WEBVTT - The A&G Replay Friday Hour Two 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:14.040 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:17.640 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe. 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:26.120 Katty arm Strong and and he is Armstrong and Getty Strong. 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:38.040 And coming up hot. 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:41.280 People complain about the horrible experience of being good looking. 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:43.960 Stay with us, Hurst, you don't like being hot, disfigure 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:47.800 yourself then, apparently, whoa lord? 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:48.840 Wow? 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:53.159 What but first foreigners in their wacky economies. 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:00.280 Ah. 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:03.560 I asked kild to get something ready, and this is 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:04.399 what he came up with. 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:09.119 Oh, it's so bad. 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:15.120 It's wonderful horns with a cash register sound foreigners and 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:16.720 they're wacky economies. 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:22.800 All right, I gotta get myself together. The first story 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:26.520 makes me so happy. Do you have any memory of 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:29.080 when Javier Malaya is at Malay? I can never remember. 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:34.600 Got elected to run Argentina after years of socialists and 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:35.840 totalitarian rule. 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:38.440 And he's a libertarian type guy. 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:41.400 He's also with all his dogs, he calls his kids 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:42.080 and that sort of thing. 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:44.840 But I like his politics right in a wacky haircut 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:45.480 and the rest of it. 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:48.200 And because the media could portray him as somehow trumpy, 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:50.520 he got a lot of attention. But now that he's 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:52.600 actually been in power and is trying to do what 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.280 he promised he would do. It's funny. The mainstream media 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:57.160 is more or less ignoring it. But here's here's a 0:01:57.200 --> 0:02:00.960 headline for you. For years, argent Tina imposed one of 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:05.760 the world's strictest rent control laws, meant to keep homes 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:10.600 in Buenos Aires it's elsewhere affordable, But instead officials say 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:16.640 rents sword Well, holy cow, who saw that coming? Well, 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:21.160 anybody who understands a lick of economics. If you control 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:24.600 rents and make it much less attractive for people to 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:27.480 rent properties, you get fewer rental properties. But now the 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:29.960 country's new president has scrapped the rental law, along with 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:33.160 most government price controls, in a fiscal experiment he is 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:36.560 conducting to revive South America's second biggest economy. Wall Street 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:40.520 Journal rights the result, the Argentine capital is going undergoing 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:44.320 a rental market boom. Landlords are rushing to put their 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:47.560 properties back on the market, with Buenos Aires rental supplies 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:51.959 increasing by over one hundred and seventy percent, that's nearly tripling. 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:52.480 Friends. 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:56.079 Renters are getting better deals than ever, with a forty 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:59.720 percent decline in the real price of rental properties. When 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:05.919 a usted for inflation. According to a local economist, Malaise 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.880 moved to undo rent control regulations has resulted in one 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:11.760 of the clearest cut victories for what he calls economic 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.880 shock therapy. He is methodically taking a part a system 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:18.560 of price controls, closing government agencies and lifting trade restrictions 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.720 built up over eight decades of socialist and military rule, 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:24.680 in an effort that's upended the lives of many Argentinians. 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:27.520 And about twenty four hours from now, Kamala Harris is 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:32.400 going to introduce her policies of probably that price fixing 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:33.240 and rent control. 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:38.880 Yeah, yeah, absolutely disastrous. And it is so interesting to 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:42.720 put aside my disgust with these policies because they are doomed, 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:44.680 I mean one doomed to failure. 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:45.680 They have to fail. 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:49.280 The very basic laws of economics doomed them to failure. 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:52.320 And yet, and this is the really interesting part, people 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:57.440 by large majorities at first blush think that's a good idea, 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:00.840 which just goes to show you a basic education is 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:03.560 so important but infrequent. 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.280 Anyway, that's enough about Argentina. I'm gonna keep my eye 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:06.480 on them. 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:12.720 I would love to go to Argentina someday this freaking job. 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:16.320 This job stops you from going there. Get vacation time. 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:17.920 Go to Argentina one week, but. 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:18.560 Do you take two. 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:21.679 You take a couple of days to travel, a couple 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:22.440 of days back. 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:24.600 That means you really have to take two weeks off. 