find discussing. 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:39.159 I wish we'd come up with a better term for 0:21:40.480 --> 0:21:42.640 randomly going through ideas off the top of my head 0:21:42.680 --> 0:21:44.240 that I might not actually believe myself. 0:21:44.720 --> 0:21:53.600 Mucus pitching now, Yeah, I'm just sputum hurling. I'm fecal 0:21:53.680 --> 0:21:58.119 guessing here. But what, oh why are we using body 0:21:58.160 --> 0:22:04.479 excrements as I don't know any chance that the younger 0:22:04.600 --> 0:22:08.320 crowd does the craziest hardcore fentanyl stuff, the older crowd 0:22:08.520 --> 0:22:10.840 stays away from it, and so many younger people have 0:22:10.960 --> 0:22:14.879 just died any of that, And I don't think so. 0:22:15.200 --> 0:22:18.879 I think it's more likely that I mean, addiction to 0:22:18.920 --> 0:22:24.639 hard drugs is skyrocketed, I mean skyrocketed compared to you know, 0:22:24.680 --> 0:22:29.800 we've talked about when Nixon started the DEA because there 0:22:29.800 --> 0:22:32.560 were what eight thousand overdose deaths around the country, or 0:22:32.920 --> 0:22:35.800 I remember the number was shockingly small, and then you 0:22:35.800 --> 0:22:37.439