WEBVTT - Speaking Of Gay 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:11.320 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty Armstrong and Jetty 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:17.239 enough he Armstrong and Jetty. 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:26.040 It's not likely to be just the automakers. I mean, 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:29.840 the President is going to decide this today, but he's 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:32.519 talking about it. But I think it's likely that it 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:38.800 will cover all USMCA compliant goods and services, so that 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:43.920 which is part of President Trump's deal with Canada and Mexico, 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:48.839 are likely to get an exemption from these tariffsm. 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:50.960 For a month. Is that what they're saying? 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:55.320 Yeah, Well, the John continues the negotiations, the talks. 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:58.639 If you will, will it keep working to do this 0:00:58.880 --> 0:00:59.840 if every time? 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:04.319 Yeah, back off of it. 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:05.560 Yeah. 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:09.839 At some point even Pantywayte Trudeau pick up the phone 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:11.560 say look, can we skip this part? 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:12.319 What do you want? 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:15.920 So? 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:20.120 Uh, terrify and all Canadian goods started to a midnight 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.319 Monday or Tuesday, and then except for the car makers, 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:26.120 they announced yesterday and now today they're saying and everything 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:29.920 else except for the cars and everything else, So it's 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:30.360 on hold. 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:34.160 Canadian bacon, which the President has renamed Montana ham. 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:37.600 Well, I refer to Canada as gay North Dakota. 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:42.759 Oh wow, wow, wow, that is way out of bounds 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:47.680 speaking a gay US mc A. It's fun to trade 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:51.919 in the USMCA. And yes, I am doing the letters. 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:59.360 Oh Canada, we developed, Yes, we got this text earlier. Jack, 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:02.640 your laugh is infectious. Love hearing it, my Laughe actually 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:07.200 is infectious, as I have the flu, ironically, yes, and 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:09.880 I'm gonna talk about a sneeze and his cough. 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:10.880 Yeah. 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:12.280 I was going to talk a little bit about the 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:14.760 flu and flu vaccine and stuff, as I've learned a 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:16.600 few things about it, as I didn't get the vaccine 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:17.680 and I got the flu. And I'll tell you what, 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:19.760 I'd get the vaccine every year if I could avoid this. 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:21.720 Although I've only got the flu I think once in 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:23.760 my life, So if I only get it once every 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:27.400 forty years, not getting the vaccine, it's not much of 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:27.840 a risk. 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:31.359 But more than that, you're old now, you fool. 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:32.600 That's the difference. 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:35.480 Does that make it more likely that you get the flu? 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:38.480 It makes it more likely it really really hurts you. 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:42.120 Hum hm oh yeah, it's like COVID. Just think of 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:46.520 it like COVID. Nobody healthy under the age of fifty 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:51.040 five should have done a damn thing, especially not the 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:53.600 kids similar with the flu. 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:55.960 I'm not die of the flu. Old. 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:02.040 Yeah, well, we'll see. Anyway, there's so much I want 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.440 to squeeze into this half hour, and then at the 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:07.519 bottom of the hour, we're gonna play some audio from 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:10.520 the hearings yesterday in Congress where they hauled a bunch 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:14.959 of sanctuary city mayors into the hearing room and berated them. 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:18.440 Good fun for everyone, but I got a bunch of 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:20.160 stuff to get to. All of it deserves a couple 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:23.040 of minutes. I've changed my mind on one thing. We've 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.239 got to get these two stories on. They're both from 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:29.360 cal Unicornia, and either many of our listeners are cal 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:33.360 Unicornians many are not. So it's either directly applicable to 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:36.600 you or trust me, somebody's going to try to introduce 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:40.080 this in your state soon, and you need to be forewarned. 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:44.320 Let's begin by playing Joe Getty's How They Gonna Solve It, 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:52.720 the brand new game show Everyone Loves Jack first of all, 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:58.600 in an irony among ironies, California leaders are facing a 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:03.400 quandary arising from the rise of sales of electric cars 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:06.560 as more people buy fuel efficient zero missions vehicles, the 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:10.680 public's consumption of gases declined, so the revenue from gas 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:16.400 taxes has declined significantly. It's increasingly problematics. As this professor 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:22.440 of urban planning at UCLA, gas tax revenues could are 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.560 about thirteen billion last year. They could fall as low 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:28.360 as five billion dollars in the next quite a few years. 