WEBVTT - Now That's A Gesture! 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:12.320 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:16.570 George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:16.790 --> 0:00:18.150 Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:18.310 --> 0:00:29.840 And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:34.200 Under your vision of Medicare for all, can people keep 0:00:34.260 --> 0:00:36.519 their health care plan if they like their health care plan? 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:37.040 Yes. 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:39.900 That health care plan has to decide that they're going 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:42.040 to continue to keep those people. And right now what's 0:00:42.060 --> 0:00:45.099 happening is these health care plans are getting so expensive 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:47.620 that they're knocking people out. So that's a choice for 0:00:47.650 --> 0:00:48.990 those corporations to have to make. 0:00:49.010 --> 0:00:51.270 I feel like I've heard that question and answer before. 0:00:53.210 --> 0:00:58.430 It's oddly reminiscent of something. Yes, yes, yes. Here's a 0:00:58.430 --> 0:01:02.380 headline for you as we get into the broader topic 0:01:02.420 --> 0:01:05.100 of socialism and Great Britain and Islamism and all sorts 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:08.280 of stuff. It all hangs together, but Headline came up Friday. 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:12.940 DeSantis Ron of Florida fraud crackdown drives nearly a billion 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:18.800 dollar spending plunge. After they looked into who was billing 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:23.890 for what in Medicare fraud, they found that the company 0:01:23.950 --> 0:01:27.630 after company was billing for like more hours than there 0:01:27.690 --> 0:01:31.790 are in a day. Yeah. Joe from our company worked 0:01:32.010 --> 0:01:36.910 at 37 hours Friday and day. And Jenny worked 31. 0:01:36.910 --> 0:01:40.069 She's a slacker. And yeah, yeah, yeah. And they build 0:01:40.090 --> 0:01:42.730 the government for zillions of dollars. And, you know, state 0:01:42.750 --> 0:01:45.429 after state, as they crack down on this stuff, find enormous, 0:01:45.470 --> 0:01:46.050 enormous fraud. 0:01:46.190 --> 0:01:49.330 And there's no way a computer or a human can 0:01:49.390 --> 0:01:51.010 catch that. I mean, come on. 0:01:51.730 --> 0:01:54.810 I know it's it's amazing. You know, it's funny. I 0:01:54.830 --> 0:01:57.080 was reading that. And then this piece in The Wall 0:01:57.100 --> 0:02:01.169 Street Journal, the welfare state is crushing Britain. The soaring 0:02:01.230 --> 0:02:04.020 number of people on disability and sickness benefits is blowing 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:08.100 up the country's welfare bill and imperiling its long-term financial stability. 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:10.619 And we'll tell you how severely in a moment or two. 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:13.620 But here's the reality that some people get and some don't. 0:02:14.700 --> 0:02:19.919 First track on The Clash's fabulous Combat Rock album back 0:02:19.980 --> 0:02:22.690 in the day. Love The Clash. The same album with 0:02:22.750 --> 0:02:24.579 Rock the Casbah and Should I Stay or Should I Go? 0:02:25.510 --> 0:02:28.310 But it's called Know Your Rights, and it's kind of 0:02:28.350 --> 0:02:30.840 a sarcastic expression of what your rights are supposed to 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:32.940 be and how they are in the real world. And 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:36.560 it's some good punk indignation. But one of them is 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:39.440 you have the right to food money, if you don't 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:44.470 mind a little investigation, humiliation. What Joe Strummer was talking 0:02:44.490 --> 0:02:46.470 about is the fact that, yeah, you got to fill 0:02:46.530 --> 0:02:48.730 out forms and you got to prove you need it 0:02:49.050 --> 0:02:52.049 to get the so-called food money. And, of course, that 0:02:52.070 --> 0:02:54.970 was seen as just an offensive thing to, you know, 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:59.920 a young leftist punk musician in Britain in that time. 