Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong.
Speaker 2: And Gatty and He Armstrong and Yetty Fonsie. Thanks. An
Speaker 2: arsonist is causing all these fires.
Speaker 3: Among other celebrities, the police and fire department are trying
Speaker 3: to combat to their rumors or accusations. Henry Winkler, an
Speaker 3: actor better known for more recent shows than what he
Speaker 3: started in the seventies. I guess yes on Netflix and whatnot,
Speaker 3: but Henry Winkler. The Fawns tweeted out yesterday there's an
Speaker 3: arsenist here in La.
Speaker 1: May you be beaten? Unrecognizable? Wow, he fawns, We're with you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, cool thumbs up. Singer Chris Brown, who olive has
Speaker 3: beaten people. I don't know if I'm recognizable or not.
Speaker 3: Girlfriends or whatever?
Speaker 4: Letting girlfriend yeah.
Speaker 3: Took to his Instagram stories on Thursday. Or someone starting
Speaker 3: these fires? S don't add up. Some Dancing with the
Speaker 3: Stars celebrity I've never heard of said there are five
Speaker 3: men going around ski masks starting the fires. Keep an
Speaker 3: eye out in all caps anyway, other than a homeless
Speaker 3: guy that was arrested with a lighter for the Hollywood
Speaker 3: area fire, which they got under control. I believe there
Speaker 3: haven't been arsonists nailed down for the two biggest fires.
Speaker 3: I have always wondered why Al Kaita or Isis, whoever
Speaker 3: didn't take this tact with a terrorist activity over the years.
Speaker 4: Interesting question. I don't know. They haven't as far as
Speaker 4: I can tell.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I'm not in the business of giving ideas.
Speaker 3: I just assume that there there's a reason why they haven't.
Speaker 3: That they're smart enough. They put a lot of thought
Speaker 3: on this, but kind it seems like if you had
Speaker 3: a dozen guys in the country and you picked a
Speaker 3: particular day and did a little research California, Arizona, where
Speaker 3: you know wherever fires you can get completely out of control,
Speaker 3: you can do a hell of a lot of damage.
Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, yeah, chilling stuff, so ah, A little closer
Speaker 1: to home and manageable, I think is the question of
Speaker 1: who is in what to office And absolutely thought provoking
Speaker 1: think piece on why virtually every blue city in America
Speaker 1: has gone completely sideways. And it's it's more than just
Speaker 1: kind of the obvious ABC one two three stuff. It's
Speaker 1: kind of a philosophical view of their jobs that I
Speaker 1: think you'll enjoy. Got a lot of stuff to squeeze
Speaker 1: in final hour of the week, But first, let's take
Speaker 1: a fun look back at the week that was.
Speaker 4: It's cow clips of the week, and.
Speaker 5: I know a lot of there's a lot of freak
Speaker 5: out the.
Speaker 3: Whips the week. The country is on a inside. They
Speaker 3: discovered a steel galvanized pipe with two end caps surrounded
Speaker 3: by two dozen rolls of nails.
Speaker 4: This is not a terrorist event.
Speaker 1: We also need to be stronger together by overcoming an
Speaker 1: addiction to divisiveness and negativity.
Speaker 3: The palicates fire, burning homes and forcing thousands to run
Speaker 3: for their lives. The were to describe what we're seeing
Speaker 3: is just apocalyptic. An emergency personnel had to take a
Speaker 3: bulldozer to just bulldoze them out of the way. They've
Speaker 3: put up the hoses. The water ran dry.
Speaker 4: The local folks are trying to figure that out.
Speaker 2: There were no reductions that were made that would have
Speaker 2: impacted the situation.
Speaker 3: That we were dealing with people, And one.
Speaker 6: Of the best ways to demonstrate that there are regular
Speaker 6: folks is to take them by that home.
Speaker 3: First of all, it looks like they might have built
Speaker 3: it themselves.
Speaker 7: Second of all, my grandfather was likely to show up
Speaker 7: at the door in some seventies, short shorts and crops.
Speaker 3: Character. Character, character.
Speaker 2: What were you talking to Barack Obama about him? It
Speaker 2: did look very friendly.
Speaker 3: I must say it's one of the most awkward moments
Speaker 3: in American politics. Donald J.
Speaker 4: Trump of the state of Florida has received three hundred
Speaker 4: and twelve votes. Kamala D.
Speaker 2: Harris, We're going to get back.
Speaker 4: To our roots.
Speaker 1: We're eliminating the third party fact checking system.
Speaker 4: I'm a little concerned.
Speaker 8: I mean, this is like Chipotle announcing that it's ending
Speaker 8: health inspections.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: We need Greenland for national security purposes.
Speaker 2: How we were.
Speaker 6: Talking to him yesterday, so he says, hello to everyone
Speaker 6: in Greenland.
