WEBVTT - You Ugly Beagle!! 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.280 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Ketty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:18.160 Arm Strong and Jack Katie and He Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:26.079 This is one of the most severe flu seasons in 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:28.360 the United States in the last fifteen years. It's so 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:32.720 bad in some states school districts are closing because so 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:34.520 many students and staff are getting sick. 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:38.680 Worst flu season in over a decade and a half. 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:40.839 As you heard Jake Tapper say, there, how do you 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:43.199 get the flu? How do I catch that? Somebody sneeze 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:43.600 on me or. 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:49.000 They live on surfaces for a long time the flu 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:49.920 virus as well. 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:53.320 Yeah, I'd rather not get the flu. Wash your hands 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:54.360 a lot. Is that good idea? 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:57.400 It can't hurt. Yeah, yeah, I try not to touch 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:00.800 your eyes and nose. You remember what that idiotic was it? 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:04.880 That the scarf lady j Burks who said, now don't 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:07.400 touch your eyes and nose, and if she's given the speech, 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:11.600 she's like dabbing in her eyes and the robin and 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:14.080 we cried that that was one of the early signs 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:18.960 that wait a minute, this is completely ridiculous. And it 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:22.920 didn't get any better though. Oh even the lefty media 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:27.800 now is admitting keeping the schools closed was a horrifying debacle, 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:33.080 and we're struggling mightily to come back from that debacle, 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:37.440 and it's not going well. Among many other topics we'll discuss, 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:40.480 probably ought to get to the lead story today, Jack, 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:43.840 of course, which is that the Westminster Dog Show, which 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:48.360 is held every three weeks now apparently, yeah, exactly, has 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:54.880 designated a dignified giant Schnauzer Monty is the nation's top 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:55.720 ranked dog. 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:59.280 What they didn't they had the show again? 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:07.040 When yesterday? Every day cliche? Now, I know, I know, 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:11.080 Hell how often do they hold that show? I don't know. 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:13.640 I remember when I'd gotten the idea it was annual. 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:17.440 Right, I always thought so, I swear it was like congratulations, 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:20.240 giant Snaz how giant like the size of a school bus. 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:23.880 It's like fifty feet long, like Clifford, an amazing dog 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:25.760 cleaning up after it's no treat. 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:34.160 Moving along. So, the question of falling fertility rates and 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:38.799 reproductive rates and indeed coupling in general and marriage all 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:44.639 over the industrialized West and the East and China and 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:47.359 all sorts of places, I mean everything, but like the 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:50.880 sub Saharan Africa, and those figures are not as easy 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:54.440 to come by anyway. But populations are falling like crazy 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:58.239 in the developed world. And this is a note from 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:01.160 a frequent correspondent deep thinker, Paolo. 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:04.200 I'm guessing this came in after did the thing yesterday 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:06.399 from the New York Times where they did, like their 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:10.040 monthly opinion piece about oh, is it okay to bring 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:12.800 a child into this world with climate change and whatnot? 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:16.519 Yeah, exactly, and that is it responsible? 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:19.160 And then they just jumped to the conclusion that people 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:21.280 aren't having kids because of climate change. 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.000 All right, if you say so. I don't believe that. 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:30.560 But idiotic reasoning, idiotic conclusion just anyway. So this is 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:35.360 an expansion of note Polo dropped us earlier with just 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:37.400 kind of expanding on a theory which I think has 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:42.400 nailed it beyond uh, you know, any scientist. Between Polo 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:44.640 and our thinking, and we've been kind of going back 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:47.520 and forth on this. You're talking about the falling birth 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:50.040 and coupling rates and how people commonly attribute that to 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:51.800 the world being such a horrible place that they don't 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:54.560 want to bring a child into it. That just doesn't listen, right, 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:58.520 I've never I don't think i've heard that expression. Well, 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:00.760 doesn't sound right. It's a very on that. It's kind 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:02.520 of clever as you point it out. The world is 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.800 arguably the best it's ever been. And you know, we 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:09.200 could certainly make that case or read Thomas Paker's Enlightenment 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:13.080 Now in terms of life expectancy and health and just 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:16.240 one hundred measures, particularly the best it's ever been. 