July 22, 2021 • 37 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Show, Jetty Armstrong and Getty Show.
I feel spent for some reason. I've used all my
energy for the first two hours of the program. I
just I don't sorry to hear that I left it
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all the field in the first half. Maybe I need
to do that whole blood restriction thing Olympic athletes are doing.
I'll tie rubber hands around my knees until my feet
turned purple. A chokehold. Maybe that would work, because it's
your brain that you need, right, You don't need elbow.
You don't have an elbow problem. You have a brain problem.
So I think the only sense of the solution is
to choke you out. Yeah, well, I did briefly consider
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going to medical school. Speaking of killing things, for the
first time I ever scientists have witnessed chimps killing gorillas. Yeah,
I just write about that. It's it's wild, yet another
Blue Cities hilariously wasteful effort to house the homeless. And
you remember, college athletes now can promote their own images
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and likenesses and their names. What that's worth? Holy cow?
If you're part of a big college football program, we
might have our first seven figure college athlete and the
guy's not really even played. I think it's much more
likely we're going to have may already have our first
seven figure college hotty athlete to play that you've never
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heard of, who might not even be on the varsity team.
Right that. That's who's making the money first off, And
nobody anticipated this because this is new. For decades, they've
been arguing about whether college athletes should be able to
make money. All of a sudden they can. And you
know who's jumped out of the gate the fastest, those
two hot twin Fresno girl basketball players from No State.
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And then there's another there's like a rower in the
northeast someplace that's got millions of followers. Those are the
people that are making all the money. Yeah, yeah, well
you could have figured that out if you were looking
at it the right way. I mean you look at Instagram,
for instance, or even Twitter. You got somebody on Twitter
who has mildly interesting opinions, but they're fairly run of
the mill, but they got big boobies. They'll have ninety
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thousand followers, thanks Twitter. So anyway, on a more serious topic,
and we will get to the other stuff in a
little bit. Bill mulugion continues to do just fantastic award
winning reporting from the southern border of the US is
in an absolute immigration crisis, depending on how you look
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at it, as we discussed last hour, Democrats, Republicans, everybody
behind the scenes actually loves illegal immigration because it provides voters,
perhaps on one side, cheap labor and props up our gigantic, bloated,
overtaxed social welfare safety nets. Isn't it going to be
quite the twist of history if what appears to be
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happening happens that Hispanics move toward the right because they
are more of the FAI. They are more the right
is more. The Republicans are more of the Party of
families and church and a lot of the things that
people crossing the border care about, hard work, working hard
instead of being on the dole and want to be.
Some Republicans end up with hard to beat majorities because
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of illegal immigration all these years. Yeah, and when the
reason Democrats allow it is because they think it's every
everybody crosses a border is a voter for life. Yeah,
I don't think they're right. And it just it absolutely
bears repeating. If I'm in charge of the pyramid scheme,
which is social Security or medicare, where it takes quite
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a few active young workers to support one oldster because
ulsters have a lot of expenses. And I see the
birthrate shrinking in the demographics changing, and now instead of
having that seven workers to support an ulster, now we're
down like four. And you see twenty thirty five or
whatever they're saying lately is the drop dead. Now we're
broke time for these big programs. I'm saying, wait a minute,
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are you telling me you've got millions of young, hard
working people who want to rush across the border and
come and take jobs and contribute to social security? Let
them in, Let them in, And that's what's happening anyway.
When don't why don't they say it out loud? That's
what I don't like. Yeah, I don't know. I don't
think it's that difficult to comprehend. The same as we've
been arguing with Afghanistan. Just tell us, tell us what
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you're doing. We're not having babies. We need young workers
to support the old folks. Here's the way the math works.
What do you think, and you would get you would
easily get a majority on your side. This is how
many people we meet need. This is who we're going
to let in, and we're going to control it. It's
the uncontrolled nature of it that pisses people off. Yeah,
I think they're afraid that they they're doing better sway
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then several possible outcomes if they were honest with the
American people. They're thinking, why gamble going fine? Yeah, I
don't know. I don't know. That's hard to say. But anyway,
back to Bill mulugion to Foxnews is doing great reporting
down on the border. Clip number ten. We're here in
the Del Rio sector, one of the busiest, more than
nine hundred apprehensions happening down here every single day, and
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we've seen a lot of activity this week, including today,
group of about four Haitian men allowed to just walk
through the open border gate behind me into the United
States with no resistance whatsoever and just give themselves up
to border patrol. And this is something we've witnessed literally
all week long down here. Kevin Williamson of I don't
know who he's with officially. I think I read it
in National Review, though his thing is always why would
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we want more poor people? We got enough poor people already.
Why would we want to let in more poor people. Well,
because we're paying a lot of our poor people to
stay home from work now, so we need poor people
who actually will work. Geez, that's a good way to
craft society. As I said, there needs to be a
name for this economic system. You got the free market
or capitalism if you prefer, you have socialism, fascism. This
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is fustercluckism, where you pay a certain group to stay home,
then wink and turn a blind died of millions rushing
across your border against your so called laws. There ought
to be a name for them. But you gotta throw
in a little of this too, because this is also happening.
You've got educated, skilled people from around the world that
want to come here, and we make it impossible for them.
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You got to throw that in the hell out of them.
You got to throw that in because that's an interesting
wrinkle to all the other stuff that you said could
kind of make sense. But then throw in the part
where you don't let educated, skilled people from other countries
come in. You make it impossible. Now tell me that
makes sense, right? Right? It could not be more idiotic,
he says, fearful that they'll find a way to make
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it more idiotic. Click number eleven, roll on. I had
a chance to talk to some of these guys. Found
out they're from all over the world. It's not just Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras.
Take a listen, Ghana, you're from Ghana, Brazil, You're from Brazil,
You're from Haiti. I'm gone, oh, my lawyer. I won
by just half a second, and Ghana called my lawyer.
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Ghana Ghana, I go to. Ghana means going to We're
got to play that whole tape again. That's one of
my favorite things. Who've ever played. A Russian teenage girl
explaining to Russian citizens how to act like Americans so
they won't be thrown in Putin's Secret to Jails. I'm
gonna call my lawyer Ghana is I'm going to go
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all right? All right? Clip number twelve. Right here in
del Rio. This week, this man was arrested by Texas DPS.
He is an active member of the Zetas Cartel, an
extremely dangerous Mexican drug cartel. State troopers found him walking
on the side of the road. Thankfully, they were able
to take him into custody before he got further into
the US. Immigration is the biggest failure of democracy that
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we've had. The reason I say that is because the
numbers are overwhelming on how to solve this. It's so
easily solvable. You look at any of the polls, like
eighty percent of people want to control the border, Like
eighty percent of people are okay with having plenty of
people come in and work. It's it's it's just it's
a it's such a failure. It'd be easy to fix.
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But when you got both sides with strong reasons not
to fix it, it doesn't get fixed right right. The
issue is what they love. They don't want to solve it.
That's the last thing they want to do. And I
want to wrap up with this starting it's a couple
of clips of Lindsay Graham, and this one he is
confronting Tom Vilsack, the socialist, longtime Iowa politician, Secretary of Agriculture,
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et cetera. Clip fourteen. If we legalize one person under
this program, which I've been historically for, how will it
affect border security? Will it be a run on the border.
I don't believe so in fact, you don't believe. So,
you don't believe the reason you give legal status two
hundreds of thousands of people without first securing the border,
they won't be a rush on the border. I don't believe.
