WEBVTT - That Ear Enlargement Really Took. Looks Great! 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.240 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:17.800 Arm Strong and Getty and no Hee Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:25.400 Forty three pounds of fentanyl was seized at the northern 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:28.400 border last year, a fraction of the twenty thousand pounds 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:29.800 seized at the southern border. 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:32.800 This is not a trade war. This is a drug war. 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:36.159 The tariffs on Mexico and Canada are just paused in 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:39.440 a month. If they are imposed, Democrats warn prices could 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:39.920 go up. 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:44.280 It's going to affect beer. Okay, it's going to affect 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:45.160 your glock. 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:48.239 The President's team argues that's not as important as stopping 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:49.320 fentanyl components. 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:55.080 Anybody who's talking about inflation right now is dishonoring, dishonoring 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:58.600 the men and women and children who have died at 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:03.760 the hands of China's Mexican Canadian fentanyl coming across our borders. 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:05.240 Now, I heard that and I thought, I don't know 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:07.319 if that's gonna work, coming out of an election that 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:09.200 was all about Inflation's killing me. 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:10.120 Inflation's killing me. 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:13.280 People are complaining about Inflationmen are dishonoring people who died 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:15.680 because how about you? 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:17.720 How about Chuck Schumer shuts up? And I think that 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:20.200 was Peter Navarro. I tone it down a little, Peter, 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:22.920 I hate populism. Is so dumb. 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:25.560 Chuck Schumer standing there, he actually had a beer in 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:27.000 his hand. 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:28.160 This is gonna affect your beer. 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:30.400 And then he held up on avocado and your guacamole, 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:31.120 your guawk. 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:34.720 Yes, oh god, how dumb down do we have to get? Where? 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:34.920 You have? 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:36.000 Very basic? 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:40.760 I have an avocado in my hand to make it perfectly, 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:44.320 go ah, is this how dumb the conversation is gonna get? 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:44.840 Apparently? 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:47.920 Am I a third grader in this scenario? No, you 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:49.480 can say this, official aids. 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:52.400 So yesterday we were talking about being tariff Tuesday today 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:57.080 for Mexico, Canada, and China. Well, as you probably know, 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:01.280 an agreement was made with Mexico and Canada. So both 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:05.080 of those got postponed for a month and some concessions, 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:06.600 and you either think they're enough or they don't. 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:08.560 But not China. 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:12.000 And as Joe keeps pointing out very clearly, China is 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:16.160 a completely different category. It's not apples and oranges, it's 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:22.519 apples and semiconductors. But so that ten percent tariff is 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:25.760 still on for China as of midnight. Last night is 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.680 going to happen, and China strikes back overnight at Trump 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:32.440 tariffs with levees on US imports. The Washington Post headline 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:35.640 being the world's two largest economies did not cut a 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:38.520 deal to avert sweeping US tariffs, which came into effect 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:44.000 after midnight. Beijing immediately retaliated, including fifteen percent tariffs on 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:47.240 US coal and liquefied gas and a slew of new 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:51.000 export restrictions and anti trust investigation into Google. According to 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:53.720 the Chinese government, we'll see how this all plays out. 0:02:55.560 --> 0:03:00.720 Ten percent levees on crude agricultural machinery, some vehicles. This 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:03.560 is all part of an ongoing negotiation. Who knows where 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:06.959 we're going to become February tenth, or a year from 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:07.680 now for that matter. 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:11.520 Well in China employs all sorts of nefarious tactics to 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:14.240 screw with our companies too, to get leverage. I mean, 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:20.320 they announced a probe into Google and also labeled PVHS, 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:24.000 the parent company of Tommy Hillfigure and Calvin Klein, to 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:26.560 a list of unreliable entities that they have their eye on. 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:30.519 I believe I'm wearing some of those unreliable underwear right now. 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:34.800 Keeping in mind, I don't think this can be said enough. 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:41.640 A lot of this sort of talk about Trump's China tariffs, 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:44.960 that kind of talk was being heard first term, and 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:47.360 then Biden came into office and kept the tariffs. 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:52.200 Sure, yeah, the relationship of China. Maybe it would help 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.640 to come up with a human metaphor that people could understand. 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:57.200 But I was trying to come up with it. I mean, 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:58.200 Canada is like. 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:01.080 Our good buddy in our next door neighbor and we 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:03.200 had a little argument over who ought to pay for 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:05.280 the fence because the tree fell on it, and we 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:10.600 can settle that and we're still friends. But China, we 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:14.280 were in business with them, then they defrauded us and 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.760 broke the contract and we've been in court now for 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:21.039 three years and we've still got to execute some of 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:21.800 the contract. 