WEBVTT - Your Brain Juice Dried Up 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:07.680 Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:11.560 Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty arm Strong, and Gatty. 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:12.520 I know he. 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:26.320 Armstrong and Yetty, you gotta remember this. He got off easy. 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:27.479 I think we both know. 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:29.040 If I was in the race, I want to beat you. 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:29.520 Like a drum. 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:30.400 Joe. 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:33.000 That's one of the craziest things I've ever heard anyone say. 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:35.120 And for that reason, I'd like to offer you a 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:36.280 position in my cabinet. 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:42.600 No can, dude, Jack, you need to make take a 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:44.080 little time off from his place. 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:47.040 What do you think you'll do next, Joe? Will you retire? 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:50.240 I'll do what every worn down old guy does. I'm 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:51.440 gonna fight chick Paul. 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:56.600 That was pretty good cold open, I thought I thought 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:57.440 that was pretty funny. 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:01.440 Yeah, we're discussing off the air, Like everywhere we went, 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:05.160 everybody's talking about that fight. 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:07.880 Oh yeah, kids, old women, no matter who I came 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:10.160 in contact with, people were talking about the. 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:13.760 Mike captured America's imagination. Jack, it did. Why do you 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:14.919 think that was really? 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:21.160 And it's interesting Mike Tyson, who was a villain ish 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:24.440 at least in his prime. I mean, he needed to 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:28.040 go to prison for rape and uh, big guy's ear 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:30.280 off and all that sort of stuff. He'd been arrested. 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:33.600 He'd been arrested in a thirty good list already thirty 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:35.720 five times by the time he was sixteen or something 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.920 like that. And he had a rough life. But now 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:42.240 he needs to get a grill going, like George Foreman. 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:44.080 He needs to have some sort of thing to cook 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:46.240 hot dogs or something, because he seems to be somewhat 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:48.200 beloved for whatever reason. 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:52.000 Yeah, kind of the snoop dogg syndrome. I gassy. Yeah, 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:54.080 he's got to find an alternative to get a hit 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:58.040 in the head for a way to make money. Yeah. 0:01:58.080 --> 0:01:59.640 Man, he got punched in the face several times and 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:01.280 after words and they ask him if you fight again? 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:04.480 I thought surely he would say no way, because he 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:06.600 looked to me like when he sat down after that 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:09.160 first round, the look on his face to me was 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:12.040 this was a terrible idea. I don't know what I 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:16.000 was thinking. He was so tired. Uh, even after the 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:19.520 first two minutes, he was just shot. And I don't 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:20.639 care if you're Mike Tyson. 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:22.960 Getting hit in the head is different at age sixty 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.399 than it was at age twenty five. That's an interesting point. 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:25.840 It's funny. 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.320 I hadn't even thought about that because, like when I 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.120 fall off my kids skateboard or whatever, the way it 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:35.079 rocks your world versus you know, falling off your bike 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:38.200 when you're younger, it's completely different. I don't know if 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:42.320 the like juice that keeps your brain safe gets. 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:45.680 Staff for what happens. But your brain juice tries, Now 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:50.440 that's exactly what everyone knows. That's what happens. Your brain 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:53.399 juice to just coragulates. It just doesn't work the same way. 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.200 I grew up playing hockey, played in college and stuff 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:58.760 like that. Not college hockey, but I was playing club 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:01.440 hockey in college, and and you know, you get bonked 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:04.280 in the head and falling the ice whatever. I was skating, 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:08.480 and this was probably fifteen years ago, gladys, and I 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:10.960 was doing some of the fancier skating stuff you do 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:14.120 as a hockey player, you know, changing direction, going for 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:16.359 forward to backward and back again real fast. And I 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:19.000 got my skates tied up and I fell and bonked 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:23.040 my head mediumsh hard on the ice. And that was 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:28.240 my first reaction. Oh my god, that was different. Yeah, yeah, 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:30.400 so yeah, anyway, getting slugged in the head can't have 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:34.960 been enjoyable. Has Tyson never done a one man show? 