Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Getty, I know he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: So we're going to lay off the presidential election just
Speaker 3: for a moment, but worth mentioning regularly. Kamala Harris is
Speaker 3: sitting down with Brettbaar Fox tomorrow for an interview that
Speaker 3: he says has no preconditions and there will be no editing.
Speaker 3: So that's a big deal. Half hour, that's a big deal.
Speaker 4: You can do a lot of talking, a lot of
Speaker 4: asking an answer in half an hour, no doubt.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Wow, So stay tuned for the well a preview of that,
Speaker 4: I guess. But also one of the most eloquent commentators
Speaker 4: in America explaining why he thinks to my quote, Kamala
Speaker 4: Harris is an idiot.
Speaker 2: Cool.
Speaker 3: Also a friend of mine visited to Cello yesterday and
Speaker 3: something they told them on the tour. Oh, we should
Speaker 3: discuss I think it's interesting. Is it going to raise
Speaker 3: my blood pressure?
Speaker 2: Well? I don't know, Okay, all right.
Speaker 3: I am intrigued. It is he owned slaves related of course?
Speaker 2: Oh of course?
Speaker 4: Yeah, interesting story in the wall Street Journal America's new
Speaker 4: millionaire class plumbers and HVAC entrepreneurs, and it it's well,
Speaker 4: it's what the headline would suggest. There's one twist to it.
Speaker 4: But I'm reminded of something that I We've been saying
Speaker 4: for years. The virtually every election comes down to how
Speaker 4: much the government is going to give you, and most
Speaker 4: of its phony sure looks like it right now of
Speaker 4: other people's tax moment, with both candidates claiming all kinds
Speaker 4: of things are going to give you, or or a
Speaker 4: wave is a fee or whatever, just laying out the
Speaker 4: gifts and the handouts and the new programs and the
Speaker 4: rest of it. When it's funny that ninety well that's
Speaker 4: not true anymore. The vast majority of us we make
Speaker 4: a living, we have a job, and we you know,
Speaker 4: with the government's involved in our lives, but more than
Speaker 4: we want. And it's just the idea that, well, I'm
Speaker 4: going to vote for who gives me the most is
Speaker 4: just ugly to me anyway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's never been part of my life.
Speaker 4: And oh that gets back to you know what I've
Speaker 4: always tried to lay out, and I wish Conservative America
Speaker 4: was better at this, and I'm not claiming some sort
Speaker 4: of mantle as some sort of eloquent hero. But I've
Speaker 4: always said, I've come up with this program where you
Speaker 4: can feed, clothe, educate, and medicate ten to ten thousand
Speaker 4: families and it's not going to cost a dime of
Speaker 4: taxpayer money. It's called starting a business and growing it
Speaker 4: to success.
Speaker 2: Where is that in our political discussions?
Speaker 4: That is the engine of prosperity, the engine the government
Speaker 4: handout stuff is crumbs around the edges.
Speaker 3: I hate for this to be true, but I think
Speaker 3: the reason you don't pitch that as an argument is
Speaker 3: because there are enough people that are going to decide
Speaker 3: the election that are that other thing you were talking about, Yeah,
Speaker 3: what are you going to give me without me doing
Speaker 3: anything for it? Really, you start talking about starting a
Speaker 3: business and all that sort of stuff, that's a lot
Speaker 3: of work.
Speaker 4: And the politics of envy has been so successful in
Speaker 4: convincing people that the successful have done something untoward to
Speaker 4: get there. They should be resented for that success. They
Speaker 4: have stolen from you. If they have more than you,
Speaker 4: it's because they have stolen from you, which was not
Speaker 4: culturally the attitude in the United States up until very
Speaker 4: very recently.
Speaker 3: I heard a great thing yesterday on that from Jonah
Speaker 3: Goldberg of The Dispatch that he regularly says in his speeches.
Speaker 3: I guess when people talk about why is there poverty?
Speaker 3: He says, that's not the question. There's always been poverty.
Speaker 3: Poverty is the natural state of human beings. Yes, why
Speaker 3: is there wealth is the question? And then you get
Speaker 3: into the discussion of how capitalism creates wealth. Poverty is
Speaker 3: the way it would be for everyone. If you didn't
Speaker 3: have capitalism, we'd all be poor. It's not like we'd
Speaker 3: all have, you know, nice sized homes and cars and
Speaker 3: go on vacations and a comfortable retirement.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, that's not the natural state of things, right.
Speaker 4: And my only equivalent with Jonah, who's absolutely right, is
Speaker 4: that because of the resentment of quote unquote wealth, you
Speaker 4: could break it down to never mind, why there's poverty?
Speaker 4: Why is their housing? Why is their food to eat?
Speaker 4: Why is their medical care? How did this happen? And
Speaker 4: we've just gotten away from that as a culture again
Speaker 4: because the politics of envy works.
