WEBVTT - Stop Saying Hoof! 0:00:05.809 --> 0:00:09.650 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the 0:00:09.690 --> 0:00:11.650 George Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:11.730 --> 0:00:16.020 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now, 0:00:16.380 --> 0:00:22.540 here's Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:28.460 --> 0:00:32.340 Kraft Mac and Cheese this week introduced Chili Crisp and Cinnamon. 0:00:33.170 --> 0:00:34.230 Flavored versions? 0:00:34.970 --> 0:00:37.730 As in, sorry kids, all we have left is chili 0:00:37.770 --> 0:00:39.349 crisp and cinnamon flavored. 0:00:41.620 --> 0:00:42.199 Yeah. 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:45.520 Pretty sure my kids do like the original mac and 0:00:45.540 --> 0:00:49.340 cheese flavor. Chili crisp or cinnamon? Or is that and cinnamon? 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:51.380 Is that two different flavors. 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:56.200 Or is it mixed together? Cinnamon macaroni and cheese. That 0:00:56.220 --> 0:00:59.270 sounds terrible, but... I'm not sure I'm digging that. 0:01:00.410 --> 0:01:00.690 Katie? Katie? 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:04.800 Do you think that these companies are releasing flavors like 0:01:04.860 --> 0:01:07.000 this because they know people are going to have reactions 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:10.970 like we are, and they're going to buy them and do, like, 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:14.570 a taste test online, and it's, like, free publicity for 0:01:14.590 --> 0:01:15.750 the company kind of thing? 0:01:15.850 --> 0:01:18.850 My immediate reaction was, oh, yeah, mac and cheese. 0:01:18.930 --> 0:01:20.750 We love that. Maybe I'll make some of that, the 0:01:20.790 --> 0:01:21.510 original flavor. 0:01:22.090 --> 0:01:26.270 The chili crisp sounds good. I really like Kraft macaroni 0:01:26.310 --> 0:01:28.670 and cheese. It's so cheap. Who knows what's in it? 0:01:29.230 --> 0:01:29.310 Oh. 0:01:31.050 --> 0:01:34.230 I don't know if any, like a cow, came within 0:01:34.250 --> 0:01:38.209 a million miles of the cheese, but I like the 0:01:38.250 --> 0:01:39.929 flavor of it. Man, you put some ketchup in there? 0:01:40.030 --> 0:01:41.270 That's some good eating, aren't there? 0:01:41.569 --> 0:01:44.360 As I've said in years past, I lived downwind of 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:48.600 the giant craft plant in Champaign, Illinois, and it didn't 0:01:48.700 --> 0:01:52.500 smell like cheese, I'll tell you that. Good Lord. 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:59.550 Speaking of restaurants, Outback Steakhouse is filing for bankruptcy. citing 0:01:59.690 --> 0:02:03.360 labor costs in California. It's too expensive to keep the 0:02:03.420 --> 0:02:06.419 doors open with having a higher employees in California. 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:07.160 Yeah. 0:02:07.180 --> 0:02:08.980 With the artificially high wages. Yes. 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:12.980 It also said, uh, I wanted to get the wording right. 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:19.130 I kind of liked it. Uh, dwindling customers. That's a problem. Also, 0:02:19.630 --> 0:02:20.429 now that's an issue. 0:02:22.550 --> 0:02:26.310 People, people don't like our food, but the labor costs also, 0:02:26.590 --> 0:02:30.350 let's not forget that. Um, Which brings me to what 0:02:30.370 --> 0:02:34.160 Ted Cruz said. I will tell you about Diogenes coming up. 0:02:34.210 --> 0:02:38.560 It's another Greek philosopher Thursday on the Armstrong and Getty 0:02:38.580 --> 0:02:40.679 show where we go back to an ancient Greek philosopher 0:02:40.740 --> 0:02:42.640 and we give a little bit of a bio on it. No, 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:47.220 I came across this Diogenes guy who invented... He was 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:50.299 the original cynic and the term cynicism, which is a 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:53.070 completely different word than the way we use it now, but... 