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 Jetty and know He Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: FBI releasing these images of the Super Scooper aircraft struck
Speaker 3: by a drone while battling the Palisades fire Thursday. That
Speaker 3: whole about three by six inches in size.
Speaker 4: There's so many unauthorized drones in the area that they
Speaker 4: are impacting law enforcement and firefighters' efforts to suppress this
Speaker 4: fire and actually get it continued. I don't know how
Speaker 4: we're going to get a handle on this. It might
Speaker 4: be like the looting thing we were talking about last week.
Speaker 4: You just got to make the penalty so high that
Speaker 4: people won't want to do it and get caught.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, put out the word far and wide. These people
Speaker 1: don't mean any harm, but they could do enormous harm.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, heck, well, if you ground a plane that is,
Speaker 4: you know, delivering water to the fires, that would be
Speaker 4: that's bad. Now. I suppose the drone people would say
Speaker 4: it's the government trying to stop us from seeing what's
Speaker 4: going on.
Speaker 2: Perhaps, which is a decent argument. Goodness, Yeah, that is intriguing.
Speaker 1: Speaking of which, Mark Zuckerberg increasingly open about the censorship
Speaker 1: that they endured by the executive branch of the United
Speaker 1: States government.
Speaker 2: First Amendment, you say, pshaw.
Speaker 1: More on that next hour, Well got the fabulous Katie
Speaker 1: Grimes of California Globe this hour to talk about how
Speaker 1: awful awful governance left California and Nelle in a position
Speaker 1: that they could not react to what is unquestionably a
Speaker 1: natural disaster.
Speaker 4: This is not the time, finger pointing, Joe, Yes, it is,
Speaker 4: It's perfect time.
Speaker 2: Oh okay.
Speaker 1: I'm literally not a firefighter. I'm not involved in rescuing people.
Speaker 1: So I have all the time in the world and
Speaker 1: happy to do it. So also to come at some point,
Speaker 1: whether today or just this week, a lot of the
Speaker 1: crucial meetings and hearings are about to start for Trump's
Speaker 1: transition cabinet members. That sort of thing Pete hegseeths I
Speaker 1: think is going to lead off the parade for a
Speaker 1: Secretary of Defense, and that hearing could be really really interesting.
Speaker 1: Some of the facets of that, some of the factors
Speaker 1: involved are they.
Speaker 4: Are they going to have him stand up, take off
Speaker 4: his shirt during the hearing and go over each tattoo
Speaker 4: one by one to explain what they mean.
Speaker 1: It will come up absolutely. Elizabeth Warren's going big on it.
Speaker 1: And and they've identified the main whistleblower who was spreading
Speaker 1: stories about Pete being a hard drinking womanizer, etc. And
Speaker 1: it's a disgruntled old employee. No anyway, more on that
Speaker 1: to come this week. So I came across this. I
Speaker 1: thought it was very very interesting. Callum Borcher's was writing
Speaker 1: about a book. It's a little known book called well
Speaker 1: the Basic Laws of Human Stupidity by an Italian economic
Speaker 1: historian who died back in two thousand and he's writing
Speaker 1: about it, and it's so interesting. The chief thing to
Speaker 1: note about this guy's name is simpler Carlo Sippola.
Speaker 2: The chief thing to note about.
Speaker 1: Simple as conception of stupidity is that it is not
Speaker 1: synonymous with what smart and illustrious people think is ill
Speaker 1: advised or foolish. It's far more interesting than that. He
Speaker 1: insists that stupid people are evenly distributed throughout society. And
Speaker 1: this is I've been saying for years. The relationship between
Speaker 1: intelligence and wisdom is far from tight. You have people
Speaker 1: who have enormous candlepower, who are just fools. They just
Speaker 1: can't perceive reality in the way human beings function and
Speaker 1: the results of their grand schemes, even though they're very,
Speaker 1: very bright.
Speaker 4: Anyway, Well, and then that gets the definition of smart,
Speaker 4: since the whole point of life is too navigate life. Well,
Speaker 4: I would think smart would encompass the wisdom part more
Speaker 4: than the candlepower part.
Speaker 1: Sure, from an early age we've all run into the
Speaker 1: question of street smart versus book smart, for instance. These
Speaker 1: are all kind of expressions of the same thing. But
Speaker 1: so he insists that stupid people are evenly distributed throughout society.
Speaker 1: For Cipla, there are, per capita is many stupid people
Speaker 1: among go kart salesmen and swamp dwelling gator hunters as
Speaker 1: there are among laureled economists and tenured intellectual Why.
Speaker 2: Did go kart salesmen come in for a kicking?
Speaker 1: I would have to ask Callum Porcher's I can't imagine
Speaker 1: that's his sentence.
Speaker 2: I'm borrowing. I wouldn't have never car sales.