Speaker 3: And digression number ten before you get to your main point, Yes,
Speaker 3: when I said I've never voted for somebody given me stuff,
Speaker 3: I think that's factually true. But if you are to
Speaker 3: the left, you'd say, yeah, you've for people who who
Speaker 3: want lower taxes are going to lower taxes, and they're
Speaker 3: giving you money as opposed to I'm keeping my own.
Speaker 4: Letting me keep my money is not giving me anything.
Speaker 4: But yeah, you're absolutely right. So this article in the
Speaker 4: Wall Street Journal is interesting. It is absolutely on the
Speaker 4: side of folks who build, learn a skill, build a business,
Speaker 4: hire others, teach them to do that business and grow it.
Speaker 4: One interesting wrinkle is that it's all about how private
Speaker 4: equity is now recognizing how the hvac business, the plumbing
Speaker 4: business are good solid electrical contractors too. They're good, solid,
Speaker 4: profitable businesses, and so venture capital is moving in and
Speaker 4: buying up these businesses private equity businesses.
Speaker 2: They hope to.
Speaker 4: Profit by running larger, more profitable operations, more efficient, etc.
Speaker 3: Well, we endorse a heating and air company, Fantastic One,
Speaker 3: and I remember when we were talking to him last
Speaker 3: year and he was telling us what people can make
Speaker 3: to start and he can't find workers and they'll train them.
Speaker 4: Right right, And there's some concern that. And you do
Speaker 4: have to watch for this. If you've been with a
Speaker 4: company for a long time Joe Hvac who learned the trade,
Speaker 4: smart guy, gal family entrepreneur, hired people, grew it, etc.
Speaker 4: Then they sell to the private equity company and it
Speaker 4: becomes a different company. Yeah, standards of service change, priorities change,
Speaker 4: that sort of thing.
Speaker 3: What happens with everything, absolutely everything? Oh yeah, companies practically everything.
Speaker 3: You go and buy in a store that has a
Speaker 3: name brand, and I'm thinking of a home depot. So
Speaker 3: many different brands of things at home Depot built their
Speaker 3: reputation years ago on being super quality items that are crap, yes,
Speaker 3: because they're you know, they're run by what you're just
Speaker 3: talking about.
Speaker 4: The wave of investment is minting a new class of
Speaker 4: millionaires across the country, one that small business owners say
Speaker 4: is helping add more shine to working with a tool belt.
Speaker 2: Some of us don't need more shine for that.
Speaker 4: But anyway, you don't need to go to Silicon Valley
Speaker 4: to have a successful career in entrepreneurial opportunities, said this
Speaker 4: fellow with the Detroit based private equity company that is
Speaker 4: doing a lot of investment in service companies. You know,
Speaker 4: I well, never mind, I was about to go off
Speaker 4: on a personal tangent, but we have a ten tangent
Speaker 4: limit and we've exceeded it. Why does everybody say space
Speaker 4: these days? Quote, everybody in their uncle owns an HVAC
Speaker 4: business in the private equity space today, he said. Another
Speaker 4: guy that's hip this private equity company, Redwood Services.
Speaker 2: Where are they based? It doesn't matter, Tucson.
Speaker 4: Interesting they've required acquired thirty five companies in the past
Speaker 4: four years, from small to large. In the services trades
Speaker 4: have long offered a solidly hourly wage for workers without
Speaker 4: college degrees, also springboards for those with bigger entrepreneurial ambitions.
Speaker 2: Goodness knows that is true.
Speaker 4: Wow, this guy spent five years in prison for selling
Speaker 4: meth before he co founded his plumbing business, and now.
Speaker 2: He's an entrepreneur. He was selling meth and now he's
Speaker 2: got a legitimate business. But it was in sales. Honestly,
Speaker 2: you know, that's funny but true. I absolutely believe in
Speaker 2: second chances for people. I'm a one strike you're out guy.
Speaker 4: Wow, that's hard anyway, Saudi Arabia is calling. But yeah,
Speaker 4: there is an element to that. He grew up in
Speaker 4: a hard, scrabbled place where that was the entrepreneurial opportunity
Speaker 4: and something open. Well, he learned the trade. I don't
Speaker 4: know if it was in prison or what, but he
Speaker 4: learned the trade and realized, oh, there are better entrepreneurial
Speaker 4: opportunities than selling death to people.
Speaker 2: Anyway. That ain't that America for you and me, Land
Speaker 2: of the free? Anyway. I'm amazed by all you small
Speaker 2: business owners.
Speaker 3: Much because you work so hard and you got everything
Speaker 3: on the line every day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know how you. I really don't know
Speaker 2: how you do it.
