WEBVTT - Fighting Turf Wars From Home 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:06.240 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:11.000 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:12.600 Getty and know He. 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:17.360 Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:28.000 Well, guys, this weekend there's a historic winter storm hitting 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:31.120 most of the country that's bringing brutal temperatures and over 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:33.159 twenty inches of snow. 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:38.159 Greenland Herd was like, well, you wanted us, you got us. 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:45.440 Yeah, Today's Southwest Airlines canceled hundreds of flights, although that 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:48.879 had nothing to do with the storm. Hey, it's freezing 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:50.920 out there. This morning on my way to work, I 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:53.840 saw a Wall Street stockbroker spooning with Zora and Mandane. 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:59.640 That's funny. Shot it Southwest? Was it? Yeah? 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:04.319 Southwest just was rated the best airline really on a 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:07.000 series of metrics including on time, this, that, and the other, 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:10.800 canceled flights, bagging, channeling, blah blah blah. They beat out Delta, 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:13.120 the perennial. 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:15.200 Line screwed by United more than any other airline, but 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:16.560 that's just my personal experience. 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:19.080 Mrkin was the bottom rated one. Really. 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:23.480 Yeah, often these storms don't live up to the hype. 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:26.399 But they're saying New York might get the most snow 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:30.160 it's had in several decades, So that'll get a lot 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:32.080 of attention since all the media's in New York. It's 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:34.560 going to be minus forties with the wind chill through 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:35.440 a bunch of the country. 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:37.959 That's pretty chilly. That's really chilly. 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:41.360 But that may assist these young folks with the newest 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:45.520 online trend. No by January. We'll tell you more about 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:46.240 that coming up. 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:48.400 You know what we need to revisit for the show 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:51.040 because we did it on the One More Thing podcast. 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:55.320 These influencers who are trying to make their faces more 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:56.760 attractive or their bodies. 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:00.720 Oh young men, yeah, looks Max, look smacks. We got 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:02.960 to talk about that later for everybody, because I was 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:04.240 telling my kids about it last night. 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:06.840 They were just their eyes were wide with wonder that 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:11.360 anybody's actually doing this. It's stunning. So stick around for that. 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:14.560 As CBS we just. 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:17.160 Direct them to the Armstrung and Getty One More Thing podcast. 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:19.680 It's also an option. 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:24.080 So CBS News got taken over by Barry Weiss and 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:26.160 you either know her actor you don't. But I was 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:29.080 pretty hopeful that things would get better in terms of 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:33.840 it's down the middle coverage, an attempt to not be 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:36.480 biased one way or the other. How well they're doing it, 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:39.880 that is in the eye the beholder. But the new 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:44.680 CBS Evening newscasts with Tony de Koppel is that how 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:48.000 you say, his name has grown ten percent in adults 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:51.280 twenty five fifty four, which is your money demo. According 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:53.560 to Nielsen, the first two weeks it was up four 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.760 percent and viewers, and then thirteen percent after that, so 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:59.880 it grew and then the people that show up didn't. 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:03.480 It seems like more people came, So there you go. 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:05.880 I like it because it's faster paced and they're much 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.240 less likely to hit you with weather. They are now 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:11.120 because this is historic. But the other newscasts it's just 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:13.800 always weather. Quit what the weather. 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:15.600 We have world. 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:19.400 Changing events going on, some of the biggest things in history, 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:22.520 and you're telling me the weather somewhere two thousand miles away. 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:25.320 Weather and puppies. Yeah, much more cute. See it's a 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:28.520 more serious newscast, definitely. It's annoyed me a couple of times, 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:29.520 but all news annoys me. 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:32.560 But yeah, and it's you know, it's never going to 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:36.720 be perfect for anybody, I suppose, but sure, speaking of CBS, 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:40.600 sixty Minutes Sharon al Phonsie and Scott Pelly's jobs. If 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:43.160 you're a sixty minutes fan, you know those names are 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:46.760 on the line after pushing back hard against Barry Weiss's 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:50.200 CBS News shakeup. So they behind the scenes apparently have 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:53.880 said some pretty harsh things and gotten very loud in meetings, 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:56.560 and now the talk is that they may be out. 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:59.440 You don't get on board or get out, and two 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:01.520 of the biggest stars of sixty minutes might be out. 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:04.440 According to The New York Post, was it that Scott Pelly. 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:06.440 Was saying really strong things in the meaning or was 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:09.080 it that he just says them so slowly it was 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:10.680 driving everybody crazy. 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:22.640 I'm talking to slowly. I'm not joining the new culture adequately. 