WEBVTT - I Was Told Jimmy Would Be Here... 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.720 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:17.239 and Getta and he Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:27.280 Fighting these fires has been a nearly impossible task. 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:30.120 Tornado like wind gusts up to one. 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:34.200 Hundred miles per hour are catapulting embers in all directions. 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:40.480 Some firefighters have been working forty eight hour shifts evacuating residents, patients, 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:45.360 the elderly, anyone in harm's way. Now, California Governor Gavenusam 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:48.240 is deploying the California National Guard to try to help. 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:51.919 Almost impossible to imagine a forty eight hour shift of anything, 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:56.360 let alone firefighting in the wind. This important to mention 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.279 as people start to jump on the evil insurers who 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:01.279 dropped the fire coverage. 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.360 For these homes. In some cases, as we. 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:07.720 Know personally from someone weeks ago, right before the fires hit, 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:11.440 Proposition one oh three in California made it illegal to 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:15.320 accurately price fire insurance. Insures can only use historical data, 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:19.160 not projections of what it actually costs now to rebuild 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:21.200 a house or to fix a house up, And so 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:23.520 it just didn't make sense for them to keep doing it. 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:27.200 So they said, either we're not writing any more policies, goodbye, 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.480 or we're dropping our current policy holders, which is their 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:31.880 absolute right to do. 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:33.920 By the way, I got to throw this out there 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:38.480 just because I know it's floating around. I have a 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:44.199 window into a certain segment of the social media world. 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:46.479 I don't know how many people this represents. But the 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:52.200 fires were set on purpose under the homes of the 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:57.360 pedophiles to hide the evidence of their child trafficking. 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:03.440 That's the QAnon sort of thing. Please get help. Do 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:05.400 you have any sense of how many people are into 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:08.680 that is it? Is it a tenth of one percent 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:11.200 or three percent? I don't really know. 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:15.760 Well, one percent of the country obviously would be what's 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:18.440 three point three million people? Three point four million, which 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:20.640 which so tenth of one percent would be three hundred 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:24.720 and forty thousand. And if they tweeted much or facebook much, 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.320 it would seem like, all, what, Yeah, if three hundred 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:29.680 and forty thousand people are hot to trot for an idea, 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:30.919 you would get the idea. 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:31.800 It's it's caught on. 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:38.320 That is so bat as crazy, Yes it is, yeah, yeah, man. Anyway, 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:41.720 So I really want to talk about the oral arguments 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:44.520 in front of the Supreme Court tomorrow about the TikTok ban. 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:46.919 I find it one of the most intriguing First Amendment 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:52.120 questions I can think of, And it's fun because I 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:55.600 get what both sides are saying, and at some point 0:02:55.680 --> 0:03:01.000 I want to scroll through. It happens to be Tim Sanderfer, 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:04.840 our good old friends Tim Sanderfer from the Goldwater Foundation 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:09.799 Twitter feed a lot about the wildfires in California and 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:14.239 the government and the Coastal Commission and regulation, all sorts 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:16.760 of stuff, super interesting. But the one thing I want 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:24.000 to get out is as Gavin Newsome and others are 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:31.240 immediately going to climate change right always, here's John Hook 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:33.320 of Fox ten who makes the point to blame every 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:37.600 natural disaster on climate change gives politicians and policy makers 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:39.760 blanket immunity for inemptitude. 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:42.160 So most journalists fail to see through this. 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:46.960 John brilliantly put absolutely, and if you point out anything 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:50.280 other than climate change, you're kind of on the side 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:51.680 of the climate change deniers. 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:56.640 Well yeah, it's a beautiful, like all purpose canard fake 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.880 argument in that it gives you the blanket immunity and 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:04.360 it promotes the scam, which is routing taxpayer dollars to 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:06.320 your cronies who will keep you in power for the 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:07.680 rest of your days if possible. 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:08.760 Yeah. Wow. 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:12.640 Anyway, having said that, here's interesting. Here's my TikTok lead in. 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:16.479 I can tell you I will be vague, very nice, 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:21.359 very smart people, young people who had TikTok on their phones. 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:24.680 As talking to over Christmas. I brought up the fact 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:28.000 that it's the Chinese Communist Party spying on you getting 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.359 into your phone making a profile, and I was told 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:30.960 that is. 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:36.040 A conspiracy theory. Wow by smart people. 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:40.120 But yeah, I wonder where they heard that, right, No, kidd, 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:42.679 So here is the deal. 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:47.160 And the reason this is so interesting is. 