WEBVTT - Would You Like Some High Heels With That? 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.280 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:17.240 Arm Strong and Jettie and Hey Armstrong and Jetty. 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:27.360 American shoppers are looking forward to Cyber Monday after shattering 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:31.720 records on Black Friday. Adobe says consumers spent eleven point 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:34.879 eight billion dollars online on Friday. That's up more than 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:37.840 nine percent from last year. More than fifty five percent 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.240 of those sales came through mobile devices. 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:43.239 Okay, so let's jump into some of that stuff. We 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:48.480 have long mocked Black Friday and Cyber Monday as completely 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:52.720 made up things. Black Friday, going way way back, was 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:55.720 that's when businesses finally went into the black for the 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:57.880 first time for the year and it was never true, 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:02.360 and then built sales around it. Now, the idea of 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:08.080 contriving a day to try to boost commerce is not new. 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:15.120 See everything, Halloween, Christmas, not the Jesus' Birthday part, but 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:19.520 the Present's part. Just to everything, it's just to contrived, 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:23.720 you know, Mother's Day, Father's Day, they're all just they 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:26.200 try to convince us to spend money on a particular day. 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:27.440 Well, and even if. 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:29.760 There was a legitimate creation, like I think Mother's Day 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:33.600 and Father's Day were efforts by nice people to pay 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:35.440 tribute to family ties. 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:38.520 But you know, two minutes later, it's like, hey. 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.120 Wait a minute, we could sell ties today, but so 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:46.800 Black Friday that there. So they often try to slice 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:48.360 it in such a way to come up with a 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:52.440 record to get people exciting, which is fine, And that 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:56.800 one it was online sales through mobile devices were up 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:00.440 more than they have been in the past. Okay, as 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:05.840 often happens, for whatever reason, people do most of their 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.560 spending the first week in November, I mean, the first 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.920 week of December, or the last week of December, or 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:13.520 on Black Friday, or they decide whatever it just and 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:17.440 then it evens out throughout the spending season because most 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:21.800 people are gonna spend x amount, Right, whether you spend 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:24.919 it the day after Thanksgiving or two days before Christmas, 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:27.360 you're gonna spend roughly the same amount. So you gotta 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:29.359 wait till the total numbers come in to decide whether 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:33.120 or not it's been a good season in terms of retail. 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:35.840 And you're looking at consumer confidence and trying to figure 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:37.560 out the economy and all that sort of stuff. You 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:41.240 can't figure out from three days after after Thanksgiving. 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:45.120 But so, what was the origin of cyber Monday? 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.960 Joe, Well, Gladys, perhaps we can cast our minds back 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:50.799 to the early two thousands. 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:54.240 George W. Bush was the president, the War on Terror 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:54.920 was raging. 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:59.560 Good times anyway, everybody had crappy Internet connections at home, 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:03.079 and so retailers in those early days of this century. 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:05.960 Notice that you know our sales spike a little bit 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:09.520 the Monday after Thanksgiving. It's probably because people are using 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:14.720 their office internet connection to shop. And indeed, the term 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:17.839 cyber Monday was coined in two thousand and five by 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:21.640 the National Retail Federation. The reality of everybody having a 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:24.040 super slow internet at home and good at work was 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:27.040 over within weeks of the coining of that term, and 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:29.840 it has been stupid ever since because people can shop 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:33.240 wherever they want, whenever they want with their little supercomputer 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:35.040 aka cell phone. 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:38.600 Right, you can be sitting at your kids high school 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:41.560 basketball game in the stands and shop just as easily. 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:43.800 On your phone as you can at work or at home. 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:47.000 So I like the term mobile device as opposed to 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:50.000 what an immobile device? Am I using a mainframe in 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:55.680 the scenario, or what a computer console like NASA back 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:57.880 in the day. Now even my laptop is like an 0:03:57.960 --> 0:03:59.640 inch bigger than my iPads. 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:02.760 I see cyber Monday is completely phony and silly. 