WEBVTT - I Sound Like An Angry Jackass 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:05.600 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:07.640 George Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:11.879 Jack Armstrong and Shoe Getty Armstrong and Getty, I know, 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:25.880 keee Armstrong and Yetty. That's right. 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:28.680 Google unveiled a new quantum computer that it claims can 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:32.360 do tasks in minutes that would take a traditional supercomputer 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:36.479 ten septillion years to complete. Just something to think about 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:38.400 while you're watching porn on it. 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:44.559 Wow, that is something I hadn't heard that specifically. I 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:46.920 heard a tease the other day that this Google chip 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:50.040 is gonna just like blow everything out of the water 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:53.040 and change everything. I don't do any tasks that are 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:58.720 very hard. Yeah, what's the temperature in Kansas City? I mean, 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:00.960 you know, I don't need super computing power to figure 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:01.600 that out. 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:02.000 Yeah. 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:05.520 I've bought a couple of laptops and or iPads recently, 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:08.480 and you know, I use a lot of Apple products 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:14.160 and they have such amazing capabilities right now for you know, 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:17.679 doing audio and video production, and that takes a really 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:20.320 really zoomy computer. And I always think, you know, what 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.760 I might I might get into that someday I might 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:26.119 start editing that, maybe I'll make a. 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:27.759 Movie that's what I'll do. 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:30.480 But you're right, a lot of these capabilities are so 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.920 beyond ninety nine percent of what everybody uses it for. 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:35.880 I'd have a friend who was a PhD, and a 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:38.000 lot of the projects that they would work on, they 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:40.640 would have their computer running all day and all night 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:44.120 to get the project done. And I suppose for a 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:46.360 person like that this sort of leap forward to be 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:49.640 a big deal instead of like fifteen hours of your 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:50.520 computer running. 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:52.880 And do it in a second. It'll all be used 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:57.360 for porn and bitcoin, bitcoin, mighty. 0:01:57.160 --> 0:02:01.480 Streaming and Netflix series. This is the most hilarious thing 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:06.000 I've seen today. So I read Mark Alprin's newsletter that 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:10.839 Trump is trying to make a show out of the inauguration, 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:14.720 which is not surprising, and that Trump was very bummed 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:18.760 that his first inauguration, which I was at dressed as 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:22.920 a spy. I was at the first inauguration, and but 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:26.240 it was still under the full cloud of suspicion of 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:30.560 Russia rigged it and everything, and just it was all 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:34.880 kinds of weird and like not taken seriously by mainstream media. 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:37.240 All that's out the window now, right, and he's being 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:40.680 taken completely seriously, and he wants it to be like 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:43.240 star studded and fun and like a show, because he's 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:44.359 a guy who puts on shows. 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:46.120 He's a TV guy anyway. 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:48.960 So I just came across this Village People founder talks 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:53.320 possibility of performing YMCA at the inauguration. I can see 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:56.920 somehow Trump has the Village People guy up there and 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.520 the whole crowd's doing the YMCA. 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:02.799 You give me a Beatles reunion or that. I've got 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:04.440 to choose though, IMCA Jack. 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:06.760 I can see that sort of thing. 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:10.440 Yeah, a right of like Dalist celebrities. 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:16.600 Even if it's like really really good, there will be 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:20.000 aspects of it that are incredibly campy. Oh but why 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:24.400 wouldn't there be. He's you know, he's a populist entertainer. 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:31.400 He's not gonna apologize for Jeff Foxworthy, you know, for instance, 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:32.519 that that sort of thing. 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:34.880 I'll have a comedian come up and besmirch the Puerto 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:37.680 Ricans or something before you again, because. 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:39.160 That cost him the election. Oh that's right. 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:43.520 It didn't cause a freaking flip. It is a nat 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:45.320 farting one hundred miles away. 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:47.880 It was a non event, and it was written up 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:52.120 like it was the Hindenburgs. Mister President, if you could 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.240 put your right hand on the same Bible that Lincoln used, 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:57.400 I will. But right after I tell you about these 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:02.120 new tennis shoes that I have coming out covered in 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:08.080 gold with an American flag. Here's some real news just 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:12.640 came out today. Remember we were having skyrocketing drug overdose 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:15.160 deaths each year, we'd be more amazed by how many 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:18.560 people had died. First time in a while, it's gone down. 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:21.839 Drug overdose deaths in the United States fell seventeen percent 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:26.440 year to year, according to the CDC. I wonder if 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.560 we've just maxed out on the number of people that 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:30.880 do hard drugs. Eventually all of them are going to 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:31.680 be dead, aren't they. 