WEBVTT - You Work My Legs 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:05.680 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:10.739 George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:18.630 and Getty. And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:23.570 --> 0:00:26.670 I cannot wait for the midterm to happen. We get 0:00:26.690 --> 0:00:28.910 the results, and then we move on with our lives. 0:00:29.010 --> 0:00:32.280 I cannot wait. I want to talk about other things. 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:35.100 One of the big issues to be decided in the 0:00:35.180 --> 0:00:40.190 state of Calunicornia is the proposed billionaire tax, which has become, 0:00:40.229 --> 0:00:42.409 according to the Wall Street Journal headline, a hot mess 0:00:42.450 --> 0:00:45.350 for Democrats. They get into the fact that it's more 0:00:45.409 --> 0:00:47.910 or less tied in the polls, slight lead on, yes, 0:00:48.590 --> 0:00:53.510 large numbers of undecided voters. But the governor's against it. 0:00:54.270 --> 0:00:57.050 A lot of big Democratic donors are against it. But 0:00:57.070 --> 0:01:00.380 the Democratic Party of California narrowly voted, yes, we support 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:03.180 it in August. Now the unions are pissed at Gavin. 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:05.400 Gavin's pissed off, et cetera. And you could easily see 0:01:05.459 --> 0:01:09.459 stupid people being against it. I mean, for it. Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, 0:01:09.780 --> 0:01:12.830 the tax is, quote, already a hot mess no matter 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:17.250 what happens, said Katie Porter, the former progressive congresswoman from 0:01:17.310 --> 0:01:18.580 Orange County who opposes it. 0:01:19.410 --> 0:01:21.190 Get out of my shot. 0:01:21.709 --> 0:01:24.760 She doesn't want the tax in her shot, apparently. So 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:28.500 you got the SEIU is going for a giant cash grab. 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:34.709 It is among the most short-sighted things you could possibly do. 0:01:35.250 --> 0:01:38.130 Idiotically so, which I will illustrate in a moment or two. 0:01:38.150 --> 0:01:43.390 But allegedly, ostensibly, it's a one-time 5% tax that would 0:01:43.430 --> 0:01:47.110 apply to the net. Oh, we'll get there. Had to 0:01:47.150 --> 0:01:52.140 laugh at one time. Oh, so clever. Yes, that joke. 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:56.320 It would apply to the net assets of Californians worth 0:01:56.380 --> 0:01:58.880 a billion or more. Rather than income or real estate, 0:01:59.140 --> 0:02:03.200 it would be levied on assets, unrealized assets like held assets, 0:02:03.550 --> 0:02:08.090 such as publicly traded stocks, bonds, private business interests. How 0:02:08.130 --> 0:02:12.570 do you value assets? What's the value of my interest 0:02:12.630 --> 0:02:15.330 in the Armstrong and Getty show? I don't know. What's 0:02:15.370 --> 0:02:17.780 the advertising world going to be? What's the internet going 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:18.600 to do? 0:02:18.620 --> 0:02:18.680 AI? 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:24.180 Nobody knows. Well, intellectual property and art would also be 0:02:24.260 --> 0:02:26.700 taxed at its value, even though you haven't sold it yet. 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:30.400 Wow. And who gets to decide that? Who gets to 0:02:30.419 --> 0:02:31.580 decide what your art is worth? 0:02:32.220 --> 0:02:32.540 Wow. 0:02:32.580 --> 0:02:35.140 A government bureaucrat of some sort. And of course, the 0:02:35.180 --> 0:02:38.210 law includes you're not allowed to move out of the state. 0:02:38.250 --> 0:02:40.590 You have to stay in California and pay. Oh, wait 0:02:40.630 --> 0:02:43.110 a second. Somebody's just telling me in my ear, you 0:02:43.210 --> 0:02:45.550 are allowed to move as a billionaire and leave the state. 0:02:46.490 --> 0:02:49.950 The state actually says it's retroactive back to January 1st 0:02:50.070 --> 0:02:53.560 of this year, 2026, but whether that is legal or 0:02:53.590 --> 0:02:55.040 the courts will permit it is one of the giant questions. 