Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Show, Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Getty and he Armstrong and Yetty Tim
Speaker 2: what could be a.
Speaker 3: Significant step towards peace Ukraine agreeing to President Trump's proposal
Speaker 3: for a thirty day seaspire, with the President turning the
Speaker 3: spotlight on Russia, announcing he will speak to President Putin.
Speaker 4: Hopefully President Putin will agree to that also, and we could.
Speaker 1: Get this show on the road.
Speaker 3: Secretary of State Rubio leading the talks in Saudi Arabia,
Speaker 3: also saying Russia must make the next move.
Speaker 5: Balls now in their court. As they say no, then, well,
Speaker 5: unfortunately know what the impediment is to piece here.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I'm hoping, as Keirs Simmons reporting on NBC,
Speaker 1: I'm hoping we're a out to see the squeeze on Putin. Hey,
Speaker 1: they had to get everything lined up, Squeezings and Lensky
Speaker 1: to agree to the deal. Deals in place, As Rubio said,
Speaker 1: Secretary of State, balls in Putin's court now, and I'm
Speaker 1: hoping maybe you start putting pressure on Putin or saying
Speaker 1: some bad things about him if he doesn't go along.
Speaker 1: I guess we'll find out.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's an interesting strategy if indeed it is a
Speaker 6: you know, a coherent strategy, and I don't know that
Speaker 6: it's not.
Speaker 1: I don't know that it is.
Speaker 6: Um no, and Putin is so completely, almost ridiculously unreliable
Speaker 6: as a party to an agreement.
Speaker 1: So here's Richard Engel of NBC with a little analysis
Speaker 1: on it.
Speaker 4: So it has been a very trying time, fast moving events,
Speaker 4: especially when people here know that their country is on
Speaker 4: the line, that the future map of Ukraine is being
Speaker 4: redrawn at this moment, and it is happening so quickly.
Speaker 4: But today, today, at this very moment, I think they
Speaker 4: feel quite satisfied with the end of this diplomatic process
Speaker 4: because they want this. They want a piece, they say
Speaker 4: that they want, however, a lasting piece, and if a
Speaker 4: ceasefire can bring those negotiations, they certainly welcome it. And
Speaker 4: if it can expose Vladimir Putin as someone who doesn't
Speaker 4: want an agreement, all the better for Ukraine.
Speaker 1: Well, that's interesting. And Richard Ingle wouldn't say that Ukraine's
Speaker 1: pretty happy with this if they weren't, right, I want
Speaker 1: to get this on. This is somebody on CNN because
Speaker 1: I was accused of spouting MSNBC talking points on the
Speaker 1: text line earlier, this being one of them.
Speaker 7: It's a win for Ukraine and it gives them a
Speaker 7: chance now to flip the narrative that the ball is
Speaker 7: in Russia's court and now if Russia wants to be
Speaker 7: the bad guy, you know, Putin has to decide.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I miss read it. I said earlier this
Speaker 1: might be a win for Russia and that you know,
Speaker 1: if he agrees to a cease fire. It's the same
Speaker 1: reason Hamas agreed to various ceasefires, so they could you know,
Speaker 1: get some food and get some more ammunition and you know,
Speaker 1: get their act together so they could attack again.
Speaker 6: Ship in some more North Koreans to get mowed down
Speaker 6: by machine guns the first day there in country.
Speaker 1: And I was accused of spouting MSNBC talking points there,
Speaker 1: But that's not an argument. Well yeah, but it's interesting
Speaker 1: that Richard Engel and the CNN reporter both say Ukraine's
Speaker 1: happy about this. It's a win for Ukraine to get this, Okay. Uh.
Speaker 1: Here's our friend Josh Rogan of the Washington Post on
Speaker 1: CNN eighty five.
Speaker 8: I think what Zelenski achieved here was that he put
Speaker 8: the spotlight back on the Russians to show that if
Speaker 8: there's no ceasefire, it's Putin's fault, not Zelensky's fault. The
Speaker 8: problem with the Oval Office meeting was that it convinced
Speaker 8: Trump that the lack of peace was Zelenski's fault, and
Speaker 8: he blames Elenskin. He punished the Ukrainians. Now it's on Putin.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I don't know with Trump how much is strategy and
Speaker 6: how much is a reaction to being challenged, because he
Speaker 6: has a very rigid, hot temperty reaction to being challenged
Speaker 6: by anybody, whether it's Zelensky or who was absolutely out
Speaker 6: of line trying to litigate the case in front of
Speaker 6: the cameras when everybody's supposed to shake hands and make nice. Anyway,
Speaker 6: But the recent experience with Doug Ford up in Canada,
Speaker 6: the premiere of Ontario saying all right, you're gonna levy
Speaker 6: tariffs on off us. We're going to levy tariffs on you,
Speaker 6: including the electricity, and Trump went nuts. I mean, his
Speaker 6: rhetoric was like over the top. So there are those
Speaker 6: though I could see you writing your emails right now,
Speaker 6: say no that is the strategy. It's the Madman theory,
Speaker 6: throwing everything up in the air, getting everybody on their heels.
