WEBVTT - I Might Need The Paddles! 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:07.600 Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:12.440 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty and he 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:24.439 Armstrong and Yetty. We were talking about Tiger Woods and 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:26.759 how news came out that he had a couple of 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:29.520 hydro codones in his pocket when he rolled his vehicle 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:31.120 the other day. And I was saying, is that the 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:34.040 thing Rush Limbaugh was on? Doctor friend of mine texted 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:39.440 me oxy codone is what Rush was on. Oxy. I 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:44.400 didn't know this oxy is ten times stronger than hydro codone. 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:47.040 Now that you mentioned that, Yeah, Hydra's low the one 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:48.000 I had after. 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:50.239 So I didn't know that they weren't even close to 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:52.199 the same strength. I've had hydro codon. I think when 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:53.760 I had cancer I had to take one once, But 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:57.560 I don't think I've ever taken oxy. That's interesting. Remember 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:00.960 when I love the way we go, we swing so 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:03.360 far one direction on the other Remember when we had 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:06.839 six figures worth of people dying from these things because 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:10.200 pharmacies around the country were just giving them to anybody randomly, 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:12.920 and it was just it was just out of control. Well, 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:15.000 now we went so far the other direction. My son 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:17.600 is on one drug that could be addictive, and you 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:19.760 just cannot You can get thirty days at a time, 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:21.800 and you have to wait until the full thirty days 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:23.760 are up until you can get the next prescription. Can't 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:26.760 overlap by a day, and then sometimes they're busy and 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:28.400 you can't get it. And I'm Michael, what are you supposed 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:30.280 to do? You can't skip a day. But they just 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:33.480 got to strict rules because you could get addicted, and 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:36.920 just so unreasonably far the other direction, why can't we 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:39.080 manage things in any sensible way? 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:43.040 Government does two things, nothing and overreact. 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:45.160 Correct. I remember you saying that many eight years ago, 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:50.600 and that is one hundred percent true. So I've been 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:53.520 complaining a lot about the media coverage of the war. 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:56.560 I think it's by far the biggest story in the world. 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:59.520 And like Sunday, I faced the nation. They didn't get 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:02.160 to it for eighteen minutes. To start face the nation, 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:06.400 they talked about TSA lines, and they talked about shut down, 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:08.600 and they talked about some other thing I didn't care 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:12.079 about before they got to the war. Like seriously, John 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:14.520 Stewart on The Daily Show thinks it's ridiculous that the 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:17.799 media isn't getting to the war more often and treating 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.560 it with more seriousness. Also, his conclusion about the war 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:22.320 is different than mine, but the coverage he's got the 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:25.440 same point of view. What else is being blocked? It's 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:28.240 getting harder to get food that comes with pistachios. 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:34.120 You can't make to buy chocolate bars. 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:38.560 Oh no, what will our influencers stand in line to 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:39.160 pretend to. 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:42.160 Eat to buy chocolate? 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:45.480 By god, that's been an American staple for tens of days. 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:49.120 I can't believe how the news has to. 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:54.200 Frame world events to try and make Americans care. The 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:59.320 whole region is being flattened. Innocent people are dying, They're 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:02.480 food and fuel are in total chaos, and our news 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:05.400 is like, if this goes on any longer, say goodbye 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:08.799 to your stuffed crust pizza. 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:11.080 I agree with that. I don't agree with his thought 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:13.880 on the war, but they do. They have to come 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:18.120 up with these gases expensive, So that's why you should 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:20.560 get there's a freaking war going on that could go 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:23.280 any direction at anymoy anyway. John Stewart goes on. 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:26.359 It turns out there is another key material being affected 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:28.240 by the war in Iran, fertilizer. 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:31.079 There could be helium shortages. Yes, the gas that is 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:32.440 used in party balloons. 