January 10, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- C.O.W. Clips of the Week & The climate change excuse
- Protecting girls in women's sports
- Why cities are so dysfunctional
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And Gatty and He Armstrong and Yetty Fonsie. Thanks. An
arsonist is causing all these fires.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Among other celebrities, the police and fire department are trying
to combat to their rumors or accusations. Henry Winkler, an
actor better known for more recent shows than what he
started in the seventies. I guess yes on Netflix and whatnot,
but Henry Winkler. The Fawns tweeted out yesterday there's an
arsenist here in La.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
May you be beaten? Unrecognizable? Wow, he fawns, We're with you.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah, cool thumbs up. Singer Chris Brown, who olive has
beaten people. I don't know if I'm recognizable or not.
Girlfriends or whatever?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Letting girlfriend yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Took to his Instagram stories on Thursday. Or someone starting
these fires? S don't add up. Some Dancing with the
Stars celebrity I've never heard of said there are five
men going around ski masks starting the fires. Keep an
eye out in all caps anyway, other than a homeless
guy that was arrested with a lighter for the Hollywood
area fire, which they got under control. I believe there
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haven't been arsonists nailed down for the two biggest fires.
I have always wondered why Al Kaita or Isis, whoever
didn't take this tact with a terrorist activity over the years.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Interesting question. I don't know. They haven't as far as
I can tell.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, And I'm not in the business of giving ideas.
I just assume that there there's a reason why they haven't.
That they're smart enough. They put a lot of thought
on this, but kind it seems like if you had
a dozen guys in the country and you picked a
particular day and did a little research California, Arizona, where
you know wherever fires you can get completely out of control,
you can do a hell of a lot of damage.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Sure, yeah, yeah, chilling stuff, so ah, A little closer
to home and manageable, I think is the question of
who is in what to office And absolutely thought provoking
think piece on why virtually every blue city in America
has gone completely sideways. And it's it's more than just
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kind of the obvious ABC one two three stuff. It's
kind of a philosophical view of their jobs that I
think you'll enjoy. Got a lot of stuff to squeeze
in final hour of the week, But first, let's take
a fun look back at the week that was.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
It's cow clips of the week, and.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
I know a lot of there's a lot of freak
out the.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Whips the week. The country is on a inside. They
discovered a steel galvanized pipe with two end caps surrounded
by two dozen rolls of nails.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
This is not a terrorist event.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
We also need to be stronger together by overcoming an
addiction to divisiveness and negativity.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
The palicates fire, burning homes and forcing thousands to run
for their lives. The were to describe what we're seeing
is just apocalyptic. An emergency personnel had to take a
bulldozer to just bulldoze them out of the way. They've
put up the hoses. The water ran dry.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
The local folks are trying to figure that out.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
There were no reductions that were made that would have
impacted the situation.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
That we were dealing with people, And one.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Of the best ways to demonstrate that there are regular
folks is to take them by that home.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
First of all, it looks like they might have built
it themselves.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Second of all, my grandfather was likely to show up
at the door in some seventies, short shorts and crops.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Character. Character, character.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
What were you talking to Barack Obama about him? It
did look very friendly.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I must say it's one of the most awkward moments
in American politics. Donald J.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Trump of the state of Florida has received three hundred
and twelve votes. Kamala D.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Harris, We're going to get back.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
To our roots.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
We're eliminating the third party fact checking system.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
I'm a little concerned.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
I mean, this is like Chipotle announcing that it's ending
health inspections.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
We need Greenland for national security purposes.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
How we were.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Talking to him yesterday, so he says, hello to everyone
in Greenland.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf
of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Biden meanwhile says he thinks he could have beaten Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I think it's nuts to think that he would have
won that election. I don't wore world leaders than any
one of you ever met. In your home, goddamn wife,
I intend to resign as party leader, as Prime minister,
and you know, we really need to pace ourselves.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
If we're going to freak out over every last tweet, we.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Will fight hard, fight hard for the freedom to vote.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Why he does a nerve bro? Who shot who?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Doesn't shut me? Everybody? Everybody got.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
That it won't be the clip of the year. But
who shot who?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
That whole exchange, somebody got shot, very very nonplussed about
the whole situation. Yeah, for some reason this popped into
my head during clips week. There's a bunch of stuff
there earlier in the week, like that was this week,
that wasn't six months ago, the terrorist attack and all
that sort of stuff. Jeez, the way we turn the
page on stories. You know, the fire is such a
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big story and wiped out everything else. And I want
to talk about climate change in a second, but first
on this. We were watching and laughing at an ai
fake video of Kamala and Jill fighting each other in
the pew at the Carter funeral.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
It's not real.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
But the real part where Joe and doctor Jill come
in and sit down next to Kamala. Man that is chilly.
Kamala doesn't even look at her. She doesn't look at them.
I mean, you're sitting right next to people that are
supposed to be your close co workers and you don't
even look at them. Kamala handled handing the presidency over
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to Donald Trump and announcing the votes and everything like
that better than she handled easier than she handled having
to sit next to Joe Biden and his wife.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah. I think just like Biden as a deep and
abiding hatred for Obama. Kamala can't stand old man Biden.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
It's it's interesting.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
She was able to stuff down her disappointment, resentment, everything
about losing to Donald Trump the election much easier than
she was able to stuff it down sitting next to
Joe and his wife. And he's got to be his
wife because she probably thinks the same thing. I think
his brain don't work. You're the evil bee that kept
him running. You're the one that caused all this. I
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hate you, I hate you, I hate you. That's what
she was thinking.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Well, and to recap a couple of discussions we've had
in recent days, her ego is kept intact in spite
of the fact that she got absolutely waxed by Donald
Trump by the fact that well Biden got out too
late and he screwed her and the campaign was short.
So that's her excuse for herself, but her excuse was
sitting next to her Biden and his.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Evil, evil wife, So yeah, she can't. She despises them.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Can't get away from the climate change discussion on any
of the mainstream news around the fire or any other
any other anything that happens, really pretty much, anything that
happens somehow, climate change plays a role. Two things on
that one. And I'm not a climate denier or proponent,
as I've said many times on this show. For whatever reason,
it's a topic I've decided not to look into.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I just don't.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
There are topics I look into to great depth, not
this one. But it did come across this and this
is accurate reporting. It's from Los Angeles Airport's own data.