Speaker 1: Then he goes in and crafts the deal he wants
Speaker 1: to craft. I can't believe we cut off intelligence to
Speaker 1: Ukraine allowing that how they.
Speaker 6: Get early alerts of a haack, drone attacks and missile
Speaker 6: attacks so their civilians can run down in the air
Speaker 6: raid shelters. We cut that off for a few days.
Speaker 6: Why to force force them to the table.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Anyway, this I found very very interesting and sort
Speaker 1: of shakes up my view of the whole ceasepire thing
Speaker 1: talking about Russia's economy and how bad it is.
Speaker 5: That war is devastating Russia. They've raised interest rates to
Speaker 5: twenty one percent because inflation is so high. They claim
Speaker 5: inflation is nine percent, But that's bs. You don't have
Speaker 5: twenty one percent interest rates if you have nine percent inflation.
Speaker 5: True inflation is by forty percent or something like that.
Speaker 5: The cost of borrowing is you want a mortgage in
Speaker 5: moscows by thirty forty percent. Enterprises right now, a third
Speaker 5: of enterprises right now are not paying each other. They
Speaker 5: don't have the money to pay each other. Factories but
Speaker 5: butter is being locked up in supermarkets because it's become
Speaker 5: so expensive that people are stealing it. Couldn't does not
Speaker 5: have unlimited time. If the Ukrainians can hold out one
Speaker 5: more year, Russia's economy collapses.
Speaker 1: Been hearing that for a while though, since the beginning
Speaker 1: of the war, when we really put the squeeze on them,
Speaker 1: that they Russia wouldn't last long. But China gets around it.
Speaker 1: Some of our friends continue to buy stuff from Russia.
Speaker 6: I've read equally learned commentators say that indeed, yeah, Russia
Speaker 6: and the Axis of a Holes as we like to
Speaker 6: call it, have have made it so that Russia is
Speaker 6: not really that isolated, and economically they're doing much better
Speaker 6: than anybody expected.
Speaker 1: But I mean, if mortgage a mortgages are.
Speaker 6: Thirty forty percent, and that's an economy that's in terrible shape.
Speaker 1: If inflation's anywhere close to forty percent, I mean, if
Speaker 1: it's half that, you would think he's not long for
Speaker 1: this world. Putin, somebody would take him out, you would think.
Speaker 1: I mean, if it is a country run by Olive Arts,
Speaker 1: as has been reported for decades now, those are billionaires
Speaker 1: who run the country and keep putting an office. Why
Speaker 1: are they going to continue that? Yeah? Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: heard the rest of that report. That guy is Matthew
Speaker 1: Brazinski on NBC, former Wall Street Journal reporter. I don't
Speaker 1: know what he does now, but he made the point that,
Speaker 1: you know, these dictators seem solid as a rock until
Speaker 1: the day they're not. Let's see Ryan bashar Assad in
Speaker 1: Syria or whatever. It's so unpredictable, you just never know.
Speaker 6: So this is a quick aside for the golfers in
Speaker 6: the audience, although I think everybody will get it.
Speaker 1: I had a conversation the other day.
Speaker 6: We were going to play, but the forecast was terrible,
Speaker 6: and we got this text string. There are twelve of
Speaker 6: us that were going to play, and everybody was like
Speaker 6: feeling each other out. I looks kind of rough today.
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna be the first to pull out, but
Speaker 6: what that forecast? The other guy right back? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 6: kind of kind of rough looking, don't know, you know,
Speaker 6: could go either way, but nobody wants to be the
Speaker 6: first guy to pull out, so you feel each other out.
Speaker 6: And I had a conversation with a buddy of mine
Speaker 6: that it's exactly like when somebody wants to stage a coup,
Speaker 6: like if you want to get rid of Putin. There's
Speaker 6: a lot of boy Putin's some interesting moves lately, you know,
Speaker 6: And then you're waiting for somebody to say, yeah, I
Speaker 6: don't think it's very smart.
Speaker 1: Then you know, I think give you a slightly different look.
Speaker 1: You say, but I like them. They're interesting. But there,
Speaker 1: you know, thinking outside the box. And I innovative was
Speaker 1: the word I was looking for her.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so what do you Then you turn to the
Speaker 6: other guy, But what do you think of the job
Speaker 6: our beloved leaders doing it?
Speaker 1: I got some questions. You're just looking for hints.
