August 2, 2024 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of the Friday August 2, 2024 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Replay features our other podcast, Armstrong & Getty One More Thing!
- Jack Restaurant Black Woman Part 1 and 2
- Thumbs Down Middle Finger
- CA Crime / Tampons in Boys Bathrooms
- Worst Tourist Attractions in the World
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 5 (00:55):
San Francisco, You are beautiful, but you are so poorly run.
Come with me to the Department of Building Inspection while
I do something that could have been done over email.
Look at this art installation outside of this three hundred
million dollars state of the art building. Nobody should ever
have to visit this building because you're just going to
email me the results anyway. Look another art installation, three
hundred million dollars. Don't worry about the homeless crisis. We
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have art installations and we don't take email, but we
have art installations. Look more art installations floating in the
middle of the air. Homeless people outside art installations inside.
Everybody here was so nice. I'm actually serious. The people
working there were very nice. You sent me up to
the fourth floor and oh, check this out. It's the
permitting department and it is absolutely stunning and empty. Looks
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like an efficient use of tax dollars. And then you
had me signed in with an iPad, but you don't
receive email? Are you hitting me? And then I filled
out a physical form, gave you a credit card and
guess what you're going to email me the report?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
That is great.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
So there's a guy who was angry with the Department
of Building Inspection in San Francisco, where apparently they do
not receive email, so he had to go in person,
and he's talking about the gazillions of dollars they spent
on art and the big beautiful building and the high
tech iPad, but there's nobody there and it doesn't actually function,
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and homeless people everywhere, but you can't.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Make that work.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Thought that'd be a decent lead in to experience I
had over the weekend. So in California, we got an
awful lot of homeless people and the majority of homeless
people and this study has been done over and over again.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
It's drug addicts, man, That's what it is.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
It's people who are addicted to some of these horrible
drugs that are out there on the street.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Trank and meth and fentanyl and all these different things.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
And yeah, if you get on these drugs, you are
going to end up homeless because you can't keep a
job or get your act together to get a job
or whatever. And we've been talking about this for several years,
the idea that it's because rent's too high or whatever.
Who who decides because rent's too high to start doing fentanyl? Anyway,
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If you haven't been to any of these cities or towns,
you can't believe it. It's just a completely different lifestyle.
I've gotten used to it myself. You're probably that way too, Katie.
I mean, where you didn't see it at all years ago,
but you're just used to it now. You just expect
there to be drug zombies everywhere you go.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah, it's part of the scene. Just part of the scene. Anyway.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
So I go to a restaurant and I debated whether
or not I was going to mention the name of
the restaurant. I don't suppose there's any upside, but we
went to this diner place that my kids and I
like the other night, and we're going to have like
pancakes and bacon breakfast for dinner.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Always exciting for the kids.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
And my son immediately spotted a street person that was
in the restaurant with a couple of grocery bags, like big,
not grocery bags, trash bags, a couple of trash bags
full of stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
So they're sitting on booth with trash bags full of stuff,
and I like, he pointed.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
It out because because we were assaulted by a homeless
guy years ago.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
That guy's in prison now.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
My youngest, especially as real PTSD around anytime he sees
somebody that is like a street person sort of character, yeah,
really worried about it. And I worry about it too,
because there have been some horrifying violent incidents in recent days, weeks, months, years,
especially in California anyway. So this person is sitting in
the booth right behind us, I mean, she's right behind
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my head, and she's got these trash bags here, and
my son wants to leave, wants to leave, and I said,
now it'll be okay. I'll keep an eyeron here. You
sit over there, I'm between you and her. Blah blah
blah blah blah. Do you think I'll fight her if
I have to?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Anyway, she's there smelling horrible, starts ranting and raving with
F bombs and N bombs. She's by herself, but she's
having some imaginary argument with somebody, waving her arms around
and everything like that. And we had gotten our food
and we're in the middle of eating, and my youngest
is actually crying now, he's so upset because this person
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is acting threatening.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
And I said, Okay, we gotta go.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
We just gotta go, and we get up and we
leave and I head toward the door and the woman
I said, we're leaving, and she starts to get out
to check. I said, I'm not paying. I can't eat
around somebody like that. And she says to me, the
manager woman says, somebody like what. Oh, come on, And
I wish i'd had of the I was too wound
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up and angry to say black women. I can't eat
around black women. Oh no, a crazy person. I said,
you got a crazy, mentally ill person over there, dropping
N bombs and F bombs and waving their arms around.
And I don't feel safe over there, and you're letting
them sit in your restaurant. So I'm leaving, and she
wants to corner you, like you gotta say like something
of fence. Yeah, exactly, somebody like what. I couldn't believe it.
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So you're gonna let that person sit in the restaurant?
Drive away customer, unbelievable, but like to insinuate this because
they're because they're unhomed, or because it's a.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Black woman or whatever. I don't know whatever she was implying, but.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I was initially was and mostly I was afraid because
we have been assaulted before. It was on the front
page of the newspaper, the guys in prison. I've been
through this before. But uh, and your son's crying.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah, I was worried about.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
It for my son, my special need son, and but
it quickly turned to just like depression, sadness that that's
just my lot in life now.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I mean, if I didn't this is where my career is,
this is where my family is.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
We got so many ties, but no wonder California's losing
population for the first time in its history.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
If I had any mobility at all, I would flip
and leave. Who would live around this.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
It's like this story last week of finding out that
Sho Heo Tani didn't want to play for the Giants,
and a lot of players don't because they they come
to San Francisco and their wives look around and say, we.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Aren't raising our family here. I don't blame him.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
I was just on Third Street, right a couple blocks
from the ballpark over the weekend, walking up to a crosswalk,
and there's a guy standing at the corner, clearly on
something like tweaking out. And I'm looking at him, and
I look at his hand, and in his left hand
is an extended box cutter, and I could see the blade,
and so my husband's next to me, and I pulled
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him in close and said, hey, check his hand, because
one one quick, you know, swing of his arm.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
And he could cut somebody's throat. Heckya, Yeah, that's really
scary right.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
In the middle of multi million dollar apartments up the
street from the ballpark.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Just un Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
So in what scenario anywhere on planet Earth, at any
point in history, does someone acting like that woman was
acting get to stay in a restaurant.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
You name me.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
The era or the geography where that that is okay.
In any eating establishment.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Ever, the owner would say you got to get out
of here.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
It makes me wonder if they had some form of
a policy, you know, because if there's a liability if
the street person attacks whoever's working in there.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Was this a chain restaurant or was it like a
mom and pop It is a minor chain. We've had
a bunch of texts I said, I wasn't gonna name
the restaurant. I had a whole bunch of text people
saying name the restaurant. Name the restaurant, Name the restaurant.
One person saying, U, let's it would get you in
legal trouble. Name the restaurant. Well, that's why I don't know.
The truth is a one defense against libel and slander.
