WEBVTT - I Apologize To Prostitutes 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:14.840 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:16.400 Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:24.639 Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty Armstrong and Jettie and he Armsrong 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:34.360 we live. We're from Studio C. See Senora. 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:36.720 It's a dimly let room deep with them the bowels 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:39.800 of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:44.000 And hey y'all, today, little Friday, we're under the tutelage 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:50.440 of our general manager, the Firefighters of California on this 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:51.599 day too. 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:59.760 Of Greenlanders occupying our territory illegally count back from yesterday, 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:02.600 we will, we will wait until we are reunited with 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:06.199 our precious greenland, American land. 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:12.280 I don't know if everybody's aware of. Up until really. 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:17.160 Recently, in the history of mankind, fire was killing us 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:21.360 and burning down our houses constantly. Well, that is the 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:26.520 history of mankind in urban area specifically. I remember many 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:29.319 many books that I've read throughout my life point this out. 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:31.200 Uh oh, do you remember the gangs in the New 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:33.080 York and gangs in New York? Remember that movie Martin 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:35.320 Scorsese that was one of the big gangs. One of 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:38.039 the big things the gangs did to uh, to curry 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:40.240 favor is they would get there fast to help put 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:43.200 out fires, because there were constantly fires breaking out. And 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:45.560 if and if and if the little local fire department, 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:47.840 you know, a horse drawn trolley full of water and hoses, 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:49.640 didn't come there and put it out, it's going to 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:52.760 burn everything down and kill people. And so that's how 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:54.760 you would, you know, get people on your side. And 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:58.280 I remember when I read the book Uh Devil in 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:00.560 the White City about Chicago from the World Fair eighteen 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:01.120 ninety three. 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:02.600 Fantastic book if you've never. 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:04.960 Read it, but they mentioned in there at that time, 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:08.160 on average, there would be four deaths from fire per 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:13.000 day in Chicago, even with that much smaller population per day. 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:19.000 And I remember, more recently, during the incredibly stupid discussion 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:22.640 of whether Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden was reminiscent 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:28.280 of the Nazi rallies, a conversation so monumentally stupendously mind 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:33.720 bogglingly idiotic it's hard to imagine any adult engaged in 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:34.919 it with a straight face. 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:37.160 Seriously, anyway, take. 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:40.800 A moment, think about it anyway, Yeah, and reading about it, 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:43.799 it wasn't even the same building because Madison Square Garden 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:49.000 and its various incarnations has burnt down repeatedly. Excellent example, 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:53.919 almost any time you're at a historic hotel, restaurant, whatever, 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:56.960 if you read the little description on there, this is 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:59.760 the version built on the spot where the original one 0:02:59.919 --> 0:03:03.639 was when it burnt down in eighteen something, early nineteen 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:04.280 something whatever. 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:06.919 Because it was just a fact of life. 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:10.400 But we've become accustomed to, thank God, because of modern 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:13.520 materials and firefighting and all kinds of different things, that 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:16.520 that doesn't happen all the time, but the power of 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:19.200 fire still exists. Is if you've seen any of these 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:21.880 pictures from some of these neighborhoods in La, it's just 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:27.320 mind boggling how these entire neighborhoods, modern neighborhoods of nice 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:35.120 houses are completely gone. Everything gone catastrophic. Yeah, yeah, I wonder, 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:39.360 And we will get into the looming home owners insurance 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:42.960 crisis from coast to coast, I mean particularly in California, 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:46.640 but coast to coast, and I wonder whether we will 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:49.880 not evolve as a people into spending a great deal 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:53.840 more on making our homes impregnable to the various threats 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:57.200 we face. And that's the only way we're going to 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:00.440 get around the fact that so many homes are nigh 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:04.680 on uninsurable these days given the current market right and 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.000 is going to be quite the story. I think it 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:10.280 will help that, particularly in the Pacific Palisades area, you 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:12.760 got a lot of people with money who have the 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:17.640 ability to get the attention of the powerful, and in 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:19.520 a way that a lot of communities that have burned 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:23.279 down didn't. They are not going to just sit idly 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:26.880 by and let current policy exist. So that'll be interesting 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.719 for whatever reason and just the way the human mind works. 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:31.960 I guess the. 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.440 Big fire that's in the Pasadena Altadna area because I 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:38.560 know that area really well, Like I know some of 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:41.280 these places and streets and stores and everything like that, 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:45.520 and them burning down just like really impactful. It's hard 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.159 to wrap my head around that corner. I saw a 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:51.560 picture of a corner just just as cool a community 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:54.359 as exists anywhere on the earth. It's like a small 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:58.200 town next to Los Angeles, just so nice, beautiful old houses. 