WEBVTT - Wet Lips 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.160 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:17.720 Arm Strong and Gatty, and he Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:27.080 An MSNBC analysts claimed that Donald Trump wants to take 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:31.800 anyone in America and disappear them, presumably by booking them 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:34.440 as an analyst on MSNBC. 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:36.400 Low Radio. 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:42.120 I was just reading this article about Corey Lewandowski and 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:45.480 Christy Noms. So Christy Noman is the way too glam 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:49.640 for my taste. Department of Homeland Security Secretary. I don't 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:51.840 know why she gets hold dolled up the way she does, 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:52.680 for like. 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:56.000 Visiting El Salvador in prisons. But the thing that. 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:58.720 Bothers me that's way over the top is when she 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:02.120 has the I have wet shiny lips lips stuff. 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:05.760 Oh geez, I don't like the way you said wet. 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:11.160 Something off putting about that. Wow? Excuse me? It's called 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:12.720 a gloss, you weirdo? 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:14.560 Yeah? 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:18.280 Why lips? Wow? Yeah? What's the why the wet lips stuff? 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:22.199 So is Corey Lewandowski her chief of staff or chief 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:25.480 with a staff? That is the question that seems to 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:27.320 be going around, is they there seems to be an 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:29.160 inappropriate relationship between the two. 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:33.120 Are we just gonna let that go? Michael, I'm just 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:34.880 gonna let it go. I was kind of proud of that, 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:35.319 all right. 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:39.400 So Rich Lowry of the National Review wrote a great 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:41.520 piece about the fact that tomorrow is the two hundred 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:45.640 and fiftieth anniversary of the Ride of Paul Revere, Vaunted 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:48.240 and story and song and poem and the rest of it. 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:53.840 The the poem only semi accurate, and it's fine. For instance, 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:57.760 he absolutely probably didn't say the British are coming because 0:01:57.760 --> 0:01:59.840 everybody still considered themselves British. 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:02.720 Listen to my children, and you shall hear that one, 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:05.800 that poem. Yeah, the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere. He 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:10.359 almost certainly said the regulars are coming out, meaning the regular. 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:11.040 British troops anyway. 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:15.240 So getting to Rich Lowry's story, sure enough, we've long 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:17.519 told our kids and ourselves of the cinematic events in 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.240 April seventeen seventy five, when the famous silver Smith warned 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:24.040 the countryside of approaching British troops and the American Revolution 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:28.680 kicked off in earnest. Like all legendary events, Revere's ride 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:31.560 in the battles of Lexington and Conquered have been encrusted 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:33.760 with myth. It's almost certainly not the case that he 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:37.840 yeld the British are coming center, and Revere didn't ride alone, 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:41.079 and he didn't even make it to Concord. The British 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:44.720 briefly captured him. And the role of the celebrated minute 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:46.000 men tends to be exaggerated. 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:46.640 Blah blah blah. 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:49.600 But such minutia side that day two hundred and fifty 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.760 years ago still deserves to be celebrated in prose and poetry, 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:55.600 and is every bit as extraordinary as you might have 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:57.920 learned when you were a child, before we decided we 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:00.560 didn't like our own history and heroes so much anymore. 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:02.560 And you said, it's sooner than fifty years ago tomorrow, 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:04.680 correct sir, the nineteenth of April. 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:06.919 I was there on vacation a couple of years ago, 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.679 and I did the walk slash drive through the whole thing, 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:12.720 Lexington Concord, and it is It's very cool. Oh, I'd 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:15.200 love to do that. I can't believe I haven't anyway. 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:19.320 Hoping to maintain operational secrecy, the British sent a contingent 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:23.200 out at night from Boston to capture reputed stores of 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:28.480 weapons in Concord. They were immediately noticed and the whole 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:31.480 one of my land two of by sea plan that 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:35.560 Revere and has we discussed last hour. Roughly thirty other 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:38.760 craftsmen and mechanics had come up with a plan to 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:42.160 monitor the British movement of troops round the clock and 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:45.080 to warn the Patriots if they started to move in 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:47.680 an aggressive way. And indeed so the part about the 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:50.640 old North Church lantern is absolutely a real thing, and 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:53.560 the race was on. It is really Lowry Wright's one 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:56.440 of the most dramatic episodes in American history. Paul Revere 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:59.480 and others rushing to warn the countryside, and the British 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:02.640 troops marching through the night, not briefed on their mission, 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:08.040 hearing guns and bells sounding alarms all around them. Lexington 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:10.640 was on the way. The militia mustard as a show 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:13.600 of force, not seeking a fight. No one knows who 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:15.880 fired the shot heard round the world. It may have 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:19.440 been an inadvertent discharge, but the British then fired volleys 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:23.440 and charged with bayonets, killing eight. Concord was now fully 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:27.040 on alert again. There was a wary standoff again someone 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:30.240 fired during this confrontation at north Bridge. The British got 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:33.279 off a volley, then the Colonials returned fire with deadly effect, 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:35.159 and shockingly, the British ran. 