Speaker 6: That somebody's with you, except deciding whether to play golf
Speaker 6: or not generally doesn't involve being shoved out a window
Speaker 6: or executed as a trader after, you know, was several
Speaker 6: months of beating his torture.
Speaker 1: Well, and he had that weekend where it looked like
Speaker 1: Progosion might march all the way to Moscow and have
Speaker 1: a showdown, but he backed off for whatever reason and
Speaker 1: then ended up being murdered in a plane crash.
Speaker 6: Yeah, was he not the absolute classic example of if
Speaker 6: you're gonna shoot at the King, don't miss.
Speaker 2: How was that?
Speaker 6: And don't say, you know what, I got a hothead.
Speaker 6: I'm so sorry, my majesty. I'm I'm good. We're good though,
Speaker 6: We're good right now, that's not a choice.
Speaker 4: How did the.
Speaker 1: Guys wiley as him think he was ever gonna survive?
Speaker 1: That he thought he had cards to play? Wow? Misread
Speaker 1: that one. I wonder if he I wonder if he
Speaker 1: thought that is the plane was plunging toward earth. I
Speaker 1: really thought I had that figured plat. Yeah, anyway, so
Speaker 1: who knows where this is direction is going? I I
Speaker 1: hope we hear some slightly nasty language about Putin, one
Speaker 1: of the worst people on planet Earth. Yeah, I hope
Speaker 1: we hear something, you know, not favorable about the guy.
Speaker 6: A totalitarian megalomaniac who has zero interest in quote unquote
Speaker 6: protecting Christianity no matter what your favorite lack adoodal right
Speaker 6: wing influencer, and I'm a right winger is trying to
Speaker 6: tell you.
Speaker 1: So this hour, a state farm executive state farm Insurance
Speaker 1: in California got caught on a hot mic on purpose.
Speaker 1: It was a trap saying some really bad things, and
Speaker 1: now he's out of a job. About those of us
Speaker 1: who pay for insurance.
Speaker 6: And it all fits into the greater story of rebuilding
Speaker 6: LA after the cataclysmic wildfires, and how especially on the
Speaker 6: left of politics, which is really the only side that
Speaker 6: matters in California, they are really hot to trot to
Speaker 6: not let this crisis go to waste what they're going
Speaker 6: to try to accomplish.
Speaker 1: And the secret recording is a warning to those of
Speaker 1: you that be careful on your Tinder dates. You don't
Speaker 1: know this person that might be your lesson for the
Speaker 1: day among us. I'll file that one away among other things.
Speaker 1: On the way. Stay here.
Speaker 9: The Museum of Failure houses some of the world's greatest flops.
Speaker 9: Visitors can see attractions such as crystal Pepsi, carrot cake Oreos,
Speaker 9: and of course that Don Lemon exhibits.
Speaker 6: This tone of voice. Made that joke I read about
Speaker 6: the Museum of Failure. It's actually a cool idea. There's
Speaker 6: a huge legal dispute going on right now, but yeah,
Speaker 6: the idea being, yeah, yeah, failure doesn't stop you. You
Speaker 6: had to set back, you learn from it, you move on.
Speaker 6: It's kind of a cool idea.
Speaker 1: So coming up, we're gonna talk about this audio that
Speaker 1: was secretly recorded of a state farm executive and it
Speaker 1: gets into the how businesses become woken all that sort
Speaker 1: of stuff. But the dude was secretly recorded on a
Speaker 1: tender date that he thought was real but turned out
Speaker 1: to be, you know, a honeypot sort of sting to
Speaker 1: get him to talk and record him. And we actually
Speaker 1: got into the conversation about this online dating stuff during
Speaker 1: the commercials. Katie, you've done online dating. I don't even
Speaker 1: remember if you talked about that or not. Nobody else
Speaker 1: here has I don't think, Yeah you have, Yeah, I haven't.
Speaker 1: Joe obviously has it. Michael, you haven't.
Speaker 6: No, No, I wait, And judging from your tone of voice,
Speaker 6: it was just a bull of cherry.
Speaker 1: But I know a lot of people that have, and
Speaker 1: one of the things that they all say is nobody
Speaker 1: looks even close to like their picture, at least particularly
Speaker 1: the tender stuff. I don't know about. Maybe e harmony
Speaker 1: is more I don't know, real than that. I don't know,
Speaker 1: because it's from what I understand, Tinder is still more
Speaker 1: of a hookup app than the looking for my husband
Speaker 1: or wife.
Speaker 10: It kind of went down in the ranks as a
Speaker 10: hookup app because there are more hook up apps that
Speaker 10: have develop.
Speaker 1: Since I used it, But yeah, it's it's probably it
Speaker 1: probably probably floats around just like the popular bar huh.
