WEBVTT - It Says I'm A Robot 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.240 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:24.400 Arm Strong and Katty and he Armstrong and Getty. We've 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:25.160 wind up. 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:29.560 Ten different guests to talk about the government shutdown over 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:34.479 the next three hours. Cable news. I'm old, so I 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:36.360 watch cable news. I realize a lot of you who 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:40.120 are not old, You're like you were watching what that? 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:42.280 You don't watch it, so that makes sense. But the 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:46.000 small number of people who still watch cable news, what 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:50.199 do they think they're doing? I watch MSNBC and Fox 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:53.559 every morning, and they were wall to wall government shutdown. 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:56.640 I thought, is there anybody in the country interested in 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:58.840 this back and forth and the wranglings over this? 0:00:59.000 --> 0:00:59.480 Anyone? 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:03.440 And even if you're interested in it, you probably misunderstand it. 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:05.120 I've got a good illustration of that caught up a 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:09.679 little later, not because you lack sophistication or anything like that, 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:13.760 but because the budget process is so complicated. Haven't you 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:16.640 lived through the last dozen of these where most of 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:19.279 the time he gets settled before it happens and nobody 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:21.119 ever thinks about it again after all this. 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:23.360 Conversation, Yes, the beltweit bubble. 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:27.080 They're self obsessed on a completely different topic which we're 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:29.199 going to slide into now. Got this note from Mike 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:32.920 who lives in the San Jose, California area. We're huge 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:37.560 in the hoe. Shout out to our friends there, Californian California. 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:41.320 In a nutshell, homeless guy is masturbating outside someone's home 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:45.360 and he runs bites a cop in the process of 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:49.280 being arrested. And the headline in the Mercury News is 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:54.080 advocates blame San Jose's homelessness approach for violent police altercation 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:55.320 with unhoused man. 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:59.360 Wow. And he said it's articles. 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.040 As much he supports local journalism, it was articles like 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:03.960 this that made him throw up his hands and cancel 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:06.800 his subscription to Sure Mercury News, which used to. 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:10.119 Be a really good regional paper Metro. 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:14.200 And hey, even your readers in the Bay area of 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:17.639 California no longer are on your side on this sort 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:20.880 of stuff. People are speaking of bubbles. Yeah, journalism in 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:24.680 America is a weird little subset of people. It's like 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:28.840 the Amish, but odder anyway, their lives and thoughts have 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:32.600 nothing to do with your as friends. So topic of 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:36.080 bums and junkies came across this yesterday. It's a guy 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:39.440 who goes on the street in San Francisco. He's actually 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:41.959 wearing those cool ray band glasses where you can video 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.680 people and record him. I don't know if he's getting 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:45.600 their permission or not. 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:48.320 I don't know. They're feats on the street. Yeah. I 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:50.960 know JJ Smith's works. He's really good. 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.160 This is what he does, and he's very polite and 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:55.359 respectful and asks people if you can talk to them 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:59.440 and record it. But anyway, here's a conversation with a 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:02.399 young man standing on a street corner in uh, could 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:03.799 be any corner in San Francisco. 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:04.600 Where you from? 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:07.760 Patrick, I'm from Indiana, Indiana, USA? 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:09.800 Hey, how long you've been in San Francisco, West Indiana. 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:13.000 I've been in San Francisco for four years? Four years? Max. 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:14.080 What type of drugs you use? 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:20.600 I use crack and phetamine, hard cocaine. I use fentanyl, 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:26.280 iso fentanyl, isopoo, fentanyl and smoke weed. 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:28.000 Do you know I fitanel can kill you? 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:28.640 Yes? 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:30.560 Yes, How you ever overdosed on it? 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:33.639 I've overdosed yeah, many times, several times. 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:36.720 Several times. Yes. That never scared you. It scars me 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:39.720 every time. Don't has it scared you not to use 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.640 it anymore? Sort of but not not. 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:44.160 There's no longevity there. 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:46.920 Obviously pretty well spoken dude. 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:52.200 It's not like he's, you know, completely crazy or an 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:53.560 idiot by any means. 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.400 Rolls on, Are you homeless? 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:59.800 On how I'm no, No, I'm not, you're not what 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:01.040 I'm not homeless or. 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:03.080 In honest he said, he still on the streets? Are 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:03.520 in the shelter? 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:07.760 Or I have an apartment through a subsidy? Uh that 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:11.240 it was a nonprofit funded with city benefits. 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:13.040 Oh so they gave you an apartment. The city gave 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.080 you an apartment. Yeah, okay, how did that work it 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:16.720 out for you? Well, I mean it's working out. 