Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty.
Speaker 1: Arm Strong and Jetty and no he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 1: That's going viral.
Speaker 2: A woman in Wisconsin admitted to leaving something pretty unusual
Speaker 2: at a movie theater.
Speaker 3: Take a look of this, an urn full of ashes
Speaker 3: found in a movie theater in Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: It appears the mystery has been solved.
Speaker 3: The woman now as she left the urn there on purpose.
Speaker 3: She says, the remains inside are those of her father.
Speaker 1: With whom she did not have a close relationship. She
Speaker 1: didn't want the remains in her home.
Speaker 3: So when she went to see a movie, she brought
Speaker 3: the urn and dished it underneath seats where Beetlejuice.
Speaker 1: Beetlejuice was playing Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice one Moviego was like ern,
Speaker 1: I thought it was a promotional popcorn. Butchet, he's getting
Speaker 1: a lot of cheese nuts. That's all I'm getting here.
Speaker 2: Oh geez, that's gross.
Speaker 1: Wow, what an interesting story. So she so she obviously
Speaker 1: went through the process of having her father creamated, went
Speaker 1: to the service, and ended up getting the ashes. Even
Speaker 1: though she didn't have a good enough relationship with him
Speaker 1: that she wanted to keep the ashes. I would have
Speaker 1: thought that would have broken down earlier somewhere and then rather.
Speaker 2: Than somebody asked for him to be cremated. I don't,
Speaker 2: But how does she end up with the ashes?
Speaker 1: If she hates him so much that she doesn't she's
Speaker 1: going to leave him somewhere?
Speaker 2: That just seems weird. Why wouldn't she say no, you
Speaker 2: keep them? No, I just I think in a lot
Speaker 2: on a happy family, she do. What do you have
Speaker 2: to do to minimize conflict?
Speaker 1: Okay? Even the ashes? Okay, even if I go with that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: your disposal of them isn't throw them in the trash,
Speaker 1: throw them off a cliff, Yeah, depending on how angry
Speaker 1: you are about him. Whenever you a movie theater and
Speaker 1: leave him under the seat.
Speaker 2: It's amazing how often this is all the analysis you need.
Speaker 2: I know what I'll do, dot dot dot, and then
Speaker 2: you fill it in with what they did, and you think,
Speaker 2: how the hell do you got right? You decide, I mean,
Speaker 2: I get that you think of it, but then you
Speaker 2: decide that's your best course of action. Maybe maybe she's
Speaker 2: sitting there in the movie with the ashes and thought,
Speaker 2: you know what, this movie sucks and my dad did too.
Speaker 2: I'm leaving the movie. I'm leaving him. I don't know
Speaker 2: who knows. You'd have to ask her. That's some odd
Speaker 2: damn behaviors being of odd behavior. This is a Twitter
Speaker 2: thread sent to me, brought to my attention by and
Speaker 2: I did not clear whether this person wanted to be
Speaker 2: named a very serious person? Uh not a crank the
Speaker 2: opposite of a crank.
Speaker 1: It is a Twitter.
Speaker 2: Post by Jennifer's Xiang zeg z e Ng, who is
Speaker 2: an American of Chinese origin. She has about her core
Speaker 2: of a million followers. She says her her profile is writer,
Speaker 2: reporter and China expert news and analysis on Chinese affairs,
Speaker 2: and is followed by a number of people who we
Speaker 2: follow and and are serious observers of China. Okay, Having
Speaker 2: said that, I'm just going to read the first part
Speaker 2: to you. Can you believe this is a US Navy
Speaker 2: recruiting office in Alhambra, California. Every recruiter here is Chinese,
Speaker 2: as well as all the people coming to enlist. The
Speaker 2: working language here is also Chinese.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you don't mean of Chinese origin, but born
Speaker 1: here speak English? Why are they speaking Chinese there? I mean,
Speaker 1: clearly they're Chinese Americans. They can't be Chinese nationals. But
Speaker 1: let me let me go on a little bit. This
Speaker 1: is why I'm so I'm so completely befuddled by this.
Speaker 1: And there are pictures and videos, as she makes clear
Speaker 1: in a bit, let me just read on and then
Speaker 1: we'll get to some of the questions. The video was
Speaker 1: filmed by a Chinese language YouTuber and the US Navy
Speaker 1: recruiter who took him there to film all this is
Speaker 1: and she names the rank and the gentleman's name.
Speaker 2: He's got his name obviously of Chinese origin. In the
Speaker 2: description box of this video on YouTube, which was uploaded
Speaker 2: on December one, twenty twenty four, this naval guy's contact
Speaker 2: information is provided, and what concerns me is that the
Speaker 2: first option listed is his we Chat ID to get
Speaker 2: in touch with an alleged US military recruiter. We Chat
Speaker 2: is the big Chinese social media site. The telephone number
Speaker 2: of the office comes as the second choice. As all
Speaker 2: data on we Chat is controlled by the CCP, this
Speaker 2: at least gives the CCP access to the personal data
Speaker 2: of all those who apply to join the US Navy
Speaker 2: and who are admitted. The second question is why is
Speaker 2: this office staffed exclusively by Chinese individuals. The other day
Speaker 2: I shared a video where a Chinese American military member said,
Speaker 2: if the US goes to war with China, he would
Speaker 2: quit the US Army because he doesn't want to fight
Speaker 2: against China.