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On the other hand, there is there I've known of
people to get in trouble, like if you do something
with the idea of damaging a business anyway.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Well, I'm the reason I'm asking is I could see
like a chain restaurant having a legal team that might
have some policy like, hey, don't go near them, because
if something happens to you, then you can sue us.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
What if something happens to your customer. Well, I think
it's more likely. You know how much damaged Starbucks ended
up in when they they denied the homeless people. They
thought homeless people the bathroom. Oh yeah, yeah, it can
be comes such a big deal so fast. And I
remember this story was several years ago, but in the
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town that I live in, a bunch of boy scouts
were being harassed by a street person. So my wife
at the time called the police. The police told her, look,
there's nothing we can do about it. And the police said,
all these homeless people have a lawyer that they know,
they have a name, because the lawyers go out and
do some outreach with the homeless community and let them know, Hey,
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if you ever get harassed by anybody, here's my card,
here's my name.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
You tell them.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
So they have legal representations, so they know their legal rights,
which is crazy given how out of their mind a
lot of these drug addicts are. But anyway, I think
they would be concerned that somehow the story would get
out that just because someone was unhoused in our evil
capitalist society, she wasn't allowed to sit down for she's
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having a glass of wine. So she'd probably begged enough
money to go into this restaurant that serves booze and
get a glass of wine. Sitting there with her garbage
back eggs full of probably crap and uh for somebody
else's crap, somebody else's crap that was stolen, waving her arms.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Around, screaming and yelling, dropping in bombs, have bombs.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
First of all, dropping in bombs by anybody else would
be an expulsion you'd get.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
You'd get kicked out for that.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
And here's here's you with your kids and trying to
enjoy a nice dinner you have. You're basically forced to
leave by her actions, and she tries to flip it
on you, like right right, because you're a white male jack.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
We can't sit around someone like that, someone like what
she thought? She thought she'd really nailed me on that one.
Oh I was so hot, Yeah what I gotcha moment. Oh,
I don't blame you.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
And I'm really glad that you didn't pay, because I'm
sure a lot of people that would be in that
situation probably would have felt like, all right, all right,
I'll pay. Oh good, I'm glad you stood your ground
on that. Hire a lawyer come after me.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
That'd be fantastic let's make this as big a deal
as possible as to why I didn't think I should
have to pay.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Oh my god, so was I gonna they had something
else into someone this? Oh So that's what's interesting. So
this manager woman when she said someone like, what.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
In her mind is that acceptable for me to sit
there with my kids next to someone who's having an imaginary.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Heated N bomb F bomb argument? Probably a bleeding heart
level way I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
She probably was sitting there going, you know, oh, you know,
this poor person doesn't have a home, Jack and ill Jack.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
So when I spoke at the city council after the
run in with the homeless person years ago, where blah
blah blah that whole story, there were people in the
city council meeting saying, if you look at a street
person and you assume they're violent, there is something wrong
with you. Well, I'm not assuming they're all violent, but
if you're assuming they're not, you're a nutjob.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
This is a lot like the people that were, you know,
claiming the sanctuary cities and whatnot, and they had the
man on the street that would go out and say, okay,
well then let them live at your house. You know,
let me come and live it. It's like that woman. Okay, well,
then you try to sit down and have a nice
meal and let her sit behind you.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I'll tell you, well, how much you like it? She
was an older one.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
I'll tell you, why don't you go get your grandkids?
Go get your grandkids, send them in the booth next
to that woman. And because if you do, you're crazy.
And it's not about the homelessness. It's about the drug addict.
I don't care if she lives in a five thousand
square foot two million dollar house. If she's out of
her mind on crazy drugs and acting all aggressive, obviously
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not mentally with it, I don't want me.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Or my kids next to them. And the restaurant allows that.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Again, where anywhere in the world would the owner not
come out and say get the.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
F out of here? That's what I keep thinking about.
What would it take to get kicked out of that restaurant?
What would she have to do to get kicked out? Exactly?
Speaker 6 (12:50):
That should be our social experiment. We should go in
and just see how far we can push.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
It, right right, right right, that's almost interesting to do.
One of those who's that guy that does the undercover
videos all the time.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I'm Project Veritas.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Yeah, that'd be an interesting one to do. I'd like
to get all dirty myself up. I wouldn't have to
do a lot to look homeless, oddly, but during myself up,
going there and just how and just keep pushing it
further and further.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
To see how far I gotta go before I'd actually
get asked to leave. This could be fun. Yeah, got it.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
I was so disappointed again the anger turned to just sadness.
This is this is where I live, this is where
I'm raising my kids. This is not gonna change anytime soon.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
And in that situation, you were almost the bad guy, right,
People like what ugh? Oh man, I am so I
commend you for not absolutely losing your mind.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah I am.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
I've been working on that through over the years because
I have lost my mind many times, verbally, never physically.
But I do wish i'd have had the presence of mind.
Black women. I can't eat around black women. It's just appalling.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
What are you talking about, you nut job?
Speaker 6 (13:58):
That manager would have melt just ride her spot.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I think most almost people are white males, but based
on my observation, so it's not that it's crazed out
of their mind, the drug addicts. I'm strong and get
the reality is this is fabulous.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
I thank you.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
That's enough of that.
Speaker 7 (14:17):
This is all crazy.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
That's just why it is. But damn it, we weren't
allowed to ask about the big guys. This is the
United States. Let's not play James.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
This is the Armstrong and Getty show, the arm Strong
and Getty Show.
Speaker 8 (14:32):
Sometimes when we were in Colorado, there was an out
crossing science who was slowed down to the recommended speed,
and then somebody from Colorado went around us, rolled her
window down, stuck their arm all the way out and
give us a thumbs down.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
And I think about that.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
Interaction every single day. Flipping people off when you're driving.
Instead give the thumbs down. They will not forget you.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
So flipping people off is dead. Give them a thumbs down.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
So that's a suggesting.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
That's probably a TikTok video, right that for young people,
thumbs down is the equivalent of flipping you off.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
It seemed to although no, she seemed to be saying, no,
it's a better alternative, and well, okay, better alternative in
what way?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
In terms of.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Doing damage, like showing how much you are unhappy with someone. No,
that way, you said, that's not the way I took it.
I took it out today the opposite. Well, she said,
give them the thumbs down, they'll remember it. You're expressing
disapproval in a gentlemanly way.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I think they're right. I do too.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
I mean, fu is like, let's fight. I find what
you're doing less than a satisfactory I like that. See,
I'm being misled by our headline here, Michael. I don't
know if you wrote the headline. Gen Z says thumbs
down worse than middle fingers, so I thought maybe they had.
Like the way they change emojis, remember the what emoji
is it that we're all taking completely opposite The way
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thumbs up is ironic and bitter and actually means you're terrible.
Thumbs up is mean we'll play it again. It's thirteen
seconds long time.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
When we were in Colorado, there was an outcrossing sign,
so we slowed down to the recommended speed, and then
somebody from Colorado went around us, rolled our window down,
stuck their arm all the way out and give us
a thumbs down. And I think by that interaction every
single day, flipping people off when you're driving his debt.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Give the thumbs down.
Speaker 8 (16:12):
They will not forget you.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
I yeah, I think you're right. I was misled by
the misleading headline promaganda. That does make sense, though, that
would that would do me more damage. You flip me off,
and I think, Okay, you're one of those people here
are so angry with your life, blah blah blah. You
give me the thumbs down. That's like a grown up
You did something wrong and I don't improve of that.
