WEBVTT - He's Rich...She's a Man 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:06.640 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:08.119 Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:10.760 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:17.720 I'm strong and Jettie and he I'm strong and Yetty. 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:26.759 A lot of sports going on. The World Cup is 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:28.720 here in La. Most of the world. 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:31.840 Wow, see, I love it. 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:35.080 Yeah, most of the world consider soccer the number one 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:37.720 sport here. It's it's free where you put your kids 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:39.040 when you don't want to pay for daycare. 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:39.640 That's listen. 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:43.720 I don't get to the attraction of soccer. 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:44.880 I don't. 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:49.559 There's more scoring at Bible Camp. But okay, if you 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:52.320 love it, you love it, and I'm glad you have it. 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:58.360 I grew up before soccer became a thing, so I've 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:03.000 never played soccer in my life. Now, I very very 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:05.800 few little kids don't play soccer at least one year 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:09.800 when they're like five years old, very very few. But 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.520 write a good piece somewhere New York Times are somewhere 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:16.640 on and this was someone who doesn't care for soccer 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:21.319 really either as a grown up and played when they're 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:24.160 a kid. Like where the breakdown has occurred in America 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:27.760 because it's now like everybody plays soccer everybody puts their 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:30.839 kid in soccer, every kid plays soccer, and then there's 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:34.840 somewhere a breakdown between that and the popularity of it. 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:37.080 And they went through the ratings and comparing it to 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:39.960 Major League Baseball and basketball and all the different things, 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.840 and just we just somewhere in there we lose our 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:46.400 interest in soccer as opposed to other countries where they 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:49.440 just absolutely they played as little kids and then love 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:50.480 it the rest of their lives. 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:56.160 That is an interesting dichotomy for sure. Neil Ferguson, the Historian, 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:59.880 wrote a beautiful piece quoting an author who wrote one 0:01:59.880 --> 0:02:03.440 of the most famous books about soccer ever about how 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:08.560 soccer fans, hardcore fans like the Euros, that they're fans 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:13.680 in order to suffer, and they all suffer together, and 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:18.160 it's mostly frustration, and it's a it's like an addiction, 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:22.120 which I don't quite get. I enjoy watching the games, 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:23.880 but then if I don't for a year and a half, 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:25.040 I don't miss it. 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:28.480 I don't know how far to get into the weeds 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:31.280 on this whole Elon Musk conversation. I got sucked into 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:33.560 it because it was making me so mad. Over the weekend. 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:37.080 The number of posts I was seeing and cable news 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:41.440 hosts on the non Fox channels about how, oh of 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:45.200 various government your Elon Musk's, your AOC's, you're Bernie Sanders. 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:47.200 I predicted this on Friday we would hear from them 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:48.840 by the end of the day, and we did. They 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:52.440 all had very strong statements about how awful this is 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:55.600 and how it's a sign that our country is just 0:02:55.760 --> 0:03:00.640 completely off track that we now have a trillionaire and 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:04.160 somehow believe they seem to actually believe, as do a 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:09.800 lot of the people that vote for them, that Elon 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.720 having a trillion dollars took money out of your pocket. So, 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:17.000 like I tweeted out that specific phrase over the weekend, 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:22.519 something along the lines of, I can't believe the economic 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:25.320 literacy we have in this country thanks to our public 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:28.799 school system, that so many people feel like Elon becoming 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:32.680 a trillionaire took money out of their pockets. That's insane. Well, 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:37.960 the pushback is all the various government subsidies or contracts 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:42.600 that he has that still don't make sense for all 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:44.480 kinds of reasons that I can read to you. Here's one. 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:48.240 This was a pushback against a senator that had posted 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:53.400 that you know, the taxpayers made Elon Musk rich, not 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:57.360 Elon Musk by us giving him all these various breaks. 