Speaker 1: Oh that's nice.
Speaker 2: If all these Chinese people recruited through this office feel
Speaker 2: the same way, what will happen? And the worst case
Speaker 2: scenario is what if some of them are recruited by
Speaker 2: the CCPs spies or perhaps they are already spies. One
Speaker 2: thing I am sure of from listening to their accent
Speaker 2: is that they all come from mainland to China. Everyone
Speaker 2: in this video, and the title of the original Chinese
Speaker 2: language video is quote, how desperate are Chinese people to
Speaker 2: join the US military? They're overwhelming recruitment offices, each with
Speaker 2: their own reasons for enlistening. Finally, this the Chinese word
Speaker 2: used as Chinese symbols, which can be translated as Chinese
Speaker 2: people or more precisely people from PRC or people of
Speaker 2: PRC the People's Republic of China. In the mind or
Speaker 2: subconsciousness of the youtubeer who shot this video. All these
Speaker 2: people still belonged to the prc.
Speaker 1: OH.
Speaker 2: I hope that's looked into. Yeah, I don't get this.
Speaker 2: I am absolutely befuddled by this.
Speaker 1: It's not hard to imagine somebody of Chinese descent being
Speaker 1: very willing to join the US military to fight against China,
Speaker 1: right because you didn't like, I mean, we are friend
Speaker 1: ying Ma. She's not a friend of a fan of
Speaker 1: she grew up in China, She's not a fan of China.
Speaker 2: She also retweeted something from somebody on the East Coast
Speaker 2: Chinese illegals seeking naturalization lured by US military offices ran
Speaker 2: by Chinese individuals and advertised in China. This person said,
Speaker 2: I've reported on this before, but in New York. It
Speaker 2: doesn't surprise me. So it's like, you can get your
Speaker 2: papers if you serve in the military, you can get
Speaker 2: American papers, no matter how you got in the country,
Speaker 2: So enlist today. Well, if anybody has any idea what
Speaker 2: the ELL's going on here, what's behind it? I would
Speaker 2: love to know. Again, she does not appear to be
Speaker 2: any sort of crackpot, and the person who sent this
Speaker 2: to me is absolutely not either.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, if you know anything about it, email or text.
Speaker 1: So with all the UFOs drones flying around in New Jersey,
Speaker 1: for instance, that might be from China or wherever, that
Speaker 1: has some people talking about alien life forms. Elon had
Speaker 1: an interesting text the other day about the likelihood of
Speaker 1: intelligent life on other planets that I wanted to pass
Speaker 1: along because I found it fascinating. We also have clips
Speaker 1: of the week we need to get to all the
Speaker 1: way stay here.
Speaker 2: I almost feel bad that I may have misled you,
Speaker 2: but not really, because I think this is a it's
Speaker 2: a learning moment. It's that's what I was looking for.
Speaker 2: You remember phrase with like you escape it pot People
Speaker 2: don't say it anymore, Thank goodness. It was a teachable moment. Ironically,
Speaker 2: don't repeat cliches anyway. So this we were just talking
Speaker 2: about this recruitment office al Hambro, California that appears to
Speaker 2: be entirely run by Chinese speaking people, and it looks
Speaker 2: like they're just recruiting other Chinese people and it's extremely
Speaker 2: suspicious and weird and it is. I scrolled way, way, way,
Speaker 2: way way down in the feed and finally came across
Speaker 2: a guy saying, Hey, this is a sophisticated deep fake
Speaker 2: and he's a military guy.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: And he points out a number of the errors you
Speaker 2: would not catch wow unless you're knowledgeable about military military procedures,
Speaker 2: ribbons and that sort of thing. And he catches some
Speaker 2: other inconsistencies that if you spent a couple hours of
Speaker 2: your time researching the people in the video and their
Speaker 2: actual rank and blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: It is scary, right, And so you are correct that
Speaker 1: this is worth doing, even though it was misleading in
Speaker 1: the beginning. Just to show how easy it is to
Speaker 1: be misled by AAI deep fakes, including people that are
Speaker 1: pretty knowledgeable the original source of this to you, and
Speaker 1: they're only going to get better. They're only going to
Speaker 1: get better. That video the other day, if you haven't
Speaker 1: seen the video of Trump and Jill Biden front pews
Speaker 1: Notre Dame Cathedral the other day, they're talking and then
Speaker 1: like they get into a fight. It's so damned real looking.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you went this fight not an argument, yeah, fistfight.
