1 00:00:01,840 --> 00:00:06,120 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:10,240 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 3 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Katty and he Armstrong and Getty. We've 4 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:25,160 Speaker 2: wind up. 5 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 1: Ten different guests to talk about the government shutdown over 6 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:34,479 Speaker 1: the next three hours. Cable news. I'm old, so I 7 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:36,360 Speaker 1: watch cable news. I realize a lot of you who 8 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 1: are not old, You're like you were watching what that? 9 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:42,280 Speaker 1: You don't watch it, so that makes sense. But the 10 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:46,000 Speaker 1: small number of people who still watch cable news, what 11 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:50,199 Speaker 1: do they think they're doing? I watch MSNBC and Fox 12 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:53,559 Speaker 1: every morning, and they were wall to wall government shutdown. 13 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 1: I thought, is there anybody in the country interested in 14 00:00:56,640 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 1: this back and forth and the wranglings over this? 15 00:00:59,000 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 2: Anyone? 16 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 1: And even if you're interested in it, you probably misunderstand it. 17 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:05,120 Speaker 1: I've got a good illustration of that caught up a 18 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:09,679 Speaker 1: little later, not because you lack sophistication or anything like that, 19 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:13,760 Speaker 1: but because the budget process is so complicated. Haven't you 20 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 1: lived through the last dozen of these where most of 21 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:19,279 Speaker 1: the time he gets settled before it happens and nobody 22 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:21,119 Speaker 1: ever thinks about it again after all this. 23 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 2: Conversation, Yes, the beltweit bubble. 24 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 1: They're self obsessed on a completely different topic which we're 25 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:29,199 Speaker 1: going to slide into now. Got this note from Mike 26 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 1: who lives in the San Jose, California area. We're huge 27 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 1: in the hoe. Shout out to our friends there, Californian California. 28 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:41,320 Speaker 1: In a nutshell, homeless guy is masturbating outside someone's home 29 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:45,360 Speaker 1: and he runs bites a cop in the process of 30 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 1: being arrested. And the headline in the Mercury News is 31 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 1: advocates blame San Jose's homelessness approach for violent police altercation 32 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 1: with unhoused man. 33 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:59,360 Speaker 2: Wow. And he said it's articles. 34 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 1: As much he supports local journalism, it was articles like 35 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 1: this that made him throw up his hands and cancel 36 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 1: his subscription to Sure Mercury News, which used to. 37 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:10,119 Speaker 2: Be a really good regional paper Metro. 38 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 1: And hey, even your readers in the Bay area of 39 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:17,639 Speaker 1: California no longer are on your side on this sort 40 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 1: of stuff. People are speaking of bubbles. Yeah, journalism in 41 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:24,680 Speaker 1: America is a weird little subset of people. It's like 42 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 1: the Amish, but odder anyway, their lives and thoughts have 43 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 1: nothing to do with your as friends. So topic of 44 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:36,080 Speaker 1: bums and junkies came across this yesterday. It's a guy 45 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 1: who goes on the street in San Francisco. He's actually 46 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:41,959 Speaker 1: wearing those cool ray band glasses where you can video 47 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 1: people and record him. I don't know if he's getting 48 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:45,600 Speaker 1: their permission or not. 49 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 2: I don't know. They're feats on the street. Yeah. I 50 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 2: know JJ Smith's works. He's really good. 51 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 1: This is what he does, and he's very polite and 52 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:55,359 Speaker 1: respectful and asks people if you can talk to them 53 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 1: and record it. But anyway, here's a conversation with a 54 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:02,399 Speaker 1: young man standing on a street corner in uh, could 55 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:03,799 Speaker 1: be any corner in San Francisco. 56 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 2: Where you from? 57 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 3: Patrick, I'm from Indiana, Indiana, USA? 58 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:09,800 Speaker 2: Hey, how long you've been in San Francisco, West Indiana. 59 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 2: I've been in San Francisco for four years? Four years? Max. 60 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:14,080 Speaker 2: What type of drugs you use? 61 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 3: I use crack and phetamine, hard cocaine. I use fentanyl, 62 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 3: iso fentanyl, isopoo, fentanyl and smoke weed. 63 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 2: Do you know I fitanel can kill you? 64 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:28,640 Speaker 1: Yes? 65 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 2: Yes, How you ever overdosed on it? 66 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:33,639 Speaker 3: I've overdosed yeah, many times, several times. 67 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 2: Several times. Yes. That never scared you. It scars me 68 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 2: every time. Don't has it scared you not to use 69 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 2: it anymore? Sort of but not not. 70 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 3: There's no longevity there. 71 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 2: Obviously pretty well spoken dude. 72 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 1: It's not like he's, you know, completely crazy or an 73 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 1: idiot by any means. 74 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 2: Rolls on, Are you homeless? 75 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 3: On how I'm no, No, I'm not, you're not what 76 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 3: I'm not homeless or. 77 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 2: In honest he said, he still on the streets? Are 78 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 2: in the shelter? 79 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:07,760 Speaker 3: Or I have an apartment through a subsidy? Uh that 80 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 3: it was a nonprofit funded with city benefits. 81 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 2: Oh so they gave you an apartment. The city gave 82 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 2: you an apartment. Yeah, okay, how did that work it 83 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:16,720 Speaker 2: out for you? Well, I mean it's working out. 84 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:19,920 Speaker 3: It's working out really well relative to some of the 85 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:23,719 Speaker 3: people on the streets. I mean I still have a 86 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 3: lot of my health, i'd say, and I you know, 87 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:29,839 Speaker 3: I have the ability to not worry about like my 88 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:32,600 Speaker 3: basic needs like you know, food, shelter, and hold. 89 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 2: Are you I'm thirty one? Tell you what do you 90 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 2: ever stay in contact with your family members? I talked 91 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:38,839 Speaker 2: to my mom kind of if I was able to 92 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:40,599 Speaker 2: tell you I could help you out and get you 93 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:42,960 Speaker 2: into a detox where you can start helling yourself. Are 94 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 2: you interested? Yeah? 95 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I'm always interested. Uh, I have kind 96 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 3: of a flight risk, a risk. 97 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:52,280 Speaker 2: Ye, what do you mean about it. 98 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 3: I've been to several detoxes, even since I've been in 99 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 3: San Francisco. 