WEBVTT - That's Apples & Volkswagens 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:07.880 Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:11.639 Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty arm Strong and Getty and 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:17.640 no He Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:27.520 With the arrest of the congress woman Democratic Congress'll give 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:29.040 me a break. Did you see her? She was out 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:29.560 of control? 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:29.880 Did you? 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:33.360 Those days are over, the days of who, the days 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:36.000 of WHOA no I did? The days of woke are over. 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:37.400 That woman I don't. 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:40.280 I have no idea who she is. That woman was 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:43.040 out of control. She was shoving federal agents. She was 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:46.200 out of control. The days of that crap are over 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:48.120 in this country. We're gonna have law and order. 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:48.720 You know. 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:50.960 That reminds me. I can't let go of this topic. 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:53.920 I will in a second. But we got a text 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:58.320 from somebody. How come you guys gloss over Trump's obvious decline? 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:01.200 Why aren't you talking about that? You know that was 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:04.160 one of the big pushbacks during the whole Biden thing. 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:06.680 Look at Trump's rambling or when he gets things wrong, 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:08.720 which he does, and he does ramble and very thing, 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:11.800 but you just heard him. They're not even in the 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:18.360 same ballpark of mental decline. It's apples and Volkswagens in 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:22.520 terms of mental decline. And yeah, and if you but 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:24.600 if you actually believe that, that's the why I want 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:27.200 to bring this up. If you actually believe that you 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:33.200 have the same level of lying to your self delusion 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:36.360 that allowed all this to happen because you're so wrong. 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:38.720 Because you want it so badly to be true. Yeah, 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:41.160 I take a long look at yourself. I don't I 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:42.399 don't know what else to suggest. 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.080 What is Trump? You always say about looking in the mirror. 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:48.920 Uh, if you don't know what introspection is, take a long, 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:53.280 hard look at yourself. That was Trump commenting on the 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:59.840 arrest of Democratic New Jersey congress gal Monica mcgiver. 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:01.200 What a crazy story. 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:04.640 Assaulted cops and ice officials and stuff like that, then 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:09.160 try to hide behind race and whatever else the lunatic. Yeah, 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:12.680 the charges against me are purely political. Yeah, you're a hack, 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:15.880 you're a liar, You assaulted a cop. Enjoy the criminal 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:17.919 justice process. I hope it's long in our. 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:23.400 Gen all in the name of protecting illegal criminals. What. 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:27.320 Yeah, Well, keep going, good luck in that next election. 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:34.160 So on a slightly different topic but oddly connected, there's 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:37.720 a great piece by Will swam in the National Review, 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:42.639 who's been following California politics and Gavin Newsom's absurdities and 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:45.600 the rest of that. He's also the president of the 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:50.520 California Policy Center and is California and Will does great work. 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:52.200 We ought to talk to him someday. I don't think 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:55.359 we have. But so he's talking about as so many 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.320 people have. The California Globe has done a good job 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:02.160 on this too. Gavin Newsom's just shameless gas lighting on 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:06.120 the homeless crisis, or shameless dodge on the homeless price crisis, 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:11.080 as Will Swain puts it, and how Gavvy boy had 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:14.120 the audacity and just I mean, you almost have to 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:16.919 have a sense of humor to try to say the 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:22.760 real problem that caused California's homeless crisis as it exists 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:24.239 right now is Trump's tariffs. 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:25.680 Wow. 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:30.959 I mean like wow, wow. The guy's been governor and 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:38.680 you know, vice governor or whatever since was it twenty thirteen, 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:41.880 twenty twelve. It sits in here somewhere, It's quite a while. 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.560 And Trump's just I mean, I can't even it's not 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:46.720 worth the time to shoot that down. 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:48.360 It's inspeedently ridiculous. 