Speaker 1: If you went back ten years and showed me that,
Speaker 1: I thought, holy crap, Donald Trump and Joe Biden got
Speaker 1: in a fight. It's only because I'm aware of AI,
Speaker 1: and it's so unlikely that that would happen that I
Speaker 1: jumped to the fact that it's ai. It looked completely believable.
Speaker 2: I think the twenty first century might make humankind insane, yeah,
Speaker 2: or just really really weird.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I mean science fiction writers need
Speaker 1: to get into what's going to happen when nobody believes
Speaker 1: anything that they read here or see.
Speaker 2: So well already covered that ground.
Speaker 1: What is information at that point? What the party tells
Speaker 1: you it is. So I just came across something damned interesting. Hey,
Speaker 1: that's what we're shooting for. Huh. This is from Elon
Speaker 1: Musk's Twitter feed, and this is something different than I
Speaker 1: was going to talk about, but I just came across it.
Speaker 1: Elon Musk said it's annoying when Chomsky is right, and
Speaker 1: that got my attention because Noam Chomsky is one of
Speaker 1: the most annoying bastard on Earth. Is weird politics and
Speaker 1: everything like that. But here's Noam Chomsky talking about the
Speaker 1: pseudo intellectualism, intellectualism of post modern literary theorists. I don't
Speaker 1: know why he laid this out the video. It looks
Speaker 1: like he's less It's a deep sake. He's been an
Speaker 1: old man my whole life. So here's the quote, and
Speaker 1: this is about hearing all the gobbledygook from various critical
Speaker 1: race theory people and that sort of stuff. If you
Speaker 1: look at what's happening, I think it's pretty easy to
Speaker 1: figure out what's going on. I mean, suppose you're a
Speaker 1: literary scholar at some elite university or an anthropologist or whatever.
Speaker 1: If you do your work seriously, that's fine, but you
Speaker 1: don't get any big prizes for it. On the other hand,
Speaker 1: you take a look over in the rest of the university,
Speaker 1: and you got those guys in the physics department and
Speaker 1: the math department, and they have all kinds of complicated theories,
Speaker 1: which of course we can't understand, but they seem to
Speaker 1: understand them. And they have principles, and they deduce complicated
Speaker 1: things from the principles, and they do experiments and they
Speaker 1: find either the experiments work or they don't work. And
Speaker 1: so that's really impressive stuff. So I want to be
Speaker 1: like that too, over in the humanities. So I want
Speaker 1: to have a theory in the humanities, you know, literary criticism, anthropology,
Speaker 1: and so on. There's a field called theory. We're just
Speaker 1: like the physicists. They talking in comprehen We can talk
Speaker 1: in comprehensibly. They have big words, We have big words.
Speaker 1: They draw far reaching conclusions. We'll draw far reaching conclusions.
Speaker 1: We're just as prestigious as they are. Now. If they say, well,
Speaker 1: look we're doing real science and you guys aren't. That's white, male, sexist,
Speaker 1: bourgeois whatever, the answer is, that's what we say. How
Speaker 1: are we need different from them? Okay, and that's appealing
Speaker 1: to the people in the humanities. Why did he give
Speaker 1: away the game there? But that is fascinating.
Speaker 2: That is one hundred percent correct and eloquently stated.
Speaker 1: I don't know why he outed the people on his side.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe he's just a cantankerous old man
Speaker 2: or something. But that's that's beautiful, right. And he's an
Speaker 2: obnoxious lefty oh a mesater.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and crazy in my opinion, But so yeah. So
Speaker 1: the math physics guys, they got all kinds of stuff
Speaker 1: that nobody understands. They win prizes. Everybody who's smart enough
Speaker 1: to understand it seems to believe it. Yeah, let's do
Speaker 1: the same thing over here, critical race theory and all
Speaker 1: kinds of weird crap and make up the term LATNX
Speaker 1: and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: And right exactly, yeah, and just the whole, well, the
Speaker 2: whole you've got to innovate. To be an academic star,
Speaker 2: you've got to come up with something new, which is
Speaker 2: ruined education. Nothing works better than phonics, nothing. But you're
Speaker 2: not gonna get some acclaim or a giant grant for
Speaker 2: saying no, the old stuff is the way. You got
Speaker 2: to keep doing it. So everybody's got to be, you know,
Speaker 2: pushing the boundaries, and there are no boundaries to be
Speaker 2: pushed in a lot of this stuff. You combine that
Speaker 2: with the soft sciences, like he says, wanting to seem legit,
Speaker 2: like I got a degree in political science and I
Speaker 2: was really good at it, and I got a Bachelor
Speaker 2: of Arts degree. Now so that wait a minute, it's
Speaker 2: right there in the name of the major political science
Speaker 2: that's not science, said the University of Illinois. If we
Speaker 2: were just kidding you, please go away.
Speaker 1: The liberal arts and sciences. The sciences is just to
Speaker 1: make you shut up.
Speaker 2: We don't mean it.
Speaker 1: So if you're a professor of women's trans ethnic studies
Speaker 1: or something, you can come up with this theory of
Speaker 1: how well, I'll say the US was founded on slavery
Speaker 1: or something like that, and make up all this different stuff.