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:19.920 It's working out really well relative to some of the 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:23.719 people on the streets. I mean I still have a 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:25.880 lot of my health, i'd say, and I you know, 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:29.839 I have the ability to not worry about like my 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:32.600 basic needs like you know, food, shelter, and hold. 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:34.560 Are you I'm thirty one? Tell you what do you 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:36.880 ever stay in contact with your family members? I talked 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:38.839 to my mom kind of if I was able to 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:40.599 tell you I could help you out and get you 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:42.960 into a detox where you can start helling yourself. Are 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.120 you interested? Yeah? 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:48.400 Yeah, I mean I'm always interested. Uh, I have kind 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:50.400 of a flight risk, a risk. 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:52.280 Ye, what do you mean about it. 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:55.440 I've been to several detoxes, even since I've been in 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:56.320 San Francisco. 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:58.240 You know, I've researched the avenues. 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:00.479 But then when it gets close, I I just tend 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:01.320 to not go. 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:04.440 Okay, I understand you what that means. Now. 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:07.200 No, I'm super interested, Like I'm super interested. But then, like, 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:09.960 fedol is such a different animal, it's such a different drug. 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:11.720 It's like I lived in Chicago. 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:13.600 I was. I was a heroin out of in Chicago 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:15.680 for some years and I was always able to get 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:18.760 into detox very easily. But there's something with the spend 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:19.840 on it's like just. 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:20.960 Keeping people on the streets. 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:24.080 Okay, we got more of this, But that's a pretty 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:26.800 interesting insight right there. As a guy who used does 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.440 meth and heroin, fentanyl's a different animal. 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:30.479 Yeah. 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:36.560 Yeah, I was struck by his rather concise and eloquent 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.400 description of what I'm always going on about the city. 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:42.440 San Francisco has made it easy and comfortable for him 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:46.120 to continue to be an addict. Which is the worst 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.240 thing you can do. I'm reminded of the words of 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:50.600 Nelly Bowles, now of the Free Press, before the Free 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:56.000 Press existed, as a liberal, lesbian San Franciscan who realized 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:59.159 that as she put it so beautifully, and I wish 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:00.880 I had it in front of me, I'll paraphrase that, 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:06.560 the way we treat these people is allegedly kindness, but 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:09.800 it doesn't look like kindness to me. It looks like 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:13.400 easing young people into death on the pavement. Okay, well, 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:16.720 that gets into having a judgment about their lifestyle. 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:17.960 Maybe you don't like that. 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:19.720 You're a libertarian and people should be able to do 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:23.960 whatever they want. Fine, if you can support yourself while 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:27.480 you're taking fentanyl and meth and hard cocaine whatever that is, 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:28.960 and a bunch of other stuff. 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:29.800 Go ahead. 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:31.919 But if you can't support yourself, and now it's my 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.240 money you're paying for you, Now I get to say. 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:36.240 Well, he said, it's worked out. 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:38.960 His apartment, a city paid apartment, because it takes care 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:41.160 of all of his basic needs. He doesn't have to 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:43.880 worry about being broke or on the street. It's great 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:47.039 so he can keep being a junkie, and that is 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:50.960 the favor we're doing him as a society quote. 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:53.520 Unquote, let's a little more of this and discuss more 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:56.440 some of this. When you get your supplies, do you 0:06:56.440 --> 0:07:00.159 get them from harm Reduction? Yeah? Yeah, I supplies. I know. 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:00.680 What do you mean? 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:03.480 Let me actually, what do you think about harm reduction? 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:07.120 Do you think they're enabling people? Yes? I do think 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:08.120 they're enabling people. 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:11.840 But I can't say that they're a totally bad organization 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:15.080 because they do offer services. But like I said before, 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:19.080 that if barely anybody takes the services, I also have 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.520 such a grip on people that remember they you know, 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:23.720 they they take the pipes and the and the brillo 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:28.280 and the you know, the needles over the you know, 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:32.280 the subtexts, the maintenance trument's, the micro the eath and 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.720 orphan microos, the uh SD tests. 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:38.360 Yeah, OK, I'll get there. Darn it. 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:40.880 We edited out the part I wanted to talk about. Hmmm, 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:44.920 that's just funny. Uh uh. He He was asked what 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:48.200 he does all day long or where he gets his money, 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:49.760 and he talked a little bit about it, and they 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:51.680 kind of like winked at each other and used some 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:54.400 code words. I wanted to ask people what that meant. 