WEBVTT - Man... That Was Low Rent 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.200 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:17.239 Arm Strong and Jetty, and he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:26.480 After more than two hundred and thirty years in circulation, 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:31.280 the US Mint in Philadelphia pressing the last ever American penny. 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:34.600 US Treasurer Brandon Beach on hand for the historic moment 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:37.960 as production of the one cent coins officially comes to 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:41.240 an end, the final two pennies going up for auction. 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:43.879 For better or worse. Trump is not in love with 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:46.800 the status quo. He just does things that other people 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:48.400 that well, but this will cause a problem. 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:50.080 But what if that? But what if this? And what 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:52.200 if the penny's dumb? 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:55.200 Get rid of it. Jerusalem's a capital Isray. We all 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:57.880 know it, right, lots of things like that. 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:00.560 Yeah, most of it good, some of it not good. 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.720 But you know, then around all these years was more 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:05.720 on it, especially after inflation. 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:08.600 He was already done before inflation. But an extra dumb then, 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:11.440 Oh yes, we've outlined in the past. A penny is 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:14.039 now worth something a tenth of a penny compared to 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:16.280 what it was in nineteen forty whatever the year was. 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:18.600 I can't remember, so can you imagine having a tenth 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:22.160 of a cent coin. That's what we've got. We'll combine 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:23.840 that with the fact that it cost four cents to 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:28.080 make one. Right insane anyway, Goodbye penny. Old link is 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:30.000 on there, which makes me feel bad, but he's still 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:33.320 on the five dollar bill, and you know it can 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:35.160 keep some pennies if you like. Just take them out, 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:36.840 look at them and think about old Ay once in 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:40.520 a while if that comforts you. Anyway. So this is 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:43.280 not breaking news exactly, but you might not have heard it. 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:49.240 Seattle has joined New York City in electing a Democratic 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:54.800 Socialist mayor by an incredibly slim margin over a way 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:59.800 left you know, guy who was in office before, as 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:03.160 the The Daily Mail puts it to. Ms. Katie Wilson, 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:06.720 age forty three, the first Democratic Socialist mayor of Seattle, 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:11.440 ran a very similar campaign to old Mamdannie the Kamie. 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:14.840 She's run a campaign characterized by promises to increase in 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:18.120 affordability in the expensive city by doing policies that will 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:22.600 accomplish exactly the opposite, as they do every single damn time. 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:26.520 Another core of her platform is addressing Seattle's homelessness crisis 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:29.320 by throwing money at it, which plays California. You can 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:31.120 tell you, We'll just get you more bums and junkie 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:33.800 Seattle one of the worst in the country. Critics have 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:36.720 called Wilson privileged and out of touch, as the forty 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:40.600 three year old candidate regularly receives checks from her professor 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:45.000 parents to pay for childcare. Wow, which I'm sure she 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:48.160 would say is just evidence of how capitalism has failed. 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.360 It's funny how that excuse comes up over and over again. 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:54.040 These critics also a highlight Wilson dropping out of Oxford 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:58.120 University just six weeks before graduation for some reason, debt 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:04.080 free thanks to her parents. The Other Person's reelection website 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:06.960 highlighted a quote from a former Singing Seattle King County 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:09.600 NAACP president of All People who said it's hard to 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:13.160 trust a candidate running on their challenges with affordability when 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:17.720 her family's wealth shields her from actual consequences and financial stress. 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:21.200 I would like to say that her voting was similar 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:25.400 to with mom Donnie. Where was in the working class 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:29.120 that got the mayor of Saddle over the top. It 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:32.720 was other highly educated elite people. 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:39.040 Yeah, yeah, So currently her husband does not have a 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:41.920 paying job either, Neither one of them have a job. Well, 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:44.600 if she's a mayor now, well, yeah, currently that means 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:47.120 the couple's household income is below would be considered enough 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:50.520 money to support themselves and their child in Seattle. So 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:54.440 she gets checks from home at age forty three. Wow, 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:57.360 she's not ashamed. It just speaks how expensive and unaffordable 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:00.400 it is, right, she said, how about how about like. 