WEBVTT - I Will Put My Mailbag Against Your Mailbag! 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:05.360 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.480 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:17.560 Arm Strong and Gatty and he Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:26.280 Tonight's speculation mounting over whether Taylor Swift will perform at 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:29.760 the Super Bowl. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell saying maybe when 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:33.360 asked about it, referring questions to jay Z, the show's producer, 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:34.040 Stay tuned. 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:39.640 I love that David Vier uses as serious foot I know, stuff. 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:43.040 Like using the same voice as he uses for hamas Israel. 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:46.560 Talk about Taylor Swift, whether or not she'll be the 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:48.760 super Bowl. I like the way Goodell handlet Yes, she 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:54.440 could be. I don't know. Jay Z's producing, that's him. 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:58.760 The super Bowl is this year, seventy miles from my 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:02.720 house at Levi Stadium. I'm gonna go commit to going 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:04.200 no matter who's in it, because I've never been to 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:05.760 a super Bowl, and I've always wanted to have the 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:08.560 experience just to talk about, like on the show and 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:10.200 everything like that. So I'm going to commit to going 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:12.920 this year. I love that idea great idea. One way 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:15.840 or another, I'm gonna figure it out. Speaking of the NFL. 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:18.520 Why are the Eagles so good and have stayed good 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:20.000 and are going to be great again this year? 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:22.959 It's because then a counting trick we can tell you about. 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:26.319 And with the season starting tonight, who does Vegas think 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:29.760 are the best locks for being in the Super Bowl? 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:33.720 We'll hate you with those odds. Excellent. So I came 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:38.200 across the Wall Street Journal's editorial board writing about, as 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:41.600 the headline puts it, Trump's gun boat war on drugs, 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.480 the blowing up of that Narco boat and it's eleven 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:49.400 crew members the other day, and we were talking about 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:51.640 it yesterday in case you missed it, and how it's 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:55.800 interesting as his maneuvers go, because you know, there's not 0:01:55.920 --> 0:02:00.120 the death penalty for transporting drugs, but we blew that 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:03.560 boat out of the water. And before we get to 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:09.079 the Wall Street Journal, let's see a couple of notes. 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:11.000 First of all, listen, let me throw in a couple 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:13.639 of the facts from Marco Rubio that might be helpful 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:17.799 before the people start replying to what happened. Secretary Start 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.960 Market Groupe, Secretary of State, Marco Rubio. We're not in 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:22.560 a hurry. We have four hours. I don't have to 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:25.880 fit all the words into one sentence in one second. 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:30.120 Marco Rubio said yesterday that Trump chose to destroy it. 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:33.480 We could have arrested him, but Trump decided to instead 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.560 of interdicting it on the president's orders. We blew it 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:41.320 up and it'll happen again. Rubio said yesterday, Ah, interesting, Yeah, 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:44.880 and he said that the vessel, like others carrying drugs, 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:48.519 posed an immediate threat to the United States, which gave 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:51.880 the United States the right to destroy it. The president 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:54.440 has a right to eliminate immediate threats to our country. 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:56.760 The President's not a talker, he's a doer, and he's 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.720 going to do it. Rubio argued the strike was justified 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:04.040 because use anytime we just stopped stopped drug smuggling boats, 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:07.840 it yields in sufficient results. It hasn't worked Cartel's factor 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:10.600 in a two percent loss from interdictions, he said, arguing 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:13.320 that drug seizures won't stop them. What will stop them 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:17.680 is if you blow them up. The president, the president 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:20.560 is going to wage war on narco terrorist organizations. 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:22.680 I need to get that on a T shirt. What 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:26.760 will stop them is if you blow them up. Yeah, 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:30.839 I'm not sure I'd buy all of his argument. There 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:35.640 are flaws there and assumptions, but I like the maneuver, 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:39.880 and I thought I didn't know what the Wall Street 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:42.680 Journal board, which side of this they would weigh in on. 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:45.040 And I was very very curious in reading it. 