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Speaker 4: So I just kind of staying from the Mayor's office
Speaker 4: about five minutes ago, saying that this is tragic and unacceptable,
Speaker 4: and then they're gonna be out there tomorrow offering resources
Speaker 4: and help and trying to clean up this area the
Speaker 4: best they can.
Speaker 3: What are we talking about? The Mayor of Los Angeles?
Speaker 3: What's tragic and unacceptable? Ssj's my friend, ssj's Subterranean Sewer
Speaker 3: Junkies the shocking report for Matthew Seedorf of Fox eleven LA.
Speaker 3: They do a great job talking about well subterranean stor junkies.
Speaker 3: Matthew will start with thirty and work our way, Michael
Speaker 3: talk to us.
Speaker 5: Matthew an up close, exclusive look underground at living conditions
Speaker 5: too extreme for words. It's hard to imagine someone in
Speaker 5: the trash, human waste going in an overpowering stench.
Speaker 6: I gotta get back.
Speaker 5: Just moments earlier, we watched someone climb out of that
Speaker 5: storm drain using the sewer as shelter water. Her answer
Speaker 5: is hard to understand. But the area eighty eighth and
Speaker 5: South Grand overwhelmed with r v's tents and trash.
Speaker 6: Wow, how far down the road of of being a
Speaker 6: junkie do you have to be before you make those decisions?
Speaker 6: Of course they're gonna they portray this all as homelessness.
Speaker 6: And you know, in the lack of affordable housing.
Speaker 3: You can't well, I don't think Matthew and Fox eleven
Speaker 3: do frequently it is, but.
Speaker 6: The world will, the world at large will because you
Speaker 6: don't just like you can't afford some place to live
Speaker 6: and decide, I'll go live in the sewer.
Speaker 7: I'll go live in wet filth in the sore. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Years ago, I read a book I wish it might
Speaker 3: have been entitled The Mole People. It was a journalist,
Speaker 3: a writer who went down into the legendary much discussed
Speaker 3: bowels of the subway system of New York City, including
Speaker 3: closed stations that no longer use tubes and the rest
Speaker 3: of it, and found like small cities of people living
Speaker 3: down there somewhere down under lock sums were bummed junkies.
Speaker 7: Some are mentally ill, but just crazy crazy. If I can,
Speaker 7: if I.
Speaker 3: Can find that title, I'll tweet it or something or
Speaker 3: posted Armstrong and Giddy dot com. Fascinating book out of date,
Speaker 3: The fascinating Matthew Seedorf continues.
Speaker 5: One Noah with nonprofit Clean La with me was picking
Speaker 5: up garbage here Monday. We got a lady living down there.
Speaker 5: When you saw not one but two people emerge from
Speaker 5: the storm drain, I can't explain that you know a
Speaker 5: person living like a rat worse than the rot. Come on, Hello,
Speaker 5: And just two weeks ago it happened again another street
Speaker 5: in South LA. Another person living underground?
Speaker 7: Is a human is a human being? Why are we
Speaker 7: accepting this?
Speaker 8: Why all the officials they have to do something, They
Speaker 8: have to fix this problem.
Speaker 3: Ah, there we have it. All the officials, they have
Speaker 3: to do something. Why do we accept this? Oh boy,
Speaker 3: and that lovely human emotion has led to the waste
Speaker 3: of bill tens of billions of dollars in the state
Speaker 3: of cal Unicornia alone.
Speaker 6: Joe, we're all one medical bill away from living in
Speaker 6: the sewer. Incorrect, sir.
Speaker 3: The title of the book I refer to, Thank you
Speaker 3: very much, Katie the mole people life in the tunnels
Speaker 3: beneath New York City.
Speaker 6: So I'm not exactly. I don't know that much about
Speaker 6: big city sewers. So where are you exactly in relation
Speaker 6: to the cities pooh?
Speaker 3: Do you believe it is part of your world? Are
Speaker 3: you like neck deep in it?
Speaker 7: Or you live in uh property on the poop river?
Speaker 7: So what what is it?
Speaker 6: I mean? I don't, I don't.
Speaker 9: I've seen a couple of like YouTube documentaries of people
Speaker 9: that have gone down there, and it's like ankle up
Speaker 9: to your ankles walking around and slud.
Speaker 7: But just ankle deep.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's just your ankles. Is not a big deal,
Speaker 6: that's right, doctor Johnny. Ankle deep in the uh human waste? Yes, yes,
Speaker 6: holy crap, if you pardon expression, that is a certainly look.
Speaker 3: I will join that hispanic fellow and announcing that's that's
Speaker 3: a that's a rough way to live like a rat.
Speaker 7: Oh wow? And is it pitch dark down there? What
Speaker 7: are they using for light?