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:01.400 This little old hardware store. I've been there for forty years. 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:04.160 His mom and pop place burnt to a ground night 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:06.680 before it was open. Kid there closed it down, kid 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.680 of the dad who started it next day, completely gone, 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:13.679 just oh, awful, awful, awful. They found a guy dead 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:17.480 in his backyard holding a hose in his hand. And 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.000 I told the story when our field caught on fire, 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:22.279 I was out there with a hose, because when it's small, 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:24.240 you think, oh, i'll get a hose and I'll try 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:26.320 to start this. And then in the seconds I was 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:28.320 overcome with smoking flames and had to get the hell 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:30.560 out of there. I mean, it just it happened so 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:33.560 fast with the wind shot right. And I remember you 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:35.599 telling this story. When you say within seconds, you don't 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:36.760 mean forty fives. 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:38.880 No, no, no. 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:40.760 I looked like in my field, for instance, it was 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:42.880 a very very windy day, caught on fire, very dry, 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:45.080 and it was a tiny little Okay, if I get 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:47.440 a bucket, I can put it out. I turn around 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:50.919 to go to the hose, get a bucket, and so 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:52.000 this is twenty seconds. 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:53.320 I turn around and it's just. 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:56.559 A wall of flame behind me in that amount of time, 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.280 and you know, you amplify that by one hundred mile 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:01.919 an hour winds there having in La today only fifty 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:05.000 mile an hour gusts, which is helpful. Tomorrow they're expecting 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.160 it to be back up to seventy mile an hour gusts. 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:12.560 So good, Lord, that's not helpful. Absolutely amazing. Yeah, I 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:14.479 don't know what's going to come out of this in 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:18.200 terms of insurance and where you're allowed to build homes 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:21.239 and all kinds of different stuff. You know, you can, 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:25.159 you can certainly relate to people of old talking about 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:27.760 the wrath of God or the vengeance of Satan or 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.720 what have you, and when such a cataclysm comes upon you, 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:33.920 I mean, it's just it's it's unfathomable to anybody who 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.760 hasn't lived through it. And I've been following a lot 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:42.280 of the social media stuff about forest management, tree management, 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:45.080 all that different sort of stuff. Water management in California, 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:47.120 which has been horrible and people have been complaining about 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:50.400 it forever. There's a clip from a Joe Rogan podcast 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:52.479 floating around that's getting a lot of attention where he 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:55.640 was talking about that very sort of thing and he said, boy, 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:57.520 one of these days, the conditions are going to be right, 0:06:57.560 --> 0:06:58.960 and there's going to be a spark and it's it's 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:01.839 going to sweep through out and just burn everything to 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:05.360 the ground. So you can't really go at this from 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:11.720 a nobody could see this coming standpoint, right, Yeah. 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:12.280 We should start. On the other hand, a lot. 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:14.760 Of the politicization of it, a lot of the politics, 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:17.160 including this stuff Trump has said, is not at all helpful. 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:21.640 It's just it's silly. Some of it. Trump's say, well, 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:22.680 talking about. 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:25.480 Forest management and stuff like that, in large part not 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:30.000 talking about forests, but and the water stuff that he's 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:33.640 commented on. It's just it's he has read half a 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:37.080 paragraph on it and is now making bold pronouncements. And 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:41.800 Gavin Newsom's an idiot. California is badly governed and ungovernable. 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:43.920 I'm not denying that for a second. It's just some 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.200 of the conversation that's knocking around online is kind of 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:49.440 silly at this point. If you've spent any time with this, 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:51.640 Like the idea Trump was like, you. 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:53.880 Gotta take all the water from northern California. 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:56.560 Everybody knows this and send it to southern California, and 0:07:56.720 --> 0:08:01.360 northern California for twenty five years has been saying, whoa, whoa, oh, whoa, we. 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:03.760 Kind of need that water. So it's not as simple 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:06.840 as that. LA schools are closed today except for. 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:10.080 One caveat which I want to discuss after we start 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:13.160 the show Officially, I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:15.200 this it is? How did it already get to be? Thursday, 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:20.200 January ninth, you're twenty twenty five? You're going with ain't 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:21.840 taken no jive in twenty five? 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:22.120 No? 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:24.680 Cut the jive in twenty five, cut the jib in 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:26.280 twenty kind no jive? 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:30.320 What am I strutting through Harlem in nineteen seventy six? 