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:02.440 Elon Musk was awarded, not given, cost per result contracts 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.080 to perform a service for the US government. The total 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:07.800 of those for SpaceX specifically is twenty two billion dollars, 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:11.360 which includes repaid, loan, state tax incentives center. The deal 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:16.240 was simple, put stuff into low entry orbit at or 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:20.360 below a set cost. If SpaceX does it below the 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:23.520 set cost, SpaceX keeps the difference. If it doesn't, the 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:27.440 company is responsible for the overrun. It was SpaceX versus. 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:30.080 First of all, they bid against other companies in one 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:33.279 out and then against NASA. The end result is that 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:37.960 SpaceX and Elon lowered the cost of getting a kilogram 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:43.080 into low entry orbit by one hundred percent versus what 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.880 NASA was previously doing. In other words, it would cost us, 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:49.360 the taxpayer, all the stuff we were trying to put 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.880 in space so much more money if we did it 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:56.400 with the government program of NASA versus the SpaceX program 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:59.599 of Elon. In other words, we got tremendous bang for 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:04.400 our buy and as a government, we incentized innovation in 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:07.240 a way that's going to pay off for generation centuries 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:14.400 maybe right, And then once again responding to this particular senator, 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.560 most of what is cited our government contracts, the money 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.400 going to Elon. You see, the government which you helped run. 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:24.520 I forget which senator was one of your lefty socialist centers. 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:28.640 The government which you helped run wanted services and decided 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:31.320 his company was best to provide them, which they did 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:34.159 at a negotiated price. How on earth that entitles you 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:36.800 to the profit he made providing those services, which you 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:41.000 guys wanted and agreed to, is beyond well anyone, especially me. 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:43.960 And the subsidies he got for electric cars were from 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:46.960 your party because he did what you wanted him to do, 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:51.080 remember when he was your darling. So there's that part 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:53.479 of it. I was against the subsidies for all the 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:57.120 electric cars. I don't think taxpayers should be given everybody 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.640 else as seventy five hundred dollars or twelve thousand dollars 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:03.000 brake on their electric car to incentivize them. But all 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:05.760 y'all on the left decided that was a good idea, 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:08.520 which got Elon started on the whole rich thing. But 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:11.880 on the other thing, with SpaceX's we were mentioning earlier, 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:16.640 Elon's the biggest taxpayer in world history already, and that 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:20.919 is going to go exponentially higher because of all of 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.960 his dealings and everything like that, plus the hundreds of 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:26.840 thousands of jobs and all the taxes that they pay, 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:29.479 and has been pointed out already in a couple of 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:32.040 these things I've read, the service that are being provided 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:35.919 to people that people want. Where are you all complaining 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.920 when the cylinders of the world happen. They take your 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:42.680 tax money, they give it to these green ideas that 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.880 never pan out. So you don't get any jobs, you 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:48.640 don't get any green energy, you get zero bang for 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:53.520 your buck tax money because nobody's profiting in any way. 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:56.320 And when is anybody complaining about that? So when one 0:06:56.320 --> 0:07:00.240 of these programs works out and somebody makes some money, 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:04.880 then you're angry. That is just nonsensical, beyond nonsensical. 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:06.800 I wish I still had in front of me that 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:09.200 brilliant essay I READI part of a few weeks ago 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:14.000 about how when the rich have a successful business and 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:16.160 they come up with more, they end up with more 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:19.400 money than they could ever spend. They don't spend it, 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.440 you know, depending on which guy you're talking about. Maybe 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:24.000 they buy a super yacht or whatever. But most of 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:27.640 it they reallocate. They take that money and put it 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:31.840 somewhere they think is even more productive, creating more companies, 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:35.040 more jobs. And if you are Mark Zuckerberg and you 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:39.480 decide you want a meggiacht, okay, somebody built that meggiacht. 