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:34.240 What the fuck? 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:38.640 Halium is a fundamental gas used in the production of 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:41.840 advanced chip technology. You don't have to dumb it down 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:45.440 to make us. Oh, this war could be even bad 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:47.920 for your promposals. 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:52.480 Like, come on, I agree. Wow, that is shocking. 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:58.120 That is I mean, I thought I was cynical enough. 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:03.000 The same guess that's used to fillip party bella. 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:07.560 Is Yeah, we know, ay, ay, we know, b that's 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:12.960 not the problem at all. Helium's incredibly important to high 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.920 tech production of chips at center as he mentioned. 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:18.120 Well, all those things he mentioned though, including to me 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:22.000 the price of gas. If chocolate bars go away and 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:24.839 gas gets way more expensive than we'd like. The war's 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.400 either a good idea, it's not. Let's discuss it on 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:31.560 the merits of being at war with another major country 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:31.839 or not. 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:37.159 Yeah, how about the whole major malevolent power exporting jihad 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:40.320 around the world, killing more of our soldiers than any 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.040 other country. And I mean, we'll get to the chocolate 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.680 and the party balloons if you want to, But can 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:46.599 we take a look. 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:47.839 At that picture first? 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:54.280 That is astonishingly I'd say it's condescending, but maybe they 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:55.880 just know where their viewers. 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:59.760 Are trying desperately. I'm guessing that, and I'm surprised to 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:03.159 see Yes face the nation. That's barry wise. I'm sure 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:05.720 she cares about the war. Maybe they've got data that says, hey, 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:07.200 people just don't care. 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:10.839 Well. Either that or she just hasn't gotten to face 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:12.360 the nation because nobody watches it. 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:15.400 The we get several texts of oh my god, you 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.200 guys are talking about Iran again. Ignore them because I 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:20.560 think it's a really, really important story. But some of 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:21.279 you feel that way. 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:26.600 Fine, good, great, some of them are dressing up as 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:29.320 furry animals and having sex. 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:35.560 And maybe they need conversion therapy. Was my transition to 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:40.320 I know, I just I'm beyond helping Michael. 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:43.080 I may't need the paddles, go out to the lobby. 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:49.600 Might need thee get the paddles again already on Tuesday. 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:51.160 Usually we don't have to bring out to the paddles 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:54.120 till like Thursday or Friday. My will to live has 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:56.839 gone solo. I need Claire. 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:02.200 All right, here's the Oh my god, this is not 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:08.320 going to help me at all. The Supreme Court made 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:16.480 an absolutely fantastic ruling eight to one. I'll explain why 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:19.520 I'm struggling with this in a moment, saying that a 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:23.760 Christian counselor in Colorado who challenged a ban on mental 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:33.480 health counseling for either transgender confused kids or in some 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:37.440 cases gay kids or whatever, that you can't restrict that 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:42.320 for First Amendment reasons. It's the lost censor speech. Based 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:47.120 on viewpoint Justice gors trote in the majority opinion, Colorado 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:50.599 may regard its policies essential public health and safety. Certainly 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:53.000 cinsorious governments throughout history have believed the same, But the 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:55.440 First Amendment stands as a shield against any effort to 0:06:55.560 --> 0:07:00.400 enforce orthodoxy and thought or speech in this country. Hagen 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:03.440 wrote a concurring opinion. She went at it a little 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:05.320 bit differently from a legal point of view. 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:06.640 It was eight to one. 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:12.360 Katanji Brown Marxist, was against, as she wrote, the only 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:18.280 descent her descent was longer than the court's opinion and 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:20.240 Kagan's concurrence combined. 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:24.920 Wow, even the other liberal justices have to be rolling 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:27.880 their eyes at her behind the scenes, don't they, right? 