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Jack Armstrong (3:21)

Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

Michael (3:23)

Armstrong and Getty.

Joe Getty (3:25)

And now here's Armstrong and G. We

Michael (3:36)

were talking about Tiger woods and how news came out that he had a couple of hydrocodones in his pocket when he rolled his vehicle the other day. And I was saying, is that the thing Rush limbaugh was on?

Joe Getty (3:46)

Dr.

Michael (3:46)

Friend of mine texted me. Oxycodone is what Rush was on. Oxy. I didn't know this. Oxy is 10 times stronger than hydrocodone.

Joe Getty (3:58)

Now that you mentioned it, yeah. Hydra is the one I had after surgery.

Michael (4:01)

I didn't know that. They weren't even close to the same strength. I've had hydrocodone. I think when I had cancer, I had to take one once, but I don't think I've ever taken oxy. That's interesting. Remember when I love the way we go, we swing so far one direction or the other. Remember when we had six figures worth of people dying from these things because pharmacies around the country were just giving them to anybody randomly and it was just. It was just out of control. Well, now we went so far the other direction. My son is on one drug that could be addictive, and you just cannot. You can get 30 days at a time, and you have to wait until the full 30 days are up until you can get the next prescription. Can't overlap by a day. And then sometimes they're busy and you can't get it. And I'm like, what are you supposed to do? You can't skip a day. But they just got the strict rules because you could get addicted and just so unreasonably far the other direction. Why can't we manage things in any sensible way?

Joe Getty (4:53)

Government does two things. Nothing and overreact.

Michael (4:56)

Correct. I remember you saying that many years ago, and that is 100% true. So I've been complaining a lot about the media coverage of the war. I think it's by far the biggest story in the world. And like Sunday, Face the Nation, they didn't get to it for 18 minutes to start Face the Nation. They talked about TSA lines and they talked about shutdown and they talked about some other thing I didn't care about before they got to the war. Like, seriously. Jon Stewart on the Daily show thinks it's ridiculous that the media isn't getting to the war more often and treating it with more seriousness. Also, his conclusion about the war is different than mine. But the coverage, he's got the same point of view. What else is being blocked? It's getting harder to get food that comes with pistachios.

Jack Armstrong (5:41)

You can't make Dubai chocolate bars.

Michael (5:48)

Oh, no. What will our influencers stand in line to pretend to eat? Dubai chocolate? My God, that's been an American staple for tens of days. I can't believe how the news has to frame world events to try and make Americans care. The whole region is being flattened. Innocent people are dying. Their food and fuel are in total chaos.

Joe Getty (6:15)

And our news is like, if this

Michael (6:16)

goes on any longer, say goodbye to

Joe Getty (6:19)

your stuffed crust pizza.

Michael (6:22)

I agree with that. I don't agree with his thought on the war, but they do. They have to come up with these. Gas is expensive. So that's why you should get. There's a freaking war going on that could go any direction at any point. Anyway, Jon Stewart goes on, it turns out there is another key material being affected by the war in Iran.

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Michael (6:41)

There could be helium shortages.

Joe Getty (6:43)

Yes, the gas that's used in party balloons.

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Michael (6:47)

The Helium is a fundamental gas used in the production of advanced chip technology. You don't have to dumb it down to make us. Oh, this war could be even bad for your promposals.

Joe Getty (7:00)

Like, come on.

Michael (7:03)

I agree.

Joe Getty (7:04)

Wow, that is shocking. That is. I mean, I thought I was cynical enough. The same gas that's used to fill party villas. Yeah, we know A, A, we know B, that's not the problem at all. Helium's incredibly important to high tech. Production of chips, et cetera, as he mentioned.

Michael (7:29)

Well, all those things he mentioned, though, including to me, the price of gas. If, if, if, if chocolate bars go away. And gas gets way more expensive than we'd like. The war's either a good idea or it's not. Let's discuss it on the. On the merits of being at war with another major country or not.

Joe Getty (7:45)

Yeah, how about the whole major malevolent power exporting jihad around the world, killing more of our soldiers than any other country. And I mean, we'll get to the chocolate and the party balloons if you want to, but can we take a look at that picture first? That. That is astonishingly. I'd say it's condescending, but maybe they just know where their viewers are trying desperately.

Michael (8:11)

I'm guessing that. And I'm surprised. Cbs, Face the Nation. That's Barry Weiss. I'm sure she cares about the war. Maybe they've got data that says, hey, people just don't care.

