1:07:39 Breaking boulders, hard labor. That's how you reprove people. That's how you get them fixed. All right, I'm going to tell you a couple stories, and I'm going to get into all the news that happened to me in just the last week that are very interesting, though anecdotal. You can see it in the statistics and numbers. And I'm going to give the phones out on a specific issue. I wish I could have been there for the first hour. I couldn't. No one did a great job. I heard the end of it. There is a bodega about a quarter mile from where I live that's owned by Indians. And I've run into the grandpa and the grandma and the sons and the daughters, everybody that runs this place. And they just love me in there. And all the time I go in there to buy some ice cream or eggs or whatever, and, or tortilla chips, whatever we're getting, or hot sauce, whatever my wife sends me to get that we've forgotten.
1:08:36 And all of a sudden I always notice, especially if I pay cash, I get more money back than I pay. They go, oh we love you, we love you. And so I've gotten to, I start talking to these guys. And they go, we know they're trying, I can't really do it in an accent, but you know the accent. We know they're trying to destroy Alex, but they'll never destroy Alex. And the people love Alex and the people in India, my family, they love Alex and India loves Alex. And we're gonna defeat the new world order, we love Alex. They were always real quiet. They've owned it a few years. They're always smiling at me and, oh, take something, take something free. We love you. And so now I started talking to these guys and they're huge fans. They listen all the time. So I was in there about a week ago at night and I noticed that
1:09:21 The guy had a bulge right there and I said, oh you're starting to pack and he said yes, yes. You know because there's more crime now and I said well that's good, yes we have to, second amendment, I'm an American citizen now, second amendment. I go that's great, you're proud of you, shake the guy's hand. Then yesterday on the way home I stop at another bodega But I've never asked the guy, I've talked to him a lot over the years. Is he Lebanese? Is he Turkish? I mean, I can't tell, but you know, you can look and talk to him. And they're all packing in the bodega and have long discussions with that guy. Not long, but you know, a few minutes here and there. A lot of discussions. And he says, your show, this is like two days ago, your show starts at 11 a.m. I want to call in. I want to give you my number. Call me. I want to come on.
1:10:13 And I was in a hurry and I said, hey, just call in 11 a.m. And so I'll probably try to go by there today and actually get his number. He's a really articulate, smart guy. Maybe I can get him in studio. His business is like a mile and a half from where I'm sitting. And this, where the studios are, is not in the fanciest part of Austin. That's why we have a lower rent cost rate here. We don't own the building. That's why I located it here. It is truly a low rent cost. And he says, that crime is exploding, they're robbing everyone. And this mayor, he is evil and the last mayor even worse. And you see what they do on Lamar, blocking the roads and attacking the people and it's happening all over the place. And of course he's sitting there packing a Glock on his side. But the point was, is that I'm seeing the immigrants, the ones that own businesses, actually buying into America more than the average person that's been here five generations, 10 generations.
1:11:18 And that's an exciting good thing. But they're also where the rubber meets the road in these businesses that get robbed at gunpoint. And they have to risk their lives just like the police do to be out there on the street. We're a city of 2 million people that went from, what was it, 1,400 police down to like 850? And I talked to an inside police source that when the contract comes up in, I think it's a month and a half from now, April, that up to 10% of the police force is taking early retirement and walking. So we'll have 700 and something police here. And as much as I like to speed, as much as I like to not get pulled over, you don't see police pulling people over. You don't see police responding to most crimes now because they can't. And besides the district attorney,
1:12:07 who is literally a communist put in by Soros, look it up, will not prosecute even people that do mass shootings in downtown Austin. Well, no one died, eight people got shot, but we're going to let you out the next day because you're black. And again, I'm not bashing black people. You think the average black person wants black criminals, think they have a get out of jail free card? Why do you think black crimes exploded? Because young black males know they can do whatever they want. And if the police accidentally kill them like George Floyd, they'll build a national monument to him. So this is all part of the takedown of the infrastructure. It's all part of the takedown of the country. I want to open the phones up for small business owners and victims of crime and to tell us what you've experienced in your area seeing the police cut. Yeah, the police can be out of control. There's some bad ones. If you get an evil government in charge, the police are really bad. The globals are trying to take control of the police right now. That's what this whole defund thing is about.
1:13:09 So I don't support the police in North Korea or communist China or many areas of Mexico. You've ever been shaken down by the Mexican cops, you know what it feels like living in a third world country. So we need to keep the police on a short leash. We need to keep ourselves, control ourselves in this environment on a short leash. That's what self-control is about. And we need to really go after the criminals. And I don't care what color they are, but the criminals have no fear. You see the daytime robberies, the shootouts everywhere, almost every day, even where I live. and nothing's being done about it, and then nobody wants to go to the mall, nobody wants to go out and shop, nobody wants to go out and eat at night, because I don't want to have to carry a gun around and shoot somebody. I'm not going to take my wife and family out to eat where no matter where you live in the town I live in, you're not safe anymore. I mean, it's bad. Everyone I know has had their car robbed or their house broken into or they've been mugged
1:14:09 And let me tell you, I've lived in Austin since I was 16 years old and man, it was so safe, except for a few crime areas where the criminals congregated and the police were all over it. And we're going into something far worse than the crack epidemic in the 80s and the crime wave we saw there. At the very same time, the power structure is trying to take everybody's guns, who can't afford bodyguards like these government bureaucrats and others. And it is a war on the people and it's wrong. And no community is hurt worse by these crimes than the black community, where the crime's out of control and the police slow roll into those communities because if they make a mistake or somebody can make it look like they made a mistake, they're gonna go to prison. So you can't expect people to take the jobs these police officers have and not have the public's backing until the police prove they've done something wrong. Then they don't get our backing because that's not a good police officer. We need them out of the force. But I can tell you in America,
1:15:20 The police and the fire fonders and the EMS first responders are not the problem. The criminals aren't even the source of the problem. The source is white leftist whose religion is empowering crime and empowering societal collapse Because they know good and well they're trying to collapse the system. Even the average leftist is not just some useful idiot now. They know this is a war against civilization and a war against society and they hate America so much they're doing everything they can to destroy it. Someone opened the phones up on the collapsing infrastructure, it's a huge subject, on the exploding crime and how the FBI the last two years in a row took out over a hundred major cities and over a thousand towns
1:16:12 from the crime statistics and then claimed last year crimes down 0.2%. Yeah, and I'm a Martian with a baboon butt and four heads. What are you witnessing? What are you seeing? And where do you think this is going? And all I can say is thank God for the Second Amendment. Because if we didn't have that in the areas where the Second Amendment is strong, the crime is still low, we'd be in a lot more trouble. Toll-free number to join us, 877-789-2539. 877-789-2539. If you're that bodega owner, call in. 877-789-ALEX. 877-789-2539. We'll be right back with tons of news, your calls and more. Monday through Friday from 11am to 3pm Central, it's the Alex Jones Show.