WEBVTT - How Am I To Check My Quaff? 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:06.240 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:10.360 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty. 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:17.320 Arm Strong and Getty, I know he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:24.079 So we're going to lay off the presidential election just 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:27.920 for a moment, but worth mentioning regularly. Kamala Harris is 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:32.239 sitting down with Brettbaar Fox tomorrow for an interview that 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:35.360 he says has no preconditions and there will be no editing. 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:40.400 So that's a big deal. Half hour, that's a big deal. 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:42.440 You can do a lot of talking, a lot of 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:44.960 asking an answer in half an hour, no doubt. 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:45.400 Yeah. 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:49.120 Wow, So stay tuned for the well a preview of that, 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:52.360 I guess. But also one of the most eloquent commentators 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:56.320 in America explaining why he thinks to my quote, Kamala 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:57.400 Harris is an idiot. 0:00:57.520 --> 0:00:57.800 Cool. 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:01.520 Also a friend of mine visited to Cello yesterday and 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:04.240 something they told them on the tour. Oh, we should 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:06.360 discuss I think it's interesting. Is it going to raise 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:07.120 my blood pressure? 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:09.679 Well? I don't know, Okay, all right. 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:13.119 I am intrigued. It is he owned slaves related of course? 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:14.119 Oh of course? 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:18.920 Yeah, interesting story in the wall Street Journal America's new 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:27.000 millionaire class plumbers and HVAC entrepreneurs, and it it's well, 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:30.080 it's what the headline would suggest. There's one twist to it. 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:34.479 But I'm reminded of something that I We've been saying 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:40.840 for years. The virtually every election comes down to how 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.040 much the government is going to give you, and most 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:45.640 of its phony sure looks like it right now of 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:48.360 other people's tax moment, with both candidates claiming all kinds 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:50.880 of things are going to give you, or or a 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:54.000 wave is a fee or whatever, just laying out the 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:57.120 gifts and the handouts and the new programs and the 0:01:57.160 --> 0:02:02.000 rest of it. When it's funny that ninety well that's 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:04.920 not true anymore. The vast majority of us we make 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:09.000 a living, we have a job, and we you know, 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.080 with the government's involved in our lives, but more than 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:15.040 we want. And it's just the idea that, well, I'm 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:16.880 going to vote for who gives me the most is 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:18.560 just ugly to me anyway. 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:20.480 Yeah, it's never been part of my life. 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:23.400 And oh that gets back to you know what I've 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:26.600 always tried to lay out, and I wish Conservative America 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:29.200 was better at this, and I'm not claiming some sort 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:33.000 of mantle as some sort of eloquent hero. But I've 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:37.640 always said, I've come up with this program where you 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:46.440 can feed, clothe, educate, and medicate ten to ten thousand 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:49.720 families and it's not going to cost a dime of 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:54.480 taxpayer money. It's called starting a business and growing it 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:55.320 to success. 0:02:57.120 --> 0:03:00.000 Where is that in our political discussions? 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:04.920 That is the engine of prosperity, the engine the government 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:07.200 handout stuff is crumbs around the edges. 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:11.680 I hate for this to be true, but I think 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:14.680 the reason you don't pitch that as an argument is 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:18.240 because there are enough people that are going to decide 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:21.959 the election that are that other thing you were talking about, Yeah, 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:24.080 what are you going to give me without me doing 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:27.040 anything for it? Really, you start talking about starting a 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:28.680 business and all that sort of stuff, that's a lot 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:29.040 of work. 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:32.080 And the politics of envy has been so successful in 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:36.880 convincing people that the successful have done something untoward to 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:39.680 get there. They should be resented for that success. They 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:42.000 have stolen from you. If they have more than you, 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:44.480 it's because they have stolen from you, which was not 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:48.400 culturally the attitude in the United States up until very 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:49.160 very recently. 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:51.480 I heard a great thing yesterday on that from Jonah 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:55.160 Goldberg of The Dispatch that he regularly says in his speeches. 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:59.520 I guess when people talk about why is there poverty? 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:03.400 He says, that's not the question. There's always been poverty. 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:06.680 Poverty is the natural state of human beings. Yes, why 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:09.120 is there wealth is the question? And then you get 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:12.360 into the discussion of how capitalism creates wealth. Poverty is 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:14.280 the way it would be for everyone. If you didn't 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:16.719 have capitalism, we'd all be poor. It's not like we'd 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:20.240 all have, you know, nice sized homes and cars and 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:22.800 go on vacations and a comfortable retirement. 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:26.120 Yeah. Yeah, that's not the natural state of things, right. 