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:32.000 And I scanned her reasoning and essentially and Oh my god, 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.360 you want to talk about a slippery slope. This is 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:37.400 this is you know, I don't know, one of those 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:40.120 old playground slides covered with k y jelly. I mean 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:41.880 it is a slippery slope. 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:42.760 She said. 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:46.960 Well, because the state has an interest in regulating medical professionals, 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:50.880 then they can regulate speech medical professionals. And like, oh, 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:53.920 for God's sake, the state regulates freaking everything at this point, 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:57.200 so barbers can be barred from, you know, speaking out 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:03.960 against democrats by your insane postmodernist reasoning. Anyway, here's the 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:08.080 reason I was not completely enthusiastic about bringing you this story. 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.920 Oh my god, I expected it out of the New 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:15.160 York Times. Upset closed for some reason. 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:15.800 Here we go. 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:20.680 The Supreme Court onto oh oh oh, sorry, you need 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:24.200 to know this. This case is about the gender bending madness, 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:27.400 especially for kids. These kids who are autistic, or they 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:32.560 are victims of sexual abuse, or they are merely misfits. 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:35.960 They want to be somebody else. They're not comfortable in 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.600 their own skin. They have the sort of ankst that 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:42.200 adolescents always always have, some more than others. 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:43.040 God bless them. 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:44.920 And as the dad of an autistic kid, I can 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:51.640 tell you that angst is suffocating. At times, these counselors say, hey, 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:55.839 before we start feeding you hormones or talk about surgeries 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:59.040 or transitioning, let's talk about what's going on in your life. 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:01.160 Let's talk about what going on in your heart and 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:03.920 mind for a while before we go down that road. 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:04.920 Would that be Okay? 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:10.000 That's what this counseling is, and it's being called conversion 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:14.160 counseling by the transgender activists because they want people to 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:17.400 think of that like fundamentalist religious thing where you would 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:19.280 tell a gay boy you can't be gay because that's 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.440 against God. Here's a woman get with a woman, you 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:25.079 can't be gay, when those are two very different things, 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:27.200 although they're both protected by the First Amendment. In my 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:30.280 mind or in my opinion. Okay, so that's what the 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:32.840 counseling is. Let's talk about what some of the other 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:35.000 problems might be in your life, and we'll get to 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.640 the transgender thing. Here's how it's characterized in the New 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:41.520 York Times. The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with a 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:45.880 Christian therapist, rejecting a Colorado law that prohibited mental health 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:50.920 professionals from trying to change the sexual orientation or gender 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:57.720 identity of LGBTH minors. They characterize that caring patient actually 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:01.160 looking at the underlying problems is quote unquot vote trying 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:04.280 to change the sexual orientation of minors. 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:06.760 And then I look at the Wall Street Journal. 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:10.080 The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with a Christian counselor 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.640 who challenged the band blah blah blah on mental health 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:16.080 counseling that seeks to change young people's sexual orientation or 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:24.200 gender identity. The New York Times, written by Anne E. Merrimo, 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:26.480 who has a died in the world progressive in the 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:30.200 Wall Street Journal, handed this assignment over to James Rossimer, 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:36.080 who apparently is of the same ilk or. Because big 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:39.559 time journalists exist in a journalistic bubble too, you wouldn't 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:40.280 think they would. 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:43.840 That's what they think this is. They just don't know. 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:51.080 Colorado law targets what is colloquially known as conversion therapy. No, 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:55.240 it's called conversion therapy by transgender activists. 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:59.320 Change you, jackass. Do you call it conversion therapy? When 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:03.880 the teachers counselors at school are trying to convince your 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:05.199 little girl she's. 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:08.839 A boy and then tell her, let's not tell your parents. 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:12.080 They don't need to know about this. That's not conversion therapy. 