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.640 I don't. Yeah, he did have an idea of that. 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:43.120 He had a Tyson show for a while, think of Vegas. 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:43.800 Yeah. 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.960 Well, he he had four hundred million dollars at the 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:50.600 peak of his career. He threw a combination of being 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:53.440 stolen from which is the history of boxing, and really 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:57.040 bad life decisions. He ended up twenty some million dollars 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:00.360 in debt, which he's climbed out of, and he had 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:02.440 a big payday the other night, somewhere between twenty and 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:05.960 forty million dollars. So I'd get punched in the head 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:07.480 quite a few. I mean, if you could get anywhere 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:09.480 close to that kind of money for one more head punch, 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:10.160 and I would do it. 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:16.640 Yeah. Yeah, but he looked he did. He was not 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:21.800 competitive in any way whatsoever. Yeah. Well, I hesitate to 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:23.800 give it any more time or attention. But I think 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:27.920 the reason it was so compelling is you got the 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:34.120 question of Ken a incredibly tough, strong, capable boxer, still 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:37.039 show some of that as he ages, because we all 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:40.080 want to not age, and so you've got that, like 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:42.359 very basic human instinct. Then you got a guy and 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:44.719 Jake Paul really needs to get punched in the face. 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:46.479 Oh yeah, love to see him get punched in the 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:51.200 face more. Unfortunately, Tyson landed seventeen total punches. 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:54.520 By whomever in whatever setting just so he gets punched. 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:56.400 So yeah, interesting. 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:58.719 Oh when Jake Paul came riding out in that car 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:02.080 with his brother whatever where his brother's name is, who 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:05.400 made the prime energy drink, the crack dealer that got 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:07.920 every kid hooked on that horrible drink? 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:09.800 Just he couldn't hate those two more. 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:14.000 Oh, anyway, speaking to people to hate, some of you 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.960 hate Matt Gates, some of you love Matt Gates as 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.479 the new Attorney General. As from what I can tell 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:27.080 from social media, speaker Johnson, who does not want the 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:31.279 Ethics Committee report to be released, was supposed to come 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:33.760 out last Friday. Matt Gates resigned on Wednesday just a 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.840 coincidence and doesn't want some import release because he thinks 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:39.000 it would be a bad President had this to say 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:40.480 about Matt Gates yesterday. 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:42.799 Matt Gates is a colleague of mine. We've been serving 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:44.320 together for more than eight years. He's one of the 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:47.680 brightest minds in Washington or anywhere for that matter, and 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:50.480 he knows everything about how the Department of Justice has 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:54.120 been weaponized and misused, and he will be a reformer. 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:56.720 And I think that's why the establishment in Washington is 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:58.440 so shaken up about this pick. 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:04.320 Maybe at least three Republican senators that I've seen, I 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.159 don't know how many on the record, but at least 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:09.719 three Republican senators I've seen said they want that House 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:13.960 Ethics Committee report to be part of the hearing. They 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:15.920 want to see it, even if it is not made 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:22.160 public reporting over the weekend. So the whole thing is 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:24.360 not leaked out yet. I thought it would leak out Friday, 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.159 but it has not yet. But little nuggets have leaked out, 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:31.040 like they did talk to a girl who testified to 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:34.480 the House Committee that she saw Matt Gates have sex 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:37.240 with an underage girl and then some other girl who 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.359 may have been of age, but he had sex with 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:43.640 two different women at that party who were like seventeen 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:47.520 and nineteen. So I mean that's a certain lifestyle right there. 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:51.200 Sex with two different girls in one night at a party, 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.880 both of them barely teenagers. 