Joe Getty (8:22)

Well, either that or she just hasn't gotten to Face the Nation because nobody watches it.

Michael (8:26)

The we get several texts of, oh, my God, you guys are talking about Iran. Again. I ignore them because I think it's a really, really important story. But some of you feel that way.

Joe Getty (8:36)

Fine. Good. Great. Some of them are dressing up as furry animals and having sex, and maybe

Michael (8:43)

they need conversion therapy. My transition to.

Joe Getty (8:49)

I know.

Michael (8:50)

I just.

Joe Getty (8:50)

I'm beyond helping. Michael, I may need the paddles. Go out to the lobby.

Michael (8:56)

I might need the paddles.

Joe Getty (8:58)

Get. Get the paddles again. My.

Michael (9:02)

Already on Tuesday. Usually we don't have to bring out the paddles till, like, Thursday or Friday.

Joe Getty (9:05)

My will to live has gone solo. I'm gonna need clear. All right, here's the story. Oh, my God. This is not gonna help me at all. The Supreme Court made an absolutely fantastic ruling, 8 to 1. I'll explain why I'm struggling with this in a moment, saying that a Christian counselor in Colorado who challenged a ban on mental health counseling for either transgender confused kids or in some cases, gay kids or whatever, that. You can't restrict that for First Amendment reasons. It's the lost censors. Speech based on viewpoint. Justice Gorsuch wrote in the majority opinion. Colorado may regard its policies as essential to public health and safety. Certainly censorious governments throughout history have believed the same. But the First Amendment stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country. Justice Kagan wrote a concurring opinion. She went at it a little bit differently from a legal point of view. It was 8 to 1. Ketanji Brown, Marxist, was against. She wrote the only dissent. Her dissent was longer than the court's opinion, and Kagan's concurrence combined.

Michael (10:34)

Wow. Even the other liberal justices have to be rolling their eyes at her behind the scenes, don't they?

Joe Getty (10:41)

Right? And I scanned her reasoning and essentially, and. Oh, my God, you want to talk about a slippery slope? This is, this is, you know, I don't, I don't know, one of those old playground slides covered with KY jelly. I mean, it is a slippery slope. She said, well, because the state has an interest in regulating medical professionals, then they can regulate speech, medical professionals, and like, oh, for God's sake, the state regulates fricking everything at this point. So barbers can be barred from, you know, speaking out against Democrats by your insane post modernist reasoning. Anyway, here's the reason I was not completely enthusiastic about bringing you this story. Oh, my God, I expected it out of the New York Times. Oops, it closed for some reason. Here we go. The Supreme Court on. Oh, oh, oh, sorry. You need to know this. This case is about the gender bending madness, especially for kids. These kids who are autistic or they are victims of sexual abuse, or they are merely misfits, they want to be somebod, somebody else. They're not comfortable in their own skin. They have the sort of angst that adolescents always, always have, some more than others, God bless them. And as the dad of an autistic kid, I can tell you that angst is. It's suffocating at times. These counselors say, hey, before we start feeding you hormones or talk about surgeries or transitioning, let's talk about what's going on in your life. Let's talk about what's going on in your heart and mind for a while before we go down that road. Would that be okay? That's what this counseling is, and it's being called conversion counseling by the transgender activists because they want people to think of that, like, fundamentalist religious thing where you would tell a gay boy, you can't be gay because that's against God. Here's a woman. Get with a woman. You can't be gay when those are two very different things. Although they're both protected by the First Amendment, in my mind or in my opinion. Okay, so that's what the counseling is. Let's talk about what some of the other problems might be in your life. And we'll get to the transgender thing. Here's how it's characterized in the New York Times. The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with a Christian therapist, rejecting a Colorado law that prohibited mental health professionals from trying to change the sexual orientation or gender Identity of LGBTQ minors. They characterized that caring patient actually looking at underlying problems as, quote, unquote, trying to change the sexual orientation of minors. And then I look at the Wall Street Journal. The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with a Christian counselor who challenged a ban, blah, blah, blah, on mental health counseling that seeks to change young people's sexual orientation or gender identity. The New York Times, written by Anne E. Merrimo, who is a dyed in the wool progressive in the Wall Street Journal, handed this assignment over to James Rossamer, who apparently is of the same ilk or because big time journalists exist in a journalistic bubble too. You wouldn't think they would. That's what they think this is. They just don't know. The Colorado, Colorado law targets what is colloquially known as conversion therapy. No, it's called conversion therapy by transgender activists. James, you jackass.