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:26.960 And every time we take proposed taking two weeks off, 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:28.360 everybody poops. 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:30.320 Their drawers like we bran surgeons are. 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:33.799 The world will stop or infants will die or something. 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:35.400 Anyway, riding a. 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:38.159 Burrow, I think you can get to Argentina in one fight. 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:41.000 Have you ever tried to get to Argentina? It's no 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:47.800 simple matter. Underestimating the difficulty of Argentine travel is another 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:48.839 common misconception. 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:53.000 Joe's riding a burrow into Argentina. Well, I want to 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:54.320 blend in. That's what they did. 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:58.520 They have cars there all right. Moving along to the Chinese, 0:04:58.839 --> 0:04:59.760 gonna blend in. 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:00.880 That's funny. 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:07.080 The Chinese economy, they just made a series of blitz measures, 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:10.239 according to once again the Wall Street Journal, to try 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:14.400 to turn their more abund economy around and their stock 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:18.840 market which is just going down down down, dropping interest rates, 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:21.840 all sorts of incentives for this and disincentives for that. 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:24.000 As the Central planning. 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:28.200 Communist Party is trying to stave off the sort of 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:32.640 economic problems that bring on terrible unrest, the threatens of 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:33.800 one party government's rule. 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.000 And we'll have to see how that goes. 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:40.200 And if you've not been following this, trust me when 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:44.120 I say they have awful economic problems in China. They 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:47.679 are on the knife's edge of plunging into, like I said, 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:52.160 destabilizing problems. And in a closely related story, one of 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:57.000 the top economists in China, this guy vaunted economist head 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.200 of this think tank, which is closely tied to the 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:03.160 Communist Party. He said, you know, top lecture at universities. 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:05.640 It had quoted all the time in that Chinese press. Well, 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:08.560 he was on social media a little while back, and 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:12.000 evidently he made a couple of comments, and they frame 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:15.080 it in vague terms, but he made some comments on 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:16.800 we chat I think it is, which is kind of 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:21.839 the Chinese Twitter or whatever. He made some impolitic remarks 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:27.080 in a private chat that referenced Chijin Ping's lifespan. And 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:30.599 you have to kind of piece it together, but I'm 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:32.640 sure I'm at least close to right. What he said 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:36.080 is the only hope we have for a better economy 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:38.479 in China is that Shixi and Ping can't live forever. 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:43.000 And wow, gal, gosh, golly, try to find him if 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:43.280 you can. 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:45.640 He has disappeared. Wow. 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:51.120 So not even clear it was a threat of any 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:55.839 kind that close to a suicide or to an assassination threat. 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:58.520 That's the way to deal with him in China. No, 0:06:58.720 --> 0:06:59.320 not even close. 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:00.880 We let you lay in a golf course with a 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:04.080 rifle and get ready to aim at the president. 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:05.400 Yeah. 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:09.840 So his remarks included comments about China's flagging economy and 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:12.320 veiled criticism of Shiji Ping that referred. 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:12.960 To his mortality. 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:17.120 One of the people said, his name has disappeared from 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:19.920 every institution that he was a major part of. 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:25.520 Nobody knows where he is. Wow. Man, it's not surprising. Oh, 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:26.320 I like this part. 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:31.040 So they've cracked down like crazy on any criticism of 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:31.640 sijiin Ping. 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:33.480 Any Hong konger can tell you that. 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:37.480 But he coincided with an indoctrination campaign for the staff 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:40.120 of this giant thing tank and aimed at enforcing compliance 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:43.280 with the Communist Party rules. Party membership and leadership roles 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.600 were required to sign formal pledges and instilling discipline and 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:51.400 reminded to obey the ten prohibitions, a list of band 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:54.800 activity that includes publishing improper material and collaborating with foreign 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:57.240 entities without approval. I've got to find out what the 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:02.360 ten prohibitions are. You can size chesion ping, no gene 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.680 shorts on the golf course, don't swim within a half 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:09.120 hour of beauty, that's right, no breaking wind and mixed company, 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:14.200 and several others. I haven't found the complete list, but 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:15.960 I'll see if I can for you, and we'll we'll 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.120 figure out what the Kami devils don't want you to say. 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:21.120 I'm looking up at the TV. There's a Road Diary. 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:24.440 There's a new Bruce Springsteen documentary that's gonna be on Hulu. 