WEBVTT - Alright... Both Socks. 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:05.739 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the 0:00:05.780 --> 0:00:07.760 George Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:07.830 --> 0:00:11.510 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:11.730 --> 0:00:17.270 And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:24.290 --> 0:00:27.290 Martha Stewart apologized after she appeared in an Instagram post 0:00:27.390 --> 0:00:30.770 dressed as a homeless person. Stewart explained she was just 0:00:30.830 --> 0:00:33.210 trying to honor the memory of the guy she hit 0:00:33.250 --> 0:00:33.990 with her car. 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:45.980 I thought Saturday Night Live was shockingly unfunny. I don't 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:50.200 know if you got the one about the mayor in L.A. 0:00:50.220 --> 0:00:50.839 Getting elected. 0:00:51.450 --> 0:00:53.210 If you could grab that at some point, even if 0:00:53.270 --> 0:00:53.810 it's for tomorrow. 0:00:53.830 --> 0:00:55.890 Do you have that? Go ahead and play. Just for 0:00:55.930 --> 0:00:56.730 the crowd reaction. 0:00:57.190 --> 0:01:01.460 Nithya Rama, a Democratic Socialist, was elected mayor of Los Angeles. 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:03.980 That's right. 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:07.580 Okay, the punchline is worthless. But just that. What is that? 0:01:07.740 --> 0:01:08.759 What the hell is that? 0:01:09.310 --> 0:01:09.770 Wow. 0:01:09.810 --> 0:01:13.350 What is that? Y'all are falling for the con again. 0:01:14.390 --> 0:01:16.850 But it's not only the Democrats won, which was just 0:01:17.170 --> 0:01:19.790 endless throughout the show. From the opening clip, every time 0:01:19.830 --> 0:01:24.560 they'd mention the Democrats winning. You're not even going to 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:29.500 try to allow me to watch the program at all? 0:01:30.300 --> 0:01:31.400 No. No. 0:01:31.819 --> 0:01:36.060 And then cheering like that because a socialist beat a progressive. 0:01:37.100 --> 0:01:43.140 What the hell is going on? You know... What's a 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:43.800 good metaphor? 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:46.610 I had a conversation with a learned fellow yesterday on 0:01:47.010 --> 0:01:50.290 a golf course about the allure of socialism and how 0:01:50.350 --> 0:01:53.760 it cannot be disproven because every generation that comes along 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:56.600 falls for the politics of envy and. 0:01:56.900 --> 0:01:59.610 Ease and resentment and the rest of it. It is 0:02:00.650 --> 0:02:01.290 I don't know. 0:02:01.330 --> 0:02:03.880 It's part of the human condition. It's like weight gain. 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:08.280 There's no such thing as a permanent removal of socialism 0:02:08.300 --> 0:02:13.500 slash communism from the political scene. It's too attractive to fools, 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:19.570 young fools and just fools. And we spent a couple 0:02:19.590 --> 0:02:24.049 of generations having defeated the Soviet Union for the blink 0:02:24.110 --> 0:02:24.800 of an eye. 0:02:25.850 --> 0:02:28.390 Thinking, well, let's beat, now I. 0:02:28.370 --> 0:02:31.970 Can eat 14 donuts a day, to continue my metaphor, 0:02:32.270 --> 0:02:35.000 which is on all of us. I mean, holy crap, 0:02:35.010 --> 0:02:41.250 the Berlin Wall falls, and we completely abandoned Reagan slash 0:02:41.330 --> 0:02:45.769 Jefferson slash Washington slash freaking FDR. Even there, you know, 0:02:45.810 --> 0:02:48.150 the words that you've got to, you've got to sell 0:02:48.210 --> 0:02:50.130 freedom over and over and over again, or it will 0:02:50.169 --> 0:02:50.590 go away. 0:02:50.690 --> 0:02:52.269 Well, we'll get to that stuff later. 