Michael (14:10)

Do you call it conversion therapy when the teachers counselors at school are trying to convince your little girl she's a

Joe Getty (14:18)

boy and then tell her, let's not tell your parents. They don't need to know about this. That's not conversion therapy. Excellent point. Oh, my God. Only Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented in this eight to one. Er, I mean, for God's sakes, you'd think that journalists in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times would say, holy crap, eight to one. Maybe I ought to look into this. Why was it nearly unanim?

Michael (14:45)

But no, I could see you right in that headline. If it was a 54 you didn't agree with maybe, but 81 you gotta think. Okay, I must be missing something here if you have the point of view of your headline.

Joe Getty (14:58)

KJB warned of the broader implications for medical care she said could be catastrophic if states cannot regulate some kinds of speech by licensed professionals. And I quote, this decision might make speech only therapies and other medical treatments involving practitioner speech effectively unregulatable. She wrote, criticizing her eight colleagues for having made, quote, this momentous decision without adequately grappling with the potential long term and disastrous implications. Hey, I almost said something disparaging. Why would I do that? I'm a grown man. Hey, Justice Jackson, you don't get to regulate speech based on what you perceive to be long term implications. You, you fundamentally misunderstand the First Amendment. It exists to protect speech you think will lead to people thinking the wrong thing. That's why it exists.

Michael (16:00)

Well, it went 8:1 the right direction.

Joe Getty (16:02)

Yeah, it did. God, you cannot hate the media enough. End of rant.

Michael (16:06)

There is a mass exodus out of LA County, California in general, but specific LA County. Among things we can talk about if you can stick around. Oh, new ratings out. Trump's got the lowest approval rating he's had of this term. Is it because of the war? I think it's the economy.

Joe Getty (16:25)

Well, it's both. And the war is feeding into the economy.

Michael (16:28)

Sure, of course it is. And more later. Stay here.

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The FBI says that that terror attack on the Detroit synagogue was inspired by Hezbollah. That their propaganda is believed to be what fueled Ayman Mohammed Ghazal. Search for, quote, the largest gathering of Israelis in Michigan to purchase fireworks, approximately 300 bullets and an AR15. Sending a video to his sister just 10 minutes before the attack saying he would, quote, kill as many of them as I possibly can. It's just luck that we still aren't as a country talking about this every single day. Because that guy went in there and killed 50 little Jewish kids because that was his intent.

Joe Getty (20:55)

There is a candidate for the Senate in Michigan who was. I've got somewhere. Yeah, he, he said on a conference call with his media people, look, I can't condemn that shooting. It'd be dangerous for me because he's got to get. He's a Muslim and he wants the Muslim vote. So I will just. If, if anybody brings it up, I'm gonna say Trump is just trying to distract from the Epstein files. So here's a Muslim candidate who couldn't bring himself to Condemn the near mass murder of little children. What does that tell you?

Michael (21:28)

And by the way, as is pointed out, often that's what globalize the Intifada is. And we have college kids chanting that around the country and we just let that go. I mean, you have to let it go. It's free speech, but don't critique it. Really. That's globalizing the Intifada.

Joe Getty (21:49)

Right, right. You know what, I'm sorry, I conflated two stories this Abdul El Sayed said he couldn't comment on the death of the Ayatollah because a lot of people are sad. So I'll just change it to pedophile president decides he doesn't like the front page news. And there was a different story about a similar fellow saying, I can't condemn that. I got to be careful. I'll bring you the facts on that eventually.

Michael (22:17)

So, saw the story break yesterday, didn't read about it. And it normally only matters if you drive around LA much or you know, we're gonna be there on vacation. They're gonna build this 24 billion dollar high speed tunnel underneath the 405 freeway. That could change commutes drastically around LA from the way they've been for many, many decades. And project will probably cost twice as much, three times, five times as much as it's supposed to and take forever to finish. But it gets done. It could really change LA traffic. Funny that that's happening at the same time that the population is shrinking, shrinking in LA County. Though tens of thousands of residents are fleeing LA county, the region recorded the largest population drop of any in the nation over the last year of U.S. census data. About 54,000 residents left the county during that one year period, continuation of a steady slide for the biggest, most populated county in America. Once home to more than 10 million people in 2020, it's now 9.7 million. You lose 300,000 people, your commute's gonna get better.