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:05.200 The other ninety nine it's pretty high of people your 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.400 age who have figured out how to support themselves. 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:12.080 What are they just dumb? Yeah? Yeah, wow, that is 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:16.359 just unbelievable. Oh, good luck with that that. 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:20.279 You're in your forties and you're still on your parents pay. 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:23.920 Check unless you have special needs of course, of course, 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:28.159 something different. Yeah, that's just that's just sad. That is 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:31.479 just sad. Yeah, okay, well that's enough of that. 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:34.320 And of course, of course you'd turn to that person 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:37.120 for the answers to economic problems, somebody that has not 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:40.320 figured out how to support themselves at all. Well, because 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.120 she reinforces the excuses you're making for yourself in your 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:43.520 own life. 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:47.159 I get it. There's nothing more comfortable than a great excuse. 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:52.280 So you know, speaking of political trends among the young. 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:54.520 You know, I've been reading a lot about this, and 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:56.960 there's too much to cram in here. But read a 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.440 piece by a guy named Derek Thompson, The Monks in 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:03.960 the Casine, and it's and he highlights a couple of 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:08.680 people who have appeared in big time journalism profiles lately. 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:13.200 The one guy is a He considered himself a porno sexual, 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:16.800 which is exactly what it sounds like. It's just it's sick, 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:20.279 beyond sick and bizarre. He's no good with talking about women. 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:23.960 He thinks about sex between two people and he's troubled 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:26.920 by it. He's frightened by it because of the impossibility 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.200 of ever knowing what's really going on in your partner's head. 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:32.520 I just feel like it's exhausting for both parties. Then 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:35.080 there's this another guy with a gambling addiction, both of 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:36.760 them living in their parents' house. 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:39.719 What's a porno sexual? I mean you said it's is 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:43.000 it all porn all the time? You prefer porn to 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:43.640 the real thing. 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:46.760 Uh, not that he's ever dabbled in the real thing. 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:52.560 Been recently thinking about these guys, Derek Wrights, who are dating, less, socializing, 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.280 less leaving their homes, less, filling their media with more 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:58.440 porn and betting parlays. They seem to prefer the financial 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:00.840 discomfort of losing a bet to the social anxiety being 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:04.599 rejected on a date. They find intimacy scary and gambling exciting, 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:08.800 et cetera, et cetera. Monks and casinos. The title of 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:12.720 his piece, that's troubling, wait till ai hit yeah, Oh 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:16.240 my god. And then on that topic, Jeff Blair for 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:21.960 The National Review, he's talking about the the woke right, 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:26.080 if you will, the Tucker, Nick Foantes Groyper's crown, And 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:29.359 how about thirty to forty percent of the young people 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.640 who are like activists climbers in Washington, d c. On 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:37.159 the right are probably in that crowd. They think it's 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:41.320 just under a third to forty percent who hold the 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:45.640 views that are I will quote characterizable beyond anti Semitism 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:48.400 as a general belief that the system as it exists 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.120 is corrupt and must be leveled along with whoever is 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:56.760 perceived as having been its beneficiaries. Blah blah blah. And 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:58.839 he says that's. 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:01.159 The part of the whole movement that worries me, and 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:04.120 I think is paying attention to I don't know that. 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:08.320 You know, we're Germany in nineteen thirty three, that anti 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:11.000 semitism is going to become a leading But just. 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:14.360 The boy they're close in Canada. More on that another time, but. 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:21.160 Just the the system stacked against me, combined with scared 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:25.840 to talk to other human beings, just that all that 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:28.040 anger from that. You're just unhappy with life. And how 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:29.680 would you not be unhappy? You got no friends, you're 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:32.160 not have any sex, you have never been in a relationship, 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:34.480 and you don't have a job. That makes for a 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:36.880 really angry group of people that can be a pretty 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:38.080 powerful voting block. 