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:52.840 But I mean he's just trying so hard to come 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:57.480 off as a moderate. As he said the other day, 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:01.480 I've been always a hard headed pragmatist. 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:02.960 He told reporters. 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:06.040 The hard headed pragmatist did not mention that he has 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:10.240 increased the state's budget by fifty percent since twenty eighteen. 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:12.000 I didn't know that. 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:16.080 Funding an array of boutique progressive programs. His green energy 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:18.640 initiatives have killed the state's oil industry wall, checking up 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:20.760 the price gasoline to the heighst in the nation. He 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.599 remains the state's cheerleader for a high speed rail project that, 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:26.159 five years after it was supposed to be done, hasn't 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:26.600 laid a. 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:29.480 Foot of track, but has burned through at least thirty 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:33.680 three billion dollars in probably more. Nothing screams pragmatist like 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:35.720 the high speed rail, and. 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:38.839 Most recently, he spent a budget busting ten billion dollars 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:42.640 to extend medicaid benefits to illegal immigrants. He has also spent, 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:45.560 and this brings us to our main topic, twenty four 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:48.760 billion dollars more than the annual budget of twenty two 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:51.880 states in a feckless effort to solve California's worse than 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:56.480 the nation homeless crisis. That is where Amy Bublack comes in. 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:03.680 Amy is the mayor of Turlock, California, which is not 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.240 terribly far from the radio ranch. And we and the 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:11.040 crew are very very well acquainted with Turlockians. And I've 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:14.120 spent many fine hours there and many listeners there, and 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:16.640 we greet you and thank you for listening. But she's 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:18.760 the mayor of Turlock, which nobody has heard of around 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:21.560 the country. But in the hours leading up to his 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:24.520 horrific budget performance, which was when he was talking to 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:25.080 reporters and. 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:26.640 Said, I'm a hard headed pragmatist. 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:33.960 I'm quoting swam here, Newsom seems to have had a 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:37.359 kind of nineteenth nervous breakdown. Attempting to explain his whop 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:41.280 high profile failure to eliminate homelessness despite spending billions, he 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:46.039 blamed local officials as a taxpayer, not just governor. I'm 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:48.279 not interested in funding failure anymore. 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:48.599 I'm not. 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:52.400 I won't time to do your job. This is so rich. 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:55.400 Californians are vomiting even as they listen. People are dying 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:57.120 on their watch, dying on their way. I don't know 0:05:57.160 --> 0:06:01.960 how do these people get re elected? Ah? Wow, look 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:03.160 at these encampments. 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:06.000 They're a disgrace. They've been there for years and years 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:08.440 and years. I've heard that same rhetoric for years. People 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:11.640 are trying, kids are being born. They have been there 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:14.080 for years and years, while you've been governor for years 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:14.480 and years. 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.240 Right, as Red State reporter pointed out, it's almost if 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:20.000 he hadn't been either governor or lieutenant governor since twenty twelve. 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:23.839 Hmmm. But here's the crazy part. 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:29.960 Newsom decides that somebody needs a kicking, and it's gonna 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:33.440 be Amy Boo Black of beautiful. 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:34.760 Turlock, California, Central Valley. 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.600 He reserved his most lethlamo for Boo Black in a 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.800 letter that his office leaked to reporters. She first learned 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:44.360 of the governor's letter from a political reporter thirty or 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:47.040 forty minutes before I got it in my email. Once 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.520 she read it, I thought, quote, this is crazy. This 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:52.839 man knows nothing about homelessness, homelessness. He's going to talk 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:56.320 to me, of all people. Newsom said to Boo Black in. 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:59.279 The letter, it is imperative that the city reconsider its 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:03.039 priorities and demonstrate the kind of collaborative, accountable, and solution 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:04.120 oriented leadership. 