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:36.480 Uh yeah, I mean certainly new people are getting addicted 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.400 all the time, but I'm hoping not nearly as much. 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:41.720 You know, Well, I. 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:43.080 Don't want to jump the gun, because we're going to 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:44.680 do something really interesting and important. 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:45.680 But h. 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:50.440 I just I want every young person to know hard 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:56.360 drugs are death. Even pills. Now, you just that ought 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:58.440 to be instead of the gender bread person. They got 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:01.320 to be preaching that in schools constantly. But yeah, that's 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:05.480 something car fentanyl, it's not. I'm not saying fentanyl. I'm 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:10.880 saying car Fentanyl is one hundred times more deadly than fentanyl. Apparently, 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:13.800 if you just think about it, one hundred people die 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:16.960 oh too late. How can it be one hundred times 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:18.160 more deadly than fentanyl. 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:19.400 I don't know anyway. 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:24.000 The number of overdose deaths are overall pretty low. It's 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:28.359 in the hundreds over the last year, but the number 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:32.040 has increased sevenfold in the past year, and it could 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:33.400 it's threatening to reverse. 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:34.719 Recent drop and drug overdoses. 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:37.960 I certainly hope not. TRN addiction is a terrible, terrible thing. 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.600 Well yeah, and all over the world. 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:44.720 So I didn't know that Asad they're in Syria, was 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:47.440 running a narco state to a certain extent with whatever 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:50.000 the name of that drug is, their version of fentanyl 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:54.120 that had devastated the entire Middle East. 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:56.760 I heard MBS talking about it the other day. 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:58.599 Finally we can, maybe you know, get a handle on 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.080 this because it's killing so many people in Saudi Arabia 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.400 and Egypt and Jordan and all over young people taking 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:06.719 these drugs. And Assad was behind the manufacturing, sale of 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:08.719 it and profiting. It was like he was running a 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:13.520 giant drug cartel around this drug. It's amazing help of 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:18.279 some Islamis groups too. It's just utterly unholy, you know, cabal. 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:20.840 You wouldn't think it would work because word to get around. 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:20.919 Now. 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:22.720 You don't want to take this because it'll kill you, 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.280 but I heard it makes you feel really good. Yeah, 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:27.560 but it kills like half the people who take it. 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:30.960 But I heard it makes you feel really good. Apparently 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.640 wins the day. As an argument, Well, if. 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:35.400 It were half, I think you'd have an argument. 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:38.440 But if you tell it an actual junkie, a drug 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:42.880 addict that you know the actual statistics, one person out 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:46.000 of fifteen hundred is something awful happened to them or 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:46.919 whatever that number is. 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:48.960 Yeah, I wonder what the number is. It's closer to 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:49.920 yours than mine by far. 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:51.440 But they'd say, shut up, give me a hit. 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:55.200 Yeah, I suppose speaking which I have revolutionary idea here. 0:06:55.320 --> 0:07:00.360 We have the best most important email of the month, 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:07.000 perhaps the year. Want to touch on it again? Why 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:08.800 don't we take a break now on time and have 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:10.400 plenty of time On the other side. 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:12.040 Do we have a prize for that email of the month? 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:13.800 Do we send the move one mitz or something. 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:15.880 Big at a boy or at a girl. 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:18.400 I got both of my kids from the Armstrong and 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.200 Geddy store at Armstrong Ingeeddy dot com. I got both 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:24.640 my kids underwear that have my name on They're junk 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:26.440 that is. 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:28.360 Both troubling into music. 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:35.400 Wow, please please, let's. 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:37.000 Take a break or something. I didn't know when I 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:37.560 was younger. 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:39.600 Someday I would have a brand that it would be 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:42.640 on underwear that would give out his gifts. 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.120 The sports Braw endorsed by my daughter. 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:51.160 So my name can be spread across your genitalia. Yes, Katie, No, 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.280 just how about that break you know? Oh right, yes, 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:55.360 Joe was going to take a break and. 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:58.080 We Yeah, that would be good. Thank you, God, bless you. Katie. 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.800 Have you tried the Armstrong and Geddy Sportsprong yet? I have? 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:02.000 I wor frequently? 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:02.640 Yeah? 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:04.400 Awthan markeably comfortable, isn't Yeah? 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:06.560 To keep those things in place, which I guess is 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:08.960 the goal the best of its ability. Yes, it does 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:10.320 shash to the. 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:14.560 Best of its ability. You can only ask it to 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:15.040 do so much. 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:26.440 Well, you have the email of the month next all Christmas? 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:35.840 What's stopping you? Talent? I didn't get a good instrument 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:36.160 like that. 