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:56.810 It's pretty interesting, but his wife, holy crap, I learned 0:02:56.820 --> 0:02:58.590 about it. Here's the little tease. 0:02:58.810 --> 0:02:59.570 He lived in a barrel. 0:02:59.870 --> 0:03:03.010 He lived in a barrel, and he defecated and did 0:03:03.050 --> 0:03:03.980 other things in public. 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:04.780 Oh, my. 0:03:05.540 --> 0:03:07.299 You wouldn't think you could invent a philosophy that would 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:09.750 stick around for several thousand years with that lifestyle. 0:03:09.990 --> 0:03:12.889 Did other things in public. I do other things in public. 0:03:12.990 --> 0:03:13.250 All right. 0:03:13.290 --> 0:03:15.390 He masturbated in public. He made me say the word. 0:03:15.790 --> 0:03:17.030 Yes. Yes. 0:03:17.610 --> 0:03:21.370 The time for you. See how you're mumbling half truths. 0:03:21.970 --> 0:03:25.110 You know, you saw the midterms, right? It's time for 0:03:25.169 --> 0:03:27.769 hard truths. That's what I say. I blame others. 0:03:28.610 --> 0:03:32.790 So I got to believe a lot of. Big time 0:03:32.830 --> 0:03:35.290 politicians who are giving speeches and putting out long posts, 0:03:35.340 --> 0:03:38.540 it's because they're angling to run for president or at 0:03:38.580 --> 0:03:46.560 least sniffing around. DeSantis, governor of Florida. Governor of Florida 0:03:46.780 --> 0:03:51.100 didn't lose a single election. statewide race from republicans to 0:03:51.150 --> 0:03:55.830 democrats texas lost all of them i mean that's quite 0:03:55.850 --> 0:03:59.250 a difference between two red states one state lost every 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.380 single statewide race to democrats ted cruz is the only 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:05.100 remaining republican uh because he wasn't up for re-election he 0:04:05.140 --> 0:04:07.260 might have lost two whereas in florida they hung on 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:10.110 to all of them yeah That's quite the difference. But anyway, 0:04:10.350 --> 0:04:12.140 Ron DeSantis' big speech, we'll play some of it a 0:04:12.140 --> 0:04:15.460 little bit later. He gave his reasons, everything like that. 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:17.660 We talked about J.D. Vance last hour, and we'll be 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:18.979 talking about that more later. 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:19.679 He's angling. 0:04:20.020 --> 0:04:23.290 And I assume this post from Ted Cruz yesterday, and 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:27.830 he did a big thing on his podcast. Everybody says 0:04:27.870 --> 0:04:29.270 he's looking at running for president, too. 0:04:29.650 --> 0:04:30.130 He's angling. 0:04:30.170 --> 0:04:34.920 But I thought this was interesting information. He's talking about 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:38.260 why voters are so unhappy and how bad the economy is. 0:04:38.300 --> 0:04:41.380 And some of these stats are amazing. I'm just reading 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:44.540 from Ted Cruz's. I think it's just from his podcast 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.620 yesterday and transcribed. Here are some stats that are a 0:04:47.670 --> 0:04:49.070 lot more real and personal. 0:04:49.630 --> 0:04:50.210 Spam. 0:04:50.750 --> 0:04:52.770 Hormel's processed meat substitute. 0:04:52.790 --> 0:04:55.830 I don't know if I've ever actually had spam. It's 0:04:55.870 --> 0:05:00.650 not a meat substitute. What is it? It's spam. Have 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:02.400 you eaten spam? I'm not sure if I have or not. 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:03.140 Oh, yeah. 0:05:03.220 --> 0:05:03.700 Absolutely. 0:05:03.820 --> 0:05:03.980 Yeah. 0:05:06.580 --> 0:05:10.960 Spam, Hormel's processed meat substitute, broke record sales, selling 113 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:14.330 million cans last year. That's nearly as much spam as 0:05:14.370 --> 0:05:16.529 was sold during the entirety of World War. 0:05:19.670 --> 0:05:20.010 II. 0:05:21.330 --> 0:05:22.250 The spam index. 