Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty arm Strong, and Gatty.
Speaker 3: I know he.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Yetty, you gotta remember this. He got off easy.
Speaker 2: I think we both know.
Speaker 4: If I was in the race, I want to beat you.
Speaker 2: Like a drum.
Speaker 4: Joe.
Speaker 5: That's one of the craziest things I've ever heard anyone say.
Speaker 5: And for that reason, I'd like to offer you a
Speaker 5: position in my cabinet.
Speaker 4: No can, dude, Jack, you need to make take a
Speaker 4: little time off from his place.
Speaker 2: What do you think you'll do next, Joe? Will you retire?
Speaker 2: I'll do what every worn down old guy does. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna fight chick Paul.
Speaker 1: That was pretty good cold open, I thought I thought
Speaker 1: that was pretty funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're discussing off the air, Like everywhere we went,
Speaker 2: everybody's talking about that fight.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, kids, old women, no matter who I came
Speaker 1: in contact with, people were talking about the.
Speaker 2: Mike captured America's imagination. Jack, it did. Why do you
Speaker 2: think that was really?
Speaker 1: And it's interesting Mike Tyson, who was a villain ish
Speaker 1: at least in his prime. I mean, he needed to
Speaker 1: go to prison for rape and uh, big guy's ear
Speaker 1: off and all that sort of stuff. He'd been arrested.
Speaker 1: He'd been arrested in a thirty good list already thirty
Speaker 1: five times by the time he was sixteen or something
Speaker 1: like that. And he had a rough life. But now
Speaker 1: he needs to get a grill going, like George Foreman.
Speaker 1: He needs to have some sort of thing to cook
Speaker 1: hot dogs or something, because he seems to be somewhat
Speaker 1: beloved for whatever reason.
Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of the snoop dogg syndrome. I gassy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's got to find an alternative to get a hit
Speaker 2: in the head for a way to make money. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Man, he got punched in the face several times and
Speaker 1: after words and they ask him if you fight again?
Speaker 1: I thought surely he would say no way, because he
Speaker 1: looked to me like when he sat down after that
Speaker 1: first round, the look on his face to me was
Speaker 1: this was a terrible idea. I don't know what I
Speaker 1: was thinking. He was so tired. Uh, even after the
Speaker 1: first two minutes, he was just shot. And I don't
Speaker 1: care if you're Mike Tyson.
Speaker 2: Getting hit in the head is different at age sixty
Speaker 2: than it was at age twenty five. That's an interesting point.
Speaker 2: It's funny.
Speaker 1: I hadn't even thought about that because, like when I
Speaker 1: fall off my kids skateboard or whatever, the way it
Speaker 1: rocks your world versus you know, falling off your bike
Speaker 1: when you're younger, it's completely different. I don't know if
Speaker 1: the like juice that keeps your brain safe gets.
Speaker 2: Staff for what happens. But your brain juice tries, Now
Speaker 2: that's exactly what everyone knows. That's what happens. Your brain
Speaker 2: juice to just coragulates. It just doesn't work the same way.
Speaker 2: I grew up playing hockey, played in college and stuff
Speaker 2: like that. Not college hockey, but I was playing club
Speaker 2: hockey in college, and and you know, you get bonked
Speaker 2: in the head and falling the ice whatever. I was skating,
Speaker 2: and this was probably fifteen years ago, gladys, and I
Speaker 2: was doing some of the fancier skating stuff you do
Speaker 2: as a hockey player, you know, changing direction, going for
Speaker 2: forward to backward and back again real fast. And I
Speaker 2: got my skates tied up and I fell and bonked
Speaker 2: my head mediumsh hard on the ice. And that was
Speaker 2: my first reaction. Oh my god, that was different. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: so yeah, anyway, getting slugged in the head can't have
Speaker 2: been enjoyable. Has Tyson never done a one man show?
Speaker 2: I don't. Yeah, he did have an idea of that.
Speaker 1: He had a Tyson show for a while, think of Vegas.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, he he had four hundred million dollars at the
Speaker 1: peak of his career. He threw a combination of being
Speaker 1: stolen from which is the history of boxing, and really
Speaker 1: bad life decisions. He ended up twenty some million dollars
Speaker 1: in debt, which he's climbed out of, and he had
Speaker 1: a big payday the other night, somewhere between twenty and
Speaker 1: forty million dollars. So I'd get punched in the head
Speaker 1: quite a few. I mean, if you could get anywhere
Speaker 1: close to that kind of money for one more head punch,
Speaker 1: and I would do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, but he looked he did. He was not
Speaker 2: competitive in any way whatsoever. Yeah. Well, I hesitate to
Speaker 2: give it any more time or attention. But I think
Speaker 2: the reason it was so compelling is you got the
Speaker 2: question of Ken a incredibly tough, strong, capable boxer, still
Speaker 2: show some of that as he ages, because we all
Speaker 2: want to not age, and so you've got that, like
Speaker 2: very basic human instinct. Then you got a guy and
Speaker 2: Jake Paul really needs to get punched in the face.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, love to see him get punched in the
Speaker 1: face more. Unfortunately, Tyson landed seventeen total punches.