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:49.400 And long story short is they're like, yeah, it's kind 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:54.360 of interesting. For the reasons we mentioned, you could go 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:56.560 aboard for search and seizure, making arrest for a trial 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:57.400 little later date. 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:01.360 That's the way civilized countries do things, to mister Trump's critics, 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:05.680 but Venezuelan coppos don't follow the Marcus of Queensbury rules, 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:08.120 and the US does not have to refrain from sending 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:12.520 them a more convincing kinetic message. Wow. And speaking of 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:15.760 facts that ought to be known, they point out that 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:21.080 in Venezuela, the transnational criminal cartels, in their range of 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:25.960 grizzly businesses which include kidnapping, extortion, human trafficking, and murder 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:29.839 lots and lots of murder, are also the tools of 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:35.320 the Maduro dictatorship. Maduro uses the cartels and that stuff 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:39.880 to repress the population, gives them impunity for their organized crime, 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:44.640 profits from them, and in fact, the Maduro regime owns 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:49.599 the cartel. The Cartel delos Sules or Cartel of the 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:55.680 Suns named for get this, the Insignia Venezuelan generals earn 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:59.840 as they move up in rank. Wow, it's like if 0:04:59.880 --> 0:05:02.240 a the branch of the mafia referred to themselves as 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:06.640 the four star Mafia because all the generals in our 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.279 army were in on it. That's all interesting, but it's 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:12.440 not supposed to be. According to a lot of us, 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:16.160 our role to determine that that country's leadership sucks, so 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:18.880 we should play a role in overthrowing it or hurting them. 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:23.960 I'm sorry, we're not supposed to do that. Well, according 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:31.240 to whom you innocent boy, come on anyway. So the 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.760 US is designating to a foreign terrorist group and it's 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:37.440 known to run cocaine operations from coca leaf to distribution 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:41.120 on the American streets. They're in league with Trendy Arragua, 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:44.640 and beyond drugs, they specialize in extortion, human trafficking. Is 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:47.200 there evil, evil, violent scumbags? 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:48.960 I don't doubt it. But man, there's lots of evil 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:50.800 scumbags around the world, and we don't and we got 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:55.360 to kill them all. Are you against that? We don't bris, Larry, 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:59.640 We don't drone all of them. I'm not gonna I'm 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:01.480 not gonna lose it any minute. I Am not going 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:03.920 to lose any sleep over these eleven people that got 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:07.640 obliterated on their drug boat. At all. Of all the 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:09.280 things I got to worry about, this is way way 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:11.480 down the list. But it seems like if you're going 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:14.640 to go with bringing drugs into the United States counts 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:17.640 as a death penalty threat, where we can just drone 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:20.120 you out of nowhere. Can't you expand that to a 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:23.520 bunch of different stuff. Yeah? 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:25.880 Possibly, And that was the part of the Rubio argument 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:27.040 that I wasn't buying. 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:29.719 Do you have that in front of you still? It 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:33.120 was the very first part. Okay, and this was in 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:36.479 Mexico yesterday when he said this. He did it again. 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:39.440 I just I don't like bad arguments, even if I 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:41.120 agree with the policy. 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:44.000 US forces could have stopped the boat that officials say 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:47.719 was carrying illegal drugs from Venezuela, according to Marco Rubio, 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:50.800 but President Donald Trump chose and said to destroy it, 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:54.120 killing eleven people instead of interdicting it on the president's orders. 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:57.839 We blew it up and it'll happen again. When asked 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:00.320 if they warned the crew, Rubio said, the best, like 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:03.360 other carrying drugs, posed an immediate threat to the United States, 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:06.480 giving the country the right to destroy it. Yeah, that's 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:13.000 that's the rub right there, in immediate indirect weeks later, probably. 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:15.360 When the drugs got distributed on the streets. Threat that 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:16.320 might kill people. 