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It's like saying I'm disappointed in you.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yeah, yeah, that's pretty good. Right.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
It's an expression of civilized disapproval. You know, if somebody
flies off the handle and screeches at you, it's easy
to think, wow, there's an angry, crazy person, right, But
if they say, excuse me, I'm terribly sorry to bother you.
But I wanted to point out. I mean, you've got
to you know, you gotta take that at least a
little seriously.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Right.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
The thumb's down, folks. I like it, and it's more civilized.
I'm from more civilization, not less so.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
The Fed.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
For instance, I've now insisted my dog wear pants. I've
thought about it for a long time. There's no reason
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Speaker 2 (17:39):
The Armstrong and Getty shot is a big concern in California.
Speaker 7 (17:49):
Lego stores, for instance, have become hot targets for some
California theft rings. The La Times reporting two suspects allegedly
stole more than one hundred thousand dollars worth of Lego
items from six southern California stores in the last two months.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Two people from another crime ring were.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
Arrested on June fifth after police saw one of the
suspects dealing Lego products from Target stores.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
And check out this video from last.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
Week showing about twenty suspects using hammers and other tools
to break into jewelry cases in a store in Sunavail,
northwest of San Jose. Police arrested five suspects in that incident.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Hey, wait a minute before we discuss the substance is
that the woman the newswoman who said, budd he's gay,
I mean he's gay, I mean he's blind. That sounds
exactly like the I don't know that newschick, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
So legos getting robbed from stores, Lego stores and Target
and smashing grabs for jewelry and all that sort of
stuff in California, which leads to this Nicholas Christoph Lefty
in the New York Times opinion writer, why have we what?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Why do we keep saying?
Speaker 8 (18:57):
What?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
What have we liberals done to the West Coast? Is
this headline?
Speaker 4 (19:02):
As Democrats make their case to voters around the country
this fall. One challenge is that some of the bluest
parts of the country, cities on the West Coast, are
a mess. Centrist voters can reasonably ask why put liberals
in charge nationally when the place is where they have
the greatest control are plagued by homelessness, crime, and dysfunction.
Liberals like me need to face the painful fact that
something has gone badly wrong where we're in charge. From
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San Diego to Seattle. I'm an Oregonian who bores people
at cocktail parties by singing the praises of the West.
But the truth is that too often we offer a
version of progressives, of progressive ism that doesn't result in progress.
We are more likely to believe that housing is a
human right than conservatives in Florida or Texas, but less
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likely to actually get people housed.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
We accept the yawning gulf between our values and our outcomes. Well,
that's a stupid value. Is the problem?
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Housing being human right doesn't work. There's no way it
could possibly work in any society.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
All right, you're so completely unrealistic about human nature.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
That's why there's the gulf.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
So skip down through a bunch of statistics and he
says the problem isn't with liberalism, it's with West Coast liberalism.
The two states with the highest rates of unsheltered homelessness
are California Oregon. The three states with the lowest rates
of unsheltered homelessness are all blue ones in the northeast, Vermont,
New York, and Maine. Liberal Massachusetts had some of the
finest public schools in the country, while liberal Washington and
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Oregon have below average high school graduation rates. It's an
interesting thing to point out he got blue states with
different policies, but they're still Democrats. Oregon ranks dead last
for youth mental health services, including Mental Health America, while Washington,
d C.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
And Delaware rank best.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Drug overdoses appear to have risen last year in every
Democratic state on the West Coast, while they dropped last
year in the Democratic states.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
In the Northeast. The homicide rate in Portland last year
was double the rate of New York City. Wow.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Wow, you know, I have my guess about what's going on,
and that is really an intriguing, uh juxtaposition. The liberalism
of the Northeast, I think, is much more Kennedy esque,
John carry esque. It's not though the full on wackadoodal
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woke left like the West Coast is. I mean, I
use the term cal unicornea and have for years. I've
never said Massachusetts cornea because they're not unicorn riders. They
might be wrong, or they might be too liberal, but
they're not that unhinged, completely divorced from reality liberal.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Well, this is Nicholas Christoph's take.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
My take is that the West coast central problem is
not so much that it's unserious as it as that
it's infected with an ideological purity that is focused more
on intentions than on oversight, and outcomes focused more on
intentions than outcomes.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
True, well, and to the point that you can't even
recognize the outcome.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
You won't admit to it. You won't even admit to
it yourself.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
When it's a disaster, you'll blame systemic racism or settler
colonialism or what have you for the miserable outcomes of
your policies.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Politics is always part theater, but out west. Too often
we settle for being performed in rather than substanative, substantive,
having substance.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
For example, as a gesture to support trans kids, Oregon
took money from the tight education budget to put tampons
in boys restrooms and elementary schools. We've done this in California,
also including boys restrooms in kindergarten. See you have tampons
in the boys kindergarten restroom.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
That is damn near like clinically provable mental illness.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
The inability of progressives, particularly in the Portland metro area,
to deal with the nitty gritty of governing and to
get something done is just staggering, said one Democrat representative.
UH people are much more interested in ideology then, actually
than actual results. If you're spending tax money to put
tampons in boys' bathrooms, including kindergarteners, then yes, you care
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more about a gesture of your politics than accomplishing anything
with my tax money. If I'm an Oregonian that I
mean that is a You can't even shade that a
little bit. It's one, one hundred percent fact. You're more
interested in a gesture than accomplishing anything. If you're spending
taxpayer money not on how do we raise these math
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scores or are reading proficiency, but we're putting tampons and
boys bathrooms, that's just unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I don't think the term virtue signaling is nearly strong enough. No,
And it's like on the tip of my tongue because
I've read about this before. But in fundamentalist religions you
have the phenomenon where people are constantly trying to outdo
their neighbors to come off as the most devout.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
You see it in fundamentalist Muslim societies.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Where you don't dare be seen being not devout because
then you will be dragged out and stoned.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
But to be.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
To advocate for a policy that insane and nonsensical. That's
got to be some sort of desperate signaling of ideological purity.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
That's the only thing I can think that would explain it.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
Yes, kiddy, I'm just my mind is blown and I'm wondering,
and not that it matters, and it's a kindergarten. But
were the tampons in the girls bathroom or did they
just put this in the boys bathroom just for.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
That's a good question.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Well, putting tampoints in tampons in kindergarten bathrooms is pointless.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It put safety, put.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Some safety razors in there for the little girls too.
They're as likely to need them shaving their beards. Yeah, exactly, Yeah,
because girls grow beards to five year olds.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
You're right, calling this virtue signaling isn't good enough. It's
close to mentally ill. Like you said, Yeah, I wish
I could come up with a term.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
If anybody knows, you can text at four one, five
two nine five KFTC and I have a feeling there
are going to be attempts at humor coming our way
or email us mail bag at Armstrong and getty dot com.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
But yeah, it is.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Some sort of ideological purity trumpeting. I don't know, right,
because it's more than you took away one of the
lanes to drive across town and made it a bike lane. Okay,
that's a bad idea, I think, because you're not going
to force people to ride bikes by making their commute
more miserable.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I don't believe.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
But that's just like, here's something you think would be
good and you're wrong. That's completely different than here you're
putting tampons in five year old boys bathrooms.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
I mean that's with taxpayer money. Okay.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Here are the three levels of activism just clicked into
my head. Level one is you advocate for useless policies
though they are perhaps useless, but you don't know that
because it sounds like a good idea. Level two is
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you advocate for policies you know to be useless because
it backs up your ideology. Then level three, which is
where the West Coast is, is you have lost the
capacity to even consider whether your policies will do any good.