Speaker 2: By whomever in whatever setting just so he gets punched.
Speaker 2: So yeah, interesting.
Speaker 1: Oh when Jake Paul came riding out in that car
Speaker 1: with his brother whatever where his brother's name is, who
Speaker 1: made the prime energy drink, the crack dealer that got
Speaker 1: every kid hooked on that horrible drink?
Speaker 2: Just he couldn't hate those two more.
Speaker 1: Oh, anyway, speaking to people to hate, some of you
Speaker 1: hate Matt Gates, some of you love Matt Gates as
Speaker 1: the new Attorney General. As from what I can tell
Speaker 1: from social media, speaker Johnson, who does not want the
Speaker 1: Ethics Committee report to be released, was supposed to come
Speaker 1: out last Friday. Matt Gates resigned on Wednesday just a
Speaker 1: coincidence and doesn't want some import release because he thinks
Speaker 1: it would be a bad President had this to say
Speaker 1: about Matt Gates yesterday.
Speaker 6: Matt Gates is a colleague of mine. We've been serving
Speaker 6: together for more than eight years. He's one of the
Speaker 6: brightest minds in Washington or anywhere for that matter, and
Speaker 6: he knows everything about how the Department of Justice has
Speaker 6: been weaponized and misused, and he will be a reformer.
Speaker 6: And I think that's why the establishment in Washington is
Speaker 6: so shaken up about this pick.
Speaker 1: Maybe at least three Republican senators that I've seen, I
Speaker 1: don't know how many on the record, but at least
Speaker 1: three Republican senators I've seen said they want that House
Speaker 1: Ethics Committee report to be part of the hearing. They
Speaker 1: want to see it, even if it is not made
Speaker 1: public reporting over the weekend. So the whole thing is
Speaker 1: not leaked out yet. I thought it would leak out Friday,
Speaker 1: but it has not yet. But little nuggets have leaked out,
Speaker 1: like they did talk to a girl who testified to
Speaker 1: the House Committee that she saw Matt Gates have sex
Speaker 1: with an underage girl and then some other girl who
Speaker 1: may have been of age, but he had sex with
Speaker 1: two different women at that party who were like seventeen
Speaker 1: and nineteen. So I mean that's a certain lifestyle right there.
Speaker 1: Sex with two different girls in one night at a party,
Speaker 1: both of them barely teenagers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they're still teenagers. But yeah, to the
Speaker 2: House Ethics Committee question, Johnson went on to say, look,
Speaker 2: we don't put out reports on private citizens who are
Speaker 2: not members of Congress. So no, we're not going to
Speaker 2: put that out. It's justifiable. Right. On the other hand,
Speaker 2: it's been pointed out that if you're going for ag
Speaker 2: the investigation into you, the what's the background term background check? Right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: of course is incredibly rigorous. It should be. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 2: as it should be. But Johnson's strategy there in which
Speaker 2: he recognizes, all right, this is an incredibly bright guy
Speaker 2: who the quote was he knows how the Justice Department
Speaker 2: has been weaponized that may or may not be true.
Speaker 2: That was respectful to Donald Jay's selection of the guy,
Speaker 2: and then let's let the process continue, he says, knowing
Speaker 2: that the senators, who jealously guard the powers of the
Speaker 2: Senate as Congress ought to start going, is going to
Speaker 2: vet the guy good and thoroughly. So there's no reason
Speaker 2: for Johnson to say, I don't know, it seems like
Speaker 2: kind of a perv to me. I want him to
Speaker 2: stay away from my wife. There's no need for that.
Speaker 2: The Senate will do the tough work, but be respectful
Speaker 2: to Trump.
Speaker 1: Well after bouncing around a fair amount of magas social
Speaker 1: media over the weekend. I see that many of you
Speaker 1: believe all this stuff about I him and sex with
Speaker 1: a teenage girl is just the deep State doing what
Speaker 1: they do with fake news and bringing people down.
Speaker 2: So that's not going to have any effect on you.
Speaker 2: This report and the deep State forced him to go
Speaker 2: on the House of Floor and show videos of girls
Speaker 2: he'd coupled with to colleagues who didn't want to see them.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess you'd believe Mullen is part of the
Speaker 1: deep State, I guess.