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:34.240 What's happening here? We are Armstrong in Getty and we 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:35.520 approve of this program? 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:38.640 All right, let's begin squirting the water of truth on 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:41.640 the lives of the evildoers precisely now, according to FCC 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:43.040 rules and the rags at mark. 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:45.920 Do you owe citizens and apology for being absent while 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:49.160 their homes were burning? Do you regret coming the fire 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:51.120 department budget by millions of dollars? 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:51.640 Not in there? 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:56.200 Have you nothing to say today? 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:56.920 Fadam Mayor? 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.320 Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today? 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:07.280 You're dating this disaster? You no apology for them? Do 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:09.760 you think you should have been visiting Ghana while this 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:16.080 was unfolding back home? So? 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:19.320 As the mayor of Los Angeles not answering some questions 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:21.319 from a reporter as she has come back to La 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:22.240 she was out of town. 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:25.080 I don't know that that matters to me. 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:28.520 The policy stuff matters, The policy stuff decisions made throughout 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:31.480 the years obviously matters. But the somebody's out of town 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:34.360 when something happens thing I've always thought it was over overblown. Yeah, 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:38.760 with all respect to patio furniture there the Irish reporter, 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:45.000 the cutting of seventeen million dollars from the fire budget, 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:49.400 that is absolutely a serious topic. The fact that she 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:53.960 happened to be on some idiotic, paid for junket, I'm guessing. 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:56.640 I mean, that's just the politicians do that all the time. 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.560 I'm not in favor of it. But it's not like 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:02.240 the fire start and she said feach, don't fail me 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.760 now and headed to Ghana. I mean she just happened 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:06.640 to be there. Or if she happened to be in 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:09.559 her office when the fire started, it would have unfolded 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:13.040 any differently. I doubt that, well exactly. And this is 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:15.760 it reminds me of going way back to Barack Obama. 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:18.800 He's not a Muslim, he's a socialist. Keep your eye 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:21.440 on the ball, don't worry. If she was in Ghana, 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:24.000 let's talk about the fact that La there was a 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:26.960 city councilman did an interview just a couple of days ago, 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:31.439 said it's absolutely worth worth cutting the budget for services 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:36.359 to general city services to take care of our migrant population, 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:38.280 meaning illegal immigrants. 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:41.200 And Karen Bass is one hundred percent on board that there. 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:44.360 Why did they have to cut the fire budgets so severely. 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:47.439 It's because they're a sanctuary city. Keep your eye on 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:51.800 the ball. Kind of doubt, kind of on that road 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.000 of socialism quickly, maybe we'll talk about it later. I 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:58.280 heard the schools in LA will be closed again to day, obviously. 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.760 Except for the lunch program. The food program will go on. 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:03.439 And I heard the big announcement that they've got satellite 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:06.439 locations for all the meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:09.480 will continue to be served to all the residents. Our 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:14.840 schools became a three meal a day food program, government 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:17.440 food program, trying to convince a whole bunch of people, 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:19.640 and apparently they have that it's not your job to 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:22.640 feed your family, it's the government's job. The schools are closed, 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:24.440 I don't think, oh my god, how are my kids 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:25.280 going to eat lunch? 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:27.080 I take care of the lunch. 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:31.000 I remember that great historic vote and the vote totals 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.040 in the House and the Senate when we voted on 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:34.760 becoming a socialist. 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:35.400 Oh that's right. 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:37.440 No, we didn't vote on it at all. And that's 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:39.880 something that that will continue even with the fire. The 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:44.880 all day food program. All right, interesting? How does mailbag 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:46.200 look outstanding? 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:47.320 Cool? That's on the way. 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:50.680 Our text line is four one five two nine five KFTC. 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:59.959 It's easy to hear you need to evacuate, but the reality, 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:01.120 ye it, I've never had to do that. 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:03.240 Where am I supposed to go? 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.160 Exactly? For how long I'm supposed to get my kids 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:08.640 and my dogs in the car and go where? 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:11.920 How it's not as easy as it sounds. 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:15.720 And what do we take in the next five to 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:18.800 ten minutes or thirty seconds in some cases. And then 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:21.000 you got the whole angle of you know, you're thinking 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:23.840 about what might burn down, what will get stolen. They've 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:27.440 arrested I think eleven looters in the Pasadena Altadena area 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:32.800 this morning, and am staunchly against extra judicial punishment and 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:35.120 police brutality usually. 