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.040 That might kill people, right, or it might just make 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:21.680 them really high, so they hang over at the waist 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.560 on the streets of Seattle, drooling from the mouth and 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:28.000 ruining their lives. These people are evil and horrible. And 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:33.080 as we're discussing yesterday, if somebody does precisely the same 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:40.760 things as say, an Islamist extremist organization, they kill, they maim, 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:45.120 they bomb, but they're doing it in the name of profit, 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:51.760 like the cartels, or control like Maduro in league with 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:57.600 the cartels. Terrorist isn't the right name for them. But 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:02.400 in terms of moral, legal justifytion for snuffing them, I'm 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:04.360 pretty comfortable with it. Well, I don't want to sound 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:06.960 like I'm on the that I'm really concerned about this, 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:11.960 because I'm not. But the Islamo fascists their goal is 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:15.040 to kill people. I would assume the drug dealer's goal 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:16.880 is not to kill people. They would love it if 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:19.080 you all stayed alive and get buying their drugs. So 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:22.200 their intent isn't to kill people like the Islama fashions is. 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:27.040 Yeah, but what if it is reckless endangerment the size 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:32.440 of Mount everest fully knowing that what they do will 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:36.560 kill It's not their intent per se, but it's the 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:39.120 inevitable result, and they know it sure well, clearly this 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:43.720 administration decided, Yeah, that counts for us. Also, as I 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:46.480 mentioned yesterday, and again, we don't want China to set 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:49.560 the standard. But you think China allows other countries to 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:54.360 mess with China if they can stop it. If anybody 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:56.920 who's sending anything into China that she didn't like, they 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:58.959 would freaking destroy them. 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:01.800 Obviously, right, right? 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:05.120 Have we gotten a little too sweet and gentle and 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:09.800 principled to survive as a republic. That's actually a question 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:13.040 worth asking. It's kind of uncomfortable for an American to 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:17.920 ask that question because that's sort of right to kill 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:21.559 people because well, they're a danger well the world. 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:24.600 But that's always abused. The world is heading toward uglier, 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:26.480 not more peaceful. 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.079 A couple more notes. We got some emails this from 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:36.520 some connection of letters. Once again, you've not done the research. 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:37.640 I will enlighten you. 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:40.520 I like the tone. I like the tone right off 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:44.800 the bat. Oh it gets better. Please read the DoD 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:47.920 Department of Defense Law of Law of War Manual, Chapters 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:51.080 ten and eleven provides the authority. By the way, yes, 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.280 before you go further, i'd like anybody who didn't hear. 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:55.720 So this person's responding to what we said yesterday. And 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:58.480 if you weren't listening, yesterday, we had a discussion just 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:01.120 like we did. Now we we're going back and forth 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:04.000 and neither one of us are sure. So this person's 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:06.520 responding to us having a discussion where I don't know, 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:08.760 you know, maybe this may be that it's not like 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:11.559 we came off hardcore one way or the other. 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:16.080 And testing each other's arguments, because that's what you do. 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:20.040 For instance, and I've said this many times, if you 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.959 send us an email and say, guys, I think you 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:27.800 miss this because it's really important we remember blah blah blah, 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:29.720 that's not insulting or hurtful. 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:32.960 You've done me a favor. You've helped me form a 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:35.839 better argument. And so we were going back and forth 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:37.560 just as we were trying to think. All right, where 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:39.840 do we come down on this? Anyway? So, once again 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:41.920 you've not done the research. I will enlighten you. Please 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:44.680 read the DoD Department of Defense Law War Manual, Chapters 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:47.640 ten eleven. It provides the authorities and duties of our President, 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:51.160 Donald J. Trumpe in times of war. We are at war, guys. 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:53.200 I don't I know you two may not believe it, 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:55.840 but martiall law was declared in his first term. Okay, 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:59.559 so we're question the question of when we are actually 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:03.320 at war? Given the Constitution, Congress is right to declare war, 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:07.560 military opp special military opera, police actions, blah blah blah. 