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:28.839 And my only equivalent with Jonah, who's absolutely right, is 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:31.720 that because of the resentment of quote unquote wealth, you 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:34.279 could break it down to never mind, why there's poverty? 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.719 Why is their housing? Why is their food to eat? 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:41.760 Why is their medical care? How did this happen? And 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.000 we've just gotten away from that as a culture again 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:46.360 because the politics of envy works. 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:49.000 And digression number ten before you get to your main point, Yes, 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.200 when I said I've never voted for somebody given me stuff, 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:58.240 I think that's factually true. But if you are to 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:01.120 the left, you'd say, yeah, you've for people who who 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:03.680 want lower taxes are going to lower taxes, and they're 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:07.480 giving you money as opposed to I'm keeping my own. 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:10.360 Letting me keep my money is not giving me anything. 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:13.599 But yeah, you're absolutely right. So this article in the 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:18.640 Wall Street Journal is interesting. It is absolutely on the 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:22.480 side of folks who build, learn a skill, build a business, 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:25.160 hire others, teach them to do that business and grow it. 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:29.000 One interesting wrinkle is that it's all about how private 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:34.520 equity is now recognizing how the hvac business, the plumbing 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:41.320 business are good solid electrical contractors too. They're good, solid, 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:46.880 profitable businesses, and so venture capital is moving in and 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:50.159 buying up these businesses private equity businesses. 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:50.960 They hope to. 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:55.480 Profit by running larger, more profitable operations, more efficient, etc. 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:59.680 Well, we endorse a heating and air company, Fantastic One, 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:01.440 and I remember when we were talking to him last 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:03.279 year and he was telling us what people can make 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:07.039 to start and he can't find workers and they'll train them. 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:12.360 Right right, And there's some concern that. And you do 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:16.640 have to watch for this. If you've been with a 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:23.600 company for a long time Joe Hvac who learned the trade, 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:29.159 smart guy, gal family entrepreneur, hired people, grew it, etc. 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:32.640 Then they sell to the private equity company and it 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:37.320 becomes a different company. Yeah, standards of service change, priorities change, 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:37.880 that sort of thing. 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:43.320 What happens with everything, absolutely everything? Oh yeah, companies practically everything. 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:46.000 You go and buy in a store that has a 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:49.240 name brand, and I'm thinking of a home depot. So 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:52.719 many different brands of things at home Depot built their 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:58.000 reputation years ago on being super quality items that are crap, yes, 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:00.760 because they're you know, they're run by what you're just 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:01.240 talking about. 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:03.440 The wave of investment is minting a new class of 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.240 millionaires across the country, one that small business owners say 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:09.440 is helping add more shine to working with a tool belt. 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:12.920 Some of us don't need more shine for that. 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:16.040 But anyway, you don't need to go to Silicon Valley 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:19.240 to have a successful career in entrepreneurial opportunities, said this 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:23.560 fellow with the Detroit based private equity company that is 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:27.200 doing a lot of investment in service companies. You know, 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:30.400 I well, never mind, I was about to go off 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:32.560 on a personal tangent, but we have a ten tangent 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:39.080 limit and we've exceeded it. Why does everybody say space 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:42.040 these days? Quote, everybody in their uncle owns an HVAC 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:45.080 business in the private equity space today, he said. Another 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:52.800 guy that's hip this private equity company, Redwood Services. 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:55.120 Where are they based? It doesn't matter, Tucson. 0:07:55.560 --> 0:08:00.480 Interesting they've required acquired thirty five companies in the past 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:08.400 four years, from small to large. In the services trades 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:11.200 have long offered a solidly hourly wage for workers without 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:15.400 college degrees, also springboards for those with bigger entrepreneurial ambitions. 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:17.320 Goodness knows that is true. 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:20.760 Wow, this guy spent five years in prison for selling 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:23.480 meth before he co founded his plumbing business, and now. 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:26.720 He's an entrepreneur. He was selling meth and now he's 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:30.360 got a legitimate business. But it was in sales. Honestly, 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:35.679 you know, that's funny but true. I absolutely believe in 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:39.360 second chances for people. I'm a one strike you're out guy. 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:45.800 Wow, that's hard anyway, Saudi Arabia is calling. But yeah, 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:47.679 there is an element to that. He grew up in 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.800 a hard, scrabbled place where that was the entrepreneurial opportunity 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.720 and something open. Well, he learned the trade. I don't 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:55.040 know if it was in prison or what, but he 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.800 learned the trade and realized, oh, there are better entrepreneurial 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.440 opportunities than selling death to people. 