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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

iHeartPodcasts

Daily News, Society & Culture, News

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Hour Four of A&G features the unexpected comments from Sex Pistol John Lydon regarding the homeless in Venice Beach. Plus, WaPo reporter Chris Rowland joins the show to talk about pills with sensors--will they improve our health? Marshall has headlines and there's The Petering Out & Final Thoughts.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm looking at the CBS early show and people running a race are taking an edible waterpods.

0:26.0

I'm looking at the CBS early show and people running a race are taking an edible waterpods.

0:50.0

I'm moving into the upper intestine.

1:18.0

We're talking during the news about free government childcare pre-school but it's child care.

1:28.0

They're portraying it as an education thing but it's a child care thing.

1:32.0

It's a restructuring of society thing and that people eliminate poverty.

1:36.0

That people don't take care of their kids at all.

1:40.0

Don't just marry till you're at least 18. Don't have a kid out of wedlock. Finish high school. There. You're not poor.

1:48.0

I don't understand why that isn't being preached every single day, every single school by every single politician but no one's still going for big giant expensive government program.

1:56.0

Somebody texted what about people that don't read to their kids don't teach them the stuff they need to know.

2:02.0

The government will do it. We just decide that the government does that and take another responsibility away from parents and hand it to the government.

2:12.0

Just assume that's the will you will structure society. Ask a lot of teachers these days. They're social workers. They're mom, they're dad. They just...

2:20.0

Because we've decided people don't have the rates of their children. There's no social pressure to do so so they don't.

2:27.0

Anyway, one of my favorite characters from music history is John Liden, aka Johnny Rotten from the Sex Pistols. His autobiography is fascinating.

2:38.0

It's about growing up very, very poor. Speaking of poverty as we were. Sores in London. Sores, sexual abuse.

2:47.0

I mean dirt poor, no food in the pantry. Irish immigrants in London in the... I guess the middle of the 20th century. But he lives in LA now.

3:00.0

And he says... and he's got a wife. He lives near Venice Beach. If you're familiar with that area.

3:08.0

But his home has been vandalized repeatedly. And his wife is struggling to cope with the surge of, quote, vagrants in the area. And I quote, they've moved in unmasse. They're all young. They're like 24.

3:23.0

He said they're aggressive. And because there's an awful lot of them together, they're ganging.

3:30.0

He admitted he was even forced to call the police after these homeless vagrants set up camp in front of his residence.

3:38.0

They came over the gate and put their tent inside right in front of the front door. It's like the audacity.

3:45.0

He says his wife, who God bless her, is suffering from Alzheimer's, can't cope.

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