It's not unusual for Los Angeles to be bone dry
in December into January. Since nineteen forty four, since I've
been keeping records in the thirty days prior to January ninth,
thirteen years have received between none and a tenth of
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an inch of rain, including this year.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
But it happened in.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Fifty four, sixty one, sixty four, sixty seven. Well, I
had quite a run there in the mid sixties where
you would have been able to make some sort of
argument about climate change or something lots of years. So
there's always the data that gets very confusing on the
are we having more hurricanes or not? Or is it
dryer or not or whatever. But even without that, even
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if you buy into the whole climate man made change
everything like that, there's no turning it around quickly, not
a chance. So why waste any time in the midst
of a crisis discussing that. It seems like such an
easy out for the conversation.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Well, right, that's exactly what it is.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
That's the answer of why on purpose excuse on MSNBC
or CNN or wherever to once they get to the
climate change thing, then it's the evil Republicans or Trump
or whoever who's stopping things. There is nothing. If Donald
Trump went full al Gore today, you couldn't affect I'm
assuming the worldwide temperature by a tenth of a degree
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over the next decade. Let alone fix what's gonna happen
this summer fire wise, So why.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Even talk about it?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
You know, it's the Simpsons were not now a show
of the left. Ought to have a scene where, you know,
Marge comes home and Homer's left the bathtub running, and
the house is flooded and ruined, and the dog hasn't
been fed for a week, and Bart hasn't gone to
school or whatever. When she asks him why, he says,
I don't know climate change because that is the all purpose,
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all encompanying excuse for bad policy.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Has that happened because of climate change?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
And so the soft headed voters are distracted from mismanagement
and bad government. And oh, right, climate change, I've heard
about that.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Yeah, I don't know. It's not like a lot of
policy decisions where you decide you're against the war, we
could pull the troops out tomorrow or something, you could
really make a radical change. There's no radical changes to
be made on the whole climate thing, even if you
believe them right.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Even if you had superpowers, it would take ages to
make a real difference, and we don't have superpowers in
India and China.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
End of discussion. Yeah, it's so weak.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Anytime a politician cites climate change because of a crisis,
you can't look at that new. You know, some people
look at it positively. Oh, I'm glad he's standing up
for climate change. Well, you're an idiot and shouldn't vote,
but don't even look at it neutrally.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Say oh, I know this one.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
This is their dodge, and then think about the things
that they're dodging, because that's almost always the way it's used. Yeah,
you've been talking about climate change for like fifteen years now,
so why didn't you do something about the xyz we're
talking about?
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Well, climate change.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
It's easy to be susceptible to these arguments because I
even have fallen for the Yeah, it does seem colder, wetter, dryer, windier,
whatever than it used to. But then I'll see some
stats laid out like the ones we just talked about
and thought, okay, you have ears where this is worse.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
That's better.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Sometimes it's a couple of years row then it goes
back to normal.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
This way it is.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Yeah, yeah, indeed, Eh, it's frustrating, is it?
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Well?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Yeah, just thinking about the electorate and our leaders and
the way it's supposed to work and how it doesn't
if you're.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I just saw the least sympathetic couple from the fire
thing that I've seen yet. I thought, CNN, you're not
doing a good job here, because just because you're rich,
you don't deserve to have your home burnt down, or
doesn't mean it's not awful. It's a lot less awful
for you than the paycheck to paycheck people.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
No doubt.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
You can go to a hotel and it's a headache
as opposed to a disaster. I mean, there's just no
doubt the more money have it. But anyway, they're interviewing
this couple in there. One of those Mercedes SUVs that
are designed to climb mountains, but people only drive them
to yoga.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
U oh, one of those that.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Are crazy, like a quarter of a million dollar car.
She got a couple sitting in there. They're both like sixty.
He's got ridiculously long blonde hair for a sixty year
old rich guy wearing a puffy vest in his Mercedes.
And she's got the big giant lips and her skin's
way too tight. And I thought, this is not the
right couple to have on CNN to get your crowd
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to feel all sympathetic and warm and fuzzy about it.
Just it ain't. It ain't even working for me.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I don't know that that's what CNN ought to be
doing anyway, But no, I see your point.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Man, we got a lot more on the way. Our
text line is four one five two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
According to the odds makers, closest game of the NFL
playoffs this weekend the Monday night game Vikings Rams in
Arizona because they can't play a game in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
The Vikings are just two and a half point favorites.
All the other ones are a little whiter than that.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Uh yeah, yeah, there's some great games too. I'm a
newly minted Detroit Lions fan teams. Yeah, I got a
couple of friends who are native Detroiters who are just
died in the wool, I mean, have suffered for years.
So anyway, enjoy the feats ball over the weekend. Folks,
thought we'd lend a hand here to a kindred spirit trying.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
To do a good thing.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
This is cal Unicornia assembly Woman Kate Sanchez.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Kate take it away.
Speaker 7 (14:11):
Hello, I'm assembly Woman Kate Sanchez. Women's sports have long
been a symbol of dedication, perseverance, and opportunity. As a
former high school athlete, I know this is a space
for young women can compete fairly, achieve their dreams, and
showcase their talents. But today that fairness is being stripped
away when biological men are allowed to compete in women's sports,
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it creates an unfair playing field. Young women who have
spent years training, sacrificing, and earning their place to compete
at the highest level are now being forced to compete
against individuals with undeniable biological advantages. It's not just unfair,
it's disheartening and dangerous for girls. This is about more
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than competition.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
It's about safety.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
Whether in contact sports, locker rooms, or shared spaces, these
policies place.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Our daughters at risk.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
We cannot ignore the physical and emotional toll this takes.
I will always advocate for fairness, opportunity, and protection of
women and girls in sports. It's time to restore integrity
to women's athletics and ensure that every young woman has
a fair and safe chance to compete.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I'm not sure why everything has to have a musical
background these days, but thank you AB twelve. I'm sorry
that was the old law that let boys play against
girls in sports, but she's trying to pass a law
that changes that, so.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
I would think there's overwhelming support for that, even in Cally, Unicornia. Yeah,
I think believe it's easily a majority position.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
The law has existed in California since twenty thirteen, signed
into law by Governor Jerry Brown. Letting people be permitted
to participated and participate in sex segregated school programs and
activities consistent with their gender identity. Letting boys play against
girls and beat the hell out of them. It's just unbelievable,
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And they quote a couple of high school coaches. California
Globe has some great coverage of the story talking about
this law. Did was suddenly have men saying they're transgender
identifying as women to compete on their teams. We've had
a lot of wrestling teams suddenly have huge wrestlers who
now identify as women dominating women's wrestling. Wow.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
And swimming and other physical sports.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
My favorite one to hate was that like forty year
old giant dude who played junior college basketball in the
Bay Area for a community college team, just backing over
poor little girls who are trying to play college basketball.
He still had eligibility because he can go to college,
so he did. Juco is a forty year old dude
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and plays women's juco basketball.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
If you're in favor of that a mental illness and
should get it treated. And I say that with compassion
and love, but get it treated. Why do all the
lefty cities go sideways? Great explanation coming up.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
Well, guys, has some big news from Washington.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 8 (17:18):
The Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether the federal
government can ban TikTok. I expect you to be the
first time a Supreme Court justice says the word skibbity toilet.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Should be an interesting case.
Speaker 8 (17:33):
The justices will start scrolling through evidence, then two hours
later look up like what was he doing?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yet?
Speaker 3 (17:40):
It'll be interesting to follow this whole TikTok thing. I
have no idea it's going to turn out.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yeah, really interesting set of legal questions there that we
won't get into now. But nobody wants to ban TikTok,
by the way. They just want to not let the
Chinese Communist Party run it. And there are laws against
hostile foreign powers running things that happen in the United States.
So well, you know, we'll consider that as it goes.
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Can't wait to hear the arguments. Ah, so this is terrific.