0:02:52.310 --> 0:02:55.190 Maybe in the one more thing podcast, Bill Maher was 0:02:55.230 --> 0:02:58.030 talking about that on Friday night on how our education 0:02:58.070 --> 0:02:59.370 system doesn't teach kids this. 0:02:59.430 --> 0:03:00.109 You can't blame them. 0:03:00.430 --> 0:03:03.850 They don't learn anything about socialism or communism, not working. 0:03:03.870 --> 0:03:06.290 So they have no idea. 0:03:07.100 --> 0:03:10.910 And the idea of pushing freedom, of teaching freedom, became 0:03:10.970 --> 0:03:12.830 kind of passe and almost embarrassing. 0:03:13.169 --> 0:03:15.850 I blame us. I don't blame the kids. Anyway, speaking 0:03:15.870 --> 0:03:18.140 of the kids, a couple of stories from, I. 0:03:18.130 --> 0:03:23.320 Think they're from the Wall Street Journal, yeah, about young entrepreneurs, 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:28.290 and they're talking about how 20-somethings They start with the 0:03:28.310 --> 0:03:30.810 profile of a couple of 20-somethings who are computer science 0:03:30.850 --> 0:03:33.730 majors who are like, yeah, this gig may not exist 0:03:33.770 --> 0:03:38.490 in a couple of years. And so they started a, well, 0:03:38.510 --> 0:03:40.930 a startup. They started a startup. Surely there's a better 0:03:40.970 --> 0:03:44.620 way to put it than that. They founded a startup 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:48.640 and quit school and raised money and a bunch of 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:53.020 money and started this app slash AI service I could 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:54.700 describe to you, but it's like all the other ones. 0:03:55.790 --> 0:03:59.070 at least 23% of Americans between 18 and 34, 23% 0:03:59.070 --> 0:04:02.920 were running their own business or side hustle last year, 0:04:03.220 --> 0:04:07.340 which is up 4% from 2021. That doesn't sound like 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:10.900 a lot, but if you go back a decade, 18 0:04:10.900 --> 0:04:14.980 to 24-year-olds, the number running an entrepreneurial project has doubled. 0:04:17.180 --> 0:04:19.739 In a survey of more than 1,000 people who started 0:04:19.779 --> 0:04:24.200 businesses in 2025, more than 70% of Gen Z entrepreneurs 0:04:24.250 --> 0:04:26.930 said they used AI to create their businesses. 0:04:27.490 --> 0:04:27.790 Wow. 0:04:28.290 --> 0:04:31.210 It's more than any other generation by far. 0:04:32.290 --> 0:04:35.909 These fellas had job offers but decided to turn them 0:04:35.950 --> 0:04:38.330 down a month before graduation, go all in on the 0:04:38.490 --> 0:04:39.210 app they were building. 0:04:39.570 --> 0:04:40.750 While studying for finals. 0:04:40.790 --> 0:04:44.190 They successfully pitched and received half a million dollars from 0:04:44.230 --> 0:04:48.730 the startup accelerator Y Combinator. They now employ two engineers 0:04:48.790 --> 0:04:50.640 and a staffer for marketing, and they work out of 0:04:50.660 --> 0:04:53.560 the living room of their San Francisco two-bedroom apartment. The 0:04:53.610 --> 0:04:57.600 window is the whiteboard, said one of these youngsters. A 0:04:57.779 --> 0:05:01.020 surge of venture capital flowing into new businesses, helping Gen 0:05:01.060 --> 0:05:05.470 Z founders raise money. There were about 8,600 first-time financing 0:05:05.490 --> 0:05:08.270 deals in the U.S. through the third quarter of this year, 0:05:08.870 --> 0:05:10.930 already surpassing the full. 0:05:10.690 --> 0:05:12.790 Year of 2021. I don't know why they keep going 0:05:12.830 --> 0:05:14.229 back to that. I guess it's five years ago. 0:05:14.510 --> 0:05:17.210 Well, these VC guys, venture capitalist guys, they aren't dumb 0:05:17.250 --> 0:05:19.089 and they don't like throwing their money away. They wouldn't 0:05:19.150 --> 0:05:21.650 be investing in all these hundreds of different ideas if 0:05:21.690 --> 0:05:22.490 they didn't think they were going. 0:05:22.410 --> 0:05:22.839 To work out. 0:05:23.930 --> 0:05:24.250 Right. 0:05:24.430 --> 0:05:27.490 And the startup costs are relatively low because you're not 0:05:27.529 --> 0:05:32.050 building a factory. You've got a handful of really smart 0:05:32.070 --> 0:05:33.070 people and laptops. 