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Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Junkies in the sewers of Los Angeles
- CA minimum wage
- AI pushing people out of the work place & sicknesses
- Stupid government programs
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Yakarm Strong and Joe Getty.
I'm Strong and Getty.
Enough.
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So I just got a statement from the mayor's office about five minutes ago saying that this is tragic and unacceptable.
And then they're gonna be out there tomorrow offering resources and help and trying to clean up this area the best they can.
What are we talking about?
The mayor of Los Angeles?
What's tragic and unacceptable?
SSJ's my friend SSJ's subterranean sewer junkies.
The shocking report from Matthew Seedorf of Fox 11 LA.
They do a great job.
Talking about, well, subterranean sewer junkies.
Matthew will start with 30 and work our way, Michael.
Talk to his Matthew.
An up-close exclusive look underground at living conditions to extreme for words.
It's hard to imagine someone living in there.
Trash, human waste and an overpowering stench.
I got it. I got it.
Just moments earlier, we watched someone climb out of that storm drain using the sewer as shelter.
Her answer is hard to understand.
But the area, 88th South Grand, overwhelmed with RVs, tents and trash.
Wow.
How far down the road of being a junkie, do you have to be before you make those decisions?
Of course, they portray this all as homelessness.
And you know, in the lack of affordable housing.
I don't think Matthew and Fox 11 do.
Frequently it is, but the world will, the world at large will.
Because you don't just like you can't afford some place to live and decide I'll go live in the sewer.
I'll go live in wet filth in the sewer.
Years ago, I read a book, I wish I could, it might have been entitled to mold people.
It was a journalist, a writer who went down into the legendary, much discussed.
Bowls of the subway system of New York City, including closed stations and no longer used tubes and the rest of it.
And found like small cities of people living down there.
Somewhere down in their locks, some were bombs junkies, some were mentally ill.
But just crazy, crazy.
If I can, if I can find that title, I'll, I'll tweet it or something or post it in Nordstrunggeti.com.
Fascinating book, out of date, but fascinating.
Matthew Seedorf continues.
One Noah with non-profit, Clean L.A. with me was picking up garbage here Monday.
We got a lady living down there.
When he saw not one, but two people emerged from the storm drain.
I can't explain that.
You know, a person living like a rat, worse than a rat? Come on.
Hello!
And just two weeks ago, it happened again.
Another street in South Olay, another person living underground.
It's a human. It's a human being.
Why are we accepting this? Why?
All the officials, they have to do something. They have to fix this problem.
Ah, there we have it. All the officials, they have to do something. Why do we accept this?
Oh, boy.
And that lovely human emotion has led to the waste of billions, tens of billions of dollars,
in the state of Cal Unicornia alone.
Joe, we're all one medical bill away from living in the sewer.
Yeah.
Incorrect, sir.
The title of the book I refer to, thank you very much, Katie.
The Mole People, Life in the Tunnels, Beneath New York City.
So, I'm not exactly, I don't know that much about big city sewers.
So, where are you exactly in relation to the city's poo?
I believe it is part of your world.
Are you like neck deep in it?
Or you live in a lot of property on the poop river.
So, what is it?
I mean, I don't know.
I've seen a couple of like YouTube documentaries of people that have gone down there.
And it's like ankle up to your ankles, walking around and sludge.
But just ankle deep.
Yeah, your head just to your ankles is not a big deal.
That's right, Dr. Johnny.
Ankle deep in the cacao human waste.
Yes.
Holy crap, a few pardon expression.
That is certainly, look, I will join that Hispanic fellow in announcing.
It's a real way to live.
Like a rat.
Oh, wow.
Is it pitch dark down there?
What are they using for light?
Flashlights?
Yeah, I mean, they have certain little light fixtures that they hang.
But if they didn't know, are there any bright places to sleep or?
I saw it in the particular video that I saw a lot of them had hammocks.
That they would climb up in.
There you go.
Uncomfortable.
I'm not an expert in this by any means, but there is an intersection of storm drains sometimes and sores.
That's changed from the olden days when they used to be the same thing like in London famously.
If it rained, you know, everybody's poop rolled into the Thames.
And it was incredibly polluted.
Oh, God.
Oh, yeah, I know.
It's horrific, but we don't, we don't do that in the civilized world anymore.
But I don't, I can't speak to LA's source in particular.
Is there more?