Speaker 2: Said Mullen. Yeah, yeah, okay, all right, ran into some
Speaker 2: folks who were of that mind over the weekend, super
Speaker 2: supportive of all the picks. All the tick. Was very
Speaker 2: little gentle bit of pushback in some cases because you
Speaker 2: get bubbled. I mean, for instance, the whole Rick Scott
Speaker 2: should be the leader of the Senate, not John Thune.
Speaker 2: John Thune is a Rhino, which I still think is
Speaker 2: a really odd accusation because he's like a complete central
Speaker 2: casting Republican. He's exactly what a Republican has been for
Speaker 2: twenty five years. Trump is not, so to call Thune
Speaker 2: a Republican in name only, is that. I get what
Speaker 2: you're trying to say, but it's an odd epithet to
Speaker 2: hit him with. But it was pointed out that Thune
Speaker 2: voted in a favor or with Trump a significantly higher
Speaker 2: percentage of the time than Rick Scott did both was
Speaker 2: an overwhelming majority of the time. But and you know,
Speaker 2: the people I talked to had no idea of that,
Speaker 2: So I don't know. We are interesting times.
Speaker 1: We have a result in the Pennsylvania Senate race. It
Speaker 1: took till now for them to finally count all the
Speaker 1: voids votes. Man, this is a close race. Thank god
Speaker 1: the presidential election didn't go down the way a lot
Speaker 1: of people were predicting it would, where it would come
Speaker 1: down to Pennsylvania or we would be finding out today. Well, no,
Speaker 1: we wouldn't because it would be way more lawsuits. We
Speaker 1: would still be in the midst of lawsuits and all
Speaker 1: kinds of claims of vote voter fraud and everything else.
Speaker 2: Because it was so close.
Speaker 1: But they've called it for the Republican McCormick over the
Speaker 1: Democrat Casey who ran ads about how friendly he was
Speaker 1: with Trump to try to win. But forty eight point
Speaker 1: eight percent to forty eight point six percent.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's a close race. Doesn't that trigger an automatical
Speaker 2: recall or not recount? I don't know.
Speaker 1: The automatic rec is a very tiny amount of percentage
Speaker 1: in money, So I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know. We'll see. I'm glad.
Speaker 1: I'm glad the presidential race didn't go down like that.
Speaker 1: We would be living in a different world right now.
Speaker 2: So oh yeah, oh oh, it'd be horrible, absolutely horrible.
Speaker 2: We really dodged yet another bullet. So speaking of the election,
Speaker 2: putting the results aside, one of the things that made
Speaker 2: me really really happy is the trend is absolutely clear.
Speaker 2: It's much less and less about race because racial politics balkanization.
Speaker 2: You want to end up like Lebanon for instance. Oh,
Speaker 2: it's the worst thing. Uh, It's it's about class now
Speaker 2: in a way that's really interesting. Some of the statistics
Speaker 2: about the why the working class is saying the Democrats, Yeah,
Speaker 2: we tried you, we want something different. We'll have for
Speaker 2: you in a moment. Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 1: Realignment, something to watch, stay with us.
Speaker 3: Machel has apologized after mistakingly printing the web address of
Speaker 3: a porn site on the packaging of its new Wicked Dolls.
Speaker 3: It was actually a simple mistake. You see, the box
Speaker 3: was supposed to read wickedmovie dot com, but instead they
Speaker 3: printed choke me, Jeff Goldlin.
Speaker 2: It's a mistake. That's a nod.
Speaker 1: So ODSSA Friday night, Are we gonna get our Elon
Speaker 1: Musk Zuckerberg fight? Seems like that'd be the next good Netflix.
Speaker 1: Everybody gather around as kind of a national Friday night thing,
Speaker 1: watch a couple of billionaires beat each other up.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think Elon's a little busy reigning in the
Speaker 2: federal government at this point, no kidding, two point three
Speaker 2: million employees. I would love to follow him around.
Speaker 1: So he seems to be constantly working on his rocket company.
Speaker 2: He's got twelve kids. I don't know if that plays
Speaker 2: a role in his life at all. I give the
Speaker 2: idea not a huge one.
Speaker 1: He's on Twitter constantly also, and then he's at the
Speaker 1: fight with Trump and then mar A Lago for days
Speaker 1: and I just can't even imagine.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, well, he famously his mind never slows down.
Speaker 2: He's made it clear this would make most people crazy,
Speaker 2: and I think it has made him a little crazy.