Joe Getty (23:26)

Yeah, maybe I want to hold off

Michael (23:28)

on that tunnel and see if you end up with. You just don't need it anymore.

Joe Getty (23:31)

So is it going to be like an express tunnel, just no entrances and exits? It's just if you're going downtown, that sort of thing.

Michael (23:36)

I didn't read up on it, but it's interesting that it'll probably never exist.

Joe Getty (23:41)

Like the bullet train, you'd think there'd

Michael (23:42)

be more attention paid to why is our population shrinking? For the first time ever, for the state of California and for LA county

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in particular Los Angeles, it's housing costs that's it. That's I found the facts about that Michigan Democrat thing. I will back up what I said. It sounded outrageous, didn't it? It was true. Much more to come, including a fair amount of hum. So stay tuned. If you can't stay tuned, subscribe to

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Michael (27:37)

Thanks so much for inviting us. We've never been to a real backyard barbecue before.

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Michael (27:43)

Oh, yeah. Folks, this is Clay.

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Joe Getty (27:50)

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But when we got there, squatters were in our homes and by state law

Michael (27:58)

we can't evict them for months. So we moved back. We had no real right to the house anyways, it being on the traditional and unceded homelands of the Tongva, Chumash and kitsch peoples.

Joe Getty (28:09)

Huh. Well, we are about to to eat. So we're going to say a few words.

Michael (28:15)

A land use acknowledgment.

Joe Getty (28:17)

Grace.

Michael (28:19)

I don't get it. Pray. Oh, like the emoji.

Joe Getty (28:24)

All right, everybody, why don't you guys come on over? Let's take care, Take our hats off. Let's bow our heads now. Lord God, heavenly father or mother, we just pray. Bless this meat we are about to eat. In the name of Jesus, who was

Michael (28:39)

a person of color.

Joe Getty (28:41)

Everybody said namaste.

Michael (28:45)

We're gonna say a few words before we eat. Oh, a land use acknowledgment oh my God, where did I read one of those?

Joe Getty (28:54)

Just yesterday.

Michael (28:56)

Where was I Anyway, and I was.

Joe Getty (28:59)

Friend has lost its mind with that stuff.

Michael (29:02)

I was screaming at this plaque. Yeah, who had it before them? I guarantee you somebody had it before this tribe you just mentioned. Guaranteed.

Joe Getty (29:13)

And this tribe on the plaque probably took it by force. Or if they didn't, it's really immaterial.

Michael (29:18)

Anyway, so what do you mean Canada's lost their mind on that?

Joe Getty (29:23)

Oh, the whole land acknowledgement thing. The whole wokeism thing. It is still 2022 in Canada and maybe worse. We'll talk about that another time. But although we do have some very amusing audio from Canada's New Democratic Party, which is some ascendant lefty party. Them at their meeting. Hilarious. More later.

Michael (29:42)

So I know this makes me a pain in the ass and I'll keep this short, but just because it's. I'm looking up at CNN right now. Gas hits $4 per gallon for the first time since 2022. That is just flat out not true. In reality, because of inflation. We've had so much inflation that $4 today is 358 in $2022.

Joe Getty (30:06)

2022.

Michael (30:07)

Not 1972. Yeah, yeah. Or 1992. Or to any distance. No, just a couple of years ago. So for it to hit $4 for the first time in $2022, which you're claiming it is. I mean, that's what you're stating. It's got to get to 447, which I think it probably will in a couple of weeks. But you know, it's just, it's just inaccurate and it drives me crazy since you're making a big deal out of. Plus, everybody should be aware of how much inflation we've had in the last half dozen years.

Joe Getty (30:42)

You were jokingly referring to yourself as Captain Pedantic earlier, but no, I think it's an excellent point. So not only is the news item just misleading, it's fundamentally misleading. It also papers over for reasons I can't imagine the insidious effects of inflation and, and how government fiscal policy, monetary policy causes inflation, which is like a massive tax on your savings and your pay. You'd think people would want to know that

Michael (31:13)

you used to need an inflation calculator app or whatever, but now all your. All your chats can do it. All your chat app thingies, your, your, what are they called? AIs. All your AIs can do it. So just do it. And this is depressing. It is depressing. And I Don't know when you're in the mood to be depressed.