0:02:55.060 --> 0:02:57.660 Can't be. There's no way that could be legal. Anyway, 0:02:57.700 --> 0:03:00.440 so as proposed, a person taxed on $ 10 billion in 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:05.060 assets would owe $ 50 million to the SEIU so they 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:09.040 could enrich themselves because they're a mob. Anyway, so here's 0:03:09.100 --> 0:03:10.739 a funny angle of this, and then I'll get to 0:03:10.780 --> 0:03:11.880 the chilling reality. Yes? 0:03:12.730 --> 0:03:15.270 And if it ends up being retroactive, that just makes 0:03:15.350 --> 0:03:19.720 it more likely more billionaires would leave and never come back. 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:22.760 Oh, yes, yes. Indeed, for reasons we're about to get into. 0:03:23.510 --> 0:03:27.090 But so... This is so interesting, and this is very 0:03:27.270 --> 0:03:30.730 inside baseball, but the good folks at the Hoover Institution 0:03:30.830 --> 0:03:34.730 put out a paper on how this would actually affect 0:03:34.770 --> 0:03:39.470 the revenue picture in California. And you got billionaires leaving, 0:03:39.970 --> 0:03:42.790 cutting the amount that would be collected to a fraction 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:45.090 of what the SEIU and the proponents are saying it 0:03:45.130 --> 0:03:48.540 would be. And then those billionaires are gone. because they're 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:50.820 not going to come back and risk it being reenacted 0:03:50.860 --> 0:03:54.240 or whatever. So they're gone. And if you add in 0:03:54.260 --> 0:03:57.800 the decline in annual income tax payments over time, it'll 0:03:57.860 --> 0:04:01.510 exceed the wealth tax revenue by $ 39 billion, meaning the 0:04:01.550 --> 0:04:06.530 state will lose $ 39 billion if it pulls this ridiculous maneuver. 0:04:06.790 --> 0:04:10.310 In year one? No, it's over a course of, I 0:04:10.350 --> 0:04:17.810 can't remember, several years. A lot more than that going forward, though. Oh, yeah, eventually. Sure, 0:04:17.850 --> 0:04:20.669 of course. But here's the funny part. It's a couple 0:04:20.690 --> 0:04:26.820 of French economists who've advised the French government on their 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:30.640 finances who are saying, oh, mais non, this is a 0:04:30.700 --> 0:04:34.400 good law. Pass this law. We know about finance in France. 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:38.589 We keep our government well financed. It's just too much. 0:04:39.270 --> 0:04:44.740 It's too funny. Hmm. And they're denying that people will 0:04:44.770 --> 0:04:46.860 adapt to the tax, move out of the state or whatever, 0:04:47.060 --> 0:04:49.520 or hide their assets, or like Mark Zuckerberg, get a 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:54.420 new deal so that his assets aren't taxable, blah, blah, blah. 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:57.940 They claim that, oh, no, that would be irrational. People 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:02.690 won't do that. But is it really irrational to flee 0:05:02.730 --> 0:05:05.450 a wealth tax? As the Hoover economists explain, Prop 40 0:05:05.450 --> 0:05:11.270 removes the state constitutional cap on intangible personal property tax. 0:05:12.250 --> 0:05:15.430 So intangibles meaning like stocks, bonds, art, that sort of thing. 0:05:15.910 --> 0:05:19.870 Once that cap is lifted, future ballot initiatives and legislative 0:05:19.950 --> 0:05:23.060 action can build on the authority this amendment to the 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:28.219 Constitution creates to impose additional wealth taxes at any rate, 0:05:28.779 --> 0:05:33.800 at any threshold of wealth. Yeah, I only laughed once. 0:05:34.220 --> 0:05:36.919 It would let two-thirds of the two-thirds majority of the 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:40.250 Democratic legislature extend the tax and lower the income threshold 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:42.490 anytime they want. Yeah, I only laughed once. I should 0:05:42.529 --> 0:05:43.410 have laughed twice. 0:05:43.610 --> 0:05:45.650 I laughed at the idea that this is a one-time 0:05:45.770 --> 0:05:48.010 and then laughed at the idea that it's for billionaires 0:05:48.230 --> 0:05:48.650 because it. 0:05:48.630 --> 0:05:51.650 Will come down over time to include people that have. 0:05:51.589 --> 0:05:54.609 Got $ 750 million, then $ 500 million, then $ 200 million, then 0:05:54.610 --> 0:05:54.950 $ 100 million. 