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:15.120 Is a decades, practically centuries long fascinating conversations that Americans 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:19.440 have had. But you, my friend, have figured all of 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:24.480 that out. And anybody who doesn't is a stupid idiot 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:28.880 who should be lectured. I congratulate you on your solemnnic wisdom, 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:34.599 you mouthy prig. I shouldn't I retract that I aspologize? 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.120 So which war is he referring to the war on terror? 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:41.360 The war are on drugs. But that's not a war 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:44.000 on worduro. The war on drugs is a rhetorical war. 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:48.200 The war on terror is an actual war, is it? Well, 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:51.800 there is the uh that Armed Forces Agreement thing that 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:54.240 got passed after nine to eleven that they use for 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:56.559 every attack on any country in the world for the 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.480 last quarter century. But at least that's legislation. There's no 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:05.200 military legislation about a war on drugs that I'm aware of. 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:07.800 That was just verbiage, like the war on cancer. On 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:09.199 I don't really. 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:11.760 Even want to talk about it anymore because it's impossible 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.600 to come to an answer of whether we are in fact, 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:18.800 quote unquote at war with these people unless you're this 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:21.160 guy who knows it with certainty. 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:25.400 And then are you gonna use his logic the war 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:31.280 on drugs? You could? You could drone strike Nestley because 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.600 chocolate has sugar in it and leads to more cancer. 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:38.920 Or obliterate immigrants as they line up at the border, right, 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.360 I mean, if we have a war on immigration or whatever, 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:45.240 let's see. I found this interesting from Byron Watch for 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:48.440 Maduro his next movie. He'll begin placing innocence on his 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:52.000 drug boats, whether for real or simple statements suggesting that 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:54.920 they've been placed, a simple way to draw soft heads 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:57.960 into a rebellious position against Trump's attempt to well do 0:12:58.040 --> 0:12:59.720 what he's obviously doing. 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:02.000 Is opening move yesterday was to say it's fake. It 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:06.600 was ai it didn't actually happen. Byron sums up with 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:08.760 to hell with the soft heads, grow a pair and 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:12.720 realize what the face of war looks like? Well again 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:14.600 the war? Who are we on war with? At work? 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:19.360 So harden up your head, grow some testicles, do the research, 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:23.160 and read the DoD Law War Manual, Chapters ten and eleven. 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:25.680 Man, I got a busy afternoon, so I'll have a 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:27.880 really hard head and two sets of testicles. I don't 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:29.760 know if that's gonna help my life. Oh, like you 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:35.440 already have a nobody that believes that, shild Okay, Well, 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:37.400 I'm to talk a little bit about the NFL season 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:48.200 and a couple other things. Stay tuned. Hey do you 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:50.400 see this? A c Span announced that they will start 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:54.600 streaming on YouTube TV and Hulu. People who watch YouTube 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:57.800 TV and Hulu are like, what the hell is he span? Well, 0:13:57.880 --> 0:13:59.439 people who watch sea Span are like, what the hell 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:06.400 is YouTube t It's a good point we're gonna talk about. 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:08.920 We're gonna break down the NFL season coming up. We 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:12.520 all actually, what the Vegas odds are for Uh, who 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:15.200 do they think are going to be the best teams? Excellent? 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:18.000 And uh and I'm not gonna go. I'm gonna go 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:19.840 to the super Bowl this year, So I'm looking into that. 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:22.800 Young men of America. Does it seem like all the 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:25.240 chicks you know are on drugs? It's because they probably are, 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:27.560 but not like the drugs, drugs we used to enjoy 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:30.800 back in the day. Uh, they're all on beta blockers. 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:34.120 Specifically this drug pro proanolo. 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:37.160 Ask for by name. 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:41.640 It looks like pro pro pranolol. That's how you've probably pronounced. 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:45.160 Is that what Michael Jackson took to get to sleep? No, 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:48.800 that was the milk, silly? Which one was that? 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:49.080 That was? 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:50.720 What? 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:53.280 What? What is this drug women are taking? What do 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:57.720 they take it for? It's a beta blocker originally developed 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:04.200 for dealing with cardiovascular disease. It lowers your heart rate 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:08.000 and your blood pressure, and it can reduce the physical 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:11.600 symptoms of anxiety, although it is not approved by the 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:13.920 FDA for that. I wish Katie was hero, but she 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:17.880 knows all about that. Yeah, so it's interesting. 