0:05:33.810 --> 0:05:34.050 Right. 0:05:35.190 --> 0:05:37.120 And so this is hot, hot, hot. 0:05:37.540 --> 0:05:38.400 By far. 0:05:38.940 --> 0:05:44.740 There's nothing even close in history to the opportunity. 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:47.980 The way the gold rush happened in California and Alaska, 0:05:48.020 --> 0:05:50.500 for instance, and people traveled from around the world. Right. 0:05:51.260 --> 0:05:54.970 Go into harsh weather conditions with a mule up in 0:05:54.990 --> 0:05:58.570 the mountains and no water, and you're digging in the rock. 40% 0:05:58.570 --> 0:06:04.270 of them died and 40% quit, or the other 60% quit. 0:06:04.300 --> 0:06:06.260 Now it's you and a couple of people in an apartment. 0:06:06.339 --> 0:06:09.040 You just need an idea. Y'all have a laptop and 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:14.490 a phone to do it. The opportunity to strike gold 0:06:14.710 --> 0:06:15.910 exists for everybody. 0:06:15.930 --> 0:06:16.669 It's amazing. 0:06:17.150 --> 0:06:20.089 And the amount of money that is possible to make very, 0:06:20.110 --> 0:06:21.669 very quickly is just astonishing. 0:06:22.089 --> 0:06:24.810 On the other hand... You have to be smart, though. 0:06:24.850 --> 0:06:27.359 That's a problem. You can be pretty dumb digging the 0:06:27.390 --> 0:06:30.810 rocks for gold. True enough, yeah. Just rent your mule 0:06:30.860 --> 0:06:31.300 and a shovel. 0:06:33.540 --> 0:06:37.300 Some of these startups may come and go as quickly 0:06:37.339 --> 0:06:40.020 as things do in the modern world, but what's these kids' alternative? 0:06:41.140 --> 0:06:43.340 I'm going to be a computer programmer. Yeah, good luck 0:06:43.380 --> 0:06:44.220 with that, Satchmo. 0:06:44.260 --> 0:06:46.559 Sorry we told you that was like the only job 0:06:46.580 --> 0:06:48.800 in the world to get good at four years ago 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:52.810 when you started college. But, you know, here today, gone today. 0:06:52.930 --> 0:06:54.880 What are you going to do? I can't even imagine 0:06:54.900 --> 0:06:57.010 what it's like for the youngsters. But you got to 0:06:57.630 --> 0:07:01.450 admire the entrepreneurial spirit, at least of some of these people. 0:07:01.470 --> 0:07:03.770 Speaking of which, I thought this was interesting, also from 0:07:03.810 --> 0:07:07.400 the Journal. 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And it's about 0:09:20.580 --> 0:09:24.620 the popularity of, what do they call it? 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:25.449 Wellness. 0:09:25.470 --> 0:09:25.849 Ah, wellness. 0:09:26.309 --> 0:09:30.929 Wellness on college campuses is like the hot, hot new 0:09:31.750 --> 0:09:38.650 profitable entrepreneurial thing. Talk about yoga classes and all sorts 0:09:38.700 --> 0:09:44.000 of things. The wellness society, the kids, the girls, I 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:45.360 have a feeling it's mostly girls. 0:09:45.620 --> 0:09:46.780 Pay $ 30 a. 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:50.739 Semester for access to workout classes and mindfulness-based activities such 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:55.730 as journaling and bouquet making. Wellness has literally changed my life, 0:09:56.170 --> 0:09:58.990 said Hadley, a junior and the chapter president at USC, 0:09:59.290 --> 0:10:02.040 who was sipping an iced matcha latte with coconut water 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:04.080 and a splash of oat milk after class. 0:10:04.860 --> 0:10:06.240 Oh boy, try not to be a type. 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:09.780 She said she had trouble finding community when she got 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:12.250 to campus. She was a spring admit, blah, blah, blah. 0:10:12.510 --> 0:10:14.970 She saw a post on Instagram from a Wellness Society 0:10:15.010 --> 0:10:18.670 chapter at a different school and eventually submitted an application 0:10:18.690 --> 0:10:23.089 to start her own once approved, Williams got to work 0:10:23.170 --> 0:10:28.960 recruiting an executive board, including VPs of programming, marketing, and outreach. 