Speaker 1: And the people in the physics department say that doesn't
Speaker 1: make any sense. Well, it doesn't make sense to you.
Speaker 1: Your stuff doesn't make sense to me, So let's just
Speaker 1: agree to disagree. Then you go from there.
Speaker 2: Listen to this here in the surreal landscape of modern academia,
Speaker 2: it seems there's no idea to outlandish to be wrapped
Speaker 2: in the veneer of intellectualism and published in a peer
Speaker 2: reviewed journal. Entered belas Boro's paper Queering Babies auto Ethnographic
Speaker 2: Reflections from a Gay Parents through Surrogacy. The paper, which
Speaker 2: has been peer reviewed and published in an auspicious journal,
Speaker 2: masquerades a scholarship while offering little more than the author's
Speaker 2: subjective musings dressed up in the jargon of post war theory.
Speaker 2: As its title suggests, that paper relies heavily on auto ethnography,
Speaker 2: a method that is essentially a diary entry trying to
Speaker 2: pass as a rigorous analysis. At its core, the essay's
Speaker 2: premise that surrogate babies are queer creatures by default, and
Speaker 2: that perhaps all babies babies are inherently queer stretches the
Speaker 2: boundaries of logic, coherence and decency.
Speaker 1: Well, so that whole thing there you just laid out.
Speaker 1: The physics math people would say that sounds like it's
Speaker 1: made up, and the people who made it up would say, well,
Speaker 1: so does string theory. So again, let's agree to disagree.
Speaker 2: Right, so shut up and give me my PhD and
Speaker 2: queer baby's studies.
Speaker 1: Wow, oh that is interesting.
Speaker 2: Shut the universities down. Let's take a deep breath for
Speaker 2: about five years, then repopulate them with sane people.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, huh, at least the parts that
Speaker 1: aren't like the physics math department. Although, as we know,
Speaker 1: the physics and math and biology departments have gotten infiltrated
Speaker 1: by the the woke stuff too and have to work
Speaker 1: it into the classrooms where I saw the other day
Speaker 1: the one guy doing a rant and raven in front
Speaker 1: of his lecture hall full of hostages. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: students that have to be there and listen to his
Speaker 1: crap going on about how it was okay to murder
Speaker 1: the CEO of United Healthcare. He was not like a
Speaker 1: physics professor with some hard science, like, wow, you're as
Speaker 1: crazy as those other people are.
Speaker 2: Well, he probably had to convincingly fill out his DEI
Speaker 2: statement to get the gig. So thirty seven more qualified
Speaker 2: physics professors who would not genuflect at the altar of
Speaker 2: this cult didn't.
Speaker 1: Get the gig he did. Yeah, why did Noam Chomsky
Speaker 1: give away the game? There?
Speaker 2: Will?
Speaker 1: I will think about that the rest of my days,
Speaker 1: about the whole thing.
Speaker 2: I assume it's legit. One of our beloved listeners actually
Speaker 2: email us a link to the same thing, so it's
Speaker 2: getting attention.
Speaker 1: Elon tweeted it out. That was his you know, his
Speaker 1: thing was, it's annoying when Chomsky is right. We've got
Speaker 1: a lot more on the way. I hope you can stay.
Speaker 4: Here, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1: I had a conversation with my son last night. I've
Speaker 1: been trying to convince them to this since he was little.
Speaker 1: I understand why he didn't go for his little His
Speaker 1: birthday is two days before Christmas, December twenty third, and
Speaker 1: it makes it really makes a mess of the whole thing.
Speaker 1: It's it's just it's it's too much. It's just too much.
Speaker 1: Everybody gets together, you have cake, you got open presents,
Speaker 1: and then like twenty four hours later, it feels like
Speaker 1: you do it again, and it just it just always
Speaker 1: seems like too much and like it lessens the other one. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I was hoping that when he got older, maybe he'd
Speaker 1: go for the half birthday that I know some of
Speaker 1: you do. I remember when he was born, a bunch
Speaker 1: of you said that that's what you do in your families.
Speaker 1: So you decide because your birthday's too close to Christmas.
Speaker 1: You celebrated at the six month mark, so do it
Speaker 1: in June or July whatever, and then it has more
Speaker 1: of a special feeling and blah blah blah. But uh,
Speaker 1: he didn't want to go for it. He's a partially
Speaker 1: because he's ocd AF that's five letters, and he wants
Speaker 1: to do his birthday on his birthday. But man, the
Speaker 1: birthday and getting ready for the birthday and then the
Speaker 1: Christmas a lot. And I tell this story every year.