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:44.080 Somebody's maintaining it. Mechanically. You have captains and crewmen and 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:47.840 cooks and cleaners and dock workers and all sorts of 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:54.320 people that creates wealth, the wealth of the world. Here's 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:56.640 the one thing you have to know. If you don't 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:59.120 know this, you will be an ignoratus till the day 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:03.160 you die. Wealth is not a pie of a fixed size. 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:07.680 You can create wealth. Wealth can start with a dollar 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.800 and end up with a trillion dollars a few generations later. 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:14.400 If people are smart and they aloquate, you allocate money wisely. 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:16.760 Oh my god. 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:18.720 That seems to be one of the breakdowns is that 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:22.400 in watching the pushback, the pushback seems to come from 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:24.280 a crowd that thinks there is a fixed amount of 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:29.080 money always right. And that was Senator ed Markley. By 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:32.240 the way, how much of Musk's wealth sufferable. How much 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:35.720 of Musk's wealth comes from government help, virtually all of it. 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:41.720 He says, that's idiotic, that is absolutely untrue. More on 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:45.520 this topic, which I find absolutely fascinating. After word from incognitiate, boy, 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:47.679 this is chilling and it's a rip from real life. 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:49.679 So you're at work in your phone, buzz is that 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:52.920 your kid's number? Your kid gets on the phone, says 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:55.800 he's been in an accident, needs money right now, and 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:59.280 you do whatever you had to help right Well, that's 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:02.320 what the scam is counting on. That wasn't your kid 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:02.680 at all. 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:05.880 Yeah. I wonder when I've gotten phone calls in the 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:09.240 past and I say hello, Hello, if that's just them 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:11.439 recording my voice to try to do some sort of 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:14.880 scam for the future. Those are really really trumbling, troubling. 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.360 The only way you can stop this is if they 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:18.920 can't get a hold of you in the first place. 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:20.840 You can't stop them from cloning a voice, but you 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:22.600 can make sure they never get your number in the 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.880 first place. Within Cognity's help, because they're going to go 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:28.040 to all these data brokers use the law on their 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:31.079 side and say you cannot sell your data. You got 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:31.720 to get rid of it. 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:35.320 Yep, we're both on Incognitiate contracts hundreds of those data 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:38.200 brokers and keeps after them over and over again. Costs 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:40.400 about seven dollars a month. It's worth every penny. Really 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:42.840 easy go to in cognity dot com slash armstrong. So 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:47.640 I n cog ni dot com slash armstrong sixty percent 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:50.040 off in cognity dot com slash armstrong. 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:53.319 For instance this back and forth which was on our 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:57.839 Twitter feed. Elon gets paid roughly eight million dollars a 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:01.760 day by the American taxpayer via his government contracts. Explain 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:04.920 how taxpayer subodies aren't literally money out of our pockets. 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.640 One of our very smart listeners, thankfully, was willing to 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:10.760 argue with all these people all day yesterday when I 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:13.600 wasn't somebody that goes by the handle common sense. Do 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:16.560 you understand the difference between a contract for delivering a 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:18.680 service or product versus a handout? 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:24.120 I don't think so, Yeah, well said, it's astonishing ignorance. 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:30.800 Nearly all competitive contracts that had deliverables launches, Starlink services, 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:34.000 et cetera. SpaceX won those awards by offering a lower 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:38.160 cost than other companies, or that the government could do themselves. 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.120 The government of these people don't understand the difference between 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:43.400 Stacy Abrams and SpaceX. 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:48.400 That was Elon's pushback. For instance, the Stacy Abrams thing. 