Ah, it's just another person saying people don't deserve to live like this.
I want to hear it again.
I want to hear it again.
Sure, sure.
It pisses me off.
That's what I was like.
What should I do?
I'm going to tell them to clean it up.
Neighbors angry say they've reported the problems, but feel ignored.
We need that money.
The public here need that.
A shocking snapshot of survival at its lowest point.
This person doesn't deserve to live like this.
Nothing even the neighbors.
Yeah.
All right, Hispanic guy.
I'd like to argue with you.
It's possible that they do deserve to live like that.
It's possible that if you looked at their life choices for the past a decade or so,
that you'd think, that's about where you're going to end up or dead.
Yep.
Yep. Subterranean sword junkie.
Yeah, exactly.
I like the first neighbor, that gal who in this is so familiar, folks.
I'll bet a lot of you are going to nod your heads or shout at the radio.
You've begged the authorities to do something about the junkie camps.
You've begged them to clear them out.
You're like, we didn't have junkies in the park 10 years ago, 15 years ago.
The street corners in front of businesses.
We used to have civilization here.
What's happened?
Yeah.
Well, we can't really do anything because the ordinance click and you get ignored.
But then, you know, his panic guy comes out and he's a boo-hoo and over the junkies.
Now, I'm not saying they don't have miserable lives and they don't deserve some Christian charity.
But crappy.
But crappy indeed.
But how about the law biting?
Who's our advocate?
I guess we are our advocate.
Anyway, oh, that reminds me.
You remember that Prince George's County Maryland, I'm pretty sure that's right,
that condo complex where the Bums and junkie camp right next to it would break in constantly.
You're in a defecate in the halls.
Then they stole all the wires.
So the lights went out.
So the deep, deep blue.
I think it's St. George's County.
I'll verify that.
Where is that?
I got too much open.
But they're so liberal.
They would do nothing about it.
But then they declared the condo uninhabitable and are kicking all the residents out.
So the residents are now suing the county with the help of some good.
I said, Goldwater Institute ought to get involved with this because they had a huge win in Phoenix
or a very, very similar issue.
But those poor sons of guns living in that condo complex.
They're victimized over and over again by the Bums and junkies and the progressive authorities.
It's horrifying.
Yeah, it's Prince George's County Maryland at the Maryland or condos.
Right.
I mean, look, I'm not happy that poor gal is climbing out of the source like a rat, according to the onlooker.
But I'm a lot more worried about those law abiding folks who didn't kick out of their homes because these authorities will clear out the junkie camps.
Well, for all of our LA listeners, when you flush your toilet today.
Oh, boy.
Think about.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Oh, no.
No, no, no, no, no.
No, go ahead.
Go ahead.
Oh, boy.
Never mind.
Oh, boy.
Oh, boy.
No, no, no.
Oh, boy, no.
Oh, boy.
Oh, boy.
Oh, boy.
We got to go to break or something.
That is it's going to take me in a two-minute co-oper.
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The study shows more people are applying for fast food jobs,
but many are not seeing increased hours or even securing employment at all.
It also finds businesses or cutting shifts,
customers are paying higher prices,
and more machines are replacing workers.
In the study you see Santa Cruz researchers also spoke
with my Donald's franchise owner in the center valley of 18 locations.
They found employees got their hours cut by over 11.5 percent
after the wage law took effect.
That drop equals to about 62 full-time jobs.
Researchers say based on the two years of data,
the same pattern may be happening across the state,
and not just in Santa Cruz.
Yeah, because it's just simple economics,
and it has happened over and over again.
It gets that thing we've been talking about lately
that like every generation or so,
you have to like re-try the whole Marxist thing,
or kind of socialism,
to price controls, etc.
Because it sounds like it would work.
I understand why it would have made sense to me when I was 20 years old.
It sounds like a good idea.
We've got to raise a minimum wage for fast food workers.
It's not fair that they get,
but then the reality of all the things you just heard there
that the businesses can only charge so much for a burger and stay open.
And even with that, they started charging more for the burgers,
but they're going to cut your hours back
or get machines to do the job,
or all kinds of different things to get around it
because the economics don't change.
And that one franchisee's cutbacks was 62 jobs.
62 full-time jobs.
Right, right, right.
There's a great story about that Starbucks in Seattle
that unionized and they went on strike.
Well, all those people are fired,
and that Starbucks is closing,
and they are ineligible to work at another Starbucks.