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:04.880 Anyway. That ain't that America for you and me, Land 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:08.839 of the free? Anyway. I'm amazed by all you small 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:09.920 business owners. 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:16.240 Much because you work so hard and you got everything 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:18.200 on the line every day. 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:20.560 Yeah, I don't know how you. I really don't know 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:21.160 how you do it. 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:24.880 That is why I so resent and I'm so strongly 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:29.280 against this idiotic, nonsensical idea that we're going to raise 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.679 business taxes because businesses have to pay their fair share. 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:36.360 Like everybody who runs a business is crazy wealthy. I 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:39.360 know a lot of small business people and entrepreneurs who 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:44.040 draw what they have to keep a roof over their head, 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:47.240 and they pour everything else back into the business hours 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:51.880 they work are insane, right, pardon pardon my French folks, 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:55.640 but I'll say gun instead of the B word I 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:58.320 heard many years ago. You want to work for yourself, 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:00.960 You're gonna hate the son of a gun. You're gonna 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:01.959 hate your boss. 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:03.560 Because he won't let you have saturdays off. 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.120 Or holidays, or it's going'll work you like you've never 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:06.800 worked before. 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:08.800 You know, stay home when you're sick. He's not gonna 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:09.600 let you. Yeah. 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:13.240 So here's to you, entrepreneurs and small business owners. May 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:16.040 a private equity firm buy you out and I'll see 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:16.760 on the golf course. 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.400 I guess you can buy the drinks because you'll be 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:20.080 richer than me. 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:22.840 Here's my one thing that I learned from Or should 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.480 I do it when I come back? How do you 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:27.920 do a radio show? Do you do the interesting stuff 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:31.560 before the commercials are after? I guess what you hope 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:33.360 is the interesting stuff is before and after? 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:33.840 Right. 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.720 Oh my gosh, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey were at 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:38.480 the baseball game? 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:40.560 Who are you? 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:41.880 So? 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:44.080 Were they at the Yankees game? What have you become? 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.240 So that's the thing. So that's a New York See. 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:48.840 That's one of the reasons if you're a Yankees hater, 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:51.480 you hate the Yankees because all the celebrities show up. Yeah, 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:53.400 so you got Now you got all the celebrities at 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:57.040 the Mets games and the Yankees games, and it's just 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.120 it's easy to be turned off by that. I'm just 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:01.400 glad to see New York is pleased with themselves. 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:05.960 Get a little love, get a little attention, finally, some attention, 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:09.680 finally not just toiling, obscure and obscurity. They're in New York. 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:14.640 Yes, Michael, Well, Travis proposed to her on the big screen. 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:17.120 I'm looking for a new job. By the way, if 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:19.719 you are an HVAC or plumbing contractor, I think I 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:21.960 could learn that I'm not working with you people anymore. 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:25.640 That we'll talk about Taylor Swift exactly. That would be 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:27.959 pretty awesome. That would be a very Travis Kelsey thing 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:29.800 to do. To do it like at a game on 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:34.720 the Jobo Tron, like people do with Taylor Swift. 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:39.160 And you know, oh god, look look, folks, it's like COVID. 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:42.600 It's easy to catch. They sucked me in. And here's 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:46.680 what she does. She makes her oh surprised face the 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:48.439 way she does when she wins her eight hundred and 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:52.280 seventy five awards a year, and then says yes, and 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:54.280 then drags him behind the scenes and says, listen, you 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:58.040 dumb son of a bitch, We're going to be engaged 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:01.319 for precisely three months, and then we're going to cite 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:05.320 our travel schedules as being an issue. 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:06.640 And we're gonna let it go away quietly. 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:10.480 You proposed to me on the JumboTron at a baseball game. 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:12.760 I had a deal in the works with NBC for 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:17.400 a two hour primetime special for this fifty million dollars Travis. 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:23.320 He was tastued idiot. Okay, what a friend was told 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:26.480 at Monticello about Thomas Jefferson yesterday, among other things. 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:27.520 On the way, stay here. 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:33.959 Canada and India each expelled six diplomats as part of 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:37.199 an escalating dispute over the June twenty twenty three assassination 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:41.079 of a Sikh activist in Canada. Canada says police uncovered 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:44.439 evidence of a targeted campaign against its citizens by agents 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:49.360 of the Indian government. India says it voluntarily withdrew its diplomats. 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:54.240 Yeah, so that's interesting. Even Canada and ice kicked out 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:56.280 India's ambassador. 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:56.720 Yeah. 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.400 I've said before, if I had unlimited time, I would 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:04.160 dig deep in to Indian politics because it is wild. 