WEBVTT - A&G Replay Friday Hour Four 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:13.880 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:17.400 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe. 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:25.560 Getty, Armstrong and Getty and Hee Armstrong and Getty Strong 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:36.040 and Armstrong and Getty. Except we're not actually here, We're home. 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:40.960 Oh, I hope you enjoy this carefully curated Armstrong and 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:42.080 Getty replay. 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:44.240 So I just kind of staying from the Mayor's office 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:47.320 about five minutes ago, saying that this is tragic and unacceptable, 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:50.440 and then they're gonna be out there tomorrow offering resources 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:52.360 and help and trying to clean up this area the 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:52.959 best they can. 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:57.320 What are we talking about? The Mayor of Los Angeles? 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:04.840 What's tragic and unacceptable? Ssj's my friend, ssj's Subterranean Sewer 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:10.520 Junkies the shocking report for Matthew Seedorf of Fox eleven LA. 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:16.679 They do a great job talking about well subterranean stor junkies. 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:19.400 Matthew will start with thirty and work our way, Michael 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:20.160 talk to us. 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:25.280 Matthew an up close, exclusive look underground at living conditions 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:29.520 too extreme for words. It's hard to imagine someone in 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:33.880 the trash, human waste going in an overpowering stench. 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:35.119 I gotta get back. 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:38.600 Just moments earlier, we watched someone climb out of that 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:46.640 storm drain using the sewer as shelter water. Her answer 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:50.840 is hard to understand. But the area eighty eighth and 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:54.000 South Grand overwhelmed with r v's tents and trash. 0:01:55.520 --> 0:02:02.560 Wow, how far down the road of of being a 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:05.600 junkie do you have to be before you make those decisions? 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:08.160 Of course they're gonna they portray this all as homelessness. 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:10.840 And you know, in the lack of affordable housing. 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:16.359 You can't well, I don't think Matthew and Fox eleven 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:18.560 do frequently it is, but. 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:23.480 The world will, the world at large will because you 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:26.079 don't just like you can't afford some place to live 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.120 and decide, I'll go live in the sewer. 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:31.200 I'll go live in wet filth in the sore. Yeah. 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:35.200 Years ago, I read a book I wish it might 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:39.160 have been entitled The Mole People. It was a journalist, 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:44.079 a writer who went down into the legendary much discussed 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:48.560 bowels of the subway system of New York City, including 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:51.920 closed stations that no longer use tubes and the rest 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:56.720 of it, and found like small cities of people living 0:02:56.800 --> 0:03:00.520 down there somewhere down under lock sums were bummed junkies. 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:05.160 Some are mentally ill, but just crazy crazy. If I can, 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:05.560 if I. 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:07.880 Can find that title, I'll tweet it or something or 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:10.880 posted Armstrong and Giddy dot com. Fascinating book out of date, 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:12.959 The fascinating Matthew Seedorf continues. 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:16.520 One Noah with nonprofit Clean La with me was picking 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:19.320 up garbage here Monday. We got a lady living down there. 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:22.079 When you saw not one but two people emerge from 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:25.080 the storm drain, I can't explain that you know a 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:29.560 person living like a rat worse than the rot. Come on, Hello, 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:34.280 And just two weeks ago it happened again another street 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:37.400 in South LA. Another person living underground? 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:40.680 Is a human is a human being? Why are we 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:41.480 accepting this? 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:44.800 Why all the officials they have to do something, They 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:45.920 have to fix this problem. 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:49.840 Ah, there we have it. All the officials, they have 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:54.320 to do something. Why do we accept this? Oh boy, 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:58.640 and that lovely human emotion has led to the waste 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:03.240 of bill tens of billions of dollars in the state 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:06.080 of cal Unicornia alone. 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:11.320 Joe, we're all one medical bill away from living in 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:15.160 the sewer. Incorrect, sir. 