Speaker 2: Light?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean that they have certain little light fixtures
Speaker 9: that they hang. But if they dry places to sleep
Speaker 9: or they saw it, so yeah, in the particular video
Speaker 9: that I saw, a lot of them had hammocks.
Speaker 6: They would up in.
Speaker 7: There you go and comfortable.
Speaker 3: I'm not an expert in this by any means, but uh,
Speaker 3: there is an inner section of storm drains sometimes and
Speaker 3: sores that's changed from the olden days when they used
Speaker 3: to be the same thing. Like in London famously, if
Speaker 3: it rained, you know, everybody, everybody's poop rolled into the
Speaker 3: Thames and it was incredibly polluted. Oh god, oh yeah,
Speaker 3: I know it's horrific. But we don't we don't do
Speaker 3: that in the civilized world anymore.
Speaker 6: But I don't.
Speaker 7: I can't speak to LA's sores in particular.
Speaker 6: Is there more?
Speaker 3: Uh, it's just another person saying people don't deserve to
Speaker 3: live like I want.
Speaker 6: I want to hear it again.
Speaker 7: Well let's hear it. Sure, sure, Hey, it pieces me off.
Speaker 7: That's why I I what should I do?
Speaker 5: But it's the clean neighbor's angry say they've reported the
Speaker 5: problems but feel ignored.
Speaker 7: Like we need John Hell, we need that money. The
Speaker 7: public here need.
Speaker 5: Then a shocking snapshot of survival at its lowest point.
Speaker 5: This person doesn't deserve to live like this, not even
Speaker 5: the neighbors.
Speaker 6: Yeah, all right, Hispanic guy, I'd like to argue with you,
Speaker 6: it's possible that they do deserve to live like that.
Speaker 6: It's possible that if you looked at their life choices
Speaker 6: for the past decade or so, that you'd think that's
Speaker 6: about where you're gonna end up or dead yep.
Speaker 3: Yep, subterranean seword junkie, Yeah exactly. I like the first
Speaker 3: neighbor that gal who And this is so familiar, folks.
Speaker 3: I'll bet a lot of you are gonna nod your
Speaker 3: heads or shout at the radio. You've begged the authorities
Speaker 3: to do something about the junkie camps.
Speaker 7: You've begged them to clear them out.
Speaker 3: You're like, we didn't have junkies in the park ten
Speaker 3: years ago, fifteen years ago, the street corners in front
Speaker 3: of businesses. We used to have civilization here. What's happened? Yeah, well,
Speaker 3: we can't really do anything because the ordnance click and
Speaker 3: you get ignored. But then you know, Hispanic guy comes
Speaker 3: out and he's a boohooing over the junkies. And I'm
Speaker 3: not saying they don't have miserable lives and they don't
Speaker 3: deserve some Christian charity.
Speaker 7: Crappy, but crappy indeed.
Speaker 3: But how about that the law biting. Who's our advocate?
Speaker 3: I guess we are our advocate anyway. Oh, that reminds me.
Speaker 3: You remember that Prince George's County, Maryland. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 3: that's right, that condo complex where the bums and junkie
Speaker 3: camp right next to it would break in constantly.
Speaker 7: You're in a defecate in the halls.
Speaker 3: Then they stole all the wires so the lights went out,
Speaker 3: so the deep deep blue I think it's Saint George's County.
Speaker 3: I'll verify that.
Speaker 7: Where is that? I got too much open?
Speaker 3: But they're so liberal they would do nothing about it.
Speaker 3: But then they declared the condo uninhabitable and are kicking
Speaker 3: all the residents out. So the residents are now suing
Speaker 3: the county with the help of some good said Goldwater
Speaker 3: Institute ought to get involved in this because they had
Speaker 3: a huge win in Phoenix or a very very similar issue.
Speaker 3: But those poor sons of guns living in that condo complex,
Speaker 3: they're victimized over and over again by the bums and
Speaker 3: junkies and the progressive authorities. It's horrifying.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's Prince George's County Maryland at the Maryland or condos, right.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, I'm not happy that poor gal is
Speaker 3: climbing out of the sores like a rat according to
Speaker 3: the onlooker. But I'm a lot more worried about those
Speaker 3: law abiding folks who are getting kicked out of their
Speaker 3: homes because these authorities will.
Speaker 6: Clear out the junkie camps. Well for all of our
Speaker 6: LA listeners. When you flush your toilet today, oh boy,
Speaker 6: think about.
Speaker 7: Fire hole duck or duck or jump or something I
Speaker 7: don't know, Oh, fire in them hole.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, we gotta go to break or something that is.
Speaker 3: It is gonna take me a minute to recover.
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Speaker 7: So I was right in a way.
Speaker 3: I looked up the meaning the definition of the word
Speaker 3: nostalgia a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past,
Speaker 3: typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but you looked it up online, which is not
Speaker 6: as good as back when we used to look it
Speaker 6: up in the paper dictionary.