The only thing that matters is that show of righteousness.
(26:56):
That's a weird spot to be in man, and to
I mean as an individual. That's really troubling. That's somebody
who's unhinged. But to extrapolate that or paint that attitude
at the governmental.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Level, I mean, that's how does that happen?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
As I said before, am so utterly befuddled by the
politics of the West Coast.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
I just how can you ignore the evidence of your wrongness.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
I thought Suddam Hussein needed to be whacked if the
UN and the US were gonna have any credibility. I
believed the group thinking weapons of mass destruction stuff. The
implementation was terrible, The planning was terrible. It was a
miserable policy conducted miserably with all And I say that
(27:48):
out of great respect, the admiration and love for the
guys who fought, got.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Hurt and died there.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
How can you not recognize the failure of what you're avocating.
That is a mental illness, ideal, logical insanius So.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
I was going to bring this story last week, never
got around to it. I'm glad that Christoph includes it
in his article. And there's a lot more to this,
but this is a good, tragic story of Oregon. Consider
a volunteer group called the Portland Freedom Fund that was
set up to pay bail for people of color.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
We all remember this.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
The organization raised money from well intentioned liberal donors, and
the underlying problems were real. Bail requirements hit poor people
hard well. In twenty twenty two, the Portland Freedom Fund
helped a black man named Mohammed at Aiden who had
been arrested after allegedly strangling his former girlfriend, holding a
gun to her head, and then, in violation of a
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restraining order, cutting off his GPS monitor and entering her building.
He told me he would kill me, the former girlfriend warned.
The Freedom Fund paid his he walked out of jail.
A week later, he removed the GPS monitor, entered her home.
The police found her brought body drenched in blood with
a large knife nearby. Three three children were also in
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the house. Wow, a well meaning effort help people of
color may have cost the life of this woman of color.
So you've got the well intentioned but doesn't work in
practice like that, You've got the completely insane tampons for
kindergarteners and everything in between. He also goes on by
(29:31):
the way to say he doesn't agree with ebermes Kenny's
approach on things which I appreciate out of a progressive
New York Times opinion writer.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Yeah, yeah, you can't. You here's a challenge for you.
Come up with something.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Fancifully crazier than tampon's and a five year old boy's bathroom.
You can't come up with something crazier than that. It's fine, impossible.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Well, and if somebody advocated that to you, what would
you think of that person?
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Would you think, I don't think their policy prescriptions will
be effective, or would you think you're dealing with a
mad man?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Well, what Joe's just saying.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
I keep thinking, you know, somebody comes up with an
idea and you've got to have multiple adults.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Agree on this. Yeah, it's not one person that got
that happening. It would have taken dozens to discuss it,
to approve it, then to implement it. Oh my god. Well,
and like so much of.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
The corruption in California, so many of the utterly unrealistic
progressive programs exist to spread money around. It's just paying
off your supporters in the classic style. That example that
cannot be explained through sheer cynical you know, a graft
or you know what I'm trying to say, it's that
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is ideological psychopathy.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
You mentioned earlier a teacher that quit their job because
he wasn't given the power to keep kids off their
cell phones. They just sat there in class looking at
their phones. Finally decided to screw this.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
I'm not going to do this.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
And I understand why you would stay because it's a
good paying job. You always want to be a teacher,
and you know you're gonna do your time and get
your pension. But how would you work in a school
where you're struggling, probably with all kinds of budget restrictions
making it difficult to teach the kids math, science, all
the important things, and there's a tampon machine in the
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kindergarten boys bathroom?
Speaker 2 (31:32):
How would you keep working there? Right?
Speaker 3 (31:36):
And keep in mind you're told nobody gets less than
a bee. How would you not at least go to
the principal or go to the superintendent or whatever and say, look,
you realize this is insane. Right, I'll stay here because
I want to be a teacher, But I need you
to say to me this is insane because I need
to hear you say that, otherwise I'm working for a lunatic.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I mean, good, good lord.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
That's the latter the situation is as you described, you're
working for crazy people. Ideology can divorce people from even
the most basic reasonable judgment.
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Speaker 3 (32:28):
I came across this yesterday, The worst tourist destinations in
the World.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
It's voted on by travelers, you know, who go to
these sorts of things.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
I don't travel the world that much myself, but several
in America made the list, and number one is definitely
the worst tourist attraction in the world, at.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Least that I've ever been to. And one caveat to this.
You'll notice a couple of them in the top four.
It's because how far it is from the airport. I
don't want to travel with you, so you're a you
want to get to the destination, take your picture there,
and then be able to post it on Instagram, but
you're not actually interested in learning about the country.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
I guess becoming up how Instagram has ruined everything. Stay
with us, Yeah, because number three is the taj Mahal
in India, which seems like a pretty cool place to be.
It was built in the sixteen hundreds.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
I didn't realize that iconic and one of the most
admired pieces of architecture recognizable in the world, but not
worth the trip, according to people, because it's a whopping
on one hundred and thirty six miles to the closest airport,
making it the furthest major tourist destination from an airport.
I would find the drive, car, ride, taxi train trip
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from the airport to the tash.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Mahal in India the most interesting thing maybe I've ever
done in my life. But those of you who just
want to be at the thing so you can take
a picture and post it, well whatever, so oh say
with same with.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
The Grand Bazaar in Turkey. Number two.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
This is a giant open shopping mall that has been
there for hundreds and hundreds of years. It might be
the world's oldest shopping mall. But it's too far from
the airport, they say, so they got a very low rating.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Four thousand shops. Wow, it looks amazing.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
So again I would love to experience that and see
everything around there, and the trip between the airport and there.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
I would find fascinating.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
But I guess if you just want to be able
to say you were there, which is like the conversations
happened last week about why they want to move the
Mona Lisa out of the louver because the lines are
so long for people who can say I've seen.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
The Mona Lisa.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
See this picture of me with the Mona Lisa in
the background. Anyway, Number one is absolutely true. The Hollywood
Walk of Fame in California, Oh yes, I feel personal.
It hurts my heart for anybody who traveled from a
somewhere on the other side of the world, especially if
you brought your kids, traveled from Pasadena. It's a disappointment.
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The Hollywood Wall of Fame is the biggest nothing burger
of all nothing burgers. I know.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
I wonder how many people actually travel there and have
heard of it and everything like that, and get there
and think this can't be it.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
This is shabby, and nobody cares except that guy dressed
as Captain America who wants twenty bucks for a picture.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Right, And as I pointed out a couple of weeks ago,
when I just happened to be on that street because
we were going somewhere else with my kids. Like most
of the artists on there, nobody under the age of
fifty has ever heard of and like, I've heard of them,
but haven't seen their work, even at my age.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Most of the things you're stepping on.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Wait, and it was a glorified You pay us a
thousand dollars, We'll give you a little star in the sidewalk.
Things so hious. It fails on every level. Yeah, worst
tourist attraction in the world.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
I'm Strong and Gatchett. Yeah, this is a sist one
hundred on the crazy meter and everyone knows it.
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San Francisco, You are beautiful, but you are so poorly run.