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:38.839 I just didn't I sound like an angry jackass when 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:43.640 I said it? Anyway, Uh, this is incredibly important and serious. 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:44.080 Uh. 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:46.840 We've been talking about how the term homeless is just 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:51.200 it's beyond useless. It's misleading because what is notable about 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:54.400 streaked people is not the fact that they do not 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.480 have a permanent address. That is not the primary issue. 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:01.360 It's drug addiction. And as one of our beloved listeners 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:05.360 suggested the term, I'd love to give them credit. Where 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:05.840 did I put it? 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:07.720 Oh, well, it's. 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:14.480 BJ said transient drug Addicts tdas We're talking about this 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:17.640 the other other day and got the attention of al 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:21.880 or Aleen Anonymous, who said some really nice things about 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.400 the show, which we appreciate very much. But I work 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:29.640 with homeless in certain California cities, most challenging areas, lists 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:34.119 them and just about every street with significant homeless encampments 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.520 and quotes. I was listening to you this morning yesterday, 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:39.400 Well you were dropping truth bombs about the homeless on 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:42.760 the radio, and I found myself yelling, yes, finally someone 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:45.240 gets it, because you're absolutely right. 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:47.319 We don't have a homeless problem. What we have is 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:48.440 a drug problem. 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.560 Eighty five percent of the folks I work with our 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:55.520 battling drug addiction. Another ten percent are mentally ill because 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:59.240 of drug addiction. They're remaining five percent they're just mentally 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:01.840 ill and need can in a space that can help them. 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:04.080 While many quote unquote. 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:07.320 Homeless advocates argue that most homeless individuals are simply struggling 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:10.320 abused moms or families in need of assistance, in my 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:13.760 five years of experience working in the toughest parts of 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:17.600 our city, I have encountered only one such family one. 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:21.319 The rest middle aged men and women, mostly trapped in 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:24.120 a cycle of addiction, who will say or do anything 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:25.000 to feed their habit. 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:31.880 I would think there'd be enough people on the left 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:35.120 who are sympathetic to that crowd that they'd want to 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:37.760 identify the actual problem. 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.000 You would think that, wouldn't you. 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:44.599 You'd think being completely ineffective would cause people to reassess 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:48.040 their perceptions and their strategies. But that's just not a 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.600 great strength of the left anyway. 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:54.880 Run one unfortunate medical bill away from being homeless, and, 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:59.200 as we've been saying for years, yeah you whatever, medical bill, 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.800 lose your job, whatever, and you start doing meth. 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:03.959 And move under a bridge. 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:08.160 Yeah, clearly sure the solutions in quotes we keep hearing 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:10.760 about like tiny homes are just band aids on bullet wounds. 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:14.000 The county's current plan is building a few hundred homes, 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:17.160 he mentions the location. Unless there's a serious plan for 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:19.920 dealing with addiction, you're just creating a drug camp. By 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:22.560 serious plan, I mean more than the tired line we 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:26.520 hear that quote. Support services will be provided. Politicians love 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:28.840 the optics of tiny homes because people see something and 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.319 that looks like action to solve the problem. But when 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:33.599 the rules are broken at the tiny home settlements is 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:37.000 inevitably they are. These folks end up right back on 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:40.400 the streets. The turnover rate is astounding. I'm not sure 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:43.080 if anyone power is noticed, but drug addicts don't obey 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:46.240 rules very well. And add to the fact that it 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:50.200 takes forty five days, yes, forty five days are system 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:53.719 stinks to have a person cleared for intake services. Unfortunately, 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:57.120 that's typically forty four days after they've disappeared back into 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:01.040 the fog to do more drugs. Why not force ree well, 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:03.640 rehab and jack. You've talked about this fair amount has 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:06.520 a ninety four percent failure rate. The first time around, 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:10.240 and politicians know voters won't stomach a pro program. That's 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:13.240 nine hundred and forty thousand dollars of failure for every 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:17.240 million dollars spent. Plus ninety percent of addicts refuse services 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:21.480 outright because it cuts into their getting high time. For context, 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:24.640 thirty five dollars can purchase an eight ball. That's a 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:29.080 pretty good quantity of drugs, providing a high for several days, 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:32.360 provided they do not share. Five dollars keeps them high 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:35.680 for a day. In all you people handing out cash 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.800 at stop lights stop, they use the cash to buy 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:40.400 drugs and they throw the food away. 