Speaker 7: Okay, al right, So but I was right in that.
Speaker 3: I mean, for instance, because of the changing in media,
Speaker 3: the change in media over the last couple of decades.
Speaker 3: Radio has been gutted, okay, and there are a lot
Speaker 3: of changes to the industry. I'm not nostalgic for when
Speaker 3: it worked better. That's not nostalgia. That's things have gotten crappier,
Speaker 3: which I don't think you'd probably call nostalgia.
Speaker 6: Or so, if I lived in a nicer house ten
Speaker 6: years ago than I do now, that wouldn't be nostalgia.
Speaker 6: It was just a nicer house.
Speaker 3: Right, I'm not nostalgia about before I had arthritis.
Speaker 7: I mean there's a difference.
Speaker 6: Okay, Well, then then tell me something that is clearly
Speaker 6: is clearly nostalgia.
Speaker 3: I think how much fun I used to have playing
Speaker 3: pond hockey with my friends all the winter long and
Speaker 3: girl friends I fell for. But that was fun riding
Speaker 3: my bike to the pool. But it was fun playing
Speaker 3: the pond hockey. So why is it nostalgia as opposed
Speaker 3: to that actually was fun and I wish I could
Speaker 3: do that again. Well, it's a sentimental longing for the
Speaker 3: past because it was fun and nice and good.
Speaker 7: It's not it's different than those other things.
Speaker 6: But I feel like the emotions very the emotions very similar.
Speaker 6: I feel like.
Speaker 7: Same quadron of your brain. I'll give you that I.
Speaker 6: Had a cool sports car once that I can't have
Speaker 6: now because I got kids.
Speaker 7: I like driving that car. Is that nostalgia?
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 3: No, No, I don't think so, not per se. Anyway,
Speaker 3: this is all a long, wishy washy lead into an
Speaker 3: absolutely charming story about one of the last vestiges of
Speaker 3: local culture in America. I despise the absolutely uniform big
Speaker 3: box hell that's spread across the country.
Speaker 6: Anyway, got a TJ Max, you got a Best Buy,
Speaker 6: you got a Home Depot, you got the same restaurants,
Speaker 6: the same store as they all have the same design.
Speaker 7: Blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: Everybody's you know, listening to the well actually different music
Speaker 3: depending on your neighborhood. But so anyway, this is about Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
Speaker 3: and parking chairs. Not only is it tradition, it's the
Speaker 3: law in Pittsburgh snows there a lot. If you dig
Speaker 3: out a parking space, like in front of your house
Speaker 3: on the street, you put a chair there until you
Speaker 3: can get your car or your your wife gets home
Speaker 3: or whatever, and she parks her car there.
Speaker 7: Because you cleared it.
Speaker 3: It's your space, and it's not again, it's not just
Speaker 3: a tradition, it's the law. And if somebody moves your chair,
Speaker 3: you're probably gonna get cussed out, get your face punched,
Speaker 3: or you can even get a ticket. That's like a
Speaker 3: civil ticket violation thing. Frequently, the note on the windshield
Speaker 3: will call them a quote jag off, which is a
Speaker 3: delightful Midwestern term defined here by the Oxford English Dictionary
Speaker 3: as Western Pennsylvania slang for a stupid, irritating, or contemptible
Speaker 3: person that's with a G. That's a J as a
Speaker 3: matter of fact, jas and Joseph, but then G there,
Speaker 3: yes in the middle. Yes, it's not the k sounded
Speaker 3: two f's at the end. If you want to get
Speaker 3: super thorough on it, yeah, I just Pittsburgh's Mayor Corey
Speaker 3: O'Connor Biga said, there's a lot of chairs popping up
Speaker 3: on your street, so please back to chair law or
Speaker 3: whatever you want to call it in the neighborhoods, he
Speaker 3: told reporters last week.
Speaker 6: In other words, don't be a jag off. Don't be
Speaker 6: one of them. Right, let's see, Yeah, there are all
Speaker 6: sorts of charming stories. Oh it went viral. Uh.
Speaker 2: This gal.
Speaker 3: Chopped ice for nearly two hours for the family Dodge caravan.
Speaker 3: And then she sat down on her chair and had
Speaker 3: a glass of Pinot noir, and her daughter took a
Speaker 3: picture of it and put it up online and she
Speaker 3: became Yinser famous, which is a reference to a Pennsylvania culture.
Speaker 6: I think it's like a different world there. I don't
Speaker 6: understand any of these terms.
Speaker 7: Ah yeah, yeah, but how charming.
Speaker 6: And then you tried that.
Speaker 3: In a lot of parts of America you get shot
Speaker 3: either if you're one side of that the bargain or another.
Speaker 6: You want to talk jag offs, I mean, come on.
