WEBVTT - The A&G Replay Tuesday Hour Four 0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:13.800 And broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:15.800 George Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:18.439 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:26.160 Armstrong and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty strong Man. 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:38.480 Welcome to a replay of the Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:41.240 We're off all week long. We give a lot of thanks, 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:43.320 we eat a lot, we watch a lot of football. 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:45.600 We'll come back refreshed. But I hope you enjoyed this stuff. 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:48.280 It's gonna be really good, some delicious leftovers if you will. 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:51.320 The flavors have made friends overnight in the French Plus 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:55.080 drop by Armstrong at getty dot com, download podcasts, or 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:56.480 grab an ang t shirt. 0:00:56.880 --> 0:01:00.280 Earl corn You's Central Valley is, without question, one of 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:05.720 the most vital agricultural regions in America, producing seventeen billion 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:10.000 dollars worth of crops twenty five percent of the nation's 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:13.759 food supply, and to help grow and harvest those crops, 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:18.880 many farmers here rely on undocumented workers. The Department of 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:23.080 Agriculture estimates that about half of the hired crop workers 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:23.960 do not. 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:25.039 Have legal status. 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:28.040 That is estimated to be more than three hundred and 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:30.959 thirty thousand workers in the Central Valley. 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:34.640 Alone, three hundred thousand workers in the Central Valley alone. 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:39.600 That if you followed what recent poling says, sixty percent 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:43.600 of America wants would all be booted out of the country. 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:45.560 And that would be obviously, if he did that all 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:49.600 at once, would be quite the wrecking of the whole 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:54.639 agricultural system. Doesn't mean it's not a good idea, though, 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:57.560 because you got to have a system of some sort 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:01.280 for having workers. It's the job of Congress to come 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:05.960 up with and be implied and follow through. I don't 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:09.679 know if they're going to or not, but Joe and 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:14.600 I have been talking about illegal immigration in farm workers 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:18.000 for geez, twenty five years or whatever being on the air, 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:23.000 and this very part of the a California in the 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:26.080 country that they're talking about on ABC this week, And 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:27.680 we used to talk about it all the time when 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:29.720 we were only on in the Sacramento area. People had 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:32.280 always talk do you want tomatoes to be five dollars? Well, 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:34.760 then you know it's kind of pick the lettuce, yeah, exactly. 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:37.680 It was always the conversation, and our answer was always 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.040 somebody or nobody or a machine, Well, let's hear from 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:43.440 a couple of farmers in the Central Valley and their 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:46.640 theories on why you need to have illegals picking. 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:50.720 Here's more from ABC this week. We can't afford a 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:51.639 labor shortage. 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:55.600 Back during Obama, we had a labor shortage and there 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:58.160 were a time where we actually lost some crop. 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:01.000 I think people will look at say, but wait a minute, 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:02.640 they're Americans who are unemployed. 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:04.240 Why can't you just hire them. 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:06.079 They don't want to come out here and work in 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:10.480 this in this extreme conditions one hundred plus degree temperatures, 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:12.400 dust hard work. 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:15.519 What if you paid them more, it doesn't matter. 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:19.680 You know, we pay some of the highest wages for 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:23.080 farm workers in the nation right here in California, and 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:23.880 they won't come out. 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:27.120 And just so before we have that conversation, here's a 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:30.519 different farmer, same question, same topic there. I don't care 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:32.520 what you pay them. I don't care if we pay 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:35.640 them twenty six dollars an hour, that ain't going to happen. 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:38.200 They're not going to get up at four or five 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:41.720 in the morning, drive to the field and pick fruit. 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:46.200 So and that question was, why why don't you just 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:48.560 hire Americans? They won't do it. I don't care what 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:50.080 you pay them. They're not going to get up that 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:51.960 time of day and come out and do that job. 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:58.600 So I don't understand why that isn't a hold on pause, 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:03.440 let's have a conversation about that sort of revelation On 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:06.080 ABC this week, they just move on to em They 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:08.600 see Americans won't do this work, so it makes sense 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:13.600 to have illegal brown people do it. What what How 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:17.640 do you craft a society like that? How about why 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:24.159 would people who are unemployed or underemployed take the option 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:28.520 of not doing a job even if it paid really well? Right? Right? 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:30.360 How could they do that? How does that work? How 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:31.960 does that fin How are they paying the rent? How 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:32.560 are they eating? 