I'm going to quote some of a piece by Noah Rothman,
who writes for the National Review and is an incredibly
smart guy.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
He has a vocabulary vocabulary.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
That makes mine look like an eight year old one
of those guys who apparently swallowed a dictionary as a
small child, and knows all the words. He's talking about
why cities are so dysfunctional, and he quotes a nineteen
ninety three lecture from a guy by the name of
Nat Glazier, who's actually talking about the nineteen sixties and
the dysfunction in American cities. And he says, New York,
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by way of an example, stop trying to do well
the kinds of things a city can do, and started
trying to do the kinds of things.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
A city cannot do.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
The city subordinated, keeping its streets and bridges in repair,
building new facilities to accommodate the new needs in a
shifting population, picking up garbage, policing the public environment, that
sort of thing. It gave those up in favor of
grander objectives. But in the pursuit of these lofty goals,
cities stopped doing the things cities know how to do
and started trying to do things no one knows how
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to do.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
I'm quoting.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Among the things that can't do are redistributing income on
a large scale and solving the social and personal problems
of people who, for whatever reason, are engaged in self
to start the behavior. Yeah, and Rothman writes, even if
America's municipal officials did know how to end the scourge
of racism, eradicate poverty, and change the weather, that is
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not within their job descriptions. And Glazer concluded his lecture
with the prophetic observation that cities can quickly restore elementary
governmental functionality if that's what the people.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Vote for, including obviously fighting fires which is hot. Still
pardon the expression this week, you know, on that one part,
I don't know if you get anywhere with the argument
that the government shouldn't be doing these things because there's
just too many people that want the government to do
those things. I think maybe the better argument is the
first part of their unaccomplishable it's not something anyone could do,
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whether you think it's in their job description or not.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yeah, boy, either way, it's tough to convince people. Maybe
you can convince them, No, city government can't cure all
human suffering. Leave that to the Feds.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Oh god.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
But anyway, Glazer obviously and Noah hint that you know,
Rudy Giuliani came along and did precisely what he's talking about. Said, yeah,
we don't have grand you know, ethereal goals.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
We're going to get the garbage picked up.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
And they point out only when voters no longer accept
excuses from their government leaders does the public see proficiency
in municipal government. And we'll get to that broader theme
in a second, but there's more great writing. Democratic elected
officials at the highest levels of local, state, and federal
government excel when they are tasked only with waxing grand
eloquent about the metaphysical ills that plague American society, that
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is their core competency, grand promises, and in citing these
insurmountable problems that they're going to fix. Indeed, they're often
prone to subordinate the elementary functions of government to virtuous abstractions,
and when those misplaced priorities give way to a level
of maladministration, their constituencies resent. Those abstractions provide a convenient
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excuse to justify their failures. The scourge of climate change,
the rapacious capitalist enterprises, the prejudice in men's hearts. It's
all just too much to overcome. So they like make
these speeches about how, if you elect me, I'll overcome
the prejudice in men's hearts.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
And then when your country, when.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Your city rather goes to crap, you say, well, it's
because of the prejudice that lurks in men's hearts.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
It like works before and after, right, And there's too
many places where you can't get elected by saying if
I'm elected person in charge, we will continue to pick
up the garbage on the stated day for your neighborhood.
We'll continue to have clean water, and we'll have a
parade every fourth of July.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
The end, right, And we won't let scumbags rob your
children on the way to school.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
We'll get junkies out of the park. No, you gotta
solve racism.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Yeah, maybe it's because so many people take for granted
the garbage getting picked up and you know, the cops
trying to keep your neighborhood safe or whatever. Because I
was thinking about a lot of places in the Middle
East and Africa, for instance, where things go to hell
and the reason in Isis or in al Qaeda or
some other scumbag group can come in and get the
support of the population is they pick up the trash
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and they make the neighborhood safe, like the very core
things that government should do. That's what people want done.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
You chop off a couple of arms and the thieves quit.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
I just didn't take over a village and get their
support because they said we're gonna end income in equality
or racism or anything like that. Pick up the garbage
and make it safe, right, So.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Getting back to a Rothman's piece, California is a prime
example of this woeful phenomenon Angelino's if long elevated politicians
believe they have a writ to, for example, quote eliminate
racial disparity and achieve equality and equity by disrupting harmful
trends and transforming.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Systems and policies.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Those are the very words of Cynthia Mitchell Hurd, president of.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
The La Urban League.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
It was that outlook that led La Mayor Karen Bass
to treat the fire's department. I'm sorry to treat the
city's fire department as a social experiment. The deadly wildfires
that have leveled whole neighborhoods this week have made her decision.
Bass's decision to cut the city's fire department budget by
almost eighteen million dollars seem pretty shortsighted that was, in
fact a compromise on her part. She had sought twenty
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three million dollars in cuts amid the city's efforts to
contain its growing bums and junkies problem. He says, homelessness
I use the proper term. Bass inherited from her predecessor,
Eric Garcetti, an initiative designed to solve the problem of
too few women volunteering to be firefighters, a problem that persists,
perhaps because too few women want to be firefighters. The
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city seemed focused more on ensuring that the LAFD flatter
its leader's ideological pretensions than on whether it was optimized
to fight fires. And he makes fun of Karen Bass
a bit more go ahead, So you expect.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
That out of the National Review. They're right, We expect
that from them. What we're excited about is all these
celebrity types in LA who are starting to say the
same sort of thing where Joe Scarborough actually saw this
this morning on MSNBC. He's a lifelong Republican conservative beaus
you all know he's abandoned all that stuff since he
got rich and famous all that. But Joe Scarborough blamed
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LA's fire hellscape on slash spending quote a complete failure
of government, as he ripped government at all levels for
causing this problem and went on to say, you can't
just say it's Karen Bass the mayor.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Can't.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
You can't just say it's Gavin Newsom. This has been
a trend for thirty years in California. It's a failure
of the government at all levels. Glad to hear that
right in Karen Bass's defense. Then I'll skip to the end.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
She ran on eliminating racial disparities and achieving equality and
equity by disrupting harmful trends and transforming systems in policies
anyway to get to the Noah's conclusion, which I think
is great. For years, the boutique priorities of influential but
minority interests have crowded out elementary good governance. The problem
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is pronounced in California, but as apparent any in any
locale where.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
The Blue state models practiced.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Democratic elected officials stop doing the things municipal officials know
how to do, the unglamorous work of public life and
made themselves champions of the glossy causes that reward them
with attention and donor contributions. Democrats are wildly overconfident in
their ability to not just govern competently, but to solve
intractable conundrums that plague modern life. That delusion has produced
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intolerable dysfunction. Until voters in blue locales start demanding basic
competence of their politicians first and ideological purity second, they
will be rewarded with more.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Of the same.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
That's one hundred percent true. I don't like our chances.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
No. It reminds me of that brilliant piece Nellie Bowles
wrote before I knew who Nellie Bowls was. She's the
wife of and co person in charge of the Free
Press now, which is doing great journalism. But she was
the one who wrote that incredible piece about San Francisco
and how it becomes so incredibly dysfunctional, and she has
a die in the wall. Liberal had to admit that, Look,
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policies have results. People are dying on the streets. This
is not kindness, this is cruelty. This does not work.