Come with me to the Department of Building Inspection while
I do something that could have been done over email.
Look at this art installation outside of this three hundred
million dollars state of the art building. Nobody should ever
have to visit this building because you're just going to
email me the results anyway. Look another art installation, three
hundred million dollars. Don't worry about the homeless crisis. We
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have art installations and we don't take email, but we
have art installations. Look more art installations floating in the
middle of the air. Homeless people outside art installations inside.
Everybody here was so nice. I'm actually serious. The people
working there were very nice. You sent me up to
the fourth floor and oh, check this out. It's the
permitting department and it is absolutely stunning and empty. Looks
(01:39):
like an efficient use of tax dollars. And then you
had me signed in with an iPad, but you don't
receive email? Are you hitting me? And then I filled
out a physical form, gave you a credit card and
guess what you're going to email me the report?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
That is great.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
So there's a guy who was angry with the Department
of Building Inspection in San Francisco, where apparently they do
not receive email, so he had to go in person,
and he's talking about the gazillions of dollars they spent
on art and the big beautiful building and the high
tech iPad, but there's nobody there and it doesn't actually function,
(02:16):
and homeless people everywhere, but you can't.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Make that work.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Thought that'd be a decent lead in to experience I
had over the weekend. So in California, we got an
awful lot of homeless people and the majority of homeless
people and this study has been done over and over again.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
It's drug addicts, man, That's what it is.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
It's people who are addicted to some of these horrible
drugs that are out there on the street.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Trank and meth and fentanyl and all these different things.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
And yeah, if you get on these drugs, you are
going to end up homeless because you can't keep a
job or get your act together to get a job
or whatever. And we've been talking about this for several years,
the idea that it's because rent's too high or whatever.
Who who decides because rent's too high to start doing fentanyl? Anyway,
(03:06):
If you haven't been to any of these cities or towns,
you can't believe it. It's just a completely different lifestyle.
I've gotten used to it myself. You're probably that way too, Katie.
I mean, where you didn't see it at all years ago,
but you're just used to it now. You just expect
there to be drug zombies everywhere you go.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah, it's part of the scene. Just part of the scene. Anyway.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
So I go to a restaurant and I debated whether
or not I was going to mention the name of
the restaurant. I don't suppose there's any upside, but we
went to this diner place that my kids and I
like the other night, and we're going to have like
pancakes and bacon breakfast for dinner.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Always exciting for the kids.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
And my son immediately spotted a street person that was
in the restaurant with a couple of grocery bags, like big,
not grocery bags, trash bags, a couple of trash bags
full of stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
So they're sitting on booth with trash bags full of stuff,
and I like, he pointed.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
It out because because we were assaulted by a homeless
guy years ago.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
That guy's in prison now.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
My youngest, especially as real PTSD around anytime he sees
somebody that is like a street person sort of character, yeah,
really worried about it. And I worry about it too,
because there have been some horrifying violent incidents in recent days, weeks, months, years,
especially in California anyway. So this person is sitting in
the booth right behind us, I mean, she's right behind
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my head, and she's got these trash bags here, and
my son wants to leave, wants to leave, and I said,
now it'll be okay. I'll keep an eyeron here. You
sit over there, I'm between you and her. Blah blah
blah blah blah. Do you think I'll fight her if
I have to?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Anyway, she's there smelling horrible, starts ranting and raving with
F bombs and N bombs. She's by herself, but she's
having some imaginary argument with somebody, waving her arms around
and everything like that. And we had gotten our food
and we're in the middle of eating, and my youngest
is actually crying now, he's so upset because this person
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is acting threatening.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
And I said, Okay, we gotta go.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
We just gotta go, and we get up and we
leave and I head toward the door and the woman
I said, we're leaving, and she starts to get out
to check. I said, I'm not paying. I can't eat
around somebody like that. And she says to me, the
manager woman says, somebody like what. Oh, come on, And
I wish i'd had of the I was too wound
(05:23):
up and angry to say black women. I can't eat
around black women. Oh no, a crazy person. I said,
you got a crazy, mentally ill person over there, dropping
N bombs and F bombs and waving their arms around.
And I don't feel safe over there, and you're letting
them sit in your restaurant. So I'm leaving, and she
wants to corner you, like you gotta say like something
of fence. Yeah, exactly, somebody like what. I couldn't believe it.
(05:48):
So you're gonna let that person sit in the restaurant?
Drive away customer, unbelievable, but like to insinuate this because
they're because they're unhomed, or because it's a.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Black woman or whatever. I don't know whatever she was implying, but.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I was initially was and mostly I was afraid because
we have been assaulted before. It was on the front
page of the newspaper, the guys in prison. I've been
through this before. But uh, and your son's crying.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah, I was worried about.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
It for my son, my special need son, and but
it quickly turned to just like depression, sadness that that's
just my lot in life now.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I mean, if I didn't this is where my career is,
this is where my family is.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
We got so many ties, but no wonder California's losing
population for the first time in its history.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
If I had any mobility at all, I would flip
and leave. Who would live around this.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
It's like this story last week of finding out that
Sho Heo Tani didn't want to play for the Giants,
and a lot of players don't because they they come
to San Francisco and their wives look around and say, we.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Aren't raising our family here. I don't blame him.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
I was just on Third Street, right a couple blocks
from the ballpark over the weekend, walking up to a crosswalk,
and there's a guy standing at the corner, clearly on
something like tweaking out. And I'm looking at him, and
I look at his hand, and in his left hand
is an extended box cutter, and I could see the blade,
and so my husband's next to me, and I pulled
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him in close and said, hey, check his hand, because
one one quick, you know, swing of his arm.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
And he could cut somebody's throat. Heckya, Yeah, that's really
scary right.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
In the middle of multi million dollar apartments up the
street from the ballpark.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Just un Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
So in what scenario anywhere on planet Earth, at any
point in history, does someone acting like that woman was
acting get to stay in a restaurant.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
You name me.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
The era or the geography where that that is okay.
In any eating establishment.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Ever, the owner would say you got to get out
of here.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
It makes me wonder if they had some form of
a policy, you know, because if there's a liability if
the street person attacks whoever's working in there.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Was this a chain restaurant or was it like a
mom and pop It is a minor chain. We've had
a bunch of texts I said, I wasn't gonna name
the restaurant. I had a whole bunch of text people
saying name the restaurant. Name the restaurant, Name the restaurant.
One person saying, U, let's it would get you in
legal trouble. Name the restaurant. Well, that's why I don't know.
The truth is a one defense against libel and slander.