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:56.480 Did that mean he stole all day long? Was he 0:07:56.520 --> 0:08:00.920 breaking into cars? Or let's see if we can dig 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:03.480 that up. We have the raw audio. Yeah, we'll come 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:06.600 back to it, because I thought that's a heck of 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:08.960 a thing to gloss over if that's what he meant. 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:10.760 You know, I just kind of you know, I steal 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:12.040 from my other stuff. Ha ha. 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:14.640 You know, if you've got your car broken into in 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:16.400 the San Francisco are you don't find it quite as 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:21.080 funny or is not a big deal as he does. Yeah, 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:24.080 as long as I'm quoting people, Thomas Sowell famously said, 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:27.280 there are some ideas so stupid. It was a word 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:31.080 like stupid, so stupid only an intellectual could could have them. 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:35.720 And I'm there are so many times when especially progressive America, 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:42.000 manages to overlook the bedrock truths of human beings and 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:46.200 human behavior, and that is, if you want less of 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:51.080 a terrible, terrible behavior, there have to be disincentives for it. Well, 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:53.000 I'm trying to wrap my head around how you even 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:59.600 get to this place. So San Francisco's a hippie town 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.480 or know, And this is true, and lots of places, 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:06.400 not just San Francisco, But uh, San Francisco is a 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:10.160 hippie town, and so they think partying is cool and 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:13.199 you shouldn't ever describe any possible downsides to party in 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:18.120 hert Like a lot of port cities, it has a 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:20.200 reputation isn't anything goes place? 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:21.199 Right? 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:26.000 But then when you got drug addicts on the street, 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:30.600 so did those of you who you still believe that 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:32.520 if you just had if you just had enough rehabs, 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:34.560 these people would go to rehab and stop doing this. 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:37.800 You think, how do you come to that conclusion? 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:42.040 What's your what's your mindset of data that brought you 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:43.040 to that conclusion? 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:46.679 Do they know like they have no experience of the 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:47.640 actual people? 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:51.160 I would guess, well, it's not like I've lived my 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:57.960 life around heroin addicts. It just seems like obvious to me. Sure, yeah, wow, 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:01.720 that's really interesting. And then you've got the crowd that 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.280 uses the numbers of people on the streets to claim 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:06.280 it's a housing thing. And then that's I don't know, 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:08.360 you're either an idiot or it's just a scam. It's 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:11.400 a way to try to get more tax revenue. Yeah, 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:14.720 anything goes, I get, but anything goes and taxpayers will 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:18.680 pay for it. Is an attitude that is not only 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:22.280 outrageous as a taxpayer, but just again, it overlooks the 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:26.280 bedrock truths of human behavior. That guy seems more or 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:33.280 less perfectly comfortable with his lifestyle. Yeah, yeah, to the 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:36.960 extent that an addict can be. Yeah, yes, because of 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:38.360 the quote unquote services. 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:40.280 Every time I hear these stories, so I just I'm 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:43.280 amazed this guy's still alive. Just this list of drugs 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:43.840 that he was using. 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.280 Yeah, well we edited out also the number of times 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:50.520 he's had to be brought back. He's overdosed a whole 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:53.640 bunch of times and had to be revived, you know, 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:57.199 because you heard him asked you ever you never almost 0:10:57.240 --> 0:11:00.640 did oh yeah yeah, or you realize could kill you? 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:02.280 Oh yeah, yeah yeah. I have overdose a whole bunch 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:04.280 of different times. They had to bring me back. Wow, 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:05.800 And it just like it seemed like a no big 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:06.640 deal to him whatsoever. 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:07.360 Yeah. 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:08.960 And the number of times we've talked about this that 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:12.200 we've been flooded with emails and texts saying guys, I 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:15.520 was an addict of various substances and getting arrested and 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:19.800 put in jail saved my life we see over again. Yes, yes, 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:21.320 we have seen that over and over again. Have we 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:23.880 ever had one in your in your personal life or 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:26.719 on the radio. Have you ever had one? Yeah, they 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:29.000 put me up in an apartment. They gave me needles 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.200 and brittopads and all that stuff he is mentioned. They 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:34.160 gave me a vouchers so I could buy food, and 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:35.199 then I got sober. 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:37.520 I have never heard that story one time, not one. 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:42.959 No, no, no, I think we have the clip you're 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:47.680 looking for, Michael seventy four, still coming in and actually, okay, 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:48.920 we'll get to that later. 