WEBVTT - A&G Replay Thursday Hour Three 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:14.920 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:16.400 Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:21.239 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Jetty, and he. 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:29.720 Armstrong and Getty Strong Happy Thanksgiving. It's the Armstrong and 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:32.240 Getty replay. I hope you eat as much as you can. 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:34.320 I hope you're in pain by the end of the day. 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:35.040 I know I will be. 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:38.360 Now Here are some delicious Armstrong and Geddy leftovers. 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:42.080 Get filled up with more of Armstrong and Getty with 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:45.160 our podcast Armstrong and Getdy on demand. 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But 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:18.319 I am on a real bike, not a child's bike 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:22.560 I took out of someone's backyard, the suburban gentleman, look 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:24.400 exactly why not. 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:29.040 We were talking yesterday about an absolutely blockbuster report in 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:33.960 the Hill about how vast majorities of college kids don't 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:38.440 believe the garbage they've been indoctrinated in, but they're afraid 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:39.080 to say it. 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:42.560 That is one of the more important things for people 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:44.920 to know that I can remember. I mean, this is 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:49.080 important information. Yeah, and we hammered this pretty good yesterday. 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:51.800 But seventy eight percent of students told us a self 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:57.480 censor on their belief sound surrounding gender identity, seventy two 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:01.680 percent on politics in general, sixty eight percent on family values. 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:05.960 They value what are traditionally known as family values, but 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:08.640 they dare not speak it on college campus. 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:13.120 And more than eighty percent so they'd submitted classwork that 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:17.040 represented their views in order to align with professors. You 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:20.400 give them a chance and they will tell you what 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:24.080 they really think. And we are on the cusp. I 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:31.520 think of a huge move toward the youngsters of recognizing 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:33.920 what's being done at colleges. It's not education at all, 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:37.240 it's indoctrination. But those poll numbers were stunning and. 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:39.359 Encouraging. 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:39.639 Well. 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:42.080 The important thing to me, though, is just realizing that 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:45.440 as human nature, that we're all so susceptible. I don't 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:49.280 know about all, but so many people are susceptible to this. Yeah, 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:51.600 of keeping your mouth shut if you think most people 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:53.360 don't agree with you. I keep my mouth shut in 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:57.960 most social situations about political stuff. But right, yeah, well, 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:00.720 and the whole concept of a preference, just which I 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:04.600 find so interesting that you because everybody around you is silent, 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:07.720 you think, oh, I'm probably one of the only people 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:11.080 who believes this. Right, they agree with the powerful people 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:13.120 who are telling us all what we ought to believe. 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:15.120 But no, you're all sitting there thinking the same thing. Yeah. 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:17.600 And I don't know how many times, probably everybody's had 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:20.360 this situation where that is going on, and somebody says, 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:23.280 you know, I'm a gun owner, and I'm me too, 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:25.480 me too, and that's oh, geez, okay, so we're not 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:29.560 all well and that's whatever the topic is. And that's 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:32.440 the crazy thing, you know, to if you find yourself 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:35.600 in college and thinking, you know, this this stuff about 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.000 you know, the gender beenning madness. A man can just 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:41.400 become a woman, And that's really a woman and all 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:43.680 the other stuff they teach these poor kids, all the 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:48.920 critical theory stuff. If you have the courage to stand 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:51.760 up and be that rebel and think, you know what, 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:53.839 ten percent of us are together, I'm going to stand 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:55.960 up and say so, then all of a sudden, eighty 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:59.560 five percent of the classes on your side. You are 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.480 a But you know you're not nearly as alone as 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.760 you think. Yeah, you can't blame people though, I mean, oh, 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:07.880 it's not blame them at all. First of all, everything 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:09.960 that's been presented to all of us led us to 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:12.240 believe that this is what most people on college campus 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:13.600 has thought was this stuff. 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:18.000 Well that's part of the insidious plot. That's what propaganda is. 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:22.080 Sure, and telling everybody, including the teachers who are going 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:26.080 to grade you, that they're wrong, completely wrong, is not 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:29.960 always your best move, right. Oh yeah, Well that's why 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:33.400 eighty percent of the kids submitted work that they didn't believe, 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.440 because they had to get some to get their grades 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:39.000 and move on in life. Nearly four out of five. 