Speaker 4: I would have never assumed, were I to go buy
Speaker 4: a Go Kart, that the guy selling it to me
Speaker 4: was for some reason stupid because he was in that business.
Speaker 4: I've never had any opinion whatsoever on Go Kart saleswa
Speaker 4: other than that they're a great place to go to
Speaker 4: purchase a go cart.
Speaker 1: It's an odd example. You're so right moving along. So
Speaker 1: Sipla divides people into four categories, helpless, bandit as in like, thief, intelligent,
Speaker 1: and stupid. In any normal interaction between two people, he contends,
Speaker 1: the helpless suffer. The helpless person suffers a loss while
Speaker 1: the other gains. They're just not They're not smart enough
Speaker 1: that they're not.
Speaker 2: They just they lose. The other guy wins.
Speaker 1: Okay, the bandit exacts a benefit while levying a loss
Speaker 1: on the other.
Speaker 2: So the bandit and the helpless often get together.
Speaker 1: The intelligent person gains while enabling the other person to
Speaker 1: also gain. The defining trait of the stupid person is
Speaker 1: that he gains nothing while.
Speaker 2: Obliging the other to take a loss. To wit.
Speaker 1: The astounding fact of recent years, oh they mentioned. One
Speaker 1: of the blurbs on the book jacket seem to imply
Speaker 1: that like Trump is not smart, because one of the
Speaker 1: quotes is I'm like a smart guy. But, as Bortier's writes,
Speaker 1: if the publicity of people who read the book at
Speaker 1: all they would have realized that's utterly inaccurate. The astounding
Speaker 1: factor of recent years is that mister Trump's chief political opponent,
Speaker 1: Miss Joe Biden, is a perfect specimen of Simple's idea
Speaker 1: of stupidity. For four years, Biden has made decisions and
Speaker 1: pursued policies that made his supporters, party, country, and foreign
Speaker 1: allies worse off, and in almost every case he gained
Speaker 1: nothing and very often suffered commensurate political losses. You could
Speaker 1: make a coaching argument that mister Biden belongs in the
Speaker 1: category of helpless. So often do his decisions benefit as
Speaker 1: political adversaries, chiefly mister Trump, But those blunders principle among
Speaker 1: them his insistence that he was capable of running for reelection,
Speaker 1: have exacted massive costs on the rest of the country.
Speaker 2: Here's some examples. So again, a stupid person is a.
Speaker 1: Person who causes other people suffer and gains nothing from it.
Speaker 4: Well, do we all move between these different categories or
Speaker 4: are we? Do we tend to be just one category?
Speaker 4: You're either one or one or the other.
Speaker 1: No, I think the first one is right, But it's
Speaker 1: a question of percentage. I like to think I don't
Speaker 1: do many things or say many things that gain me
Speaker 1: nothing and hurt you know, everybody else. But anyway, here's
Speaker 1: some examples, just to solidify it in your head. For
Speaker 1: three years, Biden made it policy to do nothing on
Speaker 1: the country's southern border apart from revoking Trump's executive orders.
Speaker 1: What did he gain from this dereliction nothing? The answer
Speaker 1: is not obvious at all. Mister Biden overwrote his military
Speaker 1: advisors and insisted on a total and immediate withdrawal from Afghanistan,
Speaker 1: with no clear plan to extract Afghan allies, US citizens,
Speaker 1: or American military hardware. A loss for the US, for sure,
Speaker 1: But where was the benefit to mister Biden or his administration.
Speaker 1: Starting in twenty twenty one, Jack, You'll love this one,
Speaker 1: the President repeatedly compared an innocuous post pandemic election reform
Speaker 1: in Georgia to Jim Crow, maybe the most toxic accusation
Speaker 1: that it's possible to make an American politics. In doing so,
Speaker 1: he made himself odious to the opposition party and ensured
Speaker 1: he would pass nothing further from its support.
Speaker 2: What was in it for him?
Speaker 1: Maybe momentary momentary enthusiasm of his base. Mister Biden openly
Speaker 1: defied the Supreme Court's ruling on his student debt cancelation plans.
Speaker 1: The Justice has tried to block me, but they didn't
Speaker 1: stop me.
Speaker 2: Jack.
Speaker 1: He thus managed to sew resentment among Americans whose debts
Speaker 1: he did not forgive, encouraged a generation to indulge in
Speaker 1: foolish borrowing, and make himself look like the lawless strong
Speaker 1: man he accused Trump of being. In each of these instances,
Speaker 1: and there are many others, mister Biden not only created
Speaker 1: ruined discord and embarrassment for those who wished him well,
Speaker 1: he did so without gaining any advantage for himself.
Speaker 4: Biden's giving his final foreign Paul See speech today, and
Speaker 4: so that came up on some of the shows over
Speaker 4: the weekend, and I heard a clip from I think
Speaker 4: the National Security Advisor who is.