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:52.680 Is she mailing it to us or what? How do 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:55.880 we get these clips we have? We have, we have 0:11:55.960 --> 0:12:00.440 the same bird. I got it right now now it's 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:03.559 sent by owl. Okay, okay, So how do you how 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:05.560 do you survive like to get your to get the 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:09.679 money to get the drugs. Well, I don't know how. 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:11.800 I don't know how much. I don't know how much 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:13.480 of that I can go into. I've been trying to 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.240 go with my story, but whatever you want to say. 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:18.520 Well, I've gone career. 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:20.319 Okay, every day. 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:26.720 I work every day, so I've gone I've gone career. 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:30.000 And he kind of smiles and nods, So that's breaking 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:32.800 into cars. I couldn't tell if that was turning tricks 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:37.440 or breaking into cars. Well, that's interesting. It could be 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:39.640 that I assumed he use a he's a thief, he's 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:40.800 a shoplifter. 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:42.680 Right, and then for that to be just so you know, 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:43.440 I break into cars. 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.719 So yeah, they they provide me with an apartment and 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:48.200 all the stuff I need from a drugs and then 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:50.800 I steal from preak people who are just trying to 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:53.800 park their cars so they can go to work. All 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:57.000 because he had one medical Billy couldn't pay in housing 0:12:57.120 --> 0:13:01.640 is expensive, said nobody. Ever, that is really interesting again, 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:02.880 what's your any response to that? 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:06.480 Text? Line four one five two nine five kftc. 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:12.160 Armstrong Ngetti, a Los Angeles County Deputy sheriff, has been 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:16.000 accused of smuggling black tar heroin into a jail by 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:18.400 hiding it inside two cans of pringles. And the worst 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:21.280 part was the prisoners could never get that last bit 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:28.000 of heroin from the bottom of the cabin. 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:29.440 Though at the end of the day, it's Philly a jo. 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:36.160 So we just played some audio as an interview with 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:40.120 a drug addict standing on the street in San Francisco, 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:42.480 which is probably not a lot different than the drug 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:46.520 addict standing on the street in Seattle or La or 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:49.760 sam Hit in all West coast cities, but that's where 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:52.040 a lot of it is. Vancouver, man, you can just 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:56.600 drive I five San Diego, La on off the coast, 0:13:56.880 --> 0:14:02.040 San Francisco, Hit, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver cities. That will provide 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:05.000 you someplace to live, all the paraphernalia you need to take, 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:07.400 the drugs, all that sort of thing, and it's working 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:09.440 out great. As you look around the city, you can 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:12.440 see that it's a that plan has been really you 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:15.800 can reap the benefits anyway. So the guy that was 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:19.000 interviewed on the street, at some point, the interviewer said, 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:21.280 you know how you getting by or whatever, and he said, oh, 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:24.160 I've gone career, and a whole bunch of people they 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:28.000 pointed out that that means career criminal. That's your street lingo. 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:31.320 He's almost bragging about it, as if there's no stigma 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:34.680 in that culture. Yeah, seems to be. He didn't seem 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.840 the least bit bothered by the fact that I'm parking 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:39.880 my car so I can go in him to a 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:42.440 store or go to work or whatever. You smash the windows, 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.240 stole some stuff. I now have great expense, My insurance 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:48.280 goes up. You stole my laptop all the putte pain 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:49.880 that comes with that. But you know, hey, what are 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:51.880 you going to do? And he stole everything in the 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:56.280 story you went into, right, Yeah, that's a little disappointing 0:14:56.320 --> 0:15:00.440 that it's a treated you may have crossed paths with him. 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:02.680 He was walking out with his big trash can full 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:04.960 of trash bag full of what you were going to buy, 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:06.680 and while you were in there saying what hell's all 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:09.600 the goods, he was breaking into your car win Win. 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:14.440 Uh. Well, I'll just here's somebody somewhat angry. 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:18.440 A lot of you are quite angry with that nonchalant 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.240 drug addict thief standing on the corner there. 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:23.560 I'm dead being serious. 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:27.120 I want to go dark knight vigilante like Philippines President 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:33.240 Duratati or whatever his name is on the Temple day. Yeah, well, 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:35.200 I don't know that I want that, well, and I 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:35.920 know I don't want that. 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:38.440 You don't need that. You just got to stop enabling 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:39.040 these people. 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:41.760 You know, you don't need to give people an apartment 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:45.240 and money for food and the actual paraphernalia to take 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:47.680 the drugs. You don't need to do that, and if 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:54.000 you stop, you'll have a lot fewer drug addicts period. Sure. Yeah, 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:56.320 it's too miserable. I don't want to do this anymore. 0:15:56.640 --> 0:16:01.280 That has been Is that not jack? Roughly the cry 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:06.800 that precedes every serious attempt to heal from addiction. This sucks. 