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:59.279 Yeah, I mean they're still teenagers. But yeah, to the 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:02.520 House Ethics Committee question, Johnson went on to say, look, 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.240 we don't put out reports on private citizens who are 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:06.880 not members of Congress. So no, we're not going to 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:09.880 put that out. It's justifiable. Right. On the other hand, 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:12.880 it's been pointed out that if you're going for ag 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:19.360 the investigation into you, the what's the background term background check? Right, Yeah, 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:24.760 of course is incredibly rigorous. It should be. Yeah, absolutely, 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:29.200 as it should be. But Johnson's strategy there in which 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:32.320 he recognizes, all right, this is an incredibly bright guy 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:37.160 who the quote was he knows how the Justice Department 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:42.240 has been weaponized that may or may not be true. 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:46.360 That was respectful to Donald Jay's selection of the guy, 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:50.160 and then let's let the process continue, he says, knowing 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:52.520 that the senators, who jealously guard the powers of the 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:56.640 Senate as Congress ought to start going, is going to 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.280 vet the guy good and thoroughly. So there's no reason 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:00.960 for Johnson to say, I don't know, it seems like 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:02.320 kind of a perv to me. I want him to 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.720 stay away from my wife. There's no need for that. 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:08.480 The Senate will do the tough work, but be respectful 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:08.920 to Trump. 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:12.160 Well after bouncing around a fair amount of magas social 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.400 media over the weekend. I see that many of you 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:18.240 believe all this stuff about I him and sex with 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:21.600 a teenage girl is just the deep State doing what 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:24.680 they do with fake news and bringing people down. 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.720 So that's not going to have any effect on you. 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:31.320 This report and the deep State forced him to go 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:34.720 on the House of Floor and show videos of girls 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:39.200 he'd coupled with to colleagues who didn't want to see them. 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:41.840 Well, I guess you'd believe Mullen is part of the 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:43.000 deep State, I guess. 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:51.040 Said Mullen. Yeah, yeah, okay, all right, ran into some 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:55.439 folks who were of that mind over the weekend, super 0:08:55.480 --> 0:09:00.319 supportive of all the picks. All the tick. Was very 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:06.560 little gentle bit of pushback in some cases because you 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:09.880 get bubbled. I mean, for instance, the whole Rick Scott 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:12.480 should be the leader of the Senate, not John Thune. 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:16.200 John Thune is a Rhino, which I still think is 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:23.480 a really odd accusation because he's like a complete central 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:27.240 casting Republican. He's exactly what a Republican has been for 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:31.520 twenty five years. Trump is not, so to call Thune 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:33.679 a Republican in name only, is that. I get what 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:36.199 you're trying to say, but it's an odd epithet to 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:39.840 hit him with. But it was pointed out that Thune 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:44.720 voted in a favor or with Trump a significantly higher 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:47.360 percentage of the time than Rick Scott did both was 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:49.960 an overwhelming majority of the time. But and you know, 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:52.080 the people I talked to had no idea of that, 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:56.839 So I don't know. We are interesting times. 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:00.240 We have a result in the Pennsylvania Senate race. It 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:02.280 took till now for them to finally count all the 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:07.120 voids votes. Man, this is a close race. Thank god 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.679 the presidential election didn't go down the way a lot 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:12.240 of people were predicting it would, where it would come 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:15.280 down to Pennsylvania or we would be finding out today. Well, no, 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:17.840 we wouldn't because it would be way more lawsuits. We 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:20.040 would still be in the midst of lawsuits and all 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:23.680 kinds of claims of vote voter fraud and everything else. 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:24.480 Because it was so close. 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:28.080 But they've called it for the Republican McCormick over the 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:31.440 Democrat Casey who ran ads about how friendly he was 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:36.199 with Trump to try to win. But forty eight point 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:38.679 eight percent to forty eight point six percent. 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:43.600 Wow, that's a close race. Doesn't that trigger an automatical 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:47.160 recall or not recount? I don't know. 