0:05:23.220 --> 0:05:26.040 Well, that's suggesting that people are eating more spam because 0:05:26.100 --> 0:05:28.040 regular meat is so expensive, which certainly might be. 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:32.099 Regular meat is just insanely expensive. Jack, classic spam is 0:05:32.140 --> 0:05:35.520 a canned, precooked meat product made from just six core ingredients. 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:39.380 Number one, pork with ham, primarily chopped pork shoulder mixed 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:40.880 with ham cut from the hind leg. 0:05:41.140 --> 0:05:41.279 Hoof. 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:48.370 Salt. What? Stop saying hoof. Salt, water, potato starch included 0:05:48.410 --> 0:05:51.970 to bind the ingredients and absorb excess juices during cooking, sugar, 0:05:52.150 --> 0:05:56.210 and sodium nitrate, a food preservative that keeps the meat 0:05:56.250 --> 0:05:59.570 from spoiling and gives it a pink color. Okay. What 0:05:59.589 --> 0:06:00.430 was that first thing? 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:01.560 Pork. 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:06.640 But from where? With ham. Shoulder and the hind leg, 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:09.940 the ham. Both the shoulder and the ham. Okay, gotcha. 0:06:10.820 --> 0:06:13.950 Anyway, I guess the point is because hamburger and steak 0:06:13.970 --> 0:06:15.430 and all that sort of stuff is so expensive, more 0:06:15.470 --> 0:06:17.190 people are eating spam. I don't want to get hung 0:06:17.310 --> 0:06:18.590 up on this. I didn't mean to do a deep 0:06:18.610 --> 0:06:21.150 dive like it's Diogenes on spam. 0:06:21.490 --> 0:06:24.010 I've found it fascinating. 0:06:24.010 --> 0:06:27.440 29% of Americans have used buy now, pay later for 0:06:27.500 --> 0:06:31.670 groceries this year. That's double from two years ago. Oh, 0:06:31.750 --> 0:06:33.670 that's no good. Double the number. 0:06:34.250 --> 0:06:37.060 Almost a third of people doing buy now, pay later 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:40.360 for groceries. I'm going to do a payment plan for 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:46.160 today's grocery run. It's a three-year payment plan. Come on. 0:06:46.550 --> 0:06:51.170 In August, banks repossessed 42% more homes than they did 0:06:51.230 --> 0:06:54.970 last year. So this most recent month they got numbers 0:06:55.250 --> 0:06:57.849 for 42% more homes repossessed than a year ago. 0:06:58.310 --> 0:07:01.390 Part of that is skyrocketing interest rates for people who 0:07:01.450 --> 0:07:07.900 took variable rate. Is that the term? Variable rate mortgages? 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:10.540 It's that term. Six years ago. Yeah. 0:07:10.700 --> 0:07:15.180 In 2024, car repossessions topped 2.3 million. That's above the 0:07:15.180 --> 0:07:18.280 2009 peak in the middle of the great financial crisis. 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:20.540 That's something. 0:07:21.540 --> 0:07:26.810 In 2025, 6% of 401k holders took hardship withdrawals paying 0:07:26.850 --> 0:07:30.030 the penalties. That is a record and triple the normal number. 0:07:30.610 --> 0:07:31.790 Wow. 0:07:31.790 --> 0:07:33.790 6% of people took their money out of their 401k. 0:07:35.190 --> 0:07:38.500 I do have some questions about this, but I'll finish 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:41.660 this first from Ted Cruz. Still bearded Ted Cruz. 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:42.720 Good. 0:07:42.900 --> 0:07:46.250 Still heavier than when he ran last time by a lot. 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:50.050 He's an older man. Here's one that's really stunning, says 0:07:50.090 --> 0:07:54.750 Ted Cruz. Americans made more than 75 million paid plasma 0:07:54.790 --> 0:07:59.410 donations in 2026. That's another record. That means 200,000 Americans 0:07:59.530 --> 0:08:01.690 every single day with a needle in their arm to 0:08:01.730 --> 0:08:07.610 pay for groceries. Now that's Ted Cruz putting the worst 0:08:08.130 --> 0:08:14.580 spin on already troubling numbers, uh, I don't know. 