December 12, 2024 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Super computers & a more dangerous drug than fentanyl
- The most important email of the year
- Bill Clinton on the view talking about pardoning Hillary
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong and Shoe Getty Armstrong and Getty, I know,
keee Armstrong and Yetty. That's right.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Google unveiled a new quantum computer that it claims can
do tasks in minutes that would take a traditional supercomputer
ten septillion years to complete. Just something to think about
while you're watching porn on it.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Wow, that is something I hadn't heard that specifically. I
heard a tease the other day that this Google chip
is gonna just like blow everything out of the water
and change everything. I don't do any tasks that are
very hard. Yeah, what's the temperature in Kansas City? I mean,
you know, I don't need super computing power to figure
that out.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I've bought a couple of laptops and or iPads recently,
and you know, I use a lot of Apple products
and they have such amazing capabilities right now for you know,
doing audio and video production, and that takes a really
really zoomy computer. And I always think, you know, what
I might I might get into that someday I might
(01:23):
start editing that, maybe I'll make a.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Movie that's what I'll do.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
But you're right, a lot of these capabilities are so
beyond ninety nine percent of what everybody uses it for.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
I'd have a friend who was a PhD, and a
lot of the projects that they would work on, they
would have their computer running all day and all night
to get the project done. And I suppose for a
person like that this sort of leap forward to be
a big deal instead of like fifteen hours of your
computer running.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
And do it in a second. It'll all be used
for porn and bitcoin, bitcoin, mighty.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Streaming and Netflix series. This is the most hilarious thing
I've seen today. So I read Mark Alprin's newsletter that
Trump is trying to make a show out of the inauguration,
which is not surprising, and that Trump was very bummed
that his first inauguration, which I was at dressed as
(02:18):
a spy. I was at the first inauguration, and but
it was still under the full cloud of suspicion of
Russia rigged it and everything, and just it was all
kinds of weird and like not taken seriously by mainstream media.
All that's out the window now, right, and he's being
taken completely seriously, and he wants it to be like
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star studded and fun and like a show, because he's
a guy who puts on shows.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
He's a TV guy anyway.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
So I just came across this Village People founder talks
possibility of performing YMCA at the inauguration. I can see
somehow Trump has the Village People guy up there and
the whole crowd's doing the YMCA.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
You give me a Beatles reunion or that. I've got
to choose though, IMCA Jack.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I can see that sort of thing.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Yeah, a right of like Dalist celebrities.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Even if it's like really really good, there will be
aspects of it that are incredibly campy. Oh but why
wouldn't there be. He's you know, he's a populist entertainer.
He's not gonna apologize for Jeff Foxworthy, you know, for instance,
that that sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
I'll have a comedian come up and besmirch the Puerto
Ricans or something before you again, because.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
That cost him the election. Oh that's right.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
It didn't cause a freaking flip. It is a nat
farting one hundred miles away.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
It was a non event, and it was written up
like it was the Hindenburgs. Mister President, if you could
put your right hand on the same Bible that Lincoln used,
I will. But right after I tell you about these
new tennis shoes that I have coming out covered in
gold with an American flag. Here's some real news just
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came out today. Remember we were having skyrocketing drug overdose
deaths each year, we'd be more amazed by how many
people had died. First time in a while, it's gone down.
Drug overdose deaths in the United States fell seventeen percent
year to year, according to the CDC. I wonder if
we've just maxed out on the number of people that
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do hard drugs. Eventually all of them are going to
be dead, aren't they.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Uh yeah, I mean certainly new people are getting addicted
all the time, but I'm hoping not nearly as much.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
You know, Well, I.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Don't want to jump the gun, because we're going to
do something really interesting and important.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
But h.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I just I want every young person to know hard
drugs are death. Even pills. Now, you just that ought
to be instead of the gender bread person. They got
to be preaching that in schools constantly. But yeah, that's
something car fentanyl, it's not. I'm not saying fentanyl. I'm
saying car Fentanyl is one hundred times more deadly than fentanyl. Apparently,
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if you just think about it, one hundred people die
oh too late. How can it be one hundred times
more deadly than fentanyl.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I don't know anyway.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
The number of overdose deaths are overall pretty low. It's
in the hundreds over the last year, but the number
has increased sevenfold in the past year, and it could
it's threatening to reverse.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Recent drop and drug overdoses.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I certainly hope not. TRN addiction is a terrible, terrible thing.
Well yeah, and all over the world.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
So I didn't know that Asad they're in Syria, was
running a narco state to a certain extent with whatever
the name of that drug is, their version of fentanyl
that had devastated the entire Middle East.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
I heard MBS talking about it the other day.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Finally we can, maybe you know, get a handle on
this because it's killing so many people in Saudi Arabia
and Egypt and Jordan and all over young people taking
these drugs. And Assad was behind the manufacturing, sale of
it and profiting. It was like he was running a
giant drug cartel around this drug. It's amazing help of
some Islamis groups too. It's just utterly unholy, you know, cabal.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
You wouldn't think it would work because word to get around.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
Now.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
You don't want to take this because it'll kill you,
but I heard it makes you feel really good. Yeah,
but it kills like half the people who take it.
But I heard it makes you feel really good. Apparently
wins the day. As an argument, Well, if.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
It were half, I think you'd have an argument.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
But if you tell it an actual junkie, a drug
addict that you know the actual statistics, one person out
of fifteen hundred is something awful happened to them or
whatever that number is.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Yeah, I wonder what the number is. It's closer to
yours than mine by far.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
But they'd say, shut up, give me a hit.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah, I suppose speaking which I have revolutionary idea here.
We have the best most important email of the month,
perhaps the year. Want to touch on it again? Why
don't we take a break now on time and have
plenty of time On the other side.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Do we have a prize for that email of the month?
Do we send the move one mitz or something.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Big at a boy or at a girl.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
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my kids underwear that have my name on They're junk
that is.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Both troubling into music.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Wow, please please, let's.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Take a break or something. I didn't know when I
was younger.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Someday I would have a brand that it would be
on underwear that would give out his gifts.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
The sports Braw endorsed by my daughter.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
So my name can be spread across your genitalia. Yes, Katie, No,
just how about that break you know? Oh right, yes,
Joe was going to take a break and.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
We Yeah, that would be good. Thank you, God, bless you. Katie.
Have you tried the Armstrong and Geddy Sportsprong yet? I have?
Speaker 5 (08:00):
I wor frequently?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
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Speaker 5 (08:04):
To keep those things in place, which I guess is
the goal the best of its ability. Yes, it does
shash to the.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Best of its ability. You can only ask it to
do so much.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Well, you have the email of the month next all Christmas?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
What's stopping you? Talent? I didn't get a good instrument
like that.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I just didn't I sound like an angry jackass when
I said it? Anyway, Uh, this is incredibly important and serious.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
We've been talking about how the term homeless is just
it's beyond useless. It's misleading because what is notable about
streaked people is not the fact that they do not
have a permanent address. That is not the primary issue.