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:52.720 The automatic rec is a very tiny amount of percentage 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:54.280 in money, So I don't know. 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:56.280 I don't know. We'll see. I'm glad. 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:58.559 I'm glad the presidential race didn't go down like that. 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:02.240 We would be living in a different world right now. 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:07.160 So oh yeah, oh oh, it'd be horrible, absolutely horrible. 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:10.560 We really dodged yet another bullet. So speaking of the election, 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:14.240 putting the results aside, one of the things that made 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:18.240 me really really happy is the trend is absolutely clear. 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:24.000 It's much less and less about race because racial politics balkanization. 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.600 You want to end up like Lebanon for instance. Oh, 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:30.600 it's the worst thing. Uh, It's it's about class now 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.800 in a way that's really interesting. Some of the statistics 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:37.440 about the why the working class is saying the Democrats, Yeah, 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:40.200 we tried you, we want something different. We'll have for 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:42.719 you in a moment. Yeah, that's interesting. 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:48.400 Realignment, something to watch, stay with us. 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:54.520 Machel has apologized after mistakingly printing the web address of 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:58.040 a porn site on the packaging of its new Wicked Dolls. 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:00.839 It was actually a simple mistake. You see, the box 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:04.920 was supposed to read wickedmovie dot com, but instead they 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:06.960 printed choke me, Jeff Goldlin. 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:14.520 It's a mistake. That's a nod. 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:17.680 So ODSSA Friday night, Are we gonna get our Elon 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:21.880 Musk Zuckerberg fight? Seems like that'd be the next good Netflix. 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:26.400 Everybody gather around as kind of a national Friday night thing, 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:29.040 watch a couple of billionaires beat each other up. 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:32.720 Yeah. I think Elon's a little busy reigning in the 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:36.280 federal government at this point, no kidding, two point three 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:40.199 million employees. I would love to follow him around. 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:45.480 So he seems to be constantly working on his rocket company. 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:49.640 He's got twelve kids. I don't know if that plays 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:51.719 a role in his life at all. I give the 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:52.800 idea not a huge one. 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:56.080 He's on Twitter constantly also, and then he's at the 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:58.600 fight with Trump and then mar A Lago for days 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:00.000 and I just can't even imagine. 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:06.040 Yeah. Yeah, well, he famously his mind never slows down. 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:08.960 He's made it clear this would make most people crazy, 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:10.560 and I think it has made him a little crazy. 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:16.160 But anyway, so the big change in the election that 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:18.160 we'll be talked about for years and years is not 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:20.800 just the winners and losers, but the fact that Black 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:24.960 American Hispanic America moved significantly rightward. I mean, the Democrats 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.280 still get the majority of the black vote, for instance, 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:31.400 but it's changing, and it's changing pretty quickly. And you know, 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:34.440 it's easy for us and people like us to forget that. 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:38.920 Most people don't think about politics that much. I've been 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:44.240 yelling for Black America to reconsider this unholy alliance with 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:48.040 the Democratic Party, which is just exploited the black vote, 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.920 assumed the black vote, and giving you nothing but empty 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:54.360 promises and government dependents for decades and decades. Now it 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:57.160 appears that, I don't know, perhaps people are starting to 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:01.840 connect elections with policy with outcomes in a way that 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.240 you know is too slow for me, but I get it. 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.120 And the journal with the Wall Street Journal was some 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.760 pretty interesting analysis of the fact that it's now about 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:15.160 class and not race. If you're working class, you are 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:17.679 swinging way towards the Republicans and it doesn't matter what, 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:20.280 Hugh your skin is. Thank god, I'm so happy about that. 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:22.920 And not just because it's Republican. I mean it could 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:26.520 be Democrat too. Let's just not have like hugely important 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:28.280 racial politics in this country. 