Speaker 2: But anyway, so the big change in the election that
Speaker 2: we'll be talked about for years and years is not
Speaker 2: just the winners and losers, but the fact that Black
Speaker 2: American Hispanic America moved significantly rightward. I mean, the Democrats
Speaker 2: still get the majority of the black vote, for instance,
Speaker 2: but it's changing, and it's changing pretty quickly. And you know,
Speaker 2: it's easy for us and people like us to forget that.
Speaker 2: Most people don't think about politics that much. I've been
Speaker 2: yelling for Black America to reconsider this unholy alliance with
Speaker 2: the Democratic Party, which is just exploited the black vote,
Speaker 2: assumed the black vote, and giving you nothing but empty
Speaker 2: promises and government dependents for decades and decades. Now it
Speaker 2: appears that, I don't know, perhaps people are starting to
Speaker 2: connect elections with policy with outcomes in a way that
Speaker 2: you know is too slow for me, but I get it.
Speaker 2: And the journal with the Wall Street Journal was some
Speaker 2: pretty interesting analysis of the fact that it's now about
Speaker 2: class and not race. If you're working class, you are
Speaker 2: swinging way towards the Republicans and it doesn't matter what,
Speaker 2: Hugh your skin is. Thank god, I'm so happy about that.
Speaker 2: And not just because it's Republican. I mean it could
Speaker 2: be Democrat too. Let's just not have like hugely important
Speaker 2: racial politics in this country.
Speaker 1: Please, for a number of reasons, including I think you're
Speaker 1: much more likely to get policy discussions if you're talking
Speaker 1: about people of different income situations than their skin color. Well,
Speaker 1: you make the claim of racism is so easily right.
Speaker 2: And they quote Aaron Waters, who's the first gent they
Speaker 2: quote in this article, who's a black construction worker union
Speaker 2: member in Chicago who voted for Trump after voting for
Speaker 2: Biden and Obama in past elections, and he says, race
Speaker 2: is not an issue for me. It's about what you
Speaker 2: can do for each and every one of us as
Speaker 2: a whole, as a US citizen. Now, the reason that's important,
Speaker 2: getting back to my berating you know, quote unquote black America,
Speaker 2: is that guys like Aaron are saying, no, you can't
Speaker 2: say I'm down with the black folks, so vote for me.
Speaker 2: What are you gonna do? What are your policies? That's phony.
Speaker 2: He's realized it's well, it's phony. It's it's putting you
Speaker 2: in a pen. And I've always hated that. But came
Speaker 2: across a couple of interesting statistics about this this question.
Speaker 2: And here's an associate professor of political science at the
Speaker 2: University of South Carolina. He says, quote, this is the
Speaker 2: shock of the early twenty first century. This this big move.
Speaker 2: Thirty years ago, Americans with a college degree was twenty
Speaker 2: percent of the population twenty percent thirty years ago now
Speaker 2: and held the same percentage of house hold wealth as
Speaker 2: those without a degree, so outsized. But it was like
Speaker 2: fifty to fifty the wealth. So twenty percent had college
Speaker 2: degrees and they had half the wealth. Now it's thirty
Speaker 2: eight percent of the population has college degrees. It's almost
Speaker 2: doubled in thirty years. Many of them useless, but anyway,
Speaker 2: and seventy three percent of the household wealth. So the
Speaker 2: you know other sixty two percent of the population that
Speaker 2: has twenty seven percent of the household wealth is starting
Speaker 2: to think, Hey, this system isn't really set up for me,
Speaker 2: regardless of color.
Speaker 1: I want to talk a little more about that. I
Speaker 1: have several things to say on that topic and a
Speaker 1: couple other examples of the changing world for the way
Speaker 1: we look at you know, what we were not of government,
Speaker 1: and whether it's serving me or you or a one
Speaker 1: percent or whoever.
Speaker 2: I that we will get to So hope you can stick.
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Speaker 2: You should subscribe as the word Armstrong and Getty. Come on,
Speaker 2: let's be real, man, this place is great. I have
Speaker 2: so many wonderful memories here.
Speaker 4: Doctor Gil Houston, foreign leaders, my dog attacking every single one.
Speaker 2: I brought my party.
Speaker 4: Together so much they teamed up and kicked me out.
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, maybe I hate it here too.
Speaker 5: No, Joe, I know it's awful, but I can't go
Speaker 5: back tomorrow, Lago Joe, because Elon is there and he
Speaker 5: will not leave.
Speaker 2: It's like, what about Bob.
Speaker 5: He's walking around in his bathing suit showing me videos
Speaker 5: or rockets and monkeys with computers in their heads.
Speaker 7: This guy's crangef That guy's trump is so good. I
Speaker 7: thought I really liked the Sarah Alive. I thought it
Speaker 7: was pretty good.