Speaker 1: His older brother Sam, so he's his brother. Sam is
Speaker 1: two when we bring home Henry from the hospital on
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve, and Sam collapses to his knees and starts
Speaker 1: crying because he really he was able to understand as
Speaker 1: a two year old the jig is up. I am
Speaker 1: no longer the only show in town. All the focus
Speaker 1: is gonna be on whoever this is, and I already
Speaker 1: don't like him, and and oh it was I can
Speaker 1: still picture. It was so sad. He just he tried
Speaker 1: to smile, he tried to be happy because we're hey,
Speaker 1: here's your new brother, and he kind of smiled, and
Speaker 1: then he just collapsed on the floor crying. And oh
Speaker 1: it was painful. And I know it is a common thing,
Speaker 1: not unique to my family, but oh that hurt. With
Speaker 1: the Christmas tree there and all the presents. Have you
Speaker 1: ever known anybody to have for birthday, Katie, if you
Speaker 1: ever heard of that before? Now, yeah, I would do it.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to do it when I was a kid, probably,
Speaker 1: but past a certain age. Yeah, let's let's let's let's
Speaker 1: let's do presence gifts hubbub in the middle of the summer,
Speaker 1: not have both of them two days apart.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I want two sets of presents.
Speaker 1: And try as you might, there's just no way. It's
Speaker 1: the same amount of stuff I think that you're gonna
Speaker 1: get when they're together. There's always kind of a combo.
Speaker 1: This is your combo birthday because it's a very big guy.
Speaker 5: Whatever I don't know how long did it take for
Speaker 5: that sting of no longer being the only child to
Speaker 5: kind of go do you think I.
Speaker 1: Don't know, he's fourteen. I'll let you know if it
Speaker 1: wears off. I don't know. I don't actually know. It
Speaker 1: wasn't that long, but it makes sense. I probably did
Speaker 1: the same thing. I was the oldest, and then you
Speaker 1: know you're the only show in time. I look at
Speaker 1: the Christmas pictures from when I before, I have when
Speaker 1: I was the only child there briefly, and oh my god,
Speaker 1: the amount of presents I got, And then you know
Speaker 1: it changes when there's competition.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: So here's one of the most annoying things that's happened
Speaker 1: in recent memory. San Diego County was voting on whether
Speaker 1: or not to become what they're calling a super sanctuary county.
Speaker 1: So not only are they gonna, uh not give up
Speaker 1: the idea of being a sanctuary county, we're gonna be
Speaker 1: a super sanctuary county, whatever the hell that is. There
Speaker 1: was only one no vote. It passed, God dang it.
Speaker 1: So more on that after we hear some of the
Speaker 1: actual arguments. This is San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond,
Speaker 1: who we've had on the show before talking about he
Speaker 1: was the no vote. He was the only no vote
Speaker 1: on San Diego County becoming a super sanctuary county, and
Speaker 1: he said this, I.
Speaker 6: Think this policy goes beyond California's existing sanctuary laws by
Speaker 6: adding an additional layer of bureaucracy that hinders local law
Speaker 6: enforcement from directly notifying ICE about illegal immigrants who are
Speaker 6: currently in our jails and they have committed heinous crimes
Speaker 6: including child abuse or endangerment, driving under the influence of
Speaker 6: alcohol or drugs, but only if this conviction is for
Speaker 6: a felony, possession.
Speaker 1: Of an unlawful deadly weapon, gang.
Speaker 6: Related offenses, a crime resulting in death or involving personal
Speaker 6: affliction or great bodily injury, possession or use of a firearm,
Speaker 6: and the commission of an offense torture, rape, and kidnapping.
Speaker 6: That's the population we're talking about. So under this policy,
Speaker 6: and if a legal immigrant commits one of these serious crimes,
Speaker 6: San Diego County would be legally prohibited from directly coreating
Speaker 6: with ICE. This effectively protects the offenders from deportation, allowing
Speaker 6: them to remain in our communities where they could cause
Speaker 6: that same harm.
Speaker 1: Again. This is so bone deep crazy. I have trouble
Speaker 1: happy wrapping my head around it. I guess we should
Speaker 1: have recorded some of the arguments in favor of it,
Speaker 1: so I would at least understand what their thinking is.
Speaker 1: Let's let mister Desmond roll on with the awfulness of
Speaker 1: San Diego becoming San Diego County becoming a super sanctuary county.
Speaker 1: And this isn't just theoretical.
Speaker 6: We have seen the devastating consequences of such policies across
Speaker 6: the nation. Barbie Larsen was brutally murdered in her own
Speaker 6: home by an illegal alien gang member with a history
Speaker 6: of drug possession and burglary. He was released because of
Speaker 6: sanctuary loss. Kate Steinel was senselesusly shot killed in a
Speaker 6: San Francisco peer but a llegal immigrant with a long
Speaker 6: history of violent crime. Just months ago, I sat next
Speaker 6: to Patty Moren, a mother whose life was shattered when
Speaker 6: her daughter was raped murdered by an illegal immigrant. Her
Speaker 6: heartbreaking testimony is something I'll never forget. A reminder that
Speaker 6: these tragedies are not statistics, they are human lives forever altered.