100 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:58,240 Speaker 2: You know, I've researched the avenues. 101 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:00,479 Speaker 3: But then when it gets close, I I just tend 102 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 3: to not go. 103 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 2: Okay, I understand you what that means. Now. 104 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 3: No, I'm super interested, Like I'm super interested. But then, like, 105 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 3: fedol is such a different animal, it's such a different drug. 106 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:11,720 Speaker 2: It's like I lived in Chicago. 107 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:13,600 Speaker 3: I was. I was a heroin out of in Chicago 108 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:15,680 Speaker 3: for some years and I was always able to get 109 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 3: into detox very easily. But there's something with the spend 110 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:19,840 Speaker 3: on it's like just. 111 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 2: Keeping people on the streets. 112 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 1: Okay, we got more of this, But that's a pretty 113 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 1: interesting insight right there. As a guy who used does 114 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:29,440 Speaker 1: meth and heroin, fentanyl's a different animal. 115 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:30,479 Speaker 2: Yeah. 116 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, I was struck by his rather concise and eloquent 117 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: description of what I'm always going on about the city. 118 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 1: San Francisco has made it easy and comfortable for him 119 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 1: to continue to be an addict. Which is the worst 120 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 1: thing you can do. I'm reminded of the words of 121 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:50,600 Speaker 1: Nelly Bowles, now of the Free Press, before the Free 122 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 1: Press existed, as a liberal, lesbian San Franciscan who realized 123 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:59,159 Speaker 1: that as she put it so beautifully, and I wish 124 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 1: I had it in front of me, I'll paraphrase that, 125 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 1: the way we treat these people is allegedly kindness, but 126 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 1: it doesn't look like kindness to me. It looks like 127 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:13,400 Speaker 1: easing young people into death on the pavement. Okay, well, 128 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:16,720 Speaker 1: that gets into having a judgment about their lifestyle. 129 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 2: Maybe you don't like that. 130 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:19,720 Speaker 1: You're a libertarian and people should be able to do 131 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 1: whatever they want. Fine, if you can support yourself while 132 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:27,480 Speaker 1: you're taking fentanyl and meth and hard cocaine whatever that is, 133 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:28,960 Speaker 1: and a bunch of other stuff. 134 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 2: Go ahead. 135 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:31,919 Speaker 1: But if you can't support yourself, and now it's my 136 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:34,240 Speaker 1: money you're paying for you, Now I get to say. 137 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 2: Well, he said, it's worked out. 138 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 1: His apartment, a city paid apartment, because it takes care 139 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,160 Speaker 1: of all of his basic needs. He doesn't have to 140 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 1: worry about being broke or on the street. It's great 141 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:47,039 Speaker 1: so he can keep being a junkie, and that is 142 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 1: the favor we're doing him as a society quote. 143 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 2: Unquote, let's a little more of this and discuss more 144 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 2: some of this. When you get your supplies, do you 145 00:06:56,440 --> 00:07:00,159 Speaker 2: get them from harm Reduction? Yeah? Yeah, I supplies. I know. 146 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:00,680 Speaker 1: What do you mean? 147 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,480 Speaker 2: Let me actually, what do you think about harm reduction? 148 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 2: Do you think they're enabling people? Yes? I do think 149 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:08,120 Speaker 2: they're enabling people. 150 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:11,840 Speaker 3: But I can't say that they're a totally bad organization 151 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,080 Speaker 3: because they do offer services. But like I said before, 152 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 3: that if barely anybody takes the services, I also have 153 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 3: such a grip on people that remember they you know, 154 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 3: they they take the pipes and the and the brillo 155 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 3: and the you know, the needles over the you know, 156 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:32,280 Speaker 3: the subtexts, the maintenance trument's, the micro the eath and 157 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 3: orphan microos, the uh SD tests. 158 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, OK, I'll get there. Darn it. 159 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: We edited out the part I wanted to talk about. Hmmm, 160 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 1: that's just funny. Uh uh. He He was asked what 161 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:48,200 Speaker 1: he does all day long or where he gets his money, 162 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:49,760 Speaker 1: and he talked a little bit about it, and they 163 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 1: kind of like winked at each other and used some 164 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:54,400 Speaker 1: code words. I wanted to ask people what that meant. 165 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 1: Did that mean he stole all day long? Was he 166 00:07:56,520 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 1: breaking into cars? Or let's see if we can dig 167 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:03,480 Speaker 1: that up. We have the raw audio. Yeah, we'll come 168 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 1: back to it, because I thought that's a heck of 169 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 1: a thing to gloss over if that's what he meant. 170 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 2: You know, I just kind of you know, I steal 171 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 2: from my other stuff. Ha ha. 172 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 1: You know, if you've got your car broken into in 173 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 1: the San Francisco are you don't find it quite as 174 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 1: funny or is not a big deal as he does. Yeah, 175 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 1: as long as I'm quoting people, Thomas Sowell famously said, 176 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 1: there are some ideas so stupid. It was a word 177 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 1: like stupid, so stupid only an intellectual could could have them. 178 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:35,720 Speaker 1: And I'm there are so many times when especially progressive America, 179 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 1: manages to overlook the bedrock truths of human beings and 180 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:46,200 Speaker 1: human behavior, and that is, if you want less of 181 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:51,080 Speaker 1: a terrible, terrible behavior, there have to be disincentives for it. Well, 182 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 1: I'm trying to wrap my head around how you even 183 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:59,600 Speaker 1: get to this place. So San Francisco's a hippie town 184 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 1: or know, And this is true, and lots of places, 185 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 1: not just San Francisco, But uh, San Francisco is a 186 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 1: hippie town, and so they think partying is cool and 187 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:13,199 Speaker 1: you shouldn't ever describe any possible downsides to party in 188 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:18,120 Speaker 1: hert Like a lot of port cities, it has a 189 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:20,200 Speaker 1: reputation isn't anything goes place? 