Speaker 1: It was just an equal opportunity making fun of the
Speaker 1: whole thing. And I also liked During the News because
Speaker 1: I like stupid sketch comedy and having Peanut the Squirrel's
Speaker 1: widow on.
Speaker 2: I thought I didn't see that yet, Oh man, Sarah.
Speaker 1: Sherman is peen at the Squirrel's widow so you were
Speaker 1: what were you.
Speaker 2: Just talking about? You were talking about what how race
Speaker 2: has been deemphasized in a big hurry in American politics.
Speaker 2: I mean, it'd still be an emphasis because it's useful,
Speaker 2: but it's all about class and all about economic aspiration. Really. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So a couple of things on that.
Speaker 1: Peter Thield, the billionaire interesting dude, you know who he is,
Speaker 1: tweeted out over the weekend that Trump's win exploded the
Speaker 1: lie of identity politics. If you believe that people cannot
Speaker 1: listen to reason and it's all subject to these sub
Speaker 1: rational factors like your race, or your gender, or you're
Speaker 1: sexting or your sexual orientation or something like this, nobody
Speaker 1: would ever be able to change their mind. You exploded
Speaker 1: the lie of identity politics with this election, I hope.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 2: I don't know, they're almost well, not almost.
Speaker 1: Almost always always it's always overstated after every election of
Speaker 1: my life, every presidential election, of how things have changed
Speaker 1: permanently in some way. But this has got to be
Speaker 1: a nod toward the right direction. I thought it was interesting.
Speaker 1: Ian Bremmer tweeted this out, and I think it factors in. Also,
Speaker 1: globalism has been an abject failure, benefiting a small group
Speaker 1: of elites to the expense of broader populations across the West. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it varies from country to country, but that's certainly the
Speaker 1: way it feels to the average person. So you're being
Speaker 1: you know, taught this whole Tom Friedman, the world is flat.
Speaker 1: N't this great for everybody?
Speaker 2: Thing? But that's certainly not what it feels and looks like. Well, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: and it's it's a complicated set of interactions. But yeah,
Speaker 2: if the manufacturing jobs can be done more cheaply over there,
Speaker 2: and you become the paper shuffling people because you're really
Speaker 2: good at shuffling paper, dealing with data whatever, well those
Speaker 2: jobs don't be nearly as much. And as the well
Speaker 2: arising tide lifts all ships, well it runs the guys
Speaker 2: running the ships. Mostly it rises their you know, financial
Speaker 2: well being.
Speaker 1: And Ian Bremer said, and it's true. Citizens and democracies
Speaker 1: all around the world are punishing the proponents of globalism.
Speaker 1: The United States is not unique, explaining you know why
Speaker 1: people abandon some of their race politics for just uh,
Speaker 1: you know, my own pocketbook.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's a delicate balance. If you go very
Speaker 2: far and all down the road of uh, industrial planning
Speaker 2: and government control and that sort of thing. It's it's
Speaker 2: a miserable failure. But to completely ignore the question of
Speaker 2: a your people's standard living and be your national security.
Speaker 2: But here's an honest here's an honest quest. Mean, because
Speaker 2: we're relying on China for our pharmaceuticals and computer chips
Speaker 2: or or whatever, is an idiotic thing to do.
Speaker 1: Here's a question about you're talking about college graduates having
Speaker 1: so much bigger chunk of the national wealth. And it's
Speaker 1: always been true, but that you made way more money
Speaker 1: with the college education than without. But they have a
Speaker 1: bigger chunk now than they ever had before. So I
Speaker 1: don't quite understand this because so much real life evidence
Speaker 1: around is that a college degree is worth less than
Speaker 1: it's ever been before. They're learning less than they've ever
Speaker 1: been before. Are these stats just lagging indicators? They're paying
Speaker 1: more anyway, go ahead, but are they Yeah, but they're
Speaker 1: paying way more but getting less. So are these all
Speaker 1: these status of the Wall Street Journal article over the weekend,
Speaker 1: how an Ivy League degree helps you hurts you more
Speaker 1: than helps you now? But so are all these stats
Speaker 1: about income and wealth lagging indicators? It's just it's gonna
Speaker 1: all this is going to catch up to those numbers
Speaker 1: at some point because like I'm yes, I'm not super
Speaker 1: big on pushing my kids to go to college in
Speaker 1: the way that I I got started the whole college fund,
Speaker 1: like a lot of parents as soon as they were born,
Speaker 1: with just the assumption of course they're going to go
Speaker 1: to college.
Speaker 2: Over my dead body, would they not.