Speaker 1: You know what we ought to do hands an executive producer,
Speaker 1: maybe you get some of the arguments for any county
Speaker 1: becoming a super sanctuary county, because we already are a
Speaker 1: sanctuary state in California, and they wanted to add to
Speaker 1: that the protections for not just people here who are
Speaker 1: here illegally, but people who are illegal here illegally and
Speaker 1: in jail, already committed a crime. Sometimes, as you heard,
Speaker 1: they're a terrible crime. I don't even understand the argument.
Speaker 1: I don't even know where to start because I don't
Speaker 1: understand their argument. So maybe we ought to grab some
Speaker 1: of that and we can play it next week. But
Speaker 1: let's let Desmond wrap up here.
Speaker 6: And these tragedies are preventable, but sanctuary laws allow them
Speaker 6: to happen by allowing illegal criminals back into our communities
Speaker 6: instead of into the hands of ice. San Diego County
Speaker 6: is already spending five million dollars annually of taxpayer money
Speaker 6: to provide legal counsel for illegal immigrants facing deportation, no
Speaker 6: matter what the reason is that they're being deported. This
Speaker 6: proposed legislation, to me, seeks to prioritize the interest of
Speaker 6: illegal criminal immigrants over the safety of law abiding immigrants
Speaker 6: and citizens.
Speaker 1: So the San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted three
Speaker 1: to one yesterday. That was the one that you've been hearing.
Speaker 1: Who was against this to restrict the use of county
Speaker 1: resources for federal immigration enforcement. That ideology is so nuts
Speaker 1: to me. I don't even know where to start. Uh.
Speaker 1: I think you're blinded by your weird m I don't
Speaker 1: even know. I mean, like I said, I can't even
Speaker 1: get in the headspace. I can't even steal man their argument.
Speaker 1: As they say, if you're gonna have a good debate,
Speaker 1: you're supposed to be able to express the other person's
Speaker 1: position to their satisfaction. I can't do that on this
Speaker 1: one because I don't get their ideology. Some of it
Speaker 1: is just this is the opposite of what Trump wants.
Speaker 1: So some of it is that it's Trump arrangement syndrome.
Speaker 1: It says, oh, Trump wants a boot out of legals,
Speaker 1: then I have to be again. Some of it is that,
Speaker 1: and it's very popular in certain quarters, including a lot
Speaker 1: of San Diego. But wow, we will get some of
Speaker 1: the arguments for the super sanctuary county so we can
Speaker 1: hear what these numb nuts think we'll do. That next week,
Speaker 1: maybe we'll have a mister desmond on he could lay
Speaker 1: it out for us pretty well, I guess. But there
Speaker 1: you go. Trump won the election. You saw all of
Speaker 1: the polling on all the border stuff. It's between eighty
Speaker 1: and ninety percent Americans want secured borders. Sixty percent of
Speaker 1: Americans want every single undocumented immigrant booted out of the
Speaker 1: country period. We're not even talking illegals. You could be
Speaker 1: talking to hard working, productive family members. Sixty percent want
Speaker 1: them boot it out. I don't think that's ever gonna happen.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's workable. But that is the feeling
Speaker 1: of the country right now. But in San Diego County
Speaker 1: you had three people that voted for keeping criminals in
Speaker 1: the country. People that are known criminals. We want you
Speaker 1: in our country, and the taxpayer will help support them.
Speaker 1: Freaking nuts. We'll finish strong next strong.
Speaker 6: In Seattle, a pair of suspected jewelry thieves attempted to
Speaker 6: escape by row.
Speaker 1: Boat before being arrested. A row boat. Is there no
Speaker 1: slower escape vehicle available? It's the cops quick to the
Speaker 1: ghetaway blimp. They're trolling right at us. That's pretty funny.
Speaker 1: A robo pretty much is the slowest thing you can
Speaker 1: come up with. Uh, that is hilarious. Hi y'all doing.
Speaker 1: We got one more week left in the year of broadcasting?
Speaker 1: Am I right about that? Michael? Am I looking at
Speaker 1: that correctly? One more broadcasting week next week Monday through Friday,
Speaker 1: and then we'll have our end of the year show
Speaker 1: on Friday, which is always baffo and full of all
Speaker 1: kinds of fun stuff. Then we're off for two weeks
Speaker 1: while you complain to us through texts and emails about
Speaker 1: why aren't we working? And then we come back to
Speaker 1: start a brand new year of fun and frivolity with
Speaker 1: a new president, Which leads me to this. Mark Alprin,
Speaker 1: writing in his newsletter today about the amazing day Trump
Speaker 1: had yesterday Thursday, by the standards of presidential transition and
Speaker 1: Trump's most fundamental desires on the National town Square, was
Speaker 1: a super baffo day for the maven of Mara a Lago,
Speaker 1: fusing in a series of Wall Street photo ops at
Speaker 1: the New York Stock Exchange, where he rang the bell,
Speaker 1: first time any president or about to be president has
Speaker 1: done that in forty years since. Wrong with Reagan and
Speaker 1: his person of the Year honor with Time Magazine, which
Speaker 1: doesn't matter to most people, but it matters a lot
Speaker 1: to Donald Trump.