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:43.520 Yeah, yeah, And then he points out the anti semitism 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:45.600 on the young right comes despite all the various guys 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:50.200 and poses, from a much deeper and darker impulse, the 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:55.800 reflexive rejection of pieties or you know, the sacred thoughts 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:59.120 of the past. For people scolded their entire lives to 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:02.280 think that X or why was racist or sexist, that 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:05.120 boys or girls and vice versa, and white males are 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:08.880 the engine of civilizational evil. It is profoundly unsurprising to 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:13.040 see a pendulum swinging backlash in an equally ignorant opposite direction. 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:16.160 Nihilism is contagious and it spreads quickly. 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:19.440 Yeah, I did bring that up when I was watching 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:23.160 the Nick Puentes on Tucker Carlson. The thing that I thought, okay, 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:25.640 I could see this as an entry way into people 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:28.320 who agree with you, especially if you're a white male, 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:34.560 is weird. The only crowd that are not allowed to 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:38.400 believe more of us is good, and we're being attacked 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:41.240 from all sides. Every single other crowd gets to say, 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.560 there'd this board would be better with more this school, 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:48.400 this whatever, this company would be better with more of me, But. 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:52.120 Not if you're a white male, right exactly, And then 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:56.840 he makes an excellent point. Uh blah blah blah blah bah. 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:59.160 It's not just the young dissolution right that's looking for 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.600 scapegoats to blame either. As the Groyper debate has raged 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:03.280 during the past few weeks, the thought has lurked in 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:06.240 the back of my mind. This explains Zorn Mumdani too. 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:10.400 The connective thread between them isn't anti Semitism, although the 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:14.120 overlap is obvious. I believe that anti Semitism is symptomatic 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:17.760 of a greater disease, a shared generational ferment societies have 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:21.640 nots raging against societies haves, with the same poison coursing 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:24.400 through the veins of both radical wings of our modern politics. 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:30.400 And he gets into, you know, the young people in Seattle, 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:33.520 in New York can't pay their bills, cannot save, see 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:36.240 all of their expected career paths being swiftly foreclosed on, 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:41.280 little optimism about the future. And let's see where is 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:43.640 the part that he gets into. And this is something 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:45.760 I've read about in the past and kind of forgotten about. 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:50.480 But the overproduction of elites. You have way more people 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.400 with degrees and advanced degrees being churned out of the 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:57.960 universities than could possibly occupy the elite seats of power. 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:00.400 He's writing a mount in Washington, d C. But that 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:04.880 exists in Washington, DC, for instance, there's just like five to. 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:09.280 One, which kind of means the term elite would would 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:12.880 need a different word, right if if you don't need 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:16.320 very many of them. Elite I'm not sure is the 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:23.160 right word elite kind of I don't know, elite athletes, 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:27.679 I don't know. Seems like it would have to be 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:29.960 a commodity to the that it's good to have a 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:30.480 lot of. 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:33.720 Yeah, I know what you mean. Yeah, I was going 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:35.440 to use a metaphor, but I'm not sure it's a 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:38.840 good one anyway, So I found that that's super interesting. 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:44.800 And then I'll end with this, And it's a really 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.480 interesting take from the folks at the Federalists, who about 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:49.440 half the time I think have lost their minds. But 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:54.480 I don't know Kelsey Ballerini. I guess she's a big 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:59.640 deal musician, singer. She was a judge on The Voice Okay, 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:05.280 has had a bunch of big hits. Her new big hit, 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:10.679 which is accompanied by a video, is called uh, I 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:15.440 sit in Parks. Oh, I've heard about this, Yeah, yeah, 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:18.959 about a couple of weeks ago. When I came across this, 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:24.080 she's she's seen through a nostalgic, warm filter, swinging on 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:26.679 a playground as quick clips of children playing with bubbles 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:29.080 or children being embraced by their parents cut in and out. 