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On the other hand, there is there I've known of
people to get in trouble, like if you do something
with the idea of damaging a business anyway.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Well, I'm the reason I'm asking is I could see
like a chain restaurant having a legal team that might
have some policy like, hey, don't go near them, because
if something happens to you, then you can sue us.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
What if something happens to your customer. Well, I think
it's more likely. You know how much damaged Starbucks ended
up in when they they denied the homeless people. They
thought homeless people the bathroom. Oh yeah, yeah, it can
be comes such a big deal so fast. And I
remember this story was several years ago, but in the
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town that I live in, a bunch of boy scouts
were being harassed by a street person. So my wife
at the time called the police. The police told her, look,
there's nothing we can do about it. And the police said,
all these homeless people have a lawyer that they know,
they have a name, because the lawyers go out and
do some outreach with the homeless community and let them know, Hey,
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if you ever get harassed by anybody, here's my card,
here's my name.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
You tell them.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
So they have legal representations, so they know their legal rights,
which is crazy given how out of their mind a
lot of these drug addicts are. But anyway, I think
they would be concerned that somehow the story would get
out that just because someone was unhoused in our evil
capitalist society, she wasn't allowed to sit down for she's
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having a glass of wine. So she'd probably begged enough
money to go into this restaurant that serves booze and
get a glass of wine. Sitting there with her garbage
back eggs full of probably crap and uh for somebody
else's crap, somebody else's crap that was stolen, waving her arms.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Around, screaming and yelling, dropping in bombs, have bombs.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
First of all, dropping in bombs by anybody else would
be an expulsion you'd get.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
You'd get kicked out for that.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
And here's here's you with your kids and trying to
enjoy a nice dinner you have. You're basically forced to
leave by her actions, and she tries to flip it
on you, like right right, because you're a white male jack.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
We can't sit around someone like that, someone like what
she thought? She thought she'd really nailed me on that one.
Oh I was so hot, Yeah what I gotcha moment. Oh,
I don't blame you.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
And I'm really glad that you didn't pay, because I'm
sure a lot of people that would be in that
situation probably would have felt like, all right, all right,
I'll pay. Oh good, I'm glad you stood your ground
on that. Hire a lawyer come after me.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
That'd be fantastic let's make this as big a deal
as possible as to why I didn't think I should
have to pay.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Oh my god, so was I gonna they had something
else into someone this? Oh So that's what's interesting. So
this manager woman when she said someone like, what.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
In her mind is that acceptable for me to sit
there with my kids next to someone who's having an imaginary.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Heated N bomb F bomb argument? Probably a bleeding heart
level way I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
She probably was sitting there going, you know, oh, you know,
this poor person doesn't have a home, Jack and ill Jack.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
So when I spoke at the city council after the
run in with the homeless person years ago, where blah
blah blah that whole story, there were people in the
city council meeting saying, if you look at a street
person and you assume they're violent, there is something wrong
with you. Well, I'm not assuming they're all violent, but
if you're assuming they're not, you're a nutjob.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
This is a lot like the people that were, you know,
claiming the sanctuary cities and whatnot, and they had the
man on the street that would go out and say, okay,
well then let them live at your house. You know,
let me come and live it. It's like that woman. Okay, well,
then you try to sit down and have a nice
meal and let her sit behind you.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I'll tell you, well, how much you like it? She
was an older one.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
I'll tell you, why don't you go get your grandkids?
Go get your grandkids, send them in the booth next
to that woman. And because if you do, you're crazy.
And it's not about the homelessness. It's about the drug addict.
I don't care if she lives in a five thousand
square foot two million dollar house. If she's out of
her mind on crazy drugs and acting all aggressive, obviously
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not mentally with it, I don't want me.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Or my kids next to them. And the restaurant allows that.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Again, where anywhere in the world would the owner not
come out and say get the.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
F out of here? That's what I keep thinking about.
What would it take to get kicked out of that restaurant?
What would she have to do to get kicked out? Exactly?
Speaker 6 (12:50):
That should be our social experiment. We should go in
and just see how far we can push.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
It, right right, right right, that's almost interesting to do.
One of those who's that guy that does the undercover
videos all the time.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I'm Project Veritas.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Yeah, that'd be an interesting one to do. I'd like
to get all dirty myself up. I wouldn't have to
do a lot to look homeless, oddly, but during myself up,
going there and just how and just keep pushing it
further and further.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
To see how far I gotta go before I'd actually
get asked to leave. This could be fun. Yeah, got it.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
I was so disappointed again the anger turned to just sadness.
This is this is where I live, this is where
I'm raising my kids. This is not gonna change anytime soon.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
And in that situation, you were almost the bad guy, right,
People like what ugh? Oh man, I am so I
commend you for not absolutely losing your mind.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah I am.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
I've been working on that through over the years because
I have lost my mind many times, verbally, never physically.
But I do wish i'd have had the presence of mind.
Black women. I can't eat around black women. It's just appalling.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
What are you talking about, you nut job?
Speaker 6 (13:58):
That manager would have melt just ride her spot.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I think most almost people are white males, but based
on my observation, so it's not that it's crazed out
of their mind, the drug addicts. I'm strong and get
the reality is this is fabulous.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
I thank you.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
That's enough of that.
Speaker 7 (14:17):
This is all crazy.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
That's just why it is. But damn it, we weren't
allowed to ask about the big guys. This is the
United States. Let's not play James.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
This is the Armstrong and Getty show, the arm Strong
and Getty Show.
Speaker 8 (14:32):
Sometimes when we were in Colorado, there was an out
crossing science who was slowed down to the recommended speed,
and then somebody from Colorado went around us, rolled her
window down, stuck their arm all the way out and
give us a thumbs down.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
And I think about that.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
Interaction every single day. Flipping people off when you're driving.
Instead give the thumbs down. They will not forget you.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
So flipping people off is dead. Give them a thumbs down.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
So that's a suggesting.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
That's probably a TikTok video, right that for young people,
thumbs down is the equivalent of flipping you off.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
It seemed to although no, she seemed to be saying, no,
it's a better alternative, and well, okay, better alternative in
what way?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
In terms of.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Doing damage, like showing how much you are unhappy with someone. No,
that way, you said, that's not the way I took it.
I took it out today the opposite. Well, she said,
give them the thumbs down, they'll remember it. You're expressing
disapproval in a gentlemanly way.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I think they're right. I do too.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
I mean, fu is like, let's fight. I find what
you're doing less than a satisfactory I like that. See,
I'm being misled by our headline here, Michael. I don't
know if you wrote the headline. Gen Z says thumbs
down worse than middle fingers, so I thought maybe they had.
Like the way they change emojis, remember the what emoji
is it that we're all taking completely opposite The way
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thumbs up is ironic and bitter and actually means you're terrible.
Thumbs up is mean we'll play it again. It's thirteen
seconds long time.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
When we were in Colorado, there was an outcrossing sign,
so we slowed down to the recommended speed, and then
somebody from Colorado went around us, rolled our window down,
stuck their arm all the way out and give us
a thumbs down. And I think by that interaction every
single day, flipping people off when you're driving his debt.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Give the thumbs down.
Speaker 8 (16:12):
They will not forget you.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
I yeah, I think you're right. I was misled by
the misleading headline promaganda. That does make sense, though, that
would that would do me more damage. You flip me off,
and I think, Okay, you're one of those people here
are so angry with your life, blah blah blah. You
give me the thumbs down. That's like a grown up
You did something wrong and I don't improve of that.
(16:33):
It's like saying I'm disappointed in you.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yeah, yeah, that's pretty good. Right.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
It's an expression of civilized disapproval. You know, if somebody
flies off the handle and screeches at you, it's easy
to think, wow, there's an angry, crazy person, right, But
if they say, excuse me, I'm terribly sorry to bother you.
But I wanted to point out. I mean, you've got
to you know, you gotta take that at least a
little seriously.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Right.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
The thumb's down, folks. I like it, and it's more civilized.