Speaker 1: But now I'm like, why would you go to college
Speaker 1: unless you have these specific things you want need to
Speaker 1: learn to do whatever it is you want to do
Speaker 1: in the world. But again, all the stats out there
Speaker 1: showed on average person with a college education makes a
Speaker 1: lot more money than person doesn't have it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think part of that is that the when
Speaker 2: was it that the boom in number of people getting
Speaker 2: college educations really took off? I don't know, But the
Speaker 2: people who were at the earlier edge of that are
Speaker 2: now in their fifties and sixties and in many cases
Speaker 2: in their peak earning years, oh, peek wealth accumulation years.
Speaker 2: Let's take another snapshot in thirty years, when you know
Speaker 2: a large number of college graduates will be in a
Speaker 2: world where a lot of people are college graduates, and
Speaker 2: they'll have taken useless degrees where they didn't learn anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it's definitely example how it could be way
Speaker 1: a lagging an indicator, because if you're gonna go with
Speaker 1: lifetime earnings, well obviously people have to be, you know,
Speaker 1: sixty to come up with in their sixties to come
Speaker 1: up with lifetime earnings that late. So yeah, yeah, way
Speaker 1: lagging into great because there's just no way that's still
Speaker 1: gonna be true. I don't think I make significantly more
Speaker 1: money with a college education than without.
Speaker 2: It just can't be, particularly given how rapidly everything changes
Speaker 2: now economical, they technically, technologically, I mean, so a quick
Speaker 2: thought for you, and then getting back to the peace
Speaker 2: in the Wall Street Journal about how it's less and
Speaker 2: less about race, thank god, and more and more about
Speaker 2: policy and opportunity. I was a kid in the nineteen seventies,
Speaker 2: mostly you know, late teens in the eighties, but the
Speaker 2: three and I was a weird little kid. Not a surprise.
Speaker 2: We got Time magazine. We're not like any of you
Speaker 2: Newsweek perverts. We were at magazine. Fo good lord.
Speaker 1: I walk into somebody's else they got Newsweek. What else
Speaker 1: goes on here that I find devil.
Speaker 2: Worship animal sacrifice. God knows anyway. But we would get
Speaker 2: Time magazine every week, and I would read it cover
Speaker 2: to cover every week unless there was some particularly dry
Speaker 2: thing that I just couldn't get through. But I remember
Speaker 2: three news stories from the seventies distinctly now. One Vietnam unavoidable,
Speaker 2: two Watergate, watching that unfold, and three Inflation. I remember
Speaker 2: the whip inflation now, buttons I remember it being the
Speaker 2: major story in Time magazine, the Chicago Tribune, which we
Speaker 2: got at least on Sundays. As I recall all about inflation,
Speaker 2: asking my parents what is inflation? They would try to
Speaker 2: explain it to me. And we've talked since about what
Speaker 2: the mortgage rates were when they were trying to crush
Speaker 2: inflation by raising interest rates so high that mortgagers were
Speaker 2: sixteen seventeen eighteen percent a year eighteen percent mortgage? Can
Speaker 2: you believe that? Like putting your house on your credit card?
Speaker 2: But getting back to the piece in the journal, then
Speaker 2: I'll bring it all together, as is my style. They
Speaker 2: quote Chicago and Alfredo Ramirez, who voted for Brock twice
Speaker 2: Hillary in twenty sixteen. Last two elections. He's back Trump,
Speaker 2: he said, economic concerns, not race, largely drove his vote
Speaker 2: this time. He and his wife are raising three kids
Speaker 2: on his twenty five thousand dollars a year job at
Speaker 2: Target Whoa. He remembers the economy being better before the pandemic,
Speaker 2: when eggs and everything else cost less. Trump has done
Speaker 2: more for the American people, he says, as post of
Speaker 2: the Democrats, they are only caring about themselves. He also
Speaker 2: said being Latino didn't affect his vote. Quote, it really
Speaker 2: doesn't matter as long as we are out here fighting
Speaker 2: for our freedom. And the reason I brought up the
Speaker 2: stories I remembered as a kid, in particular in inflation,
Speaker 2: particularly inflation, is if inflation is high, as I've said times,
Speaker 2: nothing else matters. And they mentioned where is that? I
Speaker 2: thought I was pretty well written. They mentioned that all
Speaker 2: sorts of alleged experts were in all sorts of media.
Speaker 2: There is Democrats at times tried to use statistics. He said,
Speaker 2: this is a college guy, explained down to the decimal
Speaker 2: point to argue that inflation wasn't really hurting people and
Speaker 2: that voters' concerns about immigration were unfounded. Explain that to
Speaker 2: mister Ramirez. Explain that to the black construction worker Aaron Waters,
Speaker 2: who we talked about before. What a load of crap.