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:19.160 You pick any point in history, place or point in history, 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:21.440 you can't really do better than being in the United 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:22.000 States now. 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:26.520 Our poor people are astoundingly wealthy by historical standards and 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:32.279 global standards. Anyway, our response to perceived tough times, oh, 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:35.320 I'm sorry, it's arguably the best it's ever been. Yet, 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:38.120 the birth rate here in many other places is suicidally low. 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:42.160 Our response to perceived tough times is suicide. I think 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.599 there's a more likely explanation for the low fertility rate. 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:51.640 And then he quotes a paragraph from a scholarly journal 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:54.960 slash article. Animals can change their reproductive output depending on 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:58.240 certain environmental conditions, and one of those environmental conditions is 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:02.160 population density. Notes this lead author, So, if you have 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:04.320 lots of neighbors and you're competing for the same food, 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:07.160 it can lower reproduction, and that's what we saw. At 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:10.960 very high population densities. Female ground squirrels basically shut down 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:14.279 their reproduction. Imagine the frustration of the male ground squirrels, 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.280 and that was done in order to sustain their own survival. 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:20.320 When lashes were better, they would start reproducing again, unless 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:24.040 the male ground squirrels also have no interest, which might 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:26.680 happen due because we're seeing it. Yeah, yeah, I'm not 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:28.640 sure why they phrased it that way exactly, but yeah, 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:32.480 that is the case among humans. But then we get 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:35.240 to and I remember y'all probably do too. When we 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:37.200 had had this discussion a couple of weeks ago, I 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:39.600 made my usual joke. Anybody who thinks the world is 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:46.680 overcrowded should drive across Nevada, or from Kansas City to Sacramento, 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:51.599 say a long I eighty. It's a vast thousand mile 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.800 stretches of virtually nobody but a handful of farmers anyway. 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:57.880 But then Paolo jumps to what I think is his 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:02.159 most brilliant conclusion, reached again in concert with the Armstrong 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:06.680 and Giddy show, the degree to which we're interconnected. Think 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:10.080 the Internet likely makes our animal brains think we're even 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:13.799 more crowded than we are and triggers behaviors that limit 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:18.159 reproduction vess winning interest in reproducing. This is what I'm 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:23.159 always hammering going on on about, is our level of 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:27.279 input or stimulus is one hundred times what it is 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:31.800 designed to be. In the average day, the average human 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:36.120 being would have so much less interaction, so much less 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:40.039 input of ideas and arguments and anger and passion and 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:44.040 poorn and everything else. They're just your brain is made 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:49.360 to be bored or daydreaming for long stretches of time. 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:53.039 That's what it's made to do. That's how it keeps 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:53.880 itself sane. 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:54.520 Yeah. 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:57.000 I don't know if this is it, but that's a 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:00.360 unique idea that I hadn't heard before. The one thing 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:04.120 I am positive of is it's not a choice. I 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:07.440 do not believe people are choosing, you know, with climate 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:10.760 change and the rent, we're deciding I'm not going to 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:11.840 get married or have kids. 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:14.480 No, No, that's not you're not. 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:18.160 There's something going on way deeper than that. And maybe 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:20.200 it's this Internet. I think you're one hundred percent right. 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:24.119 So anyway, and I'm sorry I didn't connect the dots 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:26.560 completely for anybody who hasn't done it on their own. 