Speaker 3: We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf
Speaker 3: of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
Speaker 1: Biden meanwhile says he thinks he could have beaten Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: I think it's nuts to think that he would have
Speaker 3: won that election. I don't wore world leaders than any
Speaker 3: one of you ever met. In your home, goddamn wife,
Speaker 3: I intend to resign as party leader, as Prime minister,
Speaker 3: and you know, we really need to pace ourselves.
Speaker 4: If we're going to freak out over every last tweet, we.
Speaker 2: Will fight hard, fight hard for the freedom to vote.
Speaker 4: Why he does a nerve bro? Who shot who?
Speaker 2: Doesn't shut me? Everybody? Everybody got.
Speaker 4: That it won't be the clip of the year. But
Speaker 4: who shot who?
Speaker 3: That whole exchange, somebody got shot, very very nonplussed about
Speaker 3: the whole situation. Yeah, for some reason this popped into
Speaker 3: my head during clips week. There's a bunch of stuff
Speaker 3: there earlier in the week, like that was this week,
Speaker 3: that wasn't six months ago, the terrorist attack and all
Speaker 3: that sort of stuff. Jeez, the way we turn the
Speaker 3: page on stories. You know, the fire is such a
Speaker 3: big story and wiped out everything else. And I want
Speaker 3: to talk about climate change in a second, but first
Speaker 3: on this. We were watching and laughing at an ai
Speaker 3: fake video of Kamala and Jill fighting each other in
Speaker 3: the pew at the Carter funeral.
Speaker 4: It's not real.
Speaker 3: But the real part where Joe and doctor Jill come
Speaker 3: in and sit down next to Kamala. Man that is chilly.
Speaker 3: Kamala doesn't even look at her. She doesn't look at them.
Speaker 3: I mean, you're sitting right next to people that are
Speaker 3: supposed to be your close co workers and you don't
Speaker 3: even look at them. Kamala handled handing the presidency over
Speaker 3: to Donald Trump and announcing the votes and everything like
Speaker 3: that better than she handled easier than she handled having
Speaker 3: to sit next to Joe Biden and his wife.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think just like Biden as a deep and
Speaker 1: abiding hatred for Obama. Kamala can't stand old man Biden.
Speaker 4: It's it's interesting.
Speaker 3: She was able to stuff down her disappointment, resentment, everything
Speaker 3: about losing to Donald Trump the election much easier than
Speaker 3: she was able to stuff it down sitting next to
Speaker 3: Joe and his wife. And he's got to be his
Speaker 3: wife because she probably thinks the same thing. I think
Speaker 3: his brain don't work. You're the evil bee that kept
Speaker 3: him running. You're the one that caused all this. I
Speaker 3: hate you, I hate you, I hate you. That's what
Speaker 3: she was thinking.
Speaker 1: Well, and to recap a couple of discussions we've had
Speaker 1: in recent days, her ego is kept intact in spite
Speaker 1: of the fact that she got absolutely waxed by Donald
Speaker 1: Trump by the fact that well Biden got out too
Speaker 1: late and he screwed her and the campaign was short.
Speaker 1: So that's her excuse for herself, but her excuse was
Speaker 1: sitting next to her Biden and his.
Speaker 4: Evil, evil wife, So yeah, she can't. She despises them.
Speaker 3: Can't get away from the climate change discussion on any
Speaker 3: of the mainstream news around the fire or any other
Speaker 3: any other anything that happens, really pretty much, anything that
Speaker 3: happens somehow, climate change plays a role. Two things on
Speaker 3: that one. And I'm not a climate denier or proponent,
Speaker 3: as I've said many times on this show. For whatever reason,
Speaker 3: it's a topic I've decided not to look into.
Speaker 4: I just don't.
Speaker 3: There are topics I look into to great depth, not
Speaker 3: this one. But it did come across this and this
Speaker 3: is accurate reporting. It's from Los Angeles Airport's own data.
Speaker 3: It's not unusual for Los Angeles to be bone dry
Speaker 3: in December into January. Since nineteen forty four, since I've
Speaker 3: been keeping records in the thirty days prior to January ninth,
Speaker 3: thirteen years have received between none and a tenth of
Speaker 3: an inch of rain, including this year.
Speaker 4: But it happened in.
Speaker 3: Fifty four, sixty one, sixty four, sixty seven. Well, I
Speaker 3: had quite a run there in the mid sixties where
Speaker 3: you would have been able to make some sort of
Speaker 3: argument about climate change or something lots of years. So
Speaker 3: there's always the data that gets very confusing on the
Speaker 3: are we having more hurricanes or not? Or is it
Speaker 3: dryer or not or whatever. But even without that, even
Speaker 3: if you buy into the whole climate man made change
Speaker 3: everything like that, there's no turning it around quickly, not
Speaker 3: a chance. So why waste any time in the midst
Speaker 3: of a crisis discussing that. It seems like such an
Speaker 3: easy out for the conversation.