Joe Getty (31:29)

Yeah, but it's, it's disillusioning in a positive way. It's informative.

Michael (31:33)

But like, if you have in your mind what a million dollars is based on, like, I don't know, 1995. Check and see what it is now. Just help you realize what you've actually got in your, you know, the value of your home or your 401k or whatever.

Joe Getty (31:51)

Well, let's use the numbers just to keep it simple like the ones you're bandying about. So $4 gasoline is actually. What'd you say it is?

Michael (31:59)

358.

Joe Getty (32:00)

Okay, so my $400,000 in investments is now worth $358,000 in four years. It's worth. Declined that much because, you know, and both parties are absolutely complicit, but mostly because of the Biden gigantic trillions of dollars of infusion of currency during COVID They stole that money from you. And for whatever reason, journalists are too dumb or incurious or ignorant or something to point that out to you. It's just frustrating. I don't want to bring everybody down. Oh, my God. The next thing I was about to do is even more depressing. It'll change tack here.

Michael (32:40)

Got a couple of sports notes I want to get to. Maybe next segment, how the whole robot umpire thing is going. Also, LeBron with another first. He seems to have one like weekly in this, his last couple of months of his career.

Joe Getty (32:53)

Hey, here's a little on air meeting of us and everybody listening. This is the sort of thing in the modern world nobody wants. And yet, probably because of lawyers nobody can do anything about. Here's this Orlando, Florida hospital. Got some woman in room 373. She was in the hospital for medical treatment. Well, that's a good reason to be admitted to a hospital, as reasons go. But anyway, on October 6, it was determined she no longer needed acute care services. And they told her, you're discharged, you can go now. And she's like, no, I'm not leaving. I like it here. This was October of last year, and

Michael (33:38)

they can't make her go.

Joe Getty (33:39)

The hospital has repeatedly made efforts to coordinate her departure with family members, offered transportation to obtain necessary identification, whatever. And the lady keeps saying, no, I like it here. I'm staying. You're gonna keep feeding me and the rest of. And instead of heaving her out on her ass, having a couple of big burly orderlies pick her up by the elbows and dump her out the front door, they Feel like they can't do anything about it.

Michael (34:02)

Wow. And that's costing somebody tens of thousands of dollars a day, I would guess.

Joe Getty (34:08)

Well, especially because the lawyers are now involved. The Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare has now sued the patient, saying she's refused to depart her hospital room. I can't believe.

Michael (34:21)

I can't believe that there's not some sort of thing. You sign all that paperwork when you get in. That includes when we determine you're better. You gotta get out.

Joe Getty (34:31)

Well, right, right. And she says, yeah, I don't have an attorney. I'm representing myself. And no, I'm not gonna sign those papers. No, I'm not even gonna even respond to them. According to a federal agency, hospitals can be investigated by the feds for viol treating patients when they need it, the patient can be discharged when the clinicians have determined any further care can be provided as an outpatient, blah, blah, blah. But there's nothing about. But if she won't leave, you can heave her ass out. I'm telling you. I realize it's kind of a semi amusing story, but isn't that a symptom, speaking of medical care, of terrible dysfunction? Well, and the joke in the Babylon Bee bit about, well, there's squatters in our home and we can't get rid of them for many months. So he moved back. Yeah, yeah. Namaste. All right. Just to prove I didn't make up something as incredibly outrageous as what I said if I lost it again, here it is. Hang on a second. Stand by. A Michigan Democrat campaigning for a U.S. senate seat opened up about how it was a risk for him to condemn the local attack on a synagogues full of small children, but he did anyway. It was a risk. He said all of our team was really worried about saying something, but leadership is willing to say the thing if you believe it to be true, that nobody else is going to say so. And Nellie Bowles of the Free Press makes a point, which is a nice point about leadership, I guess. But can we go back to that part where everybody was worried about you condemning an attempted mass casualty event on children to understand how fast the rhetoric has shifted toward mass murder of American Jews. This is what counts as a brave stance now. So this Abdul Al said there's a very funny story about him too. He wouldn't comment on the death of the Ayatollah because many of his constituents, or would be constituents, were sad. And he felt like it was a real act of courage to condemn a near mass casualty of little children because he's a Muslim and his voters are Muslims, folks. Does that not kind of wake you up a little bit or make you think, wait a minute, wait a minute,

Michael (36:57)

it's not a good place to be.