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:32.260 Each received a pitch deck, a branding kit, including graphics 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:37.300 and logos, company contacts, and suggested language for soliciting partnerships. 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:41.179 So, god dang it, it's so impressive in a way. 0:10:41.220 --> 0:10:44.530 I mean, it's kind of annoying as well, but in 0:10:44.550 --> 0:10:51.720 a weird way. Here's a 20-year-old college student decides, you 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:54.640 know what, this whole wellness thing is cool. I'm meeting people. 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:58.839 I'm going to start an organization. And so she runs 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:03.780 it like a startup seeking investment. Gone, they write, are 0:11:03.860 --> 0:11:06.700 the days of instant ramen and all-nighters. Today's undergrads are 0:11:06.740 --> 0:11:10.420 maximizing their protein, tracking their sleep, and obsessing over hydration. 0:11:10.730 --> 0:11:12.510 It's both a way to socialize and a means of 0:11:12.570 --> 0:11:13.550 professional development. 0:11:14.270 --> 0:11:15.390 So anyway, go ahead. 0:11:17.809 --> 0:11:23.010 You're right in that it is a good idea, admirable, 0:11:24.270 --> 0:11:25.840 and annoying at the same time. 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:27.680 Why is that? Way over the top. 0:11:28.260 --> 0:11:29.920 But here's the part where I feel— Why don't you 0:11:29.940 --> 0:11:32.280 just go to a party and, you know, do the 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:34.490 walk of shame on the way home and, you know, 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.810 think about your decisions like normal people. 0:11:37.050 --> 0:11:37.370 Right. 0:11:38.270 --> 0:11:43.620 Here's a 22-year-old— who co-founded the Wellness Society with her 0:11:43.700 --> 0:11:46.679 friend in the fall of 2024 while the two were 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:48.600 sharing a room at the University of Alabama. 0:11:48.620 --> 0:11:50.180 Listen to this 22-year-old young woman. 0:11:52.059 --> 0:11:54.420 If someone wants to start a chapter, we have 50 0:11:54.420 --> 0:11:56.780 given brands that we know will send product for free. 0:11:57.100 --> 0:12:01.059 These brands want to directly reach a wellness-minded consumer. They 0:12:01.100 --> 0:12:07.000 recruited over 800 members. in their first semester running the group. 0:12:07.420 --> 0:12:11.390 The organization now claims over 75,000 members across their various 0:12:11.450 --> 0:12:15.050 chapters and a presence at over 145 universities in the U.S. 0:12:15.170 --> 0:12:18.350 And Australia. In July, they started rolling out to high schools. 0:12:18.750 --> 0:12:22.189 Brands, including, I've never heard of them, have brokered partnerships 0:12:22.230 --> 0:12:25.670 with the group, offering everything from free products to event sponsorships. 0:12:26.150 --> 0:12:30.320 These two 22-year-olds say they pay themselves a reasonable salary 0:12:30.340 --> 0:12:31.540 of $ 25, 000 a quarter to run the. 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:32.600 Wellness Society, 100 ger a year. 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:40.790 The pair recently hosted Well Connected, a black-tie gala for founders, owners, operators, 0:12:40.830 --> 0:12:43.990 and investors at the Standard Spa in Miami. They organized 0:12:44.030 --> 0:12:47.390 Pilates retreats in the Hamptons, Finnish Lapland in the south 0:12:47.429 --> 0:12:50.670 of France, where participants pay upward of $ 4, 500 for a 0:12:50.730 --> 0:12:53.510 shared room. Twice a year, they hold a private retreat 0:12:53.530 --> 0:12:56.660 with spots reserved for the presidents of the 10 largest chapters. 