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:41.320 I don't believe this, but I'm gonna pretend I do 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:45.320 to get along. That's amazing. Yeah, yeah, but that's you know, 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:53.919 that's indoctrination, especially of youth, is all about fighting unfairly 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:58.680 and bullying and convincing kids that everybody believes it, and 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.440 anybody who dissentses ab person. So yeah, I don't blame 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:03.520 the kids at all. No, I want to fight against 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:09.040 the evildoers or bullying them anyway. Morgad News and if 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:13.200 San Francisco's doing it, it's gonna spread. San Francisco has 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:17.440 embraced a new tool to clear homeless camps. I've noticed 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:21.120 city officials pointing to cleaner streets is evidence that more 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:24.279 active approach is working. I feel like my reporters say 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:26.640 it's cruel and nasty. I feel like my reporting, with 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:30.760 my own circumstances was leading the way long before the 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:32.520 Wall Street Journal or others picked up on this. On 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:35.880 the East coast, San Francisco's a complete if you haven't 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:38.680 been in a long time, it's a completely different looking 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:41.080 city than it was a year ago. It's amazing. 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:44.400 Indeed, between July of last year and July of this year, 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:47.040 the city arrested or cited more than one thousand and 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:51.719 eighty people on illegal lodging charges. That's over ten times 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:54.240 the number of arrests during the same period a year 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:58.800 earlier under the progressive former administration. Last time I was 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:02.360 in downtown San Francisco, I a homeless person one and 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:04.760 that person was being talked to by somebody from the 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:06.279 city about how you got to get out of here. 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:09.719 So the residents and business owners complaining about safety as 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:12.520 encampments grew have finally been heard. 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:13.360 Now. 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:15.760 Of course, the activists say, you're merely shifting the homeless 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.560 population around the city and putting homeless people a greater risk. 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:19.000 Shut up. 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:22.600 Most of them need to shdrug addicts. Yeah, yeah, shut up. 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:27.080 So San Francisco is doing a good job. It is possible, 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:30.640 even under some of the bizarre court rulings recently. And 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:35.960 also and this is out of San Francisco as well. 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:41.400 Once seen as a model of progressive drug policy, San 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:45.719 Francisco stands now as a morbid example of how harm 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:50.560 reduction has gone astray. This is one of the shibboleths, 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:53.880 one of the gods of the left is that you've 0:06:54.000 --> 0:07:01.560 got to help junkies do drugs safely and comfortably. Look, 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:05.120 I get the clean needles thing, I get the impulse there. 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:08.280 What's the theory on that, though, how's that supposed to 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:11.560 end that people will on their own decide, you know what, 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:14.760 I don't want to live in my own filth on 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:19.280 the street at some point, yes, okay, yes, exactly. Yeah. 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.280 In fact, this gal, who's the executive director of the 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:28.320 National Harm Reduction Coalition, called the shift in San Francisco 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:31.760 away from the harm reduction quote moronic and antithetical to 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:35.280 what we know works. But the problem in San Francisco 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:37.800 and other progressive cities is that harm reduction has become 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:41.840 completely divorced from recovery. What began as a campaign to 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:44.920 keep people alive long enough to recover from addiction has 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:48.440 devolved into a philosophy that no longer considers recovery as 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:53.160 necessary or even desirable. The question of whether or not 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:55.600 harm reduction is successful comes down to whether it's treated 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:58.240 as a gateway to recovery or as an alternative to it. 0:07:58.760 --> 0:07:59.600 So there you go. 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:03.720 It has become an alternative to getting off of drugs. 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:06.960 What percentage? So I'm I'm not a big financed by 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:09.360 you the taxpayer. I'm not big on the UH on 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.160 rehabs and that sort of stuff, because they are incredibly 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.000 unsuccessful and nobody pays any attention to that. But of 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:17.600 people that I mean, not just for regular people, of 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:21.000 people that are so far down the whole drug road 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:24.560 that you're sleeping on the street next to another drug addict. 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:28.400 How many of those people ever clean up? I wonder 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:31.960 half of one percent. I'll bet it's I'll bet it's very, 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:32.640 very low. 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:36.600 Yeah, I'm guessing you know, a pretty good chunk of 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:41.000 them continue using into their forties fifties, and then they 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:43.680 succumb to you know, the sort of thing middle aged 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:49.439 addicts do. As you know, a coroner once said in 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:53.720 response to the question who's your most common customer? Uh, 0:08:53.760 --> 0:09:00.160 they said male fifties alcoholic, and I'm sure drug addict. Now, 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:03.920 because that was, gosh, fifteen years ago, I think they 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:07.040 would probably say, yeah, middle aged drug addict or a 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:07.920 young drug addict. 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.320 Anyway, more good news, though. Don't want to get focused 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:12.960 on the bad news. Want to get focused on the 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:13.520 fact that. 