June 2, 2026 • 36 mins
Hour Three of A&G features...
- Our guest, political pundit Lanhee Chen, weighs-in on the CA Gov's race & the LA Mayoral Race..
- The Jill Biden book tour continues...
- Michael Shellenberger's latest mini-doc on CA's bums & junkies...
- CA residents are begging for change.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Ketty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm Strong, and Jattie I Know he Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Pratt released a final plea to voters on Monday, a
seven minute video blasting Basses policies on everything from homelessness
to the response to the Palisades fire, and he specifically
addressed people considering voting for Nythia Rahman, essentially saying that
she has no chance.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Voting for Nythia is a wasted vote. It's me versus Karen.
It's changed versus more of the same. It's no longer
questioned about me or Nythia or Karen. Nythia has no
path of victory. Now it's me versus Karen.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
It's interesting how this mayoral race has caught in so
many people's attention, clear across the country, not just in
Los angele Jelis and what that might mean. We got
the perfect guy to talk to. We just got this text.
Good morning, guys. Thank you so much for having a
lot of heat Chen on your show. They are my
favorite interviews. You guys do I learned something new every
single time.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Eric in Texas Oh wow, Lon, he under a little
pressure to deliver Lanie Jens David and Diane Steffie, fellow
in American Public Policy Studies at the Hoover Institution and
the Director of Domestic Policy Studies at Stanford University.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Loni, how are you well?
Speaker 6 (01:29):
I think we was just end the interview here.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
The wow.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
That's very kind, Thank you. It was always great to
do with you guys. Happy election day here in California.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
So, if Pratt and Hilton both make the final two,
does that say anything about the progressive movement in the country.
Is that like a real blow I'm hoping to the
wackad fringe of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
I think it's a message. I mean, I think we
have to be careful not to not to draw conclusion
that are too broad. I mean, one of the things,
certainly in the city of La there is I think
a backlash to what the progressive politics have done to
our major cities. And I think we saw it in
San Francisco. By the way, a couple of years ago, guys,
when San Francisco elected a relatively more moderate mayor going
(02:19):
against several very progressive candidates, and that more moderate mayor
by a lot of account has produced positive change in
San Francisco. I think in La it's a similar dynamic.
Karen Bass has been a complete failure. She started as
a far left progressive candidate. She's tried to move more
towards the middle as her electoral fortunes have declined. And
(02:42):
there is this far left candidate, Nythia Rahman, who really
just has not, I think, picked up and captivated the
kind of interest that you would expect in a city
like LA. So I do think it'll be interesting to
see what happens. I mean, obviously, if she makes the
run off. If Bass makes the run off against the
aggressive candidate, that's one thing, but that doesn't look to
(03:03):
be the outcome we're going to see. It looks like
it's going to be Karen Bass's Spencer Pratt, and I
think it's going to be a fascinating general election. At
that end of the pas Pratt has been really good.
Prad has been really good at engaging in what I
would call kind of asymmetric campaign tactics. Right, He's not
like he's better funded, it's not like he's got more
name recognition, but he's managed to really make this a
(03:25):
super interesting race.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Well Jack me the point.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
I don't want to steal your thunder because it was
excellent what you said, but it's with all due respect
to the brilliance of some of that AI generated stuff
that Pratt and his fans have come up with. His
message is just on there is decay in the cities.
It's become miserable for the tax paying, law abiding people.
The excuses that are being given are illegitimate, and we
(03:47):
want change.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
And what really animated that, of course, where the fires
back in Palisades and in other parts of La the
devastating fires in early twenty twenty five, and that was
what started this groundswell of you know, things are not right.
You had Karen bass Off on an international trip being
wined and dying while our city was burning, and it
created a level of anger at the status quo that
(04:13):
I think has continued to this day. And you add
to that, you know, not just the failed response of
the fires, but the ongoing homeless problem, the continuing issues
around crime and public safety being a problem in the
city of Los Angeles. All of those things combined have
created an energy for change. And I think that's absolutely
what we're seeing, and that's spot on the reason why
(04:34):
Spencer prad is gaining momentum and is part of a
discussion is because people want change. It's a very simple message.
Do you want more of the same or do you
want something fundamentally different? And that's what practic stands for.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
It is interesting though, those ads, how much attention they
get and they're whatever you guys in the political run
and for office world call earned media or none earned
media and all that sort of stuff. But if you
can come up, get somebody, because there's nothing stopping me
from making a creative ad in the next half hour
that looks like you know, Hollywood, spend a million dollars
(05:07):
on it. Now in the modern world with AI, how
much has that changed the landscape or running for office?
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Oh, it's it's such a great question. I mean, it
has fundamentally altered the landscape we have. We have seen
so many changes in how campaigns are waged over the
last fifteen years. I mean, I remember guys when Twitter
was new, right and this that sort of totally changed
the way that campaigns had to respond to things because
(05:32):
the news cycle went from you know, twenty four hours
to eight hours to eight minutes and now you layer
on top of that, the additional social platforms, whether it's Instagram,
TikTok et, cetera, and then now Ai and the ability
to generate videos and content, pictures, you know, everything, and
the visual medium being able to do these videos. I mean,
(05:55):
that is really the next step forward. So campaigns have
changed a lot, and those of us who you know,
sort of learned how to wage campaigns and be in
that venue in the two thousands and twenty ten. It's
a totally different ballgame now. I mean, I feel like,
as the kids would say, an unk, because I'm totally
you know, out of it in a lot of ways
(06:17):
because there's so much technology and it's moving so bad.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
And unk hunk. Yeah, don't want to be an aunt.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
That's what they call me.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I like to know what I'm being insulted, So I'm
going to file that one away.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
We're talking to lanhe Chen of the Huber Institution, Stanford University. Lani,
next to your towering intellect, I Joe Getti him like
a golden retriever. But I would like nonetheless, partly because
we're going to go big on this at the bottom
of the hour to attempt to recruit you to not
using the term homeless or homelessness because they are these
(06:49):
people are drug addicts. They are not homeless because they're
drug addicts, or I'm sorry, they're not drug addicts because
they're homeless.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
They're homeless because they're drug addicts.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
The animating detail of their lives is their drug addiction,
not their lack of a fixed address. And again we're
going to go big at the bottom of the hour.
I just I think we need to call problems what
they are, and I think the homeless is the very
term is a tool of the left and that's one
of spenserting messages. Yeah, yeah, and we'll be hammering that.
(07:19):
Go ahead and comment if you like her, or we
can move on to other fair well.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
I you know, I think it's a it's a really
good point, which is that we have to understand what's
causing the problems we're seeing on streets right and I
do think that there has been a failure to address
head on some of the challenges, whether it's drug addiction,
whether it's the need for mental health access, whether it's
you know, I mean, there's all sorts of different reasons,
(07:45):
but I think that we do we have I think
this is not just the case with the homeless issue.
I think with a lot of issues, what we're failing
to do as a society is to deal with the
with the root causes of some of the challenges, and uh,
people like to paper it over. That's definitely definitely the case,
and I think this is one of those issues where
we're seeing a lot of papering over. I think you
(08:06):
guys are making a really well.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
It's because if you can make it somebody else's fault
and not their own personal fault, then you can raise
money for it and say we need to have a
program in gazillions of dollars and hand it out to people,
and it only makes the problem worse to.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Your troat or my favorite, my favorite is the nonprofit.
Something that drives me nuts. I mean, how many of
these nonprofits. I was speaking to somebody the other day
who's doing a lot of research and work on different nonprofits.