Speaker 4: Well, right, that's exactly what it is.
Speaker 3: That's the answer of why on purpose excuse on MSNBC
Speaker 3: or CNN or wherever to once they get to the
Speaker 3: climate change thing, then it's the evil Republicans or Trump
Speaker 3: or whoever who's stopping things. There is nothing. If Donald
Speaker 3: Trump went full al Gore today, you couldn't affect I'm
Speaker 3: assuming the worldwide temperature by a tenth of a degree
Speaker 3: over the next decade. Let alone fix what's gonna happen
Speaker 3: this summer fire wise, So why.
Speaker 4: Even talk about it?
Speaker 1: You know, it's the Simpsons were not now a show
Speaker 1: of the left. Ought to have a scene where, you know,
Speaker 1: Marge comes home and Homer's left the bathtub running, and
Speaker 1: the house is flooded and ruined, and the dog hasn't
Speaker 1: been fed for a week, and Bart hasn't gone to
Speaker 1: school or whatever. When she asks him why, he says,
Speaker 1: I don't know climate change because that is the all purpose,
Speaker 1: all encompanying excuse for bad policy.
Speaker 4: Has that happened because of climate change?
Speaker 1: And so the soft headed voters are distracted from mismanagement
Speaker 1: and bad government. And oh, right, climate change, I've heard
Speaker 1: about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. It's not like a lot of
Speaker 3: policy decisions where you decide you're against the war, we
Speaker 3: could pull the troops out tomorrow or something, you could
Speaker 3: really make a radical change. There's no radical changes to
Speaker 3: be made on the whole climate thing, even if you
Speaker 3: believe them right.
Speaker 1: Even if you had superpowers, it would take ages to
Speaker 1: make a real difference, and we don't have superpowers in
Speaker 1: India and China.
Speaker 4: End of discussion. Yeah, it's so weak.
Speaker 1: Anytime a politician cites climate change because of a crisis,
Speaker 1: you can't look at that new. You know, some people
Speaker 1: look at it positively. Oh, I'm glad he's standing up
Speaker 1: for climate change. Well, you're an idiot and shouldn't vote,
Speaker 1: but don't even look at it neutrally.
Speaker 4: Say oh, I know this one.
Speaker 1: This is their dodge, and then think about the things
Speaker 1: that they're dodging, because that's almost always the way it's used. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've been talking about climate change for like fifteen years now,
Speaker 1: so why didn't you do something about the xyz we're
Speaker 1: talking about?
Speaker 4: Well, climate change.
Speaker 3: It's easy to be susceptible to these arguments because I
Speaker 3: even have fallen for the Yeah, it does seem colder, wetter, dryer, windier,
Speaker 3: whatever than it used to. But then I'll see some
Speaker 3: stats laid out like the ones we just talked about
Speaker 3: and thought, okay, you have ears where this is worse.
Speaker 4: That's better.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it's a couple of years row then it goes
Speaker 3: back to normal.
Speaker 4: This way it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, indeed, Eh, it's frustrating, is it?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 1: Yeah, just thinking about the electorate and our leaders and
Speaker 1: the way it's supposed to work and how it doesn't
Speaker 1: if you're.
Speaker 3: I just saw the least sympathetic couple from the fire
Speaker 3: thing that I've seen yet. I thought, CNN, you're not
Speaker 3: doing a good job here, because just because you're rich,
Speaker 3: you don't deserve to have your home burnt down, or
Speaker 3: doesn't mean it's not awful. It's a lot less awful
Speaker 3: for you than the paycheck to paycheck people.
Speaker 4: No doubt.
Speaker 3: You can go to a hotel and it's a headache
Speaker 3: as opposed to a disaster. I mean, there's just no
Speaker 3: doubt the more money have it. But anyway, they're interviewing
Speaker 3: this couple in there. One of those Mercedes SUVs that
Speaker 3: are designed to climb mountains, but people only drive them
Speaker 3: to yoga.
Speaker 4: U oh, one of those that.
Speaker 3: Are crazy, like a quarter of a million dollar car.
Speaker 3: She got a couple sitting in there. They're both like sixty.
Speaker 3: He's got ridiculously long blonde hair for a sixty year
Speaker 3: old rich guy wearing a puffy vest in his Mercedes.
Speaker 3: And she's got the big giant lips and her skin's
Speaker 3: way too tight. And I thought, this is not the
Speaker 3: right couple to have on CNN to get your crowd
Speaker 3: to feel all sympathetic and warm and fuzzy about it.
Speaker 3: Just it ain't. It ain't even working for me.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know that that's what CNN ought to be
Speaker 1: doing anyway, But no, I see your point.
Speaker 3: Man, we got a lot more on the way. Our
Speaker 3: text line is four one five two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 6: According to the odds makers, closest game of the NFL
Speaker 6: playoffs this weekend the Monday night game Vikings Rams in
Speaker 6: Arizona because they can't play a game in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: The Vikings are just two and a half point favorites.