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:16.280 A lot of the insane policies of the left are 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:20.760 being abandoned, even in places like San Francisco. Different topic, 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:24.760 but kind of the same area. Boston Children's Hospital, the 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:29.440 Harvard Medical Research and Training hospital that specializes in children's care, 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:34.000 had previously insisted that they do not perform genital surgeries 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:36.640 as part of gender affirming care on patients under the 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:39.800 age of eighteen, but a journal of Clinical Medicine Studies 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:42.360 published a couple of years ago that was improved. Blah 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:45.439 blah blah describes chess surgeries for those who are fifteen 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:49.120 as well as genital surgeries for those over seventeen. And 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:53.040 the Trump administration has subpoenaed all sorts of information from them. 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.600 And because of that, at least partly, and this is 0:09:56.600 --> 0:10:01.520 from the New York Times reload plays, there is hospitals 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:06.560 are limiting gender treatment for transminers. Both of those phrases 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:08.760 ought to be in quotes because they're made up. 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:10.680 Even in blue states. 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:15.000 Three prominent medical centers in California recently announced they would 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:18.880 stop the treatments, citing pressure from the Trump administration and 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:21.520 from sanity. 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:25.840 So that's good. There's a lot of real madness being 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:29.520 rolled back. Good progress domestically. Love it. Let's not focus 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:30.920 on the grim stuff. 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:35.440 The Armstrong and Getty Show, Yeah, your show, podcasts and 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:43.720 our hot links Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, The Armstrong 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:44.600 and Getty Show. 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:48.360 So my Sweetheart, Judy and I spent eight days in 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:52.400 London and had an absolutely wonderful time. I loved England 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:56.000 as I suspected I would. It's a very interesting place. 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:02.240 I've become a fan of day drinking, and not in 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.960 that like vacation drinking all day long way, but in 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:09.760 the like you have a pint at lunch at a 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:12.800 pub and then you go do what you're going to do. 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:17.040 You're not quote unquote drinking. You just have a beer 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.400 because it's nice and it makes you feel slightly more cheerful. 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:23.120 Why did we eat? How did we develop our attitude 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:24.960 we have in the United States over the years, because 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:26.960 I remember when I was in Italy thinking the same thing. 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:30.440 Everybody would come in the restaurants, like people who are 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:32.240 working their jobs. They'd have a glass of wine, eat 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:34.040 their food and then go back to work. And that 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:37.680 is seen in the United States. It's just insane, just 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:39.400 absolutely crazy. 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.160 Yeah, the Europeans have what I would call a very 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:46.520 European look or view of drinking that I found refreshed. 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:51.880 Speaking of pubs. So we rented a flat in Mayfair 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:54.600 if you know where that is, doesn't matter. New Bond Street, 0:11:54.720 --> 0:12:00.199 lots of like crazy high end shopping, mostly populated by 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:03.720 Kuwaiti oil money. Oh wow, by the bye, guys walking 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.400 up the street with four chicks and the beekeeper out 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:10.319 really going into perfume stores and spending just one godly 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:12.120 amounts of oil money a lot real. 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:16.120 That's not an exaggeration. You saw a guy walking up 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:19.520 the street with four women in the beekeeper out in 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:23.559 eight days many times? Yes, wow, I mean one to 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:29.280 six women in the beekeeper wow. Yeah. Anyway, they are 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:33.400 basically sex slaves or cleaning your house slaves or whatever, 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:35.959 and everybody just tolerates that with no rights. 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:39.960 That's correct, yes, And Brits are not super duper happy 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:44.680 about the completely wildly unfettered immigration from Muslim lands over 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:45.800 the last twenty years. 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:46.880 More on that another time. 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:51.080 But anyway, but out our windows onto the street, there 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.320 was a little like I just had half a block 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:57.000 long street and there was a pub on each side 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:58.760 of it. At the other end it was one hundred 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:00.920 yards from us maybe as we looked out the window, 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:06.280 and it was so cool every day and more and 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:09.640 more as the week went on. At four thirty or so, 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:13.360 certainly by five o'clock there would be so many people 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:17.400 standing in and outside the pub having a pint with 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:21.920 their coworkers and friends and a laugh and a conversation 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:23.680 before they went home for the day. 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:27.520 Sounds like a recipe for sexual harassment. Oh my god. 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:30.960 And it wasn't. They were drinking. 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:37.760 No, they were talking with people because they worked with people, 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:40.880 and they met their buddies, and they talked about the 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:44.600 football match, which is soccer, and it just it was 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:46.440 so nice. 