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So why Well, in large part because the people were
talking about within the agg workforce or people that have
been here for long period of time. Do you understand
full factors? I understand the nature of this workforce. I
also understand that you understand that if you give legal
status to one person without first senator and what border,
you're gonna have a run on the border ten times scores.
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I don't believe. So you don't believe that. Yeah, this
is why you don't idolize politicians, any politicians. This is
a guide. Tell Tom phil Sack, who's willing to in
the face of this onslought on the border caused by
the campaign rhetoric and then the early policy changes of
the Biden administration. You've seen this spectacular flow of humanity
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to the border in spite of that town fill Sack says, No,
I don't. I don't think that sort of thing causes
more people at the border. Oh, no, no way, I
don't know what you're talking about. I mean that that
takes balls to say that. Well, he's a long time
a lion politician. Give me fifteen please. So what's happened
here is that the Biden administration was put on notice
right after the election that if you change Trump policies,
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if you stop building the wall, you go back to
catch and release, allow people to come in and make
an asylum claim, release them into the interior of the
United States, will be overwhelmed and overrun. And they were right,
and nobody in the Biden administration is adjusting. They're denying
the truth. Yeah, I would say that sums it up
rather nicely. And you know, we're not here to make
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you depressed or cynical or anything like that. But we
also don't want to see we are. We don't want
you dancing at the end of the strings of politicians
who are pretending to care about these issues and making
you dance back and forth and show up to vote
and and you know, give them money in the rest
of it. Now, there are some people who are serious
about immigration reform. Just try to find those. Trying to
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find the ones who are sincere about it, who've tried
to do something about it. So I looked up the
numbers again because these can't be repeated enough. And I
wish Republicans would talk about it, but as we said,
they're in on it too. Harvard Harris Poll, eighty one
percent of respondence considered immigration to be a serious problem,
with four eighty one say it's serious problem. Of that crowd,
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forty three percent say it's a very serious problem. And
fifty five percent of people said that Biden should have
left Trump's policies in place. A majority fifty five percent
said Biden should have left Trump's policies and replaced But
if you take in any media the idea of building
the wall, only crazy racist right winger evil storm the
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capitol nut jobs think that build bridges, not walls. Oh
my unicorn pooped. Oh no, oh, good news, it's cotton candy.
Unicorn's poop, cotton candy. Build bridges not walls. Yeah. Sixty
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four percent, nearly two thirds told the Harvard Harris poll
that the Biden administration needed to issue new, stricter policies
to reduce the flow of people across the border. Two
thirds of Americans believe that I don't know who this
Harris is, but Harvard is liberal as hell. So I
think those numbers ain't you know, cooked up by some
right wing think tank. Right, yeah, well, son of a gun,
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what are you gonna do, any who, You're gonna watch
your chimpanzees murder apes, that's what you're gonna do. That's brutal.
And realize it's a planet of the chimps, and the
chimp is an ape. I'm sorry I said ape. I
meant gorillas. You got chimps murder and gorillas. This is ugly,
it is. Yeah, chimp will tear your head right off
your neck, man, spit down your throat. I don't know
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why it would, but it could tear off your arm,
beat you with the bloody end exactly all the time.
When that happens, the armstrong and getting show. Well, this
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isn't good. Reports of in flight disturbances are of five
hundred percent this year. In flight disturbances. Now airlines are
having to be a little more aggressive, and they're even
adjusting their slogans. Take a look American Airlines new slogan
is we duct tape the lady. Don't think we won't
do it again. Oh yeah, that's real. Also, Delta's new
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slogan is now offering complimentary mouth cards. I mean that's wow.
And finally, Frontiers new slogan is we can't afford to
press charges, so do whatever. Bro for the budget airline
can't afford to press charger to whatever. Um. Yeah, and
most of the kerfuffles are over masks and don't throw
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away your masks. I have breaking news. Oh lords, they
doo want to do it now? Or what it's up
to you? Okay, that's press if it's really breaking news.
I'm getting a phone call from my doctor. Wonder why
I won't answer. It couldn't mean anything important. The ad
the Biden administration is reportedly discussing bringing back nationwide mask
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mandates urging it. They can't the federal government can't make
it happen. But the CDC recommending that states urge mask
wearing for vaccinated people vaccinated or not wear your masks again,
like it's last summer. So whitmer, Cuomo and Nussolini just
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got visibly aroused. So is there science to back this up?
Are there enough people that are vaccinated, getting the COVID
and spreading it that it makes sense to make us
all more masks again? And critically, are they spreading it
to people who will get seriously ill, and in what numbers,
Because the numbers right now are tiny, you would never
alter national policy for this number of people dying. We're
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just we're obsessed, We're we're you were you know, just
we're fixated on COVID crazy. So chimps and gorillas hang
out together various places in Africa. They have forever. And
though both chimps and gorillas can be violent and territorial,
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usually when they fight it's within their own groups, and
they will chimp will kill another chimp, or usually it's
groups of chimps. Is it gorilla just a bigger chimp? No, No,
it's a different species of animal. And I noticed in
your text earlier refer to them as monkeys. They're not monkeys.
Generally speaking, monkeys have tails. Apes do not monkeys. I
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appreciate the obscure Steinfeld refer but the news research new
research details two fatal encounters in which wild chimpanzees attacked
and killed gorillas. So normally they're hanging out eating fruit together, whatever,
and they'll greet each other. What's up, gee, o'rilla, I'm good,
my chimpy buddy, my feces, chuck in pal and and
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they get along just fine, very peacefully. But for the
first two times they've observed chimps murdering apes, there's some
speculation that it No, there is some speculation that it
might have to do with shrinking ecosystems and maybe even
global warming or something like that. But both incidents took
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place on the outer boundaries of the chimps territories territory,
and the main aggressors were adult male chimpanzees. They observed
the attacks from about one hundred feet away, which is like,
you know, uh, you know, two little more complate to
first base, but just a little bit more. The first
encounter lasting for fifty two minutes. Fifty two minute fight
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to the death. Wow, I can't even imagine that. I
wouldn't want to see it. Yeah, this is uh. There
was the chest beat, then there were screeches. Then they're
a group of twenty seven chimps attacked five gorillas. Oh
my god. The grills tried to defend themselves but to
no avail. Oh yeah, that the rest of it's too grim.
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But the animal Kingdom, it's a violent place. So a
bunch of texted, hey, did you see Joe Biden on
CNN last night. He came off extra old. We'll play
a couple of clips from that coming up, Nick and
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see Armstrong and Getty Show. And the question is whether
or not we should be in a position where you
um are. Why can't the the the experts say we
know that this virus is in fact um uh, it's
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going to be or achievement. We know why all the
drugs approved or not temporarily approved, but permanently approved. I
have no idea what he said. I have no idea
what he just said there. That was a CNN tone
all meeting last night. I don't know what he was
talking about there. Here's is not good. There's a little more.