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:42.599 Addicts aren't known for huge appetites. 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:47.319 I see it all the time in my car at 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:50.400 an intersection. You know, they roll down the window and 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:53.760 give some ace some money. What do you think you're doing, 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:56.360 soft heart, soft head? 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:59.719 The truth is al rites that people change when the 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:03.800 pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of change. 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:06.480 Every recovering addict I've worked with acknowledges that they had 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.440 to reach their lowest point before they could turn things around. However, 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:14.200 as a society where excessively preoccupied with mitigating the consequences, 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:17.600 we feed house and provide medical care, creating a dual 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:20.439 dependency city services and drug dealers. 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:22.000 The dealers love it. 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:26.000 If we want real change, we need drug courts back, 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:28.880 we need accountability, we need punishment, and we need to 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.760 stop pretending the problem is something it's not. We need 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:34.560 to stop acting like a longtime drug addict as the 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:37.400 same mental capacity in rights that everyone else does. Most 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:40.320 addicts will not seek help for their addiction to reach 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:43.240 the lowest point. It's just too easy to stay high 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:46.280 and there's very little incentive for them to change. Interestingly, 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:48.040 we have a chance to save them if they reach 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:50.480 their lowest point within the first two years of their addiction. 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:55.440 After that, the situation becomes unpredictable. In other words, the worst, 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:58.320 most horrible and cruel thing you can do to you 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:02.360 human being is mitigate the consequences of their addiction. 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:04.359 That's the worst. 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:08.520 Thing you can do, and we're doing it systematically to 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:10.120 the cost of billions of dollars. 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:12.320 I don't really know anything about drug addiction, but that's 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:15.440 really interesting that if you don't catch them in the 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:17.800 first two years, it gets much much harder. So, yeah, 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:21.560 if you can allow people to get past that two 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:25.240 year mark by providing them food, shelter, whatever. 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:28.440 Then they're freaking doomed. You've doomed them. 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:33.840 How about that that's beyond then whise that's evil. At 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:42.000 some point, misguided becomes evil. If you guard your misguidedness 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:45.040 for reasons of ego and virtue signaling and the rest 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:48.960 of it, you are killing people with kindness. 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:51.320 And that's on the drug addic side of it, not 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:55.120 to mention the law abiding, not drug addicts side of life, 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:56.840 where you just wish you could have your park or 0:14:57.240 --> 0:15:00.640 safe sidewalk, or have your business stay open or whatever. 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:02.600 You know, you're right. 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:07.440 A person could make the argument, there's no effing reason 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:10.480 we should be putting up with this. So appreciate the 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:14.240 screen about addiction, but why don't we start there. Yeah, 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:20.520 it's the divide between people who can take in reality 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:25.160 and say this is gonna hurt to do this. There's 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:27.240 gonna be pain, it's gonna pain me to do this, 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:30.880 but it's got to happen those people and those who 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:32.400 just can't face up to that. 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:34.320 That's one of the biggest gulfs that exists. 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:36.520 I don't know who said this first, but it's really 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:42.920 really good that conservatives hate people but love humanity. Liberals 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:44.840 love humans but hate humanity. 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:47.520 Wops it. I think I don't. 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:50.800 I don't think so works so well in these situations 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:53.160 because if you're a liberal, you think, here's this human, 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:55.880 this downtrodden human, I'm gonna give them some money and 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:58.280 some food so we'll have a good day. You're damaging 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:03.640 humanity by doing that, the the overall culture, the overall 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:04.960 society by doing that. 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:09.000 Yeah, well lead to more. 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:12.920 Right. Yeah. 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:15.240 I was happy to see Elon Musk on this topic 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:19.400 over the weekend, pointing out, yeah, it's a drug addiction problem. 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:20.680 When are we going to wake up to that? Because 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:23.880 he's got a pretty big platform. 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:24.000 Right right. 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:27.520 But again, as we mentioned earlier, there are billions of 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:33.560 dollars being handed out with the excuse of quote unquote homelessness, 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:37.720 and that gravy train is what keeps politicians in power. 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:41.080 That handing out money and receiving votes and power back 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:45.720 building more nearly as much money and tough love. 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:48.280 Building more tiny homes at the cost of billions and 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:52.520 billions of dollars and accomplishing nothing with the drug addiction problem. 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:53.840 Yep, insane. 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:57.400 God, that's so frustrating me thought wise, it's evil. Our 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:58.800 text line is four one five. 