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:52.199 Stacy Abrams started an NGO and thirty days later was 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:56.240 given two billion dollars by the Biden administration. She has 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:59.040 not had to return a penny of that. The NGO 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:02.480 never did any thing. And there are tons of those 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:05.920 kinds of things that happen all the time. Are do 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.040 you all get mad about that or you just don't 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:13.320 notice because they're failures. They're all failures, and so nobody 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.240 is making money off of that. If we could invest 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:20.280 in someone that would clean up the homeless situation and 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:23.680 make it cheaper than all the homeless government programs and 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:25.559 that guy gets rich, I'll sign. 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:27.439 Up for it today, right. 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:29.360 I don't care if he gets rich, if it ends 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:32.400 up being cheaper than the government programs that are doing nothing. 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:36.040 You give out money to these green I keep mentioning 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:38.160 the green programs because there's but there's tons of stuff 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:41.679 that's not just all kinds of crap that they they 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:45.760 put money into that doesn't produce any taxpayer revenue doesn't 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:49.520 make a thing. It doesn't do anything for anybody. It's 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:53.000 not a product that people want. It's just a money hole. 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:53.880 Right right. 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:57.640 So we've been addressing the faulty and dopey uh he 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:00.280 had government contracts argument. We haven't even gotten to the 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:04.360 main socialist argument, which is that income essentially should be 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:07.400 capped and once you have a certain amount, you should 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:09.600 be restricted from ever making anymore. I want to get 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:11.400 to that. I will tell you two things. I'm gonna 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:14.120 lay two truth bombs on you. One is an old, 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:16.920 great old saying you can't remember who came up with it. 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:22.320 But a triumph is temporary because you'll go seek new 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:26.040 challenges and battles and you might not win all of them. 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:30.240 But an excuse is eternal because you can just lay 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:33.160 there with your excuse covering you like a warm blanket 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.560 and never try anything, all right. That's truth number bomb 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:40.120 Number one. Number two is envy is like a shot 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:43.600 of fentanyl. It just numbs you. You get sleepy, you 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:46.320 bend over at the waist, and you stop thinking. The 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:50.040 politics of envy are so powerful and so easy. 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:52.080 Yeah, I hope I raise my kids in such a 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:55.080 way that they have the feeling I have when there 0:12:55.160 --> 0:13:00.000 is a you know, a guy like Jeff Bezos inventing Amazon, 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:02.520 or Bill Gates and you know, doing what he did 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:04.560 with computers all through the nineties or elon. 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:04.920 Now. 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:07.760 I think it's freaking cool as heck. I admire it. 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.480 I wish I could be more like that, as opposed 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:14.120 to the immediate feely being I've just been taken from. 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:17.280 That's bad. I have a negative feeling you stole from 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:18.240 me good. 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:22.120 That's sick because the valuation of his company is such 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:23.960 that his share of it makes him a trillionaire. 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:24.640 You lost? 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:24.840 What? 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:25.320 How? 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:25.800 What? 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.640 Wow? Any thoughts on this text line four one five 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:42.040 two nine five KFTC. Yesterday was Trump's eightieth birthday? Is 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:47.320 that right? And uh? He claimed all along that the 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:50.400 big giant UFC match on the White House lawn was 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.640 not because it was his eightieth birthday. It was just 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:54.839 a coincidence. It was part of the two hundred and 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:59.680 fiftieth anniversary of Our Country celebration, But clearly it was 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:04.960 for his eight birthday. Funny piece in the Wall Street 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:08.360 Journal today, of all things, what astrologers see in Trump's 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:11.920 birthday horoscope in the Wall Street Journal. 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:17.440 What what does prenologists have to say the president. 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:22.120 That's people who read the lumps on your head. The 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:25.640 president's cage match celebration makes perfect sense for a gemini. 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:28.320 The Wall Street Journal goes on to explain what the 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:30.520 right AnyWho. 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:33.440 They stoned over there was there a ghastly I don't know, 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:35.640 so it was yeah, go ahead. 