Quote nonprofits in California that have really become nothing more
than shell organizations for activating left and Look, I have
(08:40):
no problem that people should vote, that's a great thing.
But when you get into political activism and actively lobbying
for some of these causes, that's when it becomes a problem.
And I think, by the way, the US Department of
Justice should look into these nonprofit groups that are abusing
their nonprofit tax status because that creates a big, big,
prim problem in so many parts of our state, in
(09:01):
our country. Is you have these groups masquerading as you know,
we're just here to try to help society, but really
what they're there to do is to advocate for far
left causes.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Jack, you have more on California.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
I was going to go to National soln he any
thoughts on the Republican brand at this point and to
the extent, to what extent is it still you know,
synonymous with the Trump brand.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
What's happening with the Republican.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
Party, Well, it is, I think synonymous for a lot
of people. And one of the things that's really struck
me is the continuing strength of the President's brand in
Republican circles. I mean, I just want to talk about,
specifically within the Republican Party, how powerful his brand remains.
(09:46):
Because if you look at what happened with Tom Massey
in Kentucky, you look at what happened in the Indiana
with the Indiana legislators who voted to not redistrict to
go against the president. Now, many of them have been
ask if you look at Bill Cassidy in Louisiana, the
Senator down there, and there's there's there's other examples as well.
But what struck me is the enduring presence of the
(10:09):
president in how Republicans think about their politics. And then
by translation that also means yes, I think because he's
got such a big influences in the Republican Party. More broadly,
the President's brand and the Trump brand is still very
much seen as synonymous with the Republican Party. How long
that goes, what that looks like, I can't predict that. Right,
(10:32):
might say that it's been enduring for sure.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
My only quibble is that I think you're saying the
Republican Party, it's the primary voter, the core of the core,
and I just wonder to what extent.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
They actually reflect.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Republicans en mass and perhaps wabbly independents who might lean Republican.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
You know, it's a good it's a good question because
the makeup of the of the Republican voter bass changed
a lot over the last couple of years, right, I mean,
it is predominantly a more working class party, now, and
that wasn't the case, you know, four or five years ago.
So people that vote Republican now they probably wouldn't have
voted Republicans five or ten years ago. And then you've
got a lot of people who would have voted Republican
(11:16):
ten years ago who now you know, can't do it anymore.
So it is interesting the party's undergone transition and as
a result, we have to we have to look at
that voter basis being really different today than it was
a decade ago.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I don't remember if we've ever done predictions with you before.
You the kind of guy that doesn't make predictions.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
I mean, I make predictions of the caveat that I'm
wrong along.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Do you think the two Republicans make the final two
in the California.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Yeah, I think that. I think the numbers are still
there for Steve Hilton to make it through in the
governor's race. To the top two, it's going to be
really close because you know, the Republican split between Sheriff
Chad Bianco and Steve Hilton. I think yeah, I think
will ultimately hurt hurt Steve Hilton. So hopefully there's some
consolidation there and he's able to get through to the
top two. I do think Spencer Pratt makes it through it.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
I think there's just so much energy there. So I'm
hopeful with both.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
But that'll be a fun race to watch if he
makes the top two too.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Vote early, vote off and folks, you tooln he you're
good for three or four votes, I'm sure ln Hee
Chen David Diane Steffi, Fellow American Public Policy Studies at
the Hoover Institution, Director Domestic Policy Studies at Stanford University.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Always enlightening, Thanks Loni.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Hey, guys, have a good time. Thank you, have a
good day.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yeah, I agree. I think Platner definitely makes a top two.
I hope Hilton does, but it's gonna be tough. Uh yeah,
fingers crossed.
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Speaker 1 (13:41):
Got a couple of funny things. I want to point
out there a bunch of news we need to get to.
By the way, week thirty headlines we got a touch
on almost certainly won't get results in California tonight. So
don't be you know, thinking that's the way this is
going to play out. It'll take a while because they're
gonna be close.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
A lot on the way.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
I hear.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
There is a Skyline chili egg roll in the house,
how is it?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Well, since you guys have absolutely no guts whatsoever, and
says I'm a team player, I'm going to try.
Speaker 7 (14:17):
It out.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
The world's most ringing I love Skyline.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Can I just say that for the record, this is
the lowest point in my career, and I have had
some low ones.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
So his review was um um, and then he called
it the lowest point of this.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
That's a couple of Cincinnati Red's announcers really having a
good time. I love it when baseball announcers do that
sort of thing. There should be more of that, not less,
because you have so much downtime. If you have a
couple of entertaining people or one entertaining person, there's plenty
of time to talk about lots of things.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
I missed the era of my life when I was
a a Rabbit baseball fan and B had time to
watch and listen to more baseball.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
They were trying a chilly egg roll on the air.
Whatever that is an oof? Oh yeah, the great baseball announcers.
I feel warmth for them, like they're old friends.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
A couple of things for you, there was a Babylon
B headline Joe Biden is still making their rounds and
doing the interviews. I can't believe the I was read
in the Wall Street Journal review because they did an
interview with her. They took the whole she thought he
was having a stroke thing. Seriously obvious lie. But anyway,
Babylon B with this headline. Joe Biden explained she thought
(15:42):
Joe Biden had a stroke during the debate, which is
why she left him up there to die.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Wow. Wow. Oh, and you know that reminds me I'd
read in I think it was the Free Beacon.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Elsewhere in the book, Jill describes being worried that sleepy
Joe had accidentally quote drugged himself with sleeping pills or
cough syrup. That she presents this as a plausible scenario
does little to dispel concerns that the president's brain was
not functioning and she knew it all along.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Right, a different topic we talked about sixty minutes and
Scott Pelly and that whole blow up in an hour two.
If you want to get the podcast and check that out,
is quite the scene, I mean, I mean quite the
work scene. You just you have a star employee, just
laying into the new boss, and the boss eventually saying
you're not going to intimidate me and gets up and
(16:35):
walks out, and then everybody cheers. So you got quite
the dynamic there. Anyway, I left this out. This is
from Eric Eric ericson fellow radio person Scott Pelly being
a insufferable p word, he says. But anyway, sixty minutes
(16:55):
Boss Nick Bilton, Scott Pelly says to him, I find it.
I'm going to try to do it like Scott Pelley.
I can't do it. That's slow though we don't have
all day. I find it odd that you would take
this job knowing that you would never be welcomed here.
What a douchebag thing to say you're fired. I think
(17:18):
you said you give it forty eight hours cool down over.
Maybe maybe I don't know how valuable they think Pelly
is to the whole project. That would really hurt it
because you got to put up with a jerk if
he's important to the sports team or the show or whatever.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
But that guy pulls that hole. I'm the boss here,
routine out, get the hell out of here.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Speaking of being a baseball fan, the beloved formerly San
Francisco giants started winning when they kicked berry Bonds out.
Not that they didn't win with him, but yeah, any
good point, Scott Pelly's Berry Bonds.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
He really is and that's about as swoll as him too.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
He is.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Well, he'll have plenty of time to tan and work
out soon.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
As I mentioned to lnhie Chen coming up the agreement,
the spreading agreement that it's drugs not quote unquote homelessness
from some surprising sources.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Wherever you live, you need to listen to this and
start spreading the.
Speaker 8 (18:16):
Word Armstrong and Getty, Well, they're not homeless, they're drug addicts.