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:07.559 A couple of things for you coming up. 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:09.040 By the way, A woman who lives in one of 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:13.400 those complexes apartment complexes, and Aurora, Colorado taken over by 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.640 Venezuelans thinks it's a bigger deal than Martha Radditt's of 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:17.520 ABC This Week does. 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:21.240 Apparently from Washington, DC, she doesn't think it's a big deal. 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:23.800 Huh. Stay tuned to defer that Walgreens is going to 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:26.240 close twelve hundred locations over the next three years for 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:27.240 a variety of reasons. 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:31.320 Just saw seven Eleven's going to close hundreds of stores too. 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:32.439 Huh. 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:36.640 Unprofitable stores. I wonder why they're unprofitable. Huh, could if 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:38.800 he because the shelves get emptied once a month like 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:40.000 gangs of utes. 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:42.040 Yeah. See, I dug into this story a little bit. 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:46.360 Why don't businesses because we recognize that in the northern 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:50.839 California where the show is based, businesses we know are 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.840 closing because they're in a neighborhood full of crime and 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:54.680 homeless people. 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:57.840 They never say it out loud when they close down. 0:13:57.920 --> 0:13:59.000 Why they closed down? 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:02.360 Why? What are they scared of? I really don't know. 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:05.800 I mean, you say, when I opened this business, it 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:08.640 was a nice, safe business and I had customers. Now 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:11.120 it's a crap hole, so that's why I closed. Yah, 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:13.240 it's too dangerous for my customers and my help. And 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:15.840 what's funny is once in a while one will say 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.440 that and it gets a tremendous amount of attention, but 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:21.960 most don't, not claiming that's the only reason Walgreens is struggling, 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:24.479 but that's why a lot of them closed in San Francisco. 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:27.200 They're locking up my toothcut, that's right. 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:29.840 I was at the Tarja the other day, something I 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:33.120 don't do very often. Was reminded that all the underwear 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:38.320 is locked up in vast swaths of cal Unicornia. Yeah, 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:41.120 because the junkies come in they just leave their soiled 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:44.880 unders in the store and throw on some new steal it, 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:47.160 walk out, cruise. 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:50.280 How's your utopia coming along? Well, I was aggressive. I 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:53.080 was in a Starbucks. 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:57.600 Where they don't have mirrors in the bathroom anymore, because 0:14:57.600 --> 0:14:59.880 they don't mirrors or sinks in any of the bathrooms. 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:01.760 A lot to check my quaff. 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:03.960 A lot of the Starbucks don't have mirrors or sinks 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:05.840 in the bathrooms because the homeless people go in there 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:06.800 and use them, you know, as. 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:08.520 A place to wash up in there there for an hour. 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:11.360 So to deal with that, they just took out any sinks, 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:13.480 or that she'd come out and use a communal sink 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:15.920 kind of in a public area to kind of discourage 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:19.880 bum bums, bum bats. This is even downtown Napa. I 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:21.280 mean it's not like I was in the hood. 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:21.960 Wow. 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:24.760 But that's a common thing with Starbucks to not have 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.160 sinks and mirrors in the bathroom to keep the homeless 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:27.560 people out. 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:27.760 Wow. 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:33.880 Isn't that crazy that you adjust to them. 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:33.200 Well because your city's going to allow it. 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:35.080 Yeah, it is crazy. Oh my gosh, I know you're 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:36.960 going to do something else. But I was listening to 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.120 NPR on the way to work today to punish myself 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:40.320 for the bad things I've done. 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:43.480 And in their main morning anchor. 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:48.720 Guy Stevenskip, who is an insufferably smug, lefty prick. Pardon me, 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.120 but he was talking to this guy and it was 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:56.120 it was about Trump indirectly, but the guy was making 0:15:56.160 --> 0:16:00.280 the case that progressive policies have killed America's cities just 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:04.760 in terrible shape. And Stephen Skip was denying that reality. 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:08.240 And this guy's from Portland, and he say, no, Steve, 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:09.880 downtown Portland is a mess. 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:14.080 It's terrible. Seems like the buildings are there. Look, the 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:16.200 unemployment rate is low in Portland. 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:20.160 He was denying that Portland, for instance, has gone to 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:26.280 hell the protected class in DC in Manhattan, just like 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:28.560 Martha Radditts, who I actually have a fair amount of 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:30.920 respect for as a journalist. But it was a great 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:36.720 example of that disgusting smug immigration actually helps the economy. 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:40.480 Our schools are dying, and that's funny. My kids at 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:45.320 Sidwell Friends for sixty five thousand dollars a year doing fine. Man. 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:50.480 I hate those people. And to eat cats cat eaters. 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:53.720 Wait a minute, who does the entitled class in DC? 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:55.120 Somebody does? 