Speaker 10: Yeah yeah, And I mean I used it before all
Speaker 10: of the filters and stuff were a big deal. But
Speaker 10: I noticed that the guys tend to put up like
Speaker 10: the best pictures obviously of themselves, that make it look
Speaker 10: like they have different occupations than they actually have.
Speaker 1: Well, wearing the medical lab code and that sort of thing, yeah,
Speaker 1: our business suit. Well, putting up the best picture of
Speaker 1: yourself is you know, yeah, it's par for the course.
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody does that. But if it if you
Speaker 1: don't look like it, I mean I would. I have
Speaker 1: heard people talk about you walk into the coffee shop
Speaker 1: or whatever it is and you don't even know that's
Speaker 1: them over there. Yeah, I didn't go through that.
Speaker 6: I was reading something the other day and got one
Speaker 6: of those pop up ads in the middle of the article,
Speaker 6: and it was for a filter app, and it was
Speaker 6: saying the message of it was essentially for dating apps,
Speaker 6: that the other apps make you look totally unlike yourself
Speaker 6: and not like a real person. Our app makes you
Speaker 6: look totally unlike yourself, but like a real person, just
Speaker 6: not you.
Speaker 1: So this is a much better app and.
Speaker 6: I thought, Wow, so they just it's obviously just completely
Speaker 6: accepted that that's what's happening.
Speaker 1: Well, you can't get in the you can't make the
Speaker 1: sale unless you get in the door. That's such a
Speaker 1: shameless move. My anxiety would be through the roofified.
Speaker 10: At that, going, oh my god, this guy's gonna walk
Speaker 10: in here, and that is not me in that photo.
Speaker 1: I'm not not going to do that, like out of
Speaker 1: some moral conviction about online dating. If I were ever
Speaker 1: going to do it, it'd be out of I don't
Speaker 1: want to have expectations set. I don't want to look
Speaker 1: at a disappointed face as they turn around and walk
Speaker 1: back out the door. That sounds horrible. Jack gives himself
Speaker 1: a nine inch mullet. Just better to have.
Speaker 6: A picture of yourself like at the end of a
Speaker 6: long night of drinking, half incoherent, uncamped, with the snot
Speaker 6: coming out of your nose. Yeah, that way, anybody you
Speaker 6: know is going to be pleased when you show up.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, oh gosh, great, asked Michael. No, but I
Speaker 1: was thinking, yeah, what is it any different than like
Speaker 1: I had a quarter pounder with Jees at the McDonald yesterday.
Speaker 1: It did not look like the one on the poster
Speaker 1: in the restaurant. It didn't have the big fluffy lettuce
Speaker 1: with the buns standing up over a fresh tomato and
Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff. So you know advertising, Like
Speaker 1: Joe said, yeah, well, it's it's similar. I'd say, looks
Speaker 1: are more fundamental to the dancer of love than they
Speaker 1: are wolfing down a cut rate burger. True, it's it's related.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: I heard such an interesting podcast the other day. I
Speaker 1: meant to bring some of this on the air and
Speaker 1: look into it more about how damaging for society online
Speaker 1: dating is for a variety of reasons, and statistics were amazing.
Speaker 1: It's like ten percent of dudes are like the entire
Speaker 1: online thing, and certain to a certain extent, same with women,
Speaker 1: although it's a little different women just for the obvious
Speaker 1: thing that guys will have sex with practically anybody, but
Speaker 1: so they have a lot more opportunities. But there's like
Speaker 1: a top ten percent of dudes who are good looking.
Speaker 1: A lot of them might not be good people, but
Speaker 1: they're good looking enough that like are eighty percent of
Speaker 1: the of the matches and the people that go on dates.
Speaker 1: So it's just the same ten percent of dudes dating
Speaker 1: and having sex over and over and over and over
Speaker 1: and over again, taking women out to eat, and then
Speaker 1: you know, people get burnt out on the whole thing
Speaker 1: because of that.
Speaker 10: I think I mentioned this to you guys before, But
Speaker 10: I was with a group of twenty somethings and they
Speaker 10: were all on their dating apps, and they were sitting
Speaker 10: there next to each other making sure that each other
Speaker 10: were not talking to the same guys that they had
Speaker 10: matched with, and I'm going, oh my god, I'm so
Speaker 10: glad I'm not in this right.
Speaker 1: And that's because that pool is so small. Yeah, in
Speaker 1: whatever town you're in or you know zip code you're
Speaker 1: putting in there.
Speaker 6: I think coming up, the rebuilding of Los Angeles has
Speaker 6: not surprisingly run headlong head on into politics, particularly progressive politics.