0:12:57.340 --> 0:12:59.300 At some of the bigger schools, being on the executive 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:01.480 board has become almost like a social status thing. 0:13:01.820 --> 0:13:04.120 It's the same as being in a top sorority. 0:13:09.890 --> 0:13:13.790 That sort of go-getterism is as foreign to me as, 0:13:13.809 --> 0:13:19.270 I don't know, being a four-foot-tall Aboriginal woman in the 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:20.560 outback of Australia. 0:13:20.580 --> 0:13:23.140 I can't relate to it. For instance. 0:13:25.460 --> 0:13:26.000 Yeah, I know. 0:13:26.940 --> 0:13:33.230 And then the whole not drinking, not smoking, but making 0:13:33.290 --> 0:13:35.590 sure you're hydrated and going to yoga class. 0:13:36.530 --> 0:13:37.130 Generation. 0:13:38.090 --> 0:13:40.890 Let me further amuse people of earlier generations. 0:13:41.970 --> 0:13:44.710 Social media have lit up with events like wellness darties, 0:13:44.890 --> 0:13:48.949 a daytime party featuring runs and workouts, cold plunges, sauna tents, 0:13:49.270 --> 0:13:52.250 optional IV hydration drips, not a keg stand in sight. 0:13:52.990 --> 0:13:55.610 Imagine explaining a wellness darty to someone who went to 0:13:55.630 --> 0:14:00.140 college in 2012, said an Aiden Child, ironically named, who 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:03.220 was a feller In the video, fraternity brothers can be 0:14:03.260 --> 0:14:06.380 seen running shirtless and holding Pilates poses in front of. 0:14:06.380 --> 0:14:08.740 Their frat house. 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:12.180 The post prompted outrage from various corners of the Internet 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:15.500 and what amounted to a generational panic. Millennials and Gen 0:14:15.580 --> 0:14:18.380 Xers expressed horror at the notion that today's college kids 0:14:18.420 --> 0:14:19.960 are hyperfit and totally sober. 0:14:20.380 --> 0:14:25.420 The New York Post called the photos bone-chilling. Please don't 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:30.860 ever say darty again. daytime parties, darties. Oh, that's hard 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.360 to take. Trump on 60 minutes last night. A lot 0:14:33.380 --> 0:14:35.250 of interesting stuff, among other things on the way. 0:14:37.110 --> 0:14:42.790 Armstrong and Getty. Pete Hegseth has got to go. 0:14:43.070 --> 0:14:45.670 Battles are brewing before the new Congress is even sworn 0:14:45.790 --> 0:14:48.750 in with a possible vote to impeach Defense Secretary Pete 0:14:48.790 --> 0:14:52.080 Hegseth over the Iran war this week. And even some 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:53.900 Republicans questioning his future. 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:58.040 If he's not conducting his mission in the right way, 0:14:58.080 --> 0:14:59.800 then the president ought to make a change there. 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.860 But Hegseth is digging in. Just like the president. We 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:06.590 don't back down. And that especially applies. 0:15:06.610 --> 0:15:07.470 All right. 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:12.350 So they may be introducing articles of impeachment against Hegseth today. 0:15:13.310 --> 0:15:15.670 Yes, I'm going to donate twenty dollars for some reason. 0:15:16.190 --> 0:15:21.229 Republicans introducing the articles and then the incoming likely speaker 0:15:21.250 --> 0:15:23.590 of the House on board with it. So there you go. 0:15:23.730 --> 0:15:25.270 Enjoy that or not, if it matters to you. It 0:15:25.290 --> 0:15:28.760 doesn't particularly matter to me. A couple of other stories 0:15:28.780 --> 0:15:31.330 that are really interesting around the elections or the coming election. 0:15:31.370 --> 0:15:34.030 Jonathan Turley, I was following his Twitter feed over the weekend. 0:15:34.610 --> 0:15:37.730 So after the midterm elections, the Democrats and when they're 0:15:37.750 --> 0:15:40.070 sworn in, the Democrats are moving in for the kill. 0:15:40.630 --> 0:15:44.430 Democrats believe they may now have enough states to sign 0:15:44.530 --> 0:15:48.690 on to a compact to effectively nullify the Electoral College. 