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:35.720 Can you imagine if you went to family counseling and 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:38.960 and you said, my children refuse to do their chores, 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.760 and the counselor said, well, let's talk about how you 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:45.280 can hire someone to do your children's right. No, that's 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:50.400 not the right question, right, Yeah, Oh that's funny. 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.520 But we've been we've been talking about this very topic 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:58.480 for decades now. How have we just accepted that people 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:01.240 born in this country shouldn't have to do work that's 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.760 not i don't know, glamorous or kind of hard. Or 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:06.520 it's outside or whatever. The reason is people don't want 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:07.880 to do it. I did that kind of work when 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:10.000 I was in high school. Lots of us did. You 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:11.800 can't do it any many Americans did? 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:12.000 Ye? 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:17.880 But is everybody okay with that? Creating a welfare state 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:22.200 so lavish that people can choose not to do jobs 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:25.600 that they don't find like something they want to do, 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:28.720 even even if it pays twenty nine dollars an hour 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:32.000 and one more amusing irony, This is amusing me for many, 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:32.520 many years. 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.600 Is the more quote unquote progressive you are, the more 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.120 in favor of white. 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.080 People, won't do this work. Let's bring in some of 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:41.120 those brown people. 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.080 I mean, that's the further left yard, the more you're 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:46.359 a hardcore open up the borders and let an in person, 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:48.160 which I think is hilarious. 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:55.240 There's also the unspoken, unstated realization that if millions of 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:58.320 people come here and do those jobs they're getting by, 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.480 they must be able to live somewhere and have a 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:04.440 car and eat and you know, do all the things 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:07.160 you want to do with a job right by definition. 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:10.240 Yeah, it's just it's it boils down to a couple 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:13.400 of very very simple principles. Number one is the purpose 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:15.240 of getting the reins of government is to be able 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:17.880 to distribute money from the treasury. Doesn't matter what the 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:21.000 system is. They vary in how they do that, but 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:24.320 that's the point. And in our system you've got to 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.279 get a little support. 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:27.560 From a lot of people. 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:30.719 Kim Jong Oun just needs a hell of a lot 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:33.560 of support from a fairly small group of people. But 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.240 in a democracy, you need a little support from a 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:37.400 hell of a lot of people. How do you do 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:41.400 that by handing out money? Government benefits you know, three 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:44.360 and a half dozen different social programs that make sure 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:47.679 nobody's going to starve. And so the second very broad 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:50.640 and easy to understand principle is people go for their 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:57.200 best alternative. They will do their best option. And for 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:01.000 Americans working in a field in the heat, in the dust, 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.680 bent over is not nearly their best option. For some 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:05.960 Guatemalan it is. 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:10.880 I just I don't understand how we got to where 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:13.960 we're okay with that or think that that's a workable 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:18.640 plan going forward that doesn't end up with like I've 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:20.800 been taking in a lot of French Revolution stuff over 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:25.840 the weekend. You know that sort of society falling apart. 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:30.480 I believe the French Revolution is your Roman Empire, although 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:33.040 you are quite interested in the Roman Empire as well. 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.720 It is so the answer of how we get there 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:39.520 is because nobody asks the question, the moral question there, 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:41.600 the one that we keep harping on is it's not. 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:43.680 Part of the conversation at all. No, it wasn't. ABC 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:47.640 this week did a long segment on this topic and 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:50.800 not a word of Does it seem a little weird 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:55.680 to have a society where you've declared certain jobs off 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:59.160 limits for your citizens, Like, no, that's too grungy a 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:01.800 job even at twenty nine dollars an hour you just 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:03.400 don't want to have to do. I mean, would you 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:07.480 do that with your own kids. I'll keep supporting you, 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:10.680 you know, until you're thirty or a past rather than 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:15.320 you go do that job. What? Yeah, who would live 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:16.360 their lives like that? 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:21.880 Democracy's end when they realize they can vote themselves money 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:24.320 from the treasury. Can you imagine running on the platform 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:26.280 I'm going to get you off of your couch and 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:27.200 into the field. 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:33.000 Good luck? What at right? We're a soft, decadent country. 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.400 That's just that's it we really are, Which is what 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:37.600 France was when they fell apart, not to get back 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:40.880 to the revolution, but and then here they wrapped up 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.079 the conversation with this portion. 