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.200 You're talking about now, just the state of California here, Yeah, 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:33.960 just the state of California. I know how they're going 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:37.000 to fix it, although there are federal taxes. Also, they 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.760 get into the fact that, for all their benefits, electric 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:42.920 vehicles still create problems. Equipped with heavy batteries, these fuel 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.600 efficient cars and trucks tend to weigh more than their counterparts, 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:47.920 so they do more damage to the roads. They unleash 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:51.960 more micro rubber fragments and plastic from the tires into 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.960 the atmosphere. They also accelerate more quickly, which increases the 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:59.120 risk of collisions. Blah blah blah. So all of these problems, Jack, 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:01.599 can you guess how are they gonna solve it? 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.680 Yeah, in California, they're just gonna they want you to 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:07.599 stop driving gas powered cars. So of course they'll just 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.800 add more tax to a gallon of gas with the 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:14.560 idea that thanks to electric cars mean and blah blah 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:20.480 blah in states where well in states where people don't 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:22.760 like electric cars, they're not buying them, so it's not 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:27.840 an issue. Oh, I see, I was at the Tesla 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:31.400 charging thing yesterday, and when I first started charging my 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:34.760 car there three years ago, there'd be two cars there, 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:38.440 maybe no cars. This particular Tesla charging thing by the 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:42.360 station there's I don't know, fifteen stalls. Now it's regularly 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:46.280 full and you have to wait, and so that's a 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:49.120 pretty limiting factor, I think. And that's for Tesla's if 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:51.080 you have a regular if you have a different kind 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:51.760 of electric car. 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:53.920 You can't charge it anywhere. I mean, none of those 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:54.839 things work. 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:55.719 So I just I don't. 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.919 It seems so incredibly unworkable. And then you add in 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:01.440 the politics of it. If the bloom is off the 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:04.560 rows for Tesla because people hate Elon so much, only 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:09.800 lefties were really into electric cars to start with, aside 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:12.880 for me because I wanted the world's fastest car. But 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:15.479 only lefties really were into electric cars anyway. Now they've 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:16.119 turned on Elon. 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:16.920 What's it going to do. 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.279 That might blow up the whole electric car thing, just 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:22.599 people's hatred of Trump. 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:26.920 So this think tank gal who they quote, suggested a 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:30.640 variety of policies solutions, including mostly new taxes or fees 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:32.719 that could hinge on how many miles you drive, no 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:34.719 matter what you're driving or how many. 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:36.080 Cars a household owns. 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.400 Soon you'll have to report your mileage to Uncle Gavy 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:42.240 and be taxed on it, no matter what you're driving, 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:46.279 and taxes will go up. And that's how they're going 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:46.960 to solve it. 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:48.760 Or Texas so. 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.880 With the goal of driving more people into electric cars, 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.520 which has got a ton of problems that I just 0:06:56.560 --> 0:07:02.559 pointed out nice and is absolutely not clearly an environmental. 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:04.919 Win now according to any sober analysis. And I'm not anti, 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:08.240 I'm not pro I don't care. And then this also 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:12.720 from cal Unicornia, compiled by a loyal listener, Paolo Excellent correspondent. 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:14.440 You may know this. 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:17.560 Blue states all over the country have been subsidizing rooftop 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:22.680 solar electric installation and generation. More precisely, nonsolar customers have 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:27.520 been subsidizing solar customers through various means, and solar customers 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:31.200 generally have higher income. So that's not sitting well with 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:34.440 the nonsolar crowd, nor with the equity minded the progressives 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.800 in government, and that doesn't include one in particular of 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.800 the equity minded Gavin Newsom, who promoted policies that led 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:44.600 to this. I mean, Gavey has been hammering solar like 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:46.680 a lunatic since he came onto the scene. 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:48.880 But it can't be his fault. 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:52.400 So California is blaming an unlikely villain for your high 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:59.520 energy bills. So the state government now is turning the 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:03.960 peep people who listened and installed solar and responded to 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:08.880 the incentives and all as the scapegoats. California regulators, analysts, 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:12.080 and even the governor himself have recently blamed popular solar 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:18.240 incentive programs for saddling other eight payers with higher energy bills. Indeed, 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:20.640 the arguments from state officials pit the energy bills of 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:23.400 two groups California customers, the haves and have nots at 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:26.640 home solar against each other. It's a dramatic pivot from 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:29.240 the state with more rooftop solar panels than any other. 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:32.719 So if you have solar, look to get hammered by 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:36.360 the very government that berated you. 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:40.160 To get solar. Yeah, you laugh. I laugh. 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:42.880 Well that's the sort of thing that happens when government 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.199 starts getting involved in the free market, you know, getting 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:50.199 back to the electric car thing. Seventy five dollars subsidy 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:53.280 on electric cars. So you go out and buy it 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:55.400 one of the cheaper teslas and you're in the right 0:08:55.440 --> 0:09:00.160 income range. The rest of US taxpayers paid seven twenty 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.560 five hundred dollars of your car so that it's more 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:03.439 affordable for you. 