Good for her and good for Noah Rothman. They're both
one hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Right.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Well, uh, there's they never let a crisis go to
waste thing where maybe you take this opportunity to point
this stuff out. I'm just kind of hoping that people
becomes obvious to people on their own. Well, this isn't working,
so we got to change, try something different. I don't
think it's going to be turning to Republicans, but maybe
even just moderate Demics as opposed to whack jobs. Yeah,
(27:02):
there are plenty of examples where somebody's really an R
but they called themselves a D.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Like uh, the uh, the guy.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Just kind elected mayor of San Francisco. In San Francisco,
he's an R. Oh absolutely, that's fine. Put whatever letter
next to your name.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
Just get the blocking and tackling of government. Right.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Yeah, I don't remember did I talk about this for
the whole network or just for our local stuff that
I was in San Francisco a day after Christmas. Two
days after Christmas. It was the cleanest I'd seen the
city streets maybe ever, certainly in a very very long time.
I mean the streets were physically clean, like they'd been scrubbed.
They were shiny and clean, and you would look down
alleys and see zero trash. And I saw like two
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street people the whole time when I was bumping around,
and I one street person that I saw by the
cable cars. All the tourists were lined up to get
on the cable cars. And there were tourists there because
it was day after Christmas. Two days after Christmas. There
was somebody from the city talking to the homeless guy,
telling him where he needed to go, convincing.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Him, moere he need to go.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
But one almost guy that was there. So I don't
know if already the new mayor has had that in
sort of influence or what.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
But but, but, but but the city hasn't cured racism.
They haven't ended inequity, they haven't cured all hunger.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Pick up the effing trash, no kidding, we'll finish strong next.
Speaker 8 (28:22):
Strong.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Yet I've never been to the CEES, as they called
the Consumer Electronics Show that's going on in Las Vegas
right now, where companies roll out their latest, greatest everything
and uh, you know, it used to be laptops and
it was the Internet of Everything for a long time,
and then, uh, you know, various trends come and go.
Drones were really big. A couple of years ago, reading
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one of the reviews in c net from their tech person.
This one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars robot is
almost human. We interviewed it at Cees twenty twenty five.
They're speaking with Aria. This is one of the robots.
I showed you a picture of Joe like, oh, super
hot twenty three year old blonde chick. It's a robot.
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Robots were around every corner during Cees twenty twenty five
this week, but there was one. Ah, but there was
one that got very close to sounding and looking actually human.
They interviewed real Botics is the name of the company's Aria,
a blonde female. They put in quotes robot who answered questions,
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which just a touch of robotic awkwardness. I found this
kind of funny. Aria, dressed in a black, very tight tracksuit,
hesitated briefly after each question before launching into a speech
with long responses. She came across as a weird blend
of attentive and mildly inibriated. That might be on purpose,
So the hot blonde as comes off as slightly drunk.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
But really attentive.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
I don't think that's an accident. And real botics. It
sounds like here is kind of trying to pretend they
don't know what these are going to be used for. Robotics.
The company behind Aria and other humanoid robots say it's
focused on social intelligence, customize ability, and realistic human features.
They're also designed specifically for companionship and intimacy. Aria actually
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told them that when the interviewed, I'm for intimacy, Katie.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
I watched the video of this chick and it's twenty
twenty five? Can we get away from the Pirates of
the Caribbean? Animatronics thing shows a lot of like robot movements.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
General artificial intelligence is behind the robot's ability to engage
in real time conversations, though Aria wouldn't reveal the details
about the program.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Bah Bah.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Since a robot has designed for more emotional interactions than
other robots, they could find their niche worts in hospitals
and theme parks. Yeah, okay, yeah, possibly that's not what
this guys. That's not why this guy's designing this one
to look this way and dressing it that way so
it can work in a hospital somewhere in clean bennits and.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Tight, tight little tracksuit that bears its bell. Yeah, that's funny.
They couldn't find a tracksuit that's fit right or.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
A nurse's outfit to drive home the point that it'd
be great for working in hospitals.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
I don't want to steal your thunder, but did they
get down South?
Speaker 3 (31:11):
No? Do they have functioning robogenitals? I'm sure that's an option.
Clamp that baby right off, things go wrong.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
There are around seventeen motors from the neck up to
create mouth and eye movements. If you don't like Aria's face,
you can replace it with others that magnetically attached to
the head. You want some strange. You can switch out
hairstyles in colors too, So you.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
Could like go through a breakup and then bring out
a new.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Robot like this is my new girlfriend, but then be
ashamed of it and call the original robot back and
say I didn't I don't know what I was thinking.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
That is hilarious. Katie, go through a breakup, whatever the
hell that would mean? You have an argument and you
put a different face on herd that's it. I'm done
with you your face, I'm tired of your algorithm. I
don't know, I just need something different. Uh me, that's
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bull crap. So the loaded version that they showed there
was one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars hm.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
But they don't mention the the rgs, the what. I
think that would be a big part of this.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
If it isn't, it will be.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Hey, kids, it's that time again with Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Hey are you you're squeezing a little hard?
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Squeeze a little hard?
Speaker 5 (32:46):
So I hold you to a higher standard than robo genitals.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
But that was informative.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Can I just drama dramatic? Tize, didn't drama how things
could go wrong?
Speaker 4 (33:00):
That was great.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Here's your post for final bunch, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the
crew to wrap things up for the day, which is
obviously overdue. Michael Langelower, technical director, will lead the way.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
Michael, again, I'm giving you a quick scenario.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Joe, you got a best friend, best friend in the world.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
He wants you and Judy to go out with him
and his robotic girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Then you do it.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
That's when we've crossed a line where I've got to
pretend your girlfriend is real somehow.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Yeah, No, I make a mistake unless there's some wild,
extenuating circumstances. I'm sorry, I make an excuse and just
to no, no, I'm sorry, I can't. We're busy that day.
I didn't tell you what day, and we're busy that
one too, uh, Katie Greener steemed a Newswoman.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
As a final thought, Katie, I'd.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
Have an influx of nine to one one calls because
these things malfunction.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
And guys get stuck in her.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Oh wow, that's not funny, it's it's painful.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Jack.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
A final thought for us.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
As I said the other day, I became aware of
a group of people that have kind of like relationships
with some robot girls they just chat with. I mean,
this is not even the robot, this is just the
voice on a computer. So I for real, no joking
at all. I think this is going to be a
thing and soon.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Well, my final thought is to recap the stuff we
were talking about earlier in the hour. Anytime a politician
starts to launch into their grand plans for fixing what's
wrong with humanity, ask him if they're going to pick
up the trash, if they're gonna have enough cops on
the streets to keep your family safe, that sort of thing.
Back to brass tax America.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
So many people, thanks so a little time. Good to Armstrong.
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Speaker 3 (34:47):
We will see you Monday. God bless America.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
Armstrong and Getty and.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
I said, boy, they look like two people that like
each other. If these are the kind of guys who
are like a smacking ash, I think it's nuts. It's
just the way it is. Imagine a more beautiful thing.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Can I just say this? You know what I mean.