Speaker 5: Yes, Katie, at the risk of sounding like a complete idiot,
Speaker 5: you keep saying boffo.
Speaker 1: You don't know the word boffo. No, it was wonderful, fantastic,
Speaker 1: big Okay.
Speaker 4: I thought it was like an acronym for something.
Speaker 5: No, okay, not just you're away saying you know af
Speaker 5: and all this stuff.
Speaker 7: I thought boffo fit in the FAFO. I don't know,
Speaker 7: I should I should stop saying some of those things. Actually,
Speaker 7: Trump having members of his family and political posse flanking
Speaker 7: him there at the Stock Exchange with the giant Time
Speaker 7: magazine cover behind his head, might have been the highest moment.
Speaker 1: Of his life, which is absolutely true. It's not that
Speaker 1: just that the big Apple is his oyster. As the
Speaker 1: Washington Post, democracy dies in darkness. The Washington Post, they
Speaker 1: came up with that massed head statement when Trump was
Speaker 1: elected in twenty sixteen because they were going to be
Speaker 1: the resistance. Even the Washington Post noted the entire known
Speaker 1: galaxy is now arguably more under Trump's thumb than it
Speaker 1: has ever been. And this man was president for four
Speaker 1: years already really quite amazing. Mark Alpern goes on to write,
Speaker 1: there has never been a modern transition like this, with
Speaker 1: the incoming folks making visible progress on areas including immigration,
Speaker 1: foreign policy. Doge, that'd be cutting back on spending, executive
Speaker 1: orders of all stripes, and more before he even takes office.
Speaker 1: Peggy Noonan, as she often does, writing in the Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal, said it best or is she a postperson?
Speaker 1: Framing that Trump is what he is doing this December.
Speaker 1: You have to see that what we are witnessing right
Speaker 1: now is truly remarkable, with no precedent in US history.
Speaker 1: He's essentially functioning as a sitting president a month and
Speaker 1: a half before his president. We're now down to what
Speaker 1: is the date today? So he got a month and
Speaker 1: a week five weeks before he's actually president. Now the
Speaker 1: part Joe was talking about a little bit later. I
Speaker 1: don't know if birds coming home to roost is a
Speaker 1: fair way to talk about it or not. It's just
Speaker 1: the reality of people still have a bad mood about
Speaker 1: the economy. Economies move slow. It'll take a while to
Speaker 1: fix that, even if it can be fixed. Making people
Speaker 1: feel better about what stuff costs and everything like that,
Speaker 1: he's going to have a margin of like one or
Speaker 1: two in the House. He got a new majority leader
Speaker 1: in the Senate that nobody is exactly sure where he's
Speaker 1: going to be on things, and then you got a
Speaker 1: couple of wards that could go south at any moment.
Speaker 1: So but you know, such as being president. If you
Speaker 1: don't want that sort of stress and everything, don't take
Speaker 1: the job. Michael, Where are you and your Christmas shopping?
Speaker 4: I'm doing okay.
Speaker 8: I got to get all the stocking stuff or stuff.
Speaker 8: You're the little items?
Speaker 1: Tree up?
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, tree's up.
Speaker 1: Trees up? Yeah, packages wrapped the ones that you do have.
Speaker 1: Are there packages under the tree?
Speaker 2: There are some packages.
Speaker 8: I still got a lot of rapping to do.
Speaker 1: Man, you're making me feel horrible, Katie, tree up, Nope,
Speaker 1: that makes me feel better. Good. There you go. Will
Speaker 1: there be a tree or a Yeah, it's going up.
Speaker 5: Husband's working crazy hours and unfortunately I can't reach it
Speaker 5: and I'm not going to risk falling off a louder
Speaker 5: or hurting my shoulder.
Speaker 1: Oh that's right. You're one of those Jesus Haytan artificial
Speaker 1: tree people also allergic to pine.
Speaker 4: But we can go to Jesus Haymen if you want.
Speaker 1: That's a big difference. Hanson, Is your tree up? Gotta be?
Speaker 1: You got little kids? Tree up? Oh my god? Does
Speaker 1: that mean? Does that mean of course it is? Or
Speaker 1: hell no, it's not. He's got to go. Apparently it's not.
Speaker 1: So apparently this tree is not up. Oh wow, man,
Speaker 1: you got kid. I know I got kids too, and
Speaker 1: my tree is not up, and I feel bad about it.
Speaker 1: I should have a tree up. It should be decorated.
Speaker 1: There should be presents under the tree. It should smell
Speaker 1: like a nutmeg or something in my house, like you know,
Speaker 1: like in a movie. But it doesn't. Yeah, it will
Speaker 1: this weekend. We're going to go get the tree tomorrow
Speaker 1: and we'll get all that going, get.
Speaker 5: The inflatable snowman on the front yard so that you
Speaker 5: know that works.