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.120 But if people offer sales on today because they think 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:07.600 they have your attention, I suggest you take them up. 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:08.040 On the offer. 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:12.800 So I see Hassett, that's which which advisor is he 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:13.520 to Donald Trump? 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:13.880 Anyway? 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:16.440 On the economy, he's on Fox right now saying that 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:19.919 the Black Friday spending was up under Trump, so the 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:23.880 economy is good. That would defy the numbers we had 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:26.799 right before we went on vacation. That people in terms 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:29.520 of right track, wrong track, and all that sort of stuff. 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:32.240 We're setting records constantly, people thinking we're on the wrong 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:36.160 track and that their own personal financial situation is bad currently. 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:38.280 But we'll see. 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:40.880 We'll see how the spending is throughout the whole holiday season. 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:42.760 Like I said, you gotta wait till the end to 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:44.960 get an idea whether it was up or down. I'm 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:49.360 not optimistic. Is expensive out there. As I just traveled 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.800 across the country, I was constantly shocked when we would 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:54.920 stop to eat order gas was the only thing because 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:55.800 I live in California. 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:59.120 Once you get out of California. The shocking news. 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:00.760 Is oh my god, this this is what other people 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:03.640 pay for gads. Yeah, but in terms of everything else, 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:05.680 it's just oh my god. And I always say to 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:07.680 the checkout person at the grocery store wherever, I'm a 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:10.560 holy cow, it's eighty five dollars. 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:11.919 And they say, I know, isn't it amazing? 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:16.680 For these years, that's thirty times a day. Yeah, yeah, 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:18.400 until we get used to that. I don't know what's 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:18.840 going to happen. 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:20.799 I do have a question about one news story. 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:23.479 Let me just say this very quickly, having talked to 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:29.200 several people from several different financial strata, there's much more 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.080 caution in the air than extravagance. 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:32.799 I mean, it's not even close. 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:36.000 So I would be shocked to hear that the holiday 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:38.880 numbers turned out to be especially great. 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:40.760 It would be it would be shocking. 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:43.400 It would run against all the polling of how people 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:46.760 feel about their current financial situations, right if it tends 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:48.640 to be a like, a really big number. 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:50.520 So we'll wait and see. 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:52.840 There is one new story that happened while we were 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:54.720 on vacation that I don't understand. 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:56.800 I doubt Joe paid any attention to it, so I 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:57.400 can't ask. 0:05:57.320 --> 0:05:59.320 Him, but I'll bring it up right after we tell 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:01.640 you about this, which is really exciting. 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That 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:34.040 was surprising to me. 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.880 Least blind bad built, buts body that was a surprise 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:38.200 to me. 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:42.240 Yeah, yeah, here's my assumption in k Well, first of all, 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:43.200 do you know anything about it? 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:45.440 I don't, No, I don't know anything. 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:48.400 Although a number of folks who who I no one love, 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:52.520 who are politically aware, were as mystified as you and 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:54.679 I were, and we're all speculating and wondering. 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:55.760 Nobody had a great theory. 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:59.200 My main speculation would be, Oh, that reminds me of 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:01.960 some audio we need to get. My main speculation would be, 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:06.080 now that she's not aligned with Trump, and she's gonna 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:08.280 get a lot of you know, a hate from the 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:10.240 Trump crowd or whatever, she's like, I don't need this. 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:16.320 And she'd been offered various very lucrative positions on boards 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:18.280 or whatnot that you get to do if you're a 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:21.880 high profile personality in politics. But I can make so 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:23.960 much more money, My life will be so much easier. 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:26.080 I'll be under the radar, nobody will know no or 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.320 care who I am. I'm gonna go do that. That'd 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:28.800 be my guest. 