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:50.680 Because, well, to me is because I'm a damn near 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:53.720 First Amendment absolutist. As they say, yes, you can come 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:56.599 up with examples of stuff I would restrict, of course, 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:00.600 but I am a hardcore. The cure for bad ideas 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:03.440 is better ideas. The cure for bad speech is more speech. 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:07.159 I despise what the Biden administration did in the social 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:11.599 media companies during COVID, Absolutely despise it. If violence would 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:12.800 have solved it, I'd have been tempted. 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:14.440 I think I know that you think sold everything. 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:16.640 Somebody gets an infection, you say, more free speech, that's 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:17.320 how you cure it. 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:21.760 That's well, that's okay, so ah, so I am absolutely 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:24.360 on that side of it. On the other hand, I 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:30.240 am in favor of and nobody's talking about banning TikTok 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:35.240 per se. They're saying the current entity bite dance, which 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:38.880 dances to the tune called by the Chinese Communists. 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.159 They said they don't have not own TikTok. They said 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:43.560 they don't by dance says they don't. 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:47.000 Oh my god. The Communists would never lie to us. 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:50.880 The country that has sworn that they will crush us 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:54.200 and surpass us and lead the world, would never mislead us, 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:57.200 even though that's like a cherished part of Chinese culture. 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:00.480 You deceive your enemy in two weakness. 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:03.120 Well, I make that sarcastic comment because I think that's 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:05.360 often the missing piece. There's no such thing as a 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:07.799 private company in China. If you have a company in China, 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:10.560 you have to do what the Communist party wants. They 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:12.800 have access to whatever they want, or you don't get 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:13.320 to exist. 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:16.520 Right, And it's correct me if I'm wrong, I think 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:20.280 Tim or our good old friend Tim Sanderfer is against 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:24.800 this action by the government. I think you're right because 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:27.240 and I don't want to speak for anybody, because there 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:28.400 are nuances here. 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:33.280 It is dicey as you're about to get into because. 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:38.719 Well, right, because the First Amendment does protect me saying, 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:43.120 for instance, I mean I can say I think Hijinping's right. 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:45.800 I think China ought to run the world. I can 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:47.400 repeat foreign propaganda. 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:48.680 I have that right. 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:52.080 The country would be better if China was the leader 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:53.880 of the world order. It would be better for all 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.279 of us. You can say that, and we can't outlaw 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:57.280 outlet's who say that. 0:06:58.000 --> 0:06:58.200 Right. 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:01.560 There are plenty of people, several of their names, repeating 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:05.560 Russian propaganda right now, which is absolute horsecrap. And you 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:07.560 ought to be smarter than that. But having said that, 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:11.559 here's the deal, and and I am not. I would 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:13.880 like to spend all of my time for the next 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:16.280 week studying up on this question, but I don't have time. 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:19.320 Do you remember we. 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:23.360 All got hip too, you know, in the early days 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:26.120 of everybody having a smartphone and having apps, and how 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:28.680 great all the free apps were. Took a little while, 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:30.880 but most of us got hip to the fact that 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:32.520 if it's free. 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:35.720 It's because you are the product. 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:43.000 That card game, that angry birds, that that shopping app, 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:47.000 will you name it exists. 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:48.000 To collect your data. 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:50.520 All they did was come up with a clever way 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:52.840 of how to entice you into giving them your data. 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:55.480 Yeah, free chess app my son came across the other day. 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:57.840 Oh no, I can download on my computer. I ain't 0:07:57.880 --> 0:07:59.480 play chess for free. And it's another one of those 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:01.760 one you download it, they get to look at every 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:06.520 key stroke you ever make apps or perhaps they're ADS supported, 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:08.240 which is fine, We're ad supported. 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:09.480 It's the way you do business. 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:17.360 But the point is TikTok is not a social media 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:20.400 trading videos platform. 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:22.800 At its core, it. 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:27.800 Is a tool of Chinese Communist Party surveillance and manipulation 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:29.160 of our young people. 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:33.520 That is why it exists now. 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:38.480 The manifestation of that is how it does what it does, 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:40.920 and how it does it right now is what people 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:45.400 are arguing about. But because and this is a new 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:48.000 era that our founding fathers didn't reckon with, at least 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:51.600 not specifically, you have a tool designed and implemented by 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:54.400 the Chinese Communist Party by proxy. Because I don't for 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:57.520 a second disagree with you Jack, if you can be 0:08:57.600 --> 0:09:00.520 manipulated by the Chinese Communist Party, you are or will be. 