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:25.320 And then he takes off his suit jacket to make 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:27.440 sure you notice how giant his arms are. 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:30.000 Goodness. 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:34.440 So here's how Scott Adams, creator Dilbert, later a conservative 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:37.880 commentator online podcaster, was memorialized in The Old Gray Lady, 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:41.000 The New York Times Breaking News. Scott Adams, whose comic 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:44.760 Strict Dilbert was a sensation until he made racist comments 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:48.799 on his podcast, has died at sixty eight. Okay, first 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:52.520 of all, and I think y'all know this. Somebody says 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:55.200 something quote unquote racist according to the New York Times. 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:58.360 I figure, probably it's almost certainly not racist. It might 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:01.040 be racially prove or might. 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:04.000 Just be about race. Yeah. 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:07.600 So a lot of people were contrasting that with the 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:10.880 headline that they had for Bagdaddy, the guy who started 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:13.839 ISIS and was, you know, setting people on fire and 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:16.839 cages and everything like that. When they had their headline 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:20.359 about him that Austere scholar dies at the age of whatever. 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:23.080 That's what they said about the guy who led ISIS. 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:26.080 He got a cartoonist who made some racial comments, and 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.480 they put something negative in the headline, but nothing negative 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:31.320 in the headline for the death of al Bagdaddy who 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:35.919 started ISIS, which is really quite amazing. Yeah, Okay, I 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.800 got another great New York Times story yesterday. I talked 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:44.280 about this, how it's there's all this chatter about how 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:48.320 Europe is gonna start siding with China because of Trump 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:51.039 and a variety of other things. Really you're gonna side 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.279 with China? Does that seem a good like a good idea. 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:55.479 Some of the explanation of that in the New York 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:59.159 Times was quite hilarious. Also, we've got a woman who's 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:02.640 dedicated her life for relocating obese cats. I want to 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:07.000 check in on. That's all on the way stay here. 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.040 There's not much to what I teased. I can tell 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:13.760 you the whole story in one sentence. Here there is 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:15.600 a woman up on the television I just saw who 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:22.320 has dedicated her life to rehoming obese cats. Wow, people 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:25.760 somehow can no longer take care of they're really really 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:31.000 fat cat, and she is. I guess if you've got 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.640 a fit cat, sorry that they're on their own, but 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:35.000 your cat's. 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:36.560 Number you can call, but I can't help you. 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:40.000 Yes, Katie, Well, I mean if you have a really 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:42.160 overly fat cat, you can't take care of it in 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:46.280 the first place because you got it fat. M there's 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:49.480 not enough criticism of pet owners for letting their pets 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:53.279 get fat. Yeah, they don't make these decisions on their own. 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:56.800 True, the many ways I offend people, though, I think 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.640 I will leave that one to you. You're absolutely right, 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:03.040 But you know the irony is my dog is slim. 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:06.000 My dog looks great in his owner, not so much. 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:08.000 We ought to be in charge of my food. We 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:10.320 slim down one of her pugs, and she seems much 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:12.200 happier now. She would eat all the other dog's food 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:15.040 that was a problem though she runs up, including a 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:16.000 almost two. 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:19.480 Hundred pound whatever the hell it is. The little pug 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:22.120 just rules a roost, eats the food. I'm gonna make 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:23.800 you what, Watch me eat your food? 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:24.320 All right? 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:25.880 You can have what's left. 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:28.280 Wow. The dog world is so weird. 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:32.200 It's got nothing to do with anything but like aggression. 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:35.320 It's the size of the fight and the dog. As 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:37.680 they say, that doesn't make any difference. If you fit 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:40.280 in the mouth of the other dog. He can be 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:42.760 a feisty does I don't know. 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:46.960 Who are we to question the ways of dogs? Anyway? 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:49.440 Let me make one more attempt at this. The ridiculous 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:52.920 New York Times obituary headline of Scott Adams Dilbert Guy 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:55.760 breaking news. Scott Adams, whose comic strip Dilbert was a 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:59.280 sentation until he made racist comments on his podcast, has. 0:07:59.160 --> 0:07:59.960 Died at sixty eight. 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:04.080 Never mind that those comments weren't racist, they were just provocative. 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:07.520 Here was the headline of the New York Times for 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:11.560 Joseph Stalin when he died. Stalin rose from Czarist oppression 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:14.440 to transform Russia into a mighty socialist state. 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:16.840 At least he wasn't a racist like that. 