Speaker 7: Let's see. Uh blah blah blah.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: Cities accustomed to blizzards have customs for saving a spot.
Speaker 3: In Chicago, it's called dibbs. Boston sanctions the use of
Speaker 3: space savers after a declared snow emergency. Still not everyone
Speaker 3: as a fan, don't do it, said Baltimore Mayor Brandon
Speaker 3: Scott Icily last week.
Speaker 6: That's some good writing.
Speaker 3: If I see your chair, it's coming with me and
Speaker 3: going into the trash.
Speaker 7: So wow.
Speaker 3: In violent, lawless Baltimore, there is no shared culture.
Speaker 7: There's no common agreement on More's and custom.
Speaker 6: Why would you be anti to putting the chair thing there? Well,
Speaker 6: how long do you get to save a spot? I
Speaker 6: guess it would be one of the things, because.
Speaker 3: Pretty soon all the spots as long as it takes. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think that's an interesting contrast though. In Yeah, in
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh they're saying, hey, this is our customer tradition and
Speaker 3: you need to respect it. In Baltimore there's saying, fu,
Speaker 3: I'm taking your spot in your chair. You want to
Speaker 3: come at me, Come at me, bees blue, Blue Blue,
Speaker 3: I got my gag.
Speaker 6: Yeah right, we'll even Baltimore. You got a jag off
Speaker 6: in your site and you ain't gonna let them get away.
Speaker 6: Oh boy, you don't want that.
Speaker 3: The parking chair, like the perogi, has become a kitchy
Speaker 3: emblem of Pittsburgh, as comforting as strawberry jello, pretzel salad. Boy,
Speaker 3: that's a Midwestern throwback right there. T shirts proclaim respect
Speaker 3: the parking chair. Tiny chairs dangle on Christmas trees. Besides
Speaker 3: fake Heinz pickles, heines like it's a.
Speaker 7: Native to Pittsburgh. Well, Steelers logos, et cetera.
Speaker 6: That's the culture of Pittsburgh. We'll do another town next
Speaker 6: Wednesday when we do Omaha, Nebraska. And there are no
Speaker 6: other cities that have a culture anymore. Their culture is
Speaker 6: the big box. It is going away a lot. One
Speaker 6: thing I liked when I was in Louisiana, New Orleans.
Speaker 6: There's quite a bit of culture there. I was. I
Speaker 6: was amazed that they've been able to hold on to
Speaker 6: as much culture as they have there because everything is
Speaker 6: becoming so homogenized and it sucks.
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Speaker 12: The attack was on a fleet of ambulances. They belonged
Speaker 12: to hut Soolo, which is a volunteer led ambulance service.
Speaker 12: It's actually run by this Jewish community. Now. Security footage
Speaker 12: caught three people in hoods pouring accelerants on the vehicles
Speaker 12: before igniting them and flee it. Oxygen cylinders inside exploded.
Speaker 12: No one was hurt. A largely unknown is Limis group
Speaker 12: Harracotta Saabell you mean, claimed the responsibility on social media,
Speaker 12: but police have not yet confirmed the authenticity of their claim.
Speaker 6: That same group.
Speaker 12: Claimed responsibility for three other attacks in Europe in March alone.
Speaker 12: The Jewish community in London is relatively small, about one
Speaker 12: hundred and fifty thousand people. In the last year, there
Speaker 12: have been over a thousand anti Semitic hate crimes reported
Speaker 12: to police.
Speaker 6: Wow, islamis blew up a bunch of ambulances in London.
Speaker 6: That is what globalizing the Intafada means. Mayor Mum Dannie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no kidding, he knows that free press with a
Speaker 3: great piece the terrorizing of British Jews. Britain keeps saying
Speaker 3: anti Semitism has no place here. Britain keeps being wrong.
Speaker 6: Did you see that video? I think I posted it
Speaker 6: through the group. It's got too much nasty language in it.
Speaker 6: I think for us to run on the radio anyway,
Speaker 6: it's this woman says, says, let's play a game. I'm
Speaker 6: going to read a quote or show you a tweet
Speaker 6: and you tell me whether it's Nick Fuentes or Mayor
Speaker 6: Mum Donni's wife. Wow, And they're all missus Mumdanni. But
Speaker 6: they sound like the sort of thing that you'd expect
Speaker 6: out of you know, Hitler want to be Nick Fuentes,
Speaker 6: who gets you know, beating up in the media all
Speaker 6: the time because he's had dinner with Trump or whatever.
Speaker 6: But Mamdanni's wife said all these horrifying quotes about Jews
Speaker 6: and all that's right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know this, This will just take a minute.
Speaker 7: I got this ready to talk about something slightly.