Speaker 4: That is why I so resent and I'm so strongly
Speaker 4: against this idiotic, nonsensical idea that we're going to raise
Speaker 4: business taxes because businesses have to pay their fair share.
Speaker 4: Like everybody who runs a business is crazy wealthy. I
Speaker 4: know a lot of small business people and entrepreneurs who
Speaker 4: draw what they have to keep a roof over their head,
Speaker 4: and they pour everything else back into the business hours
Speaker 4: they work are insane, right, pardon pardon my French folks,
Speaker 4: but I'll say gun instead of the B word I
Speaker 4: heard many years ago. You want to work for yourself,
Speaker 4: You're gonna hate the son of a gun. You're gonna
Speaker 4: hate your boss.
Speaker 2: Because he won't let you have saturdays off.
Speaker 4: Or holidays, or it's going'll work you like you've never
Speaker 4: worked before.
Speaker 2: You know, stay home when you're sick. He's not gonna
Speaker 2: let you. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So here's to you, entrepreneurs and small business owners. May
Speaker 4: a private equity firm buy you out and I'll see
Speaker 4: on the golf course.
Speaker 2: I guess you can buy the drinks because you'll be
Speaker 2: richer than me.
Speaker 3: Here's my one thing that I learned from Or should
Speaker 3: I do it when I come back? How do you
Speaker 3: do a radio show? Do you do the interesting stuff
Speaker 3: before the commercials are after? I guess what you hope
Speaker 3: is the interesting stuff is before and after?
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey were at
Speaker 3: the baseball game?
Speaker 2: Who are you?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 2: Were they at the Yankees game? What have you become?
Speaker 2: So that's the thing. So that's a New York See.
Speaker 3: That's one of the reasons if you're a Yankees hater,
Speaker 3: you hate the Yankees because all the celebrities show up. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so you got Now you got all the celebrities at
Speaker 3: the Mets games and the Yankees games, and it's just
Speaker 3: it's easy to be turned off by that. I'm just
Speaker 3: glad to see New York is pleased with themselves.
Speaker 2: Get a little love, get a little attention, finally, some attention,
Speaker 2: finally not just toiling, obscure and obscurity. They're in New York.
Speaker 3: Yes, Michael, Well, Travis proposed to her on the big screen.
Speaker 4: I'm looking for a new job. By the way, if
Speaker 4: you are an HVAC or plumbing contractor, I think I
Speaker 4: could learn that I'm not working with you people anymore.
Speaker 3: That we'll talk about Taylor Swift exactly. That would be
Speaker 3: pretty awesome. That would be a very Travis Kelsey thing
Speaker 3: to do. To do it like at a game on
Speaker 3: the Jobo Tron, like people do with Taylor Swift.
Speaker 4: And you know, oh god, look look, folks, it's like COVID.
Speaker 4: It's easy to catch. They sucked me in. And here's
Speaker 4: what she does. She makes her oh surprised face the
Speaker 4: way she does when she wins her eight hundred and
Speaker 4: seventy five awards a year, and then says yes, and
Speaker 4: then drags him behind the scenes and says, listen, you
Speaker 4: dumb son of a bitch, We're going to be engaged
Speaker 4: for precisely three months, and then we're going to cite
Speaker 4: our travel schedules as being an issue.
Speaker 2: And we're gonna let it go away quietly.
Speaker 3: You proposed to me on the JumboTron at a baseball game.
Speaker 3: I had a deal in the works with NBC for
Speaker 3: a two hour primetime special for this fifty million dollars Travis.
Speaker 3: He was tastued idiot. Okay, what a friend was told
Speaker 3: at Monticello about Thomas Jefferson yesterday, among other things.
Speaker 2: On the way, stay here.
Speaker 5: Canada and India each expelled six diplomats as part of
Speaker 5: an escalating dispute over the June twenty twenty three assassination
Speaker 5: of a Sikh activist in Canada. Canada says police uncovered
Speaker 5: evidence of a targeted campaign against its citizens by agents
Speaker 5: of the Indian government. India says it voluntarily withdrew its diplomats.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's interesting. Even Canada and ice kicked out
Speaker 3: India's ambassador.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I've said before, if I had unlimited time, I would
Speaker 4: dig deep in to Indian politics because it is wild.
Speaker 2: A couple of things for you coming up.
Speaker 3: By the way, A woman who lives in one of
Speaker 3: those complexes apartment complexes, and Aurora, Colorado taken over by
Speaker 3: Venezuelans thinks it's a bigger deal than Martha Radditt's of
Speaker 3: ABC This Week does.
Speaker 4: Apparently from Washington, DC, she doesn't think it's a big deal.
Speaker 2: Huh. Stay tuned to defer that Walgreens is going to
Speaker 2: close twelve hundred locations over the next three years for
Speaker 2: a variety of reasons.