Speaker 2: Abe Lincoln? Uh Sullivan? I get them mixed up. The names, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I know them when I see them.
Speaker 4: But anyway, who said history is going to judge this well,
Speaker 4: the the leaving Afghanistan it's getting better by the day.
Speaker 2: And I thought, wow, I don't think that's accurate, but.
Speaker 1: Wow, well, I think he's spinning madly. It's not a
Speaker 1: question of whether we left it Afghanistan. It's how and when.
Speaker 1: My gosh, the dishonesty is unbelievable. And Borchers gives a
Speaker 1: couple more examples, But yeah, I think he's right, you know,
Speaker 1: the communing of the death sentences, all sorts of things.
Speaker 2: He gained nothing and hurt America. What a dope. He
Speaker 2: can't be gone soon enough one week?
Speaker 4: Well, the flip side of stupidity being intelligence or whatever.
Speaker 4: I'm surprised we haven't gotten better at nailing down terms
Speaker 4: for that or ways to look at it as opposed
Speaker 4: to just a blanket statement of somebody smart or not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I prefer wise or unwise, honestly too smarter or not. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean I've known some people who are quote unquote
Speaker 1: simple of you know, education and speech and manner or whatever,
Speaker 1: but they would not make a misstep.
Speaker 2: They're very wise, right right. Yeah, that's a good one. Hmm.
Speaker 2: And that's its own intelligence, isn't it.
Speaker 4: So I do amazingly dumb things, I mean just shockingly dumb.
Speaker 4: Sometimes sometimes I sit down and I look at look
Speaker 4: at it, look at the mirror, and think, how could
Speaker 4: you possibly have done that or made that decision?
Speaker 2: That's just I mean shocking to me, what's that the core?
Speaker 2: Do you suppose? Distraction? Hastiness? I mean, you're not a
Speaker 2: stupid man by anybody's definition, but hastiness, that's a good one.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's it. I don't know. I think it might
Speaker 2: just be dumb. It might just be dumb. Man. Why
Speaker 2: don't we have folks right in?
Speaker 1: Four one, five, two nine five KFTC is playing on
Speaker 1: the text number like I often tweet things out knowing
Speaker 1: some of the reactions I'm gonna get, and I get hateful,
Speaker 1: hateful reactions, and showing to my kids just to give
Speaker 1: them an idea of what the world is like.
Speaker 4: They can't believe some of the things people say. I mean,
Speaker 4: just show horribly bad things.
Speaker 2: Right right.
Speaker 1: I was in a discussion with some friends the other
Speaker 1: day about I'll keep it vague, but people who like
Speaker 1: expressed strong opinions over stuff they had no right to
Speaker 1: about my friends' lives and generally young, semi woke, full
Speaker 1: of themselves people. And I said, you know, it's mildly annoying,
Speaker 1: but I just don't worry about it. I've spent thirty
Speaker 1: plus years having people saying you suck, You're a bad American,
Speaker 1: You're bad at your job, you're a bad parent.
Speaker 2: You should die. So it's like, eh, there's another one.
Speaker 4: The appropriate finger pointing has begun on the whole fire
Speaker 4: debacle in LA.
Speaker 2: It didn't have to be this bad. Who's to blame?
Speaker 4: We're gonna talk to Katie Grimes, great reporter about California
Speaker 4: politics coming up this hour, and get into that, among
Speaker 4: other things.
Speaker 2: Stay here by sign.
Speaker 1: Washington won a wild card game, won a playoff game.
Speaker 2: It was two thousand and five. Here chance to do
Speaker 2: it with Gonzales from thirty.
Speaker 4: Seven to send Washington to the final eight.
Speaker 2: The Washington coming head. Here's a thing is tight, Klain
Speaker 2: tell the defensive round.
Speaker 4: Believe I have seen it all now I even get
Speaker 4: a defensional thy.
Speaker 2: That's twice in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 4: The Chiefs did it a couple of weeks ago, and
Speaker 4: that that's why they have the best record in the NFL.
Speaker 2: To home field throught is hit up right and the
Speaker 2: ball bounces through. How does that happen twice in a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks in important games? It's interesting.
Speaker 4: You gotta rub that ball up with vasolene before you cant.
Speaker 4: This is also dumb if it were the Washington Redskins.
Speaker 4: I'd have been pretty excited about that game and them winning,
Speaker 4: But because they changed their name to Commanders, I got
Speaker 4: no feeling for it, which is all completely made up
Speaker 4: in my head, imaginary.
Speaker 2: Because of your racism. Just like I don't know, I
Speaker 2: don't know, I have no feel. My boyfriend's a big
Speaker 2: Commanders fans converted.