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:28.760 Looks really good. God, I wish I wasn't. I wish 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:32.240 I wasn't so turned off by his politics now that 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:35.680 I can barely enjoy his amazing music that I like 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:36.120 so much. 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:40.640 The berring progressivism of a multi millionaire who's never had 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:41.280 a real job. 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:44.400 Yes, it can be off putting a little hard to take. 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:46.880 And then the other thing they had up there entertainment wise, 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:51.000 Marvel debuts first look at Thunderbolts there's a new Marvel 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:55.120 movie with a with a Is it an avenger or 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:57.800 just a anyway? Looks like an avenger? A new one Thunderbolt. 0:08:57.840 --> 0:08:59.240 I'm not familiar with Thunderbowl anyway. 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:01.840 I get telling me that there's a great new clogging 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:04.439 review making its way around the country. That may be, 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:06.400 but I'm not interested. Oh my kids dig it. And 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:08.440 some of the Marvel movies are great. Some of them 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:10.600 are horrible, but some of them are great. How about 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:14.600 the last three or so? I don't know what's the 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:16.360 one with the girl? The girl one was horrible. 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:20.560 You gotta ask somebody who cares. 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:30.280 Jack Armstrong and Joe The Armstrong and Getty Show, The. 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:36.720 Armstrong and Getdy Show. 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:44.440 Meet Ghana's Yahoo Boys online shortsters who swindle Americans out 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:48.440 of millions of dollars praying on lonely older men over 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:51.560 the age of sixty. The scammers pretend to be white 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:56.079 American women residing in the US, tricking men into falling 0:09:56.200 --> 0:10:00.880 in love with them. They message constantly, laying the attention 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:05.120 and flattery. Then it's more expensive gifts to create the 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:09.560 perception they are independently wealthy. When a victim insists on 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:13.560 a video called Voodoo hires online pawn stars and records 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:17.079 them acting out scenarios that he directs from the mundane 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:20.800 to them all raunchy. If the victim gets suspicious, he 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:23.640 uses the image of one of his pawn stars to 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:28.160 forge an American passport as proof of identity. For in 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:31.440 person visits, they hire escorts who get a cut of 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:34.880 the profits. Building trust can take months. 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:36.680 Yeah, it was a lot. 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:39.240 There was a level of this I had never seen before, 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:43.800 where they really are playing the long game, where they 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:46.400 actually have pictures of women and then if they need to, 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:49.560 they you can actually meet a woman and you think, okay, 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:51.520 well it's actually a woman, and now I've met her 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:55.240 and I've seen her passport, and yeah, that's that's not. 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:58.840 A long great too, it's fantastic. Let's tear a little 0:10:58.840 --> 0:10:59.960 more of this before we come in. 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:05.000 The setup often centers around gone as globally renowned gold mines. 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:08.679 The scammers, still posing as a woman, claim they're in 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:11.960 line to inherit one of these minds. The victim is 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.880 invited to invest in the mind with the promise of 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:19.199 huge returns that will secure the happy couple's future together, 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:24.080 all sealed with a forged ownership document, complete with an 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:25.000 official seal. 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:31.880 That's where it crosses into the really. So now you're 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:34.400 dating somebody hotter than you've ever dated in your life 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:39.440 who happens to be the heir to a gold mine. Hey, 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:41.760 it's about time I got a good break. My ship 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:46.680 came in at sixty five. Yeah, fantastic news. Yeah, it's 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:49.280 just interesting to hear the way the business works. They 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:51.440 invest so much in the long con and then they 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:54.160 convert a certain number of the prospects into customers, I guess, 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:56.199 and so it's worth the money. But I'll tell you 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:58.080 what if I had and I've dealt with this sort 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:03.160 of thing before, friends, acquaintances, loved ones getting scammed online. 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:06.160 And it's tough to watch because it is they can't 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:08.040 see what you can see because I've seen it too, 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:11.040 for whatever reason of love or optimism or what have you. 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:16.000 But if I had a friend who unspooled, you know, 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:20.640 the first sixty percent of that story, and I said, 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:22.079 but have you met this woman? 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:23.320 And he said, oh yeah. 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:25.960 We spent the weekend in La It was great. We 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:27.920 went to the Dodgers game, we took a walk along 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:28.319 the beast. 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:28.920 Fantastic. 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:32.360 We got a long I think, Oh, okay, all right, 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:34.880 I guess I don't know. I was just afraid you 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:35.600 are getting scammed. 