You you got the vaccination? Are you can? I mean
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you see him now it works? Or you you know,
or or the mom and dad or or or the
neighbor or when you go to church or when you're no,
I really mean it. There are trusted and interlockerors. Think
of the people if if your kid wanted to find
out whether or not there were there's a man on
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the moon or whatever, you know something or you know
or whether those aliens are here or not? You know
who were the people they talked to beyond the kids
who love talking about it. Turn on your turntable. Oh boy,
that was one of those moments that if he had
had during one of the debates, Trump would be president
right now. But they gave him a shot of something
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to make his mind work better, or he just got
lucky that he didn't have one of those, because if
he'd had one of those moments during the debate, honestly,
I think Trump would have won a big, fat shot
in the ass. And had a conversation the other day
in which I was reminded that if second debate Trump
had showed up for the first debate instead of the
you know, super combative, interrupting every word Trump, he would
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have won. But you know, back to the real problem
we got going on right here. As our president is
sold and his brain don't quite work a will that
used to, right, there will be stories and they'll either
start coming out while he's president or maybe they won't
come out for twenty five years because those secrets are
held that long. But there are going to be stories
of people in meetings they're going, whoa, you know what's
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happening where? Yeah, they have hallway conversations after meetings where
they say, geez, that was something, wasn't it. They have
to have a twenty fifth Amendment committee that kind of
just hangs around the sidelines and keeps an eye on
things and how they're going tries to figure out when
the guy's completely incapacitated. Joe Getty just invoked to the
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twenty fifth Amendment on Joe Biden. Oh, absolutely, I stand
by my comments. I think the guy is at the
outer edges of neurological competence, not his fault, No, absolutely not.
And for national security purposes, I'm fine with it being
kept quiet until we have to deal with it. So
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maybe this is a good place to fit this in
and as anywhere. I just came across this recently read
Missus Dalloway by Virginia Wolf. It's one of those books
that they make you read in high school or college
or something. I don't know if I did or not.
If I did, it never made an impact on me
at the time, but at my current age it did.
(21:05):
New York Times has a thing in their book review
section where they ask people what are books you should
read before you're forty, what a book you shouldn't read?
Until after your forty, which I'd never really considered before.
But it's clearly true, clearly true that there are there
are things that they make you read in college that
they have no impact on you because you haven't had
the life experience. You haven't had kids, you haven't grown old,
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you haven't you haven't, you just haven't had the life
experience to get into them. And then there are other
books like I tried reading some Jack Kerouac at my
current age, you know, a few years ago, and it
just seems stupid to me. It seems self indulgent, stupid,
and it was like really deep and meaningful to me
when I was like twenty nine. Huh yeah, just where
you are in life, I guess, yeah. Sure. Anyway, So
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this is from Missus Dallaway, and I got to keep
in mind that they're talking about people being in their fifties.
This was written in nineteen twenty five. I think back then,
being in your fifties it was more like being in
your seventies now. So you need to recognize that. I mean,
the whole sixty is the new forty is for real.
My mom talks about all the time. She said, when
I was young, somebody sixty was in an old folks home. Wow,
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that's just you know, good combination of health attitudes. You know,
starting adulthood. You know, you're married and had kids when
you're twenty, so just a lot of things were different.
So excuse the age he is in this think more
of like a seventy year old than a fifty three
year old because I often, I often, I don't want
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to sound cruel here, but I often see old people
and I think, what gets you out of bed in
the morning? And I wonder about that for myself, Like
when I'm that age, What's going to get me out
of bed? When I'm seventy five? What? What? What do
I enjoy? What do I look forward to? I mean,
do you spend it doesn't seem like it being around
my parents or other old people. It doesn't seem like
you spend all your time thinking everything sucks now, everything
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that's good happened before, and everything sucks in my life now.
People don't do that. But I can't quite understand why.
You know, it's about the people you care about. I guess, well,
this is that I came across this explanation. I think
in Missus Dallaway that I think explains it, and and
I hope this is the direction that it goes for me,
and it must go for most people. I'll read this
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best I can. It's about one of the characters in
the book, a terrible confession. It was he put on
his hat again. But now, at the age of fifty three,
one scarcely needed people anymore. Opposite of what Joe just said,
people scarcely needed people anymore. Life itself, every moment of it,
every drop of it here, this instant now in the
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sun in Regent's Park was enough. Too much. Indeed, a
whole lifetime was too short to bring it out, now
that one had acquired the power, the full flavor, to
extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning, which
both were so much more solid than they used to
be and so much less personal. I've read, I've watched
a couple of wrong explanations of what that just that
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paragraph means. And you know, if you're older, maybe you
can chime in on the text line whether or not
this has been for you that you reach an age,
or it happens gradually over time, I suppose to where
you start to notice the world around you more than
you ever did with you taken out of the mix,
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because when you're younger, it's all about us. And by
younger I mean up until like age seventy, but it's
all about us. Everything is how it affects us. You know,
how is this good for me, bad for me, or whatever?
And what he's explaining right there is it's not personal anymore.
It's just observing the world. I'm just floating around in
the world. I'm no longer it no longer matters to
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me because most of my life has been lived and
there's just so much richness to the world here. Once
I've extracted myself from it, which is kind of the
opposite of what you might think. But once you take
your own needs and personality and everything out of it
and you just observe humans and things and beasts and
buildings and traffic and everything like that, that life becomes
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very rich and very interesting. I find that fascinating. I
hope that that's the experience I have that would explain
to me how you can be quite old and still
get a lot out of life. That's the first time
I've ever seen explained that way anywhere in fiction or nonfiction.
Interesting thought. I used to regularly describe this radio show
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is a trip to the human zoo, right, maybe just
watching the human zoo or the regular zoo with animals,
or just watching the world be what it is without
the freaking filter that is self, which is what dominates
us through so much of our lives. You know, need
to be loved, liked, respected, envied, whatever it is that
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drives us to buy things and do things and strive
for this or that. But once that is done, according
to this anyway, Virginia Woolf, who you gotta remember, killed herself,
so maybe wasn't working to well for her that that's
just what you get out of the world. I don't know,
agree or disagree any thoughts on that text line four
one five two nine five KFTC gave me something to
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look forward to. Foe. I'm sorry, go ahead four one
five two nine five KFTC. I was just gonna say,
I was I'm thinking about the don't need people anymore?
What exactly was that line? He was walking out of
a party and just how and the party was all
about the other stuff we were talking about self. It's
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all about status and who knew who and who was
wearing what, and who drove what and all that crap
that dominates so much of your life. Yeah, and he
had reached the age where just none of that crap
mattered anymore. Yeah, that I absolutely get. And that's not
what I was talking about. I was talking about real,
you know, connections between humans who care about each other
and bring each other joy. I mean, at the point
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you don't give a damn about making any more money
or a career to some extent who's in office, depending
you know, on the politics at the time. Yeah, that's interesting,
of course, good stuff. You say that author Virginia Wolf
put heavy rocks in her pockets and walked out into
a river when she was in her late fifties. So oh,
I think it's possible to have wisdom and insight and
also crushing depression. Yeah, I don't think that to her mutually,
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Oh no, absolutely not. She did it on purpose, right,
she said, don't get her in her pocket? No, no,
she didn't. She just liked to carry rocks around it
in her pockets and she liked to take walks in
the ocean. Never occurred to her not to do both
at once. She left a note for her husband that said,
I don't think anybody any marriage has ever been happier
than ours. I'm sorry I'm doing this to you, but
I just can't go out anymore, and put heavy rocks
in her pockets and walked out into her river. Why
that is a cheery little story you got here. It's
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a heck of a thing, though, isn't it. Yes, Come, yes,
and it's made me sad? Who comes up with that idea?
Thanks for making me sad. You don't have to be sad.
You're not going to do it. I know I don't
have to be sad. I am sad. Don't tell me
how to be No, I'm angry. Don't tell me not
to be angry either. That would make me sad again.