Speaker 6: How that might play out and more coming up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this secretly recorded state farm agent because of a
Speaker 1: tender date, bad idea. I got that on the way.
Speaker 1: You stay here, armstrong and getty, like in.
Speaker 5: Marin County in northern California, or some of the fringe
Speaker 5: areas like where the count states.
Speaker 1: Are can never be houses where like people want to
Speaker 1: be filled in areas where I like really hard for
Speaker 1: you that are here probably listening on the radio. That's
Speaker 1: a state former state farm executive. He's been fired now,
Speaker 1: Hayden Kirkpatrick. He was on a tender date in the
Speaker 1: tender dages. What do you do for a living? Ooh,
Speaker 1: home insurance sounds fascinating. Tell me more to get to
Speaker 1: get him to talk about, among other things, their emergency
Speaker 1: filing with the state of Californi after the horrifying fires
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, and Kilpatrick, the state farm executive now fired,
Speaker 1: actually said that they went into a panic when they
Speaker 1: realized how much this was gonna cost. To quote, our
Speaker 1: people look at this and says, we've got like maybe
Speaker 1: five billion dollars that were short if something happens. So
Speaker 1: they had to go to the Department Insurance and say
Speaker 1: we're overexposed. Here, you have to let us catch up.
Speaker 1: They say no, and then we say, okay, well we're
Speaker 1: then we're gonna cancel all these policies. So well, that
Speaker 1: is pretty well known so far. Yeah, So I just
Speaker 1: in general, the whole insurance thing, my life experience has
Speaker 1: been you pay insurance your whole life, and then if
Speaker 1: you have a wreck or something happens, to your house,
Speaker 1: they either drop you or jack up your rates so
Speaker 1: much that you end up paying back for what they covered.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what's happened to me anyway.
Speaker 6: Uh, yeah, you know, it reminds me of the discussion
Speaker 6: we had earlier about how people don't tend to sympathize
Speaker 6: with convict inmates even when what's being done is horrible
Speaker 6: and indefensible. It's just not a super sympathetic you know
Speaker 6: a target. Likewise, insurance companies. I mean, even if the
Speaker 6: way they have been done by the state is indefensible,
Speaker 6: it's tough to work up many tears.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then I don't know it's being seen as
Speaker 1: controversial that he said that people shouldn't have been building
Speaker 1: in those areas anyway. It's just for their egos. They
Speaker 1: want to live in a beautiful area like this and
Speaker 1: there shouldn't even be homes there. But I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's controversial.
Speaker 6: Yeah, people want to live in beautiful places. It's not
Speaker 6: much of a revelation whether it's for your ego or
Speaker 6: you like the view. Well, and it's indisputable, and I'm
Speaker 6: not some sort of industry hack. But as metro areas grow,
Speaker 6: people are living in. There's a term for it where
Speaker 6: you know, more urban areas meet nature and there's much
Speaker 6: great fire risk, particularly in a place like California or
Speaker 6: anywhere in the Westerlia.
Speaker 1: I don't know if this state farm exec was fired
Speaker 1: because he said something we didn't mostly already know, or
Speaker 1: because the company thought, if you're going to go on
Speaker 1: tender dates with randos and start talking about the way
Speaker 1: we do business in the state, and maybe you should
Speaker 1: work somewhere else. So is there more that's controversial about this? Really? Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: they go to the state and say, look, if you
Speaker 1: don't let us jack up the rates, we're gonna start
Speaker 1: canceling all these policies. Is not seen as cool, maybe
Speaker 1: the way he phrased it, but that's precisely the case
Speaker 1: State farms to take it. It's exactly what they do.
Speaker 1: It's exactly what happens.
Speaker 6: Don't be talking business with bimbos, yes, no, biz with
Speaker 6: BIMs right, Okay, So I thought this was interesting speaking
Speaker 6: of that sort of thing. The Wall Street Journal is
Speaker 6: talking to a realtor about transactions going on people trying
Speaker 6: to buy properties that are still standing or land or whatever,
Speaker 6: and nobody can get insurance. And the one deal she's
Speaker 6: closed lately, it was a seven figure purchase. The buyer said, no,
Speaker 6: I can't get insurance. I'll be self insured. I'll just
Speaker 6: if my place burns down, I'm out. And that was
Speaker 6: the only one she's closed in recent days.
Speaker 1: Because so you've got a really expensive place and you
Speaker 1: want to sell it, and you find out you can't
Speaker 1: sell it because nobody can get insurance. That is rough
Speaker 1: right as they put it.