Most of these people are addicted to fentanyl and met So.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Spencer Pratt there, who we've been discussing specifically in the
context of junkies ruining the cities of the West Coast
and other cities around America, and a couple of things.
Number One, he pointed out to Bill Maher the other
day that sixty percent of the junkies on the streets
in California came from elsewhere. I think we just talked
about San Francisco, La specifically. That's something we've been talking
(18:51):
about for years. And years, and Amy Reikert, who's a
commentator based out of San Diego. It's pointing out that
body brokers they're called, literally recruit drug addicts from up
states by them plane tickets California, then get paid for
delivering them to rehab centers and sober living homes. There
have been several prosecutions for this. But after the junkies
get kicked out of drug treatment because they're not really
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serious about it anyway, and plus, you know, it's hard
to kick drugs and they're no longer profitable. They're stuck
in California. They go straight to the skid rows of
the various cities where the quote unquote homeless nonprofits can
monetize them.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
I was surprised that Bill Maher was surprised that a
lot of the drug addicts living in your town or
state or from somewhere else. I mean, because he's pretty
you know, unhappy with the current state of California, even
as a lifelong Democrat, and I just would think he'd
(19:45):
be aware of that. Like I live in a town
that's got more drug addicts than the town next to it,
because the town next to it doesn't put up with it.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I mean just they make these decisions.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Yeah yeah, And you know there's a reason all the
junkies calls Seattle free Attle, and why they've got such
an enormous junkie problem. It's because they make it so
comfortable to be a junkie there. It's the enabling on steroids. Anyway,
I wanted to get to a couple of pieces of
fairly long audio, but I think they're both worth it.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
This is so interesting.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Doug Ellen was the guy, the showrunner, the creator of
the show Entourage, which is always very entertaining. He's a
Hollywood entertainment type. He made a video around his house.
He'd have to be very wealthy then, uh yeah, Oh,
speaking of wealth, I meant to say that, oh yeah,
judging by his pad there in his neighborhood. Yeah, this
(20:38):
this segment, if enough people heard, it could cost many,
many millions of dollars to the homeless industrial compract complex.
Please don't murder us. We're nice fellas, and our kids
seem fun of us. So because the amount of money
being handed out is in the tens of billions of
dollars at this point. And that's just in you know,
the great state of cal Unicornia.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Anyway. So this is Doug Ellen with the video. He
just made it and put.
Speaker 9 (21:02):
Out Ala Times guess letters. It's weird. One of fifteen
cameras that I now have at this house, two German shepherds,
three legal guns. Five years ago, didn't lock a door here.
But you know what happened. Two animals invaded my house.
And no, I'm not racist because they were wearing masks.
I don't know if they were white. I don't know
if they were Jewish, I don't know if they were
working rabbis. I know they were animals because they invaded
(21:24):
my house.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
I know.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I don't care what their excuses are, like a lot
of you care.
Speaker 10 (21:28):
I know invaders of home should get twenty years, but
I'm not paranoid.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
So I don't believe you're bullet.
Speaker 11 (21:34):
About the stats and the crime because everyone in my
neighborhood has got the same problem. They're all putting cameras
and hiring security guards because we're all getting broken into
It's not made up, it's not false, and this city
has collapsed in the last five years.
Speaker 10 (21:48):
There is no denying it unless you have an agenda,
and I don't know what that is. But you say, oh,
Spencer Pratt has no experience, So how can we possibly
think about this?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
What experience did Karen Bass have?
Speaker 10 (22:00):
Rick Caruso, who we know can build things, who we
know can fix problems, when you made sure he couldn't win.
So right now you're putting people in the same position
that you did with Trump, who I did not vote for,
by the way you put him in by making sure
we had no options.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Okay, And that's where we are in LA and we want.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
To fix this place because we don't want to be
forced out. I'm one of the people who made this
city look great. I did it for years. I glorified it.
I mean people all the time that moved here because
the show that I created, and they hate it here
now hate m.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
That is a convert to sanity.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Yeah, it's too bad to take somebody out that level
to start to feel pain before you can you get attention.
You'd think every single one of us going to the
store like I did last night and waiting for someone
to unlock your shamboo.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Would be enough, right. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
And then the second piece of audio I want to
play for you is a It's a teaser essentially from
Michael Schellenberger's new document with I can't remember his co
docum documentarian, but the entire theme of it is what
we've been trying to hammer for years. The quote unquote
homeless problem is a drug problem. I think eighty percent
(23:14):
is an underestimate of what percentage of people in the
junkie camps are there because they're junkies. The what I
refer to, for lack of a better term, as the
righteous homeless, the folks of you know, not great intellect
or had the devastating medical bill or whatever, and they
just they can't afford housing and they've ended up on
(23:35):
the street.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
You almost never see them.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
They don't commit crimes, and I would be delighted to
have well administered fraud free programs for people like that.
But at least eighty percent of the people that the
just gigantic piles of money are flowing towards actually.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
To the NGOs.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
The bumps and junkies only get a tiny percentage of it.
It's the the rip off artists that get the money.
But the vast majority of those people are drug addicts,
plain and simple. Here is a sample of Michael Schellenberger's
new piece, Oh you should know they talked to a
woman a fair amount. She is visibly pregnant, which ups
the anti of horror. The rest of the people are
(24:18):
tattooed faced, living in a tense Uh, you know, just dwelder, junkies,
broad daylight.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
I saw someone get raped, a rape bully pick nikki
rob somebody get stabbed.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
You like someone robbing with the machete today, have all
my stuff with crow bars and bets. I told you
get shot in the back of the head. Somebody getting shot. No,
you will end up getting the herd out here. Other
holmess people are like your worst animations. People do not
play out here, says I have weapons, I have reputitions. Okay,
(24:55):
what kind of weapons? Bats? Nice, nay stages. What's your choice? Brother,
heroin crystal meth and heroine met definite.
Speaker 12 (25:07):
Anybody you don't know if it doesn't smoke matten. Though,
we saw a woman who was pregnant. Just now, what
does she smoking? Any She's smoking fanel and she's eight
months pregnant.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
So are you seeing more people showing up in psychotic
stats to naked now than say, two three years ago? Yes,
I think so.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
I don't know what they're putting this stuff. I don't
know if those aliens, I'm not trying to sound crazy.
Speaker 9 (25:31):
That's fine, must be causing all these like psychological breakdowns.
Speaker 8 (25:36):
And I think that they had put like a transmitters
and hunkas I was able to hear and communicate, and
they look like I was talking to myself.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
My job was to intake homeless individuals on the street,
and I don't have to expe you just choose to
be a lot of people are out here because they
want to be out here. Everyone, I mean, everyone's usually
has a serious dart. They kind of just kind of
quit society just right now. It's literally by choice. Did
you get to send the power of cared whether they're
(26:03):
own version? No, And I'm not trying to be like
crazy with it, but definitely not. I mean, if we're
going to be realistic to pay you to be homeless here,
they make it so easy and normalize it. Drug dealers
are just being let go over and over and over.
It's like the cops who are it's like they're your neighbor,
you know, they enable them because they allow the opener
(26:24):
drug market open street daaning like that when the cops
just across the street like watching them. I think they've
given up on the people that are out there on
the street. I've never seen anything like it. I've been
in the game thirty years, dude, never seen anything like you.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
The game being a street drug addict and one of
the main points of it. And it was kind of
hard to hear because everything's got to have loud, stupid
music over it is that some of the counselors and
medical people they talk to are saying the super math
is that's what Spencer Pratt calls it is absolutely destroying
people's minds. He's seeing way more psychosis, and we're enabling that.