So Albuquerque, New Mexico, trying to deal with the bums
(27:58):
and junkies problem. Yet another unintentionally hilarious We are going
to take care of this nights try has funny. Nobody
asks this question. Has anybody had any luck with anything
other than being harsh by not supporting the bums and junkies?
(28:19):
Has had anybody had any success with anything other than that?
I would like to address that very question because we
have listeners who will email and say what you guys
are cruel and heartless, and you never say exactly what
we ought to do with these people. I will answer
your concerns, probably not to your satisfactor, but I will
answer them if I can overcome the sadness Jack is
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inflicting on me. Coming up in moments Armstrong, the Armstrong
and Getty show this promo right here. But it is
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B six So that's Giannas can't pronounce his name, the
Greek freak from the Milwaukee Bucks, having just won the
MVP in the uh in the NBA Championship, driving through
a Chick fil A and fans recognize him and start cheering.
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Is that their zip code or I mean their area code?
That's what's up? What is or his number or what
is it? It was Bucks and sixes? What there were
champing Bucks and six so Buck's in sex? Oh, I
get it. But one thing I want to mention about him,
is he is refreshing, and that he is one of
those happy athletes that when I was a kid, they
were all like happy athletes and at some point somebody
decided that being angry was the thing you had to
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be all the time. And he's one of those smiling,
happy guys again. And it's kind of it's it just
seems weird because mostly you're mad all the time. Everything's angry.
Then I showed you he's like happy. Hey I scored. Whoa,
this is fun? This is fun man. Yeah, yeah, that's cool.
Seems like a charming guy. The Ashley do we have
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time for that? Yeah? The the super hot new golfer
who just won the British Open, Colin Morikawa. Is he's
the same way, very bright, very charming, friendly, kind of
open hearted type guy. He could be a superstar anyway.
So I promise you this thought we'd deliver. We got
this from an alert listener in the Albuquerque area. Closing
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in on six months after the tiny homes village opened
its door to first homeless residents. The village as of
Monday had a merror eight occupants, five million dollars. Six
months down, the road. They got eight people there. Two
other residents were there for a while were removed from
the village for being disruptive. The nearly five million dollar
project was designed with thirty standalone one hundred and twenty
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square foot homes with communal buildings for toilets, showers, cooking, laundry,
and meeting spaces. The occupancy of the village is capped
at forty and is expected to be fully occupied sooner
or later. But again, six months in, they just have
a handful of people. The maximum occupancy is forty. Yeah,
for five or five million dollars, you're gonna house forty
homeless people. Yeah, how do these things happen? So they
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recently did this organization did a survey and there seemed
to be a roughly sixteen hundred homeless people in Albuquerque.
Based on that number of homeless individuals, filling the thirty
tiny homes might seem like a fairly easy task. It
is not said the active gal The screening process for
applicants has proven not only to be time consuming but
a bit too restrictive for many numbers of this difficult population.
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Let me guess you can't do drugs or be drunk
and they kind of like their lifestyle. Yeah, blah blah blah.
Applicants with addictions, they are required to be clean and
sober for at least ten days. That's not interested in that.
I like living, how to hear and being high all
the time. You must not have any extreme behavioral or
mental health issues, and not be a registered sex offender
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or have been found guilty of a sex crime problem.
And again you got to follow the rules. And of
the sixteen hundred alleged homeless people there in Albuquerque, they've
found eight so far. So how much money in the program?
How much money will taxpayers have to spend in various
cities all across the country, trying this experiment over and
over again before soft heads finally recognize, Yeah, most of
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these people don't want to live the life I live.
They don't want to stay sober, look for a job,
get along with people, etc. Right, Well, and Gavin Nussolini
of California just pledged to spend twelve billion dollars with
a bee in a year in California to finally solve
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the bums and junkies problem. Here's my cold reality as
a realist. Virtually every decision we make, every everything we
do is caused by push factors and pull factors. That's
a really good job. The pay is good, and I
hate my boss. There's a little pull factor and a
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little push factor, and not being a bum, not being
a junkie is more than just giving people pull factors. Hey,
we'll give you a happier life if you move out
of the park and quit shooting up in front of
kids and committing crimes and stealing bikes. No, there have
to be push factors. That's what the Great Blue Experiment
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has proved to me. Anyway. And as a guy, I
am not a saint. I am a guy who has
battled the impulse to do the wrong thing or the
self indulgent thing my entire life and the way human
beings actually are. And people at this point say, well,
where are you going to put them, Joe, don't you
think that the society owes them basic housing, etc. Etc.
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You know what, just for the sake of conducting my experiment,
I'm gonna say yes, I'm gonna say, Okay, let's build
dormitories or something. We can agree on what the basic
housing is, Well, let's go ahead and build it. And
then the other side of The equation is you enforce
anti vagrancy laws, you enforce anti camping laws, you enforce
don't take a crap on the sidewalk laws, don't abuse
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drugs in public laws, because that's those are the push
factors that people say, see if this sounds familiar, I
don't want to live like this anymore. Or you can
just make it as easy and comfortable as possible and
pour billions of dollars into making junkiedom as attractive as possible,
and then sit there with your jaw gabe scratching your head,
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say why is the number increased? Well, you kind of
glossed over your setup. There the idea that housing is
a human right, and I realize you were doing it
for the to make a point. But housing being a
human right will not work for society. That is that
is that that would never fly. If we make housing
a human right, that everybody has a right to housing
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regardless of lifestyle, that's that is an impossibility as as
a way to structure society. That will not You will
have an enormous population that is entirely dependent on their
fellow taxpayers, their entire You will very quickly run out
of people that are willing to work and pay for
the crowd that just wants the free housing right right,
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And getting back to the push and pull factors, people
will only work for one of two reasons, to gain
rewards or avoid punishment. And and it's it's it's well
to avoid the punishment of being poverty stricken, having no home.
I've wondered this for so long. I'll never understand how
lefties I don't. I don't know what term to use
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because I don't want to include all people that I
don't want to include. But so many of you believe
everybody's going to do the right thing. What what in
your life experience has brought you to that. Didn't you
have a college roommate, or you never worked with a guy,
or you don't you haven't known enough people that just
freaking suck. They just they bad. They don't care about
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their job, they don't care about their kids, they don't
care about how they spend their money, they don't they
make don't make good decisions. Haven't you known people like that?
Or they're apathetic, they're dishonest, they're predators, or as somehow
miraculously in your life, you've only come across you know,
people who make wise decisions, want to do the right thing,
that they keep getting screwed by bad breaks. Is that
the only people because I haven't run into those people. Yeah, Well,
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there's an aspect of leftism in America these days which
can never insist people take personal responsibility for their own lives,
partly because it goes against their worldview, and it goes
against their view of government that government ought to provide
for people, as opposed to the more liberty and conservative
point of view that you are responsible for your own life.
If you are truly unfortunate, we'll step in a little
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bit and help you. Well, it's another experiment, another town,
Albuquerque this time. How many towns we'll have to try
this over and over again before we get get it?
It reminds me of you know, people up to triple
the poverty line get government assistance on something. That's not
the way I see government assistance ought to be working.
Big Hour, Next Hour. If you miss it, get the
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From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
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I feel spent for some reason. I've used all my
energy for the first two hours of the program. I
just I don't sorry to hear that I left it
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all the field in the first half. Maybe I need
to do that whole blood restriction thing Olympic athletes are doing.