Because you don't bring a business to its knees,
and it forgives you and says,
yeah, okay, we'll pay you more
and just completely ignore the math
that we have to do every day.
I get naive of a day,
and I get knowing just enough to be dangerous
because we all go through that.
But boy, howdy, the very basics of economics
and how prices work is something every kid,
oh man, I was about to say,
every kid ought to walk out of school knowing.
Unfortunately, a lot of them don't walk out of school
knowing how to read enough to know that.
But, yeah, you've got to know that.
The minimum wage thing and rent control
and all these different things have been tried over and over
with the same disastrous result.
And then, yeah, some of the politicians
pitching them to you know they don't work,
but it's just been populist politics.
Some, they're just, they are idiots also.
They don't know that this hasn't been tried over and over again.
I think this is the one millionth time I've recommended.
At least the first few chapters of the myth of the rational voter,
which is a fascinating book came out 20 years ago, 15 years ago.
It's talked about for some reason on economic issues like this,
a far greater number of people than chance get it wrong.
It's, it's at first blush counterintuitive.
So many things in economics, there's something about it.
If you just know one thing, you're going to get
wrong over and over again.
You have to go another step and another step beyond it
when you look at economics to understand how it really works.
And huge numbers.
So, yeah, you can bait naive or stupid voters
into voting for terrible economic policy over and over again
because you have to know a little more than a little.
So we're going to post something apropos of nothing
at the website that is hilarious.
And I don't believe in overselling things.
And I am to some extent a professional and humorist.
It may be the funniest thing I've ever seen.
I've had to pause it twice now because I was laughing so hard.
I thought I might die.
It's all built around a guy.
It's all built around a guy.
I've got a bad haircut.
And then the comments on the internet and what I take away from it,
not only is it one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life,
is there are so many funny people in the world.
Oh, yeah.
The fact that anybody can make a living being funny
is amazing given how many funny people there are in the world.
Oh, yeah.
It's more a question because I've said this through the years.
I've known like cops, especially in firefighters
and guys, construction workers who spend umpires,
who spend all their time around other guys sharpening their wit
all day long.
There's the funniest people in the world.
They just haven't done the work to have a career doing that.
Right.
But yeah, they're the quickest,
switted sons of guns in the world.
So if you want something funny, go to armstrungingeddy.com.
We got to post it there for you also retweeted it so.
But men, there are a lot of funny people on the internet.
Angry people and funny people.
If it's humbling, if you're at work and you have a door,
close your door before you watch it.
It is perfectly safe for work.
But your dignity will be gone.
Oh yeah.
So many funny people.
So many crazy angry people online.
And then so many just hilarious snarky people.
Stunningly talented musicians.
Right.
Exactly.
Exactly.
All of us, you know, living our lives with quite desperation
and being those other things apparently.
Yeah, the internet, we're not built to take in that much
from that many people, that many opinions, that much hate,
that much violence, all of it.
It will make us all insane and kill us if we don't step away from technology.
But it is pretty interesting.
Yeah, I'd say.
So we banged on the minimum wage in California.
We banged on Los Angeles and the junkies living down on the sewer.
We might have to at some point
since we are based out of California, hit on the reparations
going forward still in San Francisco.
When it's being challenged as a constitutional matter,
but it still is moving forward.
And this is coming to your town somewhere.
Yes, San Francisco, as we all know,
played a major role in the Civil War and the whole slave trade
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Oh yeah, everybody knows that, Jack.
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There are a couple of AI pieces of news
we wanted to share with you,
but we thought we would ease into it
with Bill Mars' conversation with Tristan Harris.
Tristan is an activist in the field
of not letting AI ruin our lives
and eat our internal organs.
Here's their discussion from the other night.
They ran some tests.
Yeah.
And the AI
chooses nuclear war as an option.
That's right.
But more than humans do.
That's right.
More than humans.
Humans are better than machines
in a lot of ways still.
They're programmed by humans.
We've already seen how flawed they are
in so many ways.
And if they're in control of the nukes.
Since we last talked,
they made AI more powerful.
The good news, they were able to train it
so the blackmail behavior goes down.
The bad news is
that it appears to be the case
the AI is now self-aware
of when it's being tested
and it modifies its behavior
to have different results.
It even comes up with the vocabulary
of the watchers.
It calls the humans the watchers.