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:48.520 Deporting undocumented workers in California is complicated. 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:50.640 The state enacted a measure. 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:55.000 In twenty seventeen that prevents state resources from being used 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:58.839 for federal immigration enforcement. And while that law varies by 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:04.040 city and county, California is the sanctuary city capital of America, 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:09.080 with dozens of cities and counties protecting undocumented residents from 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:12.559 a rest based solely on their immigration status. 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:16.760 So that's a problem. I mean, it all fits together 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:19.760 as part of a puzzle. I hate the whole thing. 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:23.400 But if you're going to accept I'm not, but apparently 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:28.560 we have accepted that our American born people shouldn't have 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:32.440 to do those jobs. Well, then you're gonna have to 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:35.960 have illegals here. And then if you're going to have 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:39.160 illegals here, you can't have them being deported. So you 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:41.480 got to be a sanctuary county. I mean, it all 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:43.719 fits together, or you. 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:46.320 Just admit all of the above and you design a 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:48.640 temporary worker program, which is. 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:50.440 What Congress should do. Also, not a part of the 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:53.520 conversation where they said, well, if you want it to 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:55.959 be this way, and apparently people do well, then Congress 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:57.480 needs to sit down and come up with a very 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:03.280 complex system for workers or making these people citizens or 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:05.880 whatever it is you're gonna do. But you got to 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:11.000 come up with a plan. The all the arguments I 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:13.680 seem to see on the Sunday talk shows, nobody was 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:18.040 offering anything other than continuing to just randomly let people 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:21.960 come in buy the millions, come and go, buy the millions, 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.480 not know who they are. Martha Radditt's even admitted to 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:27.520 whoever was pushing back on this story, there are six 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:33.319 hundred thousand known criminals, not the crime of being illegal, 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:37.199 but like other crimes from Mexico or Venezuela, six hundred 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.800 thousand criminals in the United States right now. We don't 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:46.880 know where they are. What kind of who does that? Yeah? Yeah, 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:50.880 that's nuts. Yeah it is. 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:55.000 It's self destructive, it's it's horrible because we won't get 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:58.880 to the root questions and the final annoying reality I'd 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:00.320 like to trot out there. This is why I don't 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:04.559 get many invitations to dinner parties. Oh you invited, mister 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:11.520 annoying reality. Oh good is the Left raises money from 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:16.200 soft heads, in my opinion, with their no human being 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:20.400 is illegal, bill bridges not walls, nonsense. And the right 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:23.920 raises money on boot them all out, seal the borders, 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:27.360 and to say we're going to craft a guest worker 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:29.960 program that's going to let one point one million people 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:32.480 in temporarily, we'll keep tracking them, blah blah blah, we're 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:33.640 gonna streamline the course. 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:36.880 That's just you can't raise money on that. It's too complicated. 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.000 The devil is in the details, and there's always plenty 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:41.280 to anger, you know, virtually everybody. 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:42.880 In the discussion. So I don't know. 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:45.800 I don't mean to be discouraging, but as long as 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:49.960 small money donations rule politics, it's going to be hard 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:51.560 to work out stuff like this. 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:58.400 I'm just appalled by the idea. I've always cringed when 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:00.680 anybody says those are jobs of America won't do. That 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:07.280 makes me cringe. You cannot be a strong, functioning, successful 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:10.960 society if you've decided certain jobs are off limits to 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:14.640 your citizens. That's sickening as a notion. 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:19.240 Well, that's how empires fall back to Rome. Or if 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:22.480 you'd prefer I assume with your French Revolution passion. You'd 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:26.000 like to say, see guillotines all over America cutting off 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:27.880 the heads of the disloyal or immigrants. 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:31.079 I don't know what you're crazy world. 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:32.240 The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:35.679 Yeah, or Jack your Joe podcasts and our hot links 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:44.040 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:51.280 Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. It's an 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:52.280 absolute classic. 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:54.920 Frank Sanatlong you said, it's probably a little long, but 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:57.200 what the heck, we always have time for it. It's 0:12:57.200 --> 0:13:02.240 from Lord Woodhousily, also known as Alexander Fraser Tyler, from 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:04.840 back in the seventeen hundreds. The democracy cannot exist as 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:07.280 a permanent form of government. Can only exist until the 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:10.600 voters discover they can vote themselves largest from the public treasury. 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.080 From that moment on, the majority always votes for the 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:16.200 candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:19.560 the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:21.520 always followed by a dictatorship. 