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:09.560 That this crisis demands enough do your job. Here's what 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:13.000 brought that on. The mayor's sin and the action that 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:16.640 brought her to gavvy Boy's attention, her refusal to spend 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:20.760 the symbolic sum of one dollar that would have unlocked 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:24.520 a county homelessness homelessness grant of two hundred and sixty 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:29.400 seven thousand dollars in state money. Now reporters, of course, 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:33.280 dutifully conveyor belted the governor's letter into the state's largest 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:36.680 news outlets, and Newsome then promoted their stories on x 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:40.440 truly a lack of ridiculous, lack of local leadership, on 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:45.120 absolute moral failure, he declared, throwing the amy bublacks of 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.960 the state under the bus for his policies. California has 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.600 invested billions to combat homelessness in Turlock. 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.000 Their only shelter is at risk over a single dollar. 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:55.680 The state has done its part. Local leaders need to 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:56.280 step up. 0:07:57.080 --> 0:08:03.320 So why would this monstrous woman not spend a dollar? Well, 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:05.720 she explained that that two hundred and sixty seven thousand 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:09.800 dollars of California taxpayer money laundered through the county and 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:13.280 then to we care a homeless shelter in Turlock would 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:18.000 have come with no accountability. People who live in the 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:21.000 homes near the center have complained for months about the 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:25.160 shelter's residents, who are not supposed to be in the facility. 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:25.720 During the day. 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:28.320 They pee and poop and shoot up in the neighborhood. 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:32.800 They steal from people's garages, the rest of it. And 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:36.320 so the mayor says, quote Turlock City councilor requested a simple, 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:40.920 reasonable condition that we Care expand access to bathrooms twenty 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:44.840 four hours a day. Despite multiple discussions where we Care 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:49.040 appeared amenable to this condition, they refuse to make the commitment. Instead, 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:51.920 they chose to attend two council meetings and publicly attack 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:55.240 the council majority, believing public pressure and threats would override 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:59.080 the override thoughtful decision makings. And we respect their efforts 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:01.320 in addressing homeless this, but it's clear that change in 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:04.240 direction was needed. We could not in good conscience support 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:07.160 a grant that did not address core community concerns or 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:12.080 deliver greater accountability. In other words, no more unaccountable quarters 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:15.640 of a million dollars. These people don't listen, They're not accountable. 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:18.520 This is obscene and it's not helping the homeless people 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:22.920 quote unquote who actually need help. I'm blowing the whistle 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:24.080 on this well found out. 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:27.400 For that, Gavin Newso attacked. As we found out last year, 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:33.559 tens and tens and tens of gazillions of dollars have 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:36.439 been spent all over the state without anybody paying any 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:39.640 attention to whether it did any good or not. There 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.000 wasn't even a mechanism for it. That's right. 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:44.960 When they tried to figure out whether there had been 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:48.440 any results, Gavin Newso had to admit, no, we don't 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:53.200 even have way to figure that out. Yeah, and Amy said, no, 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:55.880 we're not going to continue down the same path that's 0:09:56.000 --> 0:10:01.079 ruining our town. I'm calling this out. And for that, Gavey, 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:06.080 who's naked lust for the Oval office is just embarrassing, 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:10.079 decided to go ahead and punch way down to stomp 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:14.200 Amy Boublack to support his presidential aspirations. 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:19.520 Man, he's in a tough place given state of California 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:22.440 over the last several years. I don't know how he 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:24.199 I don't know how he runs away from it. I 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:25.080 don't think he can so. 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:28.440 No, he's a clever son of a gun for sure, 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:30.960 and he will try very hard, but I just think 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:35.480 there's too much weight, you know. I tweeted a great 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:41.080 picture of a bunch of junkies laying in their own 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:46.199 filth and garbage everywhere, with the California State Capitol in 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:50.040 the background. It was taken on Capitol Avenue, Capitol Street, Kepital. 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:54.280 Very easy to do, Oh yeah yeah, and I captioned it. 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:56.920 I think you know, Gavin Newsom for president in twenty 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:00.760 twenty eight. All fifty states can live the Californian. Uh, 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:02.760 there's no way he can run away from his record. 