It's drug addiction. And as one of our beloved listeners
suggested the term, I'd love to give them credit. Where
(09:05):
did I put it?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Oh, well, it's.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
BJ said transient drug Addicts tdas We're talking about this
the other other day and got the attention of al
or Aleen Anonymous, who said some really nice things about
the show, which we appreciate very much. But I work
with homeless in certain California cities, most challenging areas, lists
(09:29):
them and just about every street with significant homeless encampments
and quotes. I was listening to you this morning yesterday,
Well you were dropping truth bombs about the homeless on
the radio, and I found myself yelling, yes, finally someone
gets it, because you're absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
We don't have a homeless problem. What we have is
a drug problem.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Eighty five percent of the folks I work with our
battling drug addiction. Another ten percent are mentally ill because
of drug addiction. They're remaining five percent they're just mentally
ill and need can in a space that can help them.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
While many quote unquote.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Homeless advocates argue that most homeless individuals are simply struggling
abused moms or families in need of assistance, in my
five years of experience working in the toughest parts of
our city, I have encountered only one such family one.
The rest middle aged men and women, mostly trapped in
a cycle of addiction, who will say or do anything
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to feed their habit.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
I would think there'd be enough people on the left
who are sympathetic to that crowd that they'd want to
identify the actual problem.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
You would think that, wouldn't you.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
You'd think being completely ineffective would cause people to reassess
their perceptions and their strategies. But that's just not a
great strength of the left anyway.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Run one unfortunate medical bill away from being homeless, and,
as we've been saying for years, yeah you whatever, medical bill,
lose your job, whatever, and you start doing meth.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
And move under a bridge.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah, clearly sure the solutions in quotes we keep hearing
about like tiny homes are just band aids on bullet wounds.
The county's current plan is building a few hundred homes,
he mentions the location. Unless there's a serious plan for
dealing with addiction, you're just creating a drug camp. By
serious plan, I mean more than the tired line we
hear that quote. Support services will be provided. Politicians love
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the optics of tiny homes because people see something and
that looks like action to solve the problem. But when
the rules are broken at the tiny home settlements is
inevitably they are. These folks end up right back on
the streets. The turnover rate is astounding. I'm not sure
if anyone power is noticed, but drug addicts don't obey
rules very well. And add to the fact that it
takes forty five days, yes, forty five days are system
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stinks to have a person cleared for intake services. Unfortunately,
that's typically forty four days after they've disappeared back into
the fog to do more drugs. Why not force ree well,
rehab and jack. You've talked about this fair amount has
a ninety four percent failure rate. The first time around,
and politicians know voters won't stomach a pro program. That's
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nine hundred and forty thousand dollars of failure for every
million dollars spent. Plus ninety percent of addicts refuse services
outright because it cuts into their getting high time. For context,
thirty five dollars can purchase an eight ball. That's a
pretty good quantity of drugs, providing a high for several days,
provided they do not share. Five dollars keeps them high
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for a day. In all you people handing out cash
at stop lights stop, they use the cash to buy
drugs and they throw the food away.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Addicts aren't known for huge appetites.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
I see it all the time in my car at
an intersection. You know, they roll down the window and
give some ace some money. What do you think you're doing,
soft heart, soft head?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
The truth is al rites that people change when the
pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of change.
Every recovering addict I've worked with acknowledges that they had
to reach their lowest point before they could turn things around. However,
as a society where excessively preoccupied with mitigating the consequences,
we feed house and provide medical care, creating a dual
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dependency city services and drug dealers.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
The dealers love it.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
If we want real change, we need drug courts back,
we need accountability, we need punishment, and we need to
stop pretending the problem is something it's not. We need
to stop acting like a longtime drug addict as the
same mental capacity in rights that everyone else does. Most
addicts will not seek help for their addiction to reach
the lowest point. It's just too easy to stay high
and there's very little incentive for them to change. Interestingly,
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we have a chance to save them if they reach
their lowest point within the first two years of their addiction.
After that, the situation becomes unpredictable. In other words, the worst,
most horrible and cruel thing you can do to you
human being is mitigate the consequences of their addiction.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
That's the worst.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Thing you can do, and we're doing it systematically to
the cost of billions of dollars.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
I don't really know anything about drug addiction, but that's
really interesting that if you don't catch them in the
first two years, it gets much much harder. So, yeah,
if you can allow people to get past that two
year mark by providing them food, shelter, whatever.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Then they're freaking doomed. You've doomed them.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
How about that that's beyond then whise that's evil. At
some point, misguided becomes evil. If you guard your misguidedness
for reasons of ego and virtue signaling and the rest
of it, you are killing people with kindness.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
And that's on the drug addic side of it, not
to mention the law abiding, not drug addicts side of life,
where you just wish you could have your park or
safe sidewalk, or have your business stay open or whatever.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
You know, you're right.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
A person could make the argument, there's no effing reason
we should be putting up with this. So appreciate the
screen about addiction, but why don't we start there. Yeah,
it's the divide between people who can take in reality
and say this is gonna hurt to do this. There's
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gonna be pain, it's gonna pain me to do this,
but it's got to happen those people and those who
just can't face up to that.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
That's one of the biggest gulfs that exists.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
I don't know who said this first, but it's really
really good that conservatives hate people but love humanity. Liberals
love humans but hate humanity.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Wops it. I think I don't.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
I don't think so works so well in these situations
because if you're a liberal, you think, here's this human,
this downtrodden human, I'm gonna give them some money and
some food so we'll have a good day. You're damaging
humanity by doing that, the the overall culture, the overall
society by doing that.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Yeah, well lead to more.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Right. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
I was happy to see Elon Musk on this topic
over the weekend, pointing out, yeah, it's a drug addiction problem.
When are we going to wake up to that? Because
he's got a pretty big platform.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Right right.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
But again, as we mentioned earlier, there are billions of
dollars being handed out with the excuse of quote unquote homelessness,
and that gravy train is what keeps politicians in power.
That handing out money and receiving votes and power back
building more nearly as much money and tough love.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Building more tiny homes at the cost of billions and
billions of dollars and accomplishing nothing with the drug addiction problem.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yep, insane.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
God, that's so frustrating me thought wise, it's evil. Our
text line is four one five.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
K fte Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 7 (17:06):
Well, it's been twelve days since President Biden shocked many
by breaking his promise and issuing a sweeping pardon for
his son Hunter. Now, as you mentioned, the President issuing
clemency for nearly fifteen hundred Americans convicted on a variety
of crimes overnight. Biden said most of today's commutations will
impact people who are placed on home confinement during the
pandemic and have shown personal growth. We haven't gotten the
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full list yet of those impacted. The White House says,
among the thirty nine who were issued full pardons, none
were violent offenders. In a statement, the President says he'll
take more steps in the weeks ahead. The administration will
continue reviewing clemency petitions to advance equal justice, promote public safety,
support rehabilitation and re entry, and provide meaningful second chances.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Wouldn't someone want their act somewhat together? Have done that
with Hunter's pardon, to try to make it seem like
I'm partnering Hunter and for all the other people out
there that have suffered the wrath of drug addiction or
something or other.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Blah, blah, yeah, exactly, Yeah, you're right, that would have
been a little more graceful. Joe Biden is a non
compass meant his mummy, so obviously his aides are using
their final moments in the White House to change the
landscape anyway they can, with all sorts of commutations and
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clemencies and uh, what's his face?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
The waste of skin.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
See, I've already forgotten about the Biden administration because they're
no longer wait, they are.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Still in church. Why what's his name? The ale majorcis Yeah,
just tripled.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I think it was the length of the work permits
for illegal immigrants who get those specials.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I didn't know. I didn't hear that. Didn't vote.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
No, No, it's not nowhere in the media, but they
just declared it with the stroke of the pen. So
behind the scenes and sometimes in front of them, they're
doing everything they can in the final weeks.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
To further pervert the way the US functions.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Ian Bremer tweeted out the numbers yesterday.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Some more than eight million people came into this country
during the Biden administration. It's the largest movement of human
beings on Earth in the history of the planet. Happened
because he had a democratic presidency. They didn't care about this,
and nobody voted for it. Nobody wasn't a topic of
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conversation or no debates.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
It just happened. Right. It's outrageous, It is horrifying. It's criminal.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah, speaking of criminal, I know, I know how you feel.