190 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:21,199 Speaker 2: Right? 191 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 1: But then when you got drug addicts on the street, 192 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 1: so did those of you who you still believe that 193 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 1: if you just had if you just had enough rehabs, 194 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:34,560 Speaker 1: these people would go to rehab and stop doing this. 195 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 2: You think, how do you come to that conclusion? 196 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 1: What's your what's your mindset of data that brought you 197 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:43,040 Speaker 1: to that conclusion? 198 00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:46,679 Speaker 2: Do they know like they have no experience of the 199 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:47,640 Speaker 2: actual people? 200 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:51,160 Speaker 1: I would guess, well, it's not like I've lived my 201 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:57,960 Speaker 1: life around heroin addicts. It just seems like obvious to me. Sure, yeah, wow, 202 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:01,720 Speaker 1: that's really interesting. And then you've got the crowd that 203 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,280 Speaker 1: uses the numbers of people on the streets to claim 204 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:06,280 Speaker 1: it's a housing thing. And then that's I don't know, 205 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:08,360 Speaker 1: you're either an idiot or it's just a scam. It's 206 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:11,400 Speaker 1: a way to try to get more tax revenue. Yeah, 207 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:14,720 Speaker 1: anything goes, I get, but anything goes and taxpayers will 208 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:18,680 Speaker 1: pay for it. Is an attitude that is not only 209 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:22,280 Speaker 1: outrageous as a taxpayer, but just again, it overlooks the 210 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 1: bedrock truths of human behavior. That guy seems more or 211 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:33,280 Speaker 1: less perfectly comfortable with his lifestyle. Yeah, yeah, to the 212 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:36,960 Speaker 1: extent that an addict can be. Yeah, yes, because of 213 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:38,360 Speaker 1: the quote unquote services. 214 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 2: Every time I hear these stories, so I just I'm 215 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 2: amazed this guy's still alive. Just this list of drugs 216 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:43,840 Speaker 2: that he was using. 217 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, well we edited out also the number of times 218 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:50,520 Speaker 1: he's had to be brought back. He's overdosed a whole 219 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 1: bunch of times and had to be revived, you know, 220 00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:57,199 Speaker 1: because you heard him asked you ever you never almost 221 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:00,640 Speaker 1: did oh yeah yeah, or you realize could kill you? 222 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:02,280 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah yeah. I have overdose a whole bunch 223 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 1: of different times. They had to bring me back. Wow, 224 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:05,800 Speaker 1: And it just like it seemed like a no big 225 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:06,640 Speaker 1: deal to him whatsoever. 226 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 2: Yeah. 227 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:08,960 Speaker 1: And the number of times we've talked about this that 228 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:12,200 Speaker 1: we've been flooded with emails and texts saying guys, I 229 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 1: was an addict of various substances and getting arrested and 230 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:19,800 Speaker 1: put in jail saved my life we see over again. Yes, yes, 231 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:21,320 Speaker 1: we have seen that over and over again. Have we 232 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:23,880 Speaker 1: ever had one in your in your personal life or 233 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:26,719 Speaker 1: on the radio. Have you ever had one? Yeah, they 234 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 1: put me up in an apartment. They gave me needles 235 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,200 Speaker 1: and brittopads and all that stuff he is mentioned. They 236 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:34,160 Speaker 1: gave me a vouchers so I could buy food, and 237 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:35,199 Speaker 1: then I got sober. 238 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 2: I have never heard that story one time, not one. 239 00:11:37,559 --> 00:11:42,959 Speaker 1: No, no, no, I think we have the clip you're 240 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:47,680 Speaker 1: looking for, Michael seventy four, still coming in and actually, okay, 241 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:48,920 Speaker 1: we'll get to that later. 242 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:52,680 Speaker 2: Is she mailing it to us or what? How do 243 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 2: we get these clips we have? We have, we have 244 00:11:55,960 --> 00:12:00,440 Speaker 2: the same bird. I got it right now now it's 245 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:03,559 Speaker 2: sent by owl. Okay, okay, So how do you how 246 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:05,560 Speaker 2: do you survive like to get your to get the 247 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:09,679 Speaker 2: money to get the drugs. Well, I don't know how. 248 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:11,800 Speaker 2: I don't know how much. I don't know how much 249 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:13,480 Speaker 2: of that I can go into. I've been trying to 250 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 2: go with my story, but whatever you want to say. 251 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 3: Well, I've gone career. 252 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:20,319 Speaker 2: Okay, every day. 253 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:26,720 Speaker 1: I work every day, so I've gone I've gone career. 254 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:30,000 Speaker 1: And he kind of smiles and nods, So that's breaking 255 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 1: into cars. I couldn't tell if that was turning tricks 256 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:37,440 Speaker 1: or breaking into cars. Well, that's interesting. It could be 257 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 1: that I assumed he use a he's a thief, he's 258 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 1: a shoplifter. 259 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:42,680 Speaker 2: Right, and then for that to be just so you know, 260 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:43,440 Speaker 2: I break into cars. 261 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:46,719 Speaker 1: So yeah, they they provide me with an apartment and 262 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:48,200 Speaker 1: all the stuff I need from a drugs and then 263 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:50,800 Speaker 1: I steal from preak people who are just trying to 264 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 1: park their cars so they can go to work. All 265 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:57,000 Speaker 1: because he had one medical Billy couldn't pay in housing 266 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 1: is expensive, said nobody. Ever, that is really interesting again, 267 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:02,880 Speaker 1: what's your any response to that? 268 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:06,480 Speaker 2: Text? Line four one five two nine five kftc. 269 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 4: Armstrong Ngetti, a Los Angeles County Deputy sheriff, has been 270 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 4: accused of smuggling black tar heroin into a jail by 271 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 4: hiding it inside two cans of pringles. And the worst 272 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 4: part was the prisoners could never get that last bit 273 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 4: of heroin from the bottom of the cabin. 