(27:03):
We're letting people do drugs as long as possible with
no repercussions, so they can ruin their mind but good
so they can never function in society to keep the
money flowing. Any scrammating. Didn't see any scrammating. Why that
eight month pregnant chick smoking fentanyl saying yeah, well this
(27:24):
is by twice I want to be out here.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
That's rough.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
Yeah it is, but let's keep helping her do it.
No repercussions. Last thing we want to do is any
repercussions for breaking the law. Cops just watch they watch
the open air drug market.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Scrammiting is when you scream in vomit at the same time,
which I've never done.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
I don't think.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
The mess, the gurgling, yes, what's the worst, and the
drawing attention to yourself. I'd rather come quietly in the corner.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Absolutely, It's like many acts done by human beings. It's
best enjoyed, you know, solo.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yeah, is from the extra strong pot right, Yeah. Yeah.
They're seeing more and more of that in the hospitals too.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Do you think the message we've been trying to, you know,
get across is starting to catch on.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
I mean I would think you live in a lot
of cities where you drive to work or pick your
kids to school, or you're running errands on the weekend.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
You see these people all over the place, and the
homeless industrial complex and their friends and the government have
convinced you that, yeah, poor unfortunate people.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
I've known a few people like that about they go
to the store and see stuff locked up. I had
a friend like this, very nice person, but when she
would see stuff locked up at the store, her reaction
would be man, And it's the stuff they need the
most that they lock up.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
That was her reaction. Wow, supposed to.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
They're just shoveling in into trash bags and then selling it. Yeah,
CALLI universe goes to dives. There's scumbag thieves, all right, Gies,
there's scumbag thieves. There's a certain percentage of the population
that will steal from you rather than work. It's always
been true, it will always be true, and unless you
have systems in place to keep them from doing that,
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it will happen.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
You know, their negative consequences.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
As Doug Ellen was pointing out as clearly a man
of the left, you made it so easy to be
a criminal. Now there's crime everywhere, And he said five
years ago, I didn't even lock my doors. Right now,
he's got eleven cameras, two dogs, multiple guns, and all
of his neighbors are doing the same. Just yeah, keep
blaming it on housing prices, Chase Louise.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Let's do a funny Greg Guttfeld joke. I'm all of
the things only come back.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Stay tuned.
Speaker 13 (30:00):
Hey, there are reports that the next James Bond will
be a woman. Yeah, instead of a license to kill,
she'll have a license to blame you for whatever happened
to her in her dreams.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Got a text from somebody who voted in California. I
voted in person this morning. Was ballot number one. I
was line leader in kindergarten, so it's no surprise.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Anyway. This person, this is in California in line.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Before they opened, everyone in all caps was talking about
how much they hate the people in charge in California
right now and are hoping there is change. Really passionate
discussion is going on all ages. Black guy, Mexican dude
and his wife lady who moved from Chicago and said
California is worse than Shytown. It was very interesting eavesdropping. Wow,
hard to say if that is just representative of that
(30:58):
area or not. So I'm looking at an actual paper
ballot in California. I'm gonna vote in person today.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
I haven't voted in person and forever, but I'm just
gonna show up and from what everything I understand, they'll
let me vote. Somebody said they tried, they tried to
show their driver's license. They're like, you don't need that,
which is hilarious. There are sixty people on the ballot
for governor in California.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Sixty did you know that. Wow, it's a very long ballot. Uh,
why do all these people run? What they?
Speaker 8 (31:29):
What are they?
Speaker 1 (31:30):
What is going on there for most of the sixty
I mean there, we all know there's like a half
a dozen who actually thought they were had a shot
at being governor?
Speaker 5 (31:39):
But what are the other fifty people doing? Anybody there
for fun?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
I wonder how fun it is. I wouldn't think it'd
be that fun. Lots of different You have to put
your profession on, which is kind of odd. Wonder why you.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
List your profession?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
When did we decide that that is such a major
p of information that of the two things I know
about you, and I only know two things your party
preference and what you do for a living.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
Anyway, my friend called for jury duty the other day
and the judge asked, what do you do for a living?
What does your spouse do for a living?
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Looking at through looking through some of these sixty people,
real estate agent, retired nuclear engineer, businessman, immigrants organizer, human
rights attorney. Eric Swawell is a US representative. I sleep
with Chinese spies, That's what I do for a little.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
I like people that just put.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Father you might have a job putting father is fine
with me. A musician, songwriter, social worker, farmer, housing affordability advocate.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
I wonder how you're going to vote communications executive, another father, chiropractor.
Chiropractors can vote in America. They should be allowed to.
Seems like a mistake anyway.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Sixty people on the ballot of all different walks and stripes,
and most of them Democrats. I wonder what you think
you're getting out of that. I'll have to ask some
of the threshold to get on the ballot.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Thenther one.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
I'm guessing it's like, yeah, I'm guessing it's like seventy
five dollars and that's it.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
I'll bet, just like prize. But I wonder, I wonder.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
And at the end of it, you have the opportunity
to write in after the sick if you don't like
any of the sixty.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Options on there.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
It's an alphabetical order, and you have to go way
down before you get to Hilton. Then there's a person
in between. Then no, it's not an alphabetic order.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
I don't know what order. It's randomized. Okay, Well, Hilton and.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Be Sarah are one person apart, and those are the
likely I hope two people that end up coming out
of this because the top two run against each other
for November third, when we will all vote all over
the place to decide who gets what. I remember it
was decades ago that I first heard about ballot order
being randomized because political scientists figured out that people vote
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overwhelmingly for the first person, which is crazy. Well, it's
proof democracy can't work. That is pretty much all you
need to know.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Yes you can. People cannot govern themselves if they are
likely to vote for who's at the top of the list.
Speaker 5 (34:24):
Well, and it's even worse than it sounds at first.
Blush because it's a person who thinks, I don't have
any idea who any of these people are, but I
should vote, and I'm going to vote for well, the
first person.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
And sometimes that's me.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
There are races where I'll get in there and I
think I don't know anything about this race at all, But.
Speaker 14 (34:40):
I've never thought so I'll go with whoever is the
first on the list, go by party or something, or
think I'd rather have a dad in this job than
a you know, community organizer or whatever you're basing it on.
But Covian, whoever's first on the list, you're a certain
sort of ron.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
Well, I don't think it's not a conscious decision. They
just are going to pick somebody and just they will
overwhelmingly pick the first person.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
You don't have most human tendency. You don't have any
more control over your human tendencies than that. Don't vote
no kidding, I know I'll go for controller here. I'll
vote for Herb Morgan because he's first on the list.
I don't know anything about him.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
Hey, you know, today's the perfect day to repeat this.
And depending on when your primaries are, this advice is
for you as well. Vote for your city attorney or
your whatever, your prosecutor. Remember when George Soros got all
those radical leftists into those jobs. Yeah, and is still
doing it, refusing to enforce the law. Like we've been
(35:44):
talking about this half hour and school board stuff. Do
some quick research. Neglect something, and do some quick research.
Figure out who's a woke lunatic trying to teach your
kids to change their gender, and who wants to actually.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Reform government schools. Those are important elections.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
I'm looking at the race for lieutenant governor, which is
a I haven't made my decision yet. I'm still trying
to weigh the pros and gods of various candidates for
that important job.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
The final primary bit of trivia I found really interesting.