Speaker 3: All the other ones are a little whiter than that.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, yeah, there's some great games too. I'm a
Speaker 1: newly minted Detroit Lions fan teams. Yeah, I got a
Speaker 1: couple of friends who are native Detroiters who are just
Speaker 1: died in the wool, I mean, have suffered for years.
Speaker 1: So anyway, enjoy the feats ball over the weekend. Folks,
Speaker 1: thought we'd lend a hand here to a kindred spirit trying.
Speaker 4: To do a good thing.
Speaker 1: This is cal Unicornia assembly Woman Kate Sanchez.
Speaker 4: Kate take it away.
Speaker 7: Hello, I'm assembly Woman Kate Sanchez. Women's sports have long
Speaker 7: been a symbol of dedication, perseverance, and opportunity. As a
Speaker 7: former high school athlete, I know this is a space
Speaker 7: for young women can compete fairly, achieve their dreams, and
Speaker 7: showcase their talents. But today that fairness is being stripped
Speaker 7: away when biological men are allowed to compete in women's sports,
Speaker 7: it creates an unfair playing field. Young women who have
Speaker 7: spent years training, sacrificing, and earning their place to compete
Speaker 7: at the highest level are now being forced to compete
Speaker 7: against individuals with undeniable biological advantages. It's not just unfair,
Speaker 7: it's disheartening and dangerous for girls. This is about more
Speaker 7: than competition.
Speaker 4: It's about safety.
Speaker 7: Whether in contact sports, locker rooms, or shared spaces, these
Speaker 7: policies place.
Speaker 4: Our daughters at risk.
Speaker 7: We cannot ignore the physical and emotional toll this takes.
Speaker 7: I will always advocate for fairness, opportunity, and protection of
Speaker 7: women and girls in sports. It's time to restore integrity
Speaker 7: to women's athletics and ensure that every young woman has
Speaker 7: a fair and safe chance to compete.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure why everything has to have a musical
Speaker 1: background these days, but thank you AB twelve. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: that was the old law that let boys play against
Speaker 1: girls in sports, but she's trying to pass a law
Speaker 1: that changes that, so.
Speaker 3: I would think there's overwhelming support for that, even in Cally, Unicornia. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think believe it's easily a majority position.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The law has existed in California since twenty thirteen, signed
Speaker 1: into law by Governor Jerry Brown. Letting people be permitted
Speaker 1: to participated and participate in sex segregated school programs and
Speaker 1: activities consistent with their gender identity. Letting boys play against
Speaker 1: girls and beat the hell out of them. It's just unbelievable,
Speaker 1: And they quote a couple of high school coaches. California
Speaker 1: Globe has some great coverage of the story talking about
Speaker 1: this law. Did was suddenly have men saying they're transgender
Speaker 1: identifying as women to compete on their teams. We've had
Speaker 1: a lot of wrestling teams suddenly have huge wrestlers who
Speaker 1: now identify as women dominating women's wrestling. Wow.
Speaker 4: And swimming and other physical sports.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: My favorite one to hate was that like forty year
Speaker 3: old giant dude who played junior college basketball in the
Speaker 3: Bay Area for a community college team, just backing over
Speaker 3: poor little girls who are trying to play college basketball.
Speaker 3: He still had eligibility because he can go to college,
Speaker 3: so he did. Juco is a forty year old dude
Speaker 3: and plays women's juco basketball.
Speaker 1: If you're in favor of that a mental illness and
Speaker 1: should get it treated. And I say that with compassion
Speaker 1: and love, but get it treated. Why do all the
Speaker 1: lefty cities go sideways? Great explanation coming up.
Speaker 4: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 8: Well, guys, has some big news from Washington.
Speaker 4: Tomorrow.
Speaker 8: The Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether the federal
Speaker 8: government can ban TikTok. I expect you to be the
Speaker 8: first time a Supreme Court justice says the word skibbity toilet.
Speaker 3: Should be an interesting case.
Speaker 8: The justices will start scrolling through evidence, then two hours
Speaker 8: later look up like what was he doing?
Speaker 2: Yet?
Speaker 3: It'll be interesting to follow this whole TikTok thing. I
Speaker 3: have no idea it's going to turn out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, really interesting set of legal questions there that we
Speaker 1: won't get into now. But nobody wants to ban TikTok,
Speaker 1: by the way. They just want to not let the
Speaker 1: Chinese Communist Party run it. And there are laws against
Speaker 1: hostile foreign powers running things that happen in the United States.
Speaker 1: So well, you know, we'll consider that as it goes.
Speaker 1: Can't wait to hear the arguments. Ah, so this is terrific.
Speaker 1: I'm going to quote some of a piece by Noah Rothman,
Speaker 1: who writes for the National Review and is an incredibly
Speaker 1: smart guy.
Speaker 4: He has a vocabulary vocabulary.