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:31.840 Yeah, she's a bit of a whackadoodle, but I don't 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:36.200 think she was born for politics exactly. The theory in 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:39.880 the mainstream political analyst world is that she was gonna 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:44.160 either resign or well or leave office early and run 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:49.240 for governor of Georgia. And Trump and company had polls 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:53.040 that said she would just get shealacked, she would get embarrassed, humiliated, 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:55.480 and they shared that with her, and she got crazy 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:57.840 but hurt about it and said, that's it. 0:08:57.880 --> 0:08:58.480 I'm taking my. 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:00.560 Toys and going home. I don't know if I buy 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:01.720 that she's an odd duck. 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:06.959 But my main point remains that most of these people, 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:10.320 when they're you know, a run out of office and 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.960 embarrassed or worth, they go off to a job that 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:15.400 pays way better and their life is much easier. 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.920 Oh yeah, yeah, agreed. Hey, just asn't a side Michael, 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:21.840 play that clip you just played before just seconds. 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:24.000 Ago, police blind, bad built bush body. 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:28.960 That's Texas's own Jasmine Crockett, who is a crock herself 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:31.080 and a con woman and a liar and a fraud. 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:32.200 I had forgotten. 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:35.640 I was reminded recently that she invented this whole giant 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:39.640 Jesse Smolette thing where she got into she became a 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:41.840 lawyer because she was a victim of a hate crime. 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:44.840 Then it turns out it was completely fictional. Oh really, 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:48.200 she's changed your story since Yeah, she's one. 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:48.760 Of those people. 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:52.400 Just oh, she is such a fraud and every says 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:55.080 that's right, Margie with the last word there. 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:56.600 Yeah. 0:09:56.640 --> 0:10:02.160 She is a great example of the modern social media 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:06.160 driven instagrammer who dabbles as a congress person. 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:11.280 So Donald Trump told the leader of Venezuela, you got 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:12.520 to get out now with your family. 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:13.480 Are you're gonna be killed? 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.640 And didn't he said now, didn't put a time limit 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:19.960 on it. And now he got even more troops and 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.600 more boats close to the coast there. So what's going 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:23.080 to happen there? 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:23.400 I don't know. 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:24.800 We ought to take a look at that at some point. 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:29.840 That whole story, that's spicy. I'd say peace negotiations between 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:33.480 Russia and Ukraine. Russia bombed to the hell out of 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:37.160 Ukraine last night. To me, that's a here's what you 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:40.760 can do with your peace dick negotiations that you know, 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:44.000 middle finger to that, right. I don't know how else 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:47.760 you read that. I definitely have to talk about being 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:49.800 at the airport and sitting on planes on the tarmac 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.480 for an hour, each plane sitting there for an hour. 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:55.000 We need to do something about flying. It's a mess. 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:57.440 It's they're punishing us, they're being mean to us. They're 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.400 holding us hostage, is what they're doing. I was having 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:02.240 my little fantasy of calling a police and saying I'm 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:03.920 being held hostage against my will. 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:05.720 Because I am I am being. 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:08.800 Held hostage against my will for an hour. An hour 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:11.720 is a long time to sit on the tarmac. Well, 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:14.440 you got no case legally speaking. But you could go 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:16.400 on the internet and get a hell of a GoFundMe 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:18.839 going right, and then testified before Congress. 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:19.920 Right right? 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:22.880 A brand come off on Instagram or something. I don't know, 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:25.320 run for office all that anyway, Sell t shirts no 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:29.000 shipping today at the Armstrong and Getty superstore. 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You buy this shirt, 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:46.480 you'll never get it. 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:50.320 We just keep it solp somebody else, no shipping, sell 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:52.439 it again, all right, stay here. 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:54.760 Strong. 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.680 Doctors are warning people to moderate their food intake and 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:03.240 the weeks to avoid so called holiday hearts syndrome, which 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:06.280 is an irregular heart rhythm caused by poor nutrition, and 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:10.439 it's especially bad for Americans around the holidays of Thanksgiving, Christmas, 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:13.840 New Year's President Day, Eastern Mother's Day, Father's Day, the 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.920 fourth of July, Arbor Day, Labor Day, and Tuesday through Sunday. 