0:05:55.270 --> 0:05:58.050 Who needs $ 5 million in the bank to retire on? Right, right. 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:03.500 Let's just have them pay their fair share. There are 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:05.760 plenty of people who have nothing in the bank. I mean, 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:09.160 it's just so easy to write. So on that topic, 0:06:09.260 --> 0:06:12.430 and this will be the end of the triumvirate of 0:06:12.790 --> 0:06:14.850 a piece of journalism and thought that I wanted to include, 0:06:15.529 --> 0:06:17.989 the dude running for governor of Wisconsin as a Democrat, 0:06:18.010 --> 0:06:21.070 David Crowley, he was in a debate last week, and 0:06:21.110 --> 0:06:23.750 of course he vowed that, quote, those who are making 0:06:23.810 --> 0:06:25.890 enough money pay their fair share. 0:06:26.330 --> 0:06:30.770 God, that's one of the most evil phrases ever. And 0:06:30.790 --> 0:06:32.560 you can only fall for that if you're an idiot. 0:06:33.700 --> 0:06:36.900 How much is enough money? How does he define fair share? 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:40.239 He doesn't specify. Probably has different assessments than many voters. 0:06:41.350 --> 0:06:44.690 Then they get into, let's see, who's this writing? Oh, 0:06:44.730 --> 0:06:48.880 the fabulous Alicia Finley is writing... Wealth and fairness are 0:06:48.890 --> 0:06:50.700 in the eye of the tax assessor, which is something 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:52.740 to keep in mind as Democrats campaign to make the 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:55.940 rich pay their fair share. They rail against billionaires, but 0:06:56.060 --> 0:06:59.700 Joe the HVAC repairman, not Elon the trillionaire, is their 0:06:59.820 --> 0:07:04.080 real target. And they talk about, she talks about this book, 0:07:04.940 --> 0:07:09.490 The Everywhere Millionaire, by Owen Zidar and Eric Zwick. who 0:07:09.590 --> 0:07:12.350 note that most of the nation's wealth is concentrated among 0:07:12.450 --> 0:07:16.200 small business owners. In their view, auto dealers, fast food 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:20.020 franchise owners, plumbers who've hired a couple more plumbers, now 0:07:20.060 --> 0:07:22.880 they have their name on the van. They're the primary 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:27.270 cause of inequality in America, and they aren't paying anything 0:07:27.510 --> 0:07:31.090 near their fair share in tax. And these guys and 0:07:31.130 --> 0:07:34.450 their book is super popular on the left. You don't 0:07:34.530 --> 0:07:36.810 know it just like you didn't know rules for radicals 0:07:36.890 --> 0:07:40.600 until people like us start talking about it. But by 0:07:40.660 --> 0:07:44.620 these authors' calculation, there are 3 million Main Street millionaires 0:07:44.660 --> 0:07:47.560 who own private businesses and, get this, have a net 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:51.630 worth of at least $ 5 million. And they point out 0:07:51.710 --> 0:07:55.170 that's way more money. Because there are so many successful 0:07:55.210 --> 0:07:58.070 people in America because it's the land of opportunity. That's 0:07:58.130 --> 0:07:59.910 who you need to screw. 0:08:00.270 --> 0:08:03.270 So starting next Tuesday night, as I keep saying, the 0:08:03.310 --> 0:08:06.620 presidential race begins and the Democratic Party is going to 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:10.560 be at war with itself over. Is that the ideology 0:08:10.580 --> 0:08:13.580 that's going to drive who gets the nomination? 0:08:14.180 --> 0:08:17.690 Where's it going to be? Somebody more mainstream. So, again, 0:08:17.810 --> 0:08:20.950 if you built a successful small business by the sweat 0:08:20.970 --> 0:08:24.120 of your brow, your risk, you labored for years to 0:08:24.150 --> 0:08:26.880 build it, you didn't have money to buy groceries because 0:08:26.900 --> 0:08:30.220 you were putting it back into the business. Congratulations, you're rich. 0:08:30.460 --> 0:08:33.730 Now fork it over. As Zidar and Zwick tell it, 0:08:33.820 --> 0:08:36.380 owning a small business is, quote, the best tax deal 0:08:36.420 --> 0:08:39.390 in America. And they gripe that these damned Main Street 0:08:39.410 --> 0:08:42.729 millionaires use their political clout to promote lower taxes to 0:08:42.770 --> 0:08:48.319 help them expand their businesses. Oh, no. And accumulate wealth. Oh, God. 