You're watching the view and you're thinking, boy, this is great,
but it'd be better if Bill Clinton.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Was on Who's still Who's president elected? A ninety two?
Still younger than Joe Biden? Yes, yeah, and Trump? Right,
I think so.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Anyway, here's Billy Jeff on the View talking about well,
I think it becomes fairly clear what he's talking about.
Speaker 8 (19:55):
Do you think it would be wise of President Biden
to preemptively part in any potential targets? What about your wife,
Hillary Clinton? She apparently is on cash Beteil's list.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Yeah, well, they got a problem with her because.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
First she didn't do anything wrong. Of course, seconds, she.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Followed the rules exactly as they were written. Third, Trump's
State department. Trump's State department found they remember how the
emails was such a big issue In twenty sixteen, Trump's
State department found that Hillary sent and received exactly zero
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classified emails on her purfle device.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
It was a hole. That was a made up phony story. Wow.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
So they're discussing Hillary's emails on the View with Bill Clinton,
who's the same age as Donald Trump and four years
younger than Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Preemptive pardons for Hillary? Is this a thing?
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Charlemagne, the god who gets quoted a lot or variety
of reasons, who does a radio show or a podcast
or whatever he does and talks to Democrats all the time,
said today, Charlemagne thengan warns old ass Biden better not
hand out preemptive pardons for Trump rivals, like Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Makes you look guilty.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
I would say, if I'm Hillary, I'm like, hey, hey, dude,
I know I haven't seen you.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
In a while. But Bill, don't bring me into this.
It's just leave me out of it.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Please, You're gonna pardon me in avest for what I
haven't done anything. Yeah, that's so odd. I want to
hear Jonathan Turley's comment on this, Michael one oh three, and.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Part of it is to try to fulfill the narrative.
Speaker 9 (21:43):
The nightmare for Democrats is that democracy is not going
to collapse, that people are not going to be taken
in mass to camps, as was stated on various programs.
That's a real problem if democracy actually survives. The best
way to blunt that and to preserve the narrative and say, oh, well,
you know, there are these white Knight pardons that that
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Biden saved America by pardoning whole categories of people. So
we couldn't do that, and that's the only backup position
that they have.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
But you now have this strange thing like Bill.
Speaker 9 (22:14):
Clinton saying, you know, I really think that my wife
should be on that list. You've got commentators saying I
need to be on that list, and the list of
nauties are getting longer for this season.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
That's an interesting take.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
They're reinforcing the narrative that it's going to be turned
into the Third Reich, and so we must grant these
pardons to the good and righteous before the monstrous Who's office?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
All right?
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Yeah, see back to the immigration thing we touched on briefly,
just because Majorcus's name came up in Bremer tweeted this out.
Total net migration under Biden's administration likely to exceed eight
million people, a faster pace than the peak years of
Ellis Island, which is when we desperately needed more human
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beings to settle an empty country. Completely different situation. Anybody
who uses, you know, the mid eighteen hundreds is a
standard for immigration, I mean, what the hell? It makes
no sense, But we now have the highest percentage of
foreign born in our country that we've ever had. Who
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voted for that, Maybe you think it's a good idea
of find, but we didn't have a debate about it,
we didn't vote for it. It wasn't a policy decision,
just happened to wille Nelly.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Read a great editorial by an employer last night.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I think it was he was.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
The gist of what he was saying was he has many,
many immigrant employees. He said, unless you're a huge and
can hide illegals or so small, nobody's ever going to
check you. It's really hard to employ illegal aliens in
his business anyway. And he said, so he strictly deals
with lawful immigrants, aliens who have you know, paperwork. But
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he said, look, it's this simple. They work hard. I
can't hire native born Americans who will work hard.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
The immigrants there is way way better.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
So yeah, no, I can't find white people are native
people to do these jobs.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Right, similar to those clips we played from sixty minutes
a couple of weeks ago where those farmers in California
were saying, look, I pay higher than anybody around. I
can pay twenty six dollars an hour. No American citizens
going to do this work. Get up early and come
out here and work in the field.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
How can that? I just I don't know, how can.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
That could be true? Other than the welfare state. There's
another way to feed yourself.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yeah, Well, as a politician, so I've got the corporate
fathers and mothers hanging down my door saying, hey, I
got to have workers. All right, You've built a welfare
state where people don't have to work, and so many
of them don't. They're on drugs, and you, you know,
enable them to do that. As we were discussing earlier, well,
as a politician, am I going to tell my voters,
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my potential voters, you know what the problem is. You're
a lazy bump. You got to get off your ass
and get a job.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Or more specifically, maybe your kids are lazy. You raise
the lazy kids.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Right, right?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Or do you with a wink and a nod open
the back door and let the country get flooded with
the foreigners who may or may not give a crap
about this country, may or may.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Not be gang members. That I can go on and on,
but you get the point. The border is secure.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Well, politicians are always going to do that which is easiest.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Before I change the topic slightly, I would say a
society that has to import people because their citizens feel
like hard work is not for them is doomed by
definition doomed, but slightly different topic similar though we're doing
the weave, we're doing the Trump weave where we go
from one thing to another, but they all kind of
fit into a mosaic of some do you want to
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bring up Hannibal Lecter or shall I Have you seen
the TV ad? It looks like it's an apartment or
a home, but kind a nice.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Looking, clean place.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
You got a dad looking sitting there, looking like perfectly
capable dad. He's sitting there with the sun at dinner,
and Dad's got nothing in front of him at the
dinner table, and the kid's eating and the kid says, Dad,
aren't you gonna eat something? He says, oh no, no,
I eat a big lunch. So I don't need anything.
It's parents are going hungry to make sure their kids
get Where is that happening anywhere in the freaking United States?
(26:36):
Where you got what appears to be like a middle
class dad skipping dinners, who we can kid eat?
Speaker 2 (26:41):
His kid can eat? Is that happening? Am I wrong?
Maybe I'm wrong and I'm cold hearted.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
But I don't think that's happening anywhere in the country,
let alone such a.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
Crisis we have to run ads for it.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I know it's an excuse for more, you know, government
intervention and redistribution of income and funding for various programs
and subsidies for farmers. The Department of Agricultures is completely
messed up the communists?