I was looking up who had primaries today and discover
that the first primaries of the nation are in March,
and the last ones are in September, and.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Then the country, Yeah, in the country, country votes November third.
On lots of stuff. If you miss his making the
podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Ketty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
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Speaker 3 (00:24):
Pratt released a final plea to voters on Monday, a
seven minute video blasting Basses policies on everything from homelessness
to the response to the Palisades fire, and he specifically
addressed people considering voting for Nythia Rahman, essentially saying that
she has no chance.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Voting for Nythia is a wasted vote. It's me versus Karen.
It's changed versus more of the same. It's no longer
questioned about me or Nythia or Karen. Nythia has no
path of victory. Now it's me versus Karen.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
It's interesting how this mayoral race has caught in so
many people's attention, clear across the country, not just in
Los angele Jelis and what that might mean. We got
the perfect guy to talk to. We just got this text.
Good morning, guys. Thank you so much for having a
lot of heat Chen on your show. They are my
favorite interviews. You guys do I learned something new every
single time.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Eric in Texas Oh wow, Lon, he under a little
pressure to deliver Lanie Jens David and Diane Steffie, fellow
in American Public Policy Studies at the Hoover Institution and
the Director of Domestic Policy Studies at Stanford University.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Loni, how are you well?
Speaker 6 (01:29):
I think we was just end the interview here.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
The wow.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
That's very kind, Thank you. It was always great to
do with you guys. Happy election day here in California.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
So, if Pratt and Hilton both make the final two,
does that say anything about the progressive movement in the country.
Is that like a real blow I'm hoping to the
wackad fringe of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
I think it's a message. I mean, I think we
have to be careful not to not to draw conclusion
that are too broad. I mean, one of the things,
certainly in the city of La there is I think
a backlash to what the progressive politics have done to
our major cities. And I think we saw it in
San Francisco. By the way, a couple of years ago, guys,
when San Francisco elected a relatively more moderate mayor going
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against several very progressive candidates, and that more moderate mayor
by a lot of account has produced positive change in
San Francisco. I think in La it's a similar dynamic.
Karen Bass has been a complete failure. She started as
a far left progressive candidate. She's tried to move more
towards the middle as her electoral fortunes have declined. And
(02:42):
there is this far left candidate, Nythia Rahman, who really
just has not, I think, picked up and captivated the
kind of interest that you would expect in a city
like LA. So I do think it'll be interesting to
see what happens. I mean, obviously, if she makes the
run off. If Bass makes the run off against the
aggressive candidate, that's one thing, but that doesn't look to
(03:03):
be the outcome we're going to see. It looks like
it's going to be Karen Bass's Spencer Pratt, and I
think it's going to be a fascinating general election. At
that end of the pas Pratt has been really good.
Prad has been really good at engaging in what I
would call kind of asymmetric campaign tactics. Right, He's not
like he's better funded, it's not like he's got more
name recognition, but he's managed to really make this a
(03:25):
super interesting race.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Well Jack me the point.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
I don't want to steal your thunder because it was
excellent what you said, but it's with all due respect
to the brilliance of some of that AI generated stuff
that Pratt and his fans have come up with. His
message is just on there is decay in the cities.
It's become miserable for the tax paying, law abiding people.
The excuses that are being given are illegitimate, and we
(03:47):
want change.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
And what really animated that, of course, where the fires
back in Palisades and in other parts of La the
devastating fires in early twenty twenty five, and that was
what started this groundswell of you know, things are not right.
You had Karen bass Off on an international trip being
wined and dying while our city was burning, and it
created a level of anger at the status quo that
(04:13):
I think has continued to this day. And you add
to that, you know, not just the failed response of
the fires, but the ongoing homeless problem, the continuing issues
around crime and public safety being a problem in the
city of Los Angeles. All of those things combined have
created an energy for change. And I think that's absolutely
what we're seeing, and that's spot on the reason why
(04:34):
Spencer prad is gaining momentum and is part of a
discussion is because people want change. It's a very simple message.
Do you want more of the same or do you
want something fundamentally different? And that's what practic stands for.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
It is interesting though, those ads, how much attention they
get and they're whatever you guys in the political run
and for office world call earned media or none earned
media and all that sort of stuff. But if you
can come up, get somebody, because there's nothing stopping me
from making a creative ad in the next half hour
that looks like you know, Hollywood, spend a million dollars
(05:07):
on it. Now in the modern world with AI, how
much has that changed the landscape or running for office?
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Oh, it's it's such a great question. I mean, it
has fundamentally altered the landscape we have. We have seen
so many changes in how campaigns are waged over the
last fifteen years. I mean, I remember guys when Twitter
was new, right and this that sort of totally changed
the way that campaigns had to respond to things because
(05:32):
the news cycle went from you know, twenty four hours
to eight hours to eight minutes and now you layer
on top of that, the additional social platforms, whether it's Instagram,
TikTok et, cetera, and then now Ai and the ability
to generate videos and content, pictures, you know, everything, and
the visual medium being able to do these videos. I mean,
(05:55):
that is really the next step forward. So campaigns have
changed a lot, and those of us who you know,
sort of learned how to wage campaigns and be in
that venue in the two thousands and twenty ten. It's
a totally different ballgame now. I mean, I feel like,
as the kids would say, an unk, because I'm totally
you know, out of it in a lot of ways
(06:17):
because there's so much technology and it's moving so bad.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
And unk hunk. Yeah, don't want to be an aunt.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
That's what they call me.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I like to know what I'm being insulted, So I'm
going to file that one away.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
We're talking to lanhe Chen of the Huber Institution, Stanford University. Lani,
next to your towering intellect, I Joe Getti him like
a golden retriever. But I would like nonetheless, partly because
we're going to go big on this at the bottom
of the hour to attempt to recruit you to not
using the term homeless or homelessness because they are these
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people are drug addicts. They are not homeless because they're
drug addicts, or I'm sorry, they're not drug addicts because
they're homeless.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
They're homeless because they're drug addicts.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
The animating detail of their lives is their drug addiction,
not their lack of a fixed address. And again we're
going to go big at the bottom of the hour.
I just I think we need to call problems what
they are, and I think the homeless is the very
term is a tool of the left and that's one
of spenserting messages. Yeah, yeah, and we'll be hammering that.
(07:19):
Go ahead and comment if you like her, or we
can move on to other fair well.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
I you know, I think it's a it's a really
good point, which is that we have to understand what's
causing the problems we're seeing on streets right and I
do think that there has been a failure to address
head on some of the challenges, whether it's drug addiction,
whether it's the need for mental health access, whether it's
you know, I mean, there's all sorts of different reasons,
(07:45):
but I think that we do we have I think
this is not just the case with the homeless issue.
I think with a lot of issues, what we're failing
to do as a society is to deal with the
with the root causes of some of the challenges, and uh,
people like to paper it over. That's definitely definitely the case,
and I think this is one of those issues where
we're seeing a lot of papering over. I think you
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guys are making a really well.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
It's because if you can make it somebody else's fault
and not their own personal fault, then you can raise
money for it and say we need to have a
program in gazillions of dollars and hand it out to people,
and it only makes the problem worse to.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Your troat or my favorite, my favorite is the nonprofit.
Something that drives me nuts. I mean, how many of
these nonprofits. I was speaking to somebody the other day
who's doing a lot of research and work on different nonprofits.
Quote nonprofits in California that have really become nothing more
than shell organizations for activating left and Look, I have
(08:40):
no problem that people should vote, that's a great thing.