It's in particular why you've got a.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Nerve, bro.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Or whenever you say that.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
And again, thank you so much for sharing that.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Bye bye, great Friday, you mother, Armstrong and Gaddy
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
And Gatty and He Armstrong and Yetty Fonsie. Thanks. An
arsonist is causing all these fires.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Among other celebrities, the police and fire department are trying
to combat to their rumors or accusations. Henry Winkler, an
actor better known for more recent shows than what he
started in the seventies. I guess yes on Netflix and whatnot,
but Henry Winkler. The Fawns tweeted out yesterday there's an
arsenist here in La.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
May you be beaten? Unrecognizable? Wow, he fawns, We're with you.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah, cool thumbs up. Singer Chris Brown, who olive has
beaten people. I don't know if I'm recognizable or not.
Girlfriends or whatever?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Letting girlfriend yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Took to his Instagram stories on Thursday. Or someone starting
these fires? S don't add up. Some Dancing with the
Stars celebrity I've never heard of said there are five
men going around ski masks starting the fires. Keep an
eye out in all caps anyway, other than a homeless
guy that was arrested with a lighter for the Hollywood
area fire, which they got under control. I believe there
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haven't been arsonists nailed down for the two biggest fires.
I have always wondered why Al Kaita or Isis, whoever
didn't take this tact with a terrorist activity over the years.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Interesting question. I don't know. They haven't as far as
I can tell.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, And I'm not in the business of giving ideas.
I just assume that there there's a reason why they haven't.
That they're smart enough. They put a lot of thought
on this, but kind it seems like if you had
a dozen guys in the country and you picked a
particular day and did a little research California, Arizona, where
you know wherever fires you can get completely out of control,
you can do a hell of a lot of damage.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Sure, yeah, yeah, chilling stuff, so ah, A little closer
to home and manageable, I think is the question of
who is in what to office And absolutely thought provoking
think piece on why virtually every blue city in America
has gone completely sideways. And it's it's more than just
(02:35):
kind of the obvious ABC one two three stuff. It's
kind of a philosophical view of their jobs that I
think you'll enjoy. Got a lot of stuff to squeeze
in final hour of the week, But first, let's take
a fun look back at the week that was.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
It's cow clips of the week, and.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
I know a lot of there's a lot of freak
out the.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Whips the week. The country is on a inside. They
discovered a steel galvanized pipe with two end caps surrounded
by two dozen rolls of nails.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
This is not a terrorist event.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
We also need to be stronger together by overcoming an
addiction to divisiveness and negativity.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
The palicates fire, burning homes and forcing thousands to run
for their lives. The were to describe what we're seeing
is just apocalyptic. An emergency personnel had to take a
bulldozer to just bulldoze them out of the way. They've
put up the hoses. The water ran dry.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
The local folks are trying to figure that out.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
There were no reductions that were made that would have
impacted the situation.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
That we were dealing with people, And one.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Of the best ways to demonstrate that there are regular
folks is to take them by that home.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
First of all, it looks like they might have built
it themselves.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Second of all, my grandfather was likely to show up
at the door in some seventies, short shorts and crops.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Character. Character, character.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
What were you talking to Barack Obama about him? It
did look very friendly.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I must say it's one of the most awkward moments
in American politics. Donald J.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Trump of the state of Florida has received three hundred
and twelve votes. Kamala D.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Harris, We're going to get back.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
To our roots.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
We're eliminating the third party fact checking system.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
I'm a little concerned.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
I mean, this is like Chipotle announcing that it's ending
health inspections.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
We need Greenland for national security purposes.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
How we were.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Talking to him yesterday, so he says, hello to everyone
in Greenland.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf
of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Biden meanwhile says he thinks he could have beaten Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I think it's nuts to think that he would have
won that election. I don't wore world leaders than any
one of you ever met. In your home, goddamn wife,
I intend to resign as party leader, as Prime minister,
and you know, we really need to pace ourselves.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
If we're going to freak out over every last tweet, we.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Will fight hard, fight hard for the freedom to vote.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Why he does a nerve bro? Who shot who?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Doesn't shut me? Everybody? Everybody got.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
That it won't be the clip of the year. But
who shot who?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
That whole exchange, somebody got shot, very very nonplussed about
the whole situation. Yeah, for some reason this popped into
my head during clips week. There's a bunch of stuff
there earlier in the week, like that was this week,
that wasn't six months ago, the terrorist attack and all
that sort of stuff. Jeez, the way we turn the
page on stories. You know, the fire is such a
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big story and wiped out everything else. And I want
to talk about climate change in a second, but first
on this. We were watching and laughing at an ai
fake video of Kamala and Jill fighting each other in
the pew at the Carter funeral.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
It's not real.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
But the real part where Joe and doctor Jill come
in and sit down next to Kamala. Man that is chilly.
Kamala doesn't even look at her. She doesn't look at them.
I mean, you're sitting right next to people that are
supposed to be your close co workers and you don't
even look at them. Kamala handled handing the presidency over
(06:51):
to Donald Trump and announcing the votes and everything like
that better than she handled easier than she handled having
to sit next to Joe Biden and his wife.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah. I think just like Biden as a deep and
abiding hatred for Obama. Kamala can't stand old man Biden.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
It's it's interesting.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
She was able to stuff down her disappointment, resentment, everything
about losing to Donald Trump the election much easier than
she was able to stuff it down sitting next to
Joe and his wife. And he's got to be his
wife because she probably thinks the same thing. I think
his brain don't work. You're the evil bee that kept
him running. You're the one that caused all this. I
(07:31):
hate you, I hate you, I hate you. That's what
she was thinking.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Well, and to recap a couple of discussions we've had
in recent days, her ego is kept intact in spite
of the fact that she got absolutely waxed by Donald
Trump by the fact that well Biden got out too
late and he screwed her and the campaign was short.
So that's her excuse for herself, but her excuse was
sitting next to her Biden and his.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Evil, evil wife, So yeah, she can't. She despises them.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Can't get away from the climate change discussion on any
of the mainstream news around the fire or any other
any other anything that happens, really pretty much, anything that
happens somehow, climate change plays a role. Two things on
that one. And I'm not a climate denier or proponent,
as I've said many times on this show. For whatever reason,
it's a topic I've decided not to look into.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I just don't.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
There are topics I look into to great depth, not
this one. But it did come across this and this
is accurate reporting. It's from Los Angeles Airport's own data.