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:20.680 Excellent point. Oh my god, only could justice Katanji Brown 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:23.880 Jackson dissented in this eight to on er. I mean, 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:25.800 for God's sakes, you'd think the journalists in the Wall 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:28.040 Street Journal in the New York Times would say, holy crap. 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:30.240 Eight to one. Maybe I ought to look into this, right, 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:33.079 Why was it nearly unanimous? But no, I could see 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:34.600 you right in that headline. If it was a five 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:39.440 four you didn't agree with maybe, but it's eight one. 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:42.080 You gotta think, well, okay, I must be missing something 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:44.360 here if you have the point of view of your headline. 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:47.839 KJP warned of the broader implications for medical care. She 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:51.080 said could be catastrophic if states cannot regulate some kinds 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:52.480 of speech by licensed professionals. 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:55.120 And I quote this decision might. 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:58.880 Make speech only therapies and other medical treatments involving practitioner 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:04.520 speech effective unregulatable, she wrote, criticizing her eight colleagues for 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:08.440 having made quote this momentous decision without adequately grappling with 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:13.559 the potential long term and disastrous implications. Hey, I almost 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:14.720 said something disparaging. 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:16.760 Why would I do that? I'm a grown man. 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:23.880 Hey, Justice Jackson, you don't get to regulate speech based 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:29.280 on what you perceive to be long term implications. You 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:38.520 fundamentally misunderstand the First Amendment. It exists to protect speech you. 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:42.400 Think will lead to people thinking the wrong thing. That's 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:43.560 why it exists. 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:50.520 Well one won the right direction, Yeah it did. God, 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:52.120 you cannot hate the media enough. 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.320 End of rant. There is a mass exodus out of 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:58.800 La County, California, and generally but specific La County among 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:03.439 things we can talk about if you can stick around. Oh, 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:07.560 ratings out. Trump's got the lowest approval rating he's had 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:10.960 of this term. Is it because of the war? I 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:11.880 think it's the economy. 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:15.040 Well it's both, and the war is feeding into the economy, 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:19.240 Sure of course it is. And more later stay here. 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:24.360 The FBI says that that terror attack on the Detroit 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:28.640 Synagogue was inspired by Hesbelah, that their propaganda is believed 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:31.640 to be what fueled I'm in Mohammad Ghazzali to search 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:35.400 for quote, the largest gathering of Israelis in Michigan to 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:40.319 purchase fireworks, approximately three hundred bullets, and an ar fifteen 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:43.559 sending a video to his sister just ten minutes before 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:46.320 the attack, saying he would quote kill as many of 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:47.840 them as I possibly can. 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:53.400 It's just luck that we still aren't as a country 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:57.040 talking about this every single day, because that guy went 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:00.080 in there and killed fifty little Jewish kids, that that 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:00.760 was his intent. 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:06.240 There is a candidate for the Senate in Michigan who 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:10.600 was I've got somewhere, Yeah, he said on a conference 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:11.720 call with his media people. 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:13.480 Look, I can't condemn that shooting. 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:16.679 It'd be dangerous for me because he's got to get 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:18.600 he's a Muslim and he wants the Muslim vote. 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:20.080 So we'll just if. 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.160 If anybody brings it up, I'm going to say Trump 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:24.119 is just trying. 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:25.680 To distract from the Epstein files. 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:30.200 So here's a Muslim candidate who couldn't bring himself to 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:34.160 condemn the near mass murder of little children. 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:37.400 What does that tell you? And by the way, as 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:42.400 is pointed out often, that's what globalized the Intafada is 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:46.560 and we have college kids chanting that around the country 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.560 and we just let that go. I mean, you have 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:53.480 to let it go. It's free speech, but don't critique it. Really, 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:59.240 that's globalizing the into fada, right right. You know what 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:03.040 I'm sorry, I can two stories this. Abdul l Sied 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:04.360 said he couldn't comment on. 