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:05.480 What kind of wealth redistribution is that? 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:10.200 And if that goes away, tons of those electric cars, 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.600 those smaller ones that people buy, they ain't gonna. 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:16.880 Buy right, right, and again, all of this for something 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:18.600 that's not a clear environment will win. 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:20.640 Finally, this at least for this segment. 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:24.640 Jack and I are both firearms owners, enthusiasts, not experts. 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:29.080 But South Carolina plans to execute a man by firing 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:30.679 squad tomorrow. 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:34.120 WHOA, I didn't know any states still did. That was 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:35.560 a sparky on the print. 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:38.760 No, they just thought, hey, let's save a little money, 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:41.719 old sparky. You know, it's a high maintenance thing. Did 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:44.120 somebody at any point say, you know, it would be fun? 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:48.199 I mean, how did they come up with this idea. Well, 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:51.040 in terms of the process of death, there could be 0:09:51.520 --> 0:10:00.880 nothing less painful than sudden catastrophic gun injury. H Lethal injections. 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:04.160 Pretty they got a jaby and find a vein. Sometimes 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:06.040 they have to jab you over and all again. 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:08.719 As much as I hate needles, I think I'd take 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:11.720 the lethal injection over being shot, even though I realized 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:14.520 it'd probably not be very painful, as many people have 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:18.480 pointed out inert gas. Inert gas, you fall asleep and 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:21.560 then you die for the lack oxygen. It would work easily, 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:24.040 and I don't think it would hurt to get shot. 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:27.959 Read Executioner Song by Norman Mailer sometime if you want 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.560 to know a lot about the death penalty and getting shot, 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:34.240 because that's how it ends. He gets shot, but the 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:37.920 fear leading up to it would be brutal. Sitting there, Yes, 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:40.640 yes it would. I hope they xanaxia up or something 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:43.640 like that. Anyway, that's not we're not here to talk 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:46.240 about that jacket. Can I murder something to take the 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:49.400 edge off, like a I don't know, a Goldschlager shot 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:51.479 or margarita or something. 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:54.320 You know what I've recovered my footing here. I'm obviously 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:57.560 working with a progressive here. Hey, don't slaughter people in 0:10:57.600 --> 0:10:58.800 cold blood and we won't have to. 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:00.080 Worry about it. 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:03.440 You always hell, we always get into this conversation and 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:04.880 put it as if it were us. Well, it's not 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.479 gonna be us, because I'm not gonna do some horrific 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:09.320 crime that deserves the death penalty. 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:10.120 Exactly. 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:11.760 I was gonna yell at you, but you yelled at 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:14.440 you pretty effectively, so I'll let it go. Do we 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:16.160 have time for this? We really don't have time for this. 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:19.880 I will describe to you why even firearms experts are 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:24.400 questioning whether this is a good idea. Oh wow, South Cakilaki, 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:25.680 you gotta check yourself. 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.640 Don't detail us to come. What's next in the South? 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:34.400 Well, if the shooting goes well, we might think about stoning. Yeah, 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:36.319 why not you? 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:40.000 I got something about the medieval justice system that we'll 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:40.559 fit in with this. 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:41.240 Just fine? 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:42.440 That feel across yesterday? 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:48.160 Yeah, which burnings and stuff or and immediately medieval justice 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:49.160 system not that great? 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:51.920 Not that great. We got a lot more on the way. 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:52.520 Stay with us. 0:11:56.120 --> 0:12:02.199 Meanwhile, at the old timey execution's desk, here's Joe Jeddy 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:06.920 So in South Carolina, one of my many adopted home states, 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:10.839 the South Carolina Department of Corrections is going to execute 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:12.160 a dude tomorrow. 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:17.200 Theoretically, they're gonna strap this Brad Sigmund, who, by the way, 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:21.120 didn't like his ex girlfriend's parents so beat them to 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:25.160 death with a baseball bat twenty three years ago. 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:27.720 Anytime you get into the what the person did, all 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:31.440 of a sudden, I don't care. How they're murdering doesn't matter. 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:33.640 About So they're going to strap him to a metal 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:37.000 seat in the same small, indoor brick death chamber or 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:40.079 South Carolina has executed more than forty other prisoners by 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:43.080 electric chair and lethal injections since nineteen eighty five. 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:45.160 It's kind of like that room in your house. It's 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.120 an all purpose room. Anyway. 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:51.920 If the execution goes according to plan, six o'clock Friday 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:56.080 evening Eastern time, Sigmun's head will be covered by a hood, 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:58.400 A target will be placed over his heart. Three prison 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:01.360 employees will be prepared to shoot from a distance of 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:02.760 about fifteen feet. 