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:53.390 And they probably, I don't know, employ people. So, I 0:08:53.470 --> 0:08:58.130 saw a great screed over the weekend on some channel. 0:08:59.950 --> 0:09:03.520 Look at your daily life. Who's causing you more problems? 0:09:04.460 --> 0:09:07.220 The top 1% or the bottom 1%? 0:09:07.220 --> 0:09:08.579 And he goes through a long list. 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:11.780 And I think for most of us, it's very, very clear. 0:09:12.700 --> 0:09:15.960 Who's causing us the most problems is the bottom 1%. 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.660 The person that's causing everything to be locked up at 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:23.600 the CVS, the drug addict laying in front of your store, the. 0:09:23.940 --> 0:09:26.880 Or coming at you with a knife. Exactly. If they 0:09:26.940 --> 0:09:28.700 only laid in front of the stores, that'd be great. 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:29.440 Where do I sign? 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:33.900 Endless examples. You know, sucking up all kinds of government programs. 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:37.080 The bottom 1% causing you more problems or the top 1%? 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:41.080 Yeah. Yeah. I don't... I don't know. 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:41.520 He. 0:09:42.890 --> 0:09:44.370 Blinded by ideology, I guess. 0:09:44.570 --> 0:09:48.940 How you can thank somebody who's got a really successful business. Well, 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:52.140 it's Jeff Bezos' screed that we played a couple weeks 0:09:52.179 --> 0:09:53.839 ago where he talks about the guy who opens up 0:09:53.900 --> 0:09:56.990 a hamburger place and sells, you know, a thousand hamburgers 0:09:57.050 --> 0:09:58.869 and a million hamburgers and a hundred million hamburgers. And 0:09:58.970 --> 0:10:02.010 all of a sudden, these people want hamburgers at that 0:10:02.070 --> 0:10:04.950 price you're happy to have a hamburger you're happy at 0:10:04.990 --> 0:10:08.079 that price you're buying it he's employed all these different 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:12.459 people how you can then turn that into the bad. 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:16.360 Guy yeah it's just beyond me envy it's all envy 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:19.560 And Alicia's final point is that, and she name checks 0:10:19.620 --> 0:10:24.020 a bunch of people, including Abdul El-Sayed, the Islamianist, who 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:31.440 advocates imposing an additional death tax that inheritances should be 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:37.000 taxed near 100%. Wow. He wants to remove the earnings cap. Wow. Yeah. 0:10:37.620 --> 0:10:40.459 He wants to remove the earnings cap on Social Security 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:43.330 to make sure the rich pay their fair share. That 0:10:43.420 --> 0:10:44.110 cap is at $ 184, 000. 0:10:43.970 --> 0:10:44.030 Wow. 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:51.520 Coastal states, expensive states, if you earn more than $ 184, 000, 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:56.520 you are rich. Congratulations. Progressives don't merely want to redistribute wealth. 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:58.760 They want to raise taxes to aggrandize their own power 0:10:58.780 --> 0:11:02.840 and level opponents. They can decide who's fair, what's fair, 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:05.360 and who has enough. Yeah, good. 