Speaker 3: Well, it's on the same topic, more or less agree
Speaker 3: or disagree. This is the late Christopher Hitchens, who did
Speaker 3: a worldwide tour where he would who is the scholar
Speaker 3: who he often debated about the existence of God or religion?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: Boy, there was quite a few of them. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: there are a couple of heavyweights. You're more acquainted with
Speaker 3: this than I am. But anyway, and the more I
Speaker 3: think about it, it was incredibly brave what he did.
Speaker 3: Whether you agree with him or disagree with him, I think, ironically,
Speaker 3: this is Hitchins in London at one of those debates.
Speaker 7: Thirteen Michael as a Silphie Muslim.
Speaker 6: I'm very ruffled by the title of your book.
Speaker 9: Did you have to settle it for the literal negation
Speaker 9: of allah work? There?
Speaker 6: Yes? I thought, I thank it. At the moment, it's
Speaker 6: very clear to me the.
Speaker 11: Most toxic form that religion takes is the Islamic form,
Speaker 11: the horrible idea of wanting to end up with Sharryan
Speaker 11: the state of religious law and the best needs of
Speaker 11: getting there is jihad, holy war. That Muslims have a
Speaker 11: special right to feel aggrieved enough to demand this, I
Speaker 11: think it's an absolute obscene wickedness, and I think their
Speaker 11: religion is nonsense. God speaks to some illiterate merchant warlord
Speaker 11: in Arabia, and it contains the answers to au him,
Speaker 11: don't don't waste my time. But the same about it
Speaker 11: also that that God speaks the changel Gabriel speaks on
Speaker 11: the Arabic All religions claim to be revealed truth and Islam,
Speaker 11: but dangerously says ours is the last and final one.
Speaker 11: There can't be any more after this. This is God's
Speaker 11: last word. Now, that's straight away temptation to violence and
Speaker 11: in tolerance.
Speaker 6: And if you.
Speaker 11: Note it's a temptation, they seem quite running to full
Speaker 11: force every a lot. That reminds people they were a
Speaker 11: very serious struggle with very to pray religion.
Speaker 6: I wish he didn't smoke. Chris Ritchens could have used
Speaker 6: his voice now, Yeah, yep. So the Iranians are his lobists,
Speaker 6: you see, part of the deal. And we're dealing with
Speaker 6: that right now, or Trump's time to deal with that.
Speaker 6: Bachraine just put out a UN backed anction for getting
Speaker 6: the straight of Horn Moves open. Bach Rain came up
Speaker 6: with a draft for the UN Security Council resolution that
Speaker 6: would authorize countries to use all necessary means, which means
Speaker 6: of course, force to protect commercial shipping in and around
Speaker 6: the straight of Horn Moves. That's according to a text
Speaker 6: seen by Reuters Today. Diplomat said the draft text was
Speaker 6: backed by other Gulf Arab states and the United States,
Speaker 6: although they said it was unlikely to get through the
Speaker 6: Security Council. Why because permanent members of the Security Council
Speaker 6: include Russia and China who have veto power.
Speaker 7: You mean, they don't just do the right thing in
Speaker 7: the Security Council.
Speaker 6: But at least, but at least it will force Rush
Speaker 6: in China to vote against it, and I don't know,
Speaker 6: to my mind, at least point out to more people
Speaker 6: how stupid the UNN UN Well, yeah, exactly, it's I mean,
Speaker 6: I guess I sort of kind of get how that
Speaker 6: might be useful in diplomatic circles, but it reminds me
Speaker 6: of the time for your birthday, years and years and
Speaker 6: years ago. I got the American Pork Council to name
Speaker 6: their Men of the Year or something like that.
Speaker 7: There's a sign, there's a certificate, and it really was
Speaker 7: years ago.
Speaker 3: I think that had about as much weight as that
Speaker 3: the UN declaration would have, which they're not even going
Speaker 3: to get.
Speaker 6: I don't know. I think it's a pretty big deal
Speaker 6: that all the Gulf Arab states joining with the United States, Yes,
Speaker 6: against Iran. That is that has never happened before. Yeah,
Speaker 6: standing up and raising their hands. You're absolutely right. So
Speaker 6: we'll see how that turns out. I was just looking
Speaker 6: at the political reporting on the you know, who's the
Speaker 6: administration negotiating negotiating with that whole question, and they're talking
Speaker 6: about one particular person. I don't remember what the name was.
Speaker 6: It doesn't really make any difference. He's a hot option,
Speaker 6: one administration officials said, cautioning that no decisions have been made.
Speaker 6: He's one of the highest but we've got to test
Speaker 6: him because we can't rush into it to see if
Speaker 6: he actually speaks for the regime, which I think is interesting.
Speaker 6: So you negotiate with somebody and then kind of wait
Speaker 6: and see does he actually have any oof behind him?