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:18.360 The title of the book I refer to, Thank you 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:21.080 very much, Katie the mole people life in the tunnels 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:22.200 beneath New York City. 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.560 So I'm not exactly. I don't know that much about 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:29.880 big city sewers. So where are you exactly in relation 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:33.920 to the cities pooh? 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.960 Do you believe it is part of your world? Are 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:38.160 you like neck deep in it? 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:43.400 Or you live in uh property on the poop river? 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:44.800 So what what is it? 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:46.000 I mean? I don't, I don't. 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:51.200 I've seen a couple of like YouTube documentaries of people 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:54.400 that have gone down there, and it's like ankle up 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:57.400 to your ankles walking around and slud. 0:04:57.640 --> 0:04:58.960 But just ankle deep. 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:02.479 Yeah, it's just your ankles. Is not a big deal, 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:12.560 that's right, doctor Johnny. Ankle deep in the uh human waste? Yes, yes, 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:18.640 holy crap, if you pardon expression, that is a certainly look. 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:22.279 I will join that hispanic fellow and announcing that's that's 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:26.159 a that's a rough way to live like a rat. 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:33.240 Oh wow? And is it pitch dark down there? What 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:34.080 are they using for light? 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:35.440 Light? 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:40.320 Yeah, I mean that they have certain little light fixtures 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:43.800 that they hang. But if they dry places to sleep 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:48.239 or they saw it, so yeah, in the particular video 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:51.320 that I saw, a lot of them had hammocks. 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:53.680 They would up in. 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:55.680 There you go and comfortable. 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:58.720 I'm not an expert in this by any means, but uh, 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:04.000 there is an inner section of storm drains sometimes and 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:06.760 sores that's changed from the olden days when they used 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.200 to be the same thing. Like in London famously, if 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:12.599 it rained, you know, everybody, everybody's poop rolled into the 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:16.440 Thames and it was incredibly polluted. Oh god, oh yeah, 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:18.359 I know it's horrific. But we don't we don't do 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:19.839 that in the civilized world anymore. 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:20.360 But I don't. 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:22.880 I can't speak to LA's sores in particular. 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:26.600 Is there more? 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:33.440 Uh, it's just another person saying people don't deserve to 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:33.960 live like I want. 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:34.760 I want to hear it again. 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:37.000 Well let's hear it. Sure, sure, Hey, it pieces me off. 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:38.279 That's why I I what should I do? 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:41.839 But it's the clean neighbor's angry say they've reported the 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:43.800 problems but feel ignored. 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.039 Like we need John Hell, we need that money. The 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:47.359 public here need. 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:51.400 Then a shocking snapshot of survival at its lowest point. 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:55.240 This person doesn't deserve to live like this, not even 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:55.680 the neighbors. 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.200 Yeah, all right, Hispanic guy, I'd like to argue with you, 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:00.279 it's possible that they do deserve to live like that. 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:02.560 It's possible that if you looked at their life choices 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:06.080 for the past decade or so, that you'd think that's 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:08.120 about where you're gonna end up or dead yep. 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:12.200 Yep, subterranean seword junkie, Yeah exactly. I like the first 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:16.360 neighbor that gal who And this is so familiar, folks. 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:18.280 I'll bet a lot of you are gonna nod your 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:21.480 heads or shout at the radio. You've begged the authorities 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:23.240 to do something about the junkie camps. 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:25.480 You've begged them to clear them out. 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:28.080 You're like, we didn't have junkies in the park ten 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:31.320 years ago, fifteen years ago, the street corners in front 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:35.000 of businesses. We used to have civilization here. What's happened? Yeah, well, 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:37.320 we can't really do anything because the ordnance click and 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:40.400 you get ignored. But then you know, Hispanic guy comes 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:43.480 out and he's a boohooing over the junkies. And I'm 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:46.320 not saying they don't have miserable lives and they don't 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:47.600 deserve some Christian charity. 