Joe Getty (36:59)

Oh, it's terrible. It's absolutely terrible. On a lighter note, because everything's a lighter note. Hundreds of protesters swarmed a proposed New York men's homeless shelter site, physically blocking the construction beginning. It's a pretty Asian neighborhood and they say no, they're going to be all sorts of junkies and weirdos and drunks and perverts around here and we don't want them in our neighborhood. Do it wherever you want, Mom, Donnie, but don't do it here.

Michael (37:24)

Do we have more of the homeless person? That clip we opened the show with. We have more of that.

Joe Getty (37:31)

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Where is that? It's actually, it's a report on junkie Ville's in LA. LA's bums and junkies and trying to clear them out. Why don't we. Yeah, let's do 40 and we'll do 41, see how we feel about it. But 40 first, Michael Matthew Seedorf of Fox 11 dangers hidden in plain sight along the LA River.

Jack Armstrong (37:53)

You can see the cap of a needle right here.

Michael (37:56)

That's where they put the meth in.

Joe Getty (37:59)

Signs of illegal drug use, stolen property and what some describe as gang activity.

Jack Armstrong (38:04)

Some of these gang members, you know, they carry backpacks with tools and ghost guns and, and a lot of narcotics.

Joe Getty (38:11)

Dangerous?

Jack Armstrong (38:12)

Very.

Joe Getty (38:16)

And then he goes on to interview some of the bums and bummettes. Just steps from a busy trail near Griffith Park. Dozens live in fortified shelters, tents and even storm drains with murky water below.

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How long have you been out here?

Joe Getty (38:32)

13 years a place. Time stands still.

Jack Armstrong (38:35)

Over 10 years.

Joe Getty (38:36)

10 years?

Jack Armstrong (38:37)

Yeah, over 10, 20 years that I know of.

Michael (38:39)

Do they try to offer you help?

Jack Armstrong (38:41)

Yes, I've been offered housing.

Joe Getty (38:43)

Why not take those resources?

Bethenny Frankel (38:46)

I did.

Joe Getty (38:47)

It's just right.

Jack Armstrong (38:47)

It's just not for me.

Bethenny Frankel (38:49)

I just always come back out to

Joe Getty (38:50)

this and I just like it.

Michael (38:52)

She is really a glasses half full sort of homeless crack addict.

Joe Getty (38:57)

Oh yeah, she's got again, single, 10

Michael (39:00)

or 20, I don't know or I don't remember.

Joe Getty (39:03)

But as far as I know everything's great.

Michael (39:05)

Very, very positive attitudes.

Joe Getty (39:07)

Single digit teeth, by the way, on this little gal. I hate to turn this sad and serious, that plucky, positive, agreeable attitude. It's how a lot of women on the street avoid getting like beat up or, or they get allies to help Them not get raped by being very friendly and agreeable. It's a survival strategy. Oof. Yeah. Oof. But she's. And. And she didn't come off as like years or 20.

Michael (39:35)

What?

Joe Getty (39:36)

As far as I know.

Michael (39:37)

Or 20.

Joe Getty (39:38)

Wow. If you don't know, who does? Yeah. Yeah. Craziness. Let's hear the next clip.

Michael (39:45)

Sort of a place for people who

Joe Getty (39:46)

have been forgotten or who want to be forgotten. Dirty sites. Many who use the trail have grown numb too. You get used to it. Yeah. Yeah. It's like seeing a goose. Or like just seeing something else. Or don't want to talk about out. I'm just asking about the homelessness out here. That's exactly. I don't think that's. I don't want to. I don't want to comment on that. Why not? I mean, I don't want to talk everyday.

Michael (40:07)

Thank you.

Joe Getty (40:08)

They put on the blinders. Honestly.

Michael (40:09)

They look on their phones, they focus

Joe Getty (40:11)

on their workout on the bike. They don't want to deal with it

Jack Armstrong (40:13)

because homelessness is everywhere.

Joe Getty (40:16)

Well, bums and junkies are everywhere.

Michael (40:19)

I want to deal with it. I don't know how to. But I'm. I want to deal with. I want to get them out of there. My tax money paid for because I have the similar thing in my town, the bike path that we got to ride our bikes past the homeless junkie and hope you don't get stabbed.