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, any any skilled negotiator knows you've got to
Speaker 3: make sure you're talking to the decision maker or somebody
Speaker 3: who at least has tied the decision maker. Otherwise you're
Speaker 3: wasting your time. And man, that's a real conundrum, right.
Speaker 6: And another quote from an administration official that Politico had,
Speaker 6: it's all about installing someone like Rodriguez Rodriguez down in Venezuela,
Speaker 6: that we can say, Okay, we're gonna keep you here,
Speaker 6: We're gonna not take you out. You're gonna work with this,
Speaker 6: You're gonna give us a good deal, and we'll go
Speaker 6: forward from there. So putting somebody you know in charge
Speaker 6: that says, yeah, not gonna get a new clear up
Speaker 6: and I'm gonna attack your basis, not gonna attack Israel.
Speaker 6: I don't know if that'll work, though. What's her name?
Speaker 6: Downe in Venezuela isn't surrounded by people that you know
Speaker 6: for religious regions reasons, Like Christopher Hitchins was just explaining,
Speaker 6: feel like she needs to die, right, Yeah, And There
Speaker 6: are some pretty dangerous armed militias and drug cartel type
Speaker 6: organizations in Venezuela, but it's nothing like Iran that has
Speaker 6: this multi polar power structure, and it's very mysterious and
Speaker 6: knowing he knows quite who's in charge, because you know,
Speaker 6: you you might negotiate with.
Speaker 3: Some like the top civilian guy who's alive right now
Speaker 3: and he's got the army with him, but he doesn't
Speaker 3: have the IRGC and they're like, no, we're not going
Speaker 3: along with that. So what's the US to do? What
Speaker 3: are the Gulf States to do in that situation? Keep
Speaker 3: bombing our little hearts out? Is that what the President said?
Speaker 6: Right? And then meanwhile we've got all of those marines
Speaker 6: and airborne rangers and everybody either in the area of
Speaker 6: the Middle East or headed there, and Trump very likely
Speaker 6: to pull the trigger on some sort of ground invasion
Speaker 6: of the straight of horror moves the tack.
Speaker 3: Of a thing, man, when that goes down. Came across
Speaker 3: this on the Twitter machine. Why on all my tabs
Speaker 3: do some of them have the little bluebird and some
Speaker 3: of them have the X.
Speaker 6: I have no idea.
Speaker 3: Yeah, anyway, let's see the deadline for that Trump set
Speaker 3: for a random open the Straight of Horn moves.
Speaker 7: The five days is Friday.
Speaker 3: The twenty two hundred marines plus all of their heavyweight
Speaker 3: gear of the thirty first Marine Expeditionary Unit arrive in
Speaker 3: Sentcom on Friday. The USS Tripoli and the USS New
Speaker 3: Orleans also dock the same day. None of this is subtle.
Speaker 3: A deadline without consequence is just a request. A deadline
Speaker 3: with twenty two hundred marines on amphibious assault ships arriving
Speaker 3: the same morning is a different kind of communication entirely,
Speaker 3: And from.
Speaker 6: What I understand, listen to one military expert, they are
Speaker 6: they are ready to go at a moment's notice. I
Speaker 6: mean that's what they are, so they will be there
Speaker 6: and Trump could say okay now and it is literally now.
Speaker 6: They can do it now. That's what they train for.
Speaker 6: Give us an hour, yeah if that.
Speaker 3: But back to this, and y'all always have to come
Speaker 3: back to this standard. Negotiating. Even threats land differently when
Speaker 3: you're dealing with religious fanatics, particularly of a certain bent
Speaker 3: of Shia Islam, that are are something like death cultists.
Speaker 3: I mean they they when when the twelfth money comes,
Speaker 3: is it? And I'm no theologian. But the culmination of
Speaker 3: God's will will be armageddon. That's that's good if that comes.
Speaker 3: How do you negotiate with somebody like that, Hey, we'll
Speaker 3: kill you, that's fine, go ahead.
Speaker 6: On the other hand, Trump threats land differently when they're
Speaker 6: from Trump, because you can imagine him doing practically anything.
Speaker 3: Yes, sure, nuclear war, barely, barely.
Speaker 6: And I mean even if he did that, I wouldn't
Speaker 6: be completely surprised.
Speaker 7: Oh boy, sickening thought. But yeah, I hear you. I
Speaker 7: wish we could do.
Speaker 3: You know, we had an emailer suggest a number of
Speaker 3: days ago, why aren't we dropping palettes of weapons, small
Speaker 3: arms in the areas that are most anti regime. Fifteen
Speaker 3: thousand guys with rifles who've had enough because their their
Speaker 3: husband got their wife got killed, or their brother got killed,
Speaker 3: or their dad got killed, or their little brother or whatever,
Speaker 3: and they're ready to go out in a blaze of glory.