I'm from more civilization, not less so.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
The Fed.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
For instance, I've now insisted my dog wear pants. I've
thought about it for a long time. There's no reason
if I can't show mine that he can. Quick question
for you, what if you happen to miss this unbelievable
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Download it now, Armstrong and Getty on Demand Armstrong and Yetti.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
The Armstrong and Getty shot is a big concern in California.
Speaker 7 (17:49):
Lego stores, for instance, have become hot targets for some
California theft rings. The La Times reporting two suspects allegedly
stole more than one hundred thousand dollars worth of Lego
items from six southern California stores in the last two months.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Two people from another crime ring were.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
Arrested on June fifth after police saw one of the
suspects dealing Lego products from Target stores.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
And check out this video from last.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
Week showing about twenty suspects using hammers and other tools
to break into jewelry cases in a store in Sunavail,
northwest of San Jose. Police arrested five suspects in that incident.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Hey, wait a minute before we discuss the substance is
that the woman the newswoman who said, budd he's gay,
I mean he's gay, I mean he's blind. That sounds
exactly like the I don't know that newschick, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
So legos getting robbed from stores, Lego stores and Target
and smashing grabs for jewelry and all that sort of
stuff in California, which leads to this Nicholas Christoph Lefty
in the New York Times opinion writer, why have we what?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Why do we keep saying?
Speaker 8 (18:57):
What?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
What have we liberals done to the West Coast? Is
this headline?
Speaker 4 (19:02):
As Democrats make their case to voters around the country
this fall. One challenge is that some of the bluest
parts of the country, cities on the West Coast, are
a mess. Centrist voters can reasonably ask why put liberals
in charge nationally when the place is where they have
the greatest control are plagued by homelessness, crime, and dysfunction.
Liberals like me need to face the painful fact that
something has gone badly wrong where we're in charge. From
(19:25):
San Diego to Seattle. I'm an Oregonian who bores people
at cocktail parties by singing the praises of the West.
But the truth is that too often we offer a
version of progressives, of progressive ism that doesn't result in progress.
We are more likely to believe that housing is a
human right than conservatives in Florida or Texas, but less
(19:45):
likely to actually get people housed.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
We accept the yawning gulf between our values and our outcomes. Well,
that's a stupid value. Is the problem?
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Housing being human right doesn't work. There's no way it
could possibly work in any society.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
All right, you're so completely unrealistic about human nature.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
That's why there's the gulf.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
So skip down through a bunch of statistics and he
says the problem isn't with liberalism, it's with West Coast liberalism.
The two states with the highest rates of unsheltered homelessness
are California Oregon. The three states with the lowest rates
of unsheltered homelessness are all blue ones in the northeast, Vermont,
New York, and Maine. Liberal Massachusetts had some of the
finest public schools in the country, while liberal Washington and
(20:29):
Oregon have below average high school graduation rates. It's an
interesting thing to point out he got blue states with
different policies, but they're still Democrats. Oregon ranks dead last
for youth mental health services, including Mental Health America, while Washington,
d C.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
And Delaware rank best.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Drug overdoses appear to have risen last year in every
Democratic state on the West Coast, while they dropped last
year in the Democratic states.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
In the Northeast. The homicide rate in Portland last year
was double the rate of New York City. Wow.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Wow, you know, I have my guess about what's going on,
and that is really an intriguing, uh juxtaposition. The liberalism
of the Northeast, I think, is much more Kennedy esque,
John carry esque. It's not though the full on wackadoodal
(21:23):
woke left like the West Coast is. I mean, I
use the term cal unicornea and have for years. I've
never said Massachusetts cornea because they're not unicorn riders. They
might be wrong, or they might be too liberal, but
they're not that unhinged, completely divorced from reality liberal.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Well, this is Nicholas Christoph's take.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
My take is that the West coast central problem is
not so much that it's unserious as it as that
it's infected with an ideological purity that is focused more
on intentions than on oversight, and outcomes focused more on
intentions than outcomes.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
True, well, and to the point that you can't even
recognize the outcome.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
You won't admit to it. You won't even admit to
it yourself.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
When it's a disaster, you'll blame systemic racism or settler
colonialism or what have you for the miserable outcomes of
your policies.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Politics is always part theater, but out west. Too often
we settle for being performed in rather than substanative, substantive,
having substance.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
For example, as a gesture to support trans kids, Oregon
took money from the tight education budget to put tampons
in boys restrooms and elementary schools. We've done this in California,
also including boys restrooms in kindergarten. See you have tampons
in the boys kindergarten restroom.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
That is damn near like clinically provable mental illness.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
The inability of progressives, particularly in the Portland metro area,
to deal with the nitty gritty of governing and to
get something done is just staggering, said one Democrat representative.
UH people are much more interested in ideology then, actually
than actual results. If you're spending tax money to put
tampons in boys' bathrooms, including kindergarteners, then yes, you care
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more about a gesture of your politics than accomplishing anything
with my tax money. If I'm an Oregonian that I
mean that is a You can't even shade that a
little bit. It's one, one hundred percent fact. You're more
interested in a gesture than accomplishing anything. If you're spending
taxpayer money not on how do we raise these math
(23:44):
scores or are reading proficiency, but we're putting tampons and
boys bathrooms, that's just unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I don't think the term virtue signaling is nearly strong enough. No,
And it's like on the tip of my tongue because
I've read about this before. But in fundamentalist religions you
have the phenomenon where people are constantly trying to outdo
their neighbors to come off as the most devout.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
You see it in fundamentalist Muslim societies.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Where you don't dare be seen being not devout because
then you will be dragged out and stoned.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
But to be.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
To advocate for a policy that insane and nonsensical. That's
got to be some sort of desperate signaling of ideological purity.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
That's the only thing I can think that would explain it.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
Yes, kiddy, I'm just my mind is blown and I'm wondering,
and not that it matters, and it's a kindergarten. But
were the tampons in the girls bathroom or did they
just put this in the boys bathroom just for.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
That's a good question.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Well, putting tampoints in tampons in kindergarten bathrooms is pointless.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It put safety, put.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Some safety razors in there for the little girls too.
They're as likely to need them shaving their beards. Yeah, exactly, Yeah,
because girls grow beards to five year olds.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
You're right, calling this virtue signaling isn't good enough. It's
close to mentally ill. Like you said, Yeah, I wish
I could come up with a term.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
If anybody knows, you can text at four one, five
two nine five KFTC and I have a feeling there
are going to be attempts at humor coming our way
or email us mail bag at Armstrong and getty dot com.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
But yeah, it is.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Some sort of ideological purity trumpeting. I don't know, right,
because it's more than you took away one of the
lanes to drive across town and made it a bike lane. Okay,
that's a bad idea, I think, because you're not going
to force people to ride bikes by making their commute
more miserable.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I don't believe.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
But that's just like, here's something you think would be
good and you're wrong. That's completely different than here you're
putting tampons in five year old boys bathrooms.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
I mean that's with taxpayer money. Okay.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Here are the three levels of activism just clicked into
my head. Level one is you advocate for useless policies
though they are perhaps useless, but you don't know that
because it sounds like a good idea. Level two is
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you advocate for policies you know to be useless because
it backs up your ideology. Then level three, which is
where the West Coast is, is you have lost the
capacity to even consider whether your policies will do any good.