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Who does that work on? Who doesn't see that and thinks?
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Whoa Where is there a middle class dad somewhere who's
going without foods?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Who is kin can eat? Where is that happening? Can't
scrape up a baloney sandwich?
Speaker 4 (27:20):
They're that destitute with the seventy five different programs, including
your kid's school, that would be more than happy to
give you more food than you could eat.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Yeah, I just it drives me nuts.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Yeah, soft heads, So we've got the highest number.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
I got to look that up to make sure I'm
getting it right, but I know the percentages thing.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Raw number is different.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
But we got more people of working age and not
working men not working than we had during the Great Depression.
And we're bringing in people from another country because those people,
the Americans, won't do the job running anty unholy to
even ask them to. But they're not doing a job,
and they're surviving somehow, right, they're living, and they're in
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living shelter getting food while we run PSA's probably paid
for by the tax fur and almost certainly paid for
by the taxpayer to try to convince people that dads
are skipping meals, parents are skipping meals so their kids
don't go hungry.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Oh what.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Try and enough change for a hot pocket? There, Pop,
you're sitting there literally chewing on the air. You got nothing.
You got no boloney sandwich, you got no hot dog,
you got nothing.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
I'm not mocking hunger. I'm mocking the idea that this
is happening anywhere. Or do you think I'm stupid enough
to fall for that, aren't you?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Why do you think they keep redefining what we're supposed
to be concerned about from hunger to poverty, to being
less than a living wage to food insecurity.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
By the way, dad's kind of fat in that ad.
That doesn't help. Can we get an actor that's not
so heavy? This is really not working for the narrative.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Maybe he should skip a meal?
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Yeah right, Michael, Oh, geez wow, right wing poverty stricken,
right wing MAGA talk show hosts mock hunger and radio
show I'll be on enjoy read tonight.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
I hope we will finish strong. Next? Is that Elsa?
I don't know why I'm so amused by that? What
was that? Early sixties?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Probably style of background singers got the.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Choir echoing every line. Quinn, So I should read this text?
I guess to be fair.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
First of all, we got a whole bunch of texts
saying the dad in that p s A for hunger
is fat?
Speaker 5 (29:41):
Why did they choose a fat guy to play the
back is kind of odd?
Speaker 1 (29:45):
But the others got slow metaboles, a little bit of
man my metabolism right, lim Malone.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
And I can't verify the authenticity of any text.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Maybe I should start doing that. I'll do that with
my free time. Figure out the number. I'll call them
at home, and I'll get a noted republic. Notary republic.
We got this text single dad here. I work sixty
to seventy hours a week, income around fifty to sixty thousand.
I've lost forty pounds from my healthy weight because I
can't afford to get both my son and I food.
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I agree that AD is dumb, but many of us
out here are giving most of our income to mom
and still paying the full load for the kid. I
could do it two years ago, but now I have
to forego many many meals. That sounds like more like
a divorce law problem than a maybe anything else.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
But yeah, I would say, yeah, yeah, And I'm sorry
to hear that. Oh awful. It's off on several different levels.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Don't you qualify for some of the many many programs
we have out there? Or maybe you don't want to
use them, or maybe they're too complicated to use.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Either could be here They look at his gross income
and ignore the fact that the ex gets.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Half of it or whatever it is. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
I do not know, sir, But that's that's terrible. Anyway,
Where were we moving along?
Speaker 4 (31:02):
I have the choice today speaking of eating. Yes, between
eating pie for the fifth day in a row or
at some point throwing pie out.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I guess.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
They ought to keep right freeze. Oh, I see what
you're saying. Either eat it, you know, next days in
a row.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Or throw them out.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
Yeah, you can't throw out a homemade pie.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Well you've made the decision, then, Michael, you just have
to live with it. I'd switched to the cheesecake. That's
not an answer. Pivot to the cheesecake. I'm pivoting kind
of slowly after eating all the pie.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
I'll tell you what you eat pie every single day,
you you will be beyond regular.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Wow. Thank you for that complete change of time topic.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Please.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
How young a woman could seventy two year old Bill
Belichick be with that? It not be creepy. It's already
super weird. I mean, I mean, there's seventy two.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
She's twenty eight. His former cheerleader girlfriend. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
So he was a coach of the New England Patriots
through all those Tom Brady Championships. He gets divorced, he
starts dating one of the cheerleaders on the team when
she was twenty four.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I think someone again.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
Okay, he's almost fifty years older than her.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
I mean, I don't know what the cutoff is for
where it goes from just an age gap to you
know that not everybody agrees with to clearly crazy. But
this is on the other side of clearly crazy, isn't
it fifty years? I mean she has to have some
sort of dad issue.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
She has to she has to stick here, or she's
a gold digger.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean because he's he is a
handsome seventy two year old. He's very successful and extremely bright.
I mean he's he's a great catch. Almost fifty years
is a long time. Yeah, yeah, I get it from his.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Oh i'd feel creepy.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
I would feel super creepy all the time, especially you're
hanging out with their friends and stuff.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Oh, that'd be a rough, stupid conscience. Shut up, I'm strong.
It's us. I'm strong. You're ready and.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Strong. I guess it's hard for me to picture because
for me to go fifty years, I have to get
into like grade school. So okay, yeah, wow, So I
don't I can't picture what that's like.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
He ask me again when I'm seventy five.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Yeah, well they'll do. Here's your host final.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the
coon to wrap things up to the day.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
There he is pressing the buttons. Mike Langelow, Michael, what's
your final thought?
Speaker 7 (34:07):
Keep seeing all these wonderful Christmas light displays in my neighborhood,
So I try to put some lights up.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
They came out all crooked, and one of the strands
just went out, So I got to redo the.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Whole thing way to make Jesus cry. Christmas. Light's harder
and more dangerous than it looks. Katie Green a final
thought for us.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
Yeah, I should have listened to you yesterday, Joe, because
I went to the gym, and I promise you, if
I had just stayed on my couch, I would not
be as sore as I am today.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Yeah, that's painful. Your body is talking to you. Stay
on the couch. Jack final thought.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
Well, I'll do approach him an I get in almost
every single day, missed maybe one day in the last
two months, me and Henry, and we feel better than
we've ever felt. And the momentum, it's all about the momentum.
Once you go get the momentum going, it's so much
easier to keep it going as opposed to the inertia
of not doing it, which seems like your feet are
made of lead, and the idea of working out sounds horrible.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Speak of not doing things.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
My final thought is this, figure out what those freaking
drones are up to.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
You have forty eight hours.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
We're being invaded or surveilled or attacked or something.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Figure it out.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
No kidding, Armstrong and Getty wrapick. I'm aut of the
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The ang store is open for business. You can drop
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What's your experience working with quote unquote the homeless? What
percentage your drug addicts? What's the real problem?
Speaker 2 (35:29):
For instance? Drop us a line.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
Yeah, We'll see tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
God bless America.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
I'm strong and Getty. I will not sugarcoat this. This
is a disappointing day for us.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
I expected more the ketchup of journalism with the mustard
of undercover work, but there's no freaking burger.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
This is insane. So I'm gonna get some cheeks after this. Really,
but you have to pay attention to the cries that
people have so what now, I haven't said a word,
so stop yelling at me. Okay, thank you all very much.