Speaker 6: The question for LA isn't so much how to rebuild
Speaker 6: the palisades, but who pays if it burns again? Said
Speaker 6: State Farm General, writing the State Insurance Commissioner, not on
Speaker 6: a tender day quote writing new policies doesn't make any
Speaker 6: sense at this time. The headline of the article, LA
Speaker 6: has big plans to rebuild after the fire's good luck
Speaker 6: getting insurance, and of course these states insure of last resort,
Speaker 6: whatever that's called. I can't remember because its kind of
Speaker 6: an innocuous name. But it's way crazy overexposed right now.
Speaker 6: The amount of money on hand versus the risk is
Speaker 6: way out of proportion that any insurance company has ever
Speaker 6: behaved on Earth. And then when they get fleeced, the
Speaker 6: rate payers in California pay according to the law, just
Speaker 6: a giant searcharge on top of your insurance if you
Speaker 6: have any. Anyway, I thought this was interesting, and you know,
Speaker 6: the article is ostensibly about how more progressive political forces
Speaker 6: are looking at the charred areas of Altadena and Pacific Palisades,
Speaker 6: all those places we saw on the news if you
Speaker 6: don't live in the LA area, rebuilding them. And how
Speaker 6: now is our opportunity MOA. Instead of leafy streets and
Speaker 6: lawns and pleasant little bungalows housing singular families, We're going
Speaker 6: to have apartment plexus everywhere, multifamily housing, affordable housing, Section
Speaker 6: eight housing. This is what we're going to do, and
Speaker 6: the politics of that playing out will be really interesting
Speaker 6: to watch. I'll be shocked if that doesn't happen, because
Speaker 6: there's well, there's a hell of a lot of money,
Speaker 6: which means a hell of a lot of power in
Speaker 6: those places. Remember when what was that story we had
Speaker 6: from Beverly Hills years ago where it turned out all
Speaker 6: the ways that they were getting around the various regulations
Speaker 6: for having low income housing and everything like that because
Speaker 6: they could afford to play the game. Oh yeah, and
Speaker 6: litigated plus they'd make big contributions to the politicians who
Speaker 6: have no beliefs, in no souls anyway, like Gavin Newsom
Speaker 6: actually cares about one issue or another. Now right, they
Speaker 6: would like list potential available housing, including an area above
Speaker 6: a BMW dealer, and the owners like, wait a minute, no,
Speaker 6: we're not building apartments there, it's our business office. But anyway,
Speaker 6: so yeah, the richer suburbs have all sorts of ways
Speaker 6: to get around the regulations. And that's an interesting topic.
Speaker 6: But in reading this story, Jack and anybody interested in
Speaker 6: journalism or fan of the Wall Street journalism I've been
Speaker 6: for many, many years, This dude, Conrad puts.
Speaker 1: Your who writes this story?
Speaker 6: It is as if it's in well, the La Times
Speaker 6: or the USA Today or the Super Liberal before Jeff
Speaker 6: Bezos threatened to spank people, Washington Post, the You know,
Speaker 6: I can read you some some specific sentences. It's about,
Speaker 6: you know, the very topic I was describing. Now, California
Speaker 6: faces a choice. Will it build the housing it badly
Speaker 6: needs or will it accept economic stagnation for the price
Speaker 6: of leafy neighborhoods and single family homes.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's in the news story. Uh, yes, this is
Speaker 1: a news story.
Speaker 6: Here California's housing shortage is at the root of its
Speaker 6: economic problems. Residents are leaving for other states at a
Speaker 6: rapid clip. Economic expansion lags behind states like Texas and Florida.
Speaker 6: And then they go into some other stats about how
Speaker 6: terrible the economy is in California, inflation driven in large
Speaker 6: part by housing costs, is eating intrenderous living standards, and
Speaker 6: attributes it all. Not a single word in the Wall
Speaker 6: Street Journal about California ranks fiftieth for business climate year
Speaker 6: after year after year. Do you think that's having an
Speaker 6: effect on the economy? But no, they say, no, it's
Speaker 6: all about housing costs. And they mentioned state and local
Speaker 6: red tape, but they never mentioned the fringe environmental lobby
Speaker 6: that also won't let building happen, and any expansion of
Speaker 6: the footprint of a city. They want it all to
Speaker 6: be high rise, affordable housing right next to public transit.
Speaker 6: But the Wall Street blank and doesn't even touch on that. Man,
Speaker 6: that's crazy. Is it just because if you want to
Speaker 6: hire young journalists or a place that people have retired
Speaker 6: or moved on or whatever, it's impossible to find somebody
Speaker 6: who's not completely woke.
Speaker 1: Well, how about presenting it like as a pejorative that
Speaker 1: you want to live on a quiet, leafy street.