I'll tie rubber hands around my knees until my feet
turned purple. A chokehold. Maybe that would work, because it's
your brain that you need, right, You don't need elbow.
You don't have an elbow problem. You have a brain problem.
So I think the only sense of the solution is
to choke you out. Yeah, well, I did briefly consider
(00:55):
going to medical school. Speaking of killing things, for the
first time I ever scientists have witnessed chimps killing gorillas. Yeah,
I just write about that. It's it's wild, yet another
Blue Cities hilariously wasteful effort to house the homeless. And
you remember, college athletes now can promote their own images
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and likenesses and their names. What that's worth? Holy cow?
If you're part of a big college football program, we
might have our first seven figure college athlete and the
guy's not really even played. I think it's much more
likely we're going to have may already have our first
seven figure college hotty athlete to play that you've never
(01:38):
heard of, who might not even be on the varsity team.
Right that. That's who's making the money first off, And
nobody anticipated this because this is new. For decades, they've
been arguing about whether college athletes should be able to
make money. All of a sudden they can. And you
know who's jumped out of the gate the fastest, those
two hot twin Fresno girl basketball players from No State.
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And then there's another there's like a rower in the
northeast someplace that's got millions of followers. Those are the
people that are making all the money. Yeah, yeah, well
you could have figured that out if you were looking
at it the right way. I mean you look at Instagram,
for instance, or even Twitter. You got somebody on Twitter
who has mildly interesting opinions, but they're fairly run of
the mill, but they got big boobies. They'll have ninety
(02:21):
thousand followers, thanks Twitter. So anyway, on a more serious topic,
and we will get to the other stuff in a
little bit. Bill mulugion continues to do just fantastic award
winning reporting from the southern border of the US is
in an absolute immigration crisis, depending on how you look
(02:42):
at it, as we discussed last hour, Democrats, Republicans, everybody
behind the scenes actually loves illegal immigration because it provides voters,
perhaps on one side, cheap labor and props up our gigantic, bloated,
overtaxed social welfare safety nets. Isn't it going to be
quite the twist of history if what appears to be
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happening happens that Hispanics move toward the right because they
are more of the FAI. They are more the right
is more. The Republicans are more of the Party of
families and church and a lot of the things that
people crossing the border care about, hard work, working hard
instead of being on the dole and want to be.
Some Republicans end up with hard to beat majorities because
(03:28):
of illegal immigration all these years. Yeah, and when the
reason Democrats allow it is because they think it's every
everybody crosses a border is a voter for life. Yeah,
I don't think they're right. And it just it absolutely
bears repeating. If I'm in charge of the pyramid scheme,
which is social Security or medicare, where it takes quite
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a few active young workers to support one oldster because
ulsters have a lot of expenses. And I see the
birthrate shrinking in the demographics changing, and now instead of
having that seven workers to support an ulster, now we're
down like four. And you see twenty thirty five or
whatever they're saying lately is the drop dead. Now we're
broke time for these big programs. I'm saying, wait a minute,
(04:14):
are you telling me you've got millions of young, hard
working people who want to rush across the border and
come and take jobs and contribute to social security? Let
them in, Let them in, And that's what's happening anyway.
When don't why don't they say it out loud? That's
what I don't like. Yeah, I don't know. I don't
think it's that difficult to comprehend. The same as we've
been arguing with Afghanistan. Just tell us, tell us what
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you're doing. We're not having babies. We need young workers
to support the old folks. Here's the way the math works.
What do you think, and you would get you would
easily get a majority on your side. This is how
many people we meet need. This is who we're going
to let in, and we're going to control it. It's
the uncontrolled nature of it that pisses people off. Yeah,
I think they're afraid that they they're doing better sway
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then several possible outcomes if they were honest with the
American people. They're thinking, why gamble going fine? Yeah, I
don't know. I don't know. That's hard to say. But anyway,
back to Bill mulugion to Foxnews is doing great reporting
down on the border. Clip number ten. We're here in
the Del Rio sector, one of the busiest, more than
nine hundred apprehensions happening down here every single day, and
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we've seen a lot of activity this week, including today,
group of about four Haitian men allowed to just walk
through the open border gate behind me into the United
States with no resistance whatsoever and just give themselves up
to border patrol. And this is something we've witnessed literally
all week long down here. Kevin Williamson of I don't
know who he's with officially. I think I read it
in National Review, though his thing is always why would
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we want more poor people? We got enough poor people already.
Why would we want to let in more poor people. Well,
because we're paying a lot of our poor people to
stay home from work now, so we need poor people
who actually will work. Geez, that's a good way to
craft society. As I said, there needs to be a
name for this economic system. You got the free market
or capitalism if you prefer, you have socialism, fascism. This
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is fustercluckism, where you pay a certain group to stay home,
then wink and turn a blind died of millions rushing
across your border against your so called laws. There ought
to be a name for them. But you gotta throw
in a little of this too, because this is also happening.
You've got educated, skilled people from around the world that
want to come here, and we make it impossible for them.
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You got to throw that in the hell out of them.
You got to throw that in because that's an interesting
wrinkle to all the other stuff that you said could
kind of make sense. But then throw in the part
where you don't let educated, skilled people from other countries
come in. You make it impossible. Now tell me that
makes sense, right? Right? It could not be more idiotic,
he says, fearful that they'll find a way to make
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it more idiotic. Click number eleven, roll on. I had
a chance to talk to some of these guys. Found
out they're from all over the world. It's not just Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras.
Take a listen, Ghana, you're from Ghana, Brazil, You're from Brazil,
You're from Haiti. I'm gone, oh, my lawyer. I won
by just half a second, and Ghana called my lawyer.
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Ghana Ghana, I go to. Ghana means going to We're
got to play that whole tape again. That's one of
my favorite things. Who've ever played. A Russian teenage girl
explaining to Russian citizens how to act like Americans so
they won't be thrown in Putin's Secret to Jails. I'm
gonna call my lawyer Ghana is I'm going to go
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all right? All right? Clip number twelve. Right here in
del Rio. This week, this man was arrested by Texas DPS.
He is an active member of the Zetas Cartel, an
extremely dangerous Mexican drug cartel. State troopers found him walking
on the side of the road. Thankfully, they were able
to take him into custody before he got further into
the US. Immigration is the biggest failure of democracy that
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we've had. The reason I say that is because the
numbers are overwhelming on how to solve this. It's so
easily solvable. You look at any of the polls, like
eighty percent of people want to control the border, Like
eighty percent of people are okay with having plenty of
people come in and work. It's it's it's just it's
a it's such a failure. It'd be easy to fix.
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But when you got both sides with strong reasons not
to fix it, it doesn't get fixed right right. The
issue is what they love. They don't want to solve it.
That's the last thing they want to do. And I
want to wrap up with this starting it's a couple
of clips of Lindsay Graham, and this one he is
confronting Tom Vilsack, the socialist, longtime Iowa politician, Secretary of Agriculture,
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et cetera. Clip fourteen. If we legalize one person under
this program, which I've been historically for, how will it
affect border security? Will it be a run on the border.
I don't believe so in fact, you don't believe. So,
you don't believe the reason you give legal status two
hundreds of thousands of people without first securing the border,
they won't be a rush on the border. I don't believe.
(09:04):
So why Well, in large part because the people were
talking about within the agg workforce or people that have
been here for long period of time. Do you understand
full factors? I understand the nature of this workforce. I
also understand that you understand that if you give legal
status to one person without first senator and what border,
you're gonna have a run on the border ten times scores.
