WEBVTT - The Best Weekend Talk Show In American Hour One (8/8/2026) 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:15.720 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:19.799 Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:27.680 Armstrong and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty. Thanks for 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:30.360 tuning into the best weekend talk show in America. We 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:33.080 are Armstrong in Getty. If you like what you're gonna 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:35.400 hear here, there's lots of us out there. Look for 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:37.720 Armstrong and Getty on demand. We do twenty hours of 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:38.320 this every. 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:42.520 Week, action packed week too. My gosh, enjoy. We've distilled 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:46.600 it all down to the best weekend talk show in America. 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:48.720 Ross doubt that. If you know him of the New 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:51.600 York Times, he's been a columnist for a while. They're 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:53.880 conservative columnists. He got hired at the New York Times 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:56.880 when he is in his twenties. Still he's a he's 0:00:56.880 --> 0:00:59.880 not your typical mainstream media especially New York Times, are 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:05.560 Washington Post or whatever colonists. He's practicing Roman Catholic, very religious, 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:09.920 but he's not a bomb chucker, sort of like a conservative. 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:13.759 He's like a I was going to describe him as earnest. Yeah, yeah, 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:16.880 very much so. And some of his religious books that 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:18.679 I've read or listened to, him talk about are really 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:20.759 really interesting in that sort of stuff. But anyway, he's 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:22.800 leaving the New York Times. Barry Weiss hired him over 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:28.720 at sixty Minutes to try to balance out their coverage. Good. 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:31.920 I'm happy to see that, man. I saw some pushback 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:34.160 on that online last week that was just oh yeah, 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:40.360 insane about this religious nut job will have had his way, 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:43.479 we'd be living in a theocracy being hired by Barry 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:46.039 Weiss to further blah blah blah blah blah. 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:48.600 Well not only that, but they're afraid that sixty Minutes 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:51.280 might become biased. I mean, can you imagine. 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:54.480 Oh, that's right, I'd forgotten he wrote The Decadent Society. 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:57.600 I loved that book, with a different kind of view 0:01:57.640 --> 0:01:59.960 of what the word decadent means than we usually use. 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:03.400 And that's where we are culturally. But anyway, well maybe 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:05.600 we'll talk about that at a different time. But sorry, 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:06.280 I'm making a note. 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:09.320 That is number eight hundred and six on books I 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:10.680 need to read back to you. 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:13.359 So who is this nut We're about to hear Ross 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:16.560 talking to oh Lordie Jack. 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:22.000 So Ross does these interview podcasts, and this one happens 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.960 to be with a fellow by the name of Samuel Moyne, 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:28.880 who is the Kent Professor of Law and History at 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:33.360 Yale University. He also serves as head of one of 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:38.760 the colleges within the University of Yale. He is an 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:47.240 academic super heavyweight and an important law school professor. Why 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:49.320 don't we just go ahead and play the audio, then 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:54.040 we will discuss. You may drive off the road, so 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:55.640 prepare yourselves. 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.720 I've gotten in some hot water for proposing we consider 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:02.720 overweighting the votes of younger people or a cycle. 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:04.040 Stop it for just a second. 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:07.040 I've got to point out this guy went to the 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:10.600 same voice coach as the guy with the worst voice 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:17.600 in America, kind of that Northeast intellectual, very effeminate, vocal 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:20.880 fry e voice. Anyway, you got to get past that 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:23.040 to listen to his ideas well. 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:24.839 And I know we're not getting to the content yet, 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:28.040 but he just talked about overweighting the votes of young 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:31.080 people like they are the votes would count more than 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:34.239 if you're young. That is his premise. That's correct. Listen 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:34.920 to this, would you. 