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:21.480 This article opens up with as Erica's Fisher's Erica Fisher's 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:24.320 nuptials approach. She's trying to decide should she take a 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:26.520 beta blocker before she walks down the aisle. 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:30.400 You're going to drug yourself at your wedding. You're going 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:34.280 to drug yourself at your wedding because you don't want 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:37.400 to feel the feelings that a company getting married. Some 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:41.640 of them completely natural that everybody's had throughout history. 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:44.880 Which is my objection to a lot of this, honestly, 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:51.160 is well, Well, they talk about how loads and loads 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:54.480 of people are taking this. Most people take it situationally. 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:57.960 Musicians and actors, for instance, have long relied on beta blockers, 0:15:58.040 --> 0:15:59.240 like pro pronologue. 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:02.680 That's funny because I was just about to say, there 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:05.240 are things you're suppose You're supposed to be anxious before 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:08.280 the game starts, before you walk on stage. That's the 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:11.480 normal reaction. That's what gets you all geared up to 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:15.840 perform so or your wedding day or whatever. So people 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:19.120 are taking drugs to not have the normal human reaction. Well, 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:19.800 that's interesting. 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:23.840 And they talk about Robert Downey Junior during the twenty 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:26.640 twenty four Golden Globe said I took a beta blocker, 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:28.440 So this is going to be a breeze, and at 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:32.600 this year's Academy Awards, actress Rachel Sinot's red carpet advice 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.560 was take that beta blocker, girl, swallow it down and 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:38.120 lock it in, and their sound bite became sort of 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:42.160 a rallying cry for women who report experiencing anxiety disorders 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:43.200 at higher rates than men. 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:46.600 Now, I can see that it would be helpful if, 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:50.760 for whatever reason, you have paralyzing anxiety at the idea 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:54.160 of just walking into work or something like that. But 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:59.200 but for things that are you know, legit anxious, you know, 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:01.560 and events that are gonna make you anxious, why would 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:02.240 you want to block that? 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:07.439 I could name a couple of like, truly gifted musicians 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:11.359 who stopped performing because they were so miserable they couldn't 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:12.199 walk out on stage. 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:14.920 Miles Davis used to throw up before he'd play he 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:18.280 gets so nervous. Mmm, I do that before every show? 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:23.480 Should I guess? 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:28.040 Armstrong and Getty? Well, listen, we've got to do this. 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:35.320 Let me hear you all saying he ow ge s meggs, 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:45.560 let's go birds. We enjoyed that last year's Timeless when 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:46.800 it was the Eagles were going to be in the 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:48.680 Super Bowl, which a lot of people predict they will 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:51.400 be again. And they played tonight against the Dallas Cowboys 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:56.119 to kick off the NFL football season. They're supposed to 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:59.600 be really good again. Would say, are they so good? 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:00.959 And how do they last? 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:03.760 How they continue to be so good? You want me 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:04.560 to talk about that here? 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:06.520 Why not? All right? I'm kind of interested in that. 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:11.720 It's an accounting trick essentially that everybody can do, but 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:14.199 the Eagles do it way more than others for reasons 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:16.560 I will trot out in a moment or two. It's 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:19.920 the basic formula has to do with the salary cap. 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:22.280 Every dollar paid to a player has to be accounted 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:25.920 for on the team's books. But you can get creative 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:30.280 on when that cost hits. And so what they're doing 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:34.280 now is they add dummy or void years at the 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:37.560 end of a player's contract. They might be on the 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:39.720 team or not, they might be retired or not, but 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:42.920 they have these dummy years at the end, and they 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:50.440 spread the bonus money out along the entire structure of 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:52.520 the contract, the entire entire time of the contract. 