Speaker 4: Just saw seven Eleven's going to close hundreds of stores too.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 4: Unprofitable stores. I wonder why they're unprofitable. Huh, could if
Speaker 4: he because the shelves get emptied once a month like
Speaker 4: gangs of utes.
Speaker 2: Yeah. See, I dug into this story a little bit.
Speaker 2: Why don't businesses because we recognize that in the northern
Speaker 2: California where the show is based, businesses we know are
Speaker 2: closing because they're in a neighborhood full of crime and
Speaker 2: homeless people.
Speaker 3: They never say it out loud when they close down.
Speaker 3: Why they closed down?
Speaker 2: Why? What are they scared of? I really don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, you say, when I opened this business, it
Speaker 3: was a nice, safe business and I had customers. Now
Speaker 3: it's a crap hole, so that's why I closed. Yah,
Speaker 3: it's too dangerous for my customers and my help. And
Speaker 3: what's funny is once in a while one will say
Speaker 3: that and it gets a tremendous amount of attention, but
Speaker 3: most don't, not claiming that's the only reason Walgreens is struggling,
Speaker 3: but that's why a lot of them closed in San Francisco.
Speaker 2: They're locking up my toothcut, that's right.
Speaker 4: I was at the Tarja the other day, something I
Speaker 4: don't do very often. Was reminded that all the underwear
Speaker 4: is locked up in vast swaths of cal Unicornia. Yeah,
Speaker 4: because the junkies come in they just leave their soiled
Speaker 4: unders in the store and throw on some new steal it,
Speaker 4: walk out, cruise.
Speaker 2: How's your utopia coming along? Well, I was aggressive. I
Speaker 2: was in a Starbucks.
Speaker 3: Where they don't have mirrors in the bathroom anymore, because
Speaker 3: they don't mirrors or sinks in any of the bathrooms.
Speaker 2: A lot to check my quaff.
Speaker 3: A lot of the Starbucks don't have mirrors or sinks
Speaker 3: in the bathrooms because the homeless people go in there
Speaker 3: and use them, you know, as.
Speaker 2: A place to wash up in there there for an hour.
Speaker 3: So to deal with that, they just took out any sinks,
Speaker 3: or that she'd come out and use a communal sink
Speaker 3: kind of in a public area to kind of discourage
Speaker 3: bum bums, bum bats. This is even downtown Napa. I
Speaker 3: mean it's not like I was in the hood.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: But that's a common thing with Starbucks to not have
Speaker 3: sinks and mirrors in the bathroom to keep the homeless
Speaker 3: people out.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Isn't that crazy that you adjust to them.
Speaker 2: Well because your city's going to allow it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is crazy. Oh my gosh, I know you're
Speaker 4: going to do something else. But I was listening to
Speaker 4: NPR on the way to work today to punish myself
Speaker 4: for the bad things I've done.
Speaker 2: And in their main morning anchor.
Speaker 4: Guy Stevenskip, who is an insufferably smug, lefty prick. Pardon me,
Speaker 4: but he was talking to this guy and it was
Speaker 4: it was about Trump indirectly, but the guy was making
Speaker 4: the case that progressive policies have killed America's cities just
Speaker 4: in terrible shape. And Stephen Skip was denying that reality.
Speaker 4: And this guy's from Portland, and he say, no, Steve,
Speaker 4: downtown Portland is a mess.
Speaker 2: It's terrible. Seems like the buildings are there. Look, the
Speaker 2: unemployment rate is low in Portland.
Speaker 4: He was denying that Portland, for instance, has gone to
Speaker 4: hell the protected class in DC in Manhattan, just like
Speaker 4: Martha Radditts, who I actually have a fair amount of
Speaker 4: respect for as a journalist. But it was a great
Speaker 4: example of that disgusting smug immigration actually helps the economy.
Speaker 4: Our schools are dying, and that's funny. My kids at
Speaker 4: Sidwell Friends for sixty five thousand dollars a year doing fine. Man.
Speaker 4: I hate those people. And to eat cats cat eaters.
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, who does the entitled class in DC?
Speaker 4: Somebody does?
Speaker 2: Are cat eating going on? Than I had any idea?
Speaker 3: Okay, So yeah, it continues to be a story. Well,
Speaker 3: Trump's closing hard with immigration and that's a top issue
Speaker 3: for America and that it's gonna work a lot better
Speaker 3: than whatever Kamala Harris's closing argument is.
Speaker 2: But we got more on that coming up in a minute.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty have.
Speaker 3: Some follow ups from conversations we had before we get
Speaker 3: into the meet.
Speaker 2: In the hour this is the uh, I don't know,
Speaker 2: chips and guacamole of the hour. I guess I enjoy
Speaker 2: that pretty much.