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:31.959 I sit in parks. It breaks my heart, she says 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:35.360 in the opening line. She and then talks about, you 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:37.720 know her, what she's achieved a little bit in the verse, 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:42.280 but by the end of the day quote, all she 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:44.240 can see is just how far I am from the 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:47.679 things that I want. Dad brought the picnic, Mom brought 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:50.760 the sunscreen. The kids are laughing and crying on red Swings. 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:53.040 We look about the same age, but we don't have 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:56.880 the same Saturdays. And she wonders if she missed the mark, 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.840 adding it's her fault for chasing things. A body clock 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:04.880 doesn't wait for h Yet she seems hesitant to let 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:06.480 go of the lifestyle that put her in the position 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:08.480 in the first place. The album's, the tours, the awards, 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:10.640 blah blah blah, or what I wanted, what I got, 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:13.680 she says. In the course to cope, she'll keep well, 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:17.200 I'll just read the chorus. So I sit in Parks, 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:20.960 sunglasses dark, and I hit the vape hallucinated nursery with 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:25.240 Noah's ark. They lay on a blanket and g di it. 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:27.680 He loves her. I wonder if she wants my freedom 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:30.400 like I want to be a mother, like Rolling Stone says, 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:33.240 I'm on the right road. So I refill my lexa 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:41.000 pro thinking what's the main takeaway from this screed? Somebody's 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:44.640 actually admitted that I've been chasing things the world told 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:46.320 me to chase, and all I really want to do 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:49.640 is have a family. I've heard that a lot from people. Yeah, 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:53.719 me too. Why would you let corporate America tell you 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:55.360 what life to live? 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:58.880 Yeh, all your friends are doing it. 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:00.760 It's the beauty of being an I kund of classed. 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:05.720 Well, when we go to war with Venezuela, we won't 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:08.240 have time to think about this sort of stuff. Are 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:10.520 we going to war with Venezuela? We got the latest 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.000 on that we've got a quarter of the US Navy 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:19.679 there now more on that coming up. Stay here, guys. 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:22.720 The big news in Washington today the House officially voted 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:30.439 to end the government shutdown. Right now, people who were 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:31.319 hoping us keept. 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:33.160 Flying home for Thanksgiving, We're like, well, I guess I'm 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.079 back to drawing and extra line in my COVID tests. 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:36.680 Here we go. 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:42.920 Never liked those jokes about how the holiday season is 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:44.960 trying to stay away from your family because you hate 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:47.480 them so much? Was that actually your life? I know 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:49.640 it's not for Jimmy Fallon, because I know something about 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:50.080 his life. 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:52.800 Why would it be common enough that he thinks that's 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:56.679 a good joke, I guess, or end or maybe those 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:59.720 of us with happy families who were happy to see 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:02.800 think Yeah, that's too bad. But yeah, that's cynical, unfunny. 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:05.319 I don't know have I ever talked about Universe twenty 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.959 five before. I feel like we probably have, But we've 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:10.360 been doing this radio show for thirty years, so it 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:11.440 could have been a long time ago. 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.920 Project twenty twenty five right from Heritage. 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:18.160 Universe twenty five. It's a famous mouse experiment from back. 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.800 In the day. Oh right, yeah, go aheads. 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:25.560 Between nineteen sixty eight and nineteen seventy two, he studied 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:31.080 these mice. He created a mouse utopia experiment to see 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:35.800 what would happen. I think you'll see parallels to today 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:41.240 with these mice. The basic setup is the utopia. Utopia 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:46.440 included an enclosure with unlimited food, water, nesting materials, and 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:50.080 no predators for these mice. He started with four breeding 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:55.160 pairs and then let the population develop naturally again food, weather, food, 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:58.280 water protection, all your basic needs met and no predators. 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:05.440 The population initially got WiFi fast streaming exactly cool Amazon Prime. Yes, 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.640 the population initially grew exponentially, but at around day five 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:11.560 sixty the growth began to slow dramatically. 