Speaker 3: I'm sure they have that arm question. Yeah, you'd probably
Speaker 3: have to arm five million of them, honestly, But yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm sure there's an answer to that question. I don't
Speaker 3: know what it is, though.
Speaker 10: Armstrong arm Strong, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty the Armstrong
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Speaker 8: Duncan has begun offering ice coffee and forty eight ounce
Speaker 8: buckets that have a handle, lid and straw, which is
Speaker 8: handy because after forty eight ounces of coffee, you're gonna
Speaker 8: need a bucket.
Speaker 6: That's one of the reasons I switched to espresso shots
Speaker 6: mostly for my coffee. I just pee less, but I
Speaker 6: get my caffeine.
Speaker 7: Wow. Thanks keep us up to date. That's great.
Speaker 3: I just don't like the pan though, as he was
Speaker 3: just hanging with old people featuring Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 6: I don't think it's just old people. I don't think
Speaker 6: that Seth Meyers joke was aimed at the just the
Speaker 6: old forty eight ounces of coffee, and coffee is a diarretic.
Speaker 7: You're gonna be a lot like a racehorse.
Speaker 3: You're absolutely right, quick follow strong whole coffee.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 6: Yes, Okay.
Speaker 3: Well, during the last segment talking about the horrific child
Speaker 3: rapist who is going to be released perhaps in California
Speaker 3: because of the progressive laws, a good friend of the
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty Show, judge Larry texted, when a judge
Speaker 3: imposes a sentence like that three life sentences, it is
Speaker 3: the judge saying, based on everything I know about the
Speaker 3: crimes and the defendant, the defendant of a defendant should
Speaker 3: never be released back on the street, and that should
Speaker 3: carry much more weight than politically appointed parole board members
Speaker 3: amen to that.
Speaker 6: I need my alert sound effect that we use, Michael
Speaker 6: whatever or whatever that is that we play whenever. Yeah,
Speaker 6: there you go. Mercury is in retrograde, people, Mercury is in.
Speaker 7: Retrograde what we feared the most. I don't know much
Speaker 7: of the past.
Speaker 6: I don't know much about this, but I hear people
Speaker 6: mention it now and then. And if you're into the
Speaker 6: whole astrological science thing, mercury is in retrograde starting today
Speaker 6: through March twentieth, and if you're a Pisces, it is
Speaker 6: going to be a doozy this year according to astrologize.
Speaker 6: Oh do you understand what that means? Not the slightest me.
Speaker 6: I've heard it a million times. Well I probably have too,
Speaker 6: and I could easily chat GPT if I wanted to,
Speaker 6: but I don't care enough to even learn about it.
Speaker 6: But it's pretty interesting to me that astrological signs still
Speaker 6: have any aft whatsoever. But they do apparently I've talked
Speaker 6: about that online dating profiles and stuff that everybody puts
Speaker 6: their their sign in there.
Speaker 7: Why. Look, I don't want to offend anything.
Speaker 6: I do.
Speaker 3: I have three hundred and eighty hods. This is not
Speaker 3: one of them. Yeah, it's all ridiculous. Your head is soft.
Speaker 3: Oh you should wear a helmet everywhere you go. Oh no,
Speaker 3: see that's unnecessarily. Oh no, no, good god. I think
Speaker 3: I'm a different sign than I used to be because
Speaker 3: they changed what dates are covered, and I don't care.
Speaker 3: I'm still me. Shouldn't I have changed character completely when
Speaker 3: that was done. Shouldn't I have become a different person
Speaker 3: with a different fate when they rejiggered the calendar?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 7: Of course not, because it's ridiculous.
Speaker 6: Having said what I said, I did spend a good
Speaker 6: deal of my life back when newspapers were a thing
Speaker 6: like an actual paper. I always read the comics and
Speaker 6: it had the horoscopes at the bottom, and I always
Speaker 6: read it. I don't know why, but I always read
Speaker 6: what's it say about Pisces today? And Aldarina? I You're
Speaker 6: gonna have a fantastic name. Bloh blah blah.
Speaker 3: I read the Fortunes and Chinese cookies, fortune cookies, but
Speaker 3: I don't take them seriously.
Speaker 9: Yes, whenever someone starts talking about this seriously, I always go, oh, no,
Speaker 9: mercuries and gatorade again, what.
Speaker 7: Some excellent deflation. That's pretty funny.
Speaker 3: By the way, h something fortune cookie fortunes are terrible
Speaker 3: these days.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they've gotten worse. My kids always complete with fortune anything.
Speaker 6: They're not a fortune. I don't know what happened, but
Speaker 6: they're not like humor.
Speaker 3: They're not the ones Judy and I got were something
Speaker 3: like family is where you find love.
Speaker 7: Thanks for that? What the hell? Pretty soon they'll be ads.
Speaker 3: I'm just trying to enjoy a meal, a succulent Chinese meal.