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:20.520 Damn Scott Adams or the infamous New York Times A 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:25.320 bit for Cassim Sulimani, commander of Iran's KOD's Force. Cassim Sulimani, 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.400 master of Iran's intrigue, built a sheite axis of power 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.880 in the Middle East. Good things Stalin and Sulimani didn't 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.560 do anything really awful, like make a racist comment on 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:35.360 a podcast. 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:37.040 Wow, isn't that amazing? 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:41.000 Yeah, that is stunning. 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:43.839 And then I used the example of albag Daddy, the 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:46.839 guy who started isis austere scholar dies at whatever age. 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:52.680 It was right, right, it's absolutely amazing. If you lean right, 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:54.520 they've got to put the worst thing you've ever done 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:58.560 in the headline of your obituary. But you could be 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:03.760 You could be a person throws gaze off of buildings 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:05.800 to kill them like they do in Iran or whatever 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:09.840 after a good beaten and torture and murders college students 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.079 in the street who tried to get any freedom, or 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:15.080 women who want to show their hair, and you get 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:18.679 the a good job of bringing people together headline when 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:19.600 you die. 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:21.040 Oh, that reminds me. 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:23.480 I have a segment plan that I think you are 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:27.199 thoroughly going to enjoy even as you hate. It has 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:30.000 to do with how sick and twisted academia is in 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:32.880 the United States. You're saying, yeah, we know, Joe. No, 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:37.440 this example is too good. It's too good. If there 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.920 is ever a trial of American academia, I will lead 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:43.240 with this evidence, then the prosecution will rest. 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:45.960 That is coming up. But the reason I thought of 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:47.640 that is there's. 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:52.560 Been so little said practically outside the Armstrong and getty 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:58.520 show of zenophilia in American culture, particularly leftist American culture. 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:02.320 If it is foreign, we dare not criticize it. 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:05.600 We must only praise it or only look for its 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:08.320 good attributes, because it would be belligerent and kind of 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:11.520 I don't know, racist, or something to criticize. I don't 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:15.400 know Cassim Sulimani for torturing and murdering gays and anybody 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:17.720 who dared to sent against the government, or anything. 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:19.719 That would not be good. It's xenophilia. 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:25.640 It is interrrational and obsessive fixation and love of anything foreign. 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:28.520 Don't get it. 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.960 Speaking of Iran, there are more photos and videos that 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:34.679 are coming out what they did last weekend where they 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:37.960 finally squashed that the biggest, the biggest attempt at a 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:44.640 revolution since the a Revolution in seventy nine, and more 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:46.880 people are getting on board with the death toll numbers 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:51.400 being twenty thousand or greater, which is really something, which 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:54.720 is why I guess Trump announced today that there is 0:10:55.000 --> 0:11:00.880 an armada, a giant, deadly armada, to use Trump's words, 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:04.160 headed toward Iran. So it's still on the table that 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:06.679 we do something, and nobody knows what that something is. 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:10.360 We have some pretty damn dramatic audio of what you 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:13.520 were just talking about the crackdown, Okay, would mind? Yeah, yeah, 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:14.840 sixty place, Michael. 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:21.440 Yours leadership has admitted that thousands were killed, but blamed 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:25.000 the dusts on rioters and agents of Israel and the US. 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:28.880 The regime has long used the narrative of a foreign 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:32.640 plot to justify its crackdowns. This time it had an 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:36.560 exiled opposition and a US president urging a revolt. 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:42.440 I think that the regime has never been closer to 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:46.959 a fould to a complete regime change, yet doing it 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:52.160 for survival but also to prevent more protests in the 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:56.319 coming years. The aim is to traumatize a generation. 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:57.440 Wow. 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:02.960 Wow, the aim was to traumatize the generation. Don't even 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:05.880 try it. You saw it with your own eyes as 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:08.640 people died next to you, had their eyes shot out 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:09.200 or whatever. 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:13.600 Right, getting back to our discussion of dogs turn a 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.760 generation into cringing dogs that are afraid of a beating. 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:24.560 Yeah, so do you think Trump does something big, like 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:29.600 goes full on tries to foment regime change? I don't 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:31.000 know if you could get people to come back out 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:32.160 of their houses. 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:34.400 Right, right? 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:37.040 Well, And I came across a piece that was very 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:40.240 well written. The journal ran it, Trump has options in Iran, 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:44.720 none are likely to help the protesters much. Well, right, yeah, 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:49.000 So if we could have, I don't know, taken out 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:54.240 some of their capabilities two weeks ago, while you know, 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.320 millions were in the street, hundreds of thousands were in 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:00.640 the street tearing down flags and breaking in to government 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:01.880 buildings and stuff like that. 