0:15:49.030 --> 0:15:51.270 I don't know anything about the ins or outs of 0:15:51.390 --> 0:15:53.989 getting rid of the Electoral College, but apparently you need 0:15:54.010 --> 0:15:58.560 enough states on board. And Democrats now control three-quarters of 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:03.240 states or something like that. So that's an interesting angle 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:06.420 to look forward to. Yeah, they want to pass laws 0:16:06.470 --> 0:16:09.369 that said, we commit all our electoral votes to the 0:16:09.430 --> 0:16:12.609 popular vote. And it's triggered if enough this, that, and 0:16:12.630 --> 0:16:14.590 the other happens. Which would change the way you bypass 0:16:14.650 --> 0:16:17.610 electoral college. Which would really, really, really change the way 0:16:17.630 --> 0:16:20.550 we elect presidents. Right, we would only campaign in the 0:16:20.670 --> 0:16:22.850 ten biggest cities in America. They'd be the only thing 0:16:22.890 --> 0:16:23.330 that matters. 0:16:24.430 --> 0:16:24.770 And then. 0:16:25.790 --> 0:16:32.220 This seems pretty obvious. So, on the Supreme Court, Clarence 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:39.229 Thomas and Samuel Alito are both old as hell. O-A-F, 0:16:39.730 --> 0:16:45.660 very old people. Clarence Thomas, 78. Alito, 76. Both very conservative. 0:16:45.820 --> 0:16:48.580 Both have announced they're staying on through the end of 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:52.660 Trump's term. That means, as Jonathan Turley said, and obviously 0:16:52.700 --> 0:16:56.830 this is true, that will make the election of 2028 0:16:56.830 --> 0:17:00.010 an existential fight for the court and other core institutions 0:17:00.050 --> 0:17:03.510 in this country. I mean, because if the Democrats win 0:17:03.970 --> 0:17:07.710 and can replace the two most conservative justices on the court, 0:17:08.460 --> 0:17:12.310 With people that are even slightly less conservative, let alone liberal. 0:17:12.330 --> 0:17:15.189 I mean, that will be a real remaking of the 0:17:15.210 --> 0:17:17.669 Supreme Court. And that's what could be on the line 0:17:17.790 --> 0:17:20.109 for this presidential. 0:17:19.630 --> 0:17:23.240 Election in 20. It's almost certainly the case. 0:17:24.460 --> 0:17:27.720 Some Democrat runs and says, hey, I'm going to nominate 0:17:27.780 --> 0:17:32.960 somebody reasonable, somebody middle of the road ish. That could 0:17:32.980 --> 0:17:35.270 be a real strike in their favor. I'm not going 0:17:35.290 --> 0:17:37.550 to analyze the 2028, but I think people may be 0:17:37.609 --> 0:17:40.790 looking for, God, can we not have a radical anything, please? 0:17:42.210 --> 0:17:42.750 Wow. 0:17:44.910 --> 0:17:48.450 Well, enjoy the conservative leaning court for the brief period 0:17:48.470 --> 0:17:48.909 of time. 0:17:48.750 --> 0:17:49.390 You have it, I guess. 0:17:49.830 --> 0:17:52.630 Oh, historically speaking, practically a blip in time. 0:17:53.030 --> 0:17:53.649 Yeah. 0:17:53.730 --> 0:17:55.770 Trump was on 60 Minutes last night getting a lot 0:17:55.790 --> 0:17:57.370 of attention. We got some more clips that we haven't 0:17:57.410 --> 0:17:58.609 played yet on different topics. 0:17:59.230 --> 0:18:01.390 And a real brief follow-up to the whole wellness thing 0:18:01.410 --> 0:18:03.970 we were talking about last segment. One of the higher-ups 0:18:04.030 --> 0:18:07.510 in this big movement says, in a world where highly-priced 0:18:07.609 --> 0:18:11.250 sponsorships are so important, you can't just go on a 0:18:11.300 --> 0:18:13.679 hike for a hike. You're going for a hike to 0:18:13.700 --> 0:18:15.840 be part of the wellness movement, and you're partnering with 0:18:15.900 --> 0:18:17.580 a brand to do it. You've got to make sure 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:19.640 there's enough content for the brand to get their money. 