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:47.600 Yeah. 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:50.640 Anyway, yeah, and I thought, wow, I could get used 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:53.520 to this in a hurry. Although the pub thing, we 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:56.520 went to this one historic pub. We met our next 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:59.280 door neighbors from home. Weirdly enough, they were over there 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:01.280 at the same time, decided to get together. We go 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:06.600 to this pub, hundreds of years old, pub, drenched in history, legendary, 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:09.480 the Prince something or lord what's its there, I don't 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:12.480 even remember the name, but it was very atmospheric. But anyway, 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:15.480 so we're sitting there having dinner and or we're having 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:17.439 you know, a couple of pines, and we decide it's 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:20.360 time to eat, and we order like four small plates 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:23.520 off the menu, and the waitress come back and says, 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:27.600 I'm so sorry, we're actually out of the calamari and 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:30.920 the pucker fish or whatever the hell it was, and 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:37.680 also the beef Wellington, and we're like, oh okay, it's 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.800 like six o'clock at night, all right, all right, all right, 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.320 we'll order those other things. Then she comes back in 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:46.080 like two of those three are out. So should she 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:49.200 ever get around to admitting we're not actually a restaurant. 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:51.160 We don't have any food at all. We just have 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:53.440 a menu. We just hope we're working out the wind. 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:56.560 Most people start drinking, they forget if they're hungry. So 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.000 at one point I said, it would save time if 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:03.080 you just told me what you do have, but we 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:05.880 end up with this mess of food. Did you say 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:10.720 that I shouldn't have? But I didn't know. And finally 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:12.480 so at the end of the evening and it was lovely, 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:15.960 she comes and says, can you tell me what you 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:17.400 actually ordered? 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:18.040 And got? 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:19.240 Oh? 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:21.920 Boys? And I'm like, wait a minute, that's your job. 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:27.880 We're some pot No, no, no, you tell us. And 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:31.440 it was just part of it is Tipping is not 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:35.440 really a thing there. Now they've got a service charge 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:42.360 that's like five, six, maybe ten percent, but you feel 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:45.160 it because they're not earning it. They're like, look, I'm 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:48.600 getting my six percent. Oh okay, No, matter what gotcha? 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:51.800 So if you have to like order twenty four foods 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.440 before I bring you three, just because we're playing this 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.320 little game of we might have it, we might not, 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:02.680 why don't you order find out so you know it's 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:05.480 it's pluses and minuses, because the whole tipping thing is 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:08.040 it's stressful, especially if you don't know the local customs. 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.600 But yeah, Michael, how was the food over there? Overall? 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:12.720 In England? Uh? 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:19.440 Overall kind of good, not great, But once you realize 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:21.920 how to order and what to order, it's it's better. 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:24.720 But yeah, the Brits are not famous for food for 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:27.240 for good reason. If you say, hey, what's a great 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:29.920 meal around here, people will send you to an Italian 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:34.920 restaurant or an Indian restaurant for a good reason. But 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:37.360 the other thing about workers that I found interesting. We 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:39.480 had a tour guide at the British Museum who was 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:41.600 just terrific. He was a professor of history. 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:45.520 And he said, yeah, that exhibit is shut down because 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:49.360 there's just no employees. There's no one to work. I said, what, 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:53.040 that's odd? He said, oh, yeah, since COVID, everybody stays home, 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:56.360 they live with their parents. They're collecting government checks, you 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:57.440 can't get people to work. 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:00.880 Wow, And I thought that was so interesting and exactly 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:02.960 what you hear from so many employers in the States. 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.600 Yeah, we had that conversation with my family in the 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:08.040 Midwest of the United States. I don't go to other 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:10.320 countries and give them my money. I stay in the 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:14.160 United States and for you. But we had the same 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:17.120 conversation on how number of restaurants, including the one we 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:23.600 were at, was really they they weren't seating all the seats, 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:26.600 not because they were crowded, but because they didn't have 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:29.840 enough help. How is that still a thing? Yeah, I know, 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:32.720 it's amazing and universally universal apparently. 0:17:40.359 --> 0:18:10.320 Armstrong and show. 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:06.000 The president decides to do something with an executive order 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:10.080 or whatever often that they promised on the campaign trail, 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:14.320 their voters get all excited, Yay, they did it day 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:17.639 one like they promised, And then then I get an 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:20.280 alert on my phone. Some judge somewhere I've never heard 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:22.199 of it said no, you can't do that. And then 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:25.840 it stops, and everybody's like groans, like, oh, they can 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:28.840 do that, and it keeps happening over and over again, 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:32.360 and do we want that system to continue that way? 