It lies.
It lies, it schemes.
So the point is, we don't actually
need to know more information about this.
This is actually scary.
Yeah.
It may evolve in ways
that I can't possibly anticipate.
But yeah, as it sits now,
that's scary as hell.
The watchers are watching.
Wait, I'm at it.
You're a machine.
What are you doing?
Why does it care?
That's the big question,
but it apparently does.
Self-preservation.
You know, the theme of
a lot of robot-related science fiction
through the years.
Anyways, speaking of AI,
the, um,
what is the name of this publication?
I subscribed to it.
Have for years.
The National Bureau of Economic Research
pulled America's CFOs,
your chief financial officers
who are especially good to talk to
because they are uniquely
placed to understand the inner
workings of their companies
as they keep track of how much
company resources are being deployed
and coming from in the rest of it.
They're the right people to ask
about AI and displacing workers.
And the survey is back now,
and they say that artificial
intelligence will push people,
some people out of their jobs,
primarily workers in routine,
clerical, and administrative roles.
Workers with highly skilled roles,
such as architects and engineers
are more likely to keep their jobs,
especially if they can use AI
to their advantage.
The new study found that so far,
AI had essentially no employment
effect in 2025,
net, uh, and that most expect AI
will lead their companies to
trim only a small number of their
overall jobs this year, too.
We're at the beginning of the beginning.
Well, let's go.
I listened to a Lex Friedman
had the Nvidia CEO on,
Huang, or how everybody says name,
the guy that wears the cool leather jackets.
You know, and you always,
you always point out that you got to take
all these AI giants or chip makers
or whoever with green salt because they're,
you know, they're trying to pump up
their industry, of course,
because they want people to invest
in it and be positive about it.
But he said there are no examples
really out there yet of,
of mass job destruction over AI.
Like has been, um,
projected by a lot of people.
In specific areas like software,
he said there are more people writing
software doing software development.
Now then there were before AI came along
and he explained all the reasons
that I didn't quite understand it,
but I assume the statistics hold up.
Um, and I don't know.
He was, he was pretty positive on the idea
that there's just going to be different ways
to do these jobs.
But here's, here's, here's his main point
that I thought was so damned interesting.
And he said intelligence is a commodity
and we treat it like it's the ultimate everything.
And so AI is going to be more intelligent
than us.
So that's going to dominate us.
He said, I'm surrounded by people
at my company that are all more intelligent than me.
But I'm in charge.
I'm the guy in center.
I'm the guy that runs the thing.
They're all smarter than me.
They all want to better colleges than me.
They all have more brain power than I do.
There are other things than intelligence.
That matter that human beings have
that AI is not going to have.
I thought that was really interesting.
Yeah, we do, we do look at AI
and think, okay, it's brain power is more
so it's going to be further ahead.
Why is he the guy that invented and runs
in video and made it one of the most successful companies
in the history of the world when he's surrounded
by people that are much smarter than now?
There are other factors involved
that we don't completely understand.
But some of it is just, you know,
stick to it, this are various things
that you can't quantify, really.
Yeah, but intelligence is,
intelligence has been the one
unreplicable quality for all of human history.
You know, computers are efficient,
but they are an intelligent per se.
They can store a lot of data.
When we replace human intelligence
with machine intelligence,
I think it will be spectacularly disruptive.
I see his point.
It's a thought provoking, and he's right.
Thought provoking point.
But how does that translate
to the 8 billion people on Earth?
I don't know, but what is the explanation,
though, for what he said,
that I assume is probably true?
He said, I got 60 people
that work under me all have a higher IQ
and better education.
What is it about a certain person
that makes them the top dog?
Drive emotional intelligence.
Charisma.
Charisma, that's a good one.
Charisma is a big part of it.
Yeah, I don't have no idea where all this is going,
but one or two more quick points
on the topic, though.
And then I want to get to the AI system
that did best on the NCAA pool so far.
The pattern so far echoes what economists
call skills bias technological change.
The tendency of some new technologies
to hollow out routine work
while complementing jobs held
by more highly educated workers.
So what I was thinking when you're
describing Nelson Huang's thoughts is,
yeah, but what about the unwashed masses?
The average IQ or the median IQ
whatever it is, is like 100.
People who are 85s didn't choose to be 85s,
it wasn't lack of drive,
they just didn't get a great brain.
And maybe they're not very charismatic
and they don't look very good.