But when you get into political activism and actively lobbying
for some of these causes, that's when it becomes a problem.
And I think, by the way, the US Department of
Justice should look into these nonprofit groups that are abusing
their nonprofit tax status because that creates a big, big,
prim problem in so many parts of our state, in
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our country. Is you have these groups masquerading as you know,
we're just here to try to help society, but really
what they're there to do is to advocate for far
left causes.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Jack, you have more on California.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
I was going to go to National soln he any
thoughts on the Republican brand at this point and to
the extent, to what extent is it still you know,
synonymous with the Trump brand.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
What's happening with the Republican.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
Party, Well, it is, I think synonymous for a lot
of people. And one of the things that's really struck
me is the continuing strength of the President's brand in
Republican circles. I mean, I just want to talk about,
specifically within the Republican Party, how powerful his brand remains.
(09:46):
Because if you look at what happened with Tom Massey
in Kentucky, you look at what happened in the Indiana
with the Indiana legislators who voted to not redistrict to
go against the president. Now, many of them have been
ask if you look at Bill Cassidy in Louisiana, the
Senator down there, and there's there's there's other examples as well.
But what struck me is the enduring presence of the
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president in how Republicans think about their politics. And then
by translation that also means yes, I think because he's
got such a big influences in the Republican Party. More broadly,
the President's brand and the Trump brand is still very
much seen as synonymous with the Republican Party. How long
that goes, what that looks like, I can't predict that. Right,
(10:32):
might say that it's been enduring for sure.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
My only quibble is that I think you're saying the
Republican Party, it's the primary voter, the core of the core,
and I just wonder to what extent.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
They actually reflect.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Republicans en mass and perhaps wabbly independents who might lean Republican.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
You know, it's a good it's a good question because
the makeup of the of the Republican voter bass changed
a lot over the last couple of years, right, I mean,
it is predominantly a more working class party, now, and
that wasn't the case, you know, four or five years ago.
So people that vote Republican now they probably wouldn't have
voted Republicans five or ten years ago. And then you've
got a lot of people who would have voted Republican
(11:16):
ten years ago who now you know, can't do it anymore.
So it is interesting the party's undergone transition and as
a result, we have to we have to look at
that voter basis being really different today than it was
a decade ago.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I don't remember if we've ever done predictions with you before.
You the kind of guy that doesn't make predictions.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
I mean, I make predictions of the caveat that I'm
wrong along.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Do you think the two Republicans make the final two
in the California.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Yeah, I think that. I think the numbers are still
there for Steve Hilton to make it through in the
governor's race. To the top two, it's going to be
really close because you know, the Republican split between Sheriff
Chad Bianco and Steve Hilton. I think yeah, I think
will ultimately hurt hurt Steve Hilton. So hopefully there's some
consolidation there and he's able to get through to the
top two. I do think Spencer Pratt makes it through it.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
I think there's just so much energy there. So I'm
hopeful with both.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
But that'll be a fun race to watch if he
makes the top two too.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Vote early, vote off and folks, you tooln he you're
good for three or four votes, I'm sure ln Hee
Chen David Diane Steffi, Fellow American Public Policy Studies at
the Hoover Institution, Director Domestic Policy Studies at Stanford University.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Always enlightening, Thanks Loni.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Hey, guys, have a good time. Thank you, have a
good day.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yeah, I agree. I think Platner definitely makes a top two.
I hope Hilton does, but it's gonna be tough. Uh yeah,
fingers crossed.
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Speaker 1 (13:41):
Got a couple of funny things. I want to point
out there a bunch of news we need to get to.
By the way, week thirty headlines we got a touch
on almost certainly won't get results in California tonight. So
don't be you know, thinking that's the way this is
going to play out. It'll take a while because they're
gonna be close.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
A lot on the way.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
I hear.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
There is a Skyline chili egg roll in the house,
how is it?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Well, since you guys have absolutely no guts whatsoever, and
says I'm a team player, I'm going to try.
Speaker 7 (14:17):
It out.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
The world's most ringing I love Skyline.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Can I just say that for the record, this is
the lowest point in my career, and I have had
some low ones.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
So his review was um um, and then he called
it the lowest point of this.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
That's a couple of Cincinnati Red's announcers really having a
good time. I love it when baseball announcers do that
sort of thing. There should be more of that, not less,
because you have so much downtime. If you have a
couple of entertaining people or one entertaining person, there's plenty
of time to talk about lots of things.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
I missed the era of my life when I was
a a Rabbit baseball fan and B had time to
watch and listen to more baseball.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
They were trying a chilly egg roll on the air.
Whatever that is an oof? Oh yeah, the great baseball announcers.
I feel warmth for them, like they're old friends.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
A couple of things for you, there was a Babylon
B headline Joe Biden is still making their rounds and
doing the interviews. I can't believe the I was read
in the Wall Street Journal review because they did an
interview with her. They took the whole she thought he
was having a stroke thing. Seriously obvious lie. But anyway,
Babylon B with this headline. Joe Biden explained she thought
(15:42):
Joe Biden had a stroke during the debate, which is
why she left him up there to die.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Wow. Wow. Oh, and you know that reminds me I'd
read in I think it was the Free Beacon.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Elsewhere in the book, Jill describes being worried that sleepy
Joe had accidentally quote drugged himself with sleeping pills or
cough syrup. That she presents this as a plausible scenario
does little to dispel concerns that the president's brain was
not functioning and she knew it all along.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Right, a different topic we talked about sixty minutes and
Scott Pelly and that whole blow up in an hour two.
If you want to get the podcast and check that out,
is quite the scene, I mean, I mean quite the
work scene. You just you have a star employee, just
laying into the new boss, and the boss eventually saying
you're not going to intimidate me and gets up and
(16:35):
walks out, and then everybody cheers. So you got quite
the dynamic there. Anyway, I left this out. This is
from Eric Eric ericson fellow radio person Scott Pelly being
a insufferable p word, he says. But anyway, sixty minutes
(16:55):
Boss Nick Bilton, Scott Pelly says to him, I find it.
I'm going to try to do it like Scott Pelley.
I can't do it. That's slow though we don't have
all day. I find it odd that you would take
this job knowing that you would never be welcomed here.
What a douchebag thing to say you're fired. I think
(17:18):
you said you give it forty eight hours cool down over.
Maybe maybe I don't know how valuable they think Pelly
is to the whole project. That would really hurt it
because you got to put up with a jerk if
he's important to the sports team or the show or whatever.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
But that guy pulls that hole. I'm the boss here,
routine out, get the hell out of here.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Speaking of being a baseball fan, the beloved formerly San
Francisco giants started winning when they kicked berry Bonds out.
Not that they didn't win with him, but yeah, any
good point, Scott Pelly's Berry Bonds.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
He really is and that's about as swoll as him too.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
He is.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Well, he'll have plenty of time to tan and work
out soon.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
As I mentioned to lnhie Chen coming up the agreement,
the spreading agreement that it's drugs not quote unquote homelessness
from some surprising sources.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Wherever you live, you need to listen to this and
start spreading the.
Speaker 8 (18:16):
Word Armstrong and Getty, Well, they're not homeless, they're drug addicts.
Most of these people are addicted to fentanyl and met So.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Spencer Pratt there, who we've been discussing specifically in the
context of junkies ruining the cities of the West Coast
and other cities around America, and a couple of things.