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:03.960 But if there's one thing humanity has proved, it's that. 0:03:04.740 --> 0:03:10.250 Every single program that exists to help the downtrodden will 0:03:10.350 --> 0:03:14.370 be abused and defrauded by masses of people. I mean, 0:03:14.389 --> 0:03:19.079 it's like gravity. There's no escaping it. Everywhere exists. It exists. 0:03:19.300 --> 0:03:20.220 There will be rampant fraud. 0:03:20.300 --> 0:03:24.540 Well, there's an incentive on both sides is the problem. 0:03:24.590 --> 0:03:27.450 There's an incentive on the greedy. I'd like stuff for 0:03:27.570 --> 0:03:31.090 free side, obviously, and as always happened with human nature. 0:03:31.470 --> 0:03:33.769 And then there's an incentive on the more people we 0:03:33.810 --> 0:03:35.910 get signed up, the more we can claim there's a 0:03:35.970 --> 0:03:38.380 need for this and grow our department. 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:39.580 Right. Right. 0:03:39.660 --> 0:03:44.140 And or our NGO or, you know, as I hammered 0:03:44.180 --> 0:03:47.930 for years and years. If you are dependent, you can't 0:03:47.990 --> 0:03:51.770 be independent. And if I am utterly dependent on the 0:03:51.810 --> 0:03:54.750 Democrats being in power for my daily bread, I'm going 0:03:54.770 --> 0:03:57.430 to vote for them every single time. You don't think 0:03:57.450 --> 0:04:00.110 that's occurred to the politicians? You think that's like an 0:04:00.570 --> 0:04:05.360 accidental after effect? Please, grow up. Who are you yelling at? 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:08.860 I don't know. So let's get back to Britain. Seven 0:04:08.980 --> 0:04:11.800 million people, which is more than 10% of their population, 0:04:12.490 --> 0:04:15.450 now claim at least one or more sickness or disability benefit. 0:04:16.029 --> 0:04:20.050 Numbers are growing fastest among working-age people who should be 0:04:20.110 --> 0:04:24.470 powering the country's economy. It's surged more than 60% in 0:04:24.970 --> 0:04:25.950 six years. 0:04:25.970 --> 0:04:28.440 Well, you know, that's funny what you brought up at 0:04:28.460 --> 0:04:31.980 the beginning of this, because I've always thought shame is 0:04:32.020 --> 0:04:36.080 the only thing that keeps these things in check. Cultural shame. 0:04:36.460 --> 0:04:39.420 And if you get rid of the idea of, I 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:42.660 don't want any handouts... I would I would never take 0:04:42.700 --> 0:04:44.680 a hand out of any kind. Once you get rid 0:04:44.700 --> 0:04:48.740 of that stigma, these things completely fall apart. 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:52.620 Right. Right. And it's turned the corner, as you've observed 0:04:52.690 --> 0:04:56.970 many times from I don't take charity to everybody's doing it. 0:04:57.010 --> 0:04:59.130 I'd be a fool not to. Well, at some point 0:04:59.170 --> 0:05:01.370 that becomes reality. I've thought that myself. 0:05:03.050 --> 0:05:06.510 So not including health care, not including health care, the 0:05:06.550 --> 0:05:08.950 country will spend more than $ 100 billion this year on 0:05:09.060 --> 0:05:11.279 all types of welfare benefits for the sick and disabled, 0:05:11.580 --> 0:05:15.820 about a third more than defense spending in Britain. The 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:18.339 tab is surged by a quarter in just four years. 0:05:18.980 --> 0:05:20.599 and is on course to hit a giant new number. 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:23.520 Many of the newer disability claims are for mental health 0:05:23.580 --> 0:05:27.169 issues like depression, anxiety, and ADHD, which can be harder 0:05:27.190 --> 0:05:29.630 for the government to verify than a physical disability. 