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:18.940 It's anecdotal. Just looking around, are people doing buy now, 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.910 pay later on their groceries, getting their car repossessed, or 0:08:22.190 --> 0:08:25.850 donating plasma to maintain a lifestyle that we all should 0:08:25.890 --> 0:08:30.330 cut back on? Because restaurants and airports are still packed, 0:08:30.390 --> 0:08:34.210 and concerts and ball games, and people have iPhones. Consumer 0:08:34.230 --> 0:08:38.490 spending is up above the rate of inflation significantly. Yeah. 0:08:38.610 --> 0:08:41.939 Number one, a little political analysis. First of all, While J.D. 0:08:42.020 --> 0:08:46.920 Vance is doubling down on the Jews on the mind crowd, 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:52.850 Ted appears to be thinking, all right, the blue collar 0:08:52.890 --> 0:08:55.650 coalition that came together for Trump, the working class folks 0:08:55.670 --> 0:08:58.890 who just care about kitchen table issues. That's my people. 0:08:58.990 --> 0:09:03.130 I'm going hard at them right now. Declaring his lane, 0:09:04.309 --> 0:09:07.170 the Budweiser vote. I just made that up and it's 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:09.660 not very good. So, yeah, interesting. 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.020 So I read this from Neil Ferguson mentioned it. 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:12.660 Yes. 0:09:12.860 --> 0:09:17.450 Do you think that lots of people, the downturn has 0:09:17.470 --> 0:09:18.610 caused them to go out and sell. 0:09:18.470 --> 0:09:21.950 Plasma to pay for their spam? Yes, clearly. The numbers 0:09:22.010 --> 0:09:22.870 are right there. 0:09:23.170 --> 0:09:25.350 How much do I get? And is it per gallon 0:09:25.390 --> 0:09:25.849 per liter? 0:09:27.820 --> 0:09:30.540 Gosh, I don't know. I've never nobody would want my plasma, 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:32.980 so I've never donated it. If you know. 0:09:32.910 --> 0:09:36.580 Anything about donating plasma, text, because I find that pretty interesting. 0:09:36.620 --> 0:09:38.240 How much do they pay you? How often can you 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:43.380 do it? Text line 415-295-KFTC. As long as you can 0:09:43.420 --> 0:09:45.860 keep walking in, they'll take your plasma. You know, you 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:47.619 pass out and crack your head. It's probably time to 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:49.420 take a break. I'm feeling a little weak from yesterday, 0:09:49.460 --> 0:09:50.939 but I want to buy these concert tickets. 0:09:51.420 --> 0:09:54.079 All right, exactly. So I mentioned this very briefly at 0:09:54.100 --> 0:09:56.100 the end of yesterday's show, and I'm not sure exactly 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:58.420 what it means, but Neil Ferguson was one of many 0:09:58.500 --> 0:10:02.440 folks from the free press the great scottish uh historian 0:10:02.820 --> 0:10:04.739 taking shots at what the election meant and what it 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:07.040 didn't mean and that sort of thing um and the 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:11.780 most interesting part of his screed to me was he 0:10:11.820 --> 0:10:13.780 was saying the economy is not nearly as bad as 0:10:13.830 --> 0:10:18.300 people seem to think In September of this year, CPI 0:10:18.340 --> 0:10:24.130 inflation was 3.72%, and the unemployment rate was 4.2%. Added together, 0:10:24.170 --> 0:10:27.550 that gives you a misery index, a term that was 0:10:27.610 --> 0:10:32.770 coined years and years ago, of 7.94%. And compare that 0:10:32.809 --> 0:10:34.650 with the worst month since he was born in 1964, 0:10:34.630 --> 0:10:36.650 May of 1980, 22 on the misery index. 