Speaker 3: I don't need you philosophying, a philosophizing anily right, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna meet a tall, dark stranger. I need to, you know,
Speaker 3: that sort of thing. That's what we're looking for. Give
Speaker 3: me something to laugh at. For God's sake, whose idea
Speaker 3: is this? I'm gonna start a fortune cookie company. A
Speaker 3: lot of money is coming your way. Did you ever
Speaker 3: go in San Francisco? I don't know if it's still there.
Speaker 3: Maybe you know, Okadie, the place that makes the fortune cookies.
Speaker 3: There in Chinatown. It's like down this little alley and
Speaker 3: everything like that, and it's been doing it for one
Speaker 3: hundred and twenty years or something.
Speaker 7: It's really cool.
Speaker 6: They were like the fortune cookie maker in America for
Speaker 6: a long long time. I don't know if that's still
Speaker 6: the case since the fortunes have gotten so bad over
Speaker 6: the years.
Speaker 7: And my cookies too, the cookie had none of that
Speaker 7: good what is that vanilla or whatever? It was terrible.
Speaker 6: It's kind of interesting the way they made the cookies
Speaker 6: and full them up like that, and they get they
Speaker 6: get the note in there. Because that's not as easy
Speaker 6: as it sounds.
Speaker 7: Yea, I spent a lot of time going down Alley's
Speaker 7: and the town. It's a little opium, little hooker, a
Speaker 7: little whatever. I don't know. I'm not judging.
Speaker 6: Just asking you to take a wet cookie and then
Speaker 6: be able to bend it and have it dry while
Speaker 6: the fortune inside it still does not get ruined on
Speaker 6: a piece of paper is not as simple as it sounds.
Speaker 6: If you were going to start out, you know, trying
Speaker 6: to craft that today? Is that what the hooker told
Speaker 6: you in the alley in Chinatown? Can we walked through Chinatown?
Speaker 6: Not that long ago Grant Street in San Francisco, if
Speaker 6: you've never been, And my kids and I and I
Speaker 6: don't know if they'd ever not since they were little. Anyway,
Speaker 6: the smells, my god, the smells. He gets some duck
Speaker 6: hung by its neck in the window and it's kind
Speaker 6: of swinging around, doesn't look too happy. Well, it should
Speaker 6: have thought of that before it committed its cries. And
Speaker 6: then a big bucket of chicken feed or duck feed
Speaker 6: or whatever, big buckets a raw chicken feed.
Speaker 7: It's a wet market.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I guess that's it's. That's what it is, essentially,
Speaker 6: big buckets of feet and beaks and all kinds of
Speaker 6: stuff like that. And the smells, my god, the smells.
Speaker 6: And then they're always hosing off the sidewalk to get
Speaker 6: the ooze that runs off the chicken feet. I guess,
Speaker 6: oh Lord. And then you got all those stores full
Speaker 6: of stuff. I can't imagine who buys that?
Speaker 7: Ever?
Speaker 6: How do you sell any of those things?
Speaker 7: Ever?
Speaker 3: I've wanted a gigantic jade elephant since I was a
Speaker 3: little kid. I walk by those stores, all I feel
Speaker 3: is lust.
Speaker 6: Jack. I always see the thing I say with my
Speaker 6: kids always when we're buy stores like that, Like, you know,
Speaker 6: there's an eight foot golden booter or something like that.
Speaker 6: I say dragon.
Speaker 7: Maybe a lot of dragons.
Speaker 6: And huge, I always say all around. Dang, I was
Speaker 6: looking for a big one.
Speaker 7: Do you have any bigger jade dragons?
Speaker 6: I need one that weighs three thousand pounds, not two
Speaker 6: thousand pounds to take home to my house.
Speaker 7: I like this one, but it's a dad undersized.
Speaker 6: It doesn't make enough of a statement. There's like these
Speaker 6: giant gold lions as tall as me and uh and
Speaker 6: I texted a friend, I said, what do you think
Speaker 6: chicks would think if I had one on each side
Speaker 6: of my bed, one of these giant lions size of
Speaker 6: an actual lion. That's a statement, You don't, you're a fool?
Speaker 6: How a person would react if you first time you
Speaker 6: were ever in someone's bedroom?
Speaker 3: In there, lucky enough to entice a new friend into
Speaker 3: your boudoir?
Speaker 7: They turned the corner.
Speaker 6: They back toward the door.
Speaker 9: Would you also have your giant your giant gong in
Speaker 9: this random as well?
Speaker 6: Right? You have that at the foot of the bed.
Speaker 6: Because when I've.
Speaker 7: Done once again?
Speaker 6: Should success beautiful?
Speaker 7: Every woman appreciates that It's the arm Strong and Getty Show.
Speaker 6: Armstrong and
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