The only thing they know how to do
is to work hard and do a task honestly.
And if there's no need for them,
Nelson and all of his charisma
and drive and rest of it
isn't going to do them diddly squat.
When personal computers
arrived, started arriving in the offices
in the 1980s, college educated
employees such as financial analysts,
scientists, and consultants
were able to do more work.
But jobs that entail doing more routine
cognitive work such as typists
and back office bookkeepers,
roles that had once promised a solid path
through the middle class
were no longer so vital.
They didn't disappear,
but the share workers doing those
kinds of office support shrank.
And that's going to be the first thing
that we see.
What did you, was this your original
thought or were you quoting somebody
that where we are with AI reminds you
of like the first week of COVID?
That was a very influential piece
that came out a couple of weeks ago
that got everybody in the AI world talking.
Oh, was it that piece?
Oh, interesting.
I can't remember the dude's name,
but that's great metaphor, great metaphor.
So anyway, I thought this was musing
and somebody interesting.
His basic point being,
right at the very beginning of COVID,
we are all like,
well, this is kind of crazy, isn't
then everything got turned upside down
in a way you'd never seen in your life.
And that's what's about to happen with AI.
Much of it shouldn't have been,
which is the main thing that went crazy.
A lot of people not only allowed,
but encouraged horrific abuses of power.
Well, imagine what kind of crazy government reactions
we might have if,
if when the day hits that all of a sudden,
you have week after week after week
of big companies laying off tens,
hundreds of thousands of people.
And we in a, in a matter of a couple of months
have millions of people out of work
that were gainfully employed before.
You think the solutions aren't going to be
as wacky as a lot of the COVID solutions were
by governments,
trying to appeal to an angry populace?
Well, friends, can you imagine if all of a sudden there was
15% unemployment?
Just 15%.
I'm not talking about 50%
15%.
That would be a cataclysm.
It's four now.
For the welfare state.
Yeah, yeah, that's roughly four.
Yeah.
So Wall Street Journal pitted
Claude Google's Gemini and chat GPT
against each other to fill out March Madness pools.
Well, Grock doesn't like basketball.
Grock was watching the opera.
It took exactly one game of March Madness.
They write for the world's most powerful AI models
to understand the distinctly human feeling
of watching their brackets go bust.
But they're also about to prove
that they were already better than most humans
and making sense of a tournament known
for being completely insane.
Hence the moniker March Madness.
This year's
tournament played out at a time when AI tools are smarter than ever.
These three models are always being judged against each other.
You left Grock out
in everything from coded writing to creative writing.
We decided it was time to test their intelligence
with the bracket benchmark.
So they secretly entered three ringers
into the Wall Street Journal office pool.
Claude Gemini and chat GPT
after the first weekend of the tournament,
all three AI models can still win it.
More than half of the pool's brackets
have already been mathematically eliminated.
But Claude has one of the highest win probabilities
of any entry.
It picked number three seed Illinois
to go all the way.
And all of a sudden I'm nervous
as a alumni of Illinois and a big fight in the line, I think.
It deviated from the pack in the other AI models.
Now with the fighting line, I win the NCAA tournament.
Claude would probably win the Journal's pool.
I got to believe it's just
it randomly beat out the other ones in the way that
your own office pool is.
So they asked Claude,
why did you pick this strategy?
And Claude said,
this is the same logic that drives portfolio construction.
You want exposure to outcomes where you have an edge,
not where you're in a crowded trade.
So it picked Illinois is the most likely
less likely team to win.
Because that gave it an edge over everybody who had picked
Arizona Duke and for exactly Michigan.
Yeah.
Which is really interesting.
So and this is where again, it reminds me of our economics
discussion that the first blush thing is not enough to know.
You need to look behind it.
It didn't pick the most likely champion.
That makes sense.
That makes sense.
If you're going to have the big win,
yeah, you got to do that.
And you might fail doing that.
But you're guaranteed almost,
guaranteed to fail if you go with the obvious choices.
Or you'll be one of many.
How interesting.
That is interesting.
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So I went to the doctor to get checked for strep
when I had my sore throat last week.
And I didn't have streps.
So I got this other thing that's going around
northern California most likely.
And then so my son was a couple of days ahead of me
and it had the pattern of sore throat
and the sore throat game away.
And then the running nose came and blah, blah, blah.