Speaker 6: Yeah, everybody should live in apartment complexes. Now, I don't
Speaker 6: mean to be like the cold warrior, which I am,
Speaker 6: but I've been to former communist countries and they believe
Speaker 6: firmly and everybody ought to live in a crappy apartment
Speaker 6: and the architecture and their lives were miserable. And you know,
Speaker 6: our lefties want to do that. Final note from LA
Speaker 6: and the wildfires and the politics around the rebuilding. According
Speaker 6: to the Los Angeles Times, Karen Bass the union hack, utterly, dishonest,
Speaker 6: selfish soul mayor who anybody who's been following California politics
Speaker 6: for a long time knows exactly what she is. She
Speaker 6: is deleting her text messages, thus defeating efforts by media
Speaker 6: organizations to obtain them as government communications subject.
Speaker 1: To public records requests.
Speaker 6: According to the LA Times, The Times reported had been
Speaker 6: unable to obtain her text messages concerning her over and
Speaker 6: sees trip to Ghana because they were automatically deleted and
Speaker 6: the city had not retained them in spite of laws
Speaker 6: to the contrary. The Time suggests that best is violating
Speaker 6: both state law and the city's own administrative code.
Speaker 1: Her phone is set to erase text messages. Nice.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the fact that LA rejected a thoroughly moderate, reasonable
Speaker 6: quote unquote Democrat in favor of this union hack is
Speaker 6: it's just a measure of the depth of the just
Speaker 6: utter dysfunction of LA politics, California politics.
Speaker 1: End of screed. Last night, I had one of those
Speaker 1: deals that happens when your kids get to a certain
Speaker 1: edge where I had to run Henry to his boy
Speaker 1: Scout meeting, drop him off a little early and let
Speaker 1: him cool his heels while I ran to his brother's
Speaker 1: band concert and caught most of that before I left
Speaker 1: early to get back to pick up the other kid
Speaker 1: from the boy Scout meeting. But the band concert was
Speaker 1: really pretty good. You told me that when they get
Speaker 1: older it actually starts to become you know, like decent
Speaker 1: music whatever. And at the high school level, yeah, it
Speaker 1: was pretty good.
Speaker 5: Actually.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's a sliding scale, a continuum, a spectrum, if
Speaker 6: you will, between sacrificing for my child and being entertained
Speaker 6: and by the time they're like, you know, getting on
Speaker 6: in high school or even college. Oh no, it's one
Speaker 6: hundred percent entertainment's just great music. But here's the main
Speaker 6: reason I brought it up is they had to There
Speaker 6: was a dress code. They had to dress up a
Speaker 6: little bit to play at this little amphitheater thing, and
Speaker 6: you had to wear a tie, either a bow tie
Speaker 6: or a regular straight tie.
Speaker 1: Nobody ever even mentioned a bow tie when I was
Speaker 1: a kid. I mean, you'd have been the weirdest, dorkiest
Speaker 1: dork of all time if you were a bow tie
Speaker 1: when I was younger. But now probably twenty percent of
Speaker 1: the dudes had bow ties on, including my son who
Speaker 1: wanted to wear a bow tie. So has a bowtie
Speaker 1: made it come back? Apparently clearly? Yeah, Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: better tie. I was looking at it helping him put
Speaker 1: it on, much easier to put on, I mean, not
Speaker 1: a real you tie it tie bow tie, but like
Speaker 1: a clip on bow tie is way better than a
Speaker 1: clip on tie tie. And uh, it's just it's a
Speaker 1: cool look and it makes and the tie is I
Speaker 1: don't know what is a tie?
Speaker 6: What is Well, you're clearly an anti tiest. I am
Speaker 6: agnostic on the question. I think they're both fine. I'm
Speaker 6: in the even a fan of the bolo Although it's
Speaker 6: a stretch to call it a tie, It's an adornment.
Speaker 1: I went to a through a bolo face for a while.
Speaker 1: I liked the bolo tie. But yeah, my son looked
Speaker 1: really good in the I got it at Target. I
Speaker 1: bought it may Target to bow tie. So I guess
Speaker 1: it's not the fanciest thing in the world. So why
Speaker 1: did you abandon the bolo tie? Look?
Speaker 6: Because you are proudly a Middle American? You know, quote
Speaker 6: unquote hick m. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't do it with the soup jacket, although a
Speaker 1: lot of people do. Huh. I like it. It work anyway.
Speaker 1: If you didn't know that, the bow tie has definitely
Speaker 1: made a comeback. So show up to your next secretly
Speaker 1: recording Tinder date in a bow tie and see how
Speaker 1: it works for you. More on the way, stay here.