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:32.960 The condition of being constantly badgered by the Internet of 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:36.800 our own free will most of our cases is extremely 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:42.840 similar to that of a serious overpopulation, as if we're 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:46.360 crammed into a Tokyo subway car in terms of our 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:50.000 brain's perceptions. The only thing I don't know, while you 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:54.040 got all kinds of examples with beasts, what was the 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:56.800 birthrate of London when it was the biggest city in 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:59.360 the world and you know, people were living hip to 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.680 hip in the eighteen hundreds, where people still cranking out 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:03.840 babies like crazy or not. 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:04.480 I don't know. 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:09.760 I don't know. That's a really really interesting question to 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:14.040 test the premise. I suspect that the birth rates were 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:17.240 lower than they were in less crowded places. And if 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:20.040 you're used to twelve kids per couple and you go 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.480 down to eight, that's still a lot of kids. I 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:23.640 wonder if they have that's a decline. 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:25.240 I wonder if they have numbers in Japan for what 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:27.560 is like Tokyo as it grew into one of the 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:30.320 biggest cities in the world through the seventies and eighties, 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:32.200 the breath rates. 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.720 Led the way in lowly productive rates. 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:38.280 Sure, no doubt, But me this makes this makes more 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:40.600 sense than practically any other theory I've ever heard. 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:43.920 Oh yeah, one hundred percent, and just I'll let them 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:47.520 bring it home, just to credit his fabulous arguments. We 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:49.880 don't recognize the real cause for these behaviors, so we 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.480 try to formulate an explanations, such as the world is 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:54.120 so awful that I don't want to bring a child 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:57.040 into it, or perhaps it's just too expensive slash hard. 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:00.560 The world was a lot harsher place hundred year ago, 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:02.839 thousand years ago, ten thousand years ago. Lucky for us, 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:10.240 our ancestors viewed things differently than we do, and likewise, 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:12.360 he points out that the very sparse population of our 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:15.959 distant ancestors was probably strong motivation of mate like bunnies. 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:20.480 Not to mention, it's just kind of fun. I think 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:23.680 this is important. 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.320 We're gonna figure all this out too late, though, Whether 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:31.520 it's the plastics in our brain or oh it's the Internet, 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:34.680 it's social media that's keeping us from having babies. There 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:36.920 will be no you know, we'll be at the point 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:39.440 of no return on population and our brains will be 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:43.360 full of plastic we'll have no sperm count whatsoever, couldn't have. 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:44.280 A baby if we wanted to. 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:50.760 Yeah, and I'm not a particularly religious fellow, but I 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:52.640 always go back to the Book of Genesis and the 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:56.600 apple from the Tree of Knowledge. And that always confused 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:58.480 me as a kid, because here I was being sent 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:02.600 to school five days week and doing homework and reading 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:04.480 and the rest of it, and I think, Wow, knowledge 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.319 is fine, it's great. In fact, it's great. In fact, 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:10.000 if I don't get my daily knowledge, my parents yell 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.920 at me. So I always found that somewhat mystifying. But 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:14.360 the older I get and the more I see, the 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:16.520 more I think I understand that it's simply a message 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:22.720 that man's abilities and lusts will be man's undoing. 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:30.880 Yes, well, you can't blame Elon Musk for not having kids. 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:32.800 As he was in the Oval office yesterday with his 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.320 cute little kid on his shoulders as he talked about 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:39.000 trying to gut the federal government because he's part of 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:42.000 a dictatorship of volig arts or plutocrats or something. 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:43.600 Oh, he's unelected. 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:46.720 We got from that press conference and a bunch of 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:50.280 others the Westminster Dog Show, Giant Snauger wins. 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:55.120 It's no, I'm good. We're looking dog though. Boy, this 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:58.040 word to god, we had a different winter two weeks ago. 0:10:58.120 --> 0:10:59.199 Do you want to hear the announcement. 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:04.440 I suppose for a best in show at the ninth 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:05.880 and I hope it's the Giants. 