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:32.120 Please, for a number of reasons, including I think you're 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:34.720 much more likely to get policy discussions if you're talking 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:40.200 about people of different income situations than their skin color. Well, 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:43.400 you make the claim of racism is so easily right. 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:46.920 And they quote Aaron Waters, who's the first gent they 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:50.480 quote in this article, who's a black construction worker union 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.880 member in Chicago who voted for Trump after voting for 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:57.520 Biden and Obama in past elections, and he says, race 0:14:57.600 --> 0:14:59.520 is not an issue for me. It's about what you 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:01.080 can do for each and every one of us as 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:05.560 a whole, as a US citizen. Now, the reason that's important, 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:09.360 getting back to my berating you know, quote unquote black America, 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:14.720 is that guys like Aaron are saying, no, you can't 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:17.360 say I'm down with the black folks, so vote for me. 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:21.240 What are you gonna do? What are your policies? That's phony. 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:25.320 He's realized it's well, it's phony. It's it's putting you 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:29.040 in a pen. And I've always hated that. But came 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:36.120 across a couple of interesting statistics about this this question. 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:40.800 And here's an associate professor of political science at the 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:42.840 University of South Carolina. He says, quote, this is the 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:47.880 shock of the early twenty first century. This this big move. 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:53.240 Thirty years ago, Americans with a college degree was twenty 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:57.080 percent of the population twenty percent thirty years ago now 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:01.640 and held the same percentage of house hold wealth as 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:05.680 those without a degree, so outsized. But it was like 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:09.680 fifty to fifty the wealth. So twenty percent had college 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:13.000 degrees and they had half the wealth. Now it's thirty 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:17.440 eight percent of the population has college degrees. It's almost 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:21.320 doubled in thirty years. Many of them useless, but anyway, 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:27.040 and seventy three percent of the household wealth. So the 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:32.080 you know other sixty two percent of the population that 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:36.120 has twenty seven percent of the household wealth is starting 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:38.760 to think, Hey, this system isn't really set up for me, 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:41.760 regardless of color. 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:44.560 I want to talk a little more about that. I 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:46.440 have several things to say on that topic and a 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:51.960 couple other examples of the changing world for the way 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:54.160 we look at you know, what we were not of government, 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:58.720 and whether it's serving me or you or a one 0:16:58.800 --> 0:16:59.800 percent or whoever. 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:02.720 I that we will get to So hope you can stick. 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:05.760 Around if you can't stick around, you can always grab 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:08.040 the podcasts Armstrong and Getty on demand. 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:15.240 You should subscribe as the word Armstrong and Getty. Come on, 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:18.280 let's be real, man, this place is great. I have 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:20.920 so many wonderful memories here. 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:24.919 Doctor Gil Houston, foreign leaders, my dog attacking every single one. 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:28.080 I brought my party. 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:29.920 Together so much they teamed up and kicked me out. 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:33.880 Wait a minute, maybe I hate it here too. 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:38.480 No, Joe, I know it's awful, but I can't go 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:41.600 back tomorrow, Lago Joe, because Elon is there and he 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:42.480 will not leave. 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.439 It's like, what about Bob. 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:48.040 He's walking around in his bathing suit showing me videos 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:51.200 or rockets and monkeys with computers in their heads. 0:17:51.960 --> 0:18:00.399 This guy's crangef That guy's trump is so good. I 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:02.560 thought I really liked the Sarah Alive. I thought it 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:03.120 was pretty good. 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:06.200 It was just an equal opportunity making fun of the 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:09.600 whole thing. And I also liked During the News because 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:14.119 I like stupid sketch comedy and having Peanut the Squirrel's 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:14.679 widow on. 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:19.720 I thought I didn't see that yet, Oh man, Sarah. 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:23.119 Sherman is peen at the Squirrel's widow so you were 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:23.680 what were you. 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:26.840 Just talking about? You were talking about what how race 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:30.480 has been deemphasized in a big hurry in American politics. 