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:37.520 Their rank swelling. 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.680 The Colonials harried the regulars along the narrow battle Road 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:43.800 as they retreated back to Lexington, with the places where 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:46.560 the fighting was especially intense known by names such as 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:50.599 the Bloody Angle and Parker's Revenge. This reminds me a 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:52.960 little bit of the opening days of the war in 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:56.719 Ukraine of a similar situation, in that the Russians met 0:04:57.040 --> 0:05:00.640 way more resistance than they thought, and the the home 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:04.919 people are much more motivated to defend their families and 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:08.560 homes than the Russians that wondered why are we even here? 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:10.520 In the Brits many whom we thought, why are we 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:10.960 even here? 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:13.560 Right? Yeah, that's an excellent point. 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.760 And I tell you what, if you hear about places 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.320 named the Bloody Angle in Parker's Revenge and don't get 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:21.159 a bit of a chill, You're made of different stuff 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:24.400 than me. Members of the militia did not, as popular 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:28.160 imagination believes, largely act on their own inspired initiative. They 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:31.599 were well led the Americans repeatedly stood in formation against 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:35.160 the British regulars during the course of the day. Historian 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:39.480 David Hackett Fisher writes it was an extraordinary display of courage, resolve, 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:44.719 and discipline by citizen soldiers against regular troops. The more 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:48.760 dispersed fighting along the battle road later on was itself 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:52.160 the product of a colonial plan to avoid direct confrontation 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:55.120 with a now reinforce much larger British force. By the 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:57.080 time they made it back to Boston, the British had 0:05:57.080 --> 0:06:01.919 suffered a true mauling, experiencing roughly three hundred casualties to 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:05.520 one hundred for the colonials. The Americans ensured that the 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:08.400 words spread far and wide, and the effect was electric. 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:11.800 Thomas Paine, who had only recently come to America, felt 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.400 that quote the country into which I just set my 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:18.400 foot was set on fire about my ears. John Adams 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:21.240 said that Lexington quote changed the instruments of war from 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:24.800 the pen to the sword. If Lexington and Conquered were 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:28.080 small scale engagements and the schemes of things, the reverberations 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:31.800 were enormous, they sent a message that a defiant American 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:37.400 population wouldn't be easily subdued. Wadsworth concluded his famous poem 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:40.440 with the lines through all our history to the last, 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:43.000 in the hour of darkness and peril and need, the 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:45.960 people will awaken and listen to hear the hurrying hoof 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:49.560 beats of that steed and the midnight message of Paul Revere. 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:54.600 May it be so, writes Rich Lowry. Beautiful job as usual, Rich. 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:56.200 I wish I could remember what book it was I 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:57.560 read fairly recently about this. 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:00.760 But Revere was captured along with the guy who's riding 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:01.760 with They. 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:04.040 Got beaten real good by like rifle butts and stuff 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:06.360 like that by the Brits and got out of there 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:07.599 somehow to continue riding. 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:10.440 But it was way more violent and dicey than you know. 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:12.840 The poem leads you to believe, right, it was not 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:17.560 romantic and gallant and a horse ride of shouting. Yeah, 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.520 you got the hell beat out of him the But 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:23.200 it's just it's been true throughout history, and for obvious reasons. 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:25.960 If you're fighting with your own home, wife and kids 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:28.680 at your back, you fight differently than if you're a 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:32.680 occupying force working for a paycheck. Don't really care that 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:36.160 much whether you're there or not, and whether it's shooting, 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:40.880 so nobody shoots you Russians in Ukraine or circum circumstances 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:44.160 sometimes the Northern soldiers in the South and the Civil 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:45.840 War and Us in Iraq. 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:48.080 There's all kinds of examples. 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.320 Right, Yeah, I was gonna bring up Afghanistan, and you 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:53.480 know that just needs to be remembered. And it's the 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:56.240 point I've made many times through the years. You can 0:07:56.360 --> 0:08:00.600 have the most righteous mission in the world. You can 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:03.640 be backed by the majority of a population of a place, 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:08.280 but they get tired of being occupied really really fast. 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:11.720 As we would as well as we were at the time. 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:12.400 Yeah. 