It's not unusual for Los Angeles to be bone dry
in December into January. Since nineteen forty four, since I've
been keeping records in the thirty days prior to January ninth,
thirteen years have received between none and a tenth of
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an inch of rain, including this year.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
But it happened in.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Fifty four, sixty one, sixty four, sixty seven. Well, I
had quite a run there in the mid sixties where
you would have been able to make some sort of
argument about climate change or something lots of years. So
there's always the data that gets very confusing on the
are we having more hurricanes or not? Or is it
dryer or not or whatever. But even without that, even
(09:06):
if you buy into the whole climate man made change
everything like that, there's no turning it around quickly, not
a chance. So why waste any time in the midst
of a crisis discussing that. It seems like such an
easy out for the conversation.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Well, right, that's exactly what it is.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
That's the answer of why on purpose excuse on MSNBC
or CNN or wherever to once they get to the
climate change thing, then it's the evil Republicans or Trump
or whoever who's stopping things. There is nothing. If Donald
Trump went full al Gore today, you couldn't affect I'm
assuming the worldwide temperature by a tenth of a degree
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over the next decade. Let alone fix what's gonna happen
this summer fire wise, So why.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Even talk about it?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
You know, it's the Simpsons were not now a show
of the left. Ought to have a scene where, you know,
Marge comes home and Homer's left the bathtub running, and
the house is flooded and ruined, and the dog hasn't
been fed for a week, and Bart hasn't gone to
school or whatever. When she asks him why, he says,
I don't know climate change because that is the all purpose,
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all encompanying excuse for bad policy.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Has that happened because of climate change?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
And so the soft headed voters are distracted from mismanagement
and bad government. And oh, right, climate change, I've heard
about that.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Yeah, I don't know. It's not like a lot of
policy decisions where you decide you're against the war, we
could pull the troops out tomorrow or something, you could
really make a radical change. There's no radical changes to
be made on the whole climate thing, even if you
believe them right.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Even if you had superpowers, it would take ages to
make a real difference, and we don't have superpowers in
India and China.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
End of discussion. Yeah, it's so weak.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Anytime a politician cites climate change because of a crisis,
you can't look at that new. You know, some people
look at it positively. Oh, I'm glad he's standing up
for climate change. Well, you're an idiot and shouldn't vote,
but don't even look at it neutrally.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Say oh, I know this one.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
This is their dodge, and then think about the things
that they're dodging, because that's almost always the way it's used. Yeah,
you've been talking about climate change for like fifteen years now,
so why didn't you do something about the xyz we're
talking about?
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Well, climate change.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
It's easy to be susceptible to these arguments because I
even have fallen for the Yeah, it does seem colder, wetter, dryer, windier,
whatever than it used to. But then I'll see some
stats laid out like the ones we just talked about
and thought, okay, you have ears where this is worse.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
That's better.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Sometimes it's a couple of years row then it goes
back to normal.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
This way it is.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Yeah, yeah, indeed, Eh, it's frustrating, is it?
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Well?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Yeah, just thinking about the electorate and our leaders and
the way it's supposed to work and how it doesn't
if you're.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I just saw the least sympathetic couple from the fire
thing that I've seen yet. I thought, CNN, you're not
doing a good job here, because just because you're rich,
you don't deserve to have your home burnt down, or
doesn't mean it's not awful. It's a lot less awful
for you than the paycheck to paycheck people.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
No doubt.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
You can go to a hotel and it's a headache
as opposed to a disaster. I mean, there's just no
doubt the more money have it. But anyway, they're interviewing
this couple in there. One of those Mercedes SUVs that
are designed to climb mountains, but people only drive them
to yoga.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
U oh, one of those that.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Are crazy, like a quarter of a million dollar car.
She got a couple sitting in there. They're both like sixty.
He's got ridiculously long blonde hair for a sixty year
old rich guy wearing a puffy vest in his Mercedes.
And she's got the big giant lips and her skin's
way too tight. And I thought, this is not the
right couple to have on CNN to get your crowd
(13:02):
to feel all sympathetic and warm and fuzzy about it.
Just it ain't. It ain't even working for me.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I don't know that that's what CNN ought to be
doing anyway, But no, I see your point.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Man, we got a lot more on the way. Our
text line is four one five two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
According to the odds makers, closest game of the NFL
playoffs this weekend the Monday night game Vikings Rams in
Arizona because they can't play a game in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
The Vikings are just two and a half point favorites.
All the other ones are a little whiter than that.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Uh yeah, yeah, there's some great games too. I'm a
newly minted Detroit Lions fan teams. Yeah, I got a
couple of friends who are native Detroiters who are just
died in the wool, I mean, have suffered for years.
So anyway, enjoy the feats ball over the weekend. Folks,
thought we'd lend a hand here to a kindred spirit trying.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
To do a good thing.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
This is cal Unicornia assembly Woman Kate Sanchez.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Kate take it away.
Speaker 7 (14:11):
Hello, I'm assembly Woman Kate Sanchez. Women's sports have long
been a symbol of dedication, perseverance, and opportunity. As a
former high school athlete, I know this is a space
for young women can compete fairly, achieve their dreams, and
showcase their talents. But today that fairness is being stripped
away when biological men are allowed to compete in women's sports,
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it creates an unfair playing field. Young women who have
spent years training, sacrificing, and earning their place to compete
at the highest level are now being forced to compete
against individuals with undeniable biological advantages. It's not just unfair,
it's disheartening and dangerous for girls. This is about more
(14:56):
than competition.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
It's about safety.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
Whether in contact sports, locker rooms, or shared spaces, these
policies place.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Our daughters at risk.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
We cannot ignore the physical and emotional toll this takes.
I will always advocate for fairness, opportunity, and protection of
women and girls in sports. It's time to restore integrity
to women's athletics and ensure that every young woman has
a fair and safe chance to compete.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I'm not sure why everything has to have a musical
background these days, but thank you AB twelve. I'm sorry
that was the old law that let boys play against
girls in sports, but she's trying to pass a law
that changes that, so.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
I would think there's overwhelming support for that, even in Cally, Unicornia. Yeah,
I think believe it's easily a majority position.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
The law has existed in California since twenty thirteen, signed
into law by Governor Jerry Brown. Letting people be permitted
to participated and participate in sex segregated school programs and
activities consistent with their gender identity. Letting boys play against
girls and beat the hell out of them. It's just unbelievable,
(16:12):
And they quote a couple of high school coaches. California
Globe has some great coverage of the story talking about
this law. Did was suddenly have men saying they're transgender
identifying as women to compete on their teams. We've had
a lot of wrestling teams suddenly have huge wrestlers who
now identify as women dominating women's wrestling. Wow.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
And swimming and other physical sports.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
My favorite one to hate was that like forty year
old giant dude who played junior college basketball in the
Bay Area for a community college team, just backing over
poor little girls who are trying to play college basketball.
He still had eligibility because he can go to college,
so he did. Juco is a forty year old dude
(16:56):
and plays women's juco basketball.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
If you're in favor of that a mental illness and
should get it treated. And I say that with compassion
and love, but get it treated. Why do all the
lefty cities go sideways? Great explanation coming up.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
Well, guys, has some big news from Washington.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 8 (17:18):
The Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether the federal
government can ban TikTok. I expect you to be the
first time a Supreme Court justice says the word skibbity toilet.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Should be an interesting case.
Speaker 8 (17:33):
The justices will start scrolling through evidence, then two hours
later look up like what was he doing?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yet?
Speaker 3 (17:40):
It'll be interesting to follow this whole TikTok thing. I
have no idea it's going to turn out.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yeah, really interesting set of legal questions there that we
won't get into now. But nobody wants to ban TikTok,
by the way. They just want to not let the
Chinese Communist Party run it. And there are laws against
hostile foreign powers running things that happen in the United States.
So well, you know, we'll consider that as it goes.
(18:05):
Can't wait to hear the arguments. Ah, so this is terrific.