274 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:29,440 Speaker 2: Though at the end of the day, it's Philly a jo. 275 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:36,160 Speaker 1: So we just played some audio as an interview with 276 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 1: a drug addict standing on the street in San Francisco, 277 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 1: which is probably not a lot different than the drug 278 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:46,520 Speaker 1: addict standing on the street in Seattle or La or 279 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:49,760 Speaker 1: sam Hit in all West coast cities, but that's where 280 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 1: a lot of it is. Vancouver, man, you can just 281 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:56,600 Speaker 1: drive I five San Diego, La on off the coast, 282 00:13:56,880 --> 00:14:02,040 Speaker 1: San Francisco, Hit, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver cities. That will provide 283 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:05,000 Speaker 1: you someplace to live, all the paraphernalia you need to take, 284 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:07,400 Speaker 1: the drugs, all that sort of thing, and it's working 285 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:09,440 Speaker 1: out great. As you look around the city, you can 286 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:12,440 Speaker 1: see that it's a that plan has been really you 287 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:15,800 Speaker 1: can reap the benefits anyway. So the guy that was 288 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 1: interviewed on the street, at some point, the interviewer said, 289 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:21,280 Speaker 1: you know how you getting by or whatever, and he said, oh, 290 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:24,160 Speaker 1: I've gone career, and a whole bunch of people they 291 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:28,000 Speaker 1: pointed out that that means career criminal. That's your street lingo. 292 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:31,320 Speaker 1: He's almost bragging about it, as if there's no stigma 293 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 1: in that culture. Yeah, seems to be. He didn't seem 294 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 1: the least bit bothered by the fact that I'm parking 295 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 1: my car so I can go in him to a 296 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:42,440 Speaker 1: store or go to work or whatever. You smash the windows, 297 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:45,240 Speaker 1: stole some stuff. I now have great expense, My insurance 298 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:48,280 Speaker 1: goes up. You stole my laptop all the putte pain 299 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:49,880 Speaker 1: that comes with that. But you know, hey, what are 300 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:51,880 Speaker 1: you going to do? And he stole everything in the 301 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 1: story you went into, right, Yeah, that's a little disappointing 302 00:14:56,320 --> 00:15:00,440 Speaker 1: that it's a treated you may have crossed paths with him. 303 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:02,680 Speaker 1: He was walking out with his big trash can full 304 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:04,960 Speaker 1: of trash bag full of what you were going to buy, 305 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:06,680 Speaker 1: and while you were in there saying what hell's all 306 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:09,600 Speaker 1: the goods, he was breaking into your car win Win. 307 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 2: Uh. Well, I'll just here's somebody somewhat angry. 308 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:18,440 Speaker 1: A lot of you are quite angry with that nonchalant 309 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:21,240 Speaker 1: drug addict thief standing on the corner there. 310 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 2: I'm dead being serious. 311 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 1: I want to go dark knight vigilante like Philippines President 312 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:33,240 Speaker 1: Duratati or whatever his name is on the Temple day. Yeah, well, 313 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:35,200 Speaker 1: I don't know that I want that, well, and I 314 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 1: know I don't want that. 315 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:38,440 Speaker 2: You don't need that. You just got to stop enabling 316 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:39,040 Speaker 2: these people. 317 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 1: You know, you don't need to give people an apartment 318 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:45,240 Speaker 1: and money for food and the actual paraphernalia to take 319 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:47,680 Speaker 1: the drugs. You don't need to do that, and if 320 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 1: you stop, you'll have a lot fewer drug addicts period. Sure. Yeah, 321 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:56,320 Speaker 1: it's too miserable. I don't want to do this anymore. 322 00:15:56,640 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 1: That has been Is that not jack? Roughly the cry 323 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:06,800 Speaker 1: that precedes every serious attempt to heal from addiction. This sucks. 324 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 1: I don't want to do this anymore. Yeah, essentially, Yeah, yeah, 325 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:12,600 Speaker 1: I don't like this lifestyle. Whatever the other lifestyle would be, 326 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 1: of not being drunk or drugged, I would prefer to 327 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:20,320 Speaker 1: This is the only way anybody ever stops. And if 328 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:22,600 Speaker 1: you're providing somebody a pretty easy life, and if you 329 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:24,840 Speaker 1: don't have to go to work every day, obviously you 330 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:26,520 Speaker 1: don't have any kids or anything like that, or if 331 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 1: you do, you don't care about them. I was you know, 332 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 1: he's from Indiana. Do you talk to your mom, The 333 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:36,640 Speaker 1: interviewer asked, Yeah. Sometimes, Yeah, you know, mom might just 334 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:39,480 Speaker 1: have just raised a kid, like we all raise a kid, 335 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 1: and for whatever reason, at a party, that kid did 336 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:45,360 Speaker 1: some drugs and tried fentanyl, and off the goes. 337 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 2: Yeah. 338 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 1: First worth mentioning that he was an addict in Chicago 339 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:50,760 Speaker 1: for a while and now he's in San Francisco. Was 340 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:54,520 Speaker 1: it because he was transferred for his career or what exactly? 341 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:54,920 Speaker 2: The weather? 342 00:16:56,840 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 1: Probably I'm guessing he got word that, Hey, they really 343 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:02,360 Speaker 1: take take care of you in San Francisco. It's great 344 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:04,200 Speaker 1: and easy to be an addict. I'd be in fre Attle, 345 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:06,520 Speaker 1: but it's too rainy, so I went with San Francisco. 346 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:11,240 Speaker 2: Great. Why does society do this? Anyway, We've got more 347 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:11,680 Speaker 2: on the win. 348 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:17,560 Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty now you I do want to talk 349 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:23,720 Speaker 1: about March Madness and betting gambling a little bit later. 350 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 1: As you know, it's changed in the last few years. 351 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:30,960 Speaker 1: A big court ruling allowed legalized gambling all across the 352 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,360 Speaker 1: country in a way that had never existed before, and 353 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:36,679 Speaker 1: there's been an explosion of gambling. We do ads for 354 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:39,840 Speaker 1: it too, and I, you know, do whatever you want 355 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:42,800 Speaker 1: to do. I have no problem with that. It's funny 356 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:45,600 Speaker 1: as well. I'll save this for later. I heard NPR 357 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:51,080 Speaker 1: doing this story. Their take was hilarious. Anyway, my main 358 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:57,760 Speaker 1: thrust here is you don't understand the giant federal government. 