Speaker 4: I think every NFL team that was supposed to win
Speaker 4: one all the favored teams once, so they're no upsets
Speaker 4: first round, although we got one more game tonight Rams
Speaker 4: Lions in Arizona because of the fires, not Rams Lions,
Speaker 4: Rams Vikings.
Speaker 2: Sorry about that.
Speaker 4: So I'll get to why my teenage crush is on
Speaker 4: my side of the story on looting in a second,
Speaker 4: but a couple of just before we get to the
Speaker 4: politics of it, next segment of what's going on in California,
Speaker 4: which could have affected a lot of things politically. Really,
Speaker 4: millionaires in the Palisades area are shelling out two thousand
Speaker 4: dollars an hour for private firefighters as various neighborhoods are
Speaker 4: being abandoned, it says here by the official firefighting teams.
Speaker 4: I think that's a prejudicial term. I mean they've only
Speaker 4: got so many resources, and they can only go so
Speaker 4: many places. And I don't know if you're two thousand
Speaker 4: dollars an hour, private firefighters will do you any good
Speaker 4: or not.
Speaker 2: I have no idea. Probably depends on where you are.
Speaker 4: The Palisades fire, the biggest fire that's still barely contained
Speaker 4: and has burnt down most of the buildings.
Speaker 2: Likely caused by.
Speaker 4: Of fireworks, they think, now, really, yeah, some fireworks that
Speaker 4: went off and then the fire didn't get completely put
Speaker 4: up from from New Year's Eve. That's what the New
Speaker 4: York Poster was reporting last anyway, So he smoldered for
Speaker 4: a while, right, yes, And that was the whole story
Speaker 4: about how these things about how hard it is to
Speaker 4: put out a campfire and you got to be certain
Speaker 4: and drown it and water, then drown it and water again.
Speaker 4: And they think that's what happened here with fireworks. I
Speaker 4: have no idea if that's what happened or not now,
Speaker 4: But that was the reporting in the New York Post.
Speaker 4: The death toll is now twenty four and what a horrible,
Speaker 4: horrible story. We'll talk about the politics coming up a
Speaker 4: little bit. So Gavin Newsom, he was very unhappy that
Speaker 4: people were talking about looting being legal in California. He
Speaker 4: put out this tweet yesterday. Stop encouraging looting by lying
Speaker 4: and telling people it's decriminalized.
Speaker 2: It's not.
Speaker 4: It's illegal, it always has been. Bad actors will be
Speaker 4: arrested and prosecuted. Okay, well, if you live in California,
Speaker 4: you know how bad actors have not been arrested and
Speaker 4: prosecuted for quite some years now, Justine, and in fact.
Speaker 2: Those that were were turned loose from the prisons.
Speaker 4: Gavy, my teenage crushed Justine Bateman, who is Michael J.
Speaker 4: Fox's sister on Family Ties, and when I was like
Speaker 4: thirteen years old, I thought she was the cutest singing
Speaker 4: had ever lived, and just like had started all the
Speaker 4: chemicals flowing in my brain. She is now a regular
Speaker 4: tweeter on x. She tweeted it like he because she
Speaker 4: was a liberal. She is definitely not in real life.
Speaker 4: She tweeted out, you and Gascone and Bass sent out
Speaker 4: the invitations long ago to all criminals to come to
Speaker 4: California and LA and practice their craft. You boasted that
Speaker 4: you would not prosecute rioters, trespassers, looters, shoplifters, et cetera,
Speaker 4: and they came from other states, from other countries. You
Speaker 4: created a hostile living environment for all of us. That
Speaker 4: anyone thinks they can loot and commit arson in Los
Speaker 4: Angeles or anywhere in California with impunity is because you
Speaker 4: made sure they got an invitation. That is certainly true
Speaker 4: of Gascone and a lot of the not prosecuting crime
Speaker 4: all across California. You've created a culture where people think
Speaker 4: they can steal and get away with it. Denying that
Speaker 4: Gavin is living in a fantasy world. All right, he
Speaker 4: knows what he's done. Happy that my teenage crush is
Speaker 4: on the right side of this argument. That is fabulous
Speaker 4: on many levels.
Speaker 1: The fabulous Katie Grimes of the California Globe knows everything
Speaker 1: there is to know about California politics and what's going
Speaker 1: on in LA with the fires.
Speaker 2: Stay with us, Armstrong and Getty. Did they fail you?
Speaker 5: That is our job and I tell you that's why
Speaker 5: I'm here. So let's get us what we need so
Speaker 5: firefighters can do their jobs.
Speaker 2: Do they fail you? Yes.
Speaker 5: When a firefighter comes up to a hydrant, we expect
Speaker 5: there's going.
Speaker 2: To be water. We don't control the water supply.
Speaker 5: Our firefighters are there to protect lives and property and
Speaker 5: to make sure that we're properly trained and equipped.