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:23.720 But we are mortal enemies. 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.400 I mean, that is the situation with yam And and 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:28.680 it's it's going to be or you know, maybe an 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:32.720 unhappy marriage or whatever, you know, human example you want 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:35.400 to use, the disillusion of it is going to be 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:41.880 very difficult. We cannot extricate ourselves from decades of thinking 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:46.200 China was going to be our buddy without pain. Yeah, 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:47.200 I was watching the. 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:51.960 Couple weeks in a row, sixty minutes has had stories 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.599 on this, the decoupling. There will be a time in 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:56.680 a few years where it's going to seem crazy that 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:58.320 the iPhone was ever made in China. 0:04:58.520 --> 0:04:59.919 It's going to see how did that happen? 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:04.400 Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well it was naivete on our part 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:10.120 and and and some brutal cleverness on theirs. We got played. 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:13.040 We got played badly. I thought this was super interesting. 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:18.839 The Journal had a story written about manufacturing towns that 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:22.360 were hit by the China Shock. That's when we really 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:26.479 threw our trade open with China, the idea being well 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:27.640 so backward. 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:29.680 Yes, there, their labor costs. 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:32.040 Are lower, and they'll probably you know, lower the price 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:33.920 of goods in America and everybody will win. 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:35.440 Well. 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:39.480 As a couple of scientists, economists from M I, T In, 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:44.080 a couple of other big schools it doesn't matter, are 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:49.680 studying this and writing about it now. Their new research 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:53.320 offers an unprecedented look at how the China Shock rippled 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:56.160 through the US, hitting manufacturing communities in the Southeast and 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.279 parts and the Midwest particularly hard. And it shows a 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:02.560 remarkable chair in the years leading up to the pandemic. 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:04.680 Many of the places that were hit came back, but 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:08.839 the people who got hit did not, which we'll get 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:12.080 into in a second or two. But and you probably 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.000 remember this depending on where you live in the world, 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:18.559 but the shock to the system for from extra cheap 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:23.480 Chinese imports because their wages are so crazy low, was 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:28.040 way bigger than anybody anticipated, probably could have, but we didn't. 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:32.599 It didn't work out the way that we thought. We 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:36.119 thought it'd be more like Japan's rise. China was huge, 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:39.039 its labor costs were extremely low, and its surgeon imports 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:42.800 took place over a couple of years rather than decades. 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:47.240 US manufacturing towns just could not compete. And they go 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:52.359 into how hard these towns were hurt. High unemployment, lower wages, 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:53.880 food stamps, disability. 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:56.359 That's got to be brutal. It's funny. 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:59.360 I was thinking about this yesterday when I was going 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:04.719 through all the Star about Elon trying to cut the government, 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:07.239 Trump trying to cut the government, and the left going crazy. 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:09.840 Just the idea that any government were work or whatever 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:12.280 lose their jobs seems like a horror to them. And 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:14.200 I was thinking about I read this book one time 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:18.080 about Bethel, Pennsylvania in the seventies when the whole thing 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:20.600 hit with the steel mills in that these towns that 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:25.600 everybody worked for the steel mill and or various places 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:28.000 with coal, same thing. I mean, that's just the only that, 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:31.800 that's the whole thing. That was just the whole everybody. 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:33.720 You and your uncle and your wife and your kids 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:36.040 were gonna work there and everybody. And when that goes away, 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:37.200 how devastating that is. 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:37.960 And it's brutal. 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:42.080 It's absolutely brutal. It happens all the time with different industries. 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:46.600 Never happens with government. And if you even like a 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:47.400 sliver of. 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:50.840 That, people scream an owl like it's awful, right right, 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:54.760 Like it's immoral to even discuss. So it's I think 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:57.000 it's worth running down this list with a little more 0:07:57.000 --> 0:08:00.800 deliberate pace. So these communities experienced higher on HIM deployment, UH, 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:04.880 lower wages, higher use of food stamps, higher disability payments, 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:10.560 higher rates of single parenthood and child poverty, and elevated mortality. 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:12.880 You know, someday I'd love to talk to. 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.880 Somebody really learn it about the phenomenon whereby if men 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:20.360 cannot be breadwinners, they tend not to couple or couple permanently, 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:23.840 and women who still desperately want children because it is 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.640 part of their DNA will go ahead and have them anyway. 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:29.440 Anyway, you have children because there's nothing else to do. 