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:16.040 They stopped having little mice babies at a certain point. 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:21.280 Despite having physical space and resources, the mice developed behavioral pathologies. 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:28.040 Dominant males became extremely aggressive. Subordinate males withdrew completely. Some mice, 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:31.640 mostly males, completely disengaged from social life, only eating, drinking, 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:36.720 and grooming themselves obsessively. Female mice abandoned their young and 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:41.720 infant mortality skyrocketed. Wow, young mice never learned social and 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:46.480 mating behaviors from their parents, if you will, and by 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:49.000 six day six hundred, no new mice were being born 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:54.200 in the population eventually went extinct. Now, as it says 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:56.600 here in the summary, people are not mice and mice 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:57.240 are not people. 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:08.200 There point, come on, now, Yeah, I have known a 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:13.280 handful of people who were completely taken care of trust 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:18.400 fund kids, that sort of person, and the vast majority 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:22.240 of those stories do not have joyful endings or descriptions. 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:24.040 No, but this is what I've been saying about. We 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:25.880 stopped having babies. This is what I've been thinking of 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:29.400 first world countries. We don't have any threats, We were 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:31.120 not going to be invaded by another country, and we 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.800 have our basic need needs met. Even if you got 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:35.720 people marching in the street because their house is not 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:37.560 as big as their neighbor's house or whatever it is, 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:41.120 our basic needs of being met, and we're stopping getting together. 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:46.000 We're starting to act weird. True. Yeah, well, and it's 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:51.960 absolutely known scientifically that struggle raises your testosterone and victory 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:56.480 raises it even more. We're meant to strive and fight, 0:16:56.760 --> 0:17:00.680 whether the literal battles or metaphorical battles. We're not meant 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:04.520 to lay around to be comfortable as beings. Interesting. Okay, 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:07.640 I've got a jiv yet informative new feature coming up. 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:11.560 You won't want to miss it. Wel Armstrong and Getty 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:13.120 in the. 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:17.119 Bathroom here on the floor we were occupying here at 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:21.080 the radio station, the stall where people do their you know, 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:24.560 your main business. There's been no soap in there for 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:28.000 like a month. Oh it's longer than that to wash 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:35.199 your hands, and that ain't cool. So Hanson and I 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:37.840 were just discussing it. Maybe we should bring bars of 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:39.960 soap and set him on the counter. It kind of 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:41.560 a hint, like we've started to bring our own bar 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:44.639 from home for some reason. He suggested lava. Do you 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:45.720 remember lava soap? 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:45.919 Oh? 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:47.959 It was gray and it had the grit in it 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:51.879 to like, oh yeah, do they still make that. I 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:53.360 think bars a lava soap. 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:57.199 Would be perfect. One of my friend's dad was an 0:17:57.280 --> 0:17:59.600 actual auto mechanic and he did a lot of work 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:01.720 in his own garage. I think that's where I ran 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:02.560 in a lava soap. 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:03.920 It was good for that sort of thing. I don't 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:05.199 know if it was so good for like a ten 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:07.639 year old to scrub their body in the shower. 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:10.600 Well, we're a lot of bleeding from the hands, yeah, bulliating, 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:16.240 exfoliating exactly. So a lot of great stuff to squeeze 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:19.960 in this hour. But first, from the intormation mind of 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:23.280 Joe Getty, that brought you. I do occasionally refer to 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:26.600 myself in the third person, that brought you a look 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:28.760 in the China cabinet. And what was one of the 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:33.639 other ones, Michael, I can't remember if there was another one. 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:36.360 There have been other ones. Well, it's time for the 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:37.920 euro Bureau. 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:39.280 There you go. 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:49.680 Yeah, we're still working on the introduction for the euro Bureau. 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:54.840 And that was low rent. How are you kidding? That 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:58.000 was free sign on the side of the road. I 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:02.200 was limited on supplies. Yeah, send time. So a couple 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:04.720 of really interesting stories from Europe, and I tell you 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:06.679 what and a lot of you agree with this. I 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:12.240 feel like watching my beloved Republic in our various challenges 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:15.640 and increasing socialism and debt and the rest of it. 