22 inflation 0:10:36.670 --> 0:10:45.770 plus unemployment index. Only a third of the months since 0:10:45.850 --> 0:10:48.950 my birth, he writes, were better than this September. That 0:10:48.990 --> 0:10:51.990 is hardly a disaster that merits a political that he 0:10:52.050 --> 0:10:53.890 uses a French word I've never seen in my life. 0:10:54.250 --> 0:11:01.730 And yet here we are. So to your point. By 0:11:01.890 --> 0:11:09.450 objective measures. Is the economy really just not great, but 0:11:09.530 --> 0:11:13.270 people are so addicted to a certain lavish lifestyle that 0:11:13.870 --> 0:11:18.530 That they're spending themselves into foreclosures and repossessions and spam 0:11:18.710 --> 0:11:24.250 purchases and plasma donations. Isn't the obvious course of action 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:26.900 to just live a much simpler and down-to-earth lifestyle? 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:30.540 I don't know exactly. I don't know that anybody knows 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:31.220 for certain. 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:35.079 And look, those of you out there who are picking 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:37.420 up your keyboard, it's probably just sitting there. You don't 0:11:37.460 --> 0:11:39.550 need to pick it up. You've got pen in hand 0:11:39.610 --> 0:11:43.209 writing us a blistering email. I scrimp and I save. Yeah, 0:11:43.250 --> 0:11:45.210 we know you do. You are out there. 0:11:45.230 --> 0:11:47.650 A lot of people don't, though. Come on, go to Starbucks. 0:11:47.970 --> 0:11:49.790 We're not indicting you. 0:11:49.870 --> 0:11:51.510 Get in the drive through at Starbucks. 0:11:51.850 --> 0:11:54.100 Everybody's in line for something you don't need to buy 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:57.760 at all. All day long, there's a line at every 0:11:57.780 --> 0:11:59.800 Starbucks and there's one on every block in every town 0:11:59.820 --> 0:12:00.300 in America. 0:12:00.580 --> 0:12:02.340 People are in line to buy things they don't need 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:03.660 to buy at all. 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:07.260 Right for a ridiculous price as we used to say 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:09.050 back in the day on the show if we're not 0:12:09.210 --> 0:12:12.290 talking about you we're not talking about you. 0:12:12.210 --> 0:12:13.929 We are talking about a lot of you though a 0:12:13.990 --> 0:12:15.349 lot of you are liars. 0:12:15.510 --> 0:12:18.140 Oh no no target our audience i won't have it 0:12:18.340 --> 0:12:20.880 you're as crazy as jd vance somebody needs to reign 0:12:20.900 --> 0:12:23.240 you in a lot of people pretend they don't have 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:27.530 a 1200 iphone go to starbucks once a day Travel 0:12:27.610 --> 0:12:28.930 way more than their parents do. 0:12:28.970 --> 0:12:31.130 Drive a way nicer car than their parents did. 0:12:31.150 --> 0:12:35.650 Giant house. Have five different subscriptions. 0:12:35.690 --> 0:12:36.530 You don't need them all. 0:12:36.770 --> 0:12:40.400 Lots of people do that. My God, he's lost his mind. Michael, 0:12:40.460 --> 0:12:42.420 it's like we're working with Diogenes here. 0:12:42.620 --> 0:12:44.400 Go back to your barrel, you madman. 0:12:44.420 --> 0:12:46.740 Quit yelling at us. 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:48.280 Go back to your barrel. 0:12:48.940 --> 0:12:49.439 Yes, Katie. 0:12:50.179 --> 0:12:52.730 Joe, you knew exactly what you were doing when you 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:53.660 wind him up. 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:59.980 Oh, so satisfying. That's true. 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:02.090 He winds me up and then he's like, okay, I 0:13:02.110 --> 0:13:02.690 got a few minutes. 0:13:02.790 --> 0:13:03.130 Yeah. 0:13:03.190 --> 0:13:04.010 Drink some coffee. 0:13:05.470 --> 0:13:06.309 He just had a snack. 0:13:06.330 --> 0:13:08.890 About time to yell at him to calm the hell down. Yeah. 0:13:09.150 --> 0:13:11.570 Calm the hell down. He completely walked away. 0:13:11.630 --> 0:13:14.010 Came back. Oh, he's still going. I still got another minute. Okay. 0:13:14.030 --> 0:13:20.559 Relieved myself. Oh, boy. Not in public, by the way. Okay. 