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:04.479 K fte Armstrong and getty. 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:08.680 Well, it's been twelve days since President Biden shocked many 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:11.679 by breaking his promise and issuing a sweeping pardon for 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.200 his son Hunter. Now, as you mentioned, the President issuing 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:17.800 clemency for nearly fifteen hundred Americans convicted on a variety 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:21.240 of crimes overnight. Biden said most of today's commutations will 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:24.040 impact people who are placed on home confinement during the 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:26.919 pandemic and have shown personal growth. We haven't gotten the 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:29.560 full list yet of those impacted. The White House says, 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:32.240 among the thirty nine who were issued full pardons, none 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:35.080 were violent offenders. In a statement, the President says he'll 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:37.680 take more steps in the weeks ahead. The administration will 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:42.160 continue reviewing clemency petitions to advance equal justice, promote public safety, 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:46.680 support rehabilitation and re entry, and provide meaningful second chances. 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:49.920 Wouldn't someone want their act somewhat together? Have done that 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:52.520 with Hunter's pardon, to try to make it seem like 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:55.080 I'm partnering Hunter and for all the other people out 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:59.320 there that have suffered the wrath of drug addiction or 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:00.000 something or other. 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:03.560 Blah, blah, yeah, exactly, Yeah, you're right, that would have 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:07.880 been a little more graceful. Joe Biden is a non 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:15.680 compass meant his mummy, so obviously his aides are using 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:19.320 their final moments in the White House to change the 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:22.639 landscape anyway they can, with all sorts of commutations and 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:26.520 clemencies and uh, what's his face? 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:28.320 The waste of skin. 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:32.080 See, I've already forgotten about the Biden administration because they're 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:33.280 no longer wait, they are. 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:38.160 Still in church. Why what's his name? The ale majorcis Yeah, 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:39.679 just tripled. 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:42.720 I think it was the length of the work permits 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:45.120 for illegal immigrants who get those specials. 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:47.200 I didn't know. I didn't hear that. Didn't vote. 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:49.600 No, No, it's not nowhere in the media, but they 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:51.359 just declared it with the stroke of the pen. So 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:53.800 behind the scenes and sometimes in front of them, they're 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:55.879 doing everything they can in the final weeks. 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:58.840 To further pervert the way the US functions. 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:00.800 Ian Bremer tweeted out the numbers yesterday. 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:04.000 Some more than eight million people came into this country 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:08.119 during the Biden administration. It's the largest movement of human 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:13.160 beings on Earth in the history of the planet. Happened 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:16.600 because he had a democratic presidency. They didn't care about this, 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:21.879 and nobody voted for it. Nobody wasn't a topic of 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:23.400 conversation or no debates. 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:28.600 It just happened. Right. It's outrageous, It is horrifying. It's criminal. 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:32.520 Yeah, speaking of criminal, I know, I know how you feel. 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:34.680 You're watching the view and you're thinking, boy, this is great, 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:36.480 but it'd be better if Bill Clinton. 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:40.400 Was on Who's still Who's president elected? A ninety two? 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:46.200 Still younger than Joe Biden? Yes, yeah, and Trump? Right, 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:47.800 I think so. 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:48.240 Yeah. 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:52.520 Anyway, here's Billy Jeff on the View talking about well, 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:54.639 I think it becomes fairly clear what he's talking about. 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:58.160 Do you think it would be wise of President Biden 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:04.320 to preemptively part in any potential targets? What about your wife, 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:07.480 Hillary Clinton? She apparently is on cash Beteil's list. 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:12.560 Yeah, well, they got a problem with her because. 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:17.440 First she didn't do anything wrong. Of course, seconds, she. 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:21.840 Followed the rules exactly as they were written. Third, Trump's 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:26.879 State department. Trump's State department found they remember how the 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:30.120 emails was such a big issue In twenty sixteen, Trump's 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:36.520 State department found that Hillary sent and received exactly zero 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:41.240 classified emails on her purfle device. 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:45.480 It was a hole. That was a made up phony story. Wow. 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:49.800 So they're discussing Hillary's emails on the View with Bill Clinton, 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:53.000 who's the same age as Donald Trump and four years 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:55.200 younger than Joe Biden. 0:20:57.119 --> 0:21:01.760 Preemptive pardons for Hillary? Is this a thing? 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:07.639 Charlemagne, the god who gets quoted a lot or variety 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:09.840 of reasons, who does a radio show or a podcast 0:21:09.920 --> 0:21:12.400 or whatever he does and talks to Democrats all the time, 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:17.439 said today, Charlemagne thengan warns old ass Biden better not 0:21:17.560 --> 0:21:21.080 hand out preemptive pardons for Trump rivals, like Hillary Clinton. 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:21.840 Makes you look guilty. 0:21:22.240 --> 0:21:25.240 I would say, if I'm Hillary, I'm like, hey, hey, dude, 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:26.119 I know I haven't seen you. 0:21:26.080 --> 0:21:29.439