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:53.280 Here's how it works. 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:57.200 When you sign a contract, two primary components your salary 0:18:57.480 --> 0:18:58.399 and your bonuses. 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:00.960 The salary counts. Again, it's the cap for the year 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:04.200 it's paid, obviously, but the hit from a signing bonus 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:08.000 is spread over the length of a contract, which is 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:11.080 then super stretched by these dummy years. I mean, in 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:14.639 the case of how did you have that handy wow, 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:19.000 And in the case of Jalen Hurts, I want to 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:23.080 make sure I get this right. He's one of the 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:27.520 highest paid quarterbacks, highest paid athletes in the history of 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:31.840 the world. But his salary is the NFL minimum. Wow. 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:34.640 Okay for a player of his years, but he has 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:38.879 a ginormous signing bonus. Okay, that's pretty interesting. And the 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:41.200 NBA's got its own scandal going on if you haven't 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:43.960 seen that in the last twenty four hours, one of 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:46.560 the best players in all of the NBA, Kawhi Leonard, 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:50.280 he's got like a reasonable salary even though he's one 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:52.640 of the best players. It turns out he they crafted 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:56.080 some sort of deal where the twe he's getting twenty 0:19:56.119 --> 0:20:01.959 five million dollars from a local endorsement. That and the 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:04.639 team kind of figured out a way to do the 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:08.160 accounting where the money goes to that endorser who's paying him, 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:10.760 so it doesn't show up as a salary cap. So 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:14.000 they learned from the Philadelphia Eagles that you come up 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:17.280 with the counting tricks because you if you had if 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:20.760 you if you didn't have various salary caps, the richest 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:23.640 team would usually win, usually not always, but usually win. 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:27.720 Yeah enough to want to make them want to go 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:29.720 ahead and do it. I will quibble. 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:33.560 The Kawhi Leonard thing is just flat cheating. This is 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:38.720 something everybody can do and does openly. But you have 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:42.240 to have an owner who's willing to part with enormous 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:46.600 amounts of cash up front. And also much like the 0:20:46.760 --> 0:20:48.840 United States government say, well, what the. 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:51.320 Hell's gonna happen when we've got all of this stuff, 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:54.240 all these obligations pile up in seven or eight years. 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:56.240 You gotta have an owner who says, I don't care, 0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:58.320 let's just win a Super Bowl. I'm surprised that doesn't 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:00.600 happen more often. Where you got the billionaire owners like 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:06.640 Paul Allen and the Portland trail billers, the Portland team 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:08.840 where they just have so much money that you know 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:11.040 you're over the salary caps. You have to pay the penalty. 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:15.159 I don't care what I care, Yeah, I want to 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:17.560 win I'm surprised that doesn't happen more often, but it 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:19.320 has been proven over and over at the Yankees and 0:21:19.359 --> 0:21:21.680 the Dodgers and different teams that haven't the most expensive 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:25.320 payroll doesn't guarantee you win it all. It gives you 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:29.800 much better shot. Obviously. By the way, Philadelphia is tied 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:33.600 in Vegas for the best odds of winning the Super 0:21:33.640 --> 0:21:36.640 Bowl again with the Baltimore Ravens. So the Baltimore Ravens 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:39.880 and the Eagles both have the two best odds according 0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:45.480 to Vegas, who is often very right, followed by your Packers, 0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:49.600 your Lions. Then you get down to your Chiefs and Bills. 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:53.480 Those are the teams with the best options. Although as 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:56.360 we pointed out yesterday, there's no way to factor in injuries, 0:21:56.400 --> 0:21:59.119 and that always plays a huge role because in this sport, 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:03.600 some star players are going to get really hurt. 0:22:04.680 --> 0:22:08.040 What size, it's a different team six weeks into the season. 0:22:08.359 --> 0:22:10.520 What sucks is if you root for a team that 0:22:10.600 --> 0:22:14.800 the ownership doesn't actually care about trying to win. I 0:22:14.800 --> 0:22:17.360 mean they're running it as a business rather than as 0:22:17.640 --> 0:22:20.040 like a fan who wants to have the best team. 0:22:20.520 --> 0:22:23.359 And the Dallas Cowboys who played tonight America's team. There 0:22:23.359 --> 0:22:28.880 are more Dallas Cowboys fans than anybody. Troikman called out 0:22:29.040 --> 0:22:33.119 Jerry Jones, the owner, for clearly not being set on winning, 0:22:33.160 --> 0:22:35.840 at least in the immediate future, as they traded away 0:22:35.880 --> 0:22:38.600 their very best player over the summer, and then another 0:22:38.640 --> 0:22:40.600 player just like last week, one of their top players. 0:22:40.600 --> 0:22:43.040 So they're just and then that's tough when you're a fan, 0:22:43.080 --> 0:22:45.040