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.240 Yeah, because yeah, most of these low rent versions, it's 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:40.320 it's it's some dude pretending to be. 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:43.959 A woman and you've never met them or talked to him. 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:49.280 Is that? And yet there is a hired escort involved. Yeah, 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:52.360 and a really well done passport. They showed it on 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:55.360 a CBS news right, just a higher level of sophistication. 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:58.120 Again though, when it gets to the I'm an air 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:00.600 to a gold mine, Oh my god, how for me? 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:01.520 Wait? 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:04.840 Now, it's Gold's interesting that you, being attractive and an 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:08.800 air to a gold mine need to date online and 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:09.800 you know, to meet me. 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:13.240 But and it's not even like my dad owned two 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:17.080 car dealerships or anything. It's a gold mine, a literal 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:18.160 gold mine. 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:22.760 Anyway, it was in July that the Wall Street Journal 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.480 had a fascinating piece that I kept around, and I 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:29.920 found it again very similar. It actually takes a look 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:32.880 at the other side of the coin of similar scams. 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:35.520 I'll just read the first part to you because it's 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:36.240 really well written. 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:38.880 In late December, Garacha, the rest of his name is 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:42.120 very long, helped lead a small but brazen rebellion. He'd 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:46.680 been enslaved for sixteen months in a twisted new criminal 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:51.000 empire in which Chinese gangsters trafficked people from around the world, 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:54.280 often to remote and lawless parts of Southeast Asia, and 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:58.120 forced them to sit at computers all day scamming strangers online. 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:01.520 The cyber frauds they're forced to committer called pig butchering, 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:04.280 named for the way the perpetrators fatten up their victims 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:06.720 by gaining their trust before taking their money and cutting 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:10.400 them loose behind the scenes, though the scammers are victims too, 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:17.280 and they kidnapped these poor people. Generally, they forced them 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:19.680 to memorize a manual on how to seduce men online, 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:22.240 manipulate them into pouring their money into bogus investments. 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:23.680 And if these guys. 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:26.000 Dare resist or try to get away, they are beaten 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:31.800 and tortured and starved. And then and this guy whose 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:36.480 stage done an uprising was literally taken to a bathroom 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:39.480 stall and tortured for another week. His captors beat him 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:41.720 and said he'd have to scratch up seven thousand dollars 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:44.480 if he wanted to be freed. Finally, and this guy's 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:47.400 all scarred and broken, and finally his family scraped up 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:49.200 seven grand and paid his ransom. 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.360 So he and three others with. 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:55.560 Him were among a few hundred who have made it 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:58.840 out in recent years from industrial scale scam enterprises built 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:02.040 on modern days slave trade, so to the just. 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:05.440 The lonely dating thing, and man, there's a horrible story 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:09.560 out there, similar sort of thing. My main point being, 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:13.960 this guy was getting talked up by a stripper at 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:17.600 a strip club and she offered sex for money at 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:21.120 the hotel. He went to the hotel and got robbed 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:23.240 and then murdered. It's still a mystery as to why 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:25.240 they murdered him, because that seems like a bad idea. 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:30.480 But anyway, in general, if somebody much younger and much 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:33.200 hotter than has ever been interested you in your life 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:36.560 is all of a sudden interested in you, you gotta 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:41.440 be like beyond skeptical. And I understand, I understand it completely. 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:43.800 If I'm sitting at a bar in Vegas and a 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:47.040 twenty two year old super hotty dressed as a short 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:48.760 skirt and high heels comes up and sits next to me, 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:51.520 I just it would be nicer, ver true. 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:53.440 But I gotta know it's not true. 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:55.560 On the other hand, the really is citious part of 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:57.880 this is I might be fully cognizant. Oh okay, she's 0:15:57.920 --> 0:15:59.520 a orking girl, and this is going to cost me 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:02.200 some money, okay, but you don't expect to be papped 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:04.520 over the head and have like everything taken. 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:08.640 Oh yeah, the whole. If the stripper doesn't actually like you, 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:12.760 the super chick at the bar doesn't really like you, 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:15.640 and if you're all of a sudden in a different league, 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:19.240 just put up your antenna like really really high. 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:24.440 Yeah it seems like go or yeah. 