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:15.080 Always remember in one of Shelby Foot's books about the 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:17.520 Civil War, he's got a quote in there from some 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:21.560 Southern soldier who gets captured after a bloody battle in 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:25.920 the Northern Guys Union guys ask why are you fighting 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:29.320 so hard? And he said, because you're here just thinking here, 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:31.480 you're in arm might you're in my yard? 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:35.200 Yeah, fight to the death for that. Yeah. Yeah. 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:35.760 Uh. 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:39.040 We will post a link to this piece by Rich Lowry. 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:43.760 I'm not sure the paywall situation. National Review does a 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:47.040 great journalism anyway. Maybe you want to subscribe, but that's that, 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:47.679 you know what. 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:49.960 I'm a little bummed today. We got this. 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:53.080 We'll play a little bit later, this this bit about 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:57.600 coloring eggs from Jimmy Kimmel. But my kids are too 0:08:57.679 --> 0:08:59.960 old for that now. And I love that. That was 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:03.000 fantastic there for a while. Ye get some eggs and 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.000 color them, and it was a little project and they 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:05.680 were so into it. 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:09.800 And the on weight of the teenager is a whole 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:10.440 different thing. 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:15.800 Nothing is fun or cool, yes, certainly, nothing to do 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:18.800 with you. Yeah, Actually, there's plenty of things that are 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:20.760 fun and cool. Hanging out with his girlfriend seems to 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:22.600 be very fun and cool. Hanging out with me not 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:23.120 as much. 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:24.760 Yeah, I was. 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:27.640 I was so lucky with my son, in particular that 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:30.400 we both love to play golf, and we both love 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:32.800 rock and roll music and playing guitar and. 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:34.600 Bass and that sort of thing. So we always, you know, 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:38.240 we could do that. Henry and I played tennis yesterday 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:40.240 and lifted weights. It's different stuff, but it's you know, 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:42.559 those little kid activities are fantastic. 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:43.800 Oh my gosh. 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:47.600 Yeah, yeah, I was always very bad at dying eggs. 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:49.480 I was more than happy to let the kids do it. 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:51.360 I just my eggs would come out and look for you. 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:54.640 But how is anyone bad at dying eggs? There's really 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:56.880 the bar is very low. Did the egg end up 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:57.480 not white? 0:09:57.720 --> 0:09:58.959 You win? Oh? 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.960 No, it's the other people in the family. Their eggs 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:05.720 were much more artful than mine. Okay, I mean beautiful, 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:08.960 like rainbows of color and patterns and that sort of thing. 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:11.800 Mine again looked like something had gone wrong with the egg. 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:15.800 Better throw this one out, honey, it's gone bad. 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:18.720 Joe's going to tell us why common core mats so sucky? 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:21.800 Is Trump going to actually tax the rich? 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:22.080 Wow? 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:27.000 That'd be the ultimate populist move? But no, no, let's 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:28.640 not know. He's not going to raise tax. 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.080 There's that He's going to a lot of stuff on 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:31.920 the way. Stay here. 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:34.120 Strong and yet. 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:38.280 So the first time since twenty fourteen, Easter and four 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:40.640 twenty will land on the same day this year, which 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:42.920 is going to lead to some very. 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:44.920 Long and confusing egg hunts. 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.679 Where did I did I hide those? 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:48.280 I don't know. 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:50.960 There are a lot of Peeps products then now this 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:54.959 year they have Peep's icies, They've got Peeps flavored milk. 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:58.000 The Peeps and Peeps even teamed up with Milk Bone 0:10:58.080 --> 0:10:58.440 to make. 0:10:58.400 --> 0:10:59.960 Peeps flavored dog biscuit. 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:03.560 No, at least one stone dude in the peedile at 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:04.840 Target is going to see that. 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:06.120 And just devour the bucket. 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:06.360 Right. 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.160 I've still never had a peep, but a peep peep 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:11.680 flavored milk sounds awful. 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.480 That is just sugary milk. It's milk with sugar in it. 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:18.439 I don't get it. Although I am a big fan 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:21.239 of the peep and have been for many, many years. 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:25.360 We did get one text tying a story of today 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:27.079 with our little revolutionary work. 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:28.800 Yes, Katie, you have a peep related comment. 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:35.079 I was just gonna let Joe, No peeps are trash, says, trash. 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:37.760 Is like a low rent treats. 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:38.320 Is that No? 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:41.320 There, it's there with the circus peanuts and the. 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:45.800 I agree, another excellent traait, another delicious treaty. 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:48.200 You canet them the real cheap. 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:50.000 They come in packaging boxes as well. 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:56.000 And you said the peep is a delightful, soft, yet crunchy, 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:59.960 It's Easter themed treat enjoyed by generations. 