Speaker 3: All Right, first this, I've been meeting to talk about
Speaker 3: this for a while. LA Times has a story about
Speaker 3: how the San Francisco mayor's race is the hottest and
Speaker 3: many many years, San Francisco tech workers are spending millions
Speaker 3: on the mayor's race in San Francisco because they want
Speaker 3: the politics to be more centrist less progressive. I bring
Speaker 3: this up for the rest of the country. He doesn't
Speaker 3: live in San Francisco. Uh to point out that there
Speaker 3: must be a limit. Apparently there's a limit for everybody.
Speaker 4: Yeah, how far, how crappy you can let your town
Speaker 4: get with liberal Paul before you'll decide to do something different.
Speaker 4: I was just reading about this at this activist dude
Speaker 4: who's got somehow all sorts of political power because he
Speaker 4: has a bunch of followers in San Francisco, who's so
Speaker 4: staunchly against quote unquote gentrification that anything that improves anything
Speaker 4: he's against, that's a weird and he gets his neighbors
Speaker 4: to go along with it.
Speaker 2: That's a wild position. I'd say.
Speaker 3: We were talking earlier about we're in the last three
Speaker 3: weeks of the election, and both sides are promising to
Speaker 3: give people all kinds of things they can't actually give
Speaker 3: them because so many people vote on who's going to
Speaker 3: give me the most? Got this text I don't vote
Speaker 3: for who will give me something. I will vote for
Speaker 3: who takes less from me. Yeah, that's the category I'm in.
Speaker 3: But about half the country don't believe there's such thing
Speaker 3: as that. I guess everything you learn really belongs to
Speaker 3: the government, and it's up to the government to let you.
Speaker 3: They decide how much they'll let you have, right, and
Speaker 3: they'll take the part that's important for all of society. Hey,
Speaker 3: one man's socialism is another man's neighbor holiness, says Tim Walls, right,
Speaker 3: and those are the same people think the government gives
Speaker 3: you your rights. Yeah, the same principle on the Starbucks
Speaker 3: thing with the bathroom. So Starbucks the communal sinks that
Speaker 3: they now have because they took the bathrooms and mirrors
Speaker 3: out of the or they took the sinks and mirrors
Speaker 3: out of the bathrooms because homeless people were washing themselves
Speaker 3: in there. So now you come out of the bathroom
Speaker 3: and there's like a communal thing there out by where
Speaker 3: you get your coffee.
Speaker 4: Like you're at an outdoor rock concert or something outside
Speaker 4: the porta potties exactly.
Speaker 3: So the Starbucks communal sinks are still used to bathe
Speaker 3: right there in the open on many occasions, we've caught
Speaker 3: them straight up nude in the bathroom hallway, with half
Speaker 3: their naked bodies literally in the sink. I've been in
Speaker 3: leadership for Starbucks for over ten years in northern California,
Speaker 3: trust me.
Speaker 2: Wow. And it's mostly junkies, of.
Speaker 3: Course it is. Yeah, And we put up with this
Speaker 3: in some parts of the country. Lots of the parts
Speaker 3: of the country. This doesn't happen. I live near Portland.
Speaker 3: I assure you it's not fine. We will not go
Speaker 3: downtown unarmed. Always carry everywhere here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and miskidding, brother, I could not believe what I
Speaker 4: was hearing out of the NPR. Dude, and this text
Speaker 4: just to keep us level headed. This show has hit
Speaker 4: the rocks.
Speaker 3: There you go, hit the rocks doing poorly icey Yeah, Wow,
Speaker 3: played this yesterday, But in case you didn't hear it,
Speaker 3: it's pretty good. Trump is closing hard on the immigration
Speaker 3: argument way too much. Well, they call it the immigration argument.
Speaker 3: It's a legal immigration that really bothers people, or just
Speaker 3: unregulated immigration, even if people end up being legal or
Speaker 3: decent people with just the idea of just randomly decided
Speaker 3: no no policy whatsoever. It's just however, many millions of
Speaker 3: people decide to come in and where they want to
Speaker 3: go is a nutty way to run a country, whoever
Speaker 3: they are. And polling shows sixty percent of Americans now
Speaker 3: want to deport everybody who's undocumented, which is an extraordinary thing.
Speaker 2: Right. So Trump's closing hard with the immigration argument.
Speaker 3: He was in Aurora, Colorado, the talking about Venezuelan's taken
Speaker 3: over the apartment complexes. But anyway, Martha Rattits pushed back
Speaker 3: against his running mate Vance the other day and this
Speaker 3: is how that went.
Speaker 6: The Center Advance, I'm going to stop you because I
Speaker 6: know exactly what happened.
Speaker 2: I'm going to stop you.
Speaker 6: The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment conflex
Speaker 6: apartment complexes, and the mayor said, our dedicated police officers
Speaker 6: have acted on those concerns a handful of problems.