Armstrong and Getty
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Speaker 3 (00:25):
Google unveiled a new quantum computer that it claims can
do tasks in minutes that would take a traditional supercomputer
ten septillion years to complete. Just something to think about
while you're watching porn on it.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Wow, that is something I hadn't heard that specifically. I
heard a tease the other day that this Google chip
is gonna just like blow everything out of the water
and change everything. I don't do any tasks that are
very hard. Yeah, what's the temperature in Kansas City? I mean,
you know, I don't need super computing power to figure
that out.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I've bought a couple of laptops and or iPads recently,
and you know, I use a lot of Apple products
and they have such amazing capabilities right now for you know,
doing audio and video production, and that takes a really
really zoomy computer. And I always think, you know, what
I might I might get into that someday I might
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start editing that, maybe I'll make a.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Movie that's what I'll do.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
But you're right, a lot of these capabilities are so
beyond ninety nine percent of what everybody uses it for.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
I'd have a friend who was a PhD, and a
lot of the projects that they would work on, they
would have their computer running all day and all night
to get the project done. And I suppose for a
person like that this sort of leap forward to be
a big deal instead of like fifteen hours of your
computer running.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
And do it in a second. It'll all be used
for porn and bitcoin, bitcoin, mighty.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Streaming and Netflix series. This is the most hilarious thing
I've seen today. So I read Mark Alprin's newsletter that
Trump is trying to make a show out of the inauguration,
which is not surprising, and that Trump was very bummed
that his first inauguration, which I was at dressed as
(02:18):
a spy. I was at the first inauguration, and but
it was still under the full cloud of suspicion of
Russia rigged it and everything, and just it was all
kinds of weird and like not taken seriously by mainstream media.
All that's out the window now, right, and he's being
taken completely seriously, and he wants it to be like
(02:40):
star studded and fun and like a show, because he's
a guy who puts on shows.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
He's a TV guy anyway.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
So I just came across this Village People founder talks
possibility of performing YMCA at the inauguration. I can see
somehow Trump has the Village People guy up there and
the whole crowd's doing the YMCA.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
You give me a Beatles reunion or that. I've got
to choose though, IMCA Jack.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I can see that sort of thing.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Yeah, a right of like Dalist celebrities.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Even if it's like really really good, there will be
aspects of it that are incredibly campy. Oh but why
wouldn't there be. He's you know, he's a populist entertainer.
He's not gonna apologize for Jeff Foxworthy, you know, for instance,
that that sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
I'll have a comedian come up and besmirch the Puerto
Ricans or something before you again, because.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
That cost him the election. Oh that's right.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
It didn't cause a freaking flip. It is a nat
farting one hundred miles away.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
It was a non event, and it was written up
like it was the Hindenburgs. Mister President, if you could
put your right hand on the same Bible that Lincoln used,
I will. But right after I tell you about these
new tennis shoes that I have coming out covered in
gold with an American flag. Here's some real news just
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came out today. Remember we were having skyrocketing drug overdose
deaths each year, we'd be more amazed by how many
people had died. First time in a while, it's gone down.
Drug overdose deaths in the United States fell seventeen percent
year to year, according to the CDC. I wonder if
we've just maxed out on the number of people that
(04:28):
do hard drugs. Eventually all of them are going to
be dead, aren't they.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Uh yeah, I mean certainly new people are getting addicted
all the time, but I'm hoping not nearly as much.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
You know, Well, I.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Don't want to jump the gun, because we're going to
do something really interesting and important.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
But h.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I just I want every young person to know hard
drugs are death. Even pills. Now, you just that ought
to be instead of the gender bread person. They got
to be preaching that in schools constantly. But yeah, that's
something car fentanyl, it's not. I'm not saying fentanyl. I'm
saying car Fentanyl is one hundred times more deadly than fentanyl. Apparently,
(05:11):
if you just think about it, one hundred people die
oh too late. How can it be one hundred times
more deadly than fentanyl.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I don't know anyway.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
The number of overdose deaths are overall pretty low. It's
in the hundreds over the last year, but the number
has increased sevenfold in the past year, and it could
it's threatening to reverse.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Recent drop and drug overdoses.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I certainly hope not. TRN addiction is a terrible, terrible thing.
Well yeah, and all over the world.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
So I didn't know that Asad they're in Syria, was
running a narco state to a certain extent with whatever
the name of that drug is, their version of fentanyl
that had devastated the entire Middle East.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
I heard MBS talking about it the other day.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Finally we can, maybe you know, get a handle on
this because it's killing so many people in Saudi Arabia
and Egypt and Jordan and all over young people taking
these drugs. And Assad was behind the manufacturing, sale of
it and profiting. It was like he was running a
giant drug cartel around this drug. It's amazing help of
some Islamis groups too. It's just utterly unholy, you know, cabal.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
You wouldn't think it would work because word to get around.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
Now.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
You don't want to take this because it'll kill you,
but I heard it makes you feel really good. Yeah,
but it kills like half the people who take it.
But I heard it makes you feel really good. Apparently
wins the day. As an argument, Well, if.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
It were half, I think you'd have an argument.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
But if you tell it an actual junkie, a drug
addict that you know the actual statistics, one person out
of fifteen hundred is something awful happened to them or
whatever that number is.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Yeah, I wonder what the number is. It's closer to
yours than mine by far.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
But they'd say, shut up, give me a hit.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah, I suppose speaking which I have revolutionary idea here.
We have the best most important email of the month,
perhaps the year. Want to touch on it again? Why
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Do we have a prize for that email of the month?
Do we send the move one mitz or something.
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Wow, please please, let's.
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Take a break or something. I didn't know when I
was younger.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Someday I would have a brand that it would be
on underwear that would give out his gifts.
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Speaker 5 (07:45):
So my name can be spread across your genitalia. Yes, Katie, No,
just how about that break you know? Oh right, yes,
Joe was going to take a break and.
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To keep those things in place, which I guess is
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Speaker 2 (08:10):
Best of its ability. You can only ask it to
do so much.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Well, you have the email of the month next all Christmas?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
What's stopping you? Talent? I didn't get a good instrument
like that.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I just didn't I sound like an angry jackass when
I said it? Anyway, Uh, this is incredibly important and serious.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
We've been talking about how the term homeless is just
it's beyond useless. It's misleading because what is notable about
streaked people is not the fact that they do not
have a permanent address. That is not the primary issue.
It's drug addiction. And as one of our beloved listeners
suggested the term, I'd love to give them credit. Where
(09:05):
did I put it?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Oh, well, it's.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
BJ said transient drug Addicts tdas We're talking about this
the other other day and got the attention of al
or Aleen Anonymous, who said some really nice things about
the show, which we appreciate very much. But I work
with homeless in certain California cities, most challenging areas, lists
(09:29):
them and just about every street with significant homeless encampments
and quotes. I was listening to you this morning yesterday,
Well you were dropping truth bombs about the homeless on
the radio, and I found myself yelling, yes, finally someone
gets it, because you're absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
We don't have a homeless problem. What we have is
a drug problem.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Eighty five percent of the folks I work with our
battling drug addiction. Another ten percent are mentally ill because
of drug addiction. They're remaining five percent they're just mentally
ill and need can in a space that can help them.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
While many quote unquote.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Homeless advocates argue that most homeless individuals are simply struggling
abused moms or families in need of assistance, in my
five years of experience working in the toughest parts of
our city, I have encountered only one such family one.