Speaker 2: Does the buck stop with you? I mean, hey, you're
Speaker 2: governor of California. Inviting it will be the mayor of California.
Speaker 2: We're all in this together. We're all better off.
Speaker 1: We're all better off, we're all better off, and we're
Speaker 1: working together.
Speaker 2: To take care of people.
Speaker 4: So at first clip happened on Friday. It's La Fire
Speaker 4: Chief Kristin Crowley. They had to drag the answer out
Speaker 4: of her, but she finally did offer up.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 4: They the city council and the mayor failed us, and
Speaker 4: then Gavin Newsom mashed this morning or last night?
Speaker 2: Does the buck stop with you? Hamanahuamanahamana hamna bad answer?
Speaker 1: Politically indeed, to discuss the politics and the realities of
Speaker 1: the fire and how they intertwine. Please welcome to the
Speaker 1: show the editor in chief of the California Globe, Katie Grimes,
Speaker 1: who's been writing about California politics for Ages and Ages.
Speaker 2: Katie, how are you?
Speaker 6: I am well, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: Jack and Joe, Oh, it's always a pleasure.
Speaker 1: So I want to use as a springboard your last
Speaker 1: couple of columns for The Globe at first of all,
Speaker 1: which published last week, which touches on a couple of things.
Speaker 1: I just if you can give the nickel version for
Speaker 1: people of the insurance crisis in California, how many people
Speaker 1: weren't insured or had just gotten dropped and why that is?
Speaker 1: Because I heard an utterly, utterly misleading description of it
Speaker 1: from professional liar Kristin Welker on Meet the Press Sunday.
Speaker 1: But go ahead, Katie, what's the real situation insurance wise?
Speaker 6: Well, the insurance crisis in California is devastating and it's
Speaker 6: hitting people, you know, north State, South State, everywhere. I
Speaker 6: don't think we have any numbers at the moment of
Speaker 6: how many people, say in Pacific Palisades, had their fire
Speaker 6: insurance canceled, or even homeowners in many cases with insurance companies,
Speaker 6: you know, fleeing the state along with half of California,
Speaker 6: it seems. But it is absolutely devastating because you know,
Speaker 6: you think back to the campfire up here in Paradise, California,
Speaker 6: your Sacramento, and you know that was unbelievably devastating, but
Speaker 6: it was also unbelievably costly for insurers. And then the
Speaker 6: calder Fire a couple of years later, and then.
Speaker 1: We're just looking for broad strokes, just a very quick
Speaker 1: description of what's wrong with insurance in California.
Speaker 6: What's wrong with it is politics purely. And this goes
Speaker 6: back to Proposition one O three, which was put on
Speaker 6: the ballot to essentially tap the amount of premiums insurance
Speaker 6: companies could impose on the insured, rather than fixing the
Speaker 6: problem of why it costs so much to build and
Speaker 6: rebuild here in California.
Speaker 1: And it ordered them to only look at historical data
Speaker 1: as opposed to current data for building costs, and the
Speaker 1: rest of it is utterly unrealistic.
Speaker 6: It is entirely unrealistic. And boy, we're going to see
Speaker 6: what a disaster, a financial disaster this is going to
Speaker 6: be following the fires.
Speaker 1: And then I know you wrote about water as well,
Speaker 1: in the fact that California has built no water storage
Speaker 1: in generations, even as the populations doubled.
Speaker 2: It's just terrible governance.
Speaker 6: Yes, absolutely, Not only have we not built any water
Speaker 6: storage in years, the voters have passed over thirty two
Speaker 6: billion dollars in water bonds to do just that in
Speaker 6: thirty years, and the last one was Proposition one in
Speaker 6: twenty fourteen, which would it set aside two point seven
Speaker 6: billion dollars so that we could build the site's reservoir
Speaker 6: and the Temperance Flat reservoir, none of which has been done.
Speaker 6: And in the meantime, the amount of water that flows
Speaker 6: from our snowpack melt and our rain has increased from
Speaker 6: fifty percent of the state's water to eighty percent of
Speaker 6: the state's water goes straight out to the Pacific Ocean
Speaker 6: to save some fish that aren't even indigenous.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, how fair is it to lay blame at
Speaker 4: the foot of either the mayor of Los Angeles, the
Speaker 4: governor of California City Council of LA or you know,
Speaker 4: government officials in this soon to be biggest disaster in
Speaker 4: California history.