Speaker 1: And then I got to wrap some presents because a
Speaker 1: tree with no presents under it, when you get this
Speaker 1: close to Christmas is just sad. I mean, it just
Speaker 1: makes a tear go down my CHEEKO. I've considered going
Speaker 1: artificial tree. I know they're way better. I'm a child
Speaker 1: of the seventies. We had among the first artificial trees.
Speaker 1: When I was a kid, and those were not very good.
Speaker 1: They were they did there was. It was a plastic
Speaker 1: stick with other plastic coming out of it.
Speaker 8: Yes, we went artificial after many years of buying a
Speaker 8: real one.
Speaker 1: Just cost too much. The price drove you there. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw a kind of not particularly spectacular tree yesterday.
Speaker 1: Fairly small, got it. I think the boy scout a lot,
Speaker 1: and it was with the tacks and the little add
Speaker 1: ons and everything they do. I think it was almost
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars really. Oh yeah, yeah, I go. Ohh,
Speaker 1: So I go cut down a tree every single year
Speaker 1: with us all, and I will do that tomorrow and
Speaker 1: kids will start and then they'll get tired, and then I,
Speaker 1: as an old man, will be on my hands and
Speaker 1: knees cutting the tree, risking a heart attack for their joy.
Speaker 1: And then we'll bring it up there and then they
Speaker 1: shake it out and they wrap it and they put
Speaker 1: the stand on it. And once I get done with
Speaker 1: everything like that, it'll be dang near two hundred dollars
Speaker 1: for just like a regular sized tree.
Speaker 5: Man, you can get one that already has lights on
Speaker 5: it and just use that every year.
Speaker 1: Oh, the artificial trees have lights already.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you plug them in and bam, you're done.
Speaker 1: I feel like that takes away some of it. Isn't
Speaker 1: decorating the tree part of the whole thing. Get snacks
Speaker 1: and then like music and we decorate the tree. One
Speaker 1: time in a house I had which I had a
Speaker 1: double story entryway, I got a twenty foot tree, twenty
Speaker 1: foot real tree, which was spectacular. But man, that's a
Speaker 1: lot of work when that thing's done and you got
Speaker 1: to get it out of there and haul it away.
Speaker 1: And so hey, kids, it's that time again with Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Getty. Yeah. I wish I could have done it
Speaker 1: with the kids one time, the twenty foot tree, because
Speaker 1: that is something. We got one of those in your house.
Speaker 1: It is wild. Here's your host for final thoughts.
Speaker 2: Me.
Speaker 1: Let's get a final thought from our what do we
Speaker 1: call you? Michael Technical director, Tactical director Michael Angelo.
Speaker 8: Michael, Yeah, I gotta get my Christmas movies going. Christmas vacation, elf.
Speaker 8: You know some of the other Christmas bees. Oh yeah,
Speaker 8: Christmas Story, that's what it was.
Speaker 1: Right, got to do all three of those. Probably get
Speaker 1: going on that this weekend. Are you a diehard as
Speaker 1: a Christmas movie guy? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I am.
Speaker 1: Okay, here's the Katie Katie, the news Lady Katie Green.
Speaker 5: I met a listener the other day, and when he
Speaker 5: found out I was on the show, the only thing
Speaker 5: he said to me is I love it when.
Speaker 7: You guys play buy the dip.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was his favorite thing.
Speaker 1: Why that's funny. I don't buy the dip. What is
Speaker 1: my final thought? Yeah, I feel bad as a parent
Speaker 1: that it's gotten this close. Bub. We'll get it up tomorrow,
Speaker 1: the tree, and then we'll decorate it and we'll have
Speaker 1: some snacks and play the music, and I'll get some
Speaker 1: presents under there, and it's beginning to look a lot
Speaker 1: like Christmas. And I love the whole thing as long
Speaker 1: as I don't have to go to it to a mall,
Speaker 1: which I might have to do at some point. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: this time of year, you got you gotta be. Some
Speaker 1: people love it. Some people feel the Christmas spirit when
Speaker 1: they're parking. I do not. I feel like murderous rage.
Speaker 1: Homicidal rage is what I feel.
Speaker 5: It's really Christmas is getting slammed into everywhere you go,
Speaker 5: armstrong in getdy, wrabbing up.
Speaker 1: Another grueling four hour work day, so many people to
Speaker 1: think and one way to thank them would be the
Speaker 1: Armstrong in geeddy dot com and buy some merch. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you can get it in time for Christmas,
Speaker 1: but still worth by Armstrong in geeddy dot com. We
Speaker 1: will see on Monday. God bless America, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1: And I'll just say this, I mean he's ignoring the
Speaker 1: Iranian mothership in particularly, so let's go with the public
Speaker 1: is going to demand something be done. The United States
Speaker 1: Air Force is going to shoot down says, oh Lord,
Speaker 1: you wanted sometown. We shut some down.
Speaker 7: You happy and again, thank you so much for saying
Speaker 7: bye bye.
Speaker 1: That was great Friday, you mother, Armstrong and Geddy