The rest middle aged men and women, mostly trapped in
a cycle of addiction, who will say or do anything
(10:24):
to feed their habit.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
I would think there'd be enough people on the left
who are sympathetic to that crowd that they'd want to
identify the actual problem.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
You would think that, wouldn't you.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
You'd think being completely ineffective would cause people to reassess
their perceptions and their strategies. But that's just not a
great strength of the left anyway.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Run one unfortunate medical bill away from being homeless, and,
as we've been saying for years, yeah you whatever, medical bill,
lose your job, whatever, and you start doing meth.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
And move under a bridge.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah, clearly sure the solutions in quotes we keep hearing
about like tiny homes are just band aids on bullet wounds.
The county's current plan is building a few hundred homes,
he mentions the location. Unless there's a serious plan for
dealing with addiction, you're just creating a drug camp. By
serious plan, I mean more than the tired line we
hear that quote. Support services will be provided. Politicians love
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the optics of tiny homes because people see something and
that looks like action to solve the problem. But when
the rules are broken at the tiny home settlements is
inevitably they are. These folks end up right back on
the streets. The turnover rate is astounding. I'm not sure
if anyone power is noticed, but drug addicts don't obey
rules very well. And add to the fact that it
takes forty five days, yes, forty five days are system
(11:50):
stinks to have a person cleared for intake services. Unfortunately,
that's typically forty four days after they've disappeared back into
the fog to do more drugs. Why not force ree well,
rehab and jack. You've talked about this fair amount has
a ninety four percent failure rate. The first time around,
and politicians know voters won't stomach a pro program. That's
(12:10):
nine hundred and forty thousand dollars of failure for every
million dollars spent. Plus ninety percent of addicts refuse services
outright because it cuts into their getting high time. For context,
thirty five dollars can purchase an eight ball. That's a
pretty good quantity of drugs, providing a high for several days,
provided they do not share. Five dollars keeps them high
(12:32):
for a day. In all you people handing out cash
at stop lights stop, they use the cash to buy
drugs and they throw the food away.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Addicts aren't known for huge appetites.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
I see it all the time in my car at
an intersection. You know, they roll down the window and
give some ace some money. What do you think you're doing,
soft heart, soft head?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
The truth is al rites that people change when the
pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of change.
Every recovering addict I've worked with acknowledges that they had
to reach their lowest point before they could turn things around. However,
as a society where excessively preoccupied with mitigating the consequences,
we feed house and provide medical care, creating a dual
(13:17):
dependency city services and drug dealers.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
The dealers love it.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
If we want real change, we need drug courts back,
we need accountability, we need punishment, and we need to
stop pretending the problem is something it's not. We need
to stop acting like a longtime drug addict as the
same mental capacity in rights that everyone else does. Most
addicts will not seek help for their addiction to reach
the lowest point. It's just too easy to stay high
and there's very little incentive for them to change. Interestingly,
(13:46):
we have a chance to save them if they reach
their lowest point within the first two years of their addiction.
After that, the situation becomes unpredictable. In other words, the worst,
most horrible and cruel thing you can do to you
human being is mitigate the consequences of their addiction.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
That's the worst.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Thing you can do, and we're doing it systematically to
the cost of billions of dollars.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
I don't really know anything about drug addiction, but that's
really interesting that if you don't catch them in the
first two years, it gets much much harder. So, yeah,
if you can allow people to get past that two
year mark by providing them food, shelter, whatever.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Then they're freaking doomed. You've doomed them.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
How about that that's beyond then whise that's evil. At
some point, misguided becomes evil. If you guard your misguidedness
for reasons of ego and virtue signaling and the rest
of it, you are killing people with kindness.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
And that's on the drug addic side of it, not
to mention the law abiding, not drug addicts side of life,
where you just wish you could have your park or
safe sidewalk, or have your business stay open or whatever.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
You know, you're right.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
A person could make the argument, there's no effing reason
we should be putting up with this. So appreciate the
screen about addiction, but why don't we start there. Yeah,
it's the divide between people who can take in reality
and say this is gonna hurt to do this. There's
(15:25):
gonna be pain, it's gonna pain me to do this,
but it's got to happen those people and those who
just can't face up to that.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
That's one of the biggest gulfs that exists.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
I don't know who said this first, but it's really
really good that conservatives hate people but love humanity. Liberals
love humans but hate humanity.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Wops it. I think I don't.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
I don't think so works so well in these situations
because if you're a liberal, you think, here's this human,
this downtrodden human, I'm gonna give them some money and
some food so we'll have a good day. You're damaging
humanity by doing that, the the overall culture, the overall
society by doing that.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Yeah, well lead to more.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Right. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
I was happy to see Elon Musk on this topic
over the weekend, pointing out, yeah, it's a drug addiction problem.
When are we going to wake up to that? Because
he's got a pretty big platform.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Right right.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
But again, as we mentioned earlier, there are billions of
dollars being handed out with the excuse of quote unquote homelessness,
and that gravy train is what keeps politicians in power.
That handing out money and receiving votes and power back
building more nearly as much money and tough love.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Building more tiny homes at the cost of billions and
billions of dollars and accomplishing nothing with the drug addiction problem.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yep, insane.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
God, that's so frustrating me thought wise, it's evil. Our
text line is four one five.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
K fte Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 7 (17:06):
Well, it's been twelve days since President Biden shocked many
by breaking his promise and issuing a sweeping pardon for
his son Hunter. Now, as you mentioned, the President issuing
clemency for nearly fifteen hundred Americans convicted on a variety
of crimes overnight. Biden said most of today's commutations will
impact people who are placed on home confinement during the
pandemic and have shown personal growth. We haven't gotten the
(17:26):
full list yet of those impacted. The White House says,
among the thirty nine who were issued full pardons, none
were violent offenders. In a statement, the President says he'll
take more steps in the weeks ahead. The administration will
continue reviewing clemency petitions to advance equal justice, promote public safety,
support rehabilitation and re entry, and provide meaningful second chances.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Wouldn't someone want their act somewhat together? Have done that
with Hunter's pardon, to try to make it seem like
I'm partnering Hunter and for all the other people out
there that have suffered the wrath of drug addiction or
something or other.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Blah, blah, yeah, exactly, Yeah, you're right, that would have
been a little more graceful. Joe Biden is a non
compass meant his mummy, so obviously his aides are using
their final moments in the White House to change the
landscape anyway they can, with all sorts of commutations and
(18:22):
clemencies and uh, what's his face?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
The waste of skin.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
See, I've already forgotten about the Biden administration because they're
no longer wait, they are.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Still in church. Why what's his name? The ale majorcis Yeah,
just tripled.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I think it was the length of the work permits
for illegal immigrants who get those specials.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I didn't know. I didn't hear that. Didn't vote.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
No, No, it's not nowhere in the media, but they
just declared it with the stroke of the pen. So
behind the scenes and sometimes in front of them, they're
doing everything they can in the final weeks.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
To further pervert the way the US functions.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Ian Bremer tweeted out the numbers yesterday.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Some more than eight million people came into this country
during the Biden administration. It's the largest movement of human
beings on Earth in the history of the planet. Happened
because he had a democratic presidency. They didn't care about this,
and nobody voted for it. Nobody wasn't a topic of
(19:21):
conversation or no debates.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
It just happened. Right. It's outrageous, It is horrifying. It's criminal.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah, speaking of criminal, I know, I know how you feel.