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.280 Sinster Kennel Club dogs. 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:18.520 I choose the Giant Schnauzy to three years of fires show. 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.760 Unfortunately, the Giant Schnauzer bounded to accept the awarden, crushed 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:26.720 five people and under its mighty pause. 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:28.520 Well you didn't see as a cameras panned away, but 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:30.440 there was a middle aged woman in sensible shoes who 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:31.160 kicked her beagle. 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:36.680 You ugly beagel, You suck jack. Many in the crowd 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:42.800 were disappointed that were they. Crowd favorite German Shepherd Mercedes 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:45.360 did not win the crown, snubbed again this year. It's 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:48.319 been a tough couple of years for Mercedes the German Shepherd. 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:50.480 This year, and by this year, we mean this week, 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:51.920 because we have this show every week. 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:57.559 I think something's gone wrong there. I gotta watch beston 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:58.120 Show now. 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.240 Yeah. I think the German Shepherd also carried with it 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:03.160 some of the guilt over World War two. 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:07.160 German Shepherd lifted I ever forget looked reminiscent of Elon 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:08.400 Musk's signal to the ground. 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:11.760 That's what I oh wan The Norman Shepherd w bad dog, 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:12.600 bad dog. 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:16.480 We got a lot more in the way. Stay here, Hey, getty, 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:21.800 Joge's for organst. It is all the rage. Somebody texted 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.200 that Marjorie Taylor Green is on the floor of the 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:28.040 house right now. They wrote this, making a great case 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.120 for why we need to cut spending and shrink our debt. 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:33.800 She's hitting a home run, a crazy blonde, sort of bitchy. 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:35.600 Home run, and everyone knows it. 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:40.160 Wow. Meanwhile, Jack, I've discovered what I believe to be 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:43.440 the we Shall Overcome of twenty twenty five, The we 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.640 are the world of the twenty first century. Ladies and gentlemen. 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:50.480 I give you, which side are you on? Which side 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:53.760 are you on? Which side? 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:57.040 Are you a side? 0:12:57.200 --> 0:13:04.080 Are you? Which side are you on? We'll fight against 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:12.640 joh Well fights no way lanscap within our walls, will 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:19.199 fight from dong to dusk. Which side on you w 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:22.680 shide on you? I'm on whichever side I'm sure's I 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:24.199 never have to hear this song again. 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:27.000 Play it, Michael, play it, damn it trying. Did somebody 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:29.360 tell you turn it off? For unions? 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:33.200 He wants us so to fame, he. 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:37.360 Wants us to bow to him, but we want him 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:38.160 in jail. 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:40.920 Oh my god. 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:44.079 Wow. 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.960 You know, I don't forget who wrote this or said this, 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:50.520 and I thought it was really good. One of the 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.760 problems we got going on in America is we we 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.320 had this period in the sixties where there was a 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:59.920 whole bunch of late fifties mid sixties particularly where we 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.240 had all kinds of this sort of thing, songs and 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:04.319 protests and you know, the look at the Bob Dylan 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:06.240 movie and the Civil Rights Act and all these different 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:09.680 sorts of things where there was like a real major 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:13.959 issue to be dealt with and and people rallied around 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:15.640 and there was a which side where you're on? 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:17.520 And people it was righteous, It. 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:20.000 Was righteous, and people want to relive that all the time, 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.240 even if that issue doesn't exist right now. And you 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:28.840 can't like put that level of intensity on dose. He's 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.800 trying to cut spending by a few percent and shrink 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:32.440 the government. 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:33.760 Which side are you on? 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:37.680 Which side? Musk? 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:38.880 Thanks for asking you. 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:43.240 It's about the moral question of our times, as you 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:44.360 exactly as you point out. 