359 00:17:57,800 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 1: I don't understand the giant federal government. It'd be almost 360 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:02,880 Speaker 1: possible to understand it, and it's hopeless to think we're 361 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:05,280 Speaker 1: ever going to pare it down to something that is 362 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:08,640 Speaker 1: responsible to the people. So good night, everybody drive safely, 363 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:14,920 Speaker 1: tip your weight staff. Yes, and it's equally impossible for say, 364 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:16,399 Speaker 1: the president to understand it. 365 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:17,560 Speaker 2: Right. 366 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 1: So this is an article in the Wall Street Journal 367 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:22,480 Speaker 1: by Kim Strassel. Strassel do we decide how were you 368 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:26,440 Speaker 1: going to pross? Meet the lawyer who's about to head 369 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:29,760 Speaker 1: one of the most ideological offices in Washington. Her meet 370 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:31,919 Speaker 1: Dylan is her name, and she was appointed. Talk to 371 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:35,359 Speaker 1: her several times. Yeah, we've talked to her. Yes, Wow, cool? 372 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:38,280 Speaker 1: What did we talk to her about? Oh, she's represented 373 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:42,040 Speaker 1: some great clients in the face of progressive madness. I 374 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 1: don't remember the specifics. 375 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:45,240 Speaker 2: She's junior. 376 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:48,480 Speaker 1: She's doomed in this new assignment, I think, But yeah, 377 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:51,840 Speaker 1: she is going to she's the nominee as Assistant Attorney 378 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:55,080 Speaker 1: General for civil rights and she is going to be 379 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:01,080 Speaker 1: involved in what former Attorney General Eric Holder called the 380 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:04,600 Speaker 1: Justice Department's crown jewel. And this is something that none 381 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:07,640 Speaker 1: of us pay any attention to the Civil Rights Division 382 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:10,639 Speaker 1: of the Justice Department, which has I'm in favor of 383 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 1: civil rights jack, which has for decades successfully repelled any 384 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:18,560 Speaker 1: effort at reform or oversight. It's a hotbad of liberal 385 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 1: activism that acts as a law unto itself. If mister 386 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:25,120 Speaker 1: Trump hopes to see through his goal of deep politicizing 387 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:27,560 Speaker 1: the Justice Department, it will be ground zero. And I 388 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:30,880 Speaker 1: thought a lot of you had been overstating, you know, 389 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:34,760 Speaker 1: the Justice Department's ideological leanings or the deep state or whatever. 390 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:36,520 Speaker 2: But no, you haven't been. 391 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:42,040 Speaker 1: And this whole there's an article the other day about 392 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:45,439 Speaker 1: all the people that Elon is firing and trying to 393 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:49,479 Speaker 1: get rid of. But it's the gazillions of unelected people 394 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 1: underneath all these people that are real, the fabric of 395 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:57,359 Speaker 1: the whole federal government, that make the rules and bog 396 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 1: things down and cost you money, that are most untouchable. 397 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:03,720 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Well you go to somebody in that the 398 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:06,800 Speaker 1: Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, you say, all right, yeah, 399 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:09,360 Speaker 1: I need you to file this writ. I'll say, I'm 400 00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 1: on it. And a week later, how's that writ to file? 401 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 1: And gone, I lost it? All right, I need you 402 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:16,760 Speaker 1: to file it all right? Week later I lost it again. 403 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 1: I ought to fire you. Well you can't. 404 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:20,120 Speaker 2: They quote a. 405 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:22,640 Speaker 1: Former Republican in the Wall Street journal who got involved 406 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:25,240 Speaker 1: in this division of the Justice Department. I've never been 407 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:29,240 Speaker 1: met with greater hostility narrowly. All the career lawyers come 408 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:32,320 Speaker 1: from liberal advocacy groups and all carry the mindset I 409 00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:35,680 Speaker 1: can do exactly what I was doing for the ACL 410 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:38,639 Speaker 1: you only now with the power of the government behind me. 411 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:43,400 Speaker 1: Largest of the Justice's eight litigation areas today, it has 412 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 1: a mandate far beyond the nineteen fifty seven Civil Rights Law. 413 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:49,800 Speaker 1: It was initially created a police It's embedded activists take 414 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:52,440 Speaker 1: pride not in enforcing the law, but in making the 415 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 1: law and areas that range from disabilities in voting laws 416 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:58,359 Speaker 1: to housing lending and immigration. It's one sided approach to 417 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 1: the laws. It oversees. Constant trading narrowly on radical priorities, 418 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:06,000 Speaker 1: ignoring entirely basic speech and religious rights has played a 419 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:07,880 Speaker 1: part in American's distrust of the Department. 420 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:09,760 Speaker 2: And that's why you're so angry with the federal government 421 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:10,280 Speaker 2: all the time. 422 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:14,080 Speaker 1: It comes out of this department prior republican of political appointees, 423 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:18,280 Speaker 1: alongside the rare conservative lawyer who accidentally ended there, brim 424 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:22,240 Speaker 1: with stories of the division's resistance to direction, even direct orders. 425 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 1: Career attorneys refused to work on cases. This is kind 426 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:27,600 Speaker 1: of what you were talking about. Career attorneys refuse to 427 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:33,400 Speaker 1: work on cases which with which they disagree. Others take 428 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:36,760 Speaker 1: part with the goal of misleading superiors on legal questions 429 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:41,000 Speaker 1: or sabotaging cases. Lawyers send letters, make threats, or initiate 430 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:44,760 Speaker 1: proceedings without sign off from leadership. So they really just 431 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:48,960 Speaker 1: do whatever the hell they want to do on their own. Yeah, 432 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:54,400 Speaker 1: they're all activists, self righteous, angry activists and things really 433 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:56,840 Speaker 1: hum along with Democrats and are in charge. A twenty 434 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:00,840 Speaker 1: thirteen Inspector General report evaluating the operations of the civil 435 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:05,679 Speaker 1: rights divisions noted that of nine trial attorneys hired in 436 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:09,200 Speaker 1: twenty ten, eight had one or more liberal affiliations, including 437 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 1: activist groups like the Aclulraza or a Lawyer's Committee for 438 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:17,879 Speaker 1: Civil Rights, which is a crazy organization. Also with no 439 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:23,199 Speaker 1: candidates that were Republican or conservative affiliated hired. And it 440 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:26,679 Speaker 1: got even crazier under Biden, according to the Wall Street Journal. 