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:33.520 I mean, it'd still be an emphasis because it's useful, 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:38.320 but it's all about class and all about economic aspiration. Really. Yeah, 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:39.879 So a couple of things on that. 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:44.399 Peter Thield, the billionaire interesting dude, you know who he is, 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:48.720 tweeted out over the weekend that Trump's win exploded the 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:51.560 lie of identity politics. If you believe that people cannot 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:53.800 listen to reason and it's all subject to these sub 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:56.960 rational factors like your race, or your gender, or you're 0:18:57.000 --> 0:19:00.280 sexting or your sexual orientation or something like this, nobody 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:02.560 would ever be able to change their mind. You exploded 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:05.399 the lie of identity politics with this election, I hope. 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:05.520 So. 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.560 I don't know, they're almost well, not almost. 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:12.679 Almost always always it's always overstated after every election of 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:16.159 my life, every presidential election, of how things have changed 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:19.399 permanently in some way. But this has got to be 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:22.399 a nod toward the right direction. I thought it was interesting. 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:25.040 Ian Bremmer tweeted this out, and I think it factors in. Also, 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:29.760 globalism has been an abject failure, benefiting a small group 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:33.640 of elites to the expense of broader populations across the West. Yeah, 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:36.679 it varies from country to country, but that's certainly the 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:39.920 way it feels to the average person. So you're being 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:44.600 you know, taught this whole Tom Friedman, the world is flat. 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:46.160 N't this great for everybody? 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:51.520 Thing? But that's certainly not what it feels and looks like. Well, right, yeah, 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:56.760 and it's it's a complicated set of interactions. But yeah, 0:19:56.880 --> 0:20:00.760 if the manufacturing jobs can be done more cheaply over there, 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:04.160 and you become the paper shuffling people because you're really 0:20:04.160 --> 0:20:07.840 good at shuffling paper, dealing with data whatever, well those 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:11.680 jobs don't be nearly as much. And as the well 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:14.560 arising tide lifts all ships, well it runs the guys 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:19.119 running the ships. Mostly it rises their you know, financial 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:19.600 well being. 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:22.400 And Ian Bremer said, and it's true. Citizens and democracies 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:25.640 all around the world are punishing the proponents of globalism. 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:29.199 The United States is not unique, explaining you know why 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:33.280 people abandon some of their race politics for just uh, 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:35.040 you know, my own pocketbook. 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:39.080 Yeah, and it's a delicate balance. If you go very 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:42.600 far and all down the road of uh, industrial planning 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:44.880 and government control and that sort of thing. It's it's 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:48.639 a miserable failure. But to completely ignore the question of 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:52.800 a your people's standard living and be your national security. 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:55.080 But here's an honest here's an honest quest. Mean, because 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:57.760 we're relying on China for our pharmaceuticals and computer chips 0:20:57.880 --> 0:20:59.919 or or whatever, is an idiotic thing to do. 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:04.440 Here's a question about you're talking about college graduates having 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:09.000 so much bigger chunk of the national wealth. And it's 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:11.960 always been true, but that you made way more money 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:14.359 with the college education than without. But they have a 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:17.639 bigger chunk now than they ever had before. So I 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:22.520 don't quite understand this because so much real life evidence 0:21:22.560 --> 0:21:24.520 around is that a college degree is worth less than 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:26.880 it's ever been before. They're learning less than they've ever 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:30.360 been before. Are these stats just lagging indicators? They're paying 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:32.840 more anyway, go ahead, but are they Yeah, but they're 0:21:32.840 --> 0:21:35.119 paying way more but getting less. So are these all 0:21:35.160 --> 0:21:37.520 these status of the Wall Street Journal article over the weekend, 0:21:37.560 --> 0:21:39.880 how an Ivy League degree helps you hurts you more 0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:42.480 than helps you now? But so are all these stats 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:45.960 about income and wealth lagging indicators? It's just it's gonna 0:21:46.800 --> 0:21:48.639 all this is going to catch up to those numbers 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:51.560 at some point because like I'm yes, I'm not super 0:21:51.560 --> 0:21:53.960 big on pushing my kids to go to college in 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:57.600 the way that I I got started the whole college fund, 0:21:57.640 --> 0:21:59.240 like a lot of parents as soon as they were born, 0:21:59.760 --> 0:22:01.600 with just the assumption of course they're going to go 0:22:01.640 --> 0:22:02.120