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:03.960 So you've got an app that exists to collect data 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:10.679 and influence minds that is controlled by proxy for now 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:13.920 or directly, we don't know, by the Chinese Communist Party. 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:16.880 If you just say, look, you got to several ties 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:20.160 with any Chinese overlords. And then, and this is the 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:24.280 government's argument, you can do precisely what you're doing right 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:26.920 now in the way you're doing it, but it can't 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.920 be controlled by the Chinese Communist Party because that is 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:33.040 the federal law that the that the federal government and 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:36.240 for once I agree with Biden administration is resting on 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:38.439 And I don't remember the specific name of the act, 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:43.200 but the act targets control by a foreign adversary, not 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:44.360 the speech. 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:46.000 Right. Yeah. 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:50.360 I actually listened to the Advisory Opinions podcast from The 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:53.800 Dispatch the other day with New York Times lawyer columnist 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:57.000 David French and Sarah Isger, both Harvard lawyers, arguing over this. 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:59.400 Most of it was way over my head, but yeah, 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:01.760 their whole thing was you got to stay away from 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:04.120 the speech part. You can't make it about the content 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:07.400 because you get because if you get into that only no, 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:10.640 you get to have a newspaper in the United States 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:14.640 that's communist and says communism is better all day, every day, 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:17.320 I mean always, We've been doing that in the United States. 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:22.839 But it gets pretty dicey if it's who's behind it 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:24.839 and what extent do you mean behind it? 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:27.200 Right, that's a tough one. 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:29.160 And I realize what I'm about to say is a 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:34.880 little gray area, slippery slope, but it's true. Nonetheless, in 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:40.160 the era of AI and leaps forward in computer technology, 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:48.160 we don't fully understand the capability of TikTok in what 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:51.640 it's being used for or what it will be used for. 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:56.199 It is absolutely a tool being wielded by our most 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:00.840 dangerous enemy, and I think we need to air while 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:04.960 protecting the speech to the side of if China's in 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:07.000 favor of it, I'm against it. 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:09.240 Well, I don't think that makes me a lunatic. Yeah, 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:10.800 that was one of the things I was hoping. I thought. 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.800 I was hoping that as the word got out that 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:17.920 TikTok is the Chinese Communist Party misleading you, that so 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:20.440 many people would not be interested in using it. But 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:23.040 as I was told one it's a conspiracy theory in 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.240 two people said, yeah, but it's so much fun. 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:30.120 Well, yeah, and we are dealing with a horrible situation 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:33.080 where are young are indoctrinated to hate their country. So 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:35.880 if your argument is we've got to protect the United 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:38.840 States of America from the Chinese, they're like, why would 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.600 we bother? This is the most racist country on earth. 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:43.280 It's a colonial oppressor. 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:43.960 Well. 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:46.800 Trump and Kamala were both on TikTok during the election 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:50.480 because that's such a good way to reach young people, right. 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:54.200 Right, And what he has to say about it should 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:57.360 be interesting going forward. Like everything else, he thinks he 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:59.959 can negotiate a much better deal than the previous guys did. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:01.760 Well, he seems to be right. He seems to have 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:02.600 changed his mind. 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.040 Trump, as always, he makes statements where he always leaves 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:07.200 himself out. But it seems that he's changed his mind 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:09.240 on the TikTok thing that is supposed to end on 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:12.240 the nineteenth, the day before the inauguration. 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:15.560 We'll see. Yeah, he's gone back and forth. Who knows. 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:18.480 It's scary. Though. 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:23.360 One thing I wish would happen is, uh, we could get. 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:25.840 Their algorithm, I guess, because that's what they got. 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:28.400 Going for him, right, the best algorithm ever for figuring 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:31.559 out what it is you're interested in and keeping you addicted. 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:33.400 All day long, and to ruin the brains of very 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:37.720 young Yes, nice, more on the way, stay here, Armstrong. 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:41.960 Hey, So what we are seeing is the result of 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:46.120 eight months of negligible rain and wins that have not 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:49.280 been seen in LA in at least fourteen years. 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:54.240 It's a deadly combination. Scot's Mayor Bass of Los Angeles. 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:57.160 She finally got back to town with the biggest disaster 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:01.640 in LA history happening is out of town. I don't 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.200 think that's a particularly big deal. Her leadership on this 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:09.079 and some of her comments around fire prevention and all 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:11.160 kinds of different things over the years have been horrific. 