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:03.920 That's awful close. 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:05.880 Yeah. 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:09.240 In Utah, which is the only state, why would you 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:12.800 want to be further away? Where obviously the farther you 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:14.880 are away, the more likely you miss. 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:19.600 Well, right, right, sure now, Utah, the only other state 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:22.439 that's executed prisoners by firing squad in the past fifty years, 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.920 does the traditional five shooters, four with a live round, 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:28.960 one with a blank, so all of them, if necessary, 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:31.560 can convince themselves it wasn't me killed a guy. 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:31.920 Yeah. 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:35.679 Reads an interesting deal, but seriously, executioners Songs one of 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:39.000 the most interesting books I've ever read about crime and 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:41.920 punishment and everything else. But anyway, back to you, Yeah, anyway, 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:44.160 he says, South Carolina, shut up, Utah. 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:47.360 They got three guys each with a live bullet. Anyway, 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:48.960 they got three guys Utah. 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:50.520 Three guys with a hammer, and they ain't sober. 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.920 Boy. After the warden reads the execution order, the team 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:59.720 will fire, the protocol states, and they will also have 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.240 most lawyers and family members sit in a space directly 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:05.280 beside the gas chamber behind a glass partition. 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:08.280 But firearms inspectors who wants to watch that? 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:11.520 Boy? 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:14.319 I don't want to get like crazy crazy gross. 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:17.400 There are ways you could make it less bad, but 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.400 again I don't people haven't tuned in for that. But 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:26.080 firearms experts who are no. Left wingers are saying, guys, 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:28.320 I wouldn't shoot in that space. I wouldn't even be 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:31.200 in the room. It's just an unnecessary risk. Well, yeah, 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:33.200 you got a small room built of brick and a 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:34.920 strap to a metal chair. 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:37.760 Yeah, I would agree. 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:41.400 So I mean, if I had to, you know, Christy 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:44.520 Nomestyle get rid of a farm dog, I'm not putting 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:45.520 them in a brick room. 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:46.800 That'd be crazy. 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:50.160 Well, and you wouldn't strap them in anything but strap 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:53.800 to a metal chair. That's just a terrible idea, depending 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:55.440 on what you know the chair is made of, in 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:59.560 the sort of ammunition and the rest of it. The 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:02.760 fire squad chairs, South Carolina said, now we're good. The 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:06.160 firing squad chairs surrounded by protective equipment and the prison 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:09.520 installed bullet resistant class between the witness room and the 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:15.080 death chamber. The witness room looks uncomfortably like someone's home theater. 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:17.960 It doesn't quite have the really recliney chairs, but they 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:18.920 look quite comfortable. 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:23.960 And is there a concession stand? Oh boy? Oh jack. 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:27.240 Ricochets aren't the only danger when bullets are shot in 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:30.120 closed spaces, since led particles and noxious gases are released 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:32.080 to people who use it. For shooting rams are required 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:37.840 by law. Wow, shut up, must have ricochetted. Uh. Hearing 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:41.320 loss is another risk were aheadphones you morons. 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:44.440 I wouldn't want to watch that. I don't quite get 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:49.400 going to uh an execution anyway. I mean, thank god, 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.080 I've never been in this situation and hopefully never will be, 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:54.280 where a loved one is, you know, so horribly murdered 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:55.360 by someone that. 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:56.240 They get the death penalty. 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:59.000 But I don't need to watch them snuffed for any 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:02.080 sort of closure or anything. I'm not criticizing anybody who does. 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:03.840 You get to do whatever you want, but I can't 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:05.000 imagine wanting to do that. 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:07.560 As long as it is an open enough process that 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:09.360 we're assured that it was carried out according to the 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:12.040 laws of the state and the country, and what he's 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:13.840 tortured or anything like that, I'm fine with that. But 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:18.040 you know, one interesting truth about the death penalty, which 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:22.640 I'm not against exactly, is that families think it will 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:25.560 bring them closure when the person is finally executed after decades, 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:27.160 and it almost never does, right. 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:29.040 That is one of the biggest problems with it. 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.960 Yeah, yeah, anyway, this is not a debate about the 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:33.600 death penalty. 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:34.080 In general. 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:37.120 But I wonder if South cakilak, he's going to go ahead. 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:43.120 Well, what's the argument against it? 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:46.000 It just sounds awful. 