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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

10/25/17 -8AM- Jack goes to a homeless forum

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

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4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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The Voice of the West

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Billboard recently published a list of the 30 best lesbian love songs including one song by the indigo girls

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and 29 other songs by the indigo girls. A children's book author is under fire for writing a story about a black Santa

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a black Santa is like a regular Santa except he doesn't get there until the 27.

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Oh, sorry, a black Santa is like a regular Santa except his packages are bigger.

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So that is Seth Meyers on his show where he's got jokes he doesn't feel he can tell is a white street male

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so he has apparently a lesbian writer and then a black writer do the punchlines for a couple jokes. I like the indigo girls joke.

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That's what 29 other songs by the indigo girls.

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Funny hilarious. Welcome to the program. Glad you're here. What do we got coming up? Do we have anything coming up? Probably not.

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Probably shut her down about 815 today.

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No, I'm saying.

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Close for cleaning or something. Play a lot of Fats Domino songs is what we'll do.

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So I spoke at a homeless forum in my town USA last night that was put together by the chamber of commerce and I have a feeling in fact I know this is true talking to the police chief that it is almost exactly the same conversation that is being had in many many many many many many many many towns and cities

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across America but specifically on the west coast for some reason he said he had attended a police convention in which there were a whole bunch of police chiefs together everybody had the same story that things had gotten worse in the same way people reacting the same way.

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And so wherever you are I think this probably relates to you and what before I get into the specifics of what I said and what other people said it seems pretty clear to me the dynamic on this whole thing is a battle between people who are 60 40 mostly concerned about the homeless versus the citizens or 60 40 mostly concerned about the citizens versus the homeless somewhere in that range.

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Okay, I don't think I don't think it's mostly people that want to you know shoot the homeless right or have the homeless take over the city and the citizens all run out but your emphasis is either on I'm more concerned about homeless people than I am about people that have already got a great life or you know I'm a taxpayer trying to raise my kids that's what I'm mostly concerned about or a business owner trying to you know stay afloat yeah she got those two groups a group of people who are in the city.

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And so the other groups a go and add it against each other but you found that would suggest that you found reasonable no not a lot of reasonable does not at 60 40 a 20 point win for any issue is a is a big enough that you're not going to you're not going to come to much agreement I don't think but I think that's everybody gets portrayed as it being a 90 10 issue or 100 zero issue I think it's more 60 40 but that's still enough that and I don't see I don't I have no idea.

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I don't, I don't, I have no idea what the solution is going to be for this problem, this

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growing problem.

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Some of it has to do with laws that were passed Supreme Court rulings as a police chief

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pointed out.

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There was a Supreme Court ruling.

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