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:38.160 I've gotten in some hot water for proposing we consider 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:42.720 overweighting the the votes of younger people or assigning the 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:47.280 youngest eligible voters proxy votes for the unrepresented children of 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:51.440 our country. So those are edg why not assign them 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:55.600 to those children's parents. Well, because there's a divergence of 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:59.600 interest between parents and children, and I think it's likely 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:05.160 or that young people, not people who are raising families, 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:10.560 will have the best insight into the interests of children, 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:13.160 whereas if you were awarded five. 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:18.080 Think I think it's absurd to imagine that a twenty 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:21.359 four year old recent college graduate has a better assessment 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:23.600 of the interests of my own children than I do. 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:26.560 And I say this with all due respect to twenty 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:29.360 four year old recent college graduates of whom I hope 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:32.200 to be the parent in nine years or so. I 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:37.400 think parents generally confuse the interests of their family with 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:40.680 the interests of their children. And part of our goal, 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:44.360 I think is parents, but also as a society, is 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:48.279 trying to make sure that children aren't the hostages of 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:51.479 their parents as much as we rely on parents to 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:52.039 raise them. 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:56.560 Well, there's a sentence for you. Wow, there's a sentence 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:58.560 for you. We don't want children to have to be 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:00.800 the hostages of their parents. 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:07.040 Right, and that children have a better grasp of their 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:12.800 needs and self interest than their parents do. Therefore, we 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:19.279 should give the youngest people more votes. Is there any 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:21.919 society like you get two votes because you're voting for 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:25.160 the children who can't vote as a nineteen year old. 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:27.800 Is there any society in the history of planet Earth 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:29.800 that has ever thought that? I mean, you know, you 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:34.839 picture Native Americans and elders and Asian cult no f no, 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:39.960 I did like what he said. Often the desires of 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:43.240 the children diverge from those of her parents. Oh really, 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:46.720 I hadn't noticed that as a parent. Did he say 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:50.960 desires or well, it doesn't matter, Yeah, but what your 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.320 kids want? Oh really, you want to go to Disneyland 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:56.640 and eat cake all day? I hadn't noticed that. 0:05:56.040 --> 0:06:00.960 That diverges from my idea of your best interest. There 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:04.360 are some ideas so insane only an intellectual could have them. 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:09.599 There is a Yale law professor saying that young people 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:16.800 should get extra votes. He is and including children. He is. 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:22.200 Children are the hostage of the family. Our education system, 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:24.240 I mean, I feel like we say this every day, 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:27.119 but it needs to be said with like exclamation marks 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:31.360 and underlined and highlighted and circled. Our education system is 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:35.640 so out of control. Yes it is. This guy is 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:41.000 one of the most influential law voices on Earth, oh, 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:45.000 the most prestigious law universities in the country on the planet. 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:48.159 And he believes the craziest thing I've ever heard. 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:52.159 Yeah, he is something close to I doubt he is 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:58.320 textbook mentally ill. There are probably some plain spoken, common 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:01.760 sensical descriptions for this somebody who's gotten so swept away 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:05.479 by their ideology they're now completely unmoored from reality. 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:08.680 Well, getting back to his first sentence, he wants to 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:12.360 overweight the votes of young people, so the you know, 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:17.280 two young people could outvote three older people or something, 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:20.440 because they they're smart, they're wiser than us. 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:27.720 And indeed children children should be in charge of children's 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:29.800 lives because they know better than their parents. 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:32.080 You know, how long was that. Let's listen to that again. 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:34.840 There's a lot there. There is a lot there. Go ahead. 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.600 I've gotten in some hot water for proposing we consider 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:42.800 overweighting the votes of younger people or assigning the youngest 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:47.360 eligible voters proxy votes for the unrepresented children of our country. 