Speaker 1: By the way, I take in news from a lot
Speaker 1: of different sources. That's kind of what we do for
Speaker 1: a living. But so I taken stuff from MSNBC and
Speaker 1: USA Today, and boy, we just got this text about
Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal. Hey, I love the show. Other
Speaker 1: than the editorial page, the Wall Street Journal has become
Speaker 1: a left center rag. I've subscribed for over a decade,
Speaker 1: but I'm considering canceling. That's interesting that a number of
Speaker 1: people have pointed that out recently. Yeah, that's interesting. I
Speaker 1: don't find the editor real board left well they said
Speaker 1: notes with that person, oh other than I'm sorry, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: but uh but the reason I brought this up is
Speaker 1: a bouncing around Maga Twitter. I've noticed that the whole
Speaker 1: Michelle Obama and mccrone's wife have wedding tackle theme is
Speaker 1: a regular story. Goodness. Oh so that's just for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: it's an ongoing thing. To what extent is that people
Speaker 1: having fun?
Speaker 6: I don't know what extent do they actually believe two
Speaker 6: women are equipped with male genitalia?
Speaker 1: I know a couple and it seems to be one
Speaker 1: hundred percent, but it's kind of hard to tell. It's
Speaker 1: like the Flat Earth people. You can't tell if they're
Speaker 1: just enjoying themselves or what. This is happening outside a
Speaker 1: courthouse right now and happened yesterday. So that's the guy
Speaker 1: that was leading the Columbia building takeovers and protests and
Speaker 1: everything like that in favor of the Palestinians. To put
Speaker 1: it as charitably as possible, he is an agent of
Speaker 1: hamas trying to disrupt our country to put it more
Speaker 1: in line with I guess what our Justice Department thinks.
Speaker 1: But I'm fascinated by this story. I love free speech stuff.
Speaker 1: There's a I can never get tired of the conversation
Speaker 1: of what's free speech, what isn't drawn lines, various cases
Speaker 1: not alled, or stuff of that sort of thing. And
Speaker 1: you know he's in jail and gonna get deported. Is
Speaker 1: that what's going to happen.
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're trying to deport him. And can I go
Speaker 1: on a college campus or anywhere in the United States
Speaker 1: and say anything I want about various political movements? Or
Speaker 1: can I or you advocating for a terrorist group? That's
Speaker 1: where they draw the line. Bill and Illusion of Fox
Speaker 1: tweeted this out yesterday. I thought it was pretty interesting.
Speaker 1: Politicians keep getting this wrong. It doesn't matter if Khalil
Speaker 1: that's his name, hasn't been charged with a crime. It's
Speaker 1: not required under section two thirty seven of the statute.
Speaker 1: Rubio is using the Secretary of State for detaining this
Speaker 1: guy and kicking him out of the country. There is
Speaker 1: prior president that is rarely mentioned. In nineteen ninety five,
Speaker 1: when Bill Clinton was president in the matter of Ruez Messai.
Speaker 1: The court sided with then US Secretary of State Warren Christopher,
Speaker 1: a Democrat, and his powers to deport a Mexican national
Speaker 1: under the very same provision, though it is very extremely
Speaker 1: rarely used. Khalil has not been disappeared. You can look
Speaker 1: him up, find out exactly where he is. All this
Speaker 1: will be in public and out in the open, but
Speaker 1: it has happened before.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know the particulars of the Mexican national that
Speaker 1: got kicked out by the Clinton administration, but Mallusians saying
Speaker 1: it's the same argument.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the administration is not claiming that he's broken in
Speaker 6: any laws. Caroline Levitt, the White House Press secretary, said
Speaker 6: Khalil quote sided with terrorists, organized group protests that disrupted
Speaker 6: college campus classes and harassed Jewish American students and made
Speaker 6: them feel unsafe, and that the law that she was
Speaker 6: citing requires the Secretary of State to have quote reasonable
Speaker 6: ground to believe the person's presence or activities in the
Speaker 6: United States would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy.
Speaker 1: Consequences for the United States.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm quoting now from fire dot org, the Foundation
Speaker 6: for Individual Rights and expression, which is like a sane ACLU,
Speaker 6: And I support them heavily, and I'm a bit of
Speaker 6: a free speech extremists myself, so I like it even
Speaker 6: when I disagree with them, that they're kind of in
Speaker 6: the great tug of war trying to tug US toward
Speaker 6: free speech, not away from it. Having said that, I'm
Speaker 6: surprised the Administration made this the big first case of this,
Speaker 6: because there are plenty of people who have been openly
Speaker 6: violent and smashed stuff and broken stuff.
Speaker 1: But is it the difference being a US citizen or not?
Speaker 1: If if he was a US citizen born here, he
Speaker 1: could say all this stuff and he'd be in the clear.
Speaker 6: Uh yeah, well yeah, it's that's a hell of a
Speaker 6: question to ask. With three seconds left in the segment,
Speaker 6: it's the matter with
Speaker 10: You is Armstrong and Getty