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:22.920 Then he goes into a bit of history. 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:26.680 These nations have progressed through the sequence from bondage to 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:30.320 spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:34.359 to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:38.479 from selfishness to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:39.559 back into bondage. 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:45.520 So where are we right now? Somewhere between apathy and dependence. Uh, yes, yeah, 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:46.200 I would say so. 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:49.520 Yeah, we've certainly progressed past selfishness to apathy. 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:52.240 Yeah, apathy to dependence. I think you nailed it. Yep. 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:55.920 Baby boomers were the selfish and removed into the apathy. 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:58.320 Now we're headed into the dependence. Yep, there you go. 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:02.400 That sounds right accurate. I think that's absolutely right. And 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:04.000 I was thinking about this last night when I went 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:06.160 to bed for some reason, about how there's a shelf 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.800 life to these things and it just is, always has been, 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:12.840 probably always will be, and it's suppressing, really freaking depressing, 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:18.120 unless you consider the following. This is your cheery you up. Note. 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:24.000 During every one of those stages, smart people, energetic people. 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:26.640 Well I'm not very energetic, so let's. 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:29.480 Just go as smart, smart, and semi energetic people have 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:33.880 found ways to craft happy, productive lives. 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:36.040 It just gets a little tougher. 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:39.200 Well, yeah, what in the words of the old bluesman, 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:40.440 What is you gonna do? 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:43.320 Right? I understand if you're gonna focus on you and yours, 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:46.280 but kind of like the whole thing to last for 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:51.400 a while. I wanted a pony for Christmas? All right? 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.960 Wake up, grow up mail bag? 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:59.320 Jeez drove us a nope mail bag at Armstrong and 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:06.480 geddy dot com when convenient. I I had a screed yesterday. 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:10.200 I unleashed a screed about how the Internet fertilizes stupidity. 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:12.560 I never would have thought of it again as long 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:14.920 as I lived, except several emailers have brought it up. 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:18.360 That is pretty good. I forgot it a horedy myself. 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:23.440 Yeah, Rich says Joe's book about in the Internet fertilizing stupidity. Well, 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:28.600 he says, true, but it's not fertilizing women, hence the 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:33.320 low birth rates. That could be an angle on my book. Rich, 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:34.960 I'll give you full credit, thanks, Bud. 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:39.760 The Internet fertilizes stupidity might be your best quote ever. 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:42.400 And I forgot I said it anyway. 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:46.680 Mark and Stanton writes gents regarding the MSNBC Reporter and 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:49.720 the other media chuckleheads, describing our Marjorie Taylor Green as 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:52.360 the most conservative Republican in the House. 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:54.640 Whatever, which is an absurd description. 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:57.960 I think a better description was inadvertently coined earlier in 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:00.240 the show by Joe. You might say, Marjorie Taylor Green 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:04.440 is a grand standing moron quote fertilizing stupidity in her caucus. 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:07.400 Judging by the Republican caucus actions lately, this is producing 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:09.960 a bumper crop of dysfunction and asininity. 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:14.200 The sun is a mighty powerful eat mark instant. 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:15.960 Well, and one of the reasons I love that is 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:19.680 a sign off by the way mark. One of the 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:22.560 reasons I hate the so much is portraying a variety 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:24.920 of things as conservative, is that it comes from the 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:25.720 liberal media. 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.920 They want conservative to have a stench to it. But 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:33.560 there's nothing conservative about Marjorie Taylor Green or Matt Gates 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:37.760 that that's they're not extra conservative as they're portrayed in 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:39.280 the media. That's not what they are. 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:44.040 I would have to work for a while to come 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:46.120 up with a term for exactly what they are. 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:48.440 More like, trumpy is not bad, well, I don't think. 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:50.800 I don't think you would turn to political science for 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:53.680 a label for them, though, correct. Oh no, no, no, 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:57.520 you would turn to Marshall McCloughan. Is that the name 0:16:57.560 --> 0:16:59.960 of the guy who coined the media as the mess 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:04.879 and just the modern postmodern media world whipping up interest 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:06.880 and fervor and clicks and that sort of thing. We're 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:08.440 out of time already. I've got a lot of great 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:11.440 stuff here, Mike. We've got to believe a lot more 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:14.639 of a show to wat quick question for you, what 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:17.800 if you happen to miss this unbelievable radio program. 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:21.280 The answer is easy, friends, Just download our podcast, Armstrong 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:23.199 and Getty on demand. It's the podcast version of the 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:27.240 broadcast show, available anytime, any day, every single podcast platform 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:27.879 known demand. 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:30.840 Download it now, Armstrong and Getty on Demand. 