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:09.619 What do you think starting next Tuesday? Who's going to 0:11:09.660 --> 0:11:15.240 have the momentum, the AOC Bernie crowd or the I 0:11:15.260 --> 0:11:21.200 don't even know who to put in that category. Rahm Emanuel, maybe, 0:11:22.179 --> 0:11:24.360 what's his name from Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro? 0:11:24.380 --> 0:11:28.450 You're going to accuse me of hedging, but you're not 0:11:28.510 --> 0:11:31.710 only wrong, you're way out of line. I think it 0:11:31.770 --> 0:11:36.630 is going to be a battle royale between those two fronts. 0:11:37.500 --> 0:11:40.760 It is going to be a savage battle between the 0:11:40.820 --> 0:11:45.480 Democrat socialists, who, remember, are there to kill the Democratic Party, 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:49.280 not join it. Their wing and the lefties, the Rojanas 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:52.880 of the world, the fellow travelers, versus the reasonable guys 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:55.540 you mentioned like Rahm Emanuel. He could, well, he's by 0:11:55.580 --> 0:12:00.120 far the smartest of the horses in the race. That's 0:12:00.140 --> 0:12:02.480 going to be a battle for the ages. They are 0:12:02.540 --> 0:12:05.750 going to carve each other up. It's going to be 0:12:05.770 --> 0:12:08.209 like Gangs of New York, if you've never seen that movie. 0:12:08.390 --> 0:12:11.469 They're going to be charging at each other across open 0:12:11.590 --> 0:12:14.890 fields with axes and knives and clubs with nails in them. 0:12:19.130 --> 0:12:21.120 I always see that fight scene in Gangs of New 0:12:21.150 --> 0:12:23.620 York and think, I think I'd have just slithered off 0:12:23.660 --> 0:12:25.120 to an alley and waited until it was over. 0:12:26.460 --> 0:12:28.640 I'd have, like, crossed the river to New Jersey and 0:12:28.660 --> 0:12:30.739 tried to start a life there. I don't want to 0:12:30.780 --> 0:12:37.650 get in a Club with nails in it fight. I'd 0:12:37.740 --> 0:12:40.540 rather sit down and talk about it. Listen, you have 0:12:40.580 --> 0:12:46.480 some good points. We have some good points. Right. Whoopsie daisy. 0:12:46.940 --> 0:12:48.420 That's one of my favorite lines from the whole movie. 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:53.280 What do we got to get into? Oh, France. We 0:12:53.300 --> 0:12:54.689 got to talk a little bit about France, which fits 0:12:54.750 --> 0:12:57.990 in with this, actually. Oh, yeah. Please. It's the same story. 0:12:58.390 --> 0:13:00.550 They played an NFL football game in France. They pulled 0:13:00.570 --> 0:13:00.890 it off. 0:13:01.570 --> 0:13:05.200 France had 70,000 cops out over the weekend. 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:08.000 That's a lot of cops. Anyway, more on the way. 0:13:08.020 --> 0:13:08.300 Stay here. 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:10.860 Armstrong and Getty. 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:17.819 Stevie Wonder is suing his ex-girlfriend for living on his 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:26.610 property rent-free for nearly 40 years. The good news is 0:13:26.650 --> 0:13:28.510 he finally realized he doesn't have a ghost. 0:13:37.350 --> 0:13:41.380 So Anthropic put out their official filing for their. 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:45.340 IPO, which might end up being the biggest one in 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:46.280 world history. 0:13:47.260 --> 0:13:51.470 Anthropic is, as it says here, moving one step closer 0:13:51.510 --> 0:13:55.170 today to being the first company focused primarily on developing 0:13:55.190 --> 0:14:00.819 the most advanced artificial intelligence models to go public. Their 0:14:00.860 --> 0:14:05.079 current situation is, in their IPO filing, it shows it 0:14:05.140 --> 0:14:08.060 now generates a little over $ 2 of revenue for every 0:14:08.140 --> 0:14:14.360 dollar spent, which is seen as unbelievable compared to where 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:16.600 they thought things would be a couple years ago. 0:14:18.300 --> 0:14:21.380 Wait, they're generating $ 2 in revenue for every dollar spent? 