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:34.640 Oh boy, So you live somewhere where there's nothing else 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:36.160 going on, that's why you have children. 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:40.000 If you live someplace cool, you do other cool stuff. 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:45.720 I actually, from yesterday's Hot Links, there's a list of 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:48.240 fifty life hacks or something like that from some source, 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.439 and one of them was don't have children because that'll 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:55.520 save on your expenses and give you more free time. 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:59.680 That's true. That is true. 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:03.599 You're making the assumption that that's my goal, right. I 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:06.040 just it was so befuddling. I didn't even know what's 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:06.559 to say. 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:11.040 Anyway, that's funny, Yeah, it is funny. Yeah. 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:14.439 Don't have a job that'll free up your time as well. 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:17.120 So the economist found, Michael, do we have a commercial here? 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:20.280 I'm sorry? Did you tell us that simply safe visitor? No? 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:23.440 Nothing, okay, great, maybe later the good folks, it's simply safe, 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.440 always with a helpful word to keep your home safe. Anyway, 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:30.760 stay tuned for that commercial anyway. Don't know kids, it'll 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:34.400 give you more free time and be cheaper. What what 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:35.240 I thought about that? 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:39.640 Let me get out of pencil paper three times. You're right, 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:41.840 it would be cheaper. Don't have kids. I guess I 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:42.520 won't have kids. 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:46.160 Look, I'm no al een stain over here do anything, 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:49.000 but I swear I wish because because I know I 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:52.800 can feel you good people are feeling that same weird, 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:55.679 oh my god pain that I was when I came 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:58.840 across that. You know how they label video games, you 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:03.400 know e or or whatever. The ratings are M for mature. 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:05.840 They got to do that for like news articles, and 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:07.320 they got to have an as for stupid. 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:08.600 This is for stupid people. 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:11.720 And like I say, I'm no Alienstein, but I don't 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:14.040 need to read somebody saying, you know, you could not 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.040 have children because that would give you more free time. 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:17.840 I mean that again. 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:22.080 It hits me like a punch hearing something that's stupid 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:23.080 and lacking an insight. 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:23.400 Ugh. 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:27.920 So the economists getting back to this found that starting 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:30.360 in the twenty tens, most of the affected economies came 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:34.880 roaring back, including the counties surrounding, for instance, Hickory, North Carolina, 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:36.719 which we know very well having lived in Charlotte for 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:39.760 a number of years, and Dalton, Georgia. But the recoveries 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:43.200 did not come about as the result of a manufacturing revival. Instead, 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:48.040 they were driven by expansions in healthcare for instance, education, retail, 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:52.840 and restaurants, and the manufacturing employees hung on to their 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.120 jobs as many as they could for as long as 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.520 they could, but their jobs got worse and their pay 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:01.000 got lower. Largely US born, white and black men without 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:02.600 any college education, and they. 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:04.760 Did not participate in the recoveries. 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:07.000 The new data showed that while some of these workers 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:09.240 lost their jobs and struggled to ever find work again, 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:12.360 the bulk of them remained unemployed until retirement. But as 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:18.000 they aged out, they weren't replaced and their earning earning stagnated. 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:22.320 What does that mean, You stayed unemployed until retirement. Uh no, 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:23.439 they stayed employed. 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:23.679 Oh. 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:28.200 If I said unemployed, I apologize. But they hung on 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:33.640 at lower wages with no opportunity for advancement, and just 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:38.600 kind of saw their lives dead end a bit. And 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:43.680 different people came in, primarily more heavily women immigrants from 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:48.839 asia other people filling service jobs were US born Hispanics, 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:54.800 many of them college educated women, and the working class 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:58.760 non college white and black men, even of the next generation, 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:01.480 just tended to be on disability or not worth they 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:05.319 didn't move. That was one of the interesting aspects of 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:11.240 this big paper was that there is a class of Americans. 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:13.680 And this was one of the most amazing parts of JD. 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:18.640 Vans's brilliant hillbilly elogy to me was that there is 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:22.520 a certain class of Americans who consider it like wrong 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.200 or unfair or out of the question that they would 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:27.760 move and go to where their sort of job exists. 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:32.480 They just won't do it. Yeah, I get that, but 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:34.880 sometimes there's no choice. 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:38.960 Yeah, I guess I don't get it exactly, having moved 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:40.240 a bunch for jobs. 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:43.040 But well, I look hard. It's really hard. 