You're watching the view and you're thinking, boy, this is great,
but it'd be better if Bill Clinton.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Was on Who's still Who's president elected? A ninety two?
Still younger than Joe Biden? Yes, yeah, and Trump? Right,
I think so.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Anyway, here's Billy Jeff on the View talking about well,
I think it becomes fairly clear what he's talking about.
Speaker 8 (19:55):
Do you think it would be wise of President Biden
to preemptively part in any potential targets? What about your wife,
Hillary Clinton? She apparently is on cash Beteil's list.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Yeah, well, they got a problem with her because.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
First she didn't do anything wrong. Of course, seconds, she.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Followed the rules exactly as they were written. Third, Trump's
State department. Trump's State department found they remember how the
emails was such a big issue In twenty sixteen, Trump's
State department found that Hillary sent and received exactly zero
(20:37):
classified emails on her purfle device.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
It was a hole. That was a made up phony story. Wow.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
So they're discussing Hillary's emails on the View with Bill Clinton,
who's the same age as Donald Trump and four years
younger than Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Preemptive pardons for Hillary? Is this a thing?
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Charlemagne, the god who gets quoted a lot or variety
of reasons, who does a radio show or a podcast
or whatever he does and talks to Democrats all the time,
said today, Charlemagne thengan warns old ass Biden better not
hand out preemptive pardons for Trump rivals, like Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Makes you look guilty.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
I would say, if I'm Hillary, I'm like, hey, hey, dude,
I know I haven't seen you.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
In a while. But Bill, don't bring me into this.
It's just leave me out of it.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Please, You're gonna pardon me in avest for what I
haven't done anything. Yeah, that's so odd. I want to
hear Jonathan Turley's comment on this, Michael one oh three, and.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Part of it is to try to fulfill the narrative.
Speaker 9 (21:43):
The nightmare for Democrats is that democracy is not going
to collapse, that people are not going to be taken
in mass to camps, as was stated on various programs.
That's a real problem if democracy actually survives. The best
way to blunt that and to preserve the narrative and say, oh, well,
you know, there are these white Knight pardons that that
(22:04):
Biden saved America by pardoning whole categories of people. So
we couldn't do that, and that's the only backup position
that they have.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
But you now have this strange thing like Bill.
Speaker 9 (22:14):
Clinton saying, you know, I really think that my wife
should be on that list. You've got commentators saying I
need to be on that list, and the list of
nauties are getting longer for this season.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
That's an interesting take.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
They're reinforcing the narrative that it's going to be turned
into the Third Reich, and so we must grant these
pardons to the good and righteous before the monstrous Who's office?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
All right?
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Yeah, see back to the immigration thing we touched on briefly,
just because Majorcus's name came up in Bremer tweeted this out.
Total net migration under Biden's administration likely to exceed eight
million people, a faster pace than the peak years of
Ellis Island, which is when we desperately needed more human
(23:03):
beings to settle an empty country. Completely different situation. Anybody
who uses, you know, the mid eighteen hundreds is a
standard for immigration, I mean, what the hell? It makes
no sense, But we now have the highest percentage of
foreign born in our country that we've ever had. Who
(23:23):
voted for that, Maybe you think it's a good idea
of find, but we didn't have a debate about it,
we didn't vote for it. It wasn't a policy decision,
just happened to wille Nelly.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Read a great editorial by an employer last night.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I think it was he was.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
The gist of what he was saying was he has many,
many immigrant employees. He said, unless you're a huge and
can hide illegals or so small, nobody's ever going to
check you. It's really hard to employ illegal aliens in
his business anyway. And he said, so he strictly deals
with lawful immigrants, aliens who have you know, paperwork. But
(24:03):
he said, look, it's this simple. They work hard. I
can't hire native born Americans who will work hard.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
The immigrants there is way way better.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
So yeah, no, I can't find white people are native
people to do these jobs.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Right, similar to those clips we played from sixty minutes
a couple of weeks ago where those farmers in California
were saying, look, I pay higher than anybody around. I
can pay twenty six dollars an hour. No American citizens
going to do this work. Get up early and come
out here and work in the field.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
How can that? I just I don't know, how can.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
That could be true? Other than the welfare state. There's
another way to feed yourself.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yeah, Well, as a politician, so I've got the corporate
fathers and mothers hanging down my door saying, hey, I
got to have workers. All right, You've built a welfare
state where people don't have to work, and so many
of them don't. They're on drugs, and you, you know,
enable them to do that. As we were discussing earlier, well,
as a politician, am I going to tell my voters,
(25:09):
my potential voters, you know what the problem is. You're
a lazy bump. You got to get off your ass
and get a job.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Or more specifically, maybe your kids are lazy. You raise
the lazy kids.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Right, right?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Or do you with a wink and a nod open
the back door and let the country get flooded with
the foreigners who may or may not give a crap
about this country, may or may.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Not be gang members. That I can go on and on,
but you get the point. The border is secure.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Well, politicians are always going to do that which is easiest.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Before I change the topic slightly, I would say a
society that has to import people because their citizens feel
like hard work is not for them is doomed by
definition doomed, but slightly different topic similar though we're doing
the weave, we're doing the Trump weave where we go
from one thing to another, but they all kind of
fit into a mosaic of some do you want to
(26:01):
bring up Hannibal Lecter or shall I Have you seen
the TV ad? It looks like it's an apartment or
a home, but kind a nice.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Looking, clean place.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
You got a dad looking sitting there, looking like perfectly
capable dad. He's sitting there with the sun at dinner,
and Dad's got nothing in front of him at the
dinner table, and the kid's eating and the kid says, Dad,
aren't you gonna eat something? He says, oh no, no,
I eat a big lunch. So I don't need anything.
It's parents are going hungry to make sure their kids
get Where is that happening anywhere in the freaking United States?
(26:36):
Where you got what appears to be like a middle
class dad skipping dinners, who we can kid eat?
Speaker 2 (26:41):
His kid can eat? Is that happening? Am I wrong?
Maybe I'm wrong and I'm cold hearted.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
But I don't think that's happening anywhere in the country,
let alone such a.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
Crisis we have to run ads for it.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I know it's an excuse for more, you know, government
intervention and redistribution of income and funding for various programs
and subsidies for farmers. The Department of Agricultures is completely
messed up the communists?
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Who does that work on? Who doesn't see that and thinks?
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Whoa Where is there a middle class dad somewhere who's
going without foods?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Who is kin can eat? Where is that happening? Can't
scrape up a baloney sandwich?