I'm going to quote some of a piece by Noah Rothman,
who writes for the National Review and is an incredibly
smart guy.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
He has a vocabulary vocabulary.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
That makes mine look like an eight year old one
of those guys who apparently swallowed a dictionary as a
small child, and knows all the words. He's talking about
why cities are so dysfunctional, and he quotes a nineteen
ninety three lecture from a guy by the name of
Nat Glazier, who's actually talking about the nineteen sixties and
the dysfunction in American cities. And he says, New York,
(18:42):
by way of an example, stop trying to do well
the kinds of things a city can do, and started
trying to do the kinds of things.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
A city cannot do.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
The city subordinated, keeping its streets and bridges in repair,
building new facilities to accommodate the new needs in a
shifting population, picking up garbage, policing the public environment, that
sort of thing. It gave those up in favor of
grander objectives. But in the pursuit of these lofty goals,
cities stopped doing the things cities know how to do
and started trying to do things no one knows how
(19:12):
to do.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
I'm quoting.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Among the things that can't do are redistributing income on
a large scale and solving the social and personal problems
of people who, for whatever reason, are engaged in self
to start the behavior. Yeah, and Rothman writes, even if
America's municipal officials did know how to end the scourge
of racism, eradicate poverty, and change the weather, that is
(19:33):
not within their job descriptions. And Glazer concluded his lecture
with the prophetic observation that cities can quickly restore elementary
governmental functionality if that's what the people.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Vote for, including obviously fighting fires which is hot. Still
pardon the expression this week, you know, on that one part,
I don't know if you get anywhere with the argument
that the government shouldn't be doing these things because there's
just too many people that want the government to do
those things. I think maybe the better argument is the
first part of their unaccomplishable it's not something anyone could do,
(20:09):
whether you think it's in their job description or not.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yeah, boy, either way, it's tough to convince people. Maybe
you can convince them, No, city government can't cure all
human suffering. Leave that to the Feds.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Oh god.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
But anyway, Glazer obviously and Noah hint that you know,
Rudy Giuliani came along and did precisely what he's talking about. Said, yeah,
we don't have grand you know, ethereal goals.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
We're going to get the garbage picked up.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
And they point out only when voters no longer accept
excuses from their government leaders does the public see proficiency
in municipal government. And we'll get to that broader theme
in a second, but there's more great writing. Democratic elected
officials at the highest levels of local, state, and federal
government excel when they are tasked only with waxing grand
eloquent about the metaphysical ills that plague American society, that
(20:57):
is their core competency, grand promises, and in citing these
insurmountable problems that they're going to fix. Indeed, they're often
prone to subordinate the elementary functions of government to virtuous abstractions,
and when those misplaced priorities give way to a level
of maladministration, their constituencies resent. Those abstractions provide a convenient
(21:19):
excuse to justify their failures. The scourge of climate change,
the rapacious capitalist enterprises, the prejudice in men's hearts. It's
all just too much to overcome. So they like make
these speeches about how, if you elect me, I'll overcome
the prejudice in men's hearts.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
And then when your country, when.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Your city rather goes to crap, you say, well, it's
because of the prejudice that lurks in men's hearts.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
It like works before and after, right, And there's too
many places where you can't get elected by saying if
I'm elected person in charge, we will continue to pick
up the garbage on the stated day for your neighborhood.
We'll continue to have clean water, and we'll have a
parade every fourth of July.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
The end, right, And we won't let scumbags rob your
children on the way to school.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
We'll get junkies out of the park. No, you gotta
solve racism.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Yeah, maybe it's because so many people take for granted
the garbage getting picked up and you know, the cops
trying to keep your neighborhood safe or whatever. Because I
was thinking about a lot of places in the Middle
East and Africa, for instance, where things go to hell
and the reason in Isis or in al Qaeda or
some other scumbag group can come in and get the
support of the population is they pick up the trash
(22:30):
and they make the neighborhood safe, like the very core
things that government should do. That's what people want done.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
You chop off a couple of arms and the thieves quit.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
I just didn't take over a village and get their
support because they said we're gonna end income in equality
or racism or anything like that. Pick up the garbage
and make it safe, right, So.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Getting back to a Rothman's piece, California is a prime
example of this woeful phenomenon Angelino's if long elevated politicians
believe they have a writ to, for example, quote eliminate
racial disparity and achieve equality and equity by disrupting harmful
trends and transforming.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Systems and policies.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Those are the very words of Cynthia Mitchell Hurd, president of.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
The La Urban League.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
It was that outlook that led La Mayor Karen Bass
to treat the fire's department. I'm sorry to treat the
city's fire department as a social experiment. The deadly wildfires
that have leveled whole neighborhoods this week have made her decision.
Bass's decision to cut the city's fire department budget by
almost eighteen million dollars seem pretty shortsighted that was, in
fact a compromise on her part. She had sought twenty
(23:33):
three million dollars in cuts amid the city's efforts to
contain its growing bums and junkies problem. He says, homelessness
I use the proper term. Bass inherited from her predecessor,
Eric Garcetti, an initiative designed to solve the problem of
too few women volunteering to be firefighters, a problem that persists,
perhaps because too few women want to be firefighters. The
(23:56):
city seemed focused more on ensuring that the LAFD flatter
its leader's ideological pretensions than on whether it was optimized
to fight fires. And he makes fun of Karen Bass
a bit more go ahead, So you expect.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
That out of the National Review. They're right, We expect
that from them. What we're excited about is all these
celebrity types in LA who are starting to say the
same sort of thing where Joe Scarborough actually saw this
this morning on MSNBC. He's a lifelong Republican conservative beaus
you all know he's abandoned all that stuff since he
got rich and famous all that. But Joe Scarborough blamed
(24:30):
LA's fire hellscape on slash spending quote a complete failure
of government, as he ripped government at all levels for
causing this problem and went on to say, you can't
just say it's Karen Bass the mayor.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Can't.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
You can't just say it's Gavin Newsom. This has been
a trend for thirty years in California. It's a failure
of the government at all levels. Glad to hear that
right in Karen Bass's defense. Then I'll skip to the end.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
She ran on eliminating racial disparities and achieving equality and
equity by disrupting harmful trends and transforming systems in policies
anyway to get to the Noah's conclusion, which I think
is great. For years, the boutique priorities of influential but
minority interests have crowded out elementary good governance. The problem
(25:20):
is pronounced in California, but as apparent any in any
locale where.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
The Blue state models practiced.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Democratic elected officials stop doing the things municipal officials know
how to do, the unglamorous work of public life and
made themselves champions of the glossy causes that reward them
with attention and donor contributions. Democrats are wildly overconfident in
their ability to not just govern competently, but to solve
intractable conundrums that plague modern life. That delusion has produced
(25:49):
intolerable dysfunction. Until voters in blue locales start demanding basic
competence of their politicians first and ideological purity second, they
will be rewarded with more.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Of the same.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
That's one hundred percent true. I don't like our chances.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
No. It reminds me of that brilliant piece Nellie Bowles
wrote before I knew who Nellie Bowls was. She's the
wife of and co person in charge of the Free
Press now, which is doing great journalism. But she was
the one who wrote that incredible piece about San Francisco
and how it becomes so incredibly dysfunctional, and she has
a die in the wall. Liberal had to admit that, Look,
(26:25):
policies have results. People are dying on the streets. This
is not kindness, this is cruelty. This does not work.