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:21.079 That's a decent point right there. We got a lot 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:25.440 of various eating holidays that we enjoy, reasons to overeat, 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.040 get together, et cetera. I had a conversation with my 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:31.840 family when we are out at one place about portions, 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:35.600 all wondering why they bring you three times as much 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:37.960 food as you need to eat or even want to eat, 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:38.679 and is. 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:40.359 That necessary to keep customers? 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:43.960 Does that really work on some sort of cycle logical 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:46.560 level that I don't get. Would I ever if you 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:49.040 brought me the appropriate amount of food? But I think, well, 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:51.839 I'm not eating here again, the portions aren't humanious. 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:52.800 Would I actually think that? 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:55.439 I don't think I would, But I'm sure there's somebody 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.800 in the restaurant industry who knows the answer to that question. 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:00.400 I have a feeling that you know, if I'm going 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:03.960 to prepare you a hamburger or normal sized hamburger and 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:08.920 normal sized serving of fries that costs me x, I 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:11.920 can add a like a third bigger burger and half 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:15.199 again more fries for practically nothing, because so much of 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:18.360 it is overhead and labor, not materials, and so you 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:21.800 create the perception of value by you know, instead of 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:23.240 for you know, nineteen ninety five. 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.400 You get a reasonable portion, you get. 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:28.120 An unreasonable portion, and it's fine me as the restaurant 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:29.720 rit It's almost. 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:31.719 Got to be subconscious though, because there's no way the 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:36.680 ship sailed decades ago on the am I getting value 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:41.040 for my money at the restaurant, I think because everybody. 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:45.240 Feels like you can't weigh more than you can eat. Yeah, 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:45.760 I don't know. 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:51.240 I don't know the common man, Jack, not intellectual giants 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:52.800 like yourself, but the common man. 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.440 I don't believe there are very many people that think, wow, 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:58.640 this burger the size of my head and five pounds 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:03.400 of French fries is not an off. But I do 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:06.600 think you're probably right. The cost for giving you that 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.720 large amount is almost nothing, especially like my names. We 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:11.960 were all joking about these pancakes. We went to this 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:15.280 pancake place and these pancakes that were like the size 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.480 of a manimal cover, and there were two of them, Like. 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.320 Who's that for the whole table? They were like an 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:20.920 eight of us. 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:23.280 We could have all eaten some of her pancakes, but 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.720 that cost literally two cents. 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:28.280 Right exactly. Yeah. 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:30.880 To my point, Hey, the greatest haack I've come into 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:33.880 is you, as the waitress, bring the food immediately, say 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.200 can I get it to go container right now? 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:38.360 Yeah? And then then you cut it in a half, 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:39.080 load it up. 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:41.480 And then we got into the discussion of what percentage 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:44.000 of food you take home from a restaurant ever gets eaten? 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:46.720 All right, fairly low? 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:49.480 Yeah, Well, we all do it because we feel better 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:51.360 about it. I'll take this home, That's what I'll do, 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:53.920 and then forget it or or take it back to It's. 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:56.280 Better than jamming it down your gullets. Yeah, you just 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:57.920 gotta leave it there. That's the whole thing. 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:00.440 We're all designed to not waste the food, and it's 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:01.840 hard to just leave it sitting there. 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:06.040 You know I paid for it. Well, am I just 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:07.560 gonna leave all that food sitting there? 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:13.400 But I don't need to eat it, And. 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:15.320 Your caveman anthropological soul says I might not eat for 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:17.040 another week if the herd. 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:19.400 Grows in the other direction. Huh, so I gotta eat? Well? 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:22.000 They eating's good? Yeah, I don't know. 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:24.720 I think that would benefit everybody if our portions were smaller. 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:26.280 But I don't know what percentage of people would be 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:31.000 on board with that. Bring me like that excize hamburger 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.160 that I make at home, but at home, I don't 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:35.720 make a hamburger that this figure around this tall. 