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:47.520 I look at people around me, though, who have got aunts, uncles, grandma's, 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:50.920 grandpa's helping with the childcare and picking up kids from 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.400 school and dropping them off here and getting together on 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:55.880 Sundays after church. It looks freaking awesome. And I don't 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:57.160 have that because I moved around a lot. 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:00.480 But yeah, I mean, clearly the argument, but he would 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:02.320 argue with it is that if you can end up 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:07.040 on disability as a opioid addict unemployable right now, you're 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:09.120 better off moving but easy as. 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:09.559 Hard as well. 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:14.720 One of your Grammy winners gave a speech about something 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:16.840 that got a bunch of attention the other night about 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.880 how difficult it is without healthcare out there or something 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:20.240 I don't know. 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:24.319 Yes, yes, they did. 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:28.040 That's yes, and we will play that sort of right. 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:33.200 That's wow, great, I can't it sounds compelling. Plus, the 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:41.199 transgender actor is Sir from the transgender Mob Boss movie 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:45.120 has been disowned canceled by the left. 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:47.400 Oh wow, I want to hear that. I love that. 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:49.040 Lots on the way stare. 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:56.880 President Trump's making Congress every single day. Our numbers already 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:58.880 remember she wasn't too long. But we're dial with ten 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:03.319 eleven thousand entries to day yesterday, five hundred and twenty 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:05.520 four and not one of them, not a single one 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:08.760 was released. They're either returned or detained seeking prosecution. 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:16.920 Hallelujah. Wow, love it. Policy matters, elections matter. I don't 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:19.960 want to get you saw the four years under Kamala. 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:21.640 Funny you just said that, I don't want to get 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:24.760 off track, But I was just thinking as watching the 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:27.160 news was all on one TV. It was about border 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:29.280 and everything that's going on. When it was about tariffs, 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.000 none of that'd be happening if Kamala Harris would What 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:33.920 would be in the news if Kamala Harris had been 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:36.160 elected were a month and now three weeks in whatever 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:39.120 it is, what would be going on? I don't even know. 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:42.880 Probably status quo, which would be borders out of control. 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:47.840 Nobody's obviously trying to cut the government or arrest illegals, 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:49.880 so I don't I suppose we'd just be talking about 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.600 the Grammys or something, because nothing they were going to 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:53.360 keep on keeping on. 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:56.720 Every unit in the military had to have at least 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.640 three transgender people under a new executive order. 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:01.560 I don't know, you have to be transgender to get 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:03.720 the general Star. Wow. 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:06.640 Wow, that's what would happened in Gobbelo Harris's world. 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:10.760 Or can prove you've dated a transgender person? Uh So, 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:14.640 I thought this was so interesting. I really like looking 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.520 at other cultures and political systems just because it's interesting 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:19.200 to me and also to see how they're dealing with 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:22.640 various problems. And Germany has been really really interesting lately, 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:27.000 specifically as the far right party. I mean, you dared 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:30.160 not admit in polite company that you were a member 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:35.120 of that party, the AfD, they were the only party 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:39.360 willing to speak frankly about immigration in Germany. 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:41.200 Everybody else was too polite. 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:43.040 Well, I don't want to come off as a racist, 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:46.120 and it's a it's good for the economy, and there's 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:48.320 no human being that's illegal, and the rest of it 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:52.800 is very, very similar, like social pressure on anybody saying, 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:56.480 for instance, my town looks like it's a town in 0:15:56.520 --> 0:16:00.200 Egypt now, and only the AfD would say it. And 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:03.120 they've attracted a hell of a lot of support. And 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:06.080 now the right wing is becoming more of the center 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:07.920 right now. Whether they're going to have to shed some 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:10.720 of the real right wingy beliefs, you know, we'll have 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:11.200 to see. 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:12.560 But here is a. 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:18.760 Heavily tattooed fifty eight year old working class guy who says, 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:21.560 there are places here. It's not Germany anymore, it's not 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.520 even Europe, it's the Middle East or Africa. I haven't 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.760 read the AfD's economic program and I don't care. I'll 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:31.280 still vote for them because of immigration, and they are 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:36.360 growing like crazy for the same reasons Americans are saying 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:38.840 the things they're saying about their towns and their cities. 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:41.360 And the German people were shutting up for the same 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:43.480 reason a lot of Americans were, because they were shamed 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:46.520 into it by the elite who were making money hand 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:47.760 over fist through globalization. 