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:46.960 It's just so nakedly a strategy of we've got to 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:50.840 change these incremental cuts that aren't nearly enough to have 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:54.840 bloated federal workforce into the civil rights issue of our day. 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:57.080 Yeah, good luck with that. 0:14:57.560 --> 0:14:59.200 I mean, you want to talk about trying to make 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:01.200 a silk purse out of a sell's ear, that's like 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.320 a silk press out of the pig's crap. 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:06.320 Never mind it's ear this it's not gonna work. The 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:09.280 singing the lyrics was that a Saturday night live bit. 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:13.080 Good Lord, do take government by. 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:23.480 Translies Heaven God a chance unless organize. 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:28.760 No pretending that the Union is standing up for goodness 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:31.560 and righteousness, when indeed they're just standing up for continuing 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:34.000 to have way too many workers paying way too many 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:37.480 dues to enrich themselves. Hi, we're onto you, friends. 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:39.360 I sure hope I'm right about this, and I think, 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:43.120 but the vast majority of America doesn't look at government 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:47.120 jobs as sacropyged protected by all that is good. They 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:50.440 should never go away under any circumstances. The way they think. 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:54.720 We do well. They have managed to jam through every 0:15:55.120 --> 0:16:00.720 bit of wasteful spending and redundant taxation and similar stuff 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:03.280 for years and years, and we're most familiar with California, 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.880 but by by always it's the teachers and the firefighters. 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:08.280 If there are any cuts, it's. 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:09.880 Gonna you know, the firefighters are gonna have to fight 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:12.880 fires with Dixie cups full of water. And the teachers, well, 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:15.040 they're just going to be in prison apparently, if we 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:17.880 don't pass this tax increase. Well, now it's extended. Like 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:21.880 all government workers who are sacrosanct and sacred and so 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:24.960 valuable to society, we dare not question them for a minute. 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:25.720 Right. 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:29.120 The great civil rights issue of our day is making 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:33.800 sure mid level government employees who do something that you 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:37.000 can't even tell what it is, don't lose their jobs, 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:40.960 all right, no matter how unnecessary their jobs are. Right, 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:43.400 And there's also the issue in that I don't think 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:46.600 Elon's been hammering this enough, although he has many times 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:52.200 in his Twitter threats. There are important jobs and important 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:54.800 agencies that are gonna have to go away if you 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:57.440 don't have enough money. It's like if you're broke, you 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.920 really really want to do this or that, but you can't. 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.080 You just flat don't have the money. 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:05.359 And you better eliminate the not necessary stuff before you 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:06.840 have to eliminate all of it. 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:09.360 Speaking of Elon, he was in the Oval office, did 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:10.959 kind of a press conference yesterday. 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:11.560 It was pretty cool. 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:15.440 Some highlights of that on the limp, Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:21.080 And we're going to be signing a very important deal today. 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:24.879 It's aid DOGE and I'm going to ask Elon to 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:27.080 tell you a little bit about it and some of 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:30.439 the things that we found, which is shocking billions and 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:35.600 billions of dollars in waste, fraud and abuse. And I 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:37.760 think it's very important, and that's one of the reasons 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:38.440 I got elected. 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:39.439 I say we're going to do that. 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:42.360 Nobody had any idea it was that bad, that's sick, 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:43.480 and that corrupt. 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:46.560 Yes, he ran on he was going to cut waste, 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:49.240 fraud and abuse. He had Elon on stage all the time. 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:53.200 The term doge was out there for months. The idea 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:57.160 that this is some sort of unelected, olive arc takeover thing, 0:17:57.440 --> 0:17:59.000 I don't know where that comes from. You left out 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:02.280 coup and constitutional crisis. You can be against it if 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:05.159 you want, but you're you're making stuff up. If you 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:08.920 claim that the president can't appoint people to advise him 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:11.640 on things that the executive branch then enacts. 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:14.600 He's unelected. You full, can we save time and just 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:19.920 call it a constitutional constitutional acoustus. Oh, that's pretty as. 