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:22.880 We will tell you about Diogenes, among other things on 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:38.900 the way. Stay here. The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:13:42.300 --> 0:13:45.420 President Trump criticized Democrats and said, quote, the Democrat Party 0:13:45.460 --> 0:13:48.260 has nominated the most extreme and dangerous slate of candidates 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:49.120 in American history. 0:13:49.540 --> 0:13:51.460 You mean James Tallarico? 0:13:51.500 --> 0:13:51.640 No. 0:13:53.179 --> 0:13:55.580 He looks like he waited until he was 21 to 0:13:55.860 --> 0:13:56.940 try seltzer. 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:05.330 That's a funny line. A woke Democratic soy boy sent 0:14:05.470 --> 0:14:08.790 to the Senate from Texas. What do we got coming up? 0:14:09.570 --> 0:14:13.960 Coming up, some people are saying, look at the woke 0:14:14.220 --> 0:14:19.060 socialist lunatics elected to Congress. Others are saying moderate Democrats 0:14:19.220 --> 0:14:22.330 clearly won the day. They're both right. We'll put it 0:14:22.450 --> 0:14:25.110 into perspective for you, let you know a little bit 0:14:25.150 --> 0:14:31.000 of what to expect from the new Democratic majority. So 0:14:31.140 --> 0:14:33.020 how did I get started on this yesterday? I don't know. 0:14:33.260 --> 0:14:33.980 The idea of. 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:40.680 Coming out of election, thinking about cynicism, which by the 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:43.220 modern definition that we all use, there's a lot of 0:14:43.260 --> 0:14:46.610 that going on in politics and that sort of thing. Well, 0:14:46.630 --> 0:14:49.550 how would you define cynicism in the modern way? 0:14:49.610 --> 0:14:55.630 It's... you're knee-jerk against everything, you're just kind of snarky. 0:14:55.650 --> 0:14:59.000 And a certain amount of most people, I mean, this 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:01.940 is how it got started and around, I think, the 0:15:01.980 --> 0:15:03.440 year 200 or something like that. 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:06.280 Um, when it got remade, I'll go back to the 0:15:06.340 --> 0:15:10.360 original version of cynicism, but the modern version started with, yeah, 0:15:10.460 --> 0:15:12.300 all those people claiming that they care. 0:15:12.140 --> 0:15:14.000 About this and that in the world and blah, blah, blah. 0:15:14.020 --> 0:15:17.100 They're just, they just say that they're hypocrites. They're all hypocrites. 0:15:17.180 --> 0:15:18.920 None of them actually mean it, which is a very 0:15:18.980 --> 0:15:21.660 cynical view using the word, the way we use it now. 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:25.790 But it started with this guy, Diogenes. He's a Greek philosopher. And, uh, 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:30.900 his whole thing with cynicism at the time was, um, 0:15:32.060 --> 0:15:35.270 The more stuff you have, the more stuff you'll want 0:15:35.430 --> 0:15:37.540 and you'll never be happy. And the only way to 0:15:37.580 --> 0:15:40.200 be happy is to not care about stuff was basically 0:15:40.260 --> 0:15:40.730 his thing. 0:15:41.330 --> 0:15:42.170 For a long, long time. 0:15:42.390 --> 0:15:44.830 He lived in a jar or a barrel, depending on 0:15:44.990 --> 0:15:47.030 how you define the sort of thing, a big ceramic 0:15:47.090 --> 0:15:51.330 jar in Greece. He lived in a big ceramic jar. 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:54.860 Was it, like, turned on its side? Yeah. Or did 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:56.540 he have to climb in and out of the top? 0:15:56.580 --> 0:15:58.740 All the pictures show it turned on its side. So, yeah, 0:15:58.780 --> 0:16:00.520 he'd just kind of hang out in there. I mean, 0:16:00.820 --> 0:16:03.180 I keep picturing, you know, various homeless people and thinking, 0:16:03.220 --> 0:16:06.000 but he became very famous for this. He walked around 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:08.890 with a candle for a very long time. And everybody's 0:16:08.970 --> 0:16:10.730 asking me what's at the can. I'm looking for one 0:16:10.770 --> 0:16:12.550 honest man. Okay, that was one of them. 0:16:12.930 --> 0:16:16.550 Oh, you're blowing my mind. He lived with absolutely nothing. 