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:51.200 So those are edgy, why not assign them to those 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:56.200 children's parents. Well, because there's a divergence of interest between 0:07:56.240 --> 0:08:00.560 parents and children, and I think it's likelier that young people, 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:05.760 not people who are raising families, will have the best 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:11.240 insight into the interests of children, whereas you if you 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:15.880 were awarded five. I think it's absurd to imagine that 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:20.000 a twenty four year old recent college graduate has a 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.680 better assessment of the interests of my own children than 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:26.480 I do. And I say this with all due respect 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:29.280 to twenty four year old recent college graduates of whom 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:31.400 I hope to be the parent of in nine years 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:31.800 or so. 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:37.520 I think parents generally confuse the interests of their family 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:41.000 with the interests of their children, and part of our goal, 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.640 I think is parents but also as a society, is 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:48.600 trying to make sure that children aren't the hostages of 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:51.800 their parents as much as we rely on parents to 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:55.559 raise them. 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:59.280 Actually makes the witticism that was partially cut off saying 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.280 experience the parents are more the hostage of the children, 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:06.680 which is a funny thing to say. The learned professor 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:09.040 has no children as far as I can tell, no 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:12.120 way that will. I know, it's surprising, isn't it, given 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:17.640 his incredible insight. You know, I gotta admit I'm ed 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:22.920 An r uf In kidding me spot mentally, emotionally right now. 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:28.000 I can't believe this guy is gainfully employed much less employed, 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:29.960 is one of the head guys that Yales Law School. 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:33.880 Well, I came across astonished. I came across that clip 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:37.240 a bunch of different places being retweeted by people I like, 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:40.960 like Joanah Goldberg said congratulations on Ross and Ross for 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:43.560 engaging him in the conversation. I think I want to 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:48.240 just hit him in the head with the microphone. It's like, 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:50.559 you are a numbnuts. But so that thing at the 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.040 end distracted me. We don't want kids to be the 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:56.760 hostages of their parents. But that sentence before that with 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:03.120 the the kids understand and their interests better than the 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:06.920 people in charge of the family or whatever it is. 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:10.920 But what does that even mean? So that's that thing 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:14.560 you always talk about with college professors who think the 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:17.880 nuclear family is a negative. So it's an it's an 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:23.720 organ of oppression. So most of us the family unit is, 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:29.200 you know, that's kind of the highest everything. And he 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:32.319 thinks that gets in the way of the best interests 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:34.400 of the kids, which is so weird. 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:37.560 Yeah, you know, I could parse more of what he said. 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:39.320 But at this point I feel like I'm listening to 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:43.440 the rantings of a madman in my uh my patience 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:44.120 is limited. 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.560 Well, I wouldn't be bothered really at all if he's 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:51.000 just a I don't know, he's just some online guy 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:54.440 that you know, got a PhD in something weird. But 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:57.720 he's one of the most important law schools in the world, 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:01.160 or in law school in America. 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:08.720 Yeah, it's our Nobody like him should be able to 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:13.160 be running anything ever teaching kids, and. 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:14.679 He's at like the highest level of it. 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:17.640 Look, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna tell you to 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.080 say I told you so. But if any of you 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:24.040 thought old Joe Geddy ranting about how completely insane our 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:27.520 university systems have become, you know what, a writen apology 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:27.840 would be. 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:32.920 Great. God, that's crazy. I know, it's crazy. Where did 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:35.839 we have the common sense conversation? Now or two kind 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:37.600 of fits in with that. So this is a guy 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:41.800 that's got so much education that he ignores what he 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:44.160 sees around him, Because I would think that he would 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:48.600 look around him and realize that twenty one year olds 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:52.920 often have really distorted wrong views of the world because 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:55.080 of their lack of life experience, not their fault. I 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:59.040 did too, Whereas somebody who's fifty years old and has 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:02.040 had multiple jobs and raised kids and pay taxes all 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:04.800 this sort of stuff has all kinds of insights that 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:06.240 a twenty year old does not have. 