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:59.000 Are cat eating going on? Than I had any idea? 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:04.720 Okay, So yeah, it continues to be a story. Well, 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:09.080 Trump's closing hard with immigration and that's a top issue 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:10.880 for America and that it's gonna work a lot better 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:12.720 than whatever Kamala Harris's closing argument is. 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:14.320 But we got more on that coming up in a minute. 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:18.240 Armstrong and Getty have. 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:20.720 Some follow ups from conversations we had before we get 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:21.280 into the meet. 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:23.760 In the hour this is the uh, I don't know, 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:26.960 chips and guacamole of the hour. I guess I enjoy 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:28.000 that pretty much. 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:34.200 All Right, first this, I've been meeting to talk about 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:35.960 this for a while. LA Times has a story about 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:38.200 how the San Francisco mayor's race is the hottest and 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:42.359 many many years, San Francisco tech workers are spending millions 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:44.720 on the mayor's race in San Francisco because they want 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.640 the politics to be more centrist less progressive. I bring 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:49.800 this up for the rest of the country. He doesn't 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:54.439 live in San Francisco. Uh to point out that there 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:56.760 must be a limit. Apparently there's a limit for everybody. 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:58.840 Yeah, how far, how crappy you can let your town 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:02.080 get with liberal Paul before you'll decide to do something different. 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:04.920 I was just reading about this at this activist dude 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:08.520 who's got somehow all sorts of political power because he 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:10.960 has a bunch of followers in San Francisco, who's so 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:16.960 staunchly against quote unquote gentrification that anything that improves anything 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:20.200 he's against, that's a weird and he gets his neighbors 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:21.120 to go along with it. 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:22.880 That's a wild position. I'd say. 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:27.880 We were talking earlier about we're in the last three 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:30.040 weeks of the election, and both sides are promising to 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:32.400 give people all kinds of things they can't actually give 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:34.639 them because so many people vote on who's going to 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:37.080 give me the most? Got this text I don't vote 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:38.720 for who will give me something. I will vote for 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:41.760 who takes less from me. Yeah, that's the category I'm in. 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:43.960 But about half the country don't believe there's such thing 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:47.119 as that. I guess everything you learn really belongs to 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:49.040 the government, and it's up to the government to let you. 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:52.040 They decide how much they'll let you have, right, and 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:54.800 they'll take the part that's important for all of society. Hey, 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:59.000 one man's socialism is another man's neighbor holiness, says Tim Walls, right, 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:01.600 and those are the same people think the government gives 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:08.200 you your rights. Yeah, the same principle on the Starbucks 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:11.080 thing with the bathroom. So Starbucks the communal sinks that 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:13.159 they now have because they took the bathrooms and mirrors 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:16.159 out of the or they took the sinks and mirrors 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:19.000 out of the bathrooms because homeless people were washing themselves 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:21.359 in there. So now you come out of the bathroom 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:24.320 and there's like a communal thing there out by where 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:25.879 you get your coffee. 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:28.840 Like you're at an outdoor rock concert or something outside 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:30.400 the porta potties exactly. 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:33.399 So the Starbucks communal sinks are still used to bathe 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:35.480 right there in the open on many occasions, we've caught 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:38.400 them straight up nude in the bathroom hallway, with half 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:41.080 their naked bodies literally in the sink. I've been in 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:44.159 leadership for Starbucks for over ten years in northern California, 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:44.600 trust me. 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:49.120 Wow. And it's mostly junkies, of. 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:51.000 Course it is. Yeah, And we put up with this 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:53.080 in some parts of the country. Lots of the parts 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:56.399 of the country. This doesn't happen. I live near Portland. 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:58.960 I assure you it's not fine. We will not go 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:01.400 downtown unarmed. Always carry everywhere here. 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:03.800 Yeah, and miskidding, brother, I could not believe what I 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:06.399 was hearing out of the NPR. Dude, and this text 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:09.160 just to keep us level headed. This show has hit 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:09.639 the rocks. 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:15.639 There you go, hit the rocks doing poorly icey Yeah, Wow, 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:18.960 played this yesterday, But in case you didn't hear it, 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:23.320 it's pretty good. Trump is closing hard on the immigration 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:27.800 argument way too much. Well, they call it the immigration argument. 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:31.119 It's a legal immigration that really bothers people, or just 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:35.000 unregulated immigration, even if people end up being legal or 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:38.720 decent people with just the idea of just randomly decided 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:42.720 no no policy whatsoever. It's just however, many millions of 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:44.680