0:16:16.570 --> 0:16:18.730 He begged, which I don't get how that fits into 0:16:18.850 --> 0:16:21.820 any philosophy. You're counting on other people to feel sorry 0:16:21.860 --> 0:16:24.060 for you to give you stuff. I never get how 0:16:24.100 --> 0:16:26.920 that fits into a philosophy. But anyway, he begged rather 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:29.840 than worked because of blah, blah, blah. But some of 0:16:29.860 --> 0:16:32.480 the funny things was he'd defecate in public. He would 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:35.620 masturbate in public because he just didn't believe in any 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.160 of the rules of society. They're all phony and. 0:16:39.900 --> 0:16:41.660 One of the most famous things he ever did is 0:16:41.830 --> 0:16:44.470 Alexander the Great was aware of him, the most powerful 0:16:44.510 --> 0:16:45.890 man in the world at the time, and came to 0:16:45.930 --> 0:16:48.480 Diogenes and said, I could give you anything. If you 0:16:48.500 --> 0:16:52.180 wanted one thing from me, what would it be? And 0:16:52.220 --> 0:16:55.700 Diogenes said, get out of my light. You're standing in 0:16:55.740 --> 0:16:58.340 the sun. Um, that's all, all he asked for him. 0:16:58.460 --> 0:17:03.650 Plato defined man as a, a featherless biped and Diogenes 0:17:03.690 --> 0:17:06.250 brought him a chicken that he had plucked and said, 0:17:06.510 --> 0:17:09.990 behold Plato's man or something like that. But anyway, that's 0:17:10.130 --> 0:17:14.469 the founder of cynicism. They went down to the village 0:17:14.540 --> 0:17:18.899 square and yanked it. Quite a fellow that Diogenes. Lived 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:21.840 in a barrel. Some believe that he held his breath 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:23.600 until he died finally in old age. 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:29.510 Yeah. And everybody around him said, good. Yeah. See you later. 0:17:29.530 --> 0:17:33.449 Wow. Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:36.090 --> 0:17:39.390 The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:17:49.609 --> 0:17:50.660 We need to abolish ICE. 0:17:50.770 --> 0:17:53.190 Like, there is no reason for this institution to exist. 0:17:53.210 --> 0:17:55.390 I got one goal here on Senate Island, and that's 0:17:55.410 --> 0:17:57.770 to pass Medicare for All, and I'm not afraid to 0:17:57.790 --> 0:17:58.650 step on people's toes. 0:17:59.030 --> 0:18:00.990 Our trans community needs abortion care, too. 0:18:01.109 --> 0:18:05.230 There are many more than two biological sexes. In fact, 0:18:05.250 --> 0:18:08.850 there are six. We will not wait to abolish ICE 0:18:09.190 --> 0:18:17.090 and pass Medicare for All! All right. Shouting lefties. Screeching 0:18:17.150 --> 0:18:18.590 about their socialist nonsense. 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:21.740 I assume a whole bunch of young Democratic voters who 0:18:21.780 --> 0:18:23.800 don't know any better because they haven't been through this 0:18:24.180 --> 0:18:27.370 a million times like we all have. When Medicare for 0:18:27.420 --> 0:18:29.630 all does not happen because they don't have the votes 0:18:29.650 --> 0:18:30.490 to make it happen. 0:18:32.010 --> 0:18:34.350 And paying for it is a pipe dream. It's like 0:18:34.430 --> 0:18:35.550 me buying a Learjet. 0:18:35.650 --> 0:18:37.530 But it ain't going to happen in two years. It 0:18:37.550 --> 0:18:42.139 ain't going to happen anytime soon. And they'll be disaffected 0:18:42.180 --> 0:18:44.959 voters the next time around because they'll realize you made 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:45.600 all these promises. 