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:05.360 He'll try, but he will feel miserably and it will 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:07.640 be a bitterly enjoyable to watch. 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:08.800 I'm looking forward to it. 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:11.400 I hope the Good Lord grants me enough years that 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:12.480 I witness it personally. 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:19.720 Why are you trying to? Eighty six forty eight? So 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:22.120 did the Secret Service actually go see James Comy? I 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:24.200 don't know. He didn't interview this morning. Was there anything 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:28.640 interesting Hanson there? Comy? I feel like that really revealed 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.160 the Komy being even more of a dip best than 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:36.280 I thought. What'd you do that for? You? Moron? Wow, 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:39.280 you have no judgment whatsoever. I always thought his judgment 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:40.920 was poor, but it's incredibly poor. 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:44.520 I think if Komy thought he could get away with it, 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:46.560 he would go around in a crown in a long 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:52.679 purple rome trimmed in white and black ermine. 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:55.240 I'm gonna read this tweet I came across and if 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:56.959 you have to be a certain sort of person to 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:59.320 even get it, but it's pretty good. Tapper's book is 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:02.160 like All the President's Men if it didn't name any 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:06.480 of the men and was written by John Erlikman. That 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:09.440 is pretty good if you know you that. That's really good. 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:14.320 More on the way, stay here. 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:17.160 And gas price is dropping heading into the Memorial Day 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:17.760 holiday weekend. 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:18.400 There's some good news. 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:21.160 Triple A reporting the national average for gas now at 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:24.040 three dollars eighteen cents a gallon. That's down forty two 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:25.720 cents a gallon from last year. 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:30.400 Wow, in time for Memorial Day weekend driving season. That's 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:34.720 pretty bad chilling. I'm gonna drive further and faster because 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:35.520 gases the cheap. 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:39.800 Exactly, I'm gonna throw a tow a trailer, nothing in it. 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:43.640 He'll put some bricks in it. We have breaking Jordan 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:44.439 Hudson News. 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:49.800 That's the uh young hotty chick Dayton Bill Belichick, who's 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.719 fifty years older than her. Right, she is told at 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:57.560 least one person they are engaged. Oh, why here, wedding 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:02.040 bells are ringing. Wow, he's going to marry her. 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.160 Will can't hear the wedding bells because he's deaf because 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.480 he's old? 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:13.240 Yeah? Wow, I hope he He's got a pre nup going, 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:16.160 or he didn't care. He's old enough he didn't care. 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:19.120 Maybe I don't know. Ye, his kids probably care. Does 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:22.000 he have kids? I have no idea if he does. 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:25.839 They're older than her by a lot, certainly, yes, yeah, yeah, 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:32.640 most likely his kids would be what fifty, she's roughly 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:36.760 she's roughly reproducing age at twenty four, right, so they'd 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:38.319 be between forty and fifty. 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:40.000 Probably her, his guess. And he didn't have any kids 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:42.880 till he was thirty. But yeah, well, yeah, they're certainly 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:44.440 older than her, significantly by a lot. 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.720 Is he going to have her? Have them? Call her mom? 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:50.160 His kids are old enough that if they were dating her, 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:55.920 you'd think, really, you take he'll start a family with her. Uh, 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:56.760 that's a good question. 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:01.800 If she wants a kid, yes, and if he's unsnipped. 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:04.000 I have a friend probably listening right now, who is 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:09.400 a fairly large chunk older than his current girlfriend, not 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:13.920 like Bill Belichick, but pretty big chunk who and she 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:16.120 is interested in having kids, and he's willing to go 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:20.040 along at his age. Yeah, says I'm a good dad, 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:25.600 So why not? Wow. Speaking of that sort of thing 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:27.920 and time going by, I'm trying to decide. I got 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.040 to come up with some sort of family vacation idea 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:32.360 for me, Sam and Henry this summer where I think 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.600 could be the last big summer vacation because he's Sam's 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:38.400 gonna start working next year, and I know when I 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:41.120 started working, I didn't go on the family vacations after that, 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:46.920 I worked. So manny goes by fast. I know everybody 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:51.040 says that, but it's the reason everybody says that is 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:52.520 because it's so true. 