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:49.800 Crappy, but crappy indeed. 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:55.040 But how about that the law biting. Who's our advocate? 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:58.320 I guess we are our advocate anyway. Oh, that reminds me. 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:03.600 You remember that Prince George's County, Maryland. I'm pretty sure 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:08.200 that's right, that condo complex where the bums and junkie 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:11.920 camp right next to it would break in constantly. 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:13.560 You're in a defecate in the halls. 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:16.560 Then they stole all the wires so the lights went out, 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:21.320 so the deep deep blue I think it's Saint George's County. 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:22.480 I'll verify that. 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:26.240 Where is that? I got too much open? 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:31.280 But they're so liberal they would do nothing about it. 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:35.480 But then they declared the condo uninhabitable and are kicking 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:38.959 all the residents out. So the residents are now suing 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:42.080 the county with the help of some good said Goldwater 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:44.280 Institute ought to get involved in this because they had 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:48.280 a huge win in Phoenix or a very very similar issue. 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:52.360 But those poor sons of guns living in that condo complex, 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:56.920 they're victimized over and over again by the bums and 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.480 junkies and the progressive authorities. It's horrifying. 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:04.280 Yeah, that's Prince George's County Maryland at the Maryland or condos, right. 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:08.040 I mean, look, I'm not happy that poor gal is 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:10.000 climbing out of the sores like a rat according to 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:13.679 the onlooker. But I'm a lot more worried about those 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:15.600 law abiding folks who are getting kicked out of their 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:17.680 homes because these authorities will. 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:20.880 Clear out the junkie camps. Well for all of our 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:24.800 LA listeners. When you flush your toilet today, oh boy, 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:25.920 think about. 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:34.760 Fire hole duck or duck or jump or something I 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:39.120 don't know, Oh, fire in them hole. 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:47.360 Oh boy, we gotta go to break or something that is. 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:50.079 It is gonna take me a minute to recover. 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:55.680 The Armstrong and Getdy show show podcasts and our hot links. 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:02.480 The Armstrong and Getting Shot. 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:06.120 So I was right in a way. 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.520 I looked up the meaning the definition of the word 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:13.880 nostalgia a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:16.600 typically for a period or place with happy personal associations. 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:18.320 Yeah, but you looked it up online, which is not 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:19.800 as good as back when we used to look it 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:21.040 up in the paper dictionary. 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:25.520 Okay, al right, So but I was right in that. 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:30.600 I mean, for instance, because of the changing in media, 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:33.800 the change in media over the last couple of decades. 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:36.840 Radio has been gutted, okay, and there are a lot 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:41.440 of changes to the industry. I'm not nostalgic for when 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:47.040 it worked better. That's not nostalgia. That's things have gotten crappier, 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:51.239 which I don't think you'd probably call nostalgia. 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:54.320 Or so, if I lived in a nicer house ten 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.760 years ago than I do now, that wouldn't be nostalgia. 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:58.160 It was just a nicer house. 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:02.240 Right, I'm not nostalgia about before I had arthritis. 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.760 I mean there's a difference. 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.760 Okay, Well, then then tell me something that is clearly 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:10.160 is clearly nostalgia. 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.400 I think how much fun I used to have playing 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:18.199 pond hockey with my friends all the winter long and 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:23.240 girl friends I fell for. But that was fun riding 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:26.000 my bike to the pool. But it was fun playing 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:28.199 the pond hockey. So why is it nostalgia as opposed 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:30.680 to that actually was fun and I wish I could 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:34.720 do that again. Well, it's a sentimental longing for the 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:37.400 past because it was fun and nice and good. 