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:09.760 I don't want to do this anymore. Yeah, essentially, Yeah, yeah, 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:12.600 I don't like this lifestyle. Whatever the other lifestyle would be, 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:15.880 of not being drunk or drugged, I would prefer to 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:20.320 This is the only way anybody ever stops. And if 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.600 you're providing somebody a pretty easy life, and if you 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:24.840 don't have to go to work every day, obviously you 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:26.520 don't have any kids or anything like that, or if 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:29.440 you do, you don't care about them. I was you know, 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:31.960 he's from Indiana. Do you talk to your mom, The 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:36.640 interviewer asked, Yeah. Sometimes, Yeah, you know, mom might just 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:39.480 have just raised a kid, like we all raise a kid, 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:42.000 and for whatever reason, at a party, that kid did 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:45.360 some drugs and tried fentanyl, and off the goes. 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:46.160 Yeah. 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:48.880 First worth mentioning that he was an addict in Chicago 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:50.760 for a while and now he's in San Francisco. Was 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:54.520 it because he was transferred for his career or what exactly? 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:54.920 The weather? 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:59.800 Probably I'm guessing he got word that, Hey, they really 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:02.360 take take care of you in San Francisco. It's great 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:04.200 and easy to be an addict. I'd be in fre Attle, 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:06.520 but it's too rainy, so I went with San Francisco. 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:11.240 Great. Why does society do this? Anyway, We've got more 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:11.680 on the win. 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:17.560 Armstrong and Getty now you I do want to talk 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:23.720 about March Madness and betting gambling a little bit later. 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:26.600 As you know, it's changed in the last few years. 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:30.960 A big court ruling allowed legalized gambling all across the 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:34.360 country in a way that had never existed before, and 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:36.679 there's been an explosion of gambling. We do ads for 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.840 it too, and I, you know, do whatever you want 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:42.800 to do. I have no problem with that. It's funny 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:45.600 as well. I'll save this for later. I heard NPR 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:51.080 doing this story. Their take was hilarious. Anyway, my main 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:57.760 thrust here is you don't understand the giant federal government. 0:17:57.800 --> 0:17:59.840 I don't understand the giant federal government. It'd be almost 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:02.880 possible to understand it, and it's hopeless to think we're 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:05.280 ever going to pare it down to something that is 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:08.640 responsible to the people. So good night, everybody drive safely, 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:14.920 tip your weight staff. Yes, and it's equally impossible for say, 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:16.399 the president to understand it. 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:17.560 Right. 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:19.760 So this is an article in the Wall Street Journal 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:22.480 by Kim Strassel. Strassel do we decide how were you 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:26.440 going to pross? Meet the lawyer who's about to head 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:29.760 one of the most ideological offices in Washington. Her meet 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:31.919 Dylan is her name, and she was appointed. Talk to 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:35.359 her several times. Yeah, we've talked to her. Yes, Wow, cool? 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:38.280 What did we talk to her about? Oh, she's represented 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:42.040 some great clients in the face of progressive madness. I 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:44.600 don't remember the specifics. 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:45.240 She's junior. 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:48.480 She's doomed in this new assignment, I think, But yeah, 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:51.840 she is going to she's the nominee as Assistant Attorney 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:55.080 General for civil rights and she is going to be 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:01.080 involved in what former Attorney General Eric Holder called the 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:04.600 Justice Department's crown jewel. And this is something that none 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:07.640 of us pay any attention to the Civil Rights Division 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:10.639 of the Justice Department, which has I'm in favor of 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:15.080 civil rights jack, which has for decades successfully repelled any 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:18.560 effort at reform or oversight. It's a hotbad of liberal 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:22.840 activism that acts as a law unto itself. If mister 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:25.120 Trump hopes to see through his goal of deep politicizing 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:27.560 the Justice Department, it will be ground zero. And I 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:30.880 thought a lot of you had been overstating, you know, 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:34.760 the Justice Department's ideological leanings or the deep state or whatever. 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:36.520 But no, you haven't been. 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:42.040 And this whole there's an article the other day about 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:45.439 all the people that Elon is firing and trying to 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:49.479 get rid of. But it's the gazillions of unelected people 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:54.000 underneath all these people that are real, the fabric of 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:57.359 the whole federal government, that make the rules and bog 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:01.000 things down and cost you money, that are most untouchable. 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:03.720 Oh yeah, Well you go to somebody in that the 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:06.800 Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, you say, all right, yeah, 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:09.360 I need you to file this writ. I'll say, I'm 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:12.560 on it. And a week later, how's that writ to file? 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:14.760