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:55.240 And because we were amazed, as amazed as you are now, 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:56.760 So go ahead and express your amazement. 0:14:56.800 --> 0:15:00.280 You should. It's amazing. Yeah. It's a weird thing, the 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:02.120 way the mind works that way, isn't it. 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:05.600 Yeah? 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:08.400 I suppose is there a reason? Is it just a 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:12.040 Is there a reason for that? Is there an evolutionary 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:15.240 reason for that? Or is just a factor of time 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:15.720 and age. 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:19.400 Well, time flies when you're having fun, time flies when 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:21.280 you're completely engaged. 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:24.760 Yeah, maybe that's it. I think that's it. You think 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:28.560 time goes by faster when you're busy. I suppose that's sure. 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:29.440 Oh yeah. 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:33.080 Anybody who's ever you know, had like a retail job, 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:37.040 it's it's it's a pain in the ass when it's busy, 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:38.560 but it's worse when it's not. 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:42.280 Because the minutes just drag. I think it's got something 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:44.600 to do with how long the days are when you're 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:48.360 raising kids two, because the individual day is so long 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:52.520 and so tiring, and they still kind of are, uh 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:55.400 that the idea of that going by fast just doesn't 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:57.920 quite make sense, but it does anyway. 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:03.000 Well, and I'm spitballing this obviously, but there's also not 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:04.880 a ton of time at the end of the day 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:08.520 to pause and reflect on the realities of parenting and 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:14.400 what it all means in the grand Hey, the kid's 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:16.320 got to be a band practice and at six thirty 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:18.840 tomorrow morning, So can you quit flasfizing and turn. 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:20.200 Out the light? What do you mean you don't know 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:22.920 where your shoes are for your band outfit? You know 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:28.040 that sort of thing. Yeah, exactly endlessly. Oh god, my 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:32.320 oldest has my ability to keep track of things and uh, 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:36.000 you know whatever genetic I mean, that's something I wish 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:38.760 they could have identified in utruo and we could have 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:41.840 used crisper technology to fix. I don't care about eye 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:45.120 color or whatever that the can't keep track of things 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:49.680 gene Oh boy, no boy, where's your ban shirt? I 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:52.000 don't know what do you mean? You don't know? How 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:57.760 do you know? Or wash it? I want to bring 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:00.080 back up again the whole Chinese spy thing from sixty 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.240 minutes at some point. That's such a huge story that 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:04.040 I don't feel well. It didn't get much attention because 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:05.840 of Biden's cancer and a bunch of other things. But 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:08.560 among other things we need to talk about. Hope you 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:13.040 stick around, Armstrong and getty. 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:17.720 Hijin Ping probably remembers that a lot of revolutions start 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:20.520 outside the home country, and he doesn't want that to 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:23.480 happen to China, So there's a huge effort to pay 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:25.960 attention to the expatriot population. 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:28.680 I thought that first story in sixty Minutes Sunday Night 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:30.840 was so good, and I think it would have gotten 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:33.760 quite a bit of attention had it not been for 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:38.160 the Biden cancer thing breaking like late afternoon and then 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:39.960 being the only story the next day. 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:46.359 I wonder, just because the among the media is many sins, 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:52.440 is the sin of being terrified of criticizing anything foreign, 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:57.439 including Chinese espionage espionage agents, which we'll get into in 0:17:57.440 --> 0:17:57.760 a minute. 