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:41.280 It's not it's different than those other things. 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:45.040 But I feel like the emotions very the emotions very similar. 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:46.200 I feel like. 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:50.400 Same quadron of your brain. I'll give you that I. 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:52.360 Had a cool sports car once that I can't have 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:53.560 now because I got kids. 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:57.360 I like driving that car. Is that nostalgia? 0:11:57.520 --> 0:11:58.040 I don't know. 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:03.320 No, No, I don't think so, not per se. Anyway, 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:07.360 this is all a long, wishy washy lead into an 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:10.360 absolutely charming story about one of the last vestiges of 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:17.000 local culture in America. I despise the absolutely uniform big 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:19.000 box hell that's spread across the country. 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:21.360 Anyway, got a TJ Max, you got a Best Buy, 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:24.240 you got a Home Depot, you got the same restaurants, 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:26.240 the same store as they all have the same design. 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:27.400 Blah blah blah blah blah. 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:30.640 Everybody's you know, listening to the well actually different music 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:34.080 depending on your neighborhood. But so anyway, this is about Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:40.840 and parking chairs. Not only is it tradition, it's the 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:45.040 law in Pittsburgh snows there a lot. If you dig 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:48.040 out a parking space, like in front of your house 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:52.920 on the street, you put a chair there until you 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:55.720 can get your car or your your wife gets home 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:58.280 or whatever, and she parks her car there. 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.040 Because you cleared it. 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:03.040 It's your space, and it's not again, it's not just 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:07.960 a tradition, it's the law. And if somebody moves your chair, 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:12.960 you're probably gonna get cussed out, get your face punched, 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:16.760 or you can even get a ticket. That's like a 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:21.880 civil ticket violation thing. Frequently, the note on the windshield 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:26.719 will call them a quote jag off, which is a 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:30.920 delightful Midwestern term defined here by the Oxford English Dictionary 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:35.040 as Western Pennsylvania slang for a stupid, irritating, or contemptible 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:38.200 person that's with a G. That's a J as a 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:42.040 matter of fact, jas and Joseph, but then G there, 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:45.680 yes in the middle. Yes, it's not the k sounded 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:47.800 two f's at the end. If you want to get 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:54.600 super thorough on it, yeah, I just Pittsburgh's Mayor Corey 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:58.600 O'Connor Biga said, there's a lot of chairs popping up 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:01.160 on your street, so please back to chair law or 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:03.280 whatever you want to call it in the neighborhoods, he 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:04.720 told reporters last week. 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:09.360 In other words, don't be a jag off. Don't be 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:16.720 one of them. Right, let's see, Yeah, there are all 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:20.400 sorts of charming stories. Oh it went viral. Uh. 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:22.160 This gal. 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:27.800 Chopped ice for nearly two hours for the family Dodge caravan. 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:30.480 And then she sat down on her chair and had 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:33.960 a glass of Pinot noir, and her daughter took a 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:37.040 picture of it and put it up online and she 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:42.800 became Yinser famous, which is a reference to a Pennsylvania culture. 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:44.840 I think it's like a different world there. I don't 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:46.200 understand any of these terms. 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:49.440 Ah yeah, yeah, but how charming. 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:51.360 And then you tried that. 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:53.480 In a lot of parts of America you get shot 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:56.800 either if you're one side of that the bargain or another. 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:59.480 You want to talk jag offs, I mean, come on. 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:03.920 Let's see. Uh blah blah blah. 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:04.960 Uh. 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:07.920 Cities accustomed to blizzards have customs for saving a spot. 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:11.280 In Chicago, it's called dibbs. Boston sanctions the use of 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:14.760 space savers after a declared snow emergency. Still not everyone 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.880 as a fan, don't do it, said Baltimore Mayor Brandon 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:19.640 Scott Icily last week. 