Speaker 2: Only, Martha, do you hear yourself?
Speaker 7: Only a handful of apartment complexes in America were taken
Speaker 7: over by Venezuelan gangs. And Donald Trump is the problem
Speaker 7: and not Kamala Harris's open border.
Speaker 4: I know it's not the Venezuelan gangs taking over apartment
Speaker 4: complexes that are the problem.
Speaker 2: It's Donald Trump saying rude things.
Speaker 3: I know in the modern world, especially in social media,
Speaker 3: everybody's always owning everybody or destroying everybody or whatever. Right
Speaker 3: that is an own though, that is a r Are
Speaker 3: you freaking kidding me?
Speaker 2: You just said with your own mouth that only a
Speaker 2: handful of apartment.
Speaker 3: Complexes in a suburb have been taken over by violent
Speaker 3: Venezuelan gangs, and you're portraying.
Speaker 4: That is okay. Therefore I ought to shut up about it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's nuts. I was astounding. That is the protected class speaking.
Speaker 2: That is so crazy.
Speaker 3: There are forty thousand illegals in Denver, not just I
Speaker 3: don't know what the number of would be. That people are,
Speaker 3: you know, moved here recently that don't speak the language
Speaker 3: or all the other things that make it difficult to assimilate,
Speaker 3: but forty thousand.
Speaker 2: Illegals, right, which is a lot.
Speaker 3: Denver's a big city, but not big enough to obsorb
Speaker 3: forty thousand illegals. And why should they Well, they're a
Speaker 3: sanctuary city. As you're about to hear from this woman
Speaker 3: who lived in one of the apartment complexes that was
Speaker 3: briefly taken over by Venezuelan gangs.
Speaker 1: I was pushed out of my apartment gang activity, people
Speaker 1: carrying guns in the hallway and patrolling their grounds with guns.
Speaker 2: She goes on, I.
Speaker 1: Feel like the immedia took my videos and face value
Speaker 1: and didn't do any research of their own, so they
Speaker 1: immediately said, oh, this can't be true, or this is
Speaker 1: only a few apartments. How many is okay? There were
Speaker 1: six people outside my door with guns. That's not counting
Speaker 1: all the other ones they used to patrol the property
Speaker 1: with guns. How many gangs is okay to have in Aurora?
Speaker 1: How many properties is okay to take over? How many
Speaker 1: people who are citizens paying their bills is it okay
Speaker 1: to displace?
Speaker 2: Good questions?
Speaker 4: For Martha Raddins, this is an important principle. The classes
Speaker 4: in America are the protected class and the unprotected class.
Speaker 4: The protected class passes these policies or refuses to enforce
Speaker 4: the law, for instance, and they are protected from the
Speaker 4: repercussions of what they have done. The rest of us
Speaker 4: who live in the real world are the unprotected class.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I first heard that spelled out that clearly by Tucker
Speaker 3: Carlson years ago on this Fox show. Just Nancy Pelosi
Speaker 3: and various other people who are for these sanctuary sees it.
Speaker 3: They don't live in neighborhoods where anything is changed.
Speaker 2: At all at all.
Speaker 3: The music they hear, the food they eat, their schools,
Speaker 3: their hospitals, nothing has changed. So it's very easy for
Speaker 3: them to talk about, you know, the raising tide lifts
Speaker 3: all boats and all kinds of different things about assimilation.
Speaker 2: And melting pot and everything. No melting pot going.
Speaker 3: On in their neighborhood. Yeah, nothing has changed at all. Oh,
Speaker 3: white rich people. How many US senators have kids in
Speaker 3: public schools? How many congress people have kids in actual
Speaker 3: public schools? I would like to know those numbers. It
Speaker 3: would be interesting to bring in some of these people
Speaker 3: to a public school and say, you see what the
Speaker 3: teacher's doing here, because I have seen it. The teacher
Speaker 3: is using Google Translate on their phone, so they talk
Speaker 3: about whatever they just talked about, how Columbus, you know,
Speaker 3: raped the country or something. Whatever they're teaching in public
Speaker 3: school priorities. Yes, said the gender bread person. They say
Speaker 3: that in English, and then they use Google Translate for
Speaker 3: their phone and do it again, doubling the amount of
Speaker 3: time it takes for the handful of students.
Speaker 2: That don't speak English. Do they do that in your school? Oh,
Speaker 2: they don't do that in your school. I'll be darned.
Speaker 2: You're Supergsman's in private school. They don't do that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it really sucks. Yeah, Yeah, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 4: I'm going to make the case next hour that American
Speaker 4: government education is a failure. It is septic, as they
Speaker 4: say in the medical term, it can't be fixed by antibiotics.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure precisely what to do about it, other
Speaker 4: than a complete revolution in school choice.
Speaker 2: But next hour, please stay tuned.