441 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:29,920 Speaker 1: And that was in the voting section. And you may 442 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:33,720 Speaker 1: recall when Georgia tried to quite reasonably say COVID's over, 443 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:36,119 Speaker 1: We're going to go back to the before COVID rules. 444 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:38,879 Speaker 1: The Justice Department went crazy, and you got all that 445 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:42,439 Speaker 1: Jim Crow on steroids, horrific garbage out at Joe Biden 446 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:46,280 Speaker 1: his administration. So all these super lefty organizations are fighting 447 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 1: like crazy. They're waging a ferocious battle that says here 448 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 1: against her confirmation. A letter signed by sixty five activist 449 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:57,680 Speaker 1: group warnsman assault on this and that if she is confirmed. 450 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:00,480 Speaker 1: So they're really pressure and Democrats to to try to 451 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:08,119 Speaker 1: keep her from becoming the nominee. Nobody pays any attention 452 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:12,000 Speaker 1: to this stuff. No normal person is even where it's 453 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 1: going on, and it doesn't make the news on a 454 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:19,200 Speaker 1: daily basis. All these affiliated with the most left ring 455 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:28,080 Speaker 1: wing Marxist organizations, lawyers pushing cases, they care about losing 456 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:31,160 Speaker 1: files and cases. They don't care about doing whatever they 457 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:34,160 Speaker 1: want without any oversight. And it's been going on for 458 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:37,720 Speaker 1: decades without anybody making a dent in it. Right, the 459 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:41,840 Speaker 1: deep state or I just prefer the permanent bureaucracy because 460 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:46,320 Speaker 1: it is a boring, straightforward term. The permanent bureaucracy, which 461 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:51,600 Speaker 1: actually runs DC is almost uniformly left right. The whole 462 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:56,520 Speaker 1: concept of capture is not appreciated enough. Like once you 463 00:23:56,640 --> 00:24:01,160 Speaker 1: get enough capture where you have to say a click 464 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 1: on each picture that has a traffic light. Is that 465 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:05,960 Speaker 1: what you're talking about, is that the polls in it, 466 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 1: the light's nodded. Does that count as the traffic exactly. 467 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:11,560 Speaker 1: I've got the bottom part of the Oh it says 468 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:13,800 Speaker 1: I'm a robot. Now I gotta do it again. Click 469 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:17,760 Speaker 1: on everything with a bicycle. Well, that's that barely looks 470 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:20,920 Speaker 1: like a tire. It could be something else. 471 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:21,399 Speaker 2: I don't know. 472 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:25,800 Speaker 1: Capture I mean if you get enough of your crowd 473 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 1: into something, you can take it over. 474 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:29,600 Speaker 2: And we've seen it with the university system. 475 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:33,040 Speaker 1: Where if you get enough left wing Democrats and I 476 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:36,400 Speaker 1: mean the far left wing democrats, you've captured the institution. 477 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:39,679 Speaker 1: In that one, you only hire other left wingers, and 478 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:42,680 Speaker 1: two you'd be scared as somebody who didn't agree with 479 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 1: them to ever raise your voice because it's going to 480 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 1: damage your career. 481 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:48,040 Speaker 2: So that institution has been captured. Well that has happened 482 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:49,320 Speaker 2: with our federal government. 483 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:53,720 Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, that is precisely the aim of DEI. Diversity 484 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:57,639 Speaker 1: means more people who think like I do. Inclusion means 485 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:01,520 Speaker 1: more people who think like I do. If their color, 486 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:05,360 Speaker 1: if their skin is slightly darker than a tanned golfer. 487 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:08,080 Speaker 1: All the better if they can claim some sort of 488 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,320 Speaker 1: I'm queer, which can mean anything in the world you want, 489 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 1: but they think like me, Yes see how inclusive I am. 490 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:17,800 Speaker 1: It's it is a technique of capture of conquest. I 491 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 1: tell you, I find this really depressing that one of 492 00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:25,520 Speaker 1: the most important departments in all of the federal government 493 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:27,439 Speaker 1: that is causing so many of the things that I 494 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:33,800 Speaker 1: hate is so one captured and two beyond you know, 495 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:36,520 Speaker 1: you can't really touch it. They're like the untouchables. And 496 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:38,399 Speaker 1: three nobody talks about it and writes about it. He 497 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 1: thinks about it, so it's unlikely to change. I finds 498 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:45,720 Speaker 1: so rooting for Ms Dylan to kick ass in that job, 499 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:48,760 Speaker 1: and it'll it'll do some real good. And you know, 500 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:53,000 Speaker 1: the years time, I'm just afraid Trump's erraticness and wacky 501 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:59,920 Speaker 1: policies and statements is gonna derail his opportunity to do really, really. 502 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:01,520 Speaker 2: Good stuff too soon. 503 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:04,439 Speaker 1: But you know, asking for a disciplined Trump at this 504 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:08,840 Speaker 1: point in his life and in ours, frankly is kind 505 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:14,159 Speaker 1: of silly. He's almost eighty so and another example not 506 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:16,680 Speaker 1: to depress you, or anything. But I thought this was instructive. 507 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:21,879 Speaker 1: As Chuck Schume is bellowing about the Republicans want to 508 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:25,919 Speaker 1: slap food out of the mouths of babes and enriched 509 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,160 Speaker 1: they are billionaires and million. 510 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:28,560 Speaker 2: And the rest of it. 511 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:33,159 Speaker 1: The rhetoric around the budget as we try to avoid 512 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:37,480 Speaker 1: a government shut down or shut it down who cares? Anyway, 513 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,639 Speaker 1: here's some writing by who is this? Oh, it's the 514 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:47,480 Speaker 1: editorial editorial board of the Wall Street Journal. But welcome 515 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:53,359 Speaker 1: to the ar king details of the budget baseline their premises. 