Speaker 2: You're not scared at the grocery store when you see
Speaker 2: the bill and think, how the hell am I going
Speaker 2: to pay my rent? You think you are? And I
Speaker 2: keep reading that wages have actually caught up to an inflation?
Speaker 2: Do you know anybody about her house saying there, I've
Speaker 2: got such a giant race since a pre pandemic. I'm
Speaker 2: making twenty percent more.
Speaker 1: There's no way you're gotta be making almost thirty percent more.
Speaker 1: There's just now like.
Speaker 2: Average out including a hedge fund guys.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. I don't know how
Speaker 1: you twist the statistics to get that. But I don't
Speaker 1: think I know a single person who would say that
Speaker 1: that was true for them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, I know, and I've seen it in
Speaker 2: a couple of publications, so including the Wall Street Journal,
Speaker 2: which surprised me. But everybody they talked to in this story,
Speaker 2: every single damn one of them, talks about the economy
Speaker 2: and their job and inflation. If that's what it takes
Speaker 2: to take the gasoline out of the engine of it's
Speaker 2: all about race. Halle freaking Loujah.
Speaker 1: One more kind of economics thing I came across that
Speaker 1: I thought was interesting from the Wall Street Journal. What
Speaker 1: does HUDD have to show for trillions of dollars a
Speaker 1: tax payer money, housing and urban development.
Speaker 2: With this quote in there?
Speaker 1: Add it all up, and since nineteen sixty five, the
Speaker 1: US has spent four trillion dollars, but it has not
Speaker 1: increased home ownership as a percentage, making homes more affordable,
Speaker 1: or reducing rents adjusted for inflation. Nothing at a strange
Speaker 1: four trillion dollars.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow during the show, I want to go down a
Speaker 2: checklist of this learned person knows all about the federal
Speaker 2: deocracy and how it works and how to reform it
Speaker 2: and all going through a checklist of the various departments
Speaker 2: and how expendable they are. You know, I don't know
Speaker 2: if Elon and VvE can pull off what they're promising. Boy,
Speaker 2: they could do a lot of it.
Speaker 1: I just I just saw this headline. I might have
Speaker 1: to find the audio. CNN Morning Crew cracks up at
Speaker 1: RFK on Trump plane being forced to eat poison in
Speaker 1: hostage video. That's the picture if you haven't seen it
Speaker 1: of them all eating McDonald's. You got on Trump's you
Speaker 1: got Trump, and Elon Trump Junior, Mike Johnson's there and
Speaker 1: RFK Junior with a big mac in his hand kind
Speaker 1: of looking like I guess I gotta do this.
Speaker 2: He absolutely looks like a guy who's nodding on the joke.
Speaker 1: It must have happened so fast, like he didn't have
Speaker 1: time to think through do I want to be a
Speaker 1: part of this or not? Which I've had happened to
Speaker 1: me before.
Speaker 2: So we played the audio of Trump entering the UFC
Speaker 2: Arena Madison Square Garden and the place going just absolutely wild.
Speaker 2: My second favorite pro wrestling clip of the weekend, well
Speaker 2: worth staying tuned. Okay, cool, believe it or not.
Speaker 3: That's on the way a Spirit Airlines flight was forced
Speaker 3: to divert after it was struck by gunfire from gangs
Speaker 3: while trying to land in Haiti, a rare setback for
Speaker 3: people who fly Spirit to Haiti.
Speaker 2: That's a dang good joke right there. That is a
Speaker 2: funny joke. Indeed, came across this over the weekend. The
Speaker 2: big US UFC fight, the pro wrestling Why do we
Speaker 2: play seventeen again? All right? Have we even played this one?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Go ahead, and ladies and Hillman.
Speaker 8: Who is now making his play to the world. Fantas
Speaker 8: opt to God black by UFC CEO Tata White forty
Speaker 8: five Sooner Big forty seven Presidents, Les.
Speaker 2: Gold of Truck, He prist the people go home twenty year.
Speaker 2: It doesn't sound in this room is so loudly here
Speaker 2: it is so loud. It's always low when he comes here.
Speaker 4: But how many's wrong now that he's the president?
Speaker 2: Yes, oh my god, as kid Rock inevitably jams in
Speaker 2: the background. You and that is yeah, yeah, crazy and
Speaker 2: Tulsey yeah, and RFK Junior Yeah, but no Matt Gates interesting.
Speaker 2: Uh So, after he won one of the big matches,
Speaker 2: UFC fighter Jim Miller said the following eighteen, Michael, it feels.
Speaker 9: Amazing New York. I got one thing to say. First,
Speaker 9: we need justice for Peanut, right right, you know.