(09:25):
I don't believe. So you don't believe that. Yeah, this
is why you don't idolize politicians, any politicians. This is
a guide. Tell Tom phil Sack, who's willing to in
the face of this onslought on the border caused by
the campaign rhetoric and then the early policy changes of
the Biden administration. You've seen this spectacular flow of humanity
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to the border in spite of that town fill Sack says, No,
I don't. I don't think that sort of thing causes
more people at the border. Oh, no, no way, I
don't know what you're talking about. I mean that that
takes balls to say that. Well, he's a long time
a lion politician. Give me fifteen please. So what's happened
here is that the Biden administration was put on notice
right after the election that if you change Trump policies,
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if you stop building the wall, you go back to
catch and release, allow people to come in and make
an asylum claim, release them into the interior of the
United States, will be overwhelmed and overrun. And they were right,
and nobody in the Biden administration is adjusting. They're denying
the truth. Yeah, I would say that sums it up
rather nicely. And you know, we're not here to make
(10:30):
you depressed or cynical or anything like that. But we
also don't want to see we are. We don't want
you dancing at the end of the strings of politicians
who are pretending to care about these issues and making
you dance back and forth and show up to vote
and and you know, give them money in the rest
of it. Now, there are some people who are serious
about immigration reform. Just try to find those. Trying to
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find the ones who are sincere about it, who've tried
to do something about it. So I looked up the
numbers again because these can't be repeated enough. And I
wish Republicans would talk about it, but as we said,
they're in on it too. Harvard Harris Poll, eighty one
percent of respondence considered immigration to be a serious problem,
with four eighty one say it's serious problem. Of that crowd,
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forty three percent say it's a very serious problem. And
fifty five percent of people said that Biden should have
left Trump's policies in place. A majority fifty five percent
said Biden should have left Trump's policies and replaced But
if you take in any media the idea of building
the wall, only crazy racist right winger evil storm the
(11:38):
capitol nut jobs think that build bridges, not walls. Oh
my unicorn pooped. Oh no, oh, good news, it's cotton candy.
Unicorn's poop, cotton candy. Build bridges not walls. Yeah. Sixty
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four percent, nearly two thirds told the Harvard Harris poll
that the Biden administration needed to issue new, stricter policies
to reduce the flow of people across the border. Two
thirds of Americans believe that I don't know who this
Harris is, but Harvard is liberal as hell. So I
think those numbers ain't you know, cooked up by some
right wing think tank. Right, yeah, well, son of a gun,
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what are you gonna do, any who, You're gonna watch
your chimpanzees murder apes, that's what you're gonna do. That's brutal.
And realize it's a planet of the chimps, and the
chimp is an ape. I'm sorry I said ape. I
meant gorillas. You got chimps murder and gorillas. This is ugly,
it is. Yeah, chimp will tear your head right off
your neck, man, spit down your throat. I don't know
(12:41):
why it would, but it could tear off your arm,
beat you with the bloody end exactly all the time.
When that happens, the armstrong and getting show. Well, this
(13:17):
isn't good. Reports of in flight disturbances are of five
hundred percent this year. In flight disturbances. Now airlines are
having to be a little more aggressive, and they're even
adjusting their slogans. Take a look American Airlines new slogan
is we duct tape the lady. Don't think we won't
do it again. Oh yeah, that's real. Also, Delta's new
(13:38):
slogan is now offering complimentary mouth cards. I mean that's wow.
And finally, Frontiers new slogan is we can't afford to
press charges, so do whatever. Bro for the budget airline
can't afford to press charger to whatever. Um. Yeah, and
most of the kerfuffles are over masks and don't throw
(14:01):
away your masks. I have breaking news. Oh lords, they
doo want to do it now? Or what it's up
to you? Okay, that's press if it's really breaking news.
I'm getting a phone call from my doctor. Wonder why
I won't answer. It couldn't mean anything important. The ad
the Biden administration is reportedly discussing bringing back nationwide mask
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mandates urging it. They can't the federal government can't make
it happen. But the CDC recommending that states urge mask
wearing for vaccinated people vaccinated or not wear your masks again,
like it's last summer. So whitmer, Cuomo and Nussolini just
(14:49):
got visibly aroused. So is there science to back this up?
Are there enough people that are vaccinated, getting the COVID
and spreading it that it makes sense to make us
all more masks again? And critically, are they spreading it
to people who will get seriously ill, and in what numbers,
Because the numbers right now are tiny, you would never
alter national policy for this number of people dying. We're
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just we're obsessed, We're we're you were you know, just
we're fixated on COVID crazy. So chimps and gorillas hang
out together various places in Africa. They have forever. And
though both chimps and gorillas can be violent and territorial,
(15:34):
usually when they fight it's within their own groups, and
they will chimp will kill another chimp, or usually it's
groups of chimps. Is it gorilla just a bigger chimp? No, No,
it's a different species of animal. And I noticed in
your text earlier refer to them as monkeys. They're not monkeys.
Generally speaking, monkeys have tails. Apes do not monkeys. I
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appreciate the obscure Steinfeld refer but the news research new
research details two fatal encounters in which wild chimpanzees attacked
and killed gorillas. So normally they're hanging out eating fruit together, whatever,
and they'll greet each other. What's up, gee, o'rilla, I'm good,
my chimpy buddy, my feces, chuck in pal and and
(16:20):
they get along just fine, very peacefully. But for the
first two times they've observed chimps murdering apes, there's some
speculation that it No, there is some speculation that it
might have to do with shrinking ecosystems and maybe even
global warming or something like that. But both incidents took
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place on the outer boundaries of the chimps territories territory,
and the main aggressors were adult male chimpanzees. They observed
the attacks from about one hundred feet away, which is like,
you know, uh, you know, two little more complate to
first base, but just a little bit more. The first
encounter lasting for fifty two minutes. Fifty two minute fight
(17:06):
to the death. Wow, I can't even imagine that. I
wouldn't want to see it. Yeah, this is uh. There
was the chest beat, then there were screeches. Then they're
a group of twenty seven chimps attacked five gorillas. Oh
my god. The grills tried to defend themselves but to
no avail. Oh yeah, that the rest of it's too grim.
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But the animal Kingdom, it's a violent place. So a
bunch of texted, hey, did you see Joe Biden on
CNN last night. He came off extra old. We'll play
a couple of clips from that coming up, Nick and
(17:53):
see Armstrong and Getty Show. And the question is whether
or not we should be in a position where you
um are. Why can't the the the experts say we
know that this virus is in fact um uh, it's
(18:14):
going to be or achievement. We know why all the
drugs approved or not temporarily approved, but permanently approved. I
have no idea what he said. I have no idea
what he just said there. That was a CNN tone
all meeting last night. I don't know what he was
talking about there. Here's is not good. There's a little more.