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:18.600 It's a slow motion car crash. I mean, the end 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:23.480 of this is so incredibly predictable. We become France. It's 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:26.240 the Francification of the United States. Oh oh damn it 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:29.000 that reminds me. I'm so pleased with this, I can't 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:31.720 stand it. The new T shirt at the Armstrong and 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:38.000 Getty superstore is simply on a lovely dark blue background, 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:40.400 although you could probably get it in all sorts of colors. 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:45.080 Ruin the entire Country, Newsome, twenty twenty eight. I like 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:50.000 it looks great cal Unicornians and those who sympathize with 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:55.880 cal Unicoreans carolccordians. Ruin the entire Country, Newsome twenty twenty eight. Anyway, 0:19:56.320 --> 0:19:58.400 So we all heard about the breaking at the Louver, 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:01.880 right We're going to start in France and the euro Bureau. 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:04.520 We all heard about that right in the Crown Jewels 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:08.040 and all sorts of stuff. Much less reported here on 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:11.760 the other side of the Atlantic is the fact that 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:17.400 that was one of nine major robberies of museums over 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:22.120 the past year in France. Didn't know that nine six 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:25.280 French museums have been hit since the beginning of September alone, 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:27.520 one of them twice. And they name a bunch of 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:30.199 museums I've never heard of, but are important, I guess, 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:33.720 including the stately Museum of Natural History. Few of the 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:37.160 stolen works, including precious porcelain and gold crosses and statues, 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:40.920 have been recovered. As the robberies pile up, French officials 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:44.040 are waking up to an unsettling reality. France is a 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:47.800 wash in cultural treasures, but has minimal resources to protect 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:48.600 them from thieves. 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:51.000 Well, I was going to say, after the fourth or 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:53.440 fifth museums hit, I would have thought somebody said, hey, 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:54.600 is the Loop protected? 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:59.120 I mean, that's like our most famous museum. Successive governments 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:02.360 have collapsed over efforts to rein in the country's budget deficit, 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:05.440 leaving the state to cash strap to invest in meaningful 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:08.960 security upgrades for the more than twelve hundred sites classified 0:21:08.960 --> 0:21:14.399 by the government as museums, and Macrohn's administration is scrambling 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:17.000 to take a census of the country's most valuable artwork 0:21:17.080 --> 0:21:21.240 to nowhere to put their few pennies. But you've got 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:24.359 a rising criminal class and absolutely no budget, no will 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:29.199 to protect the country. It's just sad. Then you have 0:21:29.359 --> 0:21:34.120 this from the Wall Street Journal. Britain is preparing tens 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:38.720 of billions of dollars twelve pounds but in new taxes. Again. 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:42.520 The Labor government is ready to a is readying its 0:21:42.520 --> 0:21:45.280 second major tax increase in two years, as it tries 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:50.760 to avoid spooking markets, specifically bond markets, because it's taking 0:21:50.760 --> 0:21:57.479 on so much debt and it's killing the economy. And 0:21:57.520 --> 0:21:59.239 this is a good description. The UK has long been 0:21:59.280 --> 0:22:03.280 torn between two mutually exclusive desires. Voters want European levels 0:22:03.320 --> 0:22:07.680 of welfare with American levels of taxation. Of course, we're 0:22:07.720 --> 0:22:11.879 over spending our taxation too, but by accident design, the 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:14.320 debate is slowly being resolved in the direction of higher 0:22:14.400 --> 0:22:17.960 taxes as Britain's labor government, which can't leave office soon enough, 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:21.000 prepares its second major tax increase in as many years. 0:22:21.359 --> 0:22:24.119 The UK is confronting an issue, facing growing numbers of 0:22:24.200 --> 0:22:27.719 rich nations, how to pay for rising government spending without 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:32.080 taking on evermore debt and spooking financial markets. So they've 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:36.360 got this giant tax increase coming to narrow the budget deficit, 0:22:36.440 --> 0:22:40.040 which is at about six percent of their GDP. The 0:22:40.200 --> 0:22:43.840 biggest surrounds a tax increases since the mid seventies. The 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:48.720 increases will likely further constrain Britain's anemic economic growth. 0:22:49.240 --> 0:22:51.200 A lot of that had to do with their net 0:22:51.320 --> 0:22:56.320 zero policies around climate change, which were crazy, absolutely true. 0:22:56.520 --> 0:22:59.760 Yeah, those two things are just crushing the economy. So 0:23:00.119 --> 0:23:02.600 the latest increase will raise the UK's tax rate to 0:23:02.720 --> 0:23:07.439 about thirty eight percent of annual economic output, highest level ever, 0:23:07.720 --> 0:23:10.119 compares with about thirty percent in the nineties and the 0:23:10.160 --> 0:23:13.560 low thirties and twenty tens. That puts the UK comfortably 0:23:13.600 --> 0:23:15.280 ahead of the US, which is in the mid twenties, 0:23:15.280 --> 0:23:18.720