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:08.080 The death of the Ayatol law because a lot of 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:10.880 people are sad, so I'll just change it to pedophile. 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:14.480 President decides he doesn't like the front page news and 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:19.800 there was a different story about a similar fellow, saying, 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:21.720 I can't condemn that. I gotta be careful. I'll bring 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:26.320 you the facts on that eventually. So saw the story 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:27.520 break yesterday, didn't read about it. 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:29.560 And it normally only matters if you drive around La 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:32.040 much or you're gonna be there on vacation. They're going 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:35.360 to build this twenty four billion dollars high speed tunnel 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:39.840 underneath the four H five Freeway that could change commutes 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:43.360 drastically around La from the way they've been for many, 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:47.720 many decades. Project will probably cost twice as much, three 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:49.880 times five times as much as supposed to and take 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:52.800 forever to finish, but it gets done, it could really 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:55.880 change LA traffic. Funny that that's happening at the same 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:58.840 time that the population is shrinking shrinking in La County, 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:02.400 though tens of thousands of residents are fleeing La County. 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.360 The region recorded the largest population drop of any in 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:11.680 the nation over the last year of US Census data. 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:15.400 About fifty four thousand residents left the county during that 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:18.680 one year period, continuation of a steady slide for the 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:24.040 biggest most populated county in America. Once home to more 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.680 than ten million people in twenty twenty, it's now nine 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:32.480 point seven million. Yellow's three hundred thousand people. Your commute's 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:35.840 gonna get better. Yeah, maybe I want to hold off 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:38.040 on that tunnel and see if with you just don't 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:39.840 need it anymore. So is it going to be like 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:42.400 an express tunnel just no entrances and exits. It's just 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:44.640 if you're going downtown, that sort of thing. I didn't 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:47.680 read up on it, but it's interesting that it'll probably 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:49.840 never exist. Like the bullet rain, you'd think there'd be 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:52.560 more attention paid to why is our population shrinking for 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:55.280 the first time ever? For the state of California and 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:59.960 for La County in particular Los Angeles, A thousand cops. 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:01.720 That's it. That's it. 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:04.800 I found the facts about that Michigan Democrat thing. I 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:07.560 will back up what I said. It sounded outrageous, didn't it. 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:10.040 It was true. Much more to come, including a fair 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:12.800 amount of humor, so stay tuned. If you can't stay tuned, 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:13.720 subscribe to the. 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:18.360 Podcast Armstrong and Getty from. 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:21.640 The good folks at the Babylon b When California Liberals 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:26.080 getting invited to a Texas backyard BBQ, Thanks. 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:27.080 So much for inviting us. 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:29.560 We've never been to a real backyard barbecue before. 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:33.399 You need to meet the host. Oh yeah, nice folks. 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:36.200 This is Clay. Hey, how you doing it? I'm timpany? 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:39.600 She her Steve he him. So I heard you guys 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:42.160 moved back to California. Actually, is that true? 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:42.560 Oh? 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.600 We did. When we got there, squatters were in our 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:48.800 homes and by state law, we can't evict them for months, 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:50.000 so we moved back. 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:52.520 We had no real right to the house anyways, it 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:55.600 being on the traditional and unseated homelands of the Tongva, 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:57.680 Shumash and kitsch people's. 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:02.800 Huh, Well, we are about to eat, so we're going 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:07.920 to say a few works. Use acknowledgement, grace, I don't 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:11.480 get it, pray oh like the emoji? 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:15.360 All right, everybody, why don't you guys come on over. 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:18.640 Let's take care, take our hats off its bow, our heads. 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:22.480 Now, poor god, heavenly father or mother. We just pray 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:26.320 bless this meat we are about to eat in the 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:26.800 name of. 