Good for her and good for Noah Rothman. They're both
one hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Right.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Well, uh, there's they never let a crisis go to
waste thing where maybe you take this opportunity to point
this stuff out. I'm just kind of hoping that people
becomes obvious to people on their own. Well, this isn't working,
so we got to change, try something different. I don't
think it's going to be turning to Republicans, but maybe
even just moderate Demics as opposed to whack jobs. Yeah,
(27:02):
there are plenty of examples where somebody's really an R
but they called themselves a D.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Like uh, the uh, the guy.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Just kind elected mayor of San Francisco. In San Francisco,
he's an R. Oh absolutely, that's fine. Put whatever letter
next to your name.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
Just get the blocking and tackling of government. Right.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Yeah, I don't remember did I talk about this for
the whole network or just for our local stuff that
I was in San Francisco a day after Christmas. Two
days after Christmas. It was the cleanest I'd seen the
city streets maybe ever, certainly in a very very long time.
I mean the streets were physically clean, like they'd been scrubbed.
They were shiny and clean, and you would look down
alleys and see zero trash. And I saw like two
(27:42):
street people the whole time when I was bumping around,
and I one street person that I saw by the
cable cars. All the tourists were lined up to get
on the cable cars. And there were tourists there because
it was day after Christmas. Two days after Christmas. There
was somebody from the city talking to the homeless guy,
telling him where he needed to go, convincing.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Him, moere he need to go.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
But one almost guy that was there. So I don't
know if already the new mayor has had that in
sort of influence or what.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
But but, but, but but the city hasn't cured racism.
They haven't ended inequity, they haven't cured all hunger.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Pick up the effing trash, no kidding, we'll finish strong next.
Speaker 8 (28:22):
Strong.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Yet I've never been to the CEES, as they called
the Consumer Electronics Show that's going on in Las Vegas
right now, where companies roll out their latest, greatest everything
and uh, you know, it used to be laptops and
it was the Internet of Everything for a long time,
and then, uh, you know, various trends come and go.
Drones were really big. A couple of years ago, reading
(28:42):
one of the reviews in c net from their tech person.
This one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars robot is
almost human. We interviewed it at Cees twenty twenty five.
They're speaking with Aria. This is one of the robots.
I showed you a picture of Joe like, oh, super
hot twenty three year old blonde chick. It's a robot.
(29:06):
Robots were around every corner during Cees twenty twenty five
this week, but there was one. Ah, but there was
one that got very close to sounding and looking actually human.
They interviewed real Botics is the name of the company's Aria,
a blonde female. They put in quotes robot who answered questions,
(29:27):
which just a touch of robotic awkwardness. I found this
kind of funny. Aria, dressed in a black, very tight tracksuit,
hesitated briefly after each question before launching into a speech
with long responses. She came across as a weird blend
of attentive and mildly inibriated. That might be on purpose,
So the hot blonde as comes off as slightly drunk.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
But really attentive.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
I don't think that's an accident. And real botics. It
sounds like here is kind of trying to pretend they
don't know what these are going to be used for. Robotics.
The company behind Aria and other humanoid robots say it's
focused on social intelligence, customize ability, and realistic human features.
They're also designed specifically for companionship and intimacy. Aria actually
(30:15):
told them that when the interviewed, I'm for intimacy, Katie.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
I watched the video of this chick and it's twenty
twenty five? Can we get away from the Pirates of
the Caribbean? Animatronics thing shows a lot of like robot movements.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
General artificial intelligence is behind the robot's ability to engage
in real time conversations, though Aria wouldn't reveal the details
about the program.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Bah Bah.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Since a robot has designed for more emotional interactions than
other robots, they could find their niche worts in hospitals
and theme parks. Yeah, okay, yeah, possibly that's not what
this guys. That's not why this guy's designing this one
to look this way and dressing it that way so
it can work in a hospital somewhere in clean bennits and.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Tight, tight little tracksuit that bears its bell. Yeah, that's funny.
They couldn't find a tracksuit that's fit right or.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
A nurse's outfit to drive home the point that it'd
be great for working in hospitals.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
I don't want to steal your thunder, but did they
get down South?
Speaker 3 (31:11):
No? Do they have functioning robogenitals? I'm sure that's an option.
Clamp that baby right off, things go wrong.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
There are around seventeen motors from the neck up to
create mouth and eye movements. If you don't like Aria's face,
you can replace it with others that magnetically attached to
the head. You want some strange. You can switch out
hairstyles in colors too, So you.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
Could like go through a breakup and then bring out
a new.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Robot like this is my new girlfriend, but then be
ashamed of it and call the original robot back and
say I didn't I don't know what I was thinking.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
That is hilarious. Katie, go through a breakup, whatever the
hell that would mean? You have an argument and you
put a different face on herd that's it. I'm done
with you your face, I'm tired of your algorithm. I
don't know, I just need something different. Uh me, that's
(32:08):
bull crap. So the loaded version that they showed there
was one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars hm.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
But they don't mention the the rgs, the what. I
think that would be a big part of this.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
If it isn't, it will be.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Hey, kids, it's that time again with Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Hey are you you're squeezing a little hard?
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Squeeze a little hard?
Speaker 5 (32:46):
So I hold you to a higher standard than robo genitals.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
But that was informative.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Can I just drama dramatic? Tize, didn't drama how things
could go wrong?
Speaker 4 (33:00):
That was great.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Here's your post for final bunch, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the
crew to wrap things up for the day, which is
obviously overdue. Michael Langelower, technical director, will lead the way.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
Michael, again, I'm giving you a quick scenario.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Joe, you got a best friend, best friend in the world.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
He wants you and Judy to go out with him
and his robotic girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Then you do it.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
That's when we've crossed a line where I've got to
pretend your girlfriend is real somehow.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Yeah, No, I make a mistake unless there's some wild,
extenuating circumstances. I'm sorry, I make an excuse and just
to no, no, I'm sorry, I can't. We're busy that day.
I didn't tell you what day, and we're busy that
one too, uh, Katie Greener steemed a Newswoman.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
As a final thought, Katie, I'd.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
Have an influx of nine to one one calls because
these things malfunction.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
And guys get stuck in her.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Oh wow, that's not funny, it's it's painful.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Jack.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
A final thought for us.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
As I said the other day, I became aware of
a group of people that have kind of like relationships
with some robot girls they just chat with. I mean,
this is not even the robot, this is just the
voice on a computer. So I for real, no joking
at all. I think this is going to be a
thing and soon.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Well, my final thought is to recap the stuff we
were talking about earlier in the hour. Anytime a politician
starts to launch into their grand plans for fixing what's
wrong with humanity, ask him if they're going to pick
up the trash, if they're gonna have enough cops on
the streets to keep your family safe, that sort of thing.
Back to brass tax America.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
So many people, thanks so a little time. Good to Armstrong.
In geeddy dot com.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
You can buy one of these fabulous hoodies I'm wearing
right now, the Ange Adidas hoodie at the store drop
us lines. There's something we ought to be talking about
mail bag at Armstrong in geeddy dot com.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
We will see you Monday. God bless America.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
Armstrong and Getty and.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
I said, boy, they look like two people that like
each other. If these are the kind of guys who
are like a smacking ash, I think it's nuts. It's
just the way it is. Imagine a more beautiful thing.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Can I just say this? You know what I mean.
It's in particular why you've got a.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Nerve, bro.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Or whenever you say that.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
And again, thank you so much for sharing that.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Bye bye, great Friday, you mother, Armstrong and Gaddy
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