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:12.760 But here's a little more of what she had to 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:14.520 say that's being mocked right now. 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:19.600 If you need help, emergency information, resources and shelter is available. 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:24.319 All of this can be found at you Arel. Los 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:27.480 Angeles together is how we will get through this. 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:30.760 At yourel. 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:32.760 A lot of these people that get to be elected 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:37.880 are leaders, are terrible leaders. They're all kinds of good 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:42.680 at working political machinery and knowing where the various power. 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:46.719 Structured grievances are or money, money, all that different sort 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:49.679 of stuff. But they're not leaders in any sense. If 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:51.680 you're you know, you're out of your home because it 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:54.120 burnt down here, all the help you need is that you. 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.800 Are l okay. 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:01.600 Alan Karen Bascott cut seventy million dollars from the fire 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:06.920 budget even while she campaigned for lavish services for illegal immigrants. 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:10.240 Did one equal the other? I don't know, let's find out. 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:11.240 Let's talk about that. 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:13.960 Here she was attempted to border a plane and board 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:16.439 a plane and being asked a whole bunch of questions 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:17.120 by a reporter. 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:20.320 Do you owe citizens and apology for being absent while 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:23.600 their homes were burning? Do you regret cutting the fire 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:25.560 department budget by millions of dollars? 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:26.080 Not in there? 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:31.240 Have you nothing to say today that I have you 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:35.440 absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today? Alon Musk 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:38.760 says that you're utterly incompetent. Are you considering your position, 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:42.960 madam mayor? Have you absolutely nothing to say to the 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:51.640 citizens today here dealing with this disaster? No apology for them? 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:54.200 Do you think you should have been visiting Ghana while 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:55.120 this was unfolding? 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:55.840 Back home. 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:01.280 So in the same way that because of all the 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:05.880 illegal immigrants in New York, Donald Trump got more votes 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:08.200 in New York than any Republican I think ever, I 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:13.560 mean just crazy support compared to anything any Republicans got 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:16.120 in the past. Same thing might happen in LA around 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:18.360 the whole fire story. New York Post with this story 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:22.160 celebrities turn on DEM's blast LA Mayor for fire response 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:24.800 ruined our state. A whole bunch of quotes from big 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:28.840 time Hollywood types who are unhappy with their own side 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:29.640 and the way they've had it. 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:31.840 And this is the sort of thing you don't forget. 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:34.600 This isn't just like a passing I'm mad now, but 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:36.080 I'll get over it sort of story. 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:39.360 You would hope you could figure out that policy equals 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:42.280 results before your house burns down. 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:46.440 But maybe that's what it takes for some people. 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:48.240 Right, and you just don't vote for the party that 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:51.640 has pronouns or says the right things about LATINX or whatever, 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:53.479 and you actually look at the policies. 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:57.120 But this could be the LA version of what happened 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.800 in New York over immigration. I think, to get. 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:02.400 Back to the previous thought about climate change, I love 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:06.400 this once again from Tim Lawyer. The environmentalism religion offers 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:09.320 its own handy excuses. It's climate change's fault. You can't 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:11.800 blame a mass. We could never have foreseen it. The 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:15.080 only precautions we could possibly take would be the overthrow 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:18.480 of capitalism and the destruction of all technology. 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:21.040 That's right. It is a great blanket excuse. 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:26.560 Now, yes it's incredibly dry, and yes it's incredibly windy, 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:29.800 and yeah that's it's like a crazy coming together of 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:34.000 terrible factors. But you're cutting the budget of the fire 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:37.440 department to provide services to illegal immigrants and not the 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:38.760 people of La. 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:41.840 County, and everybody knows it's fire prone. 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:44.480 Joe Rogan, among others, has been saying, hey, one day, 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:47.480 this entire place is going to go up, So don't 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:49.160 blame climate change or the wind. 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.160 Well, if you need help, go to URL. That's what 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:51.600 I say. 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:56.640 We're watching the Carter funeral, the multi hour spectacle unfold. 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.480 The talk of the funeral so far is Barack Obama 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:02.160 and Donald Trump yucking it up for many, many minutes 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:03.320 before this thing started. 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:05.640 What were they talking about. Somebody's got to find out. 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:08.320 Among other stories we've got for you coming up, stay 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:16.520 with us, Armstrong and Geeddy. So Joe Biden's the only 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:19.080 former president speaking at Carter's funeral today. 