516 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:56,760 Speaker 1: We hope Republicans aren't boxed into bad policy by some 517 00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:59,560 Speaker 1: of the realities of the budgeting process. The main goal 518 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,359 Speaker 1: Republicans in the current Congress is to extend the twenty 519 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:04,920 Speaker 1: seventeen tax reform provisions that expire at the end of 520 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:07,040 Speaker 1: this year. Is written that is, they want to continue 521 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:10,119 Speaker 1: with current policy, which seems simple enough. But this is 522 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:14,359 Speaker 1: Congress which instead lives by the current law that's quote 523 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,600 Speaker 1: baseline over a ten year period. I'll explain, and if 524 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:19,720 Speaker 1: you don't quite get it, that's part of the point. 525 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:24,920 Speaker 1: Because some of those twenty seven twenty seventeen tax provisions 526 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:29,400 Speaker 1: expire within the congressional budget office is ten year window. 527 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:35,760 Speaker 1: The extension of current policy to fill to get to 528 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:38,560 Speaker 1: the end of that ten year window is considered a 529 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:42,920 Speaker 1: budget busting tax cut, even though it would merely prevent 530 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:46,960 Speaker 1: a four and a half trillion dollar tax increase. This 531 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:51,120 Speaker 1: is Republicans scrambling to find offsetting tax increases or spending 532 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,760 Speaker 1: cuts to quote unquote pay for an alleged tax cut 533 00:27:54,840 --> 00:28:00,240 Speaker 1: that doesn't cut taxes. It's like your fiscal year in 534 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:02,560 Speaker 1: the calendar year, don't overlap or something, and so you've 535 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:05,639 Speaker 1: got to pretend that well, in October November, we need 536 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:07,120 Speaker 1: to cut things down to the bone, when in truth, 537 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:08,879 Speaker 1: all you have to do is keep doing what you're doing. 538 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:12,840 Speaker 1: But the way the system is set up so you don't, 539 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,800 Speaker 1: you have to pretend like the higher tax keep think 540 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:17,679 Speaker 1: the current laws a tax increase, so. 541 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:19,840 Speaker 2: Higher taxes would kick in. 542 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:22,320 Speaker 1: And if you try to stop the higher taxes from 543 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:25,800 Speaker 1: kick in kicking in, that's seen as a tax cut, 544 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,080 Speaker 1: even though it would be just holding them steady. 545 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:34,360 Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, so. 546 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:34,600 Speaker 1: So the Republicans have to jump through all sorts of 547 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:38,080 Speaker 1: hoops and budget trickery and the rest of it to 548 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:41,800 Speaker 1: keep the current policy, because on paper, it looks. 549 00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:42,960 Speaker 2: Like a huge change in policy. 550 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:46,640 Speaker 1: Wow, and you're gonna have Chuck Schumer yelling at people 551 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:49,040 Speaker 1: that we're trying to you know, I don't know, slap 552 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:50,560 Speaker 1: the insulin out of the hands of the. 553 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:53,720 Speaker 2: Old or something. Ive. 554 00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:58,040 Speaker 1: I go around to old folks homes, I slap the 555 00:28:58,040 --> 00:28:59,600 Speaker 1: insulin out of their hands, and then I give it 556 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:00,480 Speaker 1: to Billy Airs. 557 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:05,400 Speaker 2: I don't need any insulin take it anyway. The pine 558 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:06,880 Speaker 2: is to deny it to the old. 559 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:10,240 Speaker 1: Well, if there wasn't if there was any point to 560 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:13,000 Speaker 1: this segment, and that's probably enough on a Friday of that. 561 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:19,320 Speaker 1: It's this is also convoluted and complicated. Very few people understand. 562 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:23,640 Speaker 1: Certainly people chanting in, cheering at political rallies don't know 563 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:26,840 Speaker 1: any of this is happening. Don't get me started on 564 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:30,640 Speaker 1: how medicare really works, right, it's dizzying. 565 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:31,040 Speaker 5: You know. 566 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,800 Speaker 1: If there's a takeaway from all of this, it would 567 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:41,400 Speaker 1: be shrink government, federal government as much as possible, and 568 00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:45,560 Speaker 1: get government as local as you can conceive it to be, 569 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:50,080 Speaker 1: because that's the only way the voters have actual control 570 00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:51,760 Speaker 1: over it and there's any accountability. 571 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,280 Speaker 2: Man, we like our gambling, we sure do. 572 00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:59,480 Speaker 1: And March Madness is one of the biggest gambling periods 573 00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:03,200 Speaker 1: of the entire and the tournament brackets come out on Sunday. 574 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:05,400 Speaker 1: A little some stats on that that are really interesting. 575 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,520 Speaker 1: Among all the things on the way, stay here, arm 576 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:09,520 Speaker 1: Strong and Getty. 577 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,520 Speaker 5: Sunday isn't here yet, but there are some big conference 578 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:16,960 Speaker 5: championships this weekend. Use winners will automatically punch a tickets 579 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,440 Speaker 5: in the Big Dance, and some teams are already shoe ins. 580 00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:21,160 Speaker 5: We're going to get right into it first. On the 581 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:24,640 Speaker 5: men's side, Duke, Houston, Auburn, and Florida are the top 582 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:26,840 Speaker 5: ranked teams. The four top ranked teams. 583 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:29,080 Speaker 1: They will make. Yeah, anytime Duke is one of the 584 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,400 Speaker 1: top ranked teams, it's a bad it's a bad time 585 00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:35,440 Speaker 1: to be alive. But March Madness, Hey, Duke is them 586 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,280 Speaker 1: on display. Folks really gets rolling on Sunday when the 587 00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:40,600 Speaker 1: brackets come out. And if you're into sports, you know this. 588 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:42,920 Speaker 1: If you're not into sports, it's about as big a 589 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:46,080 Speaker 1: deal as anything happens. I mean, it's not as big 590 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:48,440 Speaker 1: as the Super Bowl, but it's probably well, it is 591 00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:54,040 Speaker 1: second betting wise, and uh and people love it. This year, 592 00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:58,000 Speaker 1: they're expecting three point one billion dollars to be bet 593 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:04,080 Speaker 1: legally on just March madness. But the total amount that 594 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:07,160 Speaker 1: is going to be bet in the country is fifteen 595 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:11,280 Speaker 1: point five billion. So even with all the legal betting 596 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:14,400 Speaker 1: that exists everywhere three billion, there's another twelve and a 597 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:16,920 Speaker 1: half billion that are going to be bet illegally. 