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:20.440 That's some good writing. 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:23.040 If I see your chair, it's coming with me and 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:24.359 going into the trash. 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:24.920 So wow. 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:29.480 In violent, lawless Baltimore, there is no shared culture. 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:34.800 There's no common agreement on More's and custom. 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:38.960 Why would you be anti to putting the chair thing there? Well, 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:40.800 how long do you get to save a spot? I 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:42.640 guess it would be one of the things, because. 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:47.760 Pretty soon all the spots as long as it takes. Yeah, 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:51.240 I think that's an interesting contrast though. In Yeah, in 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:55.800 Pittsburgh they're saying, hey, this is our customer tradition and 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:58.240 you need to respect it. In Baltimore there's saying, fu, 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:01.560 I'm taking your spot in your chair. You want to 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.880 come at me, Come at me, bees blue, Blue Blue, 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:05.640 I got my gag. 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:12.800 Yeah right, we'll even Baltimore. You got a jag off 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:14.560 in your site and you ain't gonna let them get away. 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:17.000 Oh boy, you don't want that. 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:20.720 The parking chair, like the perogi, has become a kitchy 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:26.800 emblem of Pittsburgh, as comforting as strawberry jello, pretzel salad. Boy, 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:31.760 that's a Midwestern throwback right there. T shirts proclaim respect 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:36.200 the parking chair. Tiny chairs dangle on Christmas trees. Besides 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:42.040 fake Heinz pickles, heines like it's a. 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:45.080 Native to Pittsburgh. Well, Steelers logos, et cetera. 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.920 That's the culture of Pittsburgh. We'll do another town next 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:51.440 Wednesday when we do Omaha, Nebraska. And there are no 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:54.840 other cities that have a culture anymore. Their culture is 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:57.520 the big box. It is going away a lot. One 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.880 thing I liked when I was in Louisiana, New Orleans. 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:02.080 There's quite a bit of culture there. I was. I 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:04.439 was amazed that they've been able to hold on to 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:07.399 as much culture as they have there because everything is 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:10.800 becoming so homogenized and it sucks. 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:15.200 The Armstrong and Getty Show, Armstrong, Jack. 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:18.080 And Jar here to tell you your day will be 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:25.080 just fine. Just download the cost you Armstrong and Getty 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:26.960 on the Man. 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:29.040 That's the podcast. 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:32.919 Subscribe right now arm Strong and. 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:42.120 The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:47.439 The attack was on a fleet of ambulances. They belonged 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:50.000 to hut Soolo, which is a volunteer led ambulance service. 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:53.800 It's actually run by this Jewish community. Now. Security footage 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:57.120 caught three people in hoods pouring accelerants on the vehicles 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:01.959 before igniting them and flee it. Oxygen cylinders inside exploded. 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:05.800 No one was hurt. A largely unknown is Limis group 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:09.919 Harracotta Saabell you mean, claimed the responsibility on social media, 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:13.119 but police have not yet confirmed the authenticity of their claim. 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:14.679 That same group. 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:17.880 Claimed responsibility for three other attacks in Europe in March alone. 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:20.720 The Jewish community in London is relatively small, about one 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:23.560 hundred and fifty thousand people. In the last year, there 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:26.840 have been over a thousand anti Semitic hate crimes reported 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:27.360 to police. 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:32.840 Wow, islamis blew up a bunch of ambulances in London. 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:38.040 That is what globalizing the Intafada means. Mayor Mum Dannie. 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:41.560 Yeah, no kidding, he knows that free press with a 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:44.880 great piece the terrorizing of British Jews. Britain keeps saying 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:48.040 anti Semitism has no place here. Britain keeps being wrong. 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:51.040 Did you see that video? I think I posted it 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:53.159 through the group. It's got too much nasty language in it. 