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:41.160 Armstrong, the Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:44.760 So quick aside, before we get into the main thrust 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:49.400 of the segment. I am a very very lucky man 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:53.000 in that, in addition to the other aspects of our relationship, 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:56.000 my wife and I are are best friends. And she 0:17:56.160 --> 0:18:00.560 was walking our dog apparently and texted me we'd surveyed 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:04.280 yesterday whilst walking Baxter in our neighborhood there was a 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:05.480 dead possum. 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:08.400 And how do you know it was not just playing 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:11.679 It's main I tell you what. 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:15.679 It was a method actor because it had gone to 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:21.400 the trouble of decay, surraying itself. Okay, there was no 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:25.280 bodily integrity there. I don't want to get too disgusting. 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:28.119 But anyway, my best friend my wife just texted me 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:31.199 keeping me up to date. There is very little of 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:34.720 that possum left. The vultures must have found it, keeping 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:38.000 an eye on the DP right, just like bringing a 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:38.840 man up to date. 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:42.120 I'm thinking, how's that dead possum? I don't know. I'm 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:44.399 at work. I had a similar thing going with my 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:46.840 wife back in the day about it what we called 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:52.840 the j o U the jud give me a second. Okay, well, 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:54.399 now I got it because I remember the story. But 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:58.399 jugo urine, because there was a big giant jug of 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:01.320 urine that some truck driver apparently had dropped off in 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:04.400 a corner uh oh where you get on the interstate, 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:07.000 and it was there for days. I would get texting 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:12.000 the joh you is still there. Oh, that's so cross 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:15.240 it is. But truck drivers say, oh, they got needs, 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:18.560 and they am out there filling our stories with of goods. 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:19.680 It's important work. 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:22.879 They needs to pull over and pee in a toilet, please, 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:26.359 so on a much more serious topic. Part of me 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:29.240 wants to. I don't know, I don't want to. I'm 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:30.920 looking at the clock. Yeah, we'll give it a try. 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:34.760 I'm a we'll take a break midway through. I am 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:40.919 not as hardcore, I think, as some view on the 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:43.600 right to life, and I don't mean abortion, but as 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:48.199 an individualist and a small libertarian, I actually think that 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:52.399 if you are afflicted by a terrible, terrible dread disease 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:55.720 and you decide no, I'm going to end my days 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:59.879 on Earth on my terms as opposed to the diseases terms, 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:02.040 I actually think you have that right. 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:04.960 What if you're just bored with life? Well, see that's 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:05.560 the problem. 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:10.400 And we're talking here about Canada, which and this isn't 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:15.040 aside our closest allies, Canada in particular and Great Britain 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:20.200 are doing some crazy, crazy stuff in terms of constitutional 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:22.760 rights and progressive policies and stuff like that. If you 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:28.240 think they're like America but with funny accents, that's not 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:31.440 true anymore. Anyway, more on that another time, maybe I'll 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:35.680 go through a list. But I have not been staunchly 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:42.080 against some of the right to die discussions. But at 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:44.119 the same time, if you look into it in a 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:48.960 sober way, you realize there are many slippery slopes you 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:53.920 can go down. And indeed, Canada, which has embraced the 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:59.120 idea of assistant suicide. The sub headline of the Wall 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:01.880 Street Journal opinion piece by Nicholas Tomino, which I found 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:06.760 extremely compelling, is assisted suicide was sold as compassionate and 0:21:06.880 --> 0:21:09.200 practice it has turned out to be monstrous. 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:13.679 That's interesting because it's all it's all my life, and 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:17.000 it's always been a talk radio topic. It's always been theoretical. 0:21:17.240 --> 0:21:19.760 But now somebody has tried at large scale and we 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:22.880 have some evidence of how it actually would turn out. 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:29.320 Yeah, and he quotes Charles Crouthammer, and that's underdone lately. 0:21:29.359 --> 0:21:31.520 As he was a brilliant man. He was looking at 0:21:31.560 --> 0:21:33.600 a Supreme Court case called Vaco v. 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:34.040 Quill. 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:39.960 The court was looking at physician assisted suicide, and the 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:43.320 Supreme Court held unanimously that the Constitution does not create 0:21:43.320 --> 0:21:46.679 a right to that procedure. Krauthammer wrote, quote, we are 0:21:46.720 --> 0:21:49.600 being asked to become a society where when the tormented 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:52.359 soul on the ledge asks us for our help in 0:21:52.400 --> 0:21:57.960 granting him relief, we oblige him with a push. 0:21:57.200 --> 0:22:00.359 Lawrence Tribe, I think the tormented soul would say, my 0:22:00.440 --> 0:22:02.880 relief is going to be not having to be alive anymore. 0:22:05.280 --> 0:22:09.359 Well, right, But Crowdhammer is saying that we a society 0:22:09.400 --> 0:22:13.600 should not put ourselves in the position of pushing them 0:22:14.520 --> 0:22:18.000 or I don't know, it's difficult in a situation where 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:19.879 you don't need any help to come up with the 0:22:19.920 --> 0:22:23.080 right metaphor. But anyway, Lawrence Tribe, who argued the case 0:22:23.160 --> 0:22:26.160 for the plaintiffs, suggested that the slope would not be slippery. 0:22:26.400 --> 0:22:28.520