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:05.800 The fascinating personality that is you that combines country club 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:11.200 wine connoisseur, you know, Beethoven with you like peeps and 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:12.599 circus peanuts. 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:16.200 Yes, and if you were more sophisticated you'd understand how 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:17.840 it all fits together. 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:24.640 At home matching his peeps with a nice Scotch. Oh, 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:27.280 that sounds delicious. 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:28.679 One serious thing. 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:30.920 We were talking about the Revolutionary War and the anniversary 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.200 of Paul Revere blah blah blah, and one of the 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:34.880 stories of the day. I think it's helpful to point 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:36.959 out that the true beginning of due process began with 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:41.200 John Adams defending the British soldiers after the Boston massacre. 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:43.400 He thought it would end his career and ruin his reputation, 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:45.400 but was convinced it was the right thing to do anyway, 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.559 that everybody deserved to due process, even the British soldiers. 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:51.120 And if you have not seen that play out, you 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.080 should watch that HBO series with Paul Giamati as John Adams. 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:55.119 It's really good. 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:00.760 Yesterday, Joe brought us some fascinating information about Elon Musk 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:03.920 and his many children and how the whole thing works. 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:07.760 Did that include you mentioning that, well, I'll just read 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:10.280 this text and I don't remember this part or not. Wait, 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:14.280 Elon's been getting all these women pregnant with in vitro fertilization. 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:22.240 Dude, I've got a way cooler method you should try. Well. 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:24.760 No, I think he does it the old fashioned way. 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:28.199 Mostly what he was suggesting to I think it was 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:33.439 Ashley Saint Clair was that they combine his most excellent 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:40.280 spermatozoans with her delightful ovum ova and implant them in 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:43.200 a bunch of mothers because he thought that they were 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:46.680 a super great pair to reproduce. But you can't breed 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:48.680 an army one kid at a time, so he's going 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:50.800 to farm out the project to surrogates. 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:54.360 I wonder what his goal is if he's on kid 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:59.360 fourteen at age fifty three, and unlike women, as a dude, 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:00.840 you could keep doing this, you know. 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:05.360 The rest of your life. I wonder how many kids 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:06.400 he's thinking. I mean, is he. 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:10.600 Gonna like get into Crazyville, like forty fifty kids? 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:11.160 Yeah? 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:13.079 I think as many as possible as his goal. 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:18.160 Wow, within the bounds of And we talked about this 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:21.920 yesterday hour four I think gravitfive podcast Armstrong and getting 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:24.960 on demand if you missed it. But the way he 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:27.800 manages the women and pays gives them a lump sum 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:30.160 and then a monthly like one hundred thousand dollars a 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:34.280 month allowance to raise the kid, but then he might 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:39.600 makes them sign non dispara agreements. NDA's it's all very 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.880 complicated and certainly odd from the perspectives of somebody with 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.040 a much more traditional lifestyle like myself. 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:48.920 Yeah, so the figure you were the reporting was fifteen 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:51.640 million lump sum and then one hundred thousand a month 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:56.040 to Miss Saint Clair. Yeah, indeed, just that little romulus. 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:57.840 Is that for life or is that for till the 0:14:57.920 --> 0:14:58.560 kid's eighteen? 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:02.440 Well, she had some objections to the contract, specifically that 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:07.320 it wasn't terribly specific about what would happen if Elon 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:09.760 died before the kid hit twenty one, because I think 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:11.680 that was one of the answer to your question. 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:13.640 That's kind of easily taken care of. I mean. 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:18.040 You would think, but yeah, it's a culture of don't 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:20.360 challenge him, just play along, and he will make it 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:21.480 very much worth your while. 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:23.840 Once you got your fifteen million dollars, I think you're 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:24.760 in decent shape. 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:26.800 I mean, unless you're really bad, you got to pay 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:27.120 it back. 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:32.840 If you disparage him, you'll break the agreement. Yeah, wow, 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.720 that's the contract. So you come, you go to TMZ 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:37.560 and say Elon's a bad dad and you owe him 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:39.320 that you got to pay back to fifteen million dollars 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:43.280 which you probably spent most of correct. Yeah, yeah, well, 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:46.520 you know, it's an interesting arrangement you got into anyway. 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:49.480 But so his rockets seem to be very, very good. 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:51.400 Somebody brought up last Hour. 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:54.840 So there's a certain theory with the Mungams and with 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:58.320 Elon that his genius and I think he is a genius, 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:00.240 will translate to the. 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:00.840 Kid you have. 