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:32.040 A final note on the lonely heart scams, there is a. 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:34.640 The scammers know that. For instance, Christian. 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:38.360 Dating sites are a great place to fish wow, because 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:42.400 if the scammer, you know, says what you say as 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.680 a Christian, there's an immediate level of trust that you 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:47.080 don't get other places. 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:51.600 They are utterly heartless, soulless, and brutal. You know. 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:53.120 It reminds me of what I was going to say. 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:54.920 This is just a modern version of something that's been 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:58.680 around forever. Don't take any wooden nickels. News reports say 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:01.640 there are nickels out there that shiny and silver but 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:04.520 are actually made of wood. 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Florian vang langen Donk, 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:35.639 the Typeay based Belgian photographer wait a. 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:36.719 White who whoa whoa? Whoa? 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:40.680 Don't don't do a story about how the typical traveler 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:46.520 enjoys a vacation and use the example of a Typeay 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:50.439 based Belgian photographer. He has a completely different life than 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:51.920 virtually anybody else on earth. 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:54.879 Who decided every newspaper article or magazine article needs to 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:56.919 start this with Jenny Smith, spread out. 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:59.960 To personalize it so people realize it affects real people. 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:02.719 It's just dumb. I skipped down to the meat of it. Anyway, 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:04.960 I when is peak vacation and I've got a story 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:05.320 about that. 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:10.159 Only you'll get a story about American families having difficulty 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:14.359 making ends meet. Jane Jones has three children and no 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:17.040 husband and a dead end job down at the dairy 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:20.000 Queen and having She says, some. 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:23.600 Days I worry whether I can pay the bills. Yeah, yeah, 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:24.480 the headline. 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:28.800 I know. I know there are people like that. That's 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:31.960 why you wrote the article, Because there are people like that. 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:34.120 I don't need you to give me the specifics. 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:37.200 A one wow, three kids and works at the dairy Queen. 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:41.360 I just don't like her chances can't keep a man either. 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:43.359 Evidently. Anyway, where were we. 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:50.240 Ah, Yes, peak pleasure on vacation, Yes, A twenty nineteen 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:52.880 survey of tourist said an all inclusive resort in the 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:57.280 Dominican Republic, determined that vacationer's average happiness rose steadily from 0:19:57.280 --> 0:20:01.360 the moment they left home, then peaked around our forty 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:03.159 three of the trip. 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:06.560 Really then the first forty eight hours you peak. 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:10.640 That's true about the enjoyment starts even with the shlub, 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:13.639 because you're on vacation, the shlip rather not the slub. 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:17.080 I'm the shlub, the schlub, the slub slip, the slip 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:20.399 away shlub. The enjoyment starts with the schlap. Even the 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:22.359 bags in the car and the uber to the airport 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:22.960 and all that stuff. 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:26.159 There's nothing enjoyable about that. But you're just you're already 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:28.920 on vacation and it's growing and its enjoyment. 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:30.600 All right, So I gotta to analyze this. You leave 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:32.160 the house at eight o'clock in the morning, you got 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:33.720 a couple of flights. You end up at the resort 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:36.000 that you're going to at like four point thirty in 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:39.160 the afternoon, although you left eight o'clock in the morning, 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:42.200 So twenty four hours would be eight forty eight hours 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:43.399 would be eight o'clock. 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:46.320 The next morning, forty three hours to be in the 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:48.560 middle of the night. That's right. Ten, you just had X. 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:54.119 It's five o'clock the second day, you're there roughly. Okay, 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:57.040 that brings true to me. That's the peek, like the 0:20:57.160 --> 0:21:01.360 entire vacation, the greatest thing ever, Honey, you know that 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:02.239 that is. 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:03.680 I don't want this to be true. 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:08.199 Yeah, I'm thinking about this ridiculously expensive Hawaiian vacation. I 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:10.280 went on to not too long, but I don't want 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:12.880 this to be true. But yeah, the you've got there 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:15.320 the second day and the cool place you are is 0:21:15.400 --> 0:21:15.880 kind of that. 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:18.480 This is awesome. Part of it might be the whole. 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:22.040 It seems like the vacation's gonna last forever already at 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:24.640 that point because a week yes, yeah, he doesn't take 0:21:24.800 --> 0:21:27.000 very long into the vacation for me at least, and 0:21:27.080 --> 0:21:28.480 where I realized Jesus half over. 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:31.840 You're settled in, you got the lay of the land. 0:21:32.000 --> 0:21:34.320 Maybe you got a couple of pops in you it's 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:38.960