Number One, he pointed out to Bill Maher the other
day that sixty percent of the junkies on the streets
in California came from elsewhere. I think we just talked
about San Francisco, La specifically. That's something we've been talking
(18:51):
about for years. And years, and Amy Reikert, who's a
commentator based out of San Diego. It's pointing out that
body brokers they're called, literally recruit drug addicts from up
states by them plane tickets California, then get paid for
delivering them to rehab centers and sober living homes. There
have been several prosecutions for this. But after the junkies
get kicked out of drug treatment because they're not really
(19:11):
serious about it anyway, and plus, you know, it's hard
to kick drugs and they're no longer profitable. They're stuck
in California. They go straight to the skid rows of
the various cities where the quote unquote homeless nonprofits can
monetize them.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
I was surprised that Bill Maher was surprised that a
lot of the drug addicts living in your town or
state or from somewhere else. I mean, because he's pretty
you know, unhappy with the current state of California, even
as a lifelong Democrat, and I just would think he'd
(19:45):
be aware of that. Like I live in a town
that's got more drug addicts than the town next to it,
because the town next to it doesn't put up with it.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I mean just they make these decisions.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Yeah yeah, And you know there's a reason all the
junkies calls Seattle free Attle, and why they've got such
an enormous junkie problem. It's because they make it so
comfortable to be a junkie there. It's the enabling on steroids. Anyway,
I wanted to get to a couple of pieces of
fairly long audio, but I think they're both worth it.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
This is so interesting.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Doug Ellen was the guy, the showrunner, the creator of
the show Entourage, which is always very entertaining. He's a
Hollywood entertainment type. He made a video around his house.
He'd have to be very wealthy then, uh yeah, Oh,
speaking of wealth, I meant to say that, oh yeah,
judging by his pad there in his neighborhood. Yeah, this
(20:38):
this segment, if enough people heard, it could cost many,
many millions of dollars to the homeless industrial compract complex.
Please don't murder us. We're nice fellas, and our kids
seem fun of us. So because the amount of money
being handed out is in the tens of billions of
dollars at this point. And that's just in you know,
the great state of cal Unicornia.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Anyway. So this is Doug Ellen with the video. He
just made it and put.
Speaker 9 (21:02):
Out Ala Times guess letters. It's weird. One of fifteen
cameras that I now have at this house, two German shepherds,
three legal guns. Five years ago, didn't lock a door here.
But you know what happened. Two animals invaded my house.
And no, I'm not racist because they were wearing masks.
I don't know if they were white. I don't know
if they were Jewish, I don't know if they were
working rabbis. I know they were animals because they invaded
(21:24):
my house.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
I know.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I don't care what their excuses are, like a lot
of you care.
Speaker 10 (21:28):
I know invaders of home should get twenty years, but
I'm not paranoid.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
So I don't believe you're bullet.
Speaker 11 (21:34):
About the stats and the crime because everyone in my
neighborhood has got the same problem. They're all putting cameras
and hiring security guards because we're all getting broken into
It's not made up, it's not false, and this city
has collapsed in the last five years.
Speaker 10 (21:48):
There is no denying it unless you have an agenda,
and I don't know what that is. But you say, oh,
Spencer Pratt has no experience, So how can we possibly
think about this?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
What experience did Karen Bass have?
Speaker 10 (22:00):
Rick Caruso, who we know can build things, who we
know can fix problems, when you made sure he couldn't win.
So right now you're putting people in the same position
that you did with Trump, who I did not vote for,
by the way you put him in by making sure
we had no options.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Okay, And that's where we are in LA and we want.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
To fix this place because we don't want to be
forced out. I'm one of the people who made this
city look great. I did it for years. I glorified it.
I mean people all the time that moved here because
the show that I created, and they hate it here
now hate m.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
That is a convert to sanity.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Yeah, it's too bad to take somebody out that level
to start to feel pain before you can you get attention.
You'd think every single one of us going to the
store like I did last night and waiting for someone
to unlock your shamboo.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Would be enough, right. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
And then the second piece of audio I want to
play for you is a It's a teaser essentially from
Michael Schellenberger's new document with I can't remember his co
docum documentarian, but the entire theme of it is what
we've been trying to hammer for years. The quote unquote
homeless problem is a drug problem. I think eighty percent
(23:14):
is an underestimate of what percentage of people in the
junkie camps are there because they're junkies. The what I
refer to, for lack of a better term, as the
righteous homeless, the folks of you know, not great intellect
or had the devastating medical bill or whatever, and they
just they can't afford housing and they've ended up on
(23:35):
the street.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
You almost never see them.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
They don't commit crimes, and I would be delighted to
have well administered fraud free programs for people like that.
But at least eighty percent of the people that the
just gigantic piles of money are flowing towards actually.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
To the NGOs.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
The bumps and junkies only get a tiny percentage of it.
It's the the rip off artists that get the money.
But the vast majority of those people are drug addicts,
plain and simple. Here is a sample of Michael Schellenberger's
new piece, Oh you should know they talked to a
woman a fair amount. She is visibly pregnant, which ups
the anti of horror. The rest of the people are
(24:18):
tattooed faced, living in a tense Uh, you know, just dwelder, junkies,
broad daylight.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
I saw someone get raped, a rape bully pick nikki
rob somebody get stabbed.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
You like someone robbing with the machete today, have all
my stuff with crow bars and bets. I told you
get shot in the back of the head. Somebody getting shot. No,
you will end up getting the herd out here. Other
holmess people are like your worst animations. People do not
play out here, says I have weapons, I have reputitions. Okay,
(24:55):
what kind of weapons? Bats? Nice, nay stages. What's your choice? Brother,
heroin crystal meth and heroine met definite.
Speaker 12 (25:07):
Anybody you don't know if it doesn't smoke matten. Though,
we saw a woman who was pregnant. Just now, what
does she smoking? Any She's smoking fanel and she's eight
months pregnant.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
So are you seeing more people showing up in psychotic
stats to naked now than say, two three years ago? Yes,
I think so.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
I don't know what they're putting this stuff. I don't
know if those aliens, I'm not trying to sound crazy.
Speaker 9 (25:31):
That's fine, must be causing all these like psychological breakdowns.
Speaker 8 (25:36):
And I think that they had put like a transmitters
and hunkas I was able to hear and communicate, and
they look like I was talking to myself.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
My job was to intake homeless individuals on the street,
and I don't have to expe you just choose to
be a lot of people are out here because they
want to be out here. Everyone, I mean, everyone's usually
has a serious dart. They kind of just kind of
quit society just right now. It's literally by choice. Did
you get to send the power of cared whether they're
(26:03):
own version? No, And I'm not trying to be like
crazy with it, but definitely not. I mean, if we're
going to be realistic to pay you to be homeless here,
they make it so easy and normalize it. Drug dealers
are just being let go over and over and over.
It's like the cops who are it's like they're your neighbor,
you know, they enable them because they allow the opener
(26:24):
drug market open street daaning like that when the cops
just across the street like watching them. I think they've
given up on the people that are out there on
the street. I've never seen anything like it. I've been
in the game thirty years, dude, never seen anything like you.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
The game being a street drug addict and one of
the main points of it. And it was kind of
hard to hear because everything's got to have loud, stupid
music over it is that some of the counselors and
medical people they talk to are saying the super math
is that's what Spencer Pratt calls it is absolutely destroying
people's minds. He's seeing way more psychosis, and we're enabling that.