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Speaker 2: And to the violent gangs taking over the is just
Speaker 2: a hand? Can we play? The Martha writeris thing to
Speaker 2: get you there? Just to hear that again, her tone,
Speaker 2: It's unbelievable that she has this tone about this topic.
Speaker 6: The senator evans, I'm going to stop you because I
Speaker 6: know exactly what happened.
Speaker 2: I'm going to stop you.
Speaker 6: The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment conflux
Speaker 6: apartment complexes, and the mayor said, our dedicated police officers
Speaker 6: have acted on those concerns. A handful of problems.
Speaker 7: Only, Martha, do you hear yourself? Only a handful of
Speaker 7: apartment complexes in America were taken over by Venezuelan gangs.
Speaker 7: And Donald Trump is the problem and not Kamala Harris's
Speaker 7: open border.
Speaker 4: And as I pointed out yesterday, the line from the
Speaker 4: police chief, our dedicated officers have responded to the concerns.
Speaker 3: What does that mean? Actually, I heard from who did
Speaker 3: they have on Fox and Friends today? Was it the
Speaker 3: police chief? It was somebody from law enforcement in oraa Colorado,
Speaker 3: talking about there are forty thousand illegals in Denver and
Speaker 3: they're now coming in to Aurora and we can't handle it.
Speaker 2: We can't handle the number of people. But Denver's a
Speaker 2: sanctuary city.
Speaker 4: Imagine being so ideological that you approach the conversation and
Speaker 4: the problem the way Martha Ratits did. When you have
Speaker 4: law enforcement saying we're overwhelmed, you have school officials saying
Speaker 4: we're overwhelmed.
Speaker 2: What's it like to live in that world? Well?
Speaker 3: I think if I lived in a DC suburb or
Speaker 3: wherever she lives gated community that hasn't changed a bit
Speaker 3: in the forty years I've lived there.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't know what my point of view
Speaker 2: would be.
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Speaker 4: ago that we were not going to attempt to infiltrate
Speaker 4: and hobnob with the halls of power because it changes
Speaker 4: you and the way you do this job.
Speaker 2: And so we're delighted to be outsiders.
Speaker 3: And I heard somebody make the point, so you had
Speaker 3: to ven violent Venezuelan gang's attempt to take over.
Speaker 2: A handful, just a handful of the company, just a handful.
Speaker 2: But what about convenience stores, community centers, all kinds of
Speaker 2: different things.
Speaker 4: You got trend deragua robbing people in New York City
Speaker 4: now growing problems, sending teenagers out on the streets to rob.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the lost a handful of New York cities.
Speaker 4: What so if Trump wins, and right now it looks
Speaker 4: like he's going to I remember Mark alpern Wright in
Speaker 4: this a year ago about the immigration thing when it
Speaker 4: was really at its height and at that point getting
Speaker 4: no national attention, him saying, if Trump wins, this is
Speaker 4: going to be why the dominant media's willingness to overlook
Speaker 4: this topic. Right right, Oh, it's becoming more and more clear,
Speaker 4: to my delight that the transgender lunacy is becoming a
Speaker 4: serious sleeper issue. It's changing political races across the country because,
Speaker 4: for the millionth time, the way normal people perceive these
Speaker 4: issues is so vastly different than the media's take on them.
Speaker 4: And if you get too caught up in media, you
Speaker 4: start to think, Wow, I must be an outlier.
Speaker 2: You're not friends, You're not.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So Kamala Harris is an idiot, one of the
Speaker 4: most eloquent men in America.
Speaker 2: Charles C. W. Cook on that topic, It is delightful.
Speaker 3: And I still didn't get to what a friend of
Speaker 3: mine who visited Monticello yesterday, that's oh Thomas Jefferson's home. Yes,
Speaker 3: one of the things they learned, which is worth learning.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm for the whole story. What you emphasizes
Speaker 3: those matters obviously, and I have a shocking factoid about
Speaker 3: TJ to share when you finally get to that. Okay,
Speaker 3: I can probably fitted in with Columbus Day yesterday too,
Speaker 3: as I was listening to some nonsense about Columbus.
Speaker 4: Ah, God, Columbus day is like my it's a rock
Speaker 4: in my shoe, my entire adult life. It's your jihab
Speaker 4: it is I stay here.
Speaker 8: Giant handas Bowli and Chingbao are right now on their
Speaker 8: way from China to Washington, DC's National Zoo on a
Speaker 8: chartered FedEx plane aptly named the Panda Express.
Speaker 2: That's funny.
Speaker 3: I hated Panda Express last night, and as I always say,
Speaker 3: when we pull in, I hope the panda is fresh tonight,
Speaker 3: the Panda Express. They're flying pandas from what did the
Speaker 3: whole panda of China Washington d panda diplomacy thing whatever?