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:10.320 For instance, seen every scam political and otherwise that's come 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:13.440 down the pike and recognizes them and thinks, oh, I 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:17.000 know that one. No, a twenty something, you know, Ross 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:19.400 does that at one point said with all due respect 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.960 to twenty four year old recent college graduates, And I 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:24.960 thought that was one of the most ironic uses of 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:26.000 that phrase I've ever heard. 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:28.840 How much respect is do them exact? 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:30.960 Not? 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:32.280 Anyway? 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:35.559 Yeah, you know, one of the reasons I soured on academia, 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:37.199 and it had some role in me not going to 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:43.839 law school, was that I realized in academia you spin 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:48.800 a line of bull crap, and sometimes it's truth and 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:52.480 exploring science or coming to great you know, you know, 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:54.880 realizations about humankind, but often. 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:55.600 It's just crap. 0:12:56.120 --> 0:13:00.760 And your career depends on you reinforcing your bull crap 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:04.720 one hundred percent and making it more complicated, writing books 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:08.040 about it, selling it to other people, convincing your undergrads 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:11.240 having grad assistants who help you perpetuate your bull crap, 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:14.920 which when if it is exposed to the real world 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:18.640 for like a day, it would wither because it's. 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:23.199 Crap's crap, it's crap, it's crap. That's my point precisely. 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:24.439 And this guy. 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:28.760 Has spun one of the more ridiculous lines of bull 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:31.640 crap I've ever heard in my life. He has attained 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:36.080 great heights of academia. People probably tremble in his presence. 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:41.040 He's so important and he is completely divorced from reality. 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:42.760 Oh, I'm sure if he gives you the nod for 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:44.920 a job or a position in another college or something 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:47.000 like that, it's among the most important things that could 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:47.640 happen to you. 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:49.920 Oh if he writes your letter of recommendation as you're 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:52.720 applying for law jobs, as my daughter is right now. 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.839 Yeah, yeah, Okay, here's everybody do an experiment this week 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:57.640 and let your kids be in charge of everything, what 0:13:57.679 --> 0:13:59.480 you do, where you go, how you spend your money, 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:01.680 what you eat. Then see how it goes. They know 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:03.679 better than you do. You a presser, get out of 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:10.480 their way shanty shop on shron and. 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:13.800 Armstrong. 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:22.200 Heyetty here's your freedom loving quote of the day. Continuing 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:25.680 on our on and off series on Iran. This is 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:28.280 from Zippy Livney Use, a commentator on the Middle East. 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:32.040 Hamas does not represent the national aspirations of the Palestinians. 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:35.880 It represents extreme Islamic ideas which they share with Iran, 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:41.680 Hesblah and Syria. That was back when Asad Ran Sirih. 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:45.200 I think I wonder when that was dated, because Sirih 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:49.480 has changed a great deal a former Islamist now in charge. 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:54.640 Interesting question mailbagot drop us a note mail bag and 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:59.440 I'm strong getdi dot com. Dave from South Carolina writes, yes, 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.680 Jack Trump can call it off and he did. Did 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:04.160 you ever stop to think that he might have a 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:07.560 little more info about this situation than you two chuckleheads? 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:10.800 And is there something wrong with not going to war? Really? 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:13.000 Can I say this with the utmost affection for the 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:13.880 two chuckleheads? 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:15.400 No? 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:19.240 I agree. And a lot of Trump's critics who would say, 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:21.360 you know, he won't listen to allies and he's going 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:23.760 to start World War three. He should be happy that 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:27.360 he didn't pull off the biggest military operation since World 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:30.080 War Two, he said, And he's listening to allies. He 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:33.360 called it off because NBS and Saudi Arabia said, hey, 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:37.440 please don't do that. But the part is the crying wolf. 