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:38.800 Yeah. Yeah. 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:43.920 There's also the reality that young people, particularly young men, 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:47.760 will hammer down a gigantic hamburger, for instance, and a 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:52.360 gigantic servant serving a fries, so they might respond to, 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:53.880 you know, giant portions. 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:55.800 I don't know if I like a lot sure, there's 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:57.400 research on us. I think about this a lot if 0:15:57.440 --> 0:15:58.080 I won the lottery. 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:00.720 There's lots of different businesses I would try, just because 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:03.200 I have questions about lots of these different things. 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:06.400 Try meaning like try to get one up and going 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:07.560 yeah and see if it would work. 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:10.960 And one of them would be we're gonna serve you 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:13.960 like normal portions of what people should eat, and it'll 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:17.040 be a little less expensive, but we won't bring you 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:19.200 eight pounds of fries just so you can throw them 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:20.720 away or we throw them away or whatever. 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:21.720 See if that works. 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:24.160 You live in an area that has like sun city 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:27.320 type developments around it, or a lot of retirees or 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:30.600 what have you, You see that on the lighter side 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:31.800 is a section of the menu. 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:33.640 Hmmm, that's right. 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:35.240 That's what I need to look at all the time, 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:37.560 and I always forget to because at the moment when 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:40.560 I'm ordering, I think I need a five pound chicken 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:42.520 fried steak, right. 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:45.640 Because your inner grizzly bear is still alive and well, 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:46.480 but you're an old. 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:49.360 Guy, come on, and that's why I'm I gained three 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:51.520 and a quarter pounds over the holiday season one week, again, 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:53.040 three and a quarter pounds. If I could keep this 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:54.800 up the rest of the month, I'll I'll be a 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:56.680 look pretty large again. 0:16:56.840 --> 0:17:01.120 I was up three point six pounds a day or two. 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:04.639 I think that's good enough. I mean, all you have 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:07.479 to do is put that peg up there. And if 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:10.800 I lost the couple of pounds deliberately and a couple 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:12.240 of days after that, I'm still the winner. 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:17.240 I know you've got some financial stuff, economy stuff for us. 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:18.640 I think that's good. 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:21.800 Trilemma, Jack, have you heard about the trilemma? 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:23.800 I think that's gonna be something that a lot of 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:27.240 people are looking at during this month because there are 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:32.119 some pretty negative economic numbers that came out right before Thanksgiving. 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:35.159 When we were on the air, People's attitudes are sour 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:39.000 about their personal financial situation, about the country's financial situation, 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:41.880 and whether or not that shows itself to be true 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.119 during this big shopping season is going to be a 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:45.040 big news. 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:49.639 I think, yeah, I would agree. I agree with what 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:51.800 you said earlier that I think people are leaning more 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:54.440 toward a little scared, like this is all gonna blow 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:58.119 up soon ish as opposed to optimistic. 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:01.280 I'll tell you who should be scared, whoever gets elected 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:04.600 president next I will explain. 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:08.239 Oh wow, well, Gavin Newsom, all right, oh please, So 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:09.760 stay tuned for that if you missed a segment at 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:14.119 the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty. 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:16.399 I'm watching the ratings. 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:19.400 People are consuming less news right now because they can't 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:22.040 handle it. But what matters at this point is that 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:25.639 we're losing the ability to talk to each other, losing civility, 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:28.560 we're losing respect, and the public is looking this insane. 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:29.480 To hell with all of it. 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:31.440 I don't want to hear you yelling at each other. 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:35.439 Interesting. That sounded like Frank once it was. 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:38.159 Indeed, Frank LUN's talking about why people don't watch the 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:39.679 news as much as. 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:40.000 They used to. 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:43.000 Although the youngsters are getting their news quote unquote on TikTok, 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:46.760 which means they're getting Chinese propaganda and little else. 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:48.360