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:37.240 Now you got to send a message to looters that 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:41.840 ain't happening. Yeah, just don't tell us about it. Yes, 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:43.520 do what needs to be done. 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:50.240 Uh, here's your freedom loving quote of the day. 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:51.200 From the Great C. S. Lewis, sent along by MJ. 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:52.319 Great call MJ. 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:57.560 It's helping helping out along, Hello take two, helping us 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:01.400 out with our series of quotes about beginning. You can't 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.600 go back and change the beginning, but you can start 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:05.480 where you are and change the ending. 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:09.520 Boy, that's a true one. That's my favorite one in 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:11.599 a long time. Like I get that, can't. 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:14.199 Go back and change the beginning, but you can start 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:16.040 where you are and change the ending. 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:17.160 That is a good one. 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:19.320 I need to get that tattooed on my head in 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:20.920 reverse so when I look in the mirror I can 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.760 read it every morning. Wow, well you've got it planned 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:26.360 out wherever you want to get a tattooed. I think 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:29.679 that that is the sort of wisdom everybody out of 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:31.040 know by the time they're ten. 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:34.600 Isn't it. Apparently my ending includes a face tattoo. 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:40.520 Which will be the beginning that you wish you could 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:46.520 change down the road. Ironically, Mailbag, there's a little policy 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:48.640 advice from Lawrence. Oh, you can drop us a note 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:50.800 mail Bag at Armstrong and Giddy dot com governor knew 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:53.400 some of the Democrat control Senate and Assembly in California. 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:56.679 You should partner with PGE. Put all the utility lines underground. 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:01.120 Tax dollars could be diverted from projects like and reparations, 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:04.760 planned ports of entry for immigrants, planned defense funds for 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:08.960 to fight Trump's deportation agenda, always getting there. This could 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:14.400 serve California better than the regular train to nowhere. These 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:18.000 fires caused by a griffin, that's absolutely right, produce fire 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:22.400 risk would entice insurance companies continue to provide coverage in California. 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:25.800 That's right, Lawrence. But that would take good leadership and not. 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:30.680 Being whores for public employee unions and the big special 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:34.400 interests with no discus making. That is rude, And I 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:38.720 apologize to whores. All you're doing is exchanging sex for money. 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:40.040 I get it. You're in a tough spot. 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:43.400 What the politicians are doing is considerably worse than that. 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:45.040 From a mobile standpoint. 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.320 Oh yeah, a sex worker is a paragon of virtue 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:52.760 compared to these politicians. Sex occursn't selling me and my 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.040 interests in my tax dollars down the line. As far 0:14:55.040 --> 0:15:02.040 as I can tell, I apologize to prostitute. I was unfair. 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:07.760 Is this worth going into? It's really good email from 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:12.080 Jim and O Wahoo, some active duty military guy took 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:17.000 us to task for griping about Joe Biden's hastily announced 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:21.040 every federal employee gets Thursday off to mourn Jimmy Carter, 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:25.120 you know, to holiday. All the federal employees are off 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:28.160 today because Jimmy Carter has a funeral and we're paying 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:28.960 for anything. 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:30.240 Why what is that? 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:33.680 And some fine fella, but misguided said to think about 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.480 the military. Yeah, well, the military is a tiny fraction 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:38.800 of the government workers around the country. Nobody obviously, we're 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:40.800 not talking about the acted. Nobody means to be army 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:45.080 when they're talking about government workers. Well, longtime marine writes, well, 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:47.080 there are some fine patriots in the service. I feel 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:50.040 they're out numbered by parasitic morons who perform their roles 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:53.240 so poorly as to be counterproductive. Any doge worth its 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:55.440 first should be licking its shops for all the tax 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:56.800 dollars we'll save when. 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:58.160 We trim the fat to it. 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:01.080 I can't count how many service member I service members 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:03.160 I encounter that brag over the money they plan on 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:06.800 fleecing Americans out of to collect phony disability. 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:08.400 For the rest of their lives. Yeah, that's one. 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:12.400 Yeah, and he says, I'm not saying the pendulum needs 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:14.440 to swing back to spitting on service members and calling 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:16.920 his baby killers, but we definitely need to pump the 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.480 brakes on the reverence shown to military people. 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:20.160 That's interesting. 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:21.800 A lot of us are a holes and we do 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:27.000 get too many days, you know. And I've made this 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:32.800 point before. Respect for an appreciation for the members of 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:34.400 our military is absolutely appropriate. 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:35.520 In fact, it's required. 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:39.880 Worshipfulness is not, and I think a lot of that 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:44.320 worshipfulness is performative, and it comes from the fact that 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:47.720 such a small percentage of our population ever serves in 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:48.560 the military. 