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:50.960 Most of the arguments against specific methods of execution are phony. 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:55.280 They're just efforts to postpone it in general. Yeah, because 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:56.920 you're against it, and you can be against it. I mean, 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.160 you can make a solid argument against the death penalty 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:01.600 as a libertarian. I mean there's all kinds of, you know, 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:05.000 good reasons argue against it. I'll find a single forty 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:09.840 five caliber slug while someone sleeps would be completely merciful, 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:10.600 but we don't do that. 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:14.200 Most of the arguments are famish, armstrong, and getty. 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:23.000 Take your seat, sir, take your seat. Finding that members 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:27.000 continue to engage in willful and concerted disruption or proper decorum, 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.800 the Chair now directs a sertant at arms to restore order, 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:34.639 remove this gentleman from the chamber. 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:45.920 The ejection of al Green not the sole singer of 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:49.159 the representative. Was it racism? No, it wasn't. Does anybody 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:53.399 have any other questions? Because he's an idiot? 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:54.560 So he got. 0:17:54.520 --> 0:18:01.040 Censured, that's correct, Jack whatever, whatever. See, I'm surprised that 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:04.200 Norm hasn't been blown up in that somebody just keeps 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:06.080 doing things and getting censured. 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:07.200 Like, go ahead, censure me, what do I care? 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:11.400 All right, these people have no shame, they can't be shame. 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:12.080 Shame on you. 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:13.520 I have none. 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:18.040 Well, and just the public doesn't care. So yeah, it's 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:21.520 all so performative. Yes it is, and it raises money. 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:25.399 So speaking of the House of Representatives such as it is, 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:30.440 they hold held a house hearing on sanctuary cities yesterday, 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:33.600 which is a topic well worth talking about. 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:36.760 Oh he my goodness, declaring yourself. 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:41.359 Immune from cooperating with federal authorities or above the law, 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:44.600 or so righteous as to not have to participate in 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:47.560 our great self governance experiment. That's the way I see 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:51.480 sanctuary cities anyway, So yeah, it should be looked into. 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:53.200 I'd love for the Supreme Court to weigh you know. 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:54.000 Yeah eventually. 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:56.000 House hearings are usually not the best way to get 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:57.960 to the bottom of anything. Yeah, the Supreme Court just 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:00.840 needs to rule finally, They need to skip to that 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:03.000 and just say is this okay or not? The Supreme 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:04.960 Court's gonna say, nah, you can't do that, and that's 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:05.479 the end of it. 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:12.080 Ah, right, I fear the dreaded narrow ruling, But yeah, 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:13.959 I would love to see it work through that process, 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:16.160 and I suspect very strongly it will. 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:18.879 One has to remind. 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:23.480 Oneself just yeah, I really don't talk in real life. 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:27.960 That's Trump's been in office for what six weeks, five 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:32.240 weeks something like that. Yeah, like six weeks, so there's 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:34.600 plenty of time to get to that anyway. So the 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:37.199 House of Representatives of the hearings is Jack indicated, not 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:39.240 the best way to actually get to the bottom of issues, 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:40.400 but they're an excellent. 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:42.720 Opportunity to yell at people and be entertained. 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:46.680 So, first of all, we've got congress Person Gill, who 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:49.760 I don't think I know they're act joining with Mayor 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:52.439 Brandon Johnson of Chicago, who if there were three of 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:56.040 them that would almost amount to normal intelligence. He is 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:58.600 a union hack and a liar and a cheat and 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:01.720 a communist and a hundred others things. Clip Hady first, 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:04.760 Michael and Jackie jump in. Anytime it's a little longish, 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:05.920 we can bail as needed. 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:08.560 Mayor Johnson, I want to start with you. 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:12.399 One of your first actions as mayor was establishing a 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:17.480 deputy mayor for immigrant migrant and refugee right. I want 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:19.800 to ask you a series of questions if you could 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:22.080 answer with a yes or no answer that yes no. 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:25.359 First of all, do you support allowing illegal aliens to 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:26.920 obtain driver's licenses? 0:20:28.000 --> 0:20:28.679 Does yes or no? 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:35.440 Can you? My city of Chicago has been a welcoming 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:35.880 city for. 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:40.080 Over four so uh we all know the yes no question. 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:42.159 The thing is just a trap game, and it's stupid 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:45.560 and performative. And if anybody ever said just yes or no, 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:48.840 even if I had a simple yes or no answer, 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:53.119 I would launch into some long screed just to piss 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:55.600 them off. And Gil is on my side of this. 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:58.879 I agree with them completely, But that's just a sudd 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:03.160 Although on driver's licenses for illegals, that's that's a yes 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:05.120