Speaker 1: That makes mine look like an eight year old one
Speaker 1: of those guys who apparently swallowed a dictionary as a
Speaker 1: small child, and knows all the words. He's talking about
Speaker 1: why cities are so dysfunctional, and he quotes a nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety three lecture from a guy by the name of
Speaker 1: Nat Glazier, who's actually talking about the nineteen sixties and
Speaker 1: the dysfunction in American cities. And he says, New York,
Speaker 1: by way of an example, stop trying to do well
Speaker 1: the kinds of things a city can do, and started
Speaker 1: trying to do the kinds of things.
Speaker 4: A city cannot do.
Speaker 1: The city subordinated, keeping its streets and bridges in repair,
Speaker 1: building new facilities to accommodate the new needs in a
Speaker 1: shifting population, picking up garbage, policing the public environment, that
Speaker 1: sort of thing. It gave those up in favor of
Speaker 1: grander objectives. But in the pursuit of these lofty goals,
Speaker 1: cities stopped doing the things cities know how to do
Speaker 1: and started trying to do things no one knows how
Speaker 1: to do.
Speaker 4: I'm quoting.
Speaker 1: Among the things that can't do are redistributing income on
Speaker 1: a large scale and solving the social and personal problems
Speaker 1: of people who, for whatever reason, are engaged in self
Speaker 1: to start the behavior. Yeah, and Rothman writes, even if
Speaker 1: America's municipal officials did know how to end the scourge
Speaker 1: of racism, eradicate poverty, and change the weather, that is
Speaker 1: not within their job descriptions. And Glazer concluded his lecture
Speaker 1: with the prophetic observation that cities can quickly restore elementary
Speaker 1: governmental functionality if that's what the people.
Speaker 3: Vote for, including obviously fighting fires which is hot. Still
Speaker 3: pardon the expression this week, you know, on that one part,
Speaker 3: I don't know if you get anywhere with the argument
Speaker 3: that the government shouldn't be doing these things because there's
Speaker 3: just too many people that want the government to do
Speaker 3: those things. I think maybe the better argument is the
Speaker 3: first part of their unaccomplishable it's not something anyone could do,
Speaker 3: whether you think it's in their job description or not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, boy, either way, it's tough to convince people. Maybe
Speaker 1: you can convince them, No, city government can't cure all
Speaker 1: human suffering. Leave that to the Feds.
Speaker 3: Oh god.
Speaker 1: But anyway, Glazer obviously and Noah hint that you know,
Speaker 1: Rudy Giuliani came along and did precisely what he's talking about. Said, yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't have grand you know, ethereal goals.
Speaker 4: We're going to get the garbage picked up.
Speaker 1: And they point out only when voters no longer accept
Speaker 1: excuses from their government leaders does the public see proficiency
Speaker 1: in municipal government. And we'll get to that broader theme
Speaker 1: in a second, but there's more great writing. Democratic elected
Speaker 1: officials at the highest levels of local, state, and federal
Speaker 1: government excel when they are tasked only with waxing grand
Speaker 1: eloquent about the metaphysical ills that plague American society, that
Speaker 1: is their core competency, grand promises, and in citing these
Speaker 1: insurmountable problems that they're going to fix. Indeed, they're often
Speaker 1: prone to subordinate the elementary functions of government to virtuous abstractions,
Speaker 1: and when those misplaced priorities give way to a level
Speaker 1: of maladministration, their constituencies resent. Those abstractions provide a convenient
Speaker 1: excuse to justify their failures. The scourge of climate change,
Speaker 1: the rapacious capitalist enterprises, the prejudice in men's hearts. It's
Speaker 1: all just too much to overcome. So they like make
Speaker 1: these speeches about how, if you elect me, I'll overcome
Speaker 1: the prejudice in men's hearts.
Speaker 4: And then when your country, when.
Speaker 1: Your city rather goes to crap, you say, well, it's
Speaker 1: because of the prejudice that lurks in men's hearts.
Speaker 3: It like works before and after, right, And there's too
Speaker 3: many places where you can't get elected by saying if
Speaker 3: I'm elected person in charge, we will continue to pick
Speaker 3: up the garbage on the stated day for your neighborhood.
Speaker 3: We'll continue to have clean water, and we'll have a
Speaker 3: parade every fourth of July.
Speaker 1: The end, right, And we won't let scumbags rob your
Speaker 1: children on the way to school.
Speaker 4: We'll get junkies out of the park. No, you gotta
Speaker 4: solve racism.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe it's because so many people take for granted
Speaker 3: the garbage getting picked up and you know, the cops
Speaker 3: trying to keep your neighborhood safe or whatever. Because I
Speaker 3: was thinking about a lot of places in the Middle
Speaker 3: East and Africa, for instance, where things go to hell
Speaker 3: and the reason in Isis or in al Qaeda or
Speaker 3: some other scumbag group can come in and get the
Speaker 3: support of the population is they pick up the trash
Speaker 3: and they make the neighborhood safe, like the very core
Speaker 3: things that government should do. That's what people want done.