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:39.960 You gotta stop crying wolf, Daves. 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:43.480 The counterpoint would be, he started a bar fight thinking 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:45.920 the other guy would back down, and when the other 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:49.080 guy didn't back down, now he's left a situation that's 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:53.120 much significantly worse in a lot of ways than it 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:56.560 was before and has no idea what to do with it, 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:57.480 do about it. 0:15:57.560 --> 0:15:58.960 Rather, I am a chucklehead though. 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:04.920 Some folks today is Henry's topic. I was listening to 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:08.440 Jerry Klower's a popular country comedian from the seventies. Jack, 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:10.080 Did you know Jerry Klower's act o? When I was 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:13.160 a little kid, he was on heel. Oh yeah, yeah, 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:15.080 it's gonna say the name is vaguely familiar, but I 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:18.000 was more of a city boy anyway. He said, some 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:21.560 folks today are educated beyond their intelligence. I thought that 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:26.120 explains today's socialists pretty well, educated beyond their intelligence. 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:29.800 That's an actual thing. That's an interesting concept, Yeah, but 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:33.480 it clearly is true. It's a thing. Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely. 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:39.520 I mean, once you surpass somebody's level of intelligence, or sophistication, 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.760 skepticism maybe what would you call it, because it could 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:46.120 be somebody with a fourth grade education who's very, very 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:50.920 street smart. Once you surpass the level of somebody's skepticism 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:57.240 or intelligence, education just becomes indoctrination. You're not introducing ideas 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:00.680 to them, You're just imprinting ideas upon them. 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:03.400 And what is common sense? Has that ever been like 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:06.800 analytically nailed down as a part of intelligence. I don't 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:10.080 think it's one of the They talk about emotional intelligence, 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:12.800 and you know, all kinds of different musical mathematics. I've 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:15.000 never heard common sense. But that's got to be something, 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:16.600 oh star. 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:21.159 Scholarly papers and or you know, thought provoking books on 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:23.480 the topic. But not you'd think at this point in 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:26.280 our lives we would have heard a good, solid sentence 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:29.399 or two definition of common sense, like the sort of. 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:32.600 Person would say, you can't close prisons, not have jails, 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:36.640 that's nuts, right, since the dawn of man, Offer your 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:40.879 own make your subject line common sense in all caps. 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:44.600 If that help me see it quickly, offer your simple 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:49.240 definition of common sense, and we will reconvene perhaps tomorrow 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:52.360 at roughly this time, and share those with each other. 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:54.160 I think that'd be cool again. 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:56.680 The email address is mail bag at Armstrong and getty 0:17:56.760 --> 0:18:00.800 dot com. Here's a great point from Alan from Rosetown. 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:04.639 If Mayor Mumdanni's going to open up government grocery stores, 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:07.760 think about this. And I've been thinking about this a 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:11.440 great deal. Inspired by another learned commentator, I heard if 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:15.639 eggs cost a bodega owner ninety five cents, so the 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:20.160 private store owner can sell them for a dollar, why 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:23.560 not buy them wholesale at the government store that's selling them, 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:26.119 as Mundani claim, is at thirty percent less than the 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:28.800 private owner. So the bodegas just buy them at seventy 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:31.600 cents and sell them at seventy five cents. Government store 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:35.679 will have their shelves emptied by egg sellers. You're exactly right, Allan. 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:37.760 It hadn't occurred to me, and I'm a bit ashamed 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:40.400 of this, having studied this for a long time. There 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:45.240 will be hoarding and reselling because the government proposes to 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:49.359 artificially subsidize, to fix the price by artificially subsidizing it. 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:52.080 And whenever you distort a market by doing something like that, 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:55.840 maybe it's price celings, maybe it's price floors. You cause 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:58.480 people to adjust their sales in a significant way. Well 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:02.520 in distort less is all right? 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:03.800 Oh my god. Yeah. 