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:37.680 So they had a whole bunch of different matches and 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.720 stuff like that, and it's like, you know, boutside. I 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:43.000 don't follow UFC for real, but I did see the 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:48.760 celebrity pictures. Anybody who's anybody leaning right, celebrity or politician 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:49.840 was there with. 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:52.600 From Shane Gillis to j d Vance. They were all there, 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:53.640 Jack and. 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:56.360 Joe Rogan and uh yeah, all kinds of different people. 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:59.800 So I don't know this heavyweight guy who won his match. 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:03.640 Yeah, Josh Hockett. He's a stud whoa boy. 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:05.880 He won his match, and then you know, they put 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:08.240 the microphone in his hand. He's all amped up, having 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.120 just a beaten the crap out of some guy in 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:11.640 front of the President of the United States on he's 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:13.400 eightieth birthday, and he had this to. 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:15.960 Say, Hey, shout out to Trump for having the ball 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:22.840 to put on, And if I'm gonna say anything, there's 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:27.400 only one person more incredible than the incredible Hulk, and 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:36.040 that's why Lord has Savior, Jesus Christ. Now listen, Alex Perrera, 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:48.200 I want to Sharma, I your mama. And lastly, Mochelle Obama, 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:56.080 he's a man, Am I right, America? 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:59.840 That was not as dignified as when John Quincy had 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:03.119 him Junior all day Virginia Reel. 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:03.640 In the Easter room. 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:09.960 Oh my god, it took a turn mentioning Jesus and 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:11.640 then that I like it. 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:13.880 Yeah, that was quite the winding road, wasn't it. 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:16.600 Michael, I like him saying Jesus is even a bigger 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:21.360 deal than hul Cogan. Okay, yes, Michelle Obama is a 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:22.560 man he closes with. 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:27.560 After winning his fight, Hockets wearing an American flag, bantanna 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:30.840 and sunglasses, presented Trump with his gold chain necklace. 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:32.880 That's a beautiful moment. 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:36.480 It's not quite Churchill and the Resolute Desk or whoever 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:38.160 get it was that Queen Elizabeth doesn't matter. 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.120 That was some flyover. I don't know if you saw 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:42.480 that some of the rules that was that was awesome. 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:43.080 I should have been. 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:43.480 There for that. 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:51.440 I'm not like hurt or appalled by this, but I mean, 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:54.840 if I got to vote, do we do that or not? 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:55.920 I would go with a no. 0:16:57.040 --> 0:16:59.920 I say bring back the roller derby next right there 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:00.840 on the south lawn. 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:04.200 But for everyone who has pointed out Joe Biden during 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:11.280 June when he was president had uh bumped with trans 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:12.840 what do you call the dudes addressed like women in 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:17.000 danced drag correct queens had the drag queen dance celebration 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:21.040 up on a stage. So is that also dignified in 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:21.840 a way that I'd like? 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:26.200 No, in an ugly world where men must be ready 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:29.080 for war, yeah, I'd rather have a punch up. And 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:32.760 and you know nutty fighter saying, oh, Michelle Obama's a man. 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:38.960 Then that sick, twisted, troubled individuals showing his completely fake 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:41.320 breasts to America for some reason. 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:42.960 Oh that's right, the guy took his shirt off. 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:46.880 Yeah yeah, yeah, So there you go. 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:48.760 You know what I want to bring you speaking of 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:52.480 America and what a wonderful country this is. Although last 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:56.919 night I agree was kind out there, Oh European or 0:17:56.960 --> 0:18:01.480 international soccer fans coming to the u U and marveling 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:03.320 at this country, seeing it for the first time. 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:05.640 Yeah, I've seen that Twitter meme. 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:07.080 Yeah, it's fun. 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:11.119 People who've never seen a giant giant convenience store before, 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:13.480 for instance, like that in the US and apparently don't 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:16.840 have in Europe. Freed Zakaria believes California is falling apart. 