0:05:29.650 --> 0:05:32.990 Well, it's impossible to verify. You can't verify it if 0:05:33.029 --> 0:05:34.859 you want to with your own kid. 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:35.800 Right. 0:05:36.060 --> 0:05:37.650 Let alone the government verifying it. 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:38.320 Sure. 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:43.550 Yeah. Between 2017 and 2025, disability claims for cancer doubled, 0:05:43.870 --> 0:05:47.590 which is difficult to explain. But benefits claims for all 0:05:47.670 --> 0:05:54.130 psychiatric psychiatric issues surged fourfold. They quadrupled in eight years. 0:05:54.370 --> 0:05:56.770 See, I was I was speaking of old music that 0:05:56.810 --> 0:05:59.820 most people have never heard. I'm jamming Charlie Daniels on 0:05:59.880 --> 0:06:03.690 Friday and my truck on a beautiful day. listening to 0:06:03.710 --> 0:06:06.570 a long-haired country boy. I ain't asking nobody for nothing 0:06:06.930 --> 0:06:10.110 if I can't get it on my own, which was 0:06:10.290 --> 0:06:15.060 and is a very proud, rural, redneck sort of vibe. 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:19.360 I ain't asking nobody for nothing. That's not cool. Well, 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:20.820 once it crosses over to. 0:06:22.710 --> 0:06:26.120 Almost everybody's getting something. At what point am I the 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:30.040 idiot for not claiming that I've got ADHD or something 0:06:30.060 --> 0:06:32.500 like that and getting some of my own tax money back? 0:06:33.020 --> 0:06:33.180 Right. 0:06:33.420 --> 0:06:35.409 At some point it crosses over, doesn't it? 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:36.460 Yeah. 0:06:36.500 --> 0:06:39.140 And this actually crosses over into the hilarious at points. 0:06:39.180 --> 0:06:42.050 I mean, it's tragically hilarious, but one benefit created to 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:44.610 help those with disabilities to be more mobile allows people 0:06:44.630 --> 0:06:46.890 to give up part of their welfare cash handout in 0:06:46.930 --> 0:06:50.570 return for a new car every three years. Wait a minute. 0:06:50.950 --> 0:06:52.850 Why would you need a new car every three years? 0:06:53.110 --> 0:06:54.510 How crappy are your cars? 0:06:55.089 --> 0:06:56.770 I don't get a new car every three years. 0:06:57.410 --> 0:07:03.430 Nor do I. And it's a new car. Anyway, it 0:07:03.470 --> 0:07:06.380 now accounts for around one of every seven new car 0:07:06.420 --> 0:07:09.560 sales in the UK. Wow. Among those who got new 0:07:09.620 --> 0:07:13.920 cars last year, 40 people whose primary medical condition was 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:14.880 tennis elbow. 0:07:14.900 --> 0:07:19.690 Oh, my God. Oh, my God. 50 with me. 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:22.600 Wheat intolerance? 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:27.640 I just can't tolerate wheat. Can I have a car? 0:07:27.660 --> 0:07:32.770 And 320 with dyslexia, according to government figures. 0:07:32.910 --> 0:07:35.750 Can I have a rack or car? I can't tell which, 0:07:35.850 --> 0:07:37.630 but could you give me one? I have dyslexia. 0:07:38.210 --> 0:07:41.450 And again, these numbers are all skyrocketing. 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:46.160 And that is you're you're into social full on socialism 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:49.810 at the point that people claim tennis elbow with no 0:07:49.850 --> 0:07:50.740 way of verifying it. 0:07:50.750 --> 0:07:55.230 Get a car from the taxpayer. Well, it's it's beyond socialism. 0:07:55.290 --> 0:07:57.610 It's into what the hell is. I mean, I don't 0:07:57.650 --> 0:07:58.930 even know what system that is. 0:07:59.210 --> 0:08:00.790 God, can I get a couple of cars because I 0:08:00.830 --> 0:08:02.930 can't handle wheat and I've got tennis elbow. 0:08:03.210 --> 0:08:05.750 I get tennis elbow in both arms, two handed backhand, 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:10.490 you know. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. Okay, more on 0:08:10.510 --> 0:08:12.930 this situation in a minute after a word from our 0:08:12.970 --> 0:08:17.210 friends at Incognito. I know, I know. So they want 0:08:17.230 --> 0:08:19.440 to remind you that anytime you get a call from 0:08:19.450 --> 0:08:22.140 your bank where they know everything about you, your name, address, 0:08:22.180 --> 0:08:25.800 last four digits, your social security number, that is probably 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:29.060 a scammer. It's a scammer who bought your info from 0:08:29.100 --> 0:08:31.080 a data broker. They've got everything on you. 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:34.740 It makes it so difficult because sometimes it is your 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:37.000 bank or insurance company that calls you, but there's just 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:40.280 no way of nailing it down anymore. It's troubling that 0:08:40.380 --> 0:08:43.000 all your information is floating around out there. The data brokers, 0:08:43.059 --> 0:08:46.339 thousands of them collecting your personal info and then selling 0:08:46.380 --> 0:08:49.320 it to anybody who pays, including crooks. And that's why 0:08:49.380 --> 0:08:50.579 we're using Incogni. 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:56.220 Yeah, Incogni sends removal requests to 420-plus data brokers and 0:08:56.260 --> 0:08:58.920 people search sites for you. They keep watch so they 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:01.020 don't badge you back in. You couldn't do it yourself. 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.300 It would take hundreds of hours, but Incogni handles it 0:09:03.340 --> 0:09:03.660 for you. 0:09:04.070 --> 0:09:07.350 Yeah, go to Incogni.com slash Armstrong for 60% off. I 0:09:07.370 --> 0:09:09.850 check out my Incogni account at least once a week 0:09:09.890 --> 0:09:12.970 to see how many different websites have gotten my information off. 0:09:14.110 --> 0:09:21.740 Incogni.com slash Armstrong. That's I-N-C-O-G-N-I.com slash Armstrong. Incogni.com. slash armstrong 0:09:22.340 --> 0:09:24.660 so as uh the interest rates have gone up from 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:28.000 the crazy artificially low levels of of covid and the 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:31.079 government continues to grotesquely overspend here as well as there 0:09:31.420 --> 0:09:35.260 the borrowing costs are higher and higher and higher um 0:09:35.500 --> 0:09:39.060 and so uh the government has raised taxes binged on 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:43.240 debt etc a slow but steady exodus of wealthy brits 0:09:43.700 --> 0:09:48.080 are leaving for tax-friendly locales uh including dubai they figure 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:51.209 we're just getting soaked too much and How would you not? 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:54.100 You know, back to the whole I ain't asking nobody 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:56.280 for nothing. If your neighbor is getting a new car 0:09:56.460 --> 0:09:59.569 because of their weed intolerance, I mean, you either got 0:09:59.590 --> 0:10:01.800 to be. got to join them or leave. 0:10:02.580 --> 0:10:05.960 That's your only choice. Once that becomes entrenched in society, 0:10:06.020 --> 0:10:07.719 what do you have? I'll tell you what you have. 0:10:07.820 --> 0:10:11.660 So in 2025, useless waste of skin, UK Prime Minister 0:10:11.750 --> 0:10:16.050 Keir Starmer. announced plans to tighten eligibility requirements for sickness 0:10:16.090 --> 0:10:20.150 and disability welfare because it was skyrocketing like it wasn't. 0:10:20.370 --> 0:10:24.719 People with tennis elbow were getting cars. The backlash was 0:10:24.980 --> 0:10:31.020 so sharp. Starmer and the government abandoned the cuts. And 0:10:31.059 --> 0:10:34.460 then investors who are freaked out that a government with 0:10:34.500 --> 0:10:38.390 a big majority couldn't push through those basic reforms. So 0:10:38.429 --> 0:10:41.930 they sold off British government bonds. The pound fell sharply. 0:10:42.290 --> 0:10:45.710 And their their Treasury Department, in effect, cried in Parliament 0:10:45.730 --> 0:10:47.730 and said, we've got to do something. This is terrible. 