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:03.040 But somebody pointed out last hour. There's not a lot 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:05.240 of examples of that. I mean, we just were mentioning 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:08.800 John Adams, John Quincy Adams. There's one example, but there's 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:12.720 not like regular examples of Thomas Edison's kid or Einstein's 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:16.320 kid or whatever, or athletes or you know, it happens 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:17.960 now and then, but not usually. 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:21.400 Yeah, they have different goals and motivations. Of course, they're individuals. 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:24.440 They might be really into, you know, writing about opera 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:27.680 or history or whatever, and no interest in forging ahead 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:28.720 in physics, for instance. 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:30.760 So you got fifteen million dollars one hundred thousand dollars 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:32.920 a month, and you might have a dumb kid. You know, 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:36.720 or Thomas Edison's kid just wanted to play the banjo. 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:38.760 I don't know. Did he have kids? 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:42.560 So I don't know, right, Yeah, that's gonna be interesting 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:45.040 to watch. I'll bet Elon's gonna end up with forty 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:50.840 fifty kids, whichard could be crazy, could be so coming up. 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:55.920 Harvard announced that they need to offer remedial math classes 0:16:55.960 --> 0:17:00.120 now to the most exclusive university on a plan. And 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:01.800 part of the reason for that is because common Core 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:04.919 was such a miserable failure. Yep, sure, and you knew it, 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:06.880 didn't you trying to help your kids with their homework. 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:09.800 You're right, all of us parents knew it. You know. 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:14.320 Look forward to complaining about this, Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:18.280 A dozen eggs are going for more than six dollars 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:20.040 according to the national average. 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:21.360 You might have seen the. 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:26.040 Social trends plastic egg decorating and dying marshmallows, and potatoes. 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:28.760 All it takes is a little food dye you probably 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:30.920 have in the back of your pantry from last. 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:33.280 Year, and egg shaped potatoes. 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:36.439 Both options are a fraction of the cost of a 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:37.119 dozen eggs. 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:40.119 I think to dye potatoes because we can't afford eggs 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:45.320 is the reason our grandparents left the old country. 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:44.800 Good. 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:46.440 You know what you want, you know what you can 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:47.600 do if you can't buy eggs. 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:50.480 Eggs are suggestions, are good suggestions. 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:52.920 Just tell your kids you hid the eggs really really 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:53.680 well this year. 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:57.760 How do you dye a plastic egg? 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:00.840 You know, that's the perfect example of a social media 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:01.760 trend that. 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:03.040 Doesn't exist on Earth. 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:07.960 It's only nobody's dying blanking potatoes. Egg shaped potatoes, no 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:11.679 first social media trend. I don't think anybody's in a 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:15.760 situation where that extra dollar from what they cost a 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:18.000 year ago is going to keep you from being able 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:18.440 to do it. 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:21.240 And if you are, that's I feel for you. 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:25.360 But like, sell some plasma today or a steal, do something, 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:28.160 but don't make your kids die egg shaped potatoes. 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:31.200 Wow. 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:35.920 Wow, So coming up a little bingo banngo bongo of headlines, 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:38.000 A lot of stuff going on. We'll just touch on 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:41.639 a lot of it briefly. But I was struck, as 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:44.800 so many were, that even Harvard is now having to 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:50.080 offer remedial math classes because our nation's government schools are 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:52.800 doing such a poor job of preparing kids for college. 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:56.640 That's crazy. I can't believe you're qualify for Harvard, yet 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:58.040 you need remedial math. 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:02.800 I've been hearing for years about remedial English and writing 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:07.360 in particular courses in a lot of universities for kids 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:10.879 who are accepted into what are quote unquote the elite universities. 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:13.119 And you know, not to brag or anything, we're the 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:15.560 product of our upbringing in the education that was offered 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:17.600 to us, and our own driving curiosity. 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:20.040 But the idea that. 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:24.320 You could get admitted into well I went, you know, 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:29.040 to University of Illinois, for instance, and not the reasonably 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:32.879 competent at math and reading is just astonishing to me, 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:36.119 especially given and any parent of a high school or 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:40.000 can tell you this right now. It's extremely competitive to 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:45.000 get into these schools. What does all of that mean, Well, 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:47.199 it has to do with great inflation and the dumbing 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:49.880 down of education in the country. It's been a miserable failure. 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:56.960 But I thought this was interesting. The Harvard is not 0:19:57.080 --> 0:20:00.320 labeling the new course remedial. The official se that the 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:03.359