The only thing that matters is that show of righteousness.
(26:56):
That's a weird spot to be in man, and to
I mean as an individual. That's really troubling. That's somebody
who's unhinged. But to extrapolate that or paint that attitude
at the governmental.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Level, I mean, that's how does that happen?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
As I said before, am so utterly befuddled by the
politics of the West Coast.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
I just how can you ignore the evidence of your wrongness.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
I thought Suddam Hussein needed to be whacked if the
UN and the US were gonna have any credibility. I
believed the group thinking weapons of mass destruction stuff. The
implementation was terrible, The planning was terrible. It was a
miserable policy conducted miserably with all And I say that
(27:48):
out of great respect, the admiration and love for the
guys who fought, got.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Hurt and died there.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
How can you not recognize the failure of what you're avocating.
That is a mental illness, ideal, logical insanius So.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
I was going to bring this story last week, never
got around to it. I'm glad that Christoph includes it
in his article. And there's a lot more to this,
but this is a good, tragic story of Oregon. Consider
a volunteer group called the Portland Freedom Fund that was
set up to pay bail for people of color.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
We all remember this.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
The organization raised money from well intentioned liberal donors, and
the underlying problems were real. Bail requirements hit poor people
hard well. In twenty twenty two, the Portland Freedom Fund
helped a black man named Mohammed at Aiden who had
been arrested after allegedly strangling his former girlfriend, holding a
gun to her head, and then, in violation of a
(28:50):
restraining order, cutting off his GPS monitor and entering her building.
He told me he would kill me, the former girlfriend warned.
The Freedom Fund paid his he walked out of jail.
A week later, he removed the GPS monitor, entered her home.
The police found her brought body drenched in blood with
a large knife nearby. Three three children were also in
(29:10):
the house. Wow, a well meaning effort help people of
color may have cost the life of this woman of color.
So you've got the well intentioned but doesn't work in
practice like that, You've got the completely insane tampons for
kindergarteners and everything in between. He also goes on by
(29:31):
the way to say he doesn't agree with ebermes Kenny's
approach on things which I appreciate out of a progressive
New York Times opinion writer.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Yeah, yeah, you can't. You here's a challenge for you.
Come up with something.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Fancifully crazier than tampon's and a five year old boy's bathroom.
You can't come up with something crazier than that. It's fine, impossible.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Well, and if somebody advocated that to you, what would
you think of that person?
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Would you think, I don't think their policy prescriptions will
be effective, or would you think you're dealing with a
mad man?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Well, what Joe's just saying.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
I keep thinking, you know, somebody comes up with an
idea and you've got to have multiple adults.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Agree on this. Yeah, it's not one person that got
that happening. It would have taken dozens to discuss it,
to approve it, then to implement it. Oh my god. Well,
and like so much of.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
The corruption in California, so many of the utterly unrealistic
progressive programs exist to spread money around. It's just paying
off your supporters in the classic style. That example that
cannot be explained through sheer cynical you know, a graft
or you know what I'm trying to say, it's that
(30:54):
is ideological psychopathy.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
You mentioned earlier a teacher that quit their job because
he wasn't given the power to keep kids off their
cell phones. They just sat there in class looking at
their phones. Finally decided to screw this.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
I'm not going to do this.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
And I understand why you would stay because it's a
good paying job. You always want to be a teacher,
and you know you're gonna do your time and get
your pension. But how would you work in a school
where you're struggling, probably with all kinds of budget restrictions
making it difficult to teach the kids math, science, all
the important things, and there's a tampon machine in the
(31:30):
kindergarten boys bathroom?
Speaker 2 (31:32):
How would you keep working there? Right?
Speaker 3 (31:36):
And keep in mind you're told nobody gets less than
a bee. How would you not at least go to
the principal or go to the superintendent or whatever and say, look,
you realize this is insane. Right, I'll stay here because
I want to be a teacher, But I need you
to say to me this is insane because I need
to hear you say that, otherwise I'm working for a lunatic.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I mean, good, good lord.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
That's the latter the situation is as you described, you're
working for crazy people. Ideology can divorce people from even
the most basic reasonable judgment.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Jack Armstrong and Joe The Armstrong and Getty Show, The
Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
I came across this yesterday, The worst tourist destinations in
the World.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
It's voted on by travelers, you know, who go to
these sorts of things.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
I don't travel the world that much myself, but several
in America made the list, and number one is definitely
the worst tourist attraction in the world, at.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Least that I've ever been to. And one caveat to this.
You'll notice a couple of them in the top four.
It's because how far it is from the airport. I
don't want to travel with you, so you're a you
want to get to the destination, take your picture there,
and then be able to post it on Instagram, but
you're not actually interested in learning about the country.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
I guess becoming up how Instagram has ruined everything. Stay
with us, Yeah, because number three is the taj Mahal
in India, which seems like a pretty cool place to be.
It was built in the sixteen hundreds.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
I didn't realize that iconic and one of the most
admired pieces of architecture recognizable in the world, but not
worth the trip, according to people, because it's a whopping
on one hundred and thirty six miles to the closest airport,
making it the furthest major tourist destination from an airport.
I would find the drive, car, ride, taxi train trip
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from the airport to the tash.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Mahal in India the most interesting thing maybe I've ever
done in my life. But those of you who just
want to be at the thing so you can take
a picture and post it, well whatever, so oh say
with same with.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
The Grand Bazaar in Turkey. Number two.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
This is a giant open shopping mall that has been
there for hundreds and hundreds of years. It might be
the world's oldest shopping mall. But it's too far from
the airport, they say, so they got a very low rating.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Four thousand shops. Wow, it looks amazing.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
So again I would love to experience that and see
everything around there, and the trip between the airport and there.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
I would find fascinating.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
But I guess if you just want to be able
to say you were there, which is like the conversations
happened last week about why they want to move the
Mona Lisa out of the louver because the lines are
so long for people who can say I've seen.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
The Mona Lisa.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
See this picture of me with the Mona Lisa in
the background. Anyway, Number one is absolutely true. The Hollywood
Walk of Fame in California, Oh yes, I feel personal.
It hurts my heart for anybody who traveled from a
somewhere on the other side of the world, especially if
you brought your kids, traveled from Pasadena. It's a disappointment.
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The Hollywood Wall of Fame is the biggest nothing burger
of all nothing burgers. I know.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
I wonder how many people actually travel there and have
heard of it and everything like that, and get there
and think this can't be it.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
This is shabby, and nobody cares except that guy dressed
as Captain America who wants twenty bucks for a picture.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Right, And as I pointed out a couple of weeks ago,
when I just happened to be on that street because
we were going somewhere else with my kids. Like most
of the artists on there, nobody under the age of
fifty has ever heard of and like, I've heard of them,
but haven't seen their work, even at my age.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Most of the things you're stepping on.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Wait, and it was a glorified You pay us a
thousand dollars, We'll give you a little star in the sidewalk.
Things so hious. It fails on every level. Yeah, worst
tourist attraction in the world.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
I'm Strong and Gatchett. Yeah, this is a sist one
hundred on the crazy meter and everyone knows it.
Speaker 7 (36:04):
Let me say, let me say one thing and lots
of luck as your senior years.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
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