Speaker 6: Well, I think Avenussom's responses show you exactly how fair
Speaker 6: it is. He's running as fast as he can from responsibility,
Speaker 6: and yet this is what he signed up for. When
Speaker 6: you sign up to be governor of California, you do
Speaker 6: sign up for the good, bad, and the ugly. And
Speaker 6: he's not handling this very well. It is fair to
Speaker 6: point fingers at him because so many of his policies
Speaker 6: have led us to this place, even policies who supported
Speaker 6: long before he became governor. Leftism in California has gotten
Speaker 6: us here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know your recent column, which is terrific, the
Speaker 1: anti American agendas California's Democrats catching up. You point out
Speaker 1: that southern California is on fire. But here are Newsom's
Speaker 1: priorities and what he has been focused on. Newsom created
Speaker 1: the California abortion sanctuary state. He legalized abortion up until birth,
Speaker 1: authorized a trans sanctuary state, allowing children to receive hormone
Speaker 1: blockers chemical carastration without parental consent. He exacerbated the homeless crisis,
Speaker 1: spending tens of billions of dollars to get more bums.
Speaker 2: And junkies, he said.
Speaker 1: He's embraced illegal immigrants, even providing health insurance. He's also
Speaker 1: on board for the bottomless pit of the high speed
Speaker 1: rail project. So, and it reminds me of a conversation
Speaker 1: we had Friday. Instead of doing the blocking and tackling
Speaker 1: of governing, they have all these pie in the sky
Speaker 1: progressive you know, just agendas that they're pursuing instead.
Speaker 4: And you didn't mention the most recent trump proofing California
Speaker 4: against the evil dictator is about to go in.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Gatie.
Speaker 6: Yeah. I devoted an entire article to that one. Yeah,
Speaker 6: And I think this shows I mean, as ridiculous as
Speaker 6: this list sounds, when we lay it all out together,
Speaker 6: it does show you he's doing everything but governing. And
Speaker 6: I assume governing is not always very sexy. It doesn't
Speaker 6: always get great headlines. And yet you know, he and
Speaker 6: his PR team could certainly have written good headlines for
Speaker 6: all the hard work he was doing behind the scenes.
Speaker 6: But that's not what's happened. He is he's adopted this
Speaker 6: absolutely unbelievably radical, radical agenda of things that Californians and
Speaker 6: even those who didn't vote for him, they don't want.
Speaker 6: They want water to be in their fire hydrants. We
Speaker 6: want decent roads and good schools, and we want to
Speaker 6: make sure that our cal Fire and the local firefighters
Speaker 6: have everything they need in terms of, you know, budget
Speaker 6: and equipment.
Speaker 4: You've been following politics in California for a long time.
Speaker 4: I was reading Mark Halprin's newsletter today and he said, hell,
Speaker 4: hath no fury like a homeless celebrity. A Los Angeles
Speaker 4: conservative is a liberal actor who blames NWSO and BASS
Speaker 4: and decades of liberal governments governance for their houses burning down.
Speaker 2: Do you think this is like perhaps a seed change
Speaker 2: politically for LA or maybe the state.
Speaker 6: It could be. And Mark Halpern's absolutely right. And I
Speaker 6: think the reason we're getting so much attention focused on
Speaker 6: California as opposed to say North Carolina right now, which
Speaker 6: people are still living intents, is because of Hollywood and
Speaker 6: the celebrities and people being you know, they have a
Speaker 6: platform from which they can speak and they are describing
Speaker 6: what's going on. And as I said, I think even
Speaker 6: people who voted for Gavin Newsom are really really pissed
Speaker 6: off right now and they want answers. They want to
Speaker 6: know why this happened, and that will lead to some
Speaker 6: changes voting, I hope.
Speaker 1: Well, and I'm sure Gavious people would say, look, we
Speaker 1: could walk and chew gum at the same time. We
Speaker 1: can pursue these grand progressive schemes and be good governors.
Speaker 1: But they can't if the walking is you know, having
Speaker 1: a bullet train squander hundreds of billions of dollars that'll
Speaker 1: never exist, and the chewing gum is making sure that
Speaker 1: there's enough water storage for forty million people.
Speaker 2: No you can't. You haven't.
Speaker 1: You've proven it over and over again, and to the
Speaker 1: rest of the country listening, you're like, well, why doesn't
Speaker 1: why don't you vote Democrats out office? It's because all
Speaker 1: of the public employee unions are so powerful in the
Speaker 1: try lawyers that they all show up, every single one
Speaker 1: of them and vote Democrat every single time because they're
Speaker 1: getting their backscratched slash paid.
Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly. It's a huge problem we have in California
Speaker 6: in that, and I think this last election showed us
Speaker 6: there's a lot more independent slash right of center voters
Speaker 6: as we saw who voted for Trump over six million.
Speaker 6: But yeah, when you fight that with the public employee unions,
Speaker 6: which are just ruthless, Yeah, it seems like too much
Speaker 6: of a heavy lift.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the regular folks really just they can't accumulate enough
Speaker 1: mass to take it back. Katie Grimes is the editor
Speaker 1: in chief of the California Globe California Globe dot com.