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:18.600 I wonder why he thinks that, among other things. On 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:23.360 the run, we gotta check in on Iran again. There's 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:26.640 some new details and quotes come out have come out, 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:31.280 not details about the deal though for some reason, that's 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:34.879 being kept a secret. What kind of who announces a 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:37.959 piece deal and then we won't tell you what's in it? 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:42.679 What is that we have a memorandum of understanding of 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:45.160 a framework for a negotiation. 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:46.520 That's not a deal. 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:51.880 No, it's not. To our surprise and delight. 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:55.880 Freed Zakaria on CNN's what the hell is it in 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:57.320 the Compass Point GPS. 0:18:57.320 --> 0:18:57.680 That's it? 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:02.960 Unleashed a sick this minute, thirteen to second screed last night. 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:09.960 That was utterly calm, gentlemanly, non bomb chuckery, and an 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:14.280 incredibly thorough indictment of the misgovernance of the state of California. 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:18.320 It was absolutely terrific. He's a man of I would 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:20.960 say the center left. He used to make me a 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:23.480 little nuts talking about foreign policy because he's very much 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:30.120 the internationalist. But I think this is so good. Let's 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:31.920 start with fifty one. Work our way, Michael. 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:37.679 The frustration is real and justified. California is one of 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:42.320 the most dynamic places on the planet. It has Silicon Valley, Hollywood, 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:48.120 world class universities, extraordinary agriculture, ports, talent, and natural beauty. 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:51.280 But it is a case study in how a rich 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:55.439 society can spend more and more while producing less and 0:19:55.560 --> 0:20:01.119 less of what its ordinary citizens need. Paradox of California 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:05.119 today is a successful economy attached to a failing model 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:10.600 of governance. Consider the fiscal record. Since two thousand. California's 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:14.880 population has grown by roughly fifteen percent, but the state's 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:19.800 general expenditures have grown more than two hundred percent, from 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:23.640 seventy eight billion to about two hundred and forty eight 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:27.399 billion dollars. General spending per person has risen from about 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:31.080 two thousand, three hundred to about six three hundred dollars. 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:33.920 The number of state employees has grown by more than 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:38.200 fifty percent. By one count, does anyone think that California 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:42.280 government and its benefits have gotten two hundred percent better 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:43.959 in the last twenty five years. 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:46.040 I live here, so I know it's not true. 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:48.000 Wow. 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:53.000 I knew the expenditures and number of employees that skyrocketed, 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:57.280 but that is beyond I mean beyond reasonable. And this 0:20:57.400 --> 0:21:01.199 certainly is practically beyond imagination. It is a giant jobs 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:03.960 program for cronies and lackeys. 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:10.000 The state employee number has grown fifty percent this century. 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:11.719 Yeah. Wow. 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:15.440 So in the next section he talks about the failure 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:18.600 of housing in California, and the essence of it is 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:23.560 that California produces new dwellings at a rate that is 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:28.440 a tiny fraction of other functioning government's production of those 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:33.760 dwellings because of incredibly strict zoning and hypocritical zoning. And 0:21:33.800 --> 0:21:39.359 also you can sue developers over a list of one 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:43.639 hundred and fifty different ridiculous things as a blackmail, so 0:21:43.680 --> 0:21:46.400 they have to pay you off. And how that culture 0:21:46.720 --> 0:21:50.040 is rampant in California, and so they underbuild housing. Let's 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:52.080 move on to fifty three where he talks about education. 0:21:52.520 --> 0:21:55.800 Oh, look at education. For years, California schools had a 0:21:55.840 --> 0:22:00.320 plausible excuse they were underfunded. Total spending on edge location 0:22:00.480 --> 0:22:03.800 through twelfth grade has more than doubled since the early 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:07.360 twenty tens, and per people spending by twenty twenty three 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:12.520 was well above the national average, Yet the results remain dismal. 0:22:13.080 --> 0:22:16.760 In the twenty twenty four Nations report Card, California was 0:22:16.840 --> 0:22:21.000 forty third in fourth grade math, thirty ninth in fourth 0:22:21.080 --> 0:22:25.080 grade reading, thirty sixth in eighth grade math, and thirty 0:22:25.119 --> 0:22:26.600 eighth in eighth grade reading. 0:22:26.960 --> 0:22:30.280 Well, I bet Gavin didn't like this. He's hoping that, 0:22:30.520 --> 0:22:35.560 and he's right that nobody watches CNN weekend shows. But 0:22:36.640 --> 0:22:39.800 you know whoever's those opponent, if he would end up 0:22:39.840 --> 0:22:42.119 being the nominee, they're gonna grab this stuff. 0:22:42.680 --> 0:22:44.720 Oh yeah, Yeah, I hope it goes viral. 0:22:44.760 --> 0:22:46.800 I hope it gets the retweeted and center around at 0:22:46.800 --> 0:22:48.199 a million zillion times. 0:22:48.880 --> 0:22:49.040