Speaker 4: You chop off a couple of arms and the thieves quit.
Speaker 3: I just didn't take over a village and get their
Speaker 3: support because they said we're gonna end income in equality
Speaker 3: or racism or anything like that. Pick up the garbage
Speaker 3: and make it safe, right, So.
Speaker 1: Getting back to a Rothman's piece, California is a prime
Speaker 1: example of this woeful phenomenon Angelino's if long elevated politicians
Speaker 1: believe they have a writ to, for example, quote eliminate
Speaker 1: racial disparity and achieve equality and equity by disrupting harmful
Speaker 1: trends and transforming.
Speaker 4: Systems and policies.
Speaker 1: Those are the very words of Cynthia Mitchell Hurd, president of.
Speaker 4: The La Urban League.
Speaker 1: It was that outlook that led La Mayor Karen Bass
Speaker 1: to treat the fire's department. I'm sorry to treat the
Speaker 1: city's fire department as a social experiment. The deadly wildfires
Speaker 1: that have leveled whole neighborhoods this week have made her decision.
Speaker 1: Bass's decision to cut the city's fire department budget by
Speaker 1: almost eighteen million dollars seem pretty shortsighted that was, in
Speaker 1: fact a compromise on her part. She had sought twenty
Speaker 1: three million dollars in cuts amid the city's efforts to
Speaker 1: contain its growing bums and junkies problem. He says, homelessness
Speaker 1: I use the proper term. Bass inherited from her predecessor,
Speaker 1: Eric Garcetti, an initiative designed to solve the problem of
Speaker 1: too few women volunteering to be firefighters, a problem that persists,
Speaker 1: perhaps because too few women want to be firefighters. The
Speaker 1: city seemed focused more on ensuring that the LAFD flatter
Speaker 1: its leader's ideological pretensions than on whether it was optimized
Speaker 1: to fight fires. And he makes fun of Karen Bass
Speaker 1: a bit more go ahead, So you expect.
Speaker 3: That out of the National Review. They're right, We expect
Speaker 3: that from them. What we're excited about is all these
Speaker 3: celebrity types in LA who are starting to say the
Speaker 3: same sort of thing where Joe Scarborough actually saw this
Speaker 3: this morning on MSNBC. He's a lifelong Republican conservative beaus
Speaker 3: you all know he's abandoned all that stuff since he
Speaker 3: got rich and famous all that. But Joe Scarborough blamed
Speaker 3: LA's fire hellscape on slash spending quote a complete failure
Speaker 3: of government, as he ripped government at all levels for
Speaker 3: causing this problem and went on to say, you can't
Speaker 3: just say it's Karen Bass the mayor.
Speaker 1: Can't.
Speaker 3: You can't just say it's Gavin Newsom. This has been
Speaker 3: a trend for thirty years in California. It's a failure
Speaker 3: of the government at all levels. Glad to hear that
Speaker 3: right in Karen Bass's defense. Then I'll skip to the end.
Speaker 1: She ran on eliminating racial disparities and achieving equality and
Speaker 1: equity by disrupting harmful trends and transforming systems in policies
Speaker 1: anyway to get to the Noah's conclusion, which I think
Speaker 1: is great. For years, the boutique priorities of influential but
Speaker 1: minority interests have crowded out elementary good governance. The problem
Speaker 1: is pronounced in California, but as apparent any in any
Speaker 1: locale where.
Speaker 4: The Blue state models practiced.
Speaker 1: Democratic elected officials stop doing the things municipal officials know
Speaker 1: how to do, the unglamorous work of public life and
Speaker 1: made themselves champions of the glossy causes that reward them
Speaker 1: with attention and donor contributions. Democrats are wildly overconfident in
Speaker 1: their ability to not just govern competently, but to solve
Speaker 1: intractable conundrums that plague modern life. That delusion has produced
Speaker 1: intolerable dysfunction. Until voters in blue locales start demanding basic
Speaker 1: competence of their politicians first and ideological purity second, they
Speaker 1: will be rewarded with more.
Speaker 4: Of the same.
Speaker 3: That's one hundred percent true. I don't like our chances.
Speaker 1: No. It reminds me of that brilliant piece Nellie Bowles
Speaker 1: wrote before I knew who Nellie Bowls was. She's the
Speaker 1: wife of and co person in charge of the Free
Speaker 1: Press now, which is doing great journalism. But she was
Speaker 1: the one who wrote that incredible piece about San Francisco
Speaker 1: and how it becomes so incredibly dysfunctional, and she has
Speaker 1: a die in the wall. Liberal had to admit that, Look,
Speaker 1: policies have results. People are dying on the streets. This
Speaker 1: is not kindness, this is cruelty. This does not work.