Joe Getty (40:35)

Right, Right. I see the description of this next clip and I'm intrigued. Go ahead, Michael. In a statement to Fox 11, Councilmember and Mayoral candidate Nithya Raman calls homelessness along the LA River a unique challenge. Adding steep concrete slopes, culverts and hard to reach areas make these encampments among the most difficult to address in the city. The only lasting solution is to bring people ins and we are pursuing that solution with urgency. Boy, there was nonsense followed by bad policy in that person's statement. Okay. It's a unique challenge because of the steep culverts. It makes it harder to do. What?

Michael (41:12)

So got a couple of sports notes for you. And then Katie's got a story about these bugs that are going around stinging people's eyeballs.

Joe Getty (41:20)

Pardon me?

Michael (41:21)

They're eye stinging bugs that are barbaric. Apparently a problem. So we got that too. Stay here.

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Michael (45:22)

played more NBA games than anybody ever, scored more points than anybody ever. He's got all kinds of more than anybody ever for a variety of reasons, how long he's played and how good he is. But he had the first ever father son something the other day because they've had a couple of them assistant shot or alley oop or whatever. But. But his son's playing on the Lakers and they which is just amazing. Remember old producer Scott said that was what was keeping LeBron hanging around is he wanted to play with his son on an NBA team and he is. That's got to be a really weird feeling.

Joe Getty (45:54)

Yeah, kind of fun.

Michael (45:55)

Unimaginable that anybody will ever do that again. I mean because just the ages would be really hard to pull off and everything else. But Lakers are a three seed by the way. Currently they on a tear in baseball. Checking after the first week roughly of baseball, still about 50% of the time the robot is right versus the umpire. So it's averaging like two or three times per game that people are trying this. Hey, I don't think that was a ball. I think it was a strike or vice versa. And it's about 50 50. So anything to conclude from that?

Joe Getty (46:34)

I don't know.

Michael (46:36)

I suppose, I suppose, you know, you can look at it two ways, but those Close calls where you thought the ump was wrong. Well, half the time you were right. The ump was wrong.

Joe Getty (46:45)

Yeah. And it's a lot harder to call balls and strikes than you think it is.

Michael (46:49)

I don't know how anybody does it.

Joe Getty (46:51)

Yeah.

Michael (46:51)

And I certainly don't know how anybody does it watching on tv. I've never understood that. I don't have an eye for it, but I've never stood sitting in the sand a hundred yards away.

Joe Getty (46:59)

Oh, come on.

Michael (47:01)

I just. I've never understood that because I can't tell.

Joe Getty (47:04)

Yeah. As an umpire buddy of mine has put it, there's a reason we don't position the home plate umpire 14 rows back, 100 yards that way. Yeah.

Michael (47:14)

Interesting.

Joe Getty (47:15)

And he also commented, umpires are expected to learn a new strike zone without any visible references, without any training. In the machine that Major League Baseball uses, the measurement has a calibration error and a measurement error, but they hold the umpire to one tenth of an inch for the accuracy of their ball strike decisions.

Michael (47:31)

Yeah, I don't like where it's going, but I guess a lot of baseball purists do, so whatever. Katie, tell us about the bugs that are eating people's eyeballs.

Joe Getty (47:39)

All right. The Mosquito and Vector Control District says that the San Gabriel Valley in California is seeing a surging population of tiny eyeball biting flies. Well, this won't haunt my dreams, they said.

Michael (47:55)

Is this a new fly or has it always been around?

Joe Getty (47:58)

No, it's been around, but last year at this time, guys fly traps for these little guys were catching just in the single digits. This year, the number of these flies caught has been in the hundreds.

Michael (48:12)

Oh, they bite your eyeballs specifically?

Joe Getty (48:15)

Yeah, apparently, they're saying, apparently it's because

Michael (48:17)

of the unusually warm weather from earlier this month.

Joe Getty (48:20)

But the tiny black flies common in

Michael (48:23)

the foothills are so small, they're actually hard to see.

Joe Getty (48:26)

They are known to bite people's eyeballs and necks.

Michael (48:30)

My neck is fine, but eyeball. Does it hurt?

Joe Getty (48:34)

I can't feel very good. Not seasoned and being bitten in the eyeball. Jack, I have no idea. This is a biblical plague. I mean, clearly, it's probably because of all the sodomy.

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Michael (48:48)

Gavin Newsom's gonna have to answer for this. Eyeball eating flies on your watch. Yeah, yeah, I just.

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Well, I think for the grace of

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