Speaker 4 (27:20):
They're that destitute with the seventy five different programs, including
your kid's school, that would be more than happy to
give you more food than you could eat.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Yeah, I just it drives me nuts.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Yeah, soft heads, So we've got the highest number.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
I got to look that up to make sure I'm
getting it right, but I know the percentages thing.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Raw number is different.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
But we got more people of working age and not
working men not working than we had during the Great Depression.
And we're bringing in people from another country because those people,
the Americans, won't do the job running anty unholy to
even ask them to. But they're not doing a job,
and they're surviving somehow, right, they're living, and they're in
(28:06):
living shelter getting food while we run PSA's probably paid
for by the tax fur and almost certainly paid for
by the taxpayer to try to convince people that dads
are skipping meals, parents are skipping meals so their kids
don't go hungry.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Oh what.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Try and enough change for a hot pocket? There, Pop,
you're sitting there literally chewing on the air. You got nothing.
You got no boloney sandwich, you got no hot dog,
you got nothing.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
I'm not mocking hunger. I'm mocking the idea that this
is happening anywhere. Or do you think I'm stupid enough
to fall for that, aren't you?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Why do you think they keep redefining what we're supposed
to be concerned about from hunger to poverty, to being
less than a living wage to food insecurity.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
By the way, dad's kind of fat in that ad.
That doesn't help. Can we get an actor that's not
so heavy? This is really not working for the narrative.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Maybe he should skip a meal?
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Yeah right, Michael, Oh, geez wow, right wing poverty stricken,
right wing MAGA talk show hosts mock hunger and radio
show I'll be on enjoy read tonight.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
I hope we will finish strong. Next? Is that Elsa?
I don't know why I'm so amused by that? What
was that? Early sixties?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Probably style of background singers got the.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Choir echoing every line. Quinn, So I should read this text?
I guess to be fair.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
First of all, we got a whole bunch of texts
saying the dad in that p s A for hunger
is fat?
Speaker 5 (29:41):
Why did they choose a fat guy to play the
back is kind of odd?
Speaker 1 (29:45):
But the others got slow metaboles, a little bit of
man my metabolism right, lim Malone.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
And I can't verify the authenticity of any text.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Maybe I should start doing that. I'll do that with
my free time. Figure out the number. I'll call them
at home, and I'll get a noted republic. Notary republic.
We got this text single dad here. I work sixty
to seventy hours a week, income around fifty to sixty thousand.
I've lost forty pounds from my healthy weight because I
can't afford to get both my son and I food.
(30:13):
I agree that AD is dumb, but many of us
out here are giving most of our income to mom
and still paying the full load for the kid. I
could do it two years ago, but now I have
to forego many many meals. That sounds like more like
a divorce law problem than a maybe anything else.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
But yeah, I would say, yeah, yeah, And I'm sorry
to hear that. Oh awful. It's off on several different levels.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Don't you qualify for some of the many many programs
we have out there? Or maybe you don't want to
use them, or maybe they're too complicated to use.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Either could be here They look at his gross income
and ignore the fact that the ex gets.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Half of it or whatever it is. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
I do not know, sir, But that's that's terrible. Anyway,
Where were we moving along?
Speaker 4 (31:02):
I have the choice today speaking of eating. Yes, between
eating pie for the fifth day in a row or
at some point throwing pie out.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I guess.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
They ought to keep right freeze. Oh, I see what
you're saying. Either eat it, you know, next days in
a row.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Or throw them out.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
Yeah, you can't throw out a homemade pie.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Well you've made the decision, then, Michael, you just have
to live with it. I'd switched to the cheesecake. That's
not an answer. Pivot to the cheesecake. I'm pivoting kind
of slowly after eating all the pie.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
I'll tell you what you eat pie every single day,
you you will be beyond regular.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Wow. Thank you for that complete change of time topic.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Please.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
How young a woman could seventy two year old Bill
Belichick be with that? It not be creepy. It's already
super weird. I mean, I mean, there's seventy two.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
She's twenty eight. His former cheerleader girlfriend. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
So he was a coach of the New England Patriots
through all those Tom Brady Championships. He gets divorced, he
starts dating one of the cheerleaders on the team when
she was twenty four.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I think someone again.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
Okay, he's almost fifty years older than her.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
I mean, I don't know what the cutoff is for
where it goes from just an age gap to you
know that not everybody agrees with to clearly crazy. But
this is on the other side of clearly crazy, isn't
it fifty years? I mean she has to have some
sort of dad issue.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
She has to she has to stick here, or she's
a gold digger.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean because he's he is a
handsome seventy two year old. He's very successful and extremely bright.
I mean he's he's a great catch. Almost fifty years
is a long time. Yeah, yeah, I get it from his.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Oh i'd feel creepy.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
I would feel super creepy all the time, especially you're
hanging out with their friends and stuff.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Oh, that'd be a rough, stupid conscience. Shut up, I'm strong.
It's us. I'm strong. You're ready and.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Strong. I guess it's hard for me to picture because
for me to go fifty years, I have to get
into like grade school. So okay, yeah, wow, So I
don't I can't picture what that's like.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
He ask me again when I'm seventy five.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Yeah, well they'll do. Here's your host final.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the
coon to wrap things up to the day.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
There he is pressing the buttons. Mike Langelow, Michael, what's
your final thought?
Speaker 7 (34:07):
Keep seeing all these wonderful Christmas light displays in my neighborhood,
So I try to put some lights up.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
They came out all crooked, and one of the strands
just went out, So I got to redo the.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Whole thing way to make Jesus cry. Christmas. Light's harder
and more dangerous than it looks. Katie Green a final
thought for us.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
Yeah, I should have listened to you yesterday, Joe, because
I went to the gym, and I promise you, if
I had just stayed on my couch, I would not
be as sore as I am today.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Yeah, that's painful. Your body is talking to you. Stay
on the couch. Jack final thought.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
Well, I'll do approach him an I get in almost
every single day, missed maybe one day in the last
two months, me and Henry, and we feel better than
we've ever felt. And the momentum, it's all about the momentum.
Once you go get the momentum going, it's so much
easier to keep it going as opposed to the inertia
of not doing it, which seems like your feet are
made of lead, and the idea of working out sounds horrible.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Speak of not doing things.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
My final thought is this, figure out what those freaking
drones are up to.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
You have forty eight hours.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
We're being invaded or surveilled or attacked or something.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Figure it out.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
No kidding, Armstrong and Getty wrapick. I'm aut of the
grueling for an hour workday. So many people will thanks
so a little time. Go to Armstrong and Getdy dot com.
The ang store is open for business. You can drop
us a line mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com.
What's your experience working with quote unquote the homeless? What
percentage your drug addicts? What's the real problem?
Speaker 2 (35:29):
For instance? Drop us a line.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
Yeah, We'll see tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
God bless America.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
I'm strong and Getty. I will not sugarcoat this. This
is a disappointing day for us.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
I expected more the ketchup of journalism with the mustard
of undercover work, but there's no freaking burger.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
This is insane. So I'm gonna get some cheeks after this. Really,
but you have to pay attention to the cries that
people have so what now, I haven't said a word,
so stop yelling at me. Okay, thank you all very much.
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