You you got the vaccination? Are you can? I mean
(18:35):
you see him now it works? Or you you know,
or or the mom and dad or or or the
neighbor or when you go to church or when you're no,
I really mean it. There are trusted and interlockerors. Think
of the people if if your kid wanted to find
out whether or not there were there's a man on
(18:56):
the moon or whatever, you know something or you know
or whether those aliens are here or not? You know
who were the people they talked to beyond the kids
who love talking about it. Turn on your turntable. Oh boy,
that was one of those moments that if he had
had during one of the debates, Trump would be president
right now. But they gave him a shot of something
(19:17):
to make his mind work better, or he just got
lucky that he didn't have one of those, because if
he'd had one of those moments during the debate, honestly,
I think Trump would have won a big, fat shot
in the ass. And had a conversation the other day
in which I was reminded that if second debate Trump
had showed up for the first debate instead of the
you know, super combative, interrupting every word Trump, he would
(19:40):
have won. But you know, back to the real problem
we got going on right here. As our president is
sold and his brain don't quite work a will that
used to, right, there will be stories and they'll either
start coming out while he's president or maybe they won't
come out for twenty five years because those secrets are
held that long. But there are going to be stories
of people in meetings they're going, whoa, you know what's
(20:04):
happening where? Yeah, they have hallway conversations after meetings where
they say, geez, that was something, wasn't it. They have
to have a twenty fifth Amendment committee that kind of
just hangs around the sidelines and keeps an eye on
things and how they're going tries to figure out when
the guy's completely incapacitated. Joe Getty just invoked to the
(20:24):
twenty fifth Amendment on Joe Biden. Oh, absolutely, I stand
by my comments. I think the guy is at the
outer edges of neurological competence, not his fault, No, absolutely not.
And for national security purposes, I'm fine with it being
kept quiet until we have to deal with it. So
(20:45):
maybe this is a good place to fit this in
and as anywhere. I just came across this recently read
Missus Dalloway by Virginia Wolf. It's one of those books
that they make you read in high school or college
or something. I don't know if I did or not.
If I did, it never made an impact on me
at the time, but at my current age it did.
(21:05):
New York Times has a thing in their book review
section where they ask people what are books you should
read before you're forty, what a book you shouldn't read?
Until after your forty, which I'd never really considered before.
But it's clearly true, clearly true that there are there
are things that they make you read in college that
they have no impact on you because you haven't had
the life experience. You haven't had kids, you haven't grown old,
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you haven't you haven't, you just haven't had the life
experience to get into them. And then there are other
books like I tried reading some Jack Kerouac at my
current age, you know, a few years ago, and it
just seems stupid to me. It seems self indulgent, stupid,
and it was like really deep and meaningful to me
when I was like twenty nine. Huh yeah, just where
you are in life, I guess, yeah. Sure. Anyway, So
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this is from Missus Dallaway, and I got to keep
in mind that they're talking about people being in their fifties.
This was written in nineteen twenty five. I think back then,
being in your fifties it was more like being in
your seventies now. So you need to recognize that. I mean,
the whole sixty is the new forty is for real.
My mom talks about all the time. She said, when
I was young, somebody sixty was in an old folks home. Wow,
(22:11):
that's just you know, good combination of health attitudes. You know,
starting adulthood. You know, you're married and had kids when
you're twenty, so just a lot of things were different.
So excuse the age he is in this think more
of like a seventy year old than a fifty three
year old because I often, I often, I don't want
(22:32):
to sound cruel here, but I often see old people
and I think, what gets you out of bed in
the morning? And I wonder about that for myself, Like
when I'm that age, What's going to get me out
of bed? When I'm seventy five? What? What? What do
I enjoy? What do I look forward to? I mean,
do you spend it doesn't seem like it being around
my parents or other old people. It doesn't seem like
you spend all your time thinking everything sucks now, everything
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that's good happened before, and everything sucks in my life now.
People don't do that. But I can't quite understand why.
You know, it's about the people you care about. I guess, well,
this is that I came across this explanation. I think
in Missus Dallaway that I think explains it, and and
I hope this is the direction that it goes for me,
and it must go for most people. I'll read this
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best I can. It's about one of the characters in
the book, a terrible confession. It was he put on
his hat again. But now, at the age of fifty three,
one scarcely needed people anymore. Opposite of what Joe just said,
people scarcely needed people anymore. Life itself, every moment of it,
every drop of it here, this instant now in the
(23:37):
sun in Regent's Park was enough. Too much. Indeed, a
whole lifetime was too short to bring it out, now
that one had acquired the power, the full flavor, to
extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning, which
both were so much more solid than they used to
be and so much less personal. I've read, I've watched
a couple of wrong explanations of what that just that
(24:00):
paragraph means. And you know, if you're older, maybe you
can chime in on the text line whether or not
this has been for you that you reach an age,
or it happens gradually over time, I suppose to where
you start to notice the world around you more than
you ever did with you taken out of the mix,
(24:23):
because when you're younger, it's all about us. And by
younger I mean up until like age seventy, but it's
all about us. Everything is how it affects us. You know,
how is this good for me, bad for me, or whatever?
And what he's explaining right there is it's not personal anymore.
It's just observing the world. I'm just floating around in
the world. I'm no longer it no longer matters to
(24:43):
me because most of my life has been lived and
there's just so much richness to the world here. Once
I've extracted myself from it, which is kind of the
opposite of what you might think. But once you take
your own needs and personality and everything out of it
and you just observe humans and things and beasts and
buildings and traffic and everything like that, that life becomes
(25:05):
very rich and very interesting. I find that fascinating. I
hope that that's the experience I have that would explain
to me how you can be quite old and still
get a lot out of life. That's the first time
I've ever seen explained that way anywhere in fiction or nonfiction.
Interesting thought. I used to regularly describe this radio show
(25:26):
is a trip to the human zoo, right, maybe just
watching the human zoo or the regular zoo with animals,
or just watching the world be what it is without
the freaking filter that is self, which is what dominates
us through so much of our lives. You know, need
to be loved, liked, respected, envied, whatever it is that
(25:48):
drives us to buy things and do things and strive
for this or that. But once that is done, according
to this anyway, Virginia Woolf, who you gotta remember, killed herself,
so maybe wasn't working to well for her that that's
just what you get out of the world. I don't know,
agree or disagree any thoughts on that text line four
one five two nine five KFTC gave me something to
(26:11):
look forward to. Foe. I'm sorry, go ahead four one
five two nine five KFTC. I was just gonna say,
I was I'm thinking about the don't need people anymore?
What exactly was that line? He was walking out of
a party and just how and the party was all
about the other stuff we were talking about self. It's
(26:31):
all about status and who knew who and who was
wearing what, and who drove what and all that crap
that dominates so much of your life. Yeah, and he
had reached the age where just none of that crap
mattered anymore. Yeah, that I absolutely get. And that's not
what I was talking about. I was talking about real,
you know, connections between humans who care about each other
and bring each other joy. I mean, at the point
(26:52):
you don't give a damn about making any more money
or a career to some extent who's in office, depending
you know, on the politics at the time. Yeah, that's interesting,
of course, good stuff. You say that author Virginia Wolf
put heavy rocks in her pockets and walked out into
a river when she was in her late fifties. So oh,
I think it's possible to have wisdom and insight and
also crushing depression. Yeah, I don't think that to her mutually,
(27:16):
Oh no, absolutely not. She did it on purpose, right,
she said, don't get her in her pocket? No, no,
she didn't. She just liked to carry rocks around it
in her pockets and she liked to take walks in
the ocean. Never occurred to her not to do both
at once. She left a note for her husband that said,
I don't think anybody any marriage has ever been happier
than ours. I'm sorry I'm doing this to you, but
I just can't go out anymore, and put heavy rocks
in her pockets and walked out into her river. Why
that is a cheery little story you got here. It's
(27:38):
a heck of a thing, though, isn't it. Yes, Come, yes,
and it's made me sad? Who comes up with that idea?