(27:03):
We're letting people do drugs as long as possible with
no repercussions, so they can ruin their mind but good
so they can never function in society to keep the
money flowing. Any scrammating. Didn't see any scrammating. Why that
eight month pregnant chick smoking fentanyl saying yeah, well this
(27:24):
is by twice I want to be out here.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
That's rough.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
Yeah it is, but let's keep helping her do it.
No repercussions. Last thing we want to do is any
repercussions for breaking the law. Cops just watch they watch
the open air drug market.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Scrammiting is when you scream in vomit at the same time,
which I've never done.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
I don't think.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
The mess, the gurgling, yes, what's the worst, and the
drawing attention to yourself. I'd rather come quietly in the corner.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Absolutely, It's like many acts done by human beings. It's
best enjoyed, you know, solo.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yeah, is from the extra strong pot right, Yeah. Yeah.
They're seeing more and more of that in the hospitals too.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Do you think the message we've been trying to, you know,
get across is starting to catch on.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
I mean I would think you live in a lot
of cities where you drive to work or pick your
kids to school, or you're running errands on the weekend.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
You see these people all over the place, and the
homeless industrial complex and their friends and the government have
convinced you that, yeah, poor unfortunate people.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
I've known a few people like that about they go
to the store and see stuff locked up. I had
a friend like this, very nice person, but when she
would see stuff locked up at the store, her reaction
would be man, And it's the stuff they need the
most that they lock up.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
That was her reaction. Wow, supposed to.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
They're just shoveling in into trash bags and then selling it. Yeah,
CALLI universe goes to dives. There's scumbag thieves, all right, Gies,
there's scumbag thieves. There's a certain percentage of the population
that will steal from you rather than work. It's always
been true, it will always be true, and unless you
have systems in place to keep them from doing that,
(29:30):
it will happen.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
You know, their negative consequences.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
As Doug Ellen was pointing out as clearly a man
of the left, you made it so easy to be
a criminal. Now there's crime everywhere, And he said five
years ago, I didn't even lock my doors. Right now,
he's got eleven cameras, two dogs, multiple guns, and all
of his neighbors are doing the same. Just yeah, keep
blaming it on housing prices, Chase Louise.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Let's do a funny Greg Guttfeld joke. I'm all of
the things only come back.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Stay tuned.
Speaker 13 (30:00):
Hey, there are reports that the next James Bond will
be a woman. Yeah, instead of a license to kill,
she'll have a license to blame you for whatever happened
to her in her dreams.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Got a text from somebody who voted in California. I
voted in person this morning. Was ballot number one. I
was line leader in kindergarten, so it's no surprise.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Anyway. This person, this is in California in line.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Before they opened, everyone in all caps was talking about
how much they hate the people in charge in California
right now and are hoping there is change. Really passionate
discussion is going on all ages. Black guy, Mexican dude
and his wife lady who moved from Chicago and said
California is worse than Shytown. It was very interesting eavesdropping. Wow,
hard to say if that is just representative of that
(30:58):
area or not. So I'm looking at an actual paper
ballot in California. I'm gonna vote in person today.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
I haven't voted in person and forever, but I'm just
gonna show up and from what everything I understand, they'll
let me vote. Somebody said they tried, they tried to
show their driver's license. They're like, you don't need that,
which is hilarious. There are sixty people on the ballot
for governor in California.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Sixty did you know that. Wow, it's a very long ballot. Uh,
why do all these people run? What they?
Speaker 8 (31:29):
What are they?
Speaker 1 (31:30):
What is going on there for most of the sixty
I mean there, we all know there's like a half
a dozen who actually thought they were had a shot
at being governor?
Speaker 5 (31:39):
But what are the other fifty people doing? Anybody there
for fun?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
I wonder how fun it is. I wouldn't think it'd
be that fun. Lots of different You have to put
your profession on, which is kind of odd. Wonder why you.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
List your profession?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
When did we decide that that is such a major
p of information that of the two things I know
about you, and I only know two things your party
preference and what you do for a living.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
Anyway, my friend called for jury duty the other day
and the judge asked, what do you do for a living?
What does your spouse do for a living?
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Looking at through looking through some of these sixty people,
real estate agent, retired nuclear engineer, businessman, immigrants organizer, human
rights attorney. Eric Swawell is a US representative. I sleep
with Chinese spies, That's what I do for a little.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
I like people that just put.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Father you might have a job putting father is fine
with me. A musician, songwriter, social worker, farmer, housing affordability advocate.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
I wonder how you're going to vote communications executive, another father, chiropractor.
Chiropractors can vote in America. They should be allowed to.
Seems like a mistake anyway.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Sixty people on the ballot of all different walks and stripes,
and most of them Democrats. I wonder what you think
you're getting out of that. I'll have to ask some
of the threshold to get on the ballot.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Thenther one.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
I'm guessing it's like, yeah, I'm guessing it's like seventy
five dollars and that's it.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
I'll bet, just like prize. But I wonder, I wonder.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
And at the end of it, you have the opportunity
to write in after the sick if you don't like
any of the sixty.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Options on there.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
It's an alphabetical order, and you have to go way
down before you get to Hilton. Then there's a person
in between. Then no, it's not an alphabetic order.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
I don't know what order. It's randomized. Okay, Well, Hilton and.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Be Sarah are one person apart, and those are the
likely I hope two people that end up coming out
of this because the top two run against each other
for November third, when we will all vote all over
the place to decide who gets what. I remember it
was decades ago that I first heard about ballot order
being randomized because political scientists figured out that people vote
(34:10):
overwhelmingly for the first person, which is crazy. Well, it's
proof democracy can't work. That is pretty much all you
need to know.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Yes you can. People cannot govern themselves if they are
likely to vote for who's at the top of the list.
Speaker 5 (34:24):
Well, and it's even worse than it sounds at first.
Blush because it's a person who thinks, I don't have
any idea who any of these people are, but I
should vote, and I'm going to vote for well, the
first person.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
And sometimes that's me.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
There are races where I'll get in there and I
think I don't know anything about this race at all, But.
Speaker 14 (34:40):
I've never thought so I'll go with whoever is the
first on the list, go by party or something, or
think I'd rather have a dad in this job than
a you know, community organizer or whatever you're basing it on.
But Covian, whoever's first on the list, you're a certain
sort of ron.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
Well, I don't think it's not a conscious decision. They
just are going to pick somebody and just they will
overwhelmingly pick the first person.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
You don't have most human tendency. You don't have any
more control over your human tendencies than that. Don't vote
no kidding, I know I'll go for controller here. I'll
vote for Herb Morgan because he's first on the list.
I don't know anything about him.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
Hey, you know, today's the perfect day to repeat this.
And depending on when your primaries are, this advice is
for you as well. Vote for your city attorney or
your whatever, your prosecutor. Remember when George Soros got all
those radical leftists into those jobs. Yeah, and is still
doing it, refusing to enforce the law. Like we've been
(35:44):
talking about this half hour and school board stuff. Do
some quick research. Neglect something, and do some quick research.
Figure out who's a woke lunatic trying to teach your
kids to change their gender, and who wants to actually.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Reform government schools. Those are important elections.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
I'm looking at the race for lieutenant governor, which is
a I haven't made my decision yet. I'm still trying
to weigh the pros and gods of various candidates for
that important job.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
The final primary bit of trivia I found really interesting.
I was looking up who had primaries today and discover
that the first primaries of the nation are in March,
and the last ones are in September, and.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Then the country, Yeah, in the country, country votes November third.
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