Speaker 1: Good for her and good for Noah Rothman. They're both
Speaker 1: one hundred percent.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: Well, uh, there's they never let a crisis go to
Speaker 3: waste thing where maybe you take this opportunity to point
Speaker 3: this stuff out. I'm just kind of hoping that people
Speaker 3: becomes obvious to people on their own. Well, this isn't working,
Speaker 3: so we got to change, try something different. I don't
Speaker 3: think it's going to be turning to Republicans, but maybe
Speaker 3: even just moderate Demics as opposed to whack jobs. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there are plenty of examples where somebody's really an R
Speaker 3: but they called themselves a D.
Speaker 4: Like uh, the uh, the guy.
Speaker 1: Just kind elected mayor of San Francisco. In San Francisco,
Speaker 1: he's an R. Oh absolutely, that's fine. Put whatever letter
Speaker 1: next to your name.
Speaker 4: Just get the blocking and tackling of government. Right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't remember did I talk about this for
Speaker 3: the whole network or just for our local stuff that
Speaker 3: I was in San Francisco a day after Christmas. Two
Speaker 3: days after Christmas. It was the cleanest I'd seen the
Speaker 3: city streets maybe ever, certainly in a very very long time.
Speaker 3: I mean the streets were physically clean, like they'd been scrubbed.
Speaker 3: They were shiny and clean, and you would look down
Speaker 3: alleys and see zero trash. And I saw like two
Speaker 3: street people the whole time when I was bumping around,
Speaker 3: and I one street person that I saw by the
Speaker 3: cable cars. All the tourists were lined up to get
Speaker 3: on the cable cars. And there were tourists there because
Speaker 3: it was day after Christmas. Two days after Christmas. There
Speaker 3: was somebody from the city talking to the homeless guy,
Speaker 3: telling him where he needed to go, convincing.
Speaker 4: Him, moere he need to go.
Speaker 3: But one almost guy that was there. So I don't
Speaker 3: know if already the new mayor has had that in
Speaker 3: sort of influence or what.
Speaker 1: But but, but, but but the city hasn't cured racism.
Speaker 1: They haven't ended inequity, they haven't cured all hunger.
Speaker 3: Pick up the effing trash, no kidding, we'll finish strong next.
Speaker 8: Strong.
Speaker 3: Yet I've never been to the CEES, as they called
Speaker 3: the Consumer Electronics Show that's going on in Las Vegas
Speaker 3: right now, where companies roll out their latest, greatest everything
Speaker 3: and uh, you know, it used to be laptops and
Speaker 3: it was the Internet of Everything for a long time,
Speaker 3: and then, uh, you know, various trends come and go.
Speaker 3: Drones were really big. A couple of years ago, reading
Speaker 3: one of the reviews in c net from their tech person.
Speaker 3: This one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars robot is
Speaker 3: almost human. We interviewed it at Cees twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: They're speaking with Aria. This is one of the robots.
Speaker 3: I showed you a picture of Joe like, oh, super
Speaker 3: hot twenty three year old blonde chick. It's a robot.
Speaker 3: Robots were around every corner during Cees twenty twenty five
Speaker 3: this week, but there was one. Ah, but there was
Speaker 3: one that got very close to sounding and looking actually human.
Speaker 3: They interviewed real Botics is the name of the company's Aria,
Speaker 3: a blonde female. They put in quotes robot who answered questions,
Speaker 3: which just a touch of robotic awkwardness. I found this
Speaker 3: kind of funny. Aria, dressed in a black, very tight tracksuit,
Speaker 3: hesitated briefly after each question before launching into a speech
Speaker 3: with long responses. She came across as a weird blend
Speaker 3: of attentive and mildly inibriated. That might be on purpose,
Speaker 3: So the hot blonde as comes off as slightly drunk.
Speaker 4: But really attentive.
Speaker 3: I don't think that's an accident. And real botics. It
Speaker 3: sounds like here is kind of trying to pretend they
Speaker 3: don't know what these are going to be used for. Robotics.
Speaker 3: The company behind Aria and other humanoid robots say it's
Speaker 3: focused on social intelligence, customize ability, and realistic human features.
Speaker 3: They're also designed specifically for companionship and intimacy. Aria actually
Speaker 3: told them that when the interviewed, I'm for intimacy, Katie.
Speaker 5: I watched the video of this chick and it's twenty
Speaker 5: twenty five? Can we get away from the Pirates of
Speaker 5: the Caribbean? Animatronics thing shows a lot of like robot movements.
Speaker 3: General artificial intelligence is behind the robot's ability to engage
Speaker 3: in real time conversations, though Aria wouldn't reveal the details
Speaker 3: about the program.
Speaker 4: Bah Bah.