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:49.950 Medicare for all. Yeah, well, it didn't happen. So I 0:18:49.970 --> 0:18:53.080 don't work my fingers to the bone, but I read 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:56.400 my eyes down to the retina or something like that. 0:18:57.080 --> 0:19:01.800 And I've been plowing through all sorts of takes on 0:19:02.260 --> 0:19:04.990 the Republican defeat, obviously, and the Democratic win and what 0:19:05.010 --> 0:19:07.750 it might mean. And I love Noah Rothman of the 0:19:07.810 --> 0:19:10.850 National Review. He's absolutely brilliant. He's as serious as a 0:19:10.890 --> 0:19:14.910 heart attack, but a lot of great insights. And his 0:19:14.950 --> 0:19:18.330 headline is Here Come the Socialists. And he highlights quite 0:19:18.430 --> 0:19:23.150 a decent little cabal of cuckoo birds that are joining 0:19:23.550 --> 0:19:28.080 the squad type. You know, name check some of them. 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:32.340 And NPR, and I think they mentioned there are there 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:35.239 will be seven actual DSA members. I mean, you got 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:38.800 people that are DSA aligned, but actual DSA members. How 0:19:38.820 --> 0:19:42.930 do these DSA members not have to answer questions about 0:19:42.990 --> 0:19:47.470 the platform? Your platform says get rid of the presidency, 0:19:47.590 --> 0:19:48.190 for instance. 0:19:48.510 --> 0:19:52.220 And the Constitution in general. What the hell? I mean, 0:19:52.260 --> 0:19:56.720 you've got, uh, Milat Kuros, who's a woman from Colorado. Uh, 0:19:57.820 --> 0:20:02.389 she's a longtime DSA, uh, Maven. Uh, her platform included 0:20:02.450 --> 0:20:08.190 nationalizing the private health insurance industry, canceling all medical debt, slavery, slavery, reparations, 0:20:08.270 --> 0:20:13.350 et cetera. Um, Amazingly, Rothman writes she did so while 0:20:13.430 --> 0:20:17.250 articulating almost verbatim Osama bin Laden's logic for the September 0:20:17.550 --> 0:20:21.670 11th attacks. Then you've got Adam Hamaway of New Jersey, 0:20:22.130 --> 0:20:25.050 longtime associate of the blind Sheikh. I've been reading about 0:20:25.109 --> 0:20:28.330 him in the Atlantic of all places, the lefty Atlantic. 0:20:28.770 --> 0:20:35.070 Dude is down with Islamism. 100% hardcore political Islam needs 0:20:35.109 --> 0:20:38.639 to take over the globe. More on him later. Pennsylvania's 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:42.280 new third district representative, Chris Rabb, will take office on 0:20:42.300 --> 0:20:44.660 the back of what he said should be America's universal 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:48.760 basic guarantees, among them health insurance, food and water, public transportation, 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:52.010 high-speed internet, child care, a job, and an income, all 0:20:52.030 --> 0:20:55.910 of which should be guaranteed by the government. Rabb flew 0:20:56.070 --> 0:20:59.369 under the national media's radar for much of the campaign, 0:20:59.890 --> 0:21:02.730 except once when he claimed that we all know that 0:21:02.750 --> 0:21:07.760 that 2025 massacre of Australian Jews on Bondi Beach, remember that? 0:21:08.170 --> 0:21:10.360 He said, we all know it was committed by attackers 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:13.859 who are likely Zionists themselves. Whoa. So he's one of 0:21:13.900 --> 0:21:17.419 those guys. He got to Donovan McKinney, was backed in Michigan, 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:20.939 and a couple of other geeks. Oh, the delightful Daryl 0:21:21.090 --> 0:21:26.310 Liza Avila Chevalier, the most dogmatic member of the highly 0:21:26.510 --> 0:21:30.590 ideological cast from New York, who wants to seize all 0:21:30.650 --> 0:21:32.230 property from landlords, etc. 0:21:32.880 --> 0:21:36.040 I don't know what philosopher my current mindset fits in with. 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:39.280 Maybe Diogenes. Maybe I'll start living in a barrel. 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:42.170