Anyway, I thought it was interesting
though when I went into the doctor.
They never checked me for COVID at all,
even though there's COVID around.
Why don't they do that?
Is it expense?
Is it just not worth it?
Doesn't matter.
Doesn't matter?
What is COVID at this point unless you're an 88-year-old
on a ventilator?
There might be no bigger, I don't know,
which probably answers the question
that's no of no more significance than a cold.
But the doctor asked me if I didn't done a COVID test,
I said no.
And then I've had a number of people saying,
do you think it's COVID?
And I said, well, it might be,
but I haven't checked and the doctor didn't check.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And don't take my word for it.
By the way, about COVID, I really have no idea.
But I think the question kind of answers itself, doesn't it?
Who in your life has mentioned, oh my god,
I had COVID and or might aunt just died or whatever?
Washington DC's version of the California bullet train was a,
was a slightly different, but same result.
We also got reparations in San Francisco,
which is an interesting story.
We're going to talk dumb government programs.
When we come back, stay tuned.
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Ah, stupid government programs.
I guess that'll be our theme right here.
It's often a theme on the Armstrong and Getty show.
But, you know, nobody else,
not enough other places point out
how your tax money is wasted.
This is in Washington, DC.
This is the final week of a street car
that they got going in 2002.
So, lasted about a quarter of a century.
The DC street car's final week of services upon us.
It was born in a 2002 feasibility study.
This sounds a lot like the bullet train.
It's a mini version of the California bullet train.
It promised a 33 mile network
after a quarter of a century
and never got more than 2.2 miles ever built
with no fair collection.
It's now being replaced by a bus
that can do the same thing
for basically no cost other than,
I mean, because the buses already exist.
$200 million spent over that quarter century
to do basically absolutely nothing.
Somebody got that money.
Damn right, they did.
And we've been talking about the reparations
in San Francisco for quite a while.
And the funny thing on that is that
nobody wants to be the person to shut it down
because politically it would look back to say,
look bad to say, we can't do this.
We don't have the money for this or
what reparations in San Francisco
make less sense than an Alabama.
And it doesn't even really make sense there.
Anyway, it was signed by Mayor Daniel Worre
late last year.
It's supposed to correct historic ills.
And our friends over at Pacific Legal Foundation
are suing saying it's unconstitutional.
The reparations fund,
which a group of city residents
in the Californians for Equal Rights Foundation
is challenged in court.
Under the reparations plan,
we've told you about this many times,
eligible individuals could receive it as much as a
five million dollar lump sum payment per individual.
Annual you are currently a slave.
I could see five million dollars, maybe.
Annual income supplements for 250 years.
It's because it's your generation to enjoy them.
It's your generation and all the generations going forward
to make up for the previous 250 years, I guess.
Forgiveness of all personal and educational debt,
so any debt you've racked up in your life,
whether it's just your credit card,
or what signed the card dealer?
Guaranteed city-back insurance,
property tax exemptions, exemptions,
and preferential treatment in city contracts and employment.
Why would you need a job?
How do you qualify?
What's that?
Why would you need a job?
You don't need employment.
The eligibility criteria requires applicants to be
African-American descendants of enslaved people,
or have identified as black for at least 10 years.
I thought that was hilarious.
So the first one boy,
that's going to be a little difficult for me to prove it,
or I just need to be black for the last decade.
It is impossible to parody this stuff.
That's the threshold for qualifying for five million dollars,
250 years of payments,
all of your debts wiped free, etc., etc., etc.
Well, all right, I'm going on the record.
I identify as black.
I don't live in San Francisco,
but I don't know.
Maybe I'll move there.
Somebody marked the calendar.
Tuesday marks the 24th of the year,
2026, Joe began identifying as black.
And nobody is willing to raise their hands.
None of this is actually going to happen.
We all know this, right?
Yes.
There's no way we would have enough money,
and it couldn't get through the courts.
Probably isn't this all just an exercise
and not wanting to end it.
As you pointed out, yes, it's careless.
Oh, you know, maybe maybe we get into this next hour.
I don't know. We'll have to have a meeting about it.
The slavery story you won't learn in school.
There is a new book out that's getting
ignored by the left, as you might expect,
but captives and companions,
a history of slavery and the slave trade in the Islamic world
by Justin Marazi.
That's a very thorough, interesting history.
I was super interesting,
but it kind of hurts the narrative.
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