0:14:21.540 --> 0:14:24.410 On computing, yeah. Oh, okay. 0:14:25.270 --> 0:14:30.850 So, it's own filing once they get through all the 0:14:30.890 --> 0:14:34.250 financials and everything like that. And everybody seems to be 0:14:34.270 --> 0:14:37.540 blown away by the amount of money that it is generating, 0:14:38.100 --> 0:14:41.479 its own filing warns that AI could pose a catastrophic 0:14:41.540 --> 0:14:45.110 or existential risk to humanity. So it's believed this is 0:14:45.140 --> 0:14:48.690 the first time this has ever happened, where a giant 0:14:48.770 --> 0:14:51.609 company announces, hey, we're going to be the next big thing, 0:14:51.630 --> 0:14:56.109 you should invest in this, does pose an existential risk 0:14:56.130 --> 0:14:59.870 to humanity. But that being said, we think it's a 0:14:59.930 --> 0:15:05.070 good idea. Now, it is very possible that the day 0:15:05.190 --> 0:15:07.170 they announce in what is going to be the biggest 0:15:07.250 --> 0:15:11.910 IPO in the history of the world, that they say, hey, 0:15:12.150 --> 0:15:14.990 guardrails need to be put on this industry so that 0:15:15.010 --> 0:15:16.850 it doesn't get out of hand now that we are 0:15:16.990 --> 0:15:22.700 officially the biggest player in town. That could be what 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:28.220 they're doing. It also could be because they're just, you know, 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:32.390 have a conscience. We will all see together, won't we? 0:15:37.010 --> 0:15:39.610 I almost just want to ignore all this stuff. 0:15:39.870 --> 0:15:42.630 I am getting closer to ignoring this sort of thing. 0:15:42.730 --> 0:15:45.500 I use AI every single day, multiple times a day. 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:48.600 I couldn't be more amazed at all the stuff that 0:15:48.660 --> 0:15:52.820 it can do for me. I'm more serious about running 0:15:52.900 --> 0:15:55.180 now than I've ever been in my life, partially because 0:15:55.380 --> 0:15:58.140 of having our friend Darren on about the Iron Man. 0:15:59.430 --> 0:16:00.950 And I've been talking to him a lot. I have 0:16:00.990 --> 0:16:02.920 a running plan for the first time. I've always just 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:06.540 like run, go out and run like Forrest Gump and 0:16:06.740 --> 0:16:08.920 just tried to tough it out with no plan whatsoever. 0:16:09.540 --> 0:16:10.860 And now I have like a plan. 0:16:10.900 --> 0:16:14.060 And he told me about all these different methods that 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:17.550 have been created over the last decades. And so it's 0:16:17.570 --> 0:16:19.630 all about measuring your heart rate and raising it a 0:16:19.670 --> 0:16:21.370 little bit at a time and all the star stuff. 0:16:21.410 --> 0:16:22.670 And I started that a couple of weeks ago and 0:16:22.710 --> 0:16:26.860 it's been really fantastic. And like effortless. And I'm getting 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:29.490 better at it already. So I've got a goal next year. 0:16:29.510 --> 0:16:31.010 My New Year's resolution is going to be to run 0:16:31.050 --> 0:16:33.210 the fastest 10K I've ever run in my life at 0:16:33.250 --> 0:16:38.090 age 62. And so that's my plan for 2027. But 0:16:38.290 --> 0:16:40.430 my point with the AI thing is AI is laying 0:16:40.450 --> 0:16:42.150 this all out for me. And then at the end 0:16:42.170 --> 0:16:43.710 of my run, I put in all my times and 0:16:43.750 --> 0:16:45.370 my heart rate. And it says, this looks good. This 0:16:45.390 --> 0:16:47.170 you should slow down. That you should add in. I 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:48.680 think we're ready to go to this next level. It's 0:16:48.700 --> 0:16:51.180 just fantastic. It's like having a personal trainer. 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:53.800 Yeah, I'd like to go beyond the chatbots and use 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:56.180 some of the agents to really dig into AI. But 0:16:56.220 --> 0:16:57.760 every time I ask it what it could do for me, 0:16:57.800 --> 0:16:59.520 I'm like, I don't need that. I don't think I 0:16:59.620 --> 0:17:04.620 need that either. Yeah. Unless it could exercise for me. Man. 0:17:04.700 --> 0:17:08.070 Could it do the exercising? Where do I sign up? Yeah, 0:17:08.090 --> 0:17:09.830 that'd be pretty cool. I'll just lay in bed. You 0:17:09.869 --> 0:17:12.270 work my legs and make them stronger. I don't know. 0:17:12.630 --> 0:17:14.369 You work my legs? I don't know how this works. 