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:06.879 And so whether it's bodega owners or just I'm gonna 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:11.359 go in there and buy every single ham at thirty percent, 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:13.320 you know, bolow market. 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:15.080 Sell them in the parking lot. Exactly. 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:19.120 I'm going to corner the ham market and then sell 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:21.440 them at a modest profit in the parking lot. 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:24.720 Why he wouldn't die, honey, This is only four hundred dollars. 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:27.240 Why didn't we make more? I ate half the ham 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:28.720 tied cornered. 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:33.879 The market than I ate the market shown getty shop 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:40.080 arm showing. Jack just sent me. We were talking about 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:45.520 this not too long ago. This transgender player dominating Frank 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:53.960 pardon basketball. Yeah, yes, this transgender player dominating France's second 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:58.959 tier women's basketball league and now the WNBA is is 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:02.840 not out of question. I mean, he is is clearly 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:06.680 heading toward I mean he he's a hell of a woman. 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:11.359 I mean, this woman deserves our respect. He averaged twenty 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:13.920 one points and twenty rebounds, swept Player of the Year, 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:16.960 Defensive Player of the Year and uh Domestic Player of 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:18.760 the Year. Meeting French Player of the Year in the 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:21.840 French League after a record breaking campaign and won't rule 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:25.400 out a run at the WNBA, proving once again men 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:27.160 are better at being women than women. 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:29.600 And he got a couple of coaches in recent days 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:34.359 because of the whole Maga Barbie Sophie Cunningham thing. I 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:36.520 don't like that term. I just that's what they call her. 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:39.720 And the coach is coming out and saying, I believe 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:42.120 in inclusivity. So yeah, guys should be able to play 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:44.720 trans women should be able to play in a league. Okay, 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:46.879 you just set it out loud. Well, here he comes 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:50.800 and on your bluff, Yeah, here he comes. And are 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:53.080 you not gonna sign him because would he make your 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:57.000 team better or not? Clearly yes, of course yeah, because 0:20:57.280 --> 0:21:01.080 he's a man, is a very big if you don't 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:03.400 sign him up for your team, what's the reason? 0:21:03.480 --> 0:21:06.560 Exactly? And muscular too. I wish I had arms like 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:11.159 that woman anyway, who is a man? The idea that 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:15.879 that is Looney Tunes is just common sense. And we 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:18.720 were talking about common sense the other day and talking 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:21.480 about a definition for it, and I threw it out 0:21:21.480 --> 0:21:24.040 to you good people to find common sense for us. 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:25.960 Thought I'd run through a handful of those. I have 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:27.520 my own, Jack, I don't know if you have one 0:21:27.600 --> 0:21:29.919 or or could craft one. Well, just to set it 0:21:30.000 --> 0:21:32.960 up what I've always been hearing this your whole life. Yeah, 0:21:32.960 --> 0:21:35.360 he's book smart, but he doesn't have any common sense. Well, 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:38.000 I've never heard did they qualify that as one of 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:40.320 the kinds of intelligence now that we've broken it down 0:21:40.359 --> 0:21:48.400 to emotional intelligence? Or what are some of the other ones? Mathematical, spatial, musical, right, 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:51.719 athletic intelligence, which is the brain communicating with the muscles. 0:21:51.720 --> 0:21:55.440 It's absolutely a form of intelligence. Is there one that's 0:21:55.480 --> 0:21:57.679 just common sense? Right? Yeah? 0:21:57.800 --> 0:22:00.320 Such an interesting question. I'm going to kick it off 0:22:00.640 --> 0:22:04.800 the various attempts with our good, good old friend Paul, 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:08.520 former colleague Paul Robbins, just one of the best people 0:22:08.560 --> 0:22:12.240 we've worked with, and he's quoting from the book Being Logical, 0:22:12.280 --> 0:22:14.720 A Guide to Good Thinking by d Q Mcinernie, which 0:22:14.760 --> 0:22:16.680 I don't know, but I'm going to dig into. 0:22:17.880 --> 0:22:18.520 Common sense. 0:22:18.600 --> 0:22:21.120 Is that homey, everyday type of reasoning which is born 0:22:21.200 --> 0:22:24.200 out of an alert awareness of and respect for the obvious. 0:22:24.520 --> 0:22:28.440 It is characterized by the unfailing capacity consistently to distinguish 0:22:28.480 --> 0:22:31.719 between a cat and a kangaroo. I don't know that 0:22:31.840 --> 0:22:34.640 last part, but anyway, thank you for that. 0:22:34.880 --> 0:22:37.520 Grasping the obvious, because the reason we got into this 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:41.800 conversation was talking about how can these socialists believe these things? 0:22:42.240 --> 0:22:45.760 That whatever that first phrase was, you'd think looking around you, 0:22:45.760 --> 0:22:49.280 you'd recognize this doesn't make any sense, right, this is 0:22:49.280 --> 0:22:51.240 this could never work? Yeah, right, right? 0:22:51.920 --> 0:22:54.399 And which you know, I'm going to end with mine, 0:22:54.640 --> 0:22:56.920 which is only ten words long. I think I kind 0:22:56.920 --> 0:23:01.199 of correctly. My mathematical intelligence is unimpressive. Let's see how 0:23:01.240 --> 0:23:04.040