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:56.520 I think for us to run on the radio anyway, 0:18:56.680 --> 0:19:00.360 it's this woman says, says, let's play a game. I'm 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:02.560 going to read a quote or show you a tweet 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:06.320 and you tell me whether it's Nick Fuentes or Mayor 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:11.359 Mum Donni's wife. Wow, And they're all missus Mumdanni. But 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:13.520 they sound like the sort of thing that you'd expect 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:18.520 out of you know, Hitler want to be Nick Fuentes, 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:20.760 who gets you know, beating up in the media all 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:23.000 the time because he's had dinner with Trump or whatever. 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:27.000 But Mamdanni's wife said all these horrifying quotes about Jews 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:28.040 and all that's right. 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:31.000 Yeah, yeah, you know this, This will just take a minute. 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:33.080 I got this ready to talk about something slightly. 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:37.600 Well, it's on the same topic, more or less agree 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:41.840 or disagree. This is the late Christopher Hitchens, who did 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:45.919 a worldwide tour where he would who is the scholar 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:48.600 who he often debated about the existence of God or religion? 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:48.800 Oh? 0:19:48.840 --> 0:19:51.359 Boy, there was quite a few of them. Yeah, yeah, 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:54.000 there are a couple of heavyweights. You're more acquainted with 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:57.760 this than I am. But anyway, and the more I 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:00.400 think about it, it was incredibly brave what he did. 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:04.000 Whether you agree with him or disagree with him, I think, ironically, 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:08.800 this is Hitchins in London at one of those debates. 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:12.200 Thirteen Michael as a Silphie Muslim. 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:14.440 I'm very ruffled by the title of your book. 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:17.520 Did you have to settle it for the literal negation 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:18.480 of allah work? There? 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:22.200 Yes? I thought, I thank it. At the moment, it's 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:23.200 very clear to me the. 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:25.720 Most toxic form that religion takes is the Islamic form, 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:28.320 the horrible idea of wanting to end up with Sharryan 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:30.320 the state of religious law and the best needs of 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:32.760 getting there is jihad, holy war. That Muslims have a 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:35.800 special right to feel aggrieved enough to demand this, I 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:39.280 think it's an absolute obscene wickedness, and I think their 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:42.440 religion is nonsense. God speaks to some illiterate merchant warlord 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:44.439 in Arabia, and it contains the answers to au him, 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:48.119 don't don't waste my time. But the same about it 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:51.960 also that that God speaks the changel Gabriel speaks on 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:54.480 the Arabic All religions claim to be revealed truth and Islam, 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:57.560 but dangerously says ours is the last and final one. 0:20:57.600 --> 0:20:59.560 There can't be any more after this. This is God's 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:02.040 last word. Now, that's straight away temptation to violence and 0:21:02.119 --> 0:21:02.560 in tolerance. 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:03.000 And if you. 0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:05.240 Note it's a temptation, they seem quite running to full 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:07.879 force every a lot. That reminds people they were a 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:10.240 very serious struggle with very to pray religion. 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:13.840 I wish he didn't smoke. Chris Ritchens could have used 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:23.680 his voice now, Yeah, yep. So the Iranians are his lobists, 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:29.280 you see, part of the deal. And we're dealing with 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:30.920 that right now, or Trump's time to deal with that. 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:36.919 Bachraine just put out a UN backed anction for getting 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:41.280 the straight of Horn Moves open. Bach Rain came up 0:21:41.280 --> 0:21:44.199 with a draft for the UN Security Council resolution that 0:21:44.240 --> 0:21:50.440 would authorize countries to use all necessary means, which means 0:21:50.440 --> 0:21:54.400 of course, force to protect commercial shipping in and around 0:21:54.440 --> 0:21:56.560 the straight of Horn Moves. That's according to a text 0:21:56.600 --> 0:22:00.359 seen by Reuters Today. Diplomat said the draft text was 0:22:00.400 --> 0:22:04.120 backed by other Gulf Arab states and the United States, 0:22:05.240 --> 0:22:07.199 although they said it was unlikely to get through the 0:22:07.280 --> 0:22:11.879 Security Council. Why because permanent members of the Security Council 0:22:11.960 --> 0:22:14.879 include Russia and China who have veto power. 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:18.359 You mean, they don't just do the right thing in 0:22:18.400 --> 0:22:19.439 the Security Council. 0:22:19.840 --> 0:22:22.680 But at least, but at least it will force Rush 0:22:22.720 --> 0:22:24.760 in China to vote against it, and I don't know, 0:22:24.920 --> 0:22:27.119 to my mind, at least point out to more people 0:22:27.119 --> 0:22:31.000 how stupid the UNN UN Well, yeah, exactly, it's I mean, 0:22:31.119 --> 0:22:33.159 I guess I sort of kind of get how that 0:22:33.280 --> 0:22:36.080 might be useful in diplomatic circles, but it reminds me 0:22:36.119 --> 0:22:38.600