0:17:14.390 --> 0:17:16.250 I don't know how it works. Hey, AI, how about 0:17:16.270 --> 0:17:20.170 a little higher? Use your algorithm. Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:22.050 --> 0:17:26.350 Young people across Europe are protesting. Their spectrum of grievances 0:17:26.430 --> 0:17:30.409 have a common theme. The cost of living is too high. 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:38.619 In France, over 400,000 people marched Saturday, mostly peacefully, until 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:44.850 some turned. With 70,000 police deployed, confrontations were contained, but 0:17:45.070 --> 0:17:46.330 fierce in Paris. 0:17:46.750 --> 0:17:49.530 Not as bad as the weekend before, but pretty damn bad. 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:54.260 And they got into the Coliseum and were raising hell. 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:58.970 I listened to National Review podcasts. They had quite a 0:17:58.990 --> 0:18:03.889 debate over the idea of the peaceful protesters. Similar to 0:18:03.930 --> 0:18:07.090 the George Floyd thing, there are people that show up 0:18:07.109 --> 0:18:09.730 in the afternoon with placards and want to march in 0:18:09.750 --> 0:18:13.420 the street. But then the crazies come and start destroying stuff. 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:17.520 And the debate is over the topic of, if your 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:22.030 movement has turned crazy... Should you stay off the streets, 0:18:22.350 --> 0:18:26.050 or are you contributing to the craziness by engaging in 0:18:26.090 --> 0:18:26.970 the peaceful part? 0:18:27.170 --> 0:18:29.670 And I actually don't know what I think. Yeah, because 0:18:29.690 --> 0:18:33.270 you've got the protesters. They may be misguided or reaping 0:18:33.310 --> 0:18:36.190 the inevitable fruit of socialism, but, you know, they're protesters. 0:18:36.490 --> 0:18:41.070 But then you get the revolutionaries and Islamists, and then, 0:18:41.130 --> 0:18:44.260 as has been pointed out, when they're done, you've just 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:47.859 got the looters, people from Paris and the surrounding area, 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:52.150 who think... I'm not a protester, nor an Islamist, nor 0:18:52.190 --> 0:18:54.560 a communist, but I heard you can smash windows and 0:18:54.580 --> 0:18:56.600 get free stuff when the sun goes down. 0:18:56.740 --> 0:19:00.840 But if I'm protesting, I don't think they should change 0:19:00.900 --> 0:19:05.260 the retirement age or whatever. I'm just doing regular protesting, 0:19:05.300 --> 0:19:06.919 and those people show up. Is it on me to 0:19:07.020 --> 0:19:09.899 fight them, or should I not show up because it 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:11.000 emboldens them? 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:14.139 I don't know what. That's an interesting quandary. Yeah, I 0:19:14.180 --> 0:19:14.940 don't actually know. 0:19:15.510 --> 0:19:17.510 There are some people that very fiercely believe you show 0:19:17.530 --> 0:19:19.810 up to the peaceful protests once they've gone nuts. You're 0:19:19.850 --> 0:19:23.750 contributing to it. You're part of it. You can't say, yeah, 0:19:23.770 --> 0:19:26.850 but I protested peacefully. I don't know that I agree 0:19:26.869 --> 0:19:30.650 with that. That's a good question. 0:19:31.030 --> 0:19:33.070 Kind of all over the place here. 0:19:33.090 --> 0:19:37.890 We got a text about the billionaire tax in California, which. 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:40.480 Is, I don't know if it's going to pass or not. 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:41.859 Got a chance. 0:19:42.940 --> 0:19:46.790 Hey guys, 50 year conservative here. I voted for prop 40. 0:19:46.790 --> 0:19:48.869 That's for the billionaire tax. 0:19:49.310 --> 0:19:49.869 Two reasons. 0:19:50.420 --> 0:19:53.760 Billionaires are primarily leftists in California. Let them have it 0:19:53.820 --> 0:19:59.700 good and hard. Followed by California will supposedly lose $ 20 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:02.820 billion a year when the billionaires leave. I vote to 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:06.300 starve California. Anything Newsom and the unions are against, I'm for. 0:20:08.140 --> 0:20:08.370 Wow. 0:20:09.530 --> 0:20:13.320 It's an interesting theory. Yeah, the unions are actually divided 0:20:13.380 --> 0:20:14.520 on that idiotic idea. 