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:04.400 But that ain't gonna happen now. 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:09.679 So what would we do make it clear that there 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:13.040 will be a terrible cost when they do this by 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:17.800 bombing various installations or something. But the iotolas in the 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.240 ir gee'll just say, well, we did what we needed 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:23.160 to do, all right, we'll rebuild it. Thanks for nothing. 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:25.240 Well, and is that that reporter just said that they 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:28.559 were at full on existential threat. Yeah, this could be 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:32.199 politically tough or might you know, cause Trump to attack 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:33.960 or whatever. But if we don't do it, we're going 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:37.800 to be hung by our feet in the Turan Square. 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:39.640 So we gotta do something. 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:43.600 In another headline, Iranian regime claims that tested a long 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.880 range missile that can hit the US Eastern seaboard. 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:53.000 Who did that? Iran did? Well? How was the provocative? Yes, 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:54.400 I would say so. Yeah. 0:13:54.480 --> 0:14:00.079 The missile was fired towards Siberia with Russian permission to 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.400 test it. It would have traveled up to thirty seven 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:04.360 hundred miles to reach its target, but they claim it 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:06.640 has a range of up to sixty two hundred miles, 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.320 which is plenty to hit the Eastern seaboard. That would 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:12.400 be that would be quite the maneuver by the Iranians. 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:14.200 Surely they wouldn't do something that insane. 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:18.400 No, but man, that's really provocative when you've been trying 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:20.240 really hard to get a nuclear weapon and then you 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:22.640 demonstrate that if you've got a nuclear weapon. 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:26.400 You've got, you know, rockets that can reach the United States. 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:30.240 And by the way, we have three good buddies that 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:33.120 do have nuclear weapons and we all hate you. 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:39.320 Yeah, and that was provocative within our made headed their way. 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:42.120 Yeah, yeah, I'd sane. This would be fun to watch, 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:46.640 could be a very exciting weekend. I'm close to curling 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:49.400 up in the fetal condition a position just saying. 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:51.480 La la la la la la la la la la la. 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:53.320 It's all too spicy, there's too much. 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:56.680 How about some good news that I want to unpack 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:59.760 coming up next segment. We've mentioned it several times this week, 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:01.440 but here some of the numbers behind the numbers, we'll 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:01.800 get to. 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:04.800 Murders down. 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:10.960 Unbelievably, like that's never happened before, and all kinds of 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:15.480 different crimes dropped, like just crazy, maybe the lowest murder 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:17.240 rate since nineteen hundred. 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:21.920 They think, what is going on? There are twenty twenty five? 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:26.680 Yeah, yeah, so you can't you can't. You can't really 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:29.280 make some sort of argument that it's you know, trying 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:31.160 to make Trump look bad or something like that. 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:32.960 I mean, because the YOP. 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:36.960 Yeah, but all these mainstream outlets they're talking about how 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:38.640 the murder rate has dropped in a way it's never 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.560 dropped before. We need to get into some of the details, 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:43.239 and then wonder why. 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:47.760 I guess show hands anybody murder anybody in twenty twenty five, 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:49.360 anybody on the crew handful? 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:53.000 Yeah, well, a couple of people two years ago thought 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:53.440 about it. 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:56.840 Handful of twenty twenty four Michael, okay, a handful. They 0:15:56.880 --> 0:16:00.240 all had it coming. Let me check my calendar. Yeah, 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:02.160 that was the end of twenty four murdered Jim. There 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:05.520 it is on my monthly calendar, telling you they had 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:08.680 it coming. Well, wow, okay, I want to hear more 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:12.520 about that. Plus a takedown of American college education. 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:13.440 Oh, it's so terrible. 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:15.400 You get on the interstate of forty five miles an hour, 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:21.520 you got to come as far as I'm. 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:20.240 To Armstrong and getty. 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:23.480 According to a new report of the US murder rate 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:25.720 has fallen to its lowest level since nineteen hundred. 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:28.280 Yeah, well, it's pretty hard to get murdered if you 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:29.600 never go outside. 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:33.360 And then he shows a picture of a young man 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:36.800 in his house playing video games. 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:38.240 That plays a role. 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:42.960 So the flat out numbers are In twenty twenty five, 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:46.920 the United States saw an historic decline in the murder 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:51.320 rate twenty one percent drop across major cities, bringing the 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:55.360 national homicide rate to its lowest level since nineteen hundred. 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:59.680 They think that before murders per one hundred thousand residents. 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:01.240 Wow. 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.840 I went to all of my different chat bots and 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:07.520 asked them what the leading theories are for why this happened. 