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:00.399 Yeah, the long and short of the story is China 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:02.800 is spying on us in a way that like practically 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:04.920 no country has ever spied on any other country in 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:07.800 the history of the world. And the stakes are very, 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:13.240 very high and h and we're kind of like not 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:16.439 paying enough attention to the extent to which China is 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:20.520 not one one hundredths of the attention we ought to 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:23.199 be paining being close. But they featured a couple of 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:26.080 different things. They featured. One they talked about that jail 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:32.640 jails that China had in our country in cities around America, 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:38.040 including in New York City. That should have gotten more attention. 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:40.960 We should have whoever was president at the time should 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:44.840 have gone aps over that. That is not something you 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:48.879 put up with a foreign country. Putting a jail in 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:52.400 your country and grabbing people off of your streets and 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:55.800 locking them up should not be something. 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:59.600 That you allow and whisking them off to the old country. 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:04.080 Sometimes are just beating them and terrorizing them into capitulation. 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:06.000 Yeah, and they also had this old guy who was 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:07.920 clearly a spy. She was going to talk more about 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:09.919 spies here in a little bit, But it's a Chinese 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:12.720 spy who was here, and he was doing it for 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:16.959 money mostly, is that what he was getting on? Anyway, 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:18.119 I was going to bring up the point because we 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:20.560 got onto the Joe and I during the commercials talking 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:24.000 about the numb nuts maintenance worker at the jail in 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:28.680 Louisiana who helped those people escape, and we were wondering. 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:30.840 What they wouldn't be able to tie it back to him, 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:32.240 and we were wondering. 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:34.920 What his motivation was, if he got paid or whatever. 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:36.760 And it just reminded me. I thought of that when 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:39.280 I was watching the Chinese spy thing on sixty minutes. 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:44.320 I've read a lot about your old timey spies, in 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:47.719 particular the great Kim Philby, one of the most famous 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:50.800 spies of all time. During World War two and after. 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:54.199 He was a brit and was spying for the Soviet 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:56.600 Union and ended up escaping to the Soviet Union and 0:19:56.640 --> 0:19:58.520 lived out the rest of his life there. But all 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:02.840 of these, there's all kinds of motivations for spies, and 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:05.960 some of them are just dumb, and it's just kind 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:08.800 of a I'm smarter than you, and I'm gonna show 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:11.960 you how much smarter than you I am. Sometimes it's 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:15.800 just flat cash. Sometimes you believe the ideology of the 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:18.920 people you're spying for, but that seems to be rare. 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:22.520 It seems to be more of a you're just like 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:27.919 angry at the power structure you grew up with, like 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:31.360 your parents. Sometimes at your parents, sometimes it's your teachers, 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:33.960 sometimes at your company, and you just want to strike 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:37.600 back at them. Rebel without a com Yeah, yeah, it's 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:40.399 it's a weird psychology of people that are willing to 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:41.360 do this sort of thing. 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:45.160 And when you, you know, hear about a read about 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:49.480 it in retrospect, you think you took that enormous a 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:53.280 risk to scratch that itch doesn't. 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:56.240 Make any sense? No, No, I mean people sell out. 0:20:56.119 --> 0:21:00.000 Their country and earn themselves the rest of their lives 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:03.720 in a cage in Supermax in Colorado for one hundred 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:08.040 thousand dollars, right, Seriously, what are you gonna buy a 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:11.240 nice pickup truck in the insurance for three months for it, 0:21:11.920 --> 0:21:13.800 and that's the You're gonna spend the rest of your 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:15.119 life in a cage like you're a beast. 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:19.800 Good decision. Yeah. And then sometimes, I mean, like with China, 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:22.520 you have the situation where they will try to force 0:21:22.560 --> 0:21:28.919 you to spy. Sixty Minutes pointed this out by the 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:31.720 leverage they have over your family back home or you 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:32.720 being able to come back. 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:37.879 The Free Press has a great long piece I think. 0:21:38.280 --> 0:21:40.840 I mean, we can post the link, you'll probably get paywalled. 0:21:41.160 --> 0:21:43.119 Maybe sign up for their newsletter. You can read it. 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:45.440 I don't, I don't remember how it orks. I subscribe. 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:48.800 We subscribe because it's so great. But the Free Press 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:51.919