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:49.960 By the way, we have some breaking news we ought 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:53.360 to jam in. The committee voted on RFK Junior. The 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:57.080 vote is in just now, fourteen thirteen. 0:16:58.160 --> 0:16:58.400 Yes. 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.000 Move on to the full Senate vote fourteen thirteen. That's 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:06.919 pretty close a squeaker by a vote RFK Junior. The 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:08.960 full Senate will vote on whether or not he's gonna run. 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:11.159 Things are strong and getty. 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.439 I told myself, if I ever won a Grammy and 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:17.960 I got to stand up here in front of the 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:22.160 most powerful people in music, I would demand that labels 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:26.120 and the industry profiting millions of dollars off of artists, 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:32.359 would offer a livable wage in healthcare, especially to developing artists. 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:38.560 Okay, who is that is the charming and talented Chapel 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:42.880 roan at the Grammy's explaining how if one is going 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:45.760 to become a professional musician, somebody, I guess the record 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:49.120 labels ought to offer you a living wage and healthcare 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:53.840 as you attempt to make hit records or not, which 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:58.879 is an interesting way to look at the industry or 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:03.200 the world, or the society or how okay, So an 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:04.560 aspiring artist, So. 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:09.560 I'm going to decide today, I think I want to 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:11.080 be a country singer. 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:12.000 I am now. 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:14.480 I am now an aspiring artist. Are you going to 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:16.920 offer me healthcare and a living wage so I can 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:20.840 continue to work on my mediocre songwriting if. 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:25.879 They quote unquote hire you. Yeah, I just I don't know. 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:28.800 She's a She's a silly young woman who has no 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:32.919 idea how the world works. You're right, You're right about that. 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:35.399 And I had a lot of dumb ideas when I 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:37.840 was her. How old is she? 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:38.800 She's twenty something. 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:40.520 I had a lot of dumb ideas when I was young, too. 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:45.119 But I'm reading through this Reddit thread that a friend 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:47.720 of the Armstrong and go Getty show hit me to 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:52.320 fed News, and it's all these federal workers. It's a 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:57.359 very similar sort of thing. All these Fed workers just 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:03.680 beside themselves at Trump and mostly focusing on Elon Musk, 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:07.320 are trying to take away their livelihoods and fire people 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:09.120 and how they need to stand up and fight back, 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:11.040 and they want us to go back into the office, 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:13.000 and there's no way I'm going to do that. 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:15.800 I'm gonna I like working remotely. Yeah, well so did a. 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:17.520 Lot of the people around here until they were told 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:19.320 two days ago they got to come in more often. 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:20.360 And you don't have a choice. 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:24.119 How if you're whether a musician or a federal worker, 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:26.919 how do you not understand the way the real world works? 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:29.440 Do not have such a divorce from reality. 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:31.400 Do you not have any friends that got fired out 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:35.880 of nowhere or their industry just disappeared overnight because it's 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:38.560 no longer needed, and now you got to learn an 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:41.240 entirely new skill, do something completely different. 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:42.840 You don't know anybody like that. 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:47.920 Here's more from Chapel Roan, who's definitely coming at life 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:49.720 from the same perspective as. 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:51.600 Nancy Flosi, who has no beliefs. 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:54.320 I mean, I believe I'll invest in that company that's 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:55.919 about to get a giant subsidy. 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:57.440 That's the only belief she has. 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:02.679 But you remember that hilarious speech about Obamacare where this 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:05.840 way someone can become a musician or a poet and 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:06.440 not have to. 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:09.679 Worry about healthcare. I was like, Oh, what did it? 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:09.840 Were? 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:13.040 So a chapel's cut from that same cloth nex clip 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:13.920 Michael fourteen. 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:18.600 Because I got signed so young. I got signed as 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:21.480 a miner, and when I got dropped, I had zero 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:24.720 job experienced under my belt, and like most people, I 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:27.280 had a difficult time finding a job in the pandemic 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:30.840 and could not afford health insurance. It was so devastating 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:33.080 to feel so committed to my art and feel so 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:36.719 betrayed by the system and so dehumanized to have to 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:42.080 not have health. And if my label would have prioritized 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:45.080 artist's health, I could have been provided care by a 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:46.760 company I was giving everything to. 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:52.600 Wow, she's like a child, She's like a child. Going 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:54.479 to beat up on her. She sounds like a child. 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:58.680 I am going to beat up on her. I'll go 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:00.960 ahead and beat up on well. So I was listening 0:21:01.000 --> 0:21:03.479 to Bernie the other day. He was on uh well Well, 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:05.480