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:51.040 It's it's phony. It's making a. 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:53.720 Big flowery deal out of how you love the military 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:56.040 to kind of distract people from the fact that you 0:16:56.080 --> 0:17:00.280 and your family have no interest in serving. Respect is good, 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:03.120 Worshipfulness is dangerous in all things. Some of my favorite 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:06.359 negative things, particularly about spending I've ever heard about the military, 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:08.520 have come from people I know who have been in 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:12.280 the military their whole lives, right, not from outsiders. I've 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:14.920 got a big complaint about Carter's funeral, among other things 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:15.359 on the way. 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:19.639 Stay tuned, Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:23.679 President Biden meanwhile, says he thinks he could have beaten 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:26.960 Donald Trump in the twenty twenty four election. But in 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:29.920 an interview with USA Today, one of the very few 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:33.840 interviews President Biden has granted as he prepares to exit 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:37.040 the White House, the President admitted he's not sure that 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:39.760 had he won, he would have had the stamina to 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:44.199 serve for another four years. Here's a quote from President Biden, 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:48.520 who knows what I'm going to be when I'm eighty 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:49.879 six years old. 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:58.680 As from CBS News, Joe Biden thinks he would have won. Okay, fine, 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:00.840 if that, If that helps you your last couple of 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:05.399 years on Earth, and I think you're in your final years, fine, fine, whatever. 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:08.840 Donald j is going to be halfway through the of 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:11.919 office when all of Biden's aides are going to be 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:15.679 running to the media to describe exactly how it was. 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:20.280 So Joe Biden is the only ex president who has 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:23.560 a speaking role at Jimmy Carter's funeral, which is today. 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:27.400 We are doing full team coverage in ours three, four, 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:29.879 and then a special bonus hour five in which we 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:33.280 will cover the funeral in its entirety. 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:35.920 Wow, you better have a gun be ready to point 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:36.320 it at me. 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:40.280 So I'm watching it live on TV, and everybody is 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:43.159 filed into the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. And if 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.920 you've never made that part of your Washington, d C. Tour, 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:49.520 you should. It's a bit of a train ride out there, 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:55.520 but just an unbelievable church. Everybody who's anybody in national 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:58.320 government is there. And as the camera's panning around looking 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:01.199 at him, just saw a good view of why John F. 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:04.480 Carey didn't win the presidency as he walked in, and 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:08.639 he's got this big, bright blue silk scarf around his 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:11.520 neck along with his suit. And I just thought, you 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:14.560 the windsurfing, the scarf, the wood that it were, that's 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:18.879 why you couldn't get elected president. Dude. Everybody else just 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:22.159 in a dark suit. Apparently all the vice presidents are 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:26.359 sitting together. You got uh, Mike Pence sitting it there 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:29.359 and yucking it up with the most relaxed man in 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:29.760 the building. 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:30.280 Al Gore. 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:32.560 We're talking about this yesterday. Al Gore went off about, 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:33.919 you know, screw this whole politics thing. 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:36.040 I almost won. I should have won. Maybe I shouldn't 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:36.320 be proud. 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:37.520 I'm not going to spend the rest of my life 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:41.400 saying it was stolen or or or my feeling's hurt, 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:43.679 like a Hillary Clinton or whoever. 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:44.359 Forever. 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:46.479 I'm just gonna go off in a different direction and 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:50.480 pretend that climate change is important and become a billy 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:51.680 make a billion dollars. 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:52.120 That's right. 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:54.920 Yeah, he's happier and they whip up fear over climate change. 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:55.680 That sounds like fun. 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:57.600 But he's throwing back his head and laughter talking to 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:00.000 Mike Pence and over on the other side, also yucking' 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:06.000 up is a old gray haired senator from Indiana, Dan Quayle, 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:09.520 who was vice, You're gonna you're gonna kill me. 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:11.280 You are, You're gonna hate me. 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:13.399 You're gonna cuss me out on the air live, and 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:17.880 I deserve it for various reasons that are not terribly interesting. 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:21.600 I totally forgot to tell the story that when I 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:29.160 was playing golf with friends in October at a particular 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:33.440 golf course in California that will remain nameless, I came 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:38.160 within six inches of getting t boned in my golf 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:41.680 cart by a fast driving dan quail. 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:43.960 We met in an intersection. 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:47.119 He wasn't paying attention and about about put me in 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:47.919 the hospital? 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:50.720