Thanks for making me sad. You don't have to be sad.
You're not going to do it. I know I don't
have to be sad. I am sad. Don't tell me
how to be No, I'm angry. Don't tell me not
to be angry either. That would make me sad again.
So Albuquerque, New Mexico, trying to deal with the bums
(27:58):
and junkies problem. Yet another unintentionally hilarious We are going
to take care of this nights try has funny. Nobody
asks this question. Has anybody had any luck with anything
other than being harsh by not supporting the bums and junkies?
(28:19):
Has had anybody had any success with anything other than that?
I would like to address that very question because we
have listeners who will email and say what you guys
are cruel and heartless, and you never say exactly what
we ought to do with these people. I will answer
your concerns, probably not to your satisfactor, but I will
answer them if I can overcome the sadness Jack is
(28:39):
inflicting on me. Coming up in moments Armstrong, the Armstrong
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B six So that's Giannas can't pronounce his name, the
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(29:52):
Is that their zip code or I mean their area code?
That's what's up? What is or his number or what
is it? It was Bucks and sixes? What there were
champing Bucks and six so Buck's in sex? Oh, I
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is he is refreshing, and that he is one of
those happy athletes that when I was a kid, they
were all like happy athletes and at some point somebody
decided that being angry was the thing you had to
(30:14):
be all the time. And he's one of those smiling,
happy guys again. And it's kind of it's it just
seems weird because mostly you're mad all the time. Everything's angry.
Then I showed you he's like happy. Hey I scored. Whoa,
this is fun? This is fun man. Yeah, yeah, that's cool.
Seems like a charming guy. The Ashley do we have
(30:35):
time for that? Yeah? The the super hot new golfer
who just won the British Open, Colin Morikawa. Is he's
the same way, very bright, very charming, friendly, kind of
open hearted type guy. He could be a superstar anyway.
So I promise you this thought we'd deliver. We got
this from an alert listener in the Albuquerque area. Closing
(30:58):
in on six months after the tiny homes village opened
its door to first homeless residents. The village as of
Monday had a merror eight occupants, five million dollars. Six
months down, the road. They got eight people there. Two
other residents were there for a while were removed from
the village for being disruptive. The nearly five million dollar
project was designed with thirty standalone one hundred and twenty
(31:21):
square foot homes with communal buildings for toilets, showers, cooking, laundry,
and meeting spaces. The occupancy of the village is capped
at forty and is expected to be fully occupied sooner
or later. But again, six months in, they just have
a handful of people. The maximum occupancy is forty. Yeah,
for five or five million dollars, you're gonna house forty
homeless people. Yeah, how do these things happen? So they
(31:46):
recently did this organization did a survey and there seemed
to be a roughly sixteen hundred homeless people in Albuquerque.
Based on that number of homeless individuals, filling the thirty
tiny homes might seem like a fairly easy task. It
is not said the active gal The screening process for
applicants has proven not only to be time consuming but
a bit too restrictive for many numbers of this difficult population.
(32:07):
Let me guess you can't do drugs or be drunk
and they kind of like their lifestyle. Yeah, blah blah blah.
Applicants with addictions, they are required to be clean and
sober for at least ten days. That's not interested in that.
I like living, how to hear and being high all
the time. You must not have any extreme behavioral or
mental health issues, and not be a registered sex offender
(32:28):
or have been found guilty of a sex crime problem.
And again you got to follow the rules. And of
the sixteen hundred alleged homeless people there in Albuquerque, they've
found eight so far. So how much money in the program?
How much money will taxpayers have to spend in various
cities all across the country, trying this experiment over and
over again before soft heads finally recognize, Yeah, most of
(32:50):
these people don't want to live the life I live.
They don't want to stay sober, look for a job,
get along with people, etc. Right, Well, and Gavin Nussolini
of California just pledged to spend twelve billion dollars with
a bee in a year in California to finally solve
(33:12):
the bums and junkies problem. Here's my cold reality as
a realist. Virtually every decision we make, every everything we
do is caused by push factors and pull factors. That's
a really good job. The pay is good, and I
hate my boss. There's a little pull factor and a
(33:33):
little push factor, and not being a bum, not being
a junkie is more than just giving people pull factors. Hey,
we'll give you a happier life if you move out
of the park and quit shooting up in front of
kids and committing crimes and stealing bikes. No, there have
to be push factors. That's what the Great Blue Experiment
(33:54):
has proved to me. Anyway. And as a guy, I
am not a saint. I am a guy who has
battled the impulse to do the wrong thing or the
self indulgent thing my entire life and the way human
beings actually are. And people at this point say, well,
where are you going to put them, Joe, don't you
think that the society owes them basic housing, etc. Etc.
(34:16):
You know what, just for the sake of conducting my experiment,
I'm gonna say yes, I'm gonna say, Okay, let's build
dormitories or something. We can agree on what the basic
housing is, Well, let's go ahead and build it. And
then the other side of The equation is you enforce
anti vagrancy laws, you enforce anti camping laws, you enforce
don't take a crap on the sidewalk laws, don't abuse
(34:38):
drugs in public laws, because that's those are the push
factors that people say, see if this sounds familiar, I
don't want to live like this anymore. Or you can
just make it as easy and comfortable as possible and
pour billions of dollars into making junkiedom as attractive as possible,
and then sit there with your jaw gabe scratching your head,
(34:59):
say why is the number increased? Well, you kind of
glossed over your setup. There the idea that housing is
a human right, and I realize you were doing it
for the to make a point. But housing being a
human right will not work for society. That is that
is that that would never fly. If we make housing
a human right, that everybody has a right to housing
(35:21):
regardless of lifestyle, that's that is an impossibility as as
a way to structure society. That will not You will
have an enormous population that is entirely dependent on their
fellow taxpayers, their entire You will very quickly run out
of people that are willing to work and pay for
the crowd that just wants the free housing right right,
(35:41):
And getting back to the push and pull factors, people
will only work for one of two reasons, to gain
rewards or avoid punishment. And and it's it's it's well
to avoid the punishment of being poverty stricken, having no home.
I've wondered this for so long. I'll never understand how
lefties I don't. I don't know what term to use
(36:02):
because I don't want to include all people that I
don't want to include. But so many of you believe
everybody's going to do the right thing. What what in
your life experience has brought you to that. Didn't you
have a college roommate, or you never worked with a guy,
or you don't you haven't known enough people that just
freaking suck. They just they bad. They don't care about
(36:22):
their job, they don't care about their kids, they don't
care about how they spend their money, they don't they
make don't make good decisions. Haven't you known people like that?
Or they're apathetic, they're dishonest, they're predators, or as somehow
miraculously in your life, you've only come across you know,
people who make wise decisions, want to do the right thing,
that they keep getting screwed by bad breaks. Is that
the only people because I haven't run into those people. Yeah, Well,
(36:45):
there's an aspect of leftism in America these days which
can never insist people take personal responsibility for their own lives,
partly because it goes against their worldview, and it goes
against their view of government that government ought to provide
for people, as opposed to the more liberty and conservative
point of view that you are responsible for your own life.
If you are truly unfortunate, we'll step in a little
(37:06):
bit and help you. Well, it's another experiment, another town,
Albuquerque this time. How many towns we'll have to try
this over and over again before we get get it?
It reminds me of you know, people up to triple
the poverty line get government assistance on something. That's not
the way I see government assistance ought to be working.
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