Speaker 1: You ought a bookmarket check it all the time if
Speaker 1: you're of a conservative bent really in any state in
Speaker 1: the Union, or you'd just like to have your eyes
Speaker 1: open to the truth.
Speaker 2: California Globe dot Com. Katie great to talk to you. Thanks,
Speaker 2: thanks very much so.
Speaker 4: The Brentwood neighborhood, which you probably recognize that name if
Speaker 4: you follow the celebrity news, has the fires bearing down
Speaker 4: on it. With it, it's going to be a couple
Speaker 4: of really really windy days. That neighborhood where OJ.
Speaker 2: Was framed for a crime.
Speaker 4: That's right. And that neighborhood is also home to former
Speaker 4: Senator Kamala Harris. Maybe you've heard of her, Lebron, James,
Speaker 4: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Harrison Ford, doctor Dre among others. And those
Speaker 4: are some names that can get a lot of attention.
Speaker 4: Like Katie just said, there people are still living in
Speaker 4: tents in North Carolina because of the biggest disaster they'd
Speaker 4: ever had in that part of the country, but not
Speaker 4: enough celebrities to get attention for that.
Speaker 1: I actually appreciated sixty minutes last night going heavily at
Speaker 1: all the thousands, you know, highlighting the many thousands of
Speaker 1: working class folks, just regular people in various sections of
Speaker 1: the greater Los Angeles metro area that are now homeless
Speaker 1: and hopeless, and all of their baby pictures are gone.
Speaker 1: They don't know where they're going to go and what
Speaker 1: they're going to do. I mean, obviously baby pictures is
Speaker 1: one example.
Speaker 4: But it's just heartbreaking the number of people I've seen
Speaker 4: on TV saying, literally, the only thing I had of
Speaker 4: what is have is what you see me wearing.
Speaker 2: I can't imagine the to do list you have when
Speaker 2: you're in that situation. Where do you start? Oh my god,
Speaker 2: would that be overwhelming?
Speaker 1: And as I said before, just to put a cap
Speaker 1: on this, has it been an extremely dry year in
Speaker 1: southern California?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Were those incredibly powerful wins freakish and rare? One hundred percent.
Speaker 1: There are aspects of this fire that are not the
Speaker 1: fault of governance. On the other hand, there are aspects
Speaker 1: of it that are. And if this draws people's attention
Speaker 1: to the utterly incompetent, doesn't even describe it. It's incompetent, dishonest,
Speaker 1: just klepto, main maniacal governance of California over the last
Speaker 1: quite a few years. If it draws attention to that good,
Speaker 1: whether it directly applies to how a particular fire started
Speaker 1: or not. Karen Bass is an avowed communist. She cut
Speaker 1: the fire budget, according to her chief, to a damaging
Speaker 1: level to support drug addicts and illegal immigrants and proudly
Speaker 1: did so.
Speaker 4: Uh did you see over the weekend where she was
Speaker 4: at least hinting that people are criticizing her because she's black.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, a couple of celebrities are out saying that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, go ahead, hey, put the final nail in the
Speaker 1: coffin of your fake accusations of racism.
Speaker 2: Do it now. That was perfect.
Speaker 4: And the state level, when you start talking about not
Speaker 4: having enough money for this or that, come on, you
Speaker 4: don't get.
Speaker 2: To say that.
Speaker 4: As long as there's a bullet train project. You gotta
Speaker 4: end that before you can ever say a word about
Speaker 4: not having enough money for this or that.
Speaker 2: Amen. Oh my god, we got more on the ways there.
Speaker 2: We're all better off. We're all better off. We're all
Speaker 2: better off, and we're working together.
Speaker 4: I read over the weekend and a very interesting book
Speaker 4: about violence, Why duels are a good idea and should
Speaker 4: be brought back do what.
Speaker 2: It's fascinating. I'd never thought about it before. Maybe I'll
Speaker 2: get to that. Wow, that's madness, folks. I disagree and disapprove.
Speaker 2: I don't think you will. I don't think you will. Actually, well,
Speaker 2: then I will have a on air conversion. Won't that
Speaker 2: be exciting?
Speaker 1: All sorts of great stuff to get to, including I
Speaker 1: want to go big on it's.
Speaker 2: The first freaking amendment.
Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberg is finally out explaining how severe the pressure
Speaker 1: was from the Biden administration to censor free speech that
Speaker 1: the government didn't like. If you don't get that that's
Speaker 1: a problem or why it's a problem, go from me.