0:10:48.490 --> 0:10:50.670 They are drowning. They don't know what to do about it. 0:10:50.690 --> 0:10:51.580 And their people won't put up. 0:10:51.590 --> 0:10:55.350 What am I supposed to walk everywhere with my upset stomach? 0:10:55.410 --> 0:10:56.630 I had a bowl of cereal this morning. 0:10:57.090 --> 0:10:57.290 Right. 0:10:57.330 --> 0:11:01.590 My elbow's throbbing. You know, I didn't get to pivot 0:11:01.710 --> 0:11:07.740 into Islamism and how Britain, because partly of their fiscal woes, 0:11:08.220 --> 0:11:13.660 is now turning more and more to Middle Eastern shakedoms, 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:20.100 including the regrettable Qataris for money. And how that's got 0:11:20.300 --> 0:11:23.920 them on the hook to Islamists. That's part of the 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:26.970 reason Britain's in the straits. It is with their giant 0:11:27.230 --> 0:11:31.750 Muslim immigration thing. They dare not anger some powerful people 0:11:31.809 --> 0:11:34.550 in the Muslim world because they're their sugar daddies. 0:11:35.490 --> 0:11:35.730 Oof. 0:11:36.590 --> 0:11:42.920 Our dad, England, is a drunken wreck on a park bench. 0:11:42.940 --> 0:11:44.840 I think it's our mother country, isn't it? 0:11:45.540 --> 0:11:47.720 It depends how you look at it. I don't know. 0:11:48.620 --> 0:11:52.980 Mother country? All right. You do this one, then. Our 0:11:53.059 --> 0:11:57.069 mother is a bedraggled drunk on a park bench. Wow. 0:11:57.170 --> 0:11:57.790 Bedraggled. 0:11:58.330 --> 0:12:00.570 Yes. Humiliating. 0:12:02.460 --> 0:12:05.220 I think it's humiliating that we're going to support Russia 0:12:05.420 --> 0:12:08.390 in the war against Ukraine. So do some of my 0:12:08.429 --> 0:12:12.429 favorite Fox announcers. Very unhappy with what Trump announced over 0:12:12.450 --> 0:12:14.829 the weekend. We can get into that a little bit later. Also, 0:12:14.850 --> 0:12:16.770 I had one of those situations over the weekend. I 0:12:16.809 --> 0:12:19.589 love when this happens. When a clerk at a store 0:12:19.670 --> 0:12:22.420 insults you after you just bought something. I'm a big 0:12:22.460 --> 0:12:25.860 fan of those stories. I've told them before. Got that 0:12:25.900 --> 0:12:27.100 and other stuff on the way. Stay here. 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:29.640 Armstrong and Getty. 0:12:42.740 --> 0:13:01.630 Brewers beat Dodgers game one of who gets to go 0:13:01.650 --> 0:13:04.790 to the World Series in the National League. The Brewers 0:13:04.809 --> 0:13:08.570 were very excited to win. I saw somebody post last 0:13:08.630 --> 0:13:14.130 week when the Dodgers clinched their... That series so they 0:13:14.170 --> 0:13:18.120 could move to the NLCS. As was pointed out, they 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:23.100 acted like it was a Tuesday win in June. And 0:13:23.140 --> 0:13:25.920 I wonder if that happens. You win too much. It's 0:13:25.940 --> 0:13:26.940 just like, yeah, whatever. 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:28.140 I don't know. 0:13:28.340 --> 0:13:28.920 I have no idea. 0:13:28.940 --> 0:13:32.370 I don't know. Yeah, you could argue, well, they're businesslike 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.470 about it. They're focused on the next one. I don't know. 0:13:35.510 --> 0:13:37.670 Enthusiasm is something, though. The Brewers are acting like they 0:13:37.690 --> 0:13:39.689 won the World Series last night and just won game one. 0:13:40.530 --> 0:13:43.690 As a baseball purist, that means old guy. I really 0:13:43.730 --> 0:13:46.600 like the Brewer's style of play. The sacrifice punt. They 0:13:46.630 --> 0:13:47.960 hit and run. Small ball. 0:13:49.059 --> 0:13:52.660 So, homecoming dance Saturday night, man, my son went and 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:56.680 he needed some clothes. He wanted an outfit. And one 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:58.660 thing he wanted was some new tennis shoes, which he 0:13:58.700 --> 0:14:00.520 needed anyway. So we went, we were at the mall 0:14:00.660 --> 0:14:03.079 and he gets some, picks out some high top Jordans 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:06.900 that he really, really liked. And we're at one of those, 0:14:07.020 --> 0:14:08.880 you know, many, many shoe stores they have at the 0:14:08.900 --> 0:14:12.790 mall that sell that sort of stuff. And Uh, guy 0:14:12.809 --> 0:14:15.510 goes and gets a, uh, gets his size and wants 0:14:15.530 --> 0:14:17.710 to try them on. And, uh, I got, he says, 0:14:17.730 --> 0:14:18.710 I got to lace them up first. 