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:21.000 They're all there. 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:22.280 In the first couple of rows, and Joe Biden is 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:24.480 just taking the microphone and we'll keep an eye on that. 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:27.800 Oh boy, see how it goes. Barack Obama just leaned 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:29.879 into Trump. Just watch, he's going to tell that stupid 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:34.960 corvette story again. Biden's at some point gonna say, Jimmy 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:37.360 is Jimmy here? I was told Jimmy Carter would be here. 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:46.240 Oh where's Jimmy. Where's Jimmy? Where's Jimmy? So Jimmy would 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:48.439 be here? Oh boy, I hope not. I hope that 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:49.040 doesn't happen. 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:52.359 Well, and when they're done, I hope the minister doesn't 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:53.280 shout next. 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:57.679 Oh boy, Joe's got a belief that we could get 0:17:57.720 --> 0:17:59.360 it two for one going here. Everybody's in the dark 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:02.480 suits already, right, Garth Brooks is there to sing a. 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:05.359 Song, might get a buy one. Get on, Do you 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:07.280 feel like you're going soon? That would be a good time. 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:10.560 Oh boy, really probably inappropriate. Let's move on. 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:13.080 Come on. I will tell you this A couple of 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:16.359 technoes as an introduction. I'll point out that there's a 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:19.240 big piece in the Atlantic which is it does really 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:21.280 good long form journalism, but ninety percent of the time 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:25.159 it's obnoxiously left and just annoying. But one of the 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:29.240 pieces they're running this month is the anti social century. 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:32.680 Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It's 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:35.919 changing our politics, our personality, even our relationship to reality. 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:38.040 I think, I think that is the answer to virtually 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:41.760 every question that's plaguing the modern mind. Is so much 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:44.240 of our interaction as virtual. Now we don't spend time 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:44.800 with humans. 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:47.960 I have a bit of an insight into that. And yes, 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:51.960 and that last one you said is the biggest problem. 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:53.320 What was the last part of that? It was the 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:55.400 we don't spend time with humans. 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:57.760 No, no, no, your list of it's causing all of 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:01.000 our Oh oh, and there you had a list of 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:03.920 things with commas between him. Was the last relationship to reality? 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:08.720 Yes, that's the problem. Yeah. Once you lose your relationship 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:12.199 to reality, everything's kind of a problem. 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:16.320 Well, yes, if you're no longer grounded in what you 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:20.199 can see here, feel, smell, observe every day and the 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:23.520 ideas that you trade with the people you actually interact 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:29.000 with virtually any idea seems as good as any other idea. 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:33.080 Well, I saw that Atlantic piece about that. The part 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:35.840 that stuck out to me was men are doing a 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:39.080 lot of watching TV, which has always been true, but 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:41.320 maybe it's more now. Are they watching TV or staring 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:44.080 at a screenplaying video games? Whichever it doesn't make any difference. 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:47.439 It said here men who watch television spend seven hours 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:49.359 in front of the TV for every hour they spend 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:52.560 hanging out with somebody outside their home. This one struck me, 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:55.840 and I think it's absolutely true. The typical female pet 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:59.080 owner spends more time actively engaged with their pets than 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:01.400 she spends and faced FaceTime with contact and her friends 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:03.680 of her own species. That seems to be the thing 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:07.639 for girls. Guys play video games, watch sports, et cetera. 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:11.880 Women, it's the pets man. The airport is full of pets. 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:16.200 It's all chicks with their dogs. It's the motherhood urge. 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:19.920 That's the that's their companion is the pet. Oh, here's 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:21.879 Katie who has a dog. Yes, Katie who has a 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:23.280 dog wears clothes, Yes, Katie. 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:25.359 Oh, I spend so much time with my dog and 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:27.200 in his face and actually. 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:30.520 My husband knows so that he doesn't work. My husband works, Frankie. 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:32.560 Frankie's here all day long. You got a husband, you 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:33.119 got married. 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:35.399 I think the point of this whole isolation thing is 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:37.680 people alone with us. 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:40.320 And don't need any other relationship because of that. 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:42.600 Although I would point out that your dog has a 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:44.960 very human sounding name, it's not. 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:49.080 He is quite dapper. I will say, I know you 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:50.960 guys hate how much I love my dog, and I 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:55.280 just no, no, I love my dog, but. 0:20:55.960 --> 0:20:56.760 You don't put a shirt. 0:20:56.760 --> 0:20:57.439 I got it. 0:20:57.560 --> 0:20:59.760 I did get him a matching shirt Withdrew. You know 0:20:59.800 --> 0:21:01.640 they got matching flannels. What can I say? 0:21:01.720 --> 0:21:03.960 Will your dog and your husband at matching shirts? Not 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:07.520 at all troubling? Actually, that sounds really funny. They have 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:08.840