Speaker 1: May your chain sit lightly upon you, lick the hand
Speaker 1: that feeds you, and made posterity forget you were our countryman,
Speaker 1: Sam Adams. Roughly anyway, So a couple of completely non
Speaker 1: political notes. I'm not going to be labor the first
Speaker 1: one because we all know it. Physical inactivity is linked
Speaker 1: to increased risk of nineteen different chronic health conditions. According
Speaker 1: to a University of Ioa study analyzing over forty thousand
Speaker 1: patient records. The couch is is the cigarette pack of
Speaker 1: the modern world. Just even moderate activity a few times
Speaker 1: a week is so so, so much better. And you
Speaker 1: know what, We'll post this at Armstrong and getty dot com.
Speaker 1: The simple thirty second exercise survey all it takes to
Speaker 1: know your health in general. Anyway, moving along, because we
Speaker 1: all know that I thought this was interesting. Our legendary
Speaker 1: and beloved newsguy Marshall Phillips used to bring us at
Speaker 1: least one study about coffee and drinking coffee per week,
Speaker 1: and the first one would be contradicted by the second one,
Speaker 1: then go back and forth.
Speaker 2: It just never ended.
Speaker 1: But here's a giant meta study of caffeine and coffee studies.
Speaker 1: Two to three cups in the morning is like, by
Speaker 1: far the best option, including not drinking coffee at all.
Speaker 4: Really, you're better off drinking a couple of two to
Speaker 4: three cups than not drinking coffee.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: Research so far suggests that drinking coffee does not raise
Speaker 1: the risk of heart disease, seems to lower the risk
Speaker 1: of some chronic diseases given the effects that caffeine has
Speaker 1: on our bodies. Says the head scientists, we wanted to
Speaker 1: see at the time of day when you drink coffee
Speaker 1: has any impact on heart health. And they had three
Speaker 1: different groups morning drinkers, all day coffee drinkers, and non
Speaker 1: coffee drinkers, and long story short, the results significantly better
Speaker 1: for early coffee drinkers in terms of heart disease and
Speaker 1: all causes.
Speaker 4: This may very well be true, but I got to
Speaker 4: say most of this sort of stuff I ignore at
Speaker 4: this point in my life. So many of them have
Speaker 4: gone back and forth so many times in my adult life.
Speaker 2: It's shocking.
Speaker 4: On alcohol and coffee and different diets and all kinds
Speaker 4: of stuff, different studies.
Speaker 2: It's amazing.
Speaker 1: I'm going to quote somebody now, I'm not saying it's true.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying I believe it. We were talking about
Speaker 1: cigar smoking. Myself had a handful of fellows I had
Speaker 1: lunch with on Saturday, and the topic of and one
Speaker 1: of the guys actually getting treated for cancer right now,
Speaker 1: and one has gone through it several times. And they
Speaker 1: were talking about hanging out with a bunch of doctors
Speaker 1: after round of golf the other day and they're all
Speaker 1: smoking cigars and they're all like that, that's genetics. So again,
Speaker 1: I'm not telling you to go and live your life accordingly.
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you what was said living along.
Speaker 2: That's funny.
Speaker 1: Speaking of health, if you're over fifty, relationships friendships are
Speaker 1: as important as virtually everything you can do health wise.
Speaker 1: According to statistical studies, having a circle of people you
Speaker 1: trust and like in exchange views with the rest of it.
Speaker 1: It's incredibly important. Isolation kills.
Speaker 4: Screaming down a road culturally where there's more isolation.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, yeah, yeah, great peace in the Atlantic.
Speaker 1: It's overly long, of course, because everything is about what's
Speaker 1: the title of it, The Anti social Century?
Speaker 2: Absolutely. Yeah, here's another one.
Speaker 1: We're going fast, We're going swiftly here, folks, take notes
Speaker 1: if you can, even if you're driving. Americans are tipping
Speaker 1: less than they have in years. Frustration with rising menu
Speaker 1: prices and the ubiquitous tipped prompts guilt tipping have led
Speaker 1: to a six year low.
Speaker 4: I don't doubt that. I also, for some reason, I
Speaker 4: don't like the you tell me how much eighteen.
Speaker 2: Percent is? I don't know why. It's just just a
Speaker 2: little more looking over your shoulder. I don't know. I
Speaker 2: just I don't like it. I don't like it fits
Speaker 2: in with all the other too much telling me to tip?
Speaker 2: I will tip. I've always tipped. Would just quit quit?
Speaker 2: What the telling me to tip?
Speaker 1: You're right, I don't mind the math because I can,
Speaker 1: you know, quickly do it instead of doing it in
Speaker 1: my head, which is probably good for my brain.
Speaker 2: But it's all the Here are your choices, Yeah, feel
Speaker 2: to it. Oh whoa, whoa. My choice is whatever the
Speaker 2: hell I.
Speaker 4: Want, exactly exactly. I'm sitting here determining how good I
Speaker 4: thought the service was. Just don't tell me my three options,
Speaker 4: which are all really high by the way, Armstrong and
Speaker 4: Getty