Speaker 3: And calling them giant pandas I expected them to be
Speaker 3: like thirty feet high at the shoulder, they're not.
Speaker 2: So this is an interesting topic.
Speaker 3: As someone I know is at Monticello yesterday touring where
Speaker 3: Jefferson lived, How did I never do that when we
Speaker 3: lived when we lived on the East Coast, I didn't.
Speaker 3: I did a whole bunch of things, but I didn't
Speaker 3: do that one. Anyhow, it's within the last what thirty
Speaker 3: years or is it sooner than that that they started
Speaker 3: talking about the Sally Hemings part of the Thomas Jefferson story. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the fact that he had a black wife girlfriend whatever,
Speaker 3: I don't want to.
Speaker 4: Eat or did he back to you? And there is
Speaker 4: a serious question about that, Is there really?
Speaker 2: There is? Yeah? Okay, can nobody wants to talk about it.
Speaker 3: I was convinced that that was had been made certain
Speaker 3: was by people that I respected, like, not by you know,
Speaker 3: woke lunatics.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just happened to read a really well researched
Speaker 4: thing that said it was almost certainly his brother. That's
Speaker 4: why the genetics work. But and there's all sorts of
Speaker 4: contemporaneous accounts of this, that and the other, but I
Speaker 4: won't get into it. But it doesn't matter. He held slaves.
Speaker 4: Everybody had slaves at that point, all.
Speaker 2: Over the world.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I was going to get that in a
Speaker 3: second and fitted in with the Columbus Debyan yesterday, the
Speaker 3: whole presentism thing. But so I got a text from
Speaker 3: this person who was touring Monticello and they said they've
Speaker 3: been telling us about Sally Hemmings.
Speaker 2: I didn't know much about her. She was Sam's age,
Speaker 2: my son's age fourteen. She was fourteen when she negotiated
Speaker 2: her future children's freedom in return for laying with.
Speaker 3: Jefferson, which is a kind way to put it. If
Speaker 3: that's indeed what happened. Many people call that rape. I
Speaker 3: think that is fair since you didn't really have a choice.
Speaker 3: I'm guessing, Oh, it's definitely a coercion of one sort
Speaker 3: or another.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And we also got this text.
Speaker 3: Saying that they also teach this Jefferson. They can't be
Speaker 3: teaching this at Monticello. That Jefferson forced his slaves to
Speaker 3: hang their dogs because he saw them as distractions from
Speaker 3: their slave work. Add to that he'd separate parents on
Speaker 3: different plantations, requiring slave fathers to work on different plantations
Speaker 3: and get to see their kids on the day off.
Speaker 3: That quite possibly is true. Slavery is horrible, of course,
Speaker 3: and there's really no way to slice it where it's
Speaker 3: not horrible.
Speaker 4: But to prioritize thats what you learn at Monticello is absurd.
Speaker 4: But the federal government is so captured by the woke.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's the thing.
Speaker 3: Thomas Jefferson's not famous because he was a slaveholder. No,
Speaker 3: there there were lots and lots and lots of slaveholders.
Speaker 3: He's famous for being involved in crafting the system that
Speaker 3: is now the world's oldest democracy and the most successful
Speaker 3: country in the history of the world, right, which is
Speaker 3: worth like really spending all your time emphasizing. And yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't want to hide the other history, but I
Speaker 3: feel like it gets emphasized to the point that it
Speaker 3: obscures the amazing part, right exactly. Yeah, it' we were talking
Speaker 3: about slavery and it's horrors, but not when you're at
Speaker 3: Monticello as the main topic. That's absurd and it's obscene,
Speaker 3: I mean especially because and you never hear this either.
Speaker 3: Jefferson was fully cognizant of the fact that all men
Speaker 3: are created equal and the principles his spouts were incompatible
Speaker 3: with slavery. Now, given the racism of the time, he
Speaker 3: didn't put it in exactly these ways, but in this way,
Speaker 3: he was fully cognizant of the fact that slavery couldn't
Speaker 3: last in the United States.
Speaker 4: He wrote about it, that Washington was aware of it.
Speaker 4: They were just trying to figure out how to unentangle
Speaker 4: a hundreds of years old, practically universal system from the
Speaker 4: modern economy at that time. It's a harder thing than
Speaker 4: it sounds.
Speaker 3: Taking her out of time to even get into the
Speaker 3: Columbus angle of it, which is a very similar situation.
Speaker 3: Judge people by today's standards. Yeah, like Bill Maher even said,
Speaker 3: you're not better than these people were, You're just born later.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Oh wow.
Speaker 3: It'd be hard for me to stomach hearing a lot
Speaker 3: about that. As I'm trying to learn about Thomas Jefferson,
Speaker 3: I might blow a gas the crafter of the country
Speaker 4: Armstrong and Getty