0:14:18.790 --> 0:14:19.910 And the kid, cool. 0:14:20.010 --> 0:14:22.609 You know, doing the lacing. And my son and I 0:14:22.650 --> 0:14:25.140 are sitting there talking for a really long time. And 0:14:25.180 --> 0:14:27.220 I thought, how, why is it taking him so long? 0:14:27.260 --> 0:14:30.180 And I look over and he's like barely gotten anywhere 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:32.660 on it. And then he brings it. I thought I 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:34.320 could have. I said to him, I could have had 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:36.440 five shoes laced by now. I don't know what he's doing. 0:14:36.940 --> 0:14:39.120 And eventually he brings up for the shoe. And it's 0:14:39.180 --> 0:14:43.510 just like randomly the way the laces are going from 0:14:43.610 --> 0:14:47.350 hole to hole. He clearly had no idea how to 0:14:47.410 --> 0:14:51.310 lace up a pair of shoes working at a shoe store. 0:14:51.870 --> 0:14:55.090 Wow. That seems like the basics really. 0:14:54.850 --> 0:14:57.920 Seems like right there at the. And, you know, I 0:14:57.940 --> 0:15:00.200 hate to be critical, you know, Katie, whoever tell me 0:15:00.220 --> 0:15:02.780 if I'm being overly critical, but I feel like it's 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:05.370 the sort of thing that's kind of intuitive anyway. I 0:15:06.140 --> 0:15:08.850 don't feel like it's a heavy lift to figure it out. 0:15:09.230 --> 0:15:13.470 My mom taught me when I was about seven. Yeah. 0:15:14.070 --> 0:15:15.790 Or, you know, look at some of the other shoes 0:15:15.850 --> 0:15:18.290 in the store. You see how crisscross is there every 0:15:18.330 --> 0:15:21.310 other hole. It's really... Is there anything else specific about 0:15:21.330 --> 0:15:26.370 this employee? Did he seem drunk? So we're really struggling 0:15:26.390 --> 0:15:28.350 to figure out how to get the shoe on and 0:15:28.430 --> 0:15:30.290 tighten it up and have any sense of whether or 0:15:30.330 --> 0:15:31.290 not it fit right or not. 0:15:31.630 --> 0:15:33.010 It is a little bit like the guy at the 0:15:33.050 --> 0:15:35.360 Home Depot grabbing the wrong end of the hammer and saying, yeah, 0:15:35.380 --> 0:15:37.480 this one's got a nice feel to it. With the 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:39.500 head in his hand. You're thinking, wait, what? 0:15:39.540 --> 0:15:39.900 Right! 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:41.140 It is simpler! 0:15:44.710 --> 0:15:46.870 You work at a shoe store, and you have not 0:15:46.950 --> 0:15:50.910 the slightest idea how to lace shoes. I just found 0:15:50.930 --> 0:15:53.400 that pretty dang funny. Anyway, so then we get up 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:56.720 to the register, and we're buying the shoes, and a 0:15:56.740 --> 0:16:00.700 young woman there says, and we end up getting in 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:05.230 a conversation about her age. She's actually 35, which kind 0:16:05.250 --> 0:16:06.130 of factors into the story. 0:16:06.150 --> 0:16:06.390 Okay. 0:16:08.090 --> 0:16:09.850 What are you doing? I'm buying these. He's going to 0:16:09.890 --> 0:16:15.040 homecoming dance tonight. And, um, uh, his first one, he's 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:17.050 a freshman high school. And she said, you're in high school. 