Speaker 3: Since a robot has designed for more emotional interactions than
Speaker 3: other robots, they could find their niche worts in hospitals
Speaker 3: and theme parks. Yeah, okay, yeah, possibly that's not what
Speaker 3: this guys. That's not why this guy's designing this one
Speaker 3: to look this way and dressing it that way so
Speaker 3: it can work in a hospital somewhere in clean bennits and.
Speaker 4: Tight, tight little tracksuit that bears its bell. Yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 4: They couldn't find a tracksuit that's fit right or.
Speaker 3: A nurse's outfit to drive home the point that it'd
Speaker 3: be great for working in hospitals.
Speaker 4: I don't want to steal your thunder, but did they
Speaker 4: get down South?
Speaker 3: No? Do they have functioning robogenitals? I'm sure that's an option.
Speaker 3: Clamp that baby right off, things go wrong.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: There are around seventeen motors from the neck up to
Speaker 3: create mouth and eye movements. If you don't like Aria's face,
Speaker 3: you can replace it with others that magnetically attached to
Speaker 3: the head. You want some strange. You can switch out
Speaker 3: hairstyles in colors too, So you.
Speaker 5: Could like go through a breakup and then bring out
Speaker 5: a new.
Speaker 1: Robot like this is my new girlfriend, but then be
Speaker 1: ashamed of it and call the original robot back and
Speaker 1: say I didn't I don't know what I was thinking.
Speaker 3: That is hilarious. Katie, go through a breakup, whatever the
Speaker 3: hell that would mean? You have an argument and you
Speaker 3: put a different face on herd that's it. I'm done
Speaker 3: with you your face, I'm tired of your algorithm. I
Speaker 3: don't know, I just need something different. Uh me, that's
Speaker 3: bull crap. So the loaded version that they showed there
Speaker 3: was one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars hm.
Speaker 4: But they don't mention the the rgs, the what. I
Speaker 4: think that would be a big part of this.
Speaker 3: If it isn't, it will be.
Speaker 2: Hey, kids, it's that time again with Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: Hey are you you're squeezing a little hard?
Speaker 2: Squeeze a little hard?
Speaker 5: So I hold you to a higher standard than robo genitals.
Speaker 4: But that was informative.
Speaker 3: Can I just drama dramatic? Tize, didn't drama how things
Speaker 3: could go wrong?
Speaker 4: That was great.
Speaker 3: Here's your post for final bunch, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1: Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the
Speaker 1: crew to wrap things up for the day, which is
Speaker 1: obviously overdue. Michael Langelower, technical director, will lead the way.
Speaker 4: Michael, again, I'm giving you a quick scenario.
Speaker 1: Joe, you got a best friend, best friend in the world.
Speaker 4: He wants you and Judy to go out with him
Speaker 4: and his robotic girlfriend.
Speaker 2: Then you do it.
Speaker 3: That's when we've crossed a line where I've got to
Speaker 3: pretend your girlfriend is real somehow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I make a mistake unless there's some wild,
Speaker 1: extenuating circumstances. I'm sorry, I make an excuse and just
Speaker 1: to no, no, I'm sorry, I can't. We're busy that day.
Speaker 1: I didn't tell you what day, and we're busy that
Speaker 1: one too, uh, Katie Greener steemed a Newswoman.
Speaker 4: As a final thought, Katie, I'd.
Speaker 5: Have an influx of nine to one one calls because
Speaker 5: these things malfunction.
Speaker 3: And guys get stuck in her.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's not funny, it's it's painful.
Speaker 2: Jack.
Speaker 4: A final thought for us.
Speaker 3: As I said the other day, I became aware of
Speaker 3: a group of people that have kind of like relationships
Speaker 3: with some robot girls they just chat with. I mean,
Speaker 3: this is not even the robot, this is just the
Speaker 3: voice on a computer. So I for real, no joking
Speaker 3: at all. I think this is going to be a
Speaker 3: thing and soon.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, my final thought is to recap the stuff we
Speaker 1: were talking about earlier in the hour. Anytime a politician
Speaker 1: starts to launch into their grand plans for fixing what's
Speaker 1: wrong with humanity, ask him if they're going to pick
Speaker 1: up the trash, if they're gonna have enough cops on
Speaker 1: the streets to keep your family safe, that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Back to brass tax America.
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 4: So many people, thanks so a little time. Good to Armstrong.
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Speaker 3: We will see you Monday. God bless America.
Speaker 4: Armstrong and Getty and.
Speaker 3: I said, boy, they look like two people that like
Speaker 3: each other. If these are the kind of guys who
Speaker 3: are like a smacking ash, I think it's nuts. It's
Speaker 3: just the way it is. Imagine a more beautiful thing.
Speaker 4: Can I just say this? You know what I mean.
Speaker 4: It's in particular why you've got a.
Speaker 2: Nerve, bro.
Speaker 1: Or whenever you say that.
Speaker 4: And again, thank you so much for sharing that.
Speaker 3: Bye bye, great Friday, you mother, Armstrong and Gaddy