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:23.300 You know, there's one. 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:25.800 Place my name is online that I can't get rid 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:30.310 of legally. No, I'm not a registered sex offender, so 0:18:30.510 --> 0:18:37.810 don't text. And so I get spammed for loans all 0:18:37.830 --> 0:18:41.970 day long. And I want to, like, burn these people's 0:18:42.010 --> 0:18:42.770 houses down. 0:18:43.330 --> 0:18:44.510 That seems fair. 0:18:45.310 --> 0:18:47.810 Abduct their pets and, of course, give them to a 0:18:47.830 --> 0:18:50.650 loving home or something. I want to do terrible things 0:18:50.710 --> 0:18:52.729 to these people, these scammers. 0:18:53.250 --> 0:18:53.950 Anyway, I can't. 0:18:54.570 --> 0:18:57.130 Maybe I'll vote for a politician who promises they can 0:18:57.150 --> 0:19:01.409 in the next election. Which brings us to the fascinating 0:19:01.810 --> 0:19:05.910 interview Ross Douthat did with President Donald J. Trump last 0:19:05.950 --> 0:19:08.139 night on 60 Minutes, in which they touched on all 0:19:08.180 --> 0:19:12.639 sorts of interesting topics. And Ross, I nominated him as 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:16.840 the best interviewer in America. Brett Baer, very, very close. 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:20.220 In that he was not putting up with any crap. 0:19:20.530 --> 0:19:22.830 He was asking really good, smart follow-up questions that he 0:19:22.850 --> 0:19:25.510 wouldn't be talked over. I thought he did a good job. 0:19:26.250 --> 0:19:28.939 One of the main topics, of course, the election and J.D. 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:32.020 Vance's knife in the back, according to some sources. 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:34.400 Let's start with 40, Michael. 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:38.780 Two years ago, you won a big, some might say 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:43.010 historic victory. Just now, the Republican Party in the midterm 0:19:43.030 --> 0:19:45.870 suffered a big, some might say historic defeat. 0:19:46.490 --> 0:19:48.990 Give me your political analysis of what just happened. 0:19:49.010 --> 0:19:49.970 Yeah. 0:19:50.020 --> 0:19:52.560 Well, number one, I was not on the ballot, but 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:56.070 I campaigned hard for some people. And I think if 0:19:56.150 --> 0:19:57.430 I was on the ballot, it would have been a 0:19:57.450 --> 0:20:01.210 much different situation because you saw. 0:20:01.030 --> 0:20:03.689 The level of popularity and love. There was love. We 0:20:03.710 --> 0:20:04.730 had massive rallies. 0:20:04.910 --> 0:20:08.350 You had to transfer those Voters, however, to candidates that 0:20:08.369 --> 0:20:11.730 they didn't like. But there's something beyond that. 0:20:11.990 --> 0:20:13.450 They didn't like the war. 0:20:13.750 --> 0:20:17.030 They didn't like the fact that gasoline went up because 0:20:17.050 --> 0:20:18.210 they had it down at a low. 0:20:18.650 --> 0:20:22.540 And there's a great dislike, incredibly, for Israel. 0:20:23.980 --> 0:20:27.880 It's impossible to know anybody's heart, including Trump, partly because 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:31.930 he's a pitchman, an entrepreneur, and a hustler. But does 0:20:31.950 --> 0:20:34.629 he really think if he was on the ballot, it 0:20:34.670 --> 0:20:37.810 would have been substantially different? And does he think the 0:20:37.950 --> 0:20:42.250 rallies are a reliable indicator of the mood of the people? 0:20:44.010 --> 0:20:44.330 I don't know. 0:20:44.350 --> 0:20:45.669 I think things would have been different if he's on 0:20:45.690 --> 0:20:47.520 the ballot in the same way it was different every 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:51.780 time Obama was on the ballot. His popularity did not 0:20:51.880 --> 0:20:55.260 transfer to non him on the ballot elections. 0:20:54.920 --> 0:20:55.640 For whatever reason. 0:20:55.920 --> 0:20:57.660