0:16:17.070 --> 0:16:21.650 You look 12. Which, of course, is an incredible insult 0:16:21.710 --> 0:16:23.840 to a young man. Right. As he's headed off to 0:16:23.860 --> 0:16:26.900 the dance, already uncomfortable about things. And I'm always just 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:30.060 blown away. It's the opposite end of when they say, 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:31.800 and I went ahead and gave you the dollar for 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:35.740 the senior discount. Oh, thanks for announcing that I'm obviously 0:16:35.820 --> 0:16:38.360 so old. Man, and it's really worth a dollar to 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:40.630 have you announce to me. So I'll think about it 0:16:40.770 --> 0:16:42.570 all day long. It's like Shane Gillis was saying the 0:16:42.610 --> 0:16:45.090 other night on Saturday Night Live. Those insults that you 0:16:45.130 --> 0:16:47.570 think about all day long. Or maybe for the rest 0:16:47.590 --> 0:16:50.130 of your life. Hey, well, you can tell when you 0:16:50.150 --> 0:16:51.750 get an insult. This is what Shane Gillis said the 0:16:51.770 --> 0:16:53.130 other night. You can tell when you get an insult. 0:16:53.150 --> 0:16:55.470 It's like, oh, that landed. That's going to stick there 0:16:55.530 --> 0:16:58.350 for a while. And that is exactly right. It's like, 0:16:58.630 --> 0:17:00.850 I'm sure he had that on his mind at the dance. 0:17:01.210 --> 0:17:03.650 I look 12. Freaking fantastic. 0:17:04.390 --> 0:17:07.920 Was that woman trying to express that high schoolers look 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:11.060 young to her? Well, she's adult. I mean, that's just 0:17:11.100 --> 0:17:14.340 the long and short. You're dealing with adult. Well, the same. 0:17:14.740 --> 0:17:18.929 I've had the senior discount experience 10 times in my life. hey, 0:17:19.410 --> 0:17:22.090 here's a tip. Ain't worth a dollar to me to 0:17:22.130 --> 0:17:25.890 have you announce to me that I'm obviously old. What 0:17:25.970 --> 0:17:30.409 are you doing? So, I don't know. I guess, is 0:17:30.430 --> 0:17:32.630 that where we are hiring, I guess? What, is unemployment 0:17:32.650 --> 0:17:37.190 so low? You're hiring people that can't lace up a shoe. 0:17:37.869 --> 0:17:41.219 I mean, that is, what is your IQ, dude? And 0:17:41.300 --> 0:17:43.740 yet he offered to. That's the interesting part. 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:45.119 Right. 0:17:46.700 --> 0:17:50.390 Yeah. What a weird trip to the shoe store. 0:17:50.430 --> 0:17:51.859 I know. Nice store. 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:55.300 We got good laughs out of it. Walking out of 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:57.020 the store. Oh, my God. 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:59.619 I'll bet the owner of that store would say to you, brother, 0:18:00.140 --> 0:18:02.900 I interviewed 50 people for each one of those positions. 0:18:02.940 --> 0:18:04.320 That's what I wondered, actually. 0:18:04.340 --> 0:18:06.800 This is the cream of the crop, my man. 0:18:07.100 --> 0:18:08.820 These are the ones that got the job. 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:09.540 Right. 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:14.400 The people I turned away are... sitting on the couch 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:15.570 eating paste, I guess. 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:20.930 A third of them applied pantless. That's what I'm dealing 0:18:20.950 --> 0:18:22.530 with here. Right. 0:18:24.050 --> 0:18:27.449 What Trump actually said about Ukraine and Russia and diesel 0:18:27.470 --> 0:18:30.610 and stuff over the weekend got a lot of people talking. 0:18:31.470 --> 0:18:32.520 It's our policy now. 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:34.940 I guess. And I read a great essay about why 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:37.820 you don't teach the AI systems that they're cognizant. It's 0:18:37.859 --> 0:18:38.869 the worst thing we can do. 0:18:41.550 --> 0:18:44.189 The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:18:44.730 --> 0:18:47.460 I suggest they get a new leader who can make 0:18:47.540 --> 0:18:50.360 a deal. Because he could have made many deals that 0:18:50.380 --> 0:18:52.359 for some reason he never does. And let me go 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:55.699 a step further. If I were president, you wouldn't have 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:58.300 ever had that war. That war would have never started. 