Speaker 2: And it's not USA.
Speaker 9: It's all the kids that went hungry that night and
Speaker 9: all the other things that the money and resources could
Speaker 9: have been put through. Holby, that's jog Clans things up
Speaker 9: out to state Leveon. I like, how to use the
Speaker 9: fuse fitting speech for a political rally.
Speaker 2: Justice for Peanut? Yeah, I'm not sure. How many kids
Speaker 2: quote unquote went hungry that night because the state of
Speaker 2: New York didn't have resources because they were hunting down
Speaker 2: Peanut was assassinating a famous scrorel. Yeah, yeah, I do
Speaker 2: appreciate him bringing it up. And just the whole cultural thing.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, thing is never the best word, but the
Speaker 2: whole cultural milieu, which is French for thing. But you
Speaker 2: got the sense of humor, the unapologetic masculinity, the loud
Speaker 2: rock and music, and Trump not embracing it because he
Speaker 2: thinks he's he should, but that's kind of his thing.
Speaker 2: What an interesting character. Rich since birth, billionaire developer absolutely
Speaker 2: gets normal people for whatever reason.
Speaker 1: And there are lots of people that come from normal
Speaker 1: beginnings who end up successful and rich who just can't
Speaker 1: don't have the common touch like that at all. They
Speaker 1: just can't make it happen, even though that's their background.
Speaker 2: Like Mitt Romney became very, very wealthy, but he was
Speaker 2: very not wealthy as a young man, a young husband.
Speaker 1: He could not pull off working people thing.
Speaker 2: No, no, And I still think it's because Trump, especially
Speaker 2: early in his career. And I don't know the chapter
Speaker 2: and verse of this, but he spent a tremendous amount
Speaker 2: of time at the work sites for the buildings he
Speaker 2: was developing, working with the foreman and talking to the
Speaker 2: workers and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Tesla's stock up seven percent because of the belief that
Speaker 1: Trump's going to deregulate the electric car industry to a
Speaker 1: certain extent.
Speaker 2: Well, there's Jack again, there's Joe Man.
Speaker 6: It's time of just the show with the help of
Speaker 6: Kadie Green and Michael Langel.
Speaker 2: So creepy for friends, they're like fans again, They're not
Speaker 2: our radio. So let's they're they're final tusk people or
Speaker 2: they have to go Wow, why is that so disturbing? Wow? Hey,
Speaker 2: how about you get back in the store and quit
Speaker 2: menacing me? Right? Was that supposed to be disturbing when
Speaker 2: he made It's Dabby the Clown? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
Speaker 2: to wrap things up for the day. There he is
Speaker 2: pressing the buttons are technical director Mike l Aanglow. Michael,
Speaker 2: I'm just picturing the White House and Trump ordering cheeseburgers
Speaker 2: just to irritate RFK, like they're having a meeting and
Speaker 2: just a whole bunch of cheeseburgers come into the room
Speaker 2: from McDonald's. You know, uh, Katie Green. A final thought for.
Speaker 1: Us, I would take a lot of joy and some
Speaker 1: professional boxers around the age of Jake Paul challenging him
Speaker 1: to a fight.
Speaker 2: Yes, knocking him out? I agree, I agree. Oh he
Speaker 2: still needs to be punched, but that's part of his thing,
Speaker 2: isn't it. Yeah, being you love to hate him? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: yeah yeah Jack.
Speaker 1: Final thought for us, Yeah, I really enjoyed the communal
Speaker 1: thing that was the Friday night fight. During the day,
Speaker 1: the people talking about when you gonna watch, you're gonna watch,
Speaker 1: what time?
Speaker 2: Who you haven't over? And then the next day everybody.
Speaker 1: Talking about I miss that that we used to have
Speaker 1: all the time, you know, a TV show in an
Speaker 1: event that we could well have a communal thing about.
Speaker 2: But we don't anymore. It's very rare. Yeah, that one
Speaker 2: was great and profound. Mine is silly following that, so
Speaker 2: I don't I'm not even gonna bother. Okay, my final
Speaker 2: thought ain't worth crap. Now. My final thought is whatever
Speaker 2: it takes for this country to avoid sectarian politics, that
Speaker 2: is a good thing again. Look up the history of Lebanon,
Speaker 2: do a little reading, and good to the modern day.
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Speaker 5: They're some of the most dynamic, freethinking, animal killing, sexually criminal,
Speaker 5: medically crazy people in the country.
Speaker 2: Who are you thinking about? I'm strong and getty, and
Speaker 2: you know what everyone knows, that's not what I was told.
Speaker 2: It's time to do something different, and.
Speaker 1: That time is every day, So say it with me.
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