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:17.280 But the idea of California not getting all that tax revenue, 0:20:17.300 --> 0:20:18.540 now you've got to make some decisions. 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:22.820 Okay, so nothing's going to change until the state hits 0:20:22.940 --> 0:20:23.680 rock bottom. 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:25.790 Right, let's help along rock bottom. So let's speed it 0:20:25.830 --> 0:20:26.649 along the way. 0:20:27.430 --> 0:20:32.310 Well, friend, that's an interesting philosophy. Yeah. I just hope 0:20:32.350 --> 0:20:35.859 that the turnaround happens before they come for you and yours. 0:20:36.740 --> 0:20:38.899 So speaking of money and affordability and young people and 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:41.540 that sort of thing, I thought it was interesting. Or 0:20:41.619 --> 0:20:43.060 was there one more thing you were going to squeeze in? 0:20:43.260 --> 0:20:44.980 I can or I don't have to. Go ahead. I 0:20:44.980 --> 0:20:48.570 don't care. Okay. This all fits together. Did you see 0:20:48.590 --> 0:20:49.330 the video? 0:20:50.250 --> 0:20:52.409 I was hardcore on this over the weekend, and I've 0:20:52.450 --> 0:20:55.129 calmed down since then. I tweeted about it. Did you 0:20:55.150 --> 0:20:59.530 see the video of LeBron messing around during the national anthem? No. 0:21:00.290 --> 0:21:00.850 Totally unaware. 0:21:01.430 --> 0:21:04.070 So he's playing for the Philadelphia 76ers, who everybody says 0:21:04.270 --> 0:21:07.600 they look fantastic, although they're very old. But anyway. And 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:11.980 you're aware of the story that the WNBA finals are 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:15.770 going on, and first three games, both teams left the 0:21:15.810 --> 0:21:18.669 floor before the national anthem. Then they come back out 0:21:18.690 --> 0:21:21.550 on the floor and the national anthem's over. They clearly 0:21:21.570 --> 0:21:28.379 do not want to support this country and everything it 0:21:28.400 --> 0:21:32.320 stands for, whatever their message is. I don't know if 0:21:32.340 --> 0:21:34.280 this has anything to do with LeBron, but so when 0:21:34.300 --> 0:21:38.180 the teams are lined up the other night, They're all 0:21:38.240 --> 0:21:41.919 lined up. Now, the baseball teams, it's different. This is 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:43.440 why I've softened on it. Because I was at an 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:45.840 NBA game last night. Watched the Kings game. When the 0:21:45.880 --> 0:21:50.179 national anthem is being done, it's pitch dark. You barely 0:21:50.200 --> 0:21:53.100 can see anybody. And they're online. And a lot of 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:55.360 them are, like, stretching. Because they're about to play in, like, 0:21:55.359 --> 0:21:59.030 60 seconds. And they're, like, stretching and moving around and 0:21:59.050 --> 0:22:01.870 doing their stuff. And LeBron was, like... kind of like 0:22:01.950 --> 0:22:04.379 practicing a golf swing and a basketball shot. 0:22:04.760 --> 0:22:07.320 And he was so moving around so much. 0:22:07.700 --> 0:22:11.050 It really had a, I'm trying to demonstrate how little 0:22:11.109 --> 0:22:13.619 I give a crap about the national anthem. That's what 0:22:13.660 --> 0:22:16.160 it looked like when I saw the video. I've since 0:22:16.240 --> 0:22:18.419 calmed down, having been in a game last night, realizing 0:22:18.700 --> 0:22:22.230 they're in the dark. They're all stretching. As opposed to, like, 0:22:22.670 --> 0:22:24.909 the World Series, which is going on. They do the 0:22:24.950 --> 0:22:28.869 National Anthem. Everybody's standing there pretty much at attention. But 0:22:28.910 --> 0:22:32.470 it's under a bright lights on the lines National Anthem 0:22:32.520 --> 0:22:33.899 right in front of them. It's a little bit of 0:22:33.940 --> 0:22:37.689 a different look. Maybe they make it dark in the 0:22:37.730 --> 0:22:40.070 arena for the NBA so you don't see the fact 0:22:40.090 --> 0:22:41.950