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:21.600 Time saves, because I know how you like combining words 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:22.880 to save time. Eight. 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:23.800 I'm very busy. 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:28.400 So Trump's there behind the desk, Elon is standing next 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:30.800 to him, wearing his dark Maga hat with his cute 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:32.640 little kid's cute little kid factors in here? 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:38.760 Oh, so the UH at a high level? 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:41.080 If you say, what is the goal of dose or 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:45.280 and I think a significant part of the presidency is 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:50.080 to restore democracy. Let'spa say, seems like, well, aren't we 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:52.440 in a democracy? Well, if you don't have a feedback 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:58.320 with okay, we'd have to if you're sorry until your 0:18:58.320 --> 0:18:59.960 gravitas can be difficult sometimes. 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:03.840 So how old is that kid? 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:07.320 He's a little I would guess four or five. 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:09.080 And he's dressed in a little suit. Very cute. 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:10.600 His name is X. 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:16.480 Spend a lot of time on dad's shoulders. But it 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:18.600 Elon's an interesting dude. And I don't want to get 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:21.200 sidetracked by this. He's four, by the way, he's four, 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:24.080 thank you, Michael. I don't want to get sidetracked by this. 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:28.679 I mentioned it many times. He's got a dozen kids, 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:31.399 how does he choose which one he's hanging out with 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:34.120 on any given day, with a number of different women. 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:41.080 And then since this is actually a pretty big policy 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:45.400 discussion and point of attention, I mean, it's been leading 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:50.120 the newscasts for a week of the three weeks. 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:53.399 Of the world's leading superpower, of leading superpower. 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:57.000 Yes, maybe you have one of the moms or a 0:19:57.040 --> 0:19:59.520 sitter or somebody hang on to the kid and you 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:02.359 know of an iPad in the other room during the 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:03.160 press conference. 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:07.560 Yeah, it's an interesting move. I'm so pro kid and 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:11.320 pro family. And though his family structure is not one 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:14.399 I am familiar with or approve of, I like dad 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:16.520 being with the kid. It was it was cute, but 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:19.760 it was it was odd. Yeah, but utterly irrelevant to 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:21.840 the gigantic questions which confront us. 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:24.280 Yes, let's roll on with Elon Musk press conference. 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:28.640 So if if there's not a good feedback loop from 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:33.040 the people to the government, and if you have rule 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:36.600 of the bureaucrat, if the bureaucracy is in charge, and 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:40.879 then what meaning does democracy actually have if the people 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:44.840 cannot vote and have, they will be decided by their 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:48.439 elected representatives in the form of the President and the 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:51.399 Senate in the House. Then we don't live in a democracy. 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:55.240 We live in a bureaucracy. So it's incredibly important that 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:57.760 we close that feedback group, we fix that feedback loop, 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:02.439 and that the public, the public elected representatives, the President 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:05.480 of the House and the Senate decide what happens as 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:08.440 opposed to a large unelected bureaucracy. 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:12.080 I can understand a monster. It's a constitutional crisis. I agree. 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:14.600 I can understand why people are so frightened when you 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:17.560 hear that sort of talk straight out of Hitler. 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:23.080 Tribalism will ruin us the inability of a significant chunk 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:25.240 of the population. It's less than half, but it's significant. 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:30.280 To reject his words before they've even heard them for 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:33.960 purely tribal reasons is troubling. There was nothing he said 0:21:34.000 --> 0:21:38.280 there that was not not only uncontroversial, it was patriotic 0:21:38.400 --> 0:21:39.400 and fantastic. 0:21:40.880 --> 0:21:45.119 So there's some dude, there's words in front of it 0:21:45.200 --> 0:21:48.960 on the TV, somebody with the Project on Government Oversight. 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:53.240 So he's in the DOGE so DOGE subcommittee. Anyway, he's testifying. 0:21:53.720 --> 0:21:56.840 He looks like he's twenty two and he's wearing sunglasses. 0:21:57.160 --> 0:22:00.640 I feel like Doge doesn't help themselves sometimes with their 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:05.160 little too cool, little too young, little too you know, 0:22:05.920 --> 0:22:09.920 Elon renaming himself on Twitter yesterday Harry Balls, I don't feel. 0:22:09.720 --> 0:22:10.919