0:18:58.660 --> 0:19:01.240 There was no reason that that war with Ukraine and 0:19:01.300 --> 0:19:02.550 Russia started. 0:19:03.150 --> 0:19:06.830 It started due to incompetence. It should have never started. 0:19:06.869 --> 0:19:07.450 You wouldn't have. 0:19:07.369 --> 0:19:11.680 Lost 30% of your country already. You've lost 30 percent 0:19:11.740 --> 0:19:15.780 of your country and you've had over a million people killed. 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:19.440 Between the two of them, over two million people killed. 0:19:19.540 --> 0:19:22.220 That's a war that should have never started. And I 0:19:22.260 --> 0:19:24.770 think it's time for Ukraine to get a new president. 0:19:28.490 --> 0:19:31.670 Wrong and irrelevant, the two points he made. 0:19:31.690 --> 0:19:35.990 I don't even know what to say about that. I 0:19:36.090 --> 0:19:40.359 find it appalling. So does Brit Hume, senior political analyst 0:19:40.420 --> 0:19:44.379 at Fox. So does Brian Kilmeade, host of Fox and 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:47.590 Friends weekday mornings. Can get to some of their quotes 0:19:47.630 --> 0:19:49.909 coming up a little bit later. It's an interesting story. 0:19:50.180 --> 0:19:53.000 conversation on the right. I know some of you are 0:19:53.060 --> 0:19:55.700 so against the idea of us supporting Ukraine in any way, 0:19:55.760 --> 0:20:00.699 not our war, etc., etc. Or such a fan of 0:20:00.780 --> 0:20:02.900 everything Trump does that maybe you go along with this, 0:20:02.940 --> 0:20:06.989 the idea that, well, here's CBS Evening News with what 0:20:07.030 --> 0:20:07.990 Trump's going to start doing. 0:20:08.090 --> 0:20:11.090 Trump turning to Russia with diesel prices pumped up by 0:20:11.130 --> 0:20:14.619 the Iran war. The president announcing a deal Friday to 0:20:14.650 --> 0:20:19.900 buy Russian fuel despite sanctions. 300,000 tons now, 500,000 more 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:23.280 in November, a million more after that. He says it 0:20:23.500 --> 0:20:24.600 will lower prices. 0:20:24.980 --> 0:20:29.420 We're going to buy oil for Russia, who's struggling financially 0:20:29.460 --> 0:20:31.480 because of their war. We're going to help bail them 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:34.880 out so they can continue to kill Ukrainians as they're 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:37.590 riding a bus to to work or to school, which 0:20:37.670 --> 0:20:42.510 is something. Here's a Republican senator from North Carolina. That's 0:20:42.590 --> 0:20:45.030 about as red as you can get. Senator Tom Tillis 0:20:45.070 --> 0:20:46.190 on Meet the Press yesterday. 0:20:46.470 --> 0:20:52.760 Look, this has deadly consequences. Giving Vladimir Putin any sense 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:54.520 that we're going to put our foot on the brakes 0:20:54.540 --> 0:20:57.400 versus put our foot on the accelerator to ending this 0:20:57.480 --> 0:20:59.970 war and ensuring peace in Europe. 0:21:00.910 --> 0:21:03.130 We've got to go back, and I do believe. 0:21:02.950 --> 0:21:05.510 There's a legitimate case for saying the president's not following 0:21:05.550 --> 0:21:09.879 the law. We were very clear that Russia is the aggressor. 0:21:09.980 --> 0:21:11.960 Russia is the one who can end this war by 0:21:12.020 --> 0:21:15.220 backing out a territory that they occupied. In fact, it 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:17.560 should go all the way back to Crimea, but at 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:21.100 least the additional land that they've invaded over the past 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:21.680 three years. 0:21:22.990 --> 0:21:27.100 So Brit Hume of Fox retweeted Boris Johnson, former prime 0:21:27.119 --> 0:21:30.500 minister of Great Britain, saying it is sickening that the 0:21:30.580 --> 0:21:33.980 USA is now lifting sanctions on Russia, Russian fuel and 0:21:34.040 --> 0:21:39.160