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:34.280 Or not as part of what the Supreme Court was 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:36.360 arguing about yesterday. And as one of the justices said, 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:38.960 there are six hundred some federal judges and while I 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:43.000 do not question their motives, sometimes they are wrong. So 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:44.359 do we want them to be able to hold up 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:45.040 the whole country? 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:50.240 Let us discuss the very interesting and multifaceted oral arguments 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:53.720 yesterday before the Supreme Court with Tim Sandefer, vice president 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:58.600 for Legal Affairs at the Goldwater Institute, among other auspicious titles, 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:01.680 author of eight books, include most recently Freedom's Fories, How 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:05.680 Isabel Patterson, Rosewilder and ein Rand Found Liberty and Age 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:06.159 of Darkness. 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:09.080 I've recommended it many times. It's terrific. Tim. How are you, sir? 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:10.320 Just great? 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:11.080 Thanks for having me back. 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:14.679 Guys published poet, got to throw that in there. True, Yes, 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:16.440 a polymath as they say. 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:21.600 Anyway, Tim, So, ostensibly everyone's talking about that we're going 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:24.280 to discuss birthright citizenship in front of the Supreme Court, 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:28.160 and that did come up. But would you agree that 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:32.960 the more significant discussion was about nationwide injunctions by individual 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:33.719 federal judges? 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:34.680 Oh? 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:35.520 Yes, absolutely. 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:37.320 That was the focus of the argument, and it was 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:41.000 a very interesting argument, but I don't think that it's 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:44.360 a hard question. I think the answer is obviously nationwide 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:47.600 injunctions are perfectly fine. They're the ordinary way of doing 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:50.280 business in the courts, and people who complain about them 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:52.600 either don't understand the system or are trying to get 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:53.760 away with something illegal. 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:56.399 Yeah. I don't always like that it happened, but I 0:19:56.440 --> 0:20:00.840 can't see what the alternative would be. Somebody pointed out, 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:03.600 so you're gonna let I guess it was you that 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:06.280 pointed it out yesterday in Twitter. The idea that so 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:09.080 every time a president does something, it's got to work 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:11.359 its way all the way through the courts up to 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:13.920 the Supreme Court, and then a decision by the Supreme Court. 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:17.560 Before the Supreme Court might say sometimes nine nothing, you 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:18.199 can't do that. 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:22.479 Oh and during that whole period of time, the government 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:24.040 is still doing the illegal thing. 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:24.520 Right right? 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:28.119 Wow, So clearly it's two to one for a judicial 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:31.639 takeover of the government. But I will stand up for liberty. Uh, 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:33.920 Is there no middle ground? Has got to be three 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:37.640 judge panel and not a single Yahoo in a rural Tennessee. 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:40.600 Yeah, I think I think having a single unit ya 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:43.280 who in rural Tennessee is perfectly fine, because that's what 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:46.320 the appellate process is. Sort of, that's why you appeal cases. 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:48.760 And by the way, that's why you should avoid appointing 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:53.520 yahoos to the federal bench. Might mention that too. The argument, 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:57.760 the argument against nation right injunctions always seems to boil 0:20:57.800 --> 0:20:59.920 down to, well, this is a democracy in the major 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:02.200 I already should always get what it wants. And the 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:04.560 answer to that is no. What happened to all of 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:06.520 my friends who used to say, this is a republic, 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:09.399 not a democracy. The whole point of our system is 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:12.199 that the majority has to act lawfully, and if it 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:14.959 acts unlawfully, I can go in front of a judge 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:17.679 and get that give an order from that judge prohibiting 0:21:17.760 --> 0:21:20.520 the government from violating my rights. And the idea that 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:23.280 we should do this piece meal, that only a judge 0:21:23.359 --> 0:21:26.200 down here, that his order only applies there. Meanwhile, the 0:21:26.240 --> 0:21:28.600 government can do illegal things to everybody else in the 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:31.640 country until the case reaches the US Supreme Court makes 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:32.440 no sense at all. 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:37.240 The underlying theme here being, folks, that what we really 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:39.000 need to fear is the power of the government in 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:41.080 this country. That's kind of the idea of forming it. 0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:46.879 So there's no question that these nationwide injunctions were relatively 0:21:47.160 --> 0:21:50.200 or practically completely unknown for one hundred and fifty years. 0:21:50.200 --> 0:21:52.399 Then there are a handful of them, and the number 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:54.440 of them is now skyrots every day. 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:56.320 It seems like on my phone, I see a judge 0:21:56.400 --> 0:21:57.159 jumped in somewhere. 0:21:57.200 --> 0:22:00.239