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:34.440 Jesus, who was a person of color. Everybody said, we're 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:35.919 going to say a few words before we eat. Oh 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:42.240 a land use acknowledgement. Oh my god, where did I 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:47.480 read one of those? Just yesterday? Where was I? Anyway? 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:51.040 And I was trained as lost its mind with that stuff. 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:53.760 I was screaming at this plaque. Yeah, who had it 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:54.520 before them? 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:58.560 I guarantee you somebody had it before this tribe you 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:01.760 just mentioned Garanteed and. 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:04.480 This tribe on the plaque probably took it by force, 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:09.080 or if they didn't, it's it's really immaterial anyway. So 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:11.680 what do you mean Canada has lost their mind on that? Oh, 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:15.080 the whole land acknowledgment thing, the whole wokeism thing. It 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:18.520 is still twenty twenty two in Canada, and maybe worse. 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:20.359 Well, we'll talk about that another time. 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:23.560 But although we do have some very amusing audio from 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:28.639 Canada's New Democratic Party, which is some ascendant lefty party 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:31.280 at their meeting. Hilarious more later. 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:32.920 So I know this makes me a pain in the ass, 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:37.000 and I'll keep this short, but just because it's I'm 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:39.600 looking up at CNN right now, gas hits four dollars 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:41.800 per gallon for the first time since twenty twenty two. 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:46.000 That is just flat out not true in reality because 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:50.280 of inflation. We've had so much inflation that four dollars 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:54.480 today is three fifty eight and twenty twenty two dollars 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:58.679 just twenty twenty two, not nineteen seventy. Yeah, yeah, nineteen 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:02.600 ninety two or any distance. No, just a couple of 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:06.840 years ago. So for it to hit four dollars for 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:09.560 the first time in twenty twenty two dollars, which you're 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:12.200 claiming it is, I mean, that's what you're stating. It's 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:14.440 got to get to four forty seven, which I think 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:17.800 it probably will in a couple of weeks. But you know, 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:22.200 it's it's just inaccurate, and it drives me crazy since 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:24.639 you're making a big deal out of Plus, everybody should 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:28.440 be aware of how much inflation we've had in the 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:29.960 last half dozen years. 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:34.480 You're jokingly referring to yourself as Captain Pedantic earlier, but no, 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:36.560 I think it's an excellent point. So not only is 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:42.160 the news item just misleading, it's fundamentally misleading. It also 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:47.200 papers over for reasons I can't imagine the insidious effects 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:53.000 of inflation and how government fiscal policy monetary policy causes inflation, 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:56.639 which is like a massive tax on your savings and 0:20:56.680 --> 0:20:57.200 your pay. 0:20:57.600 --> 0:21:01.200 You'd think people would want to know that he used, 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:04.160 he used to need an inflation calculator app or whatever. 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:06.600 But now all your all your chats can do it. 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:09.320 All your chat app thing, ease your your what are 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:11.600 they called ais, All your ais can do it. So 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:15.360 just do it. And this is depressing. It is depressing, 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:16.520 and I don't know when you're in the mood to 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:20.480 be depressed. Yeah, but it's it's disillusioning in a positive way. 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:23.240 It's informative. But like if you have in your mind 0:21:23.359 --> 0:21:27.359 what a million dollars is based on, like I don't know, 0:21:27.520 --> 0:21:31.600 nineteen ninety five, check and see what it is. Now, 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:35.720 just help help you realize what you've actually got in 0:21:35.760 --> 0:21:37.960 your you know, the value of your home or your 0:21:38.000 --> 0:21:39.320 four to one k or whatever. 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:42.359 Let's use the numbers just to keep it simple, like 0:21:42.720 --> 0:21:46.600 the ones you're bandying about. So four dollars gasoline is actually. 0:21:46.480 --> 0:21:48.520 What did you say? It is? Three fifty eight? 0:21:49.040 --> 0:21:52.240 Okay, So my four hundred thousand dollars in investments is 0:21:52.280 --> 0:21:54.640 now worth three hundred and fifty eight thousand dollars. 0:21:54.720 --> 0:21:56.400 In four years. 0:21:56.760 --> 0:22:00.119 It's worth declined that much because you know, I know, 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:03.280 and both parties are absolutely complicit, but mostly because of 0:22:03.320 --> 0:22:09.000 the Biden gigantic trillions of dollars of infusiona currency during COVID. 0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:11.840 They stole that money. 0:22:11.560 --> 0:22:15.840 From you, and for whatever reason, journalists are too dumb 0:22:15.920 --> 0:22:19.280 or incurious or ignorant or something to point that out 0:22:19.320 --> 0:22:22.280 to you. It's just frustrating. I don't want to bring 0:22:22.320 --> 0:22:24.320