598 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:18,080 Speaker 2: I'm using my finger quotes. 599 00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,320 Speaker 1: I mean, who's I mean, there's some real it talks 600 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,280 Speaker 1: in this article about, you know, for some real offshore 601 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:28,040 Speaker 1: serious betting that is not but the stuff you're doing 602 00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:30,160 Speaker 1: at the office where everybody puts in five bucks that 603 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:32,240 Speaker 1: adds up to a ton of money. But is anybody 604 00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:33,680 Speaker 1: really worried about cracking down on that? 605 00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:34,040 Speaker 2: No, they are. 606 00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:36,280 Speaker 1: I want to see Trump crackdown on it. I'd like 607 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:39,200 Speaker 1: to see ice. There's somebody coming to offices and you know, 608 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:41,120 Speaker 1: cuff people who are handing out brackets. 609 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:41,840 Speaker 2: It's disgusting. 610 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,200 Speaker 1: Prior to twenty eighteen, you could only bet on sports 611 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:49,560 Speaker 1: in Vegas, But since the courts decided that the states 612 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:53,239 Speaker 1: should be able to decide, there are forty states that 613 00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:58,280 Speaker 1: allow legal gambling, and it has exploded legally from where 614 00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:03,719 Speaker 1: it was before. Twenty three million more Americans betting on 615 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:07,720 Speaker 1: the tournament this year than two years ago, for instance, 616 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:12,400 Speaker 1: that's a lot more. I feel exactly the same. By 617 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,880 Speaker 1: the way, for the bracket, you fill out your bracket, 618 00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:19,440 Speaker 1: your odds of getting the bracket completely correct, getting all 619 00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:24,760 Speaker 1: sixty three games right, one in nine point two. Quintillion 620 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,880 Speaker 1: whatever that is, that's a word I say regularly. I 621 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:34,840 Speaker 1: didn't even know it was a real word. Quintillion, five trillion, No, 622 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,880 Speaker 1: five hundred trillion. I don't even know what a thousand 623 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:42,720 Speaker 1: trillion would be. Uh, I don't know. I'd lose track 624 00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:46,560 Speaker 1: at that point. It's not very likely you're gonna get 625 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:50,360 Speaker 1: the whole record right to summarize, But I. 626 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 2: Have the same attitude on the whole gambling things I 627 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:56,560 Speaker 2: had on the drug thing. You know, feel free, is it? 628 00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:59,440 Speaker 1: But if you end up in a bad situation, don't 629 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:01,960 Speaker 1: be taking my money because you don't have any money. 630 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:05,120 Speaker 1: When you in year sixty and you ain't got no 631 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,880 Speaker 1: money and you need food or housing or whatever. And 632 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:10,840 Speaker 1: I find out when you in your twenties you used 633 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:13,480 Speaker 1: to bet heavily on sports. I don't want you to 634 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,000 Speaker 1: get in in my money, see is the deal? 635 00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:17,760 Speaker 2: So yeah, right? 636 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,280 Speaker 1: And it's their own But there's no mechanism for that. 637 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,600 Speaker 1: Oh here's the funny thing. I was listening to NPR. 638 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:29,080 Speaker 1: They presented it as, so, is this benefiting states? And 639 00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:31,880 Speaker 1: then they went through how much the legalized gambling is 640 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:34,720 Speaker 1: shoring up the coffers of state governments and whether. 641 00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:35,920 Speaker 2: It is or not, and so do you think it 642 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:36,680 Speaker 2: was a good idea? 643 00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:39,640 Speaker 1: It was all run through the lens of does this 644 00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,800 Speaker 1: make your state government richer or not? Nobody bringing up 645 00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:46,400 Speaker 1: the idea at all of maybe people adults ought to 646 00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:48,280 Speaker 1: be able to make their own decisions on this, and 647 00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:51,160 Speaker 1: it shouldn't be illegal to decide to sad on a sport. 648 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:53,400 Speaker 2: That was they didn't even bring that up. Is only 649 00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:55,400 Speaker 2: does it benefit the state government or not? 650 00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:57,000 Speaker 1: As to whether or not it was a good idea 651 00:33:57,040 --> 00:34:00,640 Speaker 1: to rule this way, and that an interesting way to 652 00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:03,600 Speaker 1: look at the world. Yeah, I think that's really illuminating. 653 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,680 Speaker 1: Yeah about it that sort of people? Yeah, it is 654 00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:11,200 Speaker 1: so when they decided no, no, no, states can decide whether 655 00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:13,880 Speaker 1: or not they want to have gambling. If you're a lefty, 656 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:15,640 Speaker 1: looked at through it through the lens of is this 657 00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:17,719 Speaker 1: going to give more money to the government or not not? 658 00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:22,960 Speaker 1: More personal freedom fascinating right. Coming up next hour, the 659 00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:27,000 Speaker 1: fight to clean up America's disease universities, how's the immigration 660 00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:28,280 Speaker 1: crackdown going? 661 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:32,360 Speaker 2: And is progressivism actually a mental disorder? 662 00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:35,600 Speaker 1: I will present a case to you, and you the jury, 663 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:37,799 Speaker 1: are their juries and the sort of thing you the 664 00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:44,080 Speaker 1: jury will decide. 665 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:42,359 Speaker 2: We need to have. 666 00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:44,960 Speaker 1: I wonder if the social credit score like they got 667 00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:46,800 Speaker 1: in China, maybe someday we can have that in the 668 00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:49,319 Speaker 1: United States. So you get to be aged sixteen, you 669 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,080 Speaker 1: ain't got no money, but we can look at your 670 00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:53,720 Speaker 1: social credit score of how much you gambled in your life, 671 00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:57,600 Speaker 1: were spent on cigarettes, or went on fancy vacations you 672 00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:01,359 Speaker 1: couldn't afford. I realize that the libertarian and me does 673 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:03,319 Speaker 1: not like anybody keeping track of this sort of thing, 674 00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:04,760 Speaker 1: but I'd like to know it as a tax payer 675 00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:07,879 Speaker 1: before you get all my money, right exactly? Yeah, your 676 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,760 Speaker 1: responsibility score, call it that. No, Sorry, you were wildly irresponsible. 677 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:13,960 Speaker 1: You're not the other people's problem anymore. 678 00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:17,760 Speaker 2: Good one, Sary, Armstrong and Getty