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:14.400 And the biggest consensus is we don't know why. That's 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:16.800 the biggest consensus. Everybody's got a whole bunch of different 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:22.040 possibilities and they overlap quite a bit, but nobody's exactly 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:24.800 sure why. The most the first thing everybody says is 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.320 this is a normalization after COVID, because there was a 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:33.000 spike as we all remember twenty nineteen to twenty twenty 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:38.080 two as COVID hit and then George Floyd and just 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:42.200 unrest and a general feeling of everything's gone crazy and everything, 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:43.840 and you know, so the point. 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:47.160 Of murdering another human, I know, that's why I murdered 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:47.680 no one. 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:51.119 Well, I suppose that's why you get to the nobody's 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:54.359 exactly sure, because it doesn't exactly make sense why you'd 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:59.160 murder somebody as you just jokingly referred to things got 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:01.600 pretty nutty with a lot of our politics, and now 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:03.480 all of a sudden you're working at home and all 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:06.320 kinds of things. But I mean, and then you have murdered. 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:09.560 Someone, right, it's right. Oh, COVID sucked. I mean with 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:12.679 I couldn't socialize and my stores were closed, and I 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:13.840 murdered guy. 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:14.840 I mean, come. 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:17.880 On, and then if you add in the fact that 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:23.439 it's a one year drop, we didn't everybody doesn't decide 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:24.359 at the same point. 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:29.000 Okay, that's over. I feel less murderous. Here we go. 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:33.159 I'm gonna and I might throw punch you, but I 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:35.679 ain't gonna kill you. And I've killed a handful of 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:38.760 people to settle minor, minor disputes. And it's you know, 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:41.080 it finally occurred to me, Well, this is wrong. 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:43.080 I need to stop doing this. 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:46.400 Yeah, that it's just a you know, there are many 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:51.159 things that happen in human society that are the confluence 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:55.360 of several different things coming together, and this is absolutely 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:56.240 gonna be one of those. 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:57.719 Well, let me run through some of them and then 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:00.520 you can. So Number number one at every already throws 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:05.320 out is the post spike normalization after COVID. Then the increase, 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:10.639 but we're now well below pre COVID numbers, so it 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:13.880 wiped out the COVID bump and then is lower than 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:18.480 pre COVID policing strategy and law enforcement actions. I mean, 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:21.359 murders got bad enough that we cared more about murders 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:24.080 and they're paying more attention to it. Community programs and 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:28.280 local investments, Economic and demographic factors. Long standing theories about crime, 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:32.240 like an aging population, fewer people in high risk age groups. 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:33.400 But that didn't happen a year. 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:35.280 That didn't happen in a year. You didn't go from 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:38.360 being an angry nineteen year old to a tired seventy 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:40.560 five year old between twenty four and forty. 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:43.040 Five, right, right. 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:46.240 But one of the consistent points experts all across, and 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:49.520 this is according to all of the chatbots ask is 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:54.120 there's no agreed upon cause yet combination of factors likely interacts, 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:56.639 as you were just pointing out, and researchers weren't it 0:19:56.640 --> 0:19:59.240 maybe too early to draw a firm conclusions, but what 0:19:59.359 --> 0:19:59.840 the heck? 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:04.600 Yeah, I hope people are taking the time to look 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:08.879 most carefully at the places where most of the murders 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:09.560 take place. 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:14.919 I mean, well, sleep, right, So we always talk about that. 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:21.840 How it's you know, gang ridden areas of Chicago, gang 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:24.679 ridden areas of Chicago, where everybody's shooting each other and 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:26.480 it doesn't have anything to do you. But why did 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:29.720 they stop murdering each other? Was it COVID? They didn't 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:32.600 start working from home and got all upset about it, 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:38.160 right right, fighting turf wars from home? You know, I've 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:40.680 converted my spare bedroom into an office now, and I 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:43.920 murder the crips from there, or wearing a mask made 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:49.960 them nuts, right right, it's interesting, be fuddled. Well, we 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:52.040 got a bunch of things going on like that, and 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:55.520 it's well, it's stunning that we can't figure it out. 0:20:55.800 --> 0:20:57.919 Why did we stop having babies? You know? Why did 0:20:57.920 --> 0:21:00.159 the murder rate drop so far? One way? That a 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:01.959 different thing. Just why? I don't know. 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:05.320 Why do we have so much autism and the depression 0:21:05.320 --> 0:21:09.040 and an anxiety? All these things we don't know? 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:13.159 Probably not microplastics scientists are now saying. 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:14.600 Oh really, I hadn't heard that. 0:21:15.119 --> 0:21:17.520 I don't know if big milk jug weighed in and 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:21.199 threatened people or what. But yeah, the Free Press with 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:25.439