WEBVTT - E-I-E-I-O 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:06.280 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:10.400 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty. 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:12.600 Arm Strong and Getty and he. 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:17.360 Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:27.120 As you remember, I donated the flagpoles, one on each side. 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:29.680 Christ Is the White House didn't really. 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:33.120 Have an appropriate American flag and had a small one 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:35.680 on top. We left that, but it didn't have an 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:37.120 appropriate American flag. 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:39.200 And this is a great pole. This is the top 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:40.839 of the line. It's tapered. 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:44.519 This isn't a straight up and down job, which looks terrible. Frankly, 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:45.960 that's a tapered pole. 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:46.240 Great. 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:47.560 I'm very good at flagpoles. 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:57.080 That's one of the best linkss Evercent I'm starting to 0:00:57.120 --> 0:00:59.600 think that's a running joke. And I just got it 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:02.800 that he's been doing that his whole life. I hope 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:04.520 that's what it is. That he's just. 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:06.840 Got my what the hell look on my he he's 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:07.920 been doing that his whole life. 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:10.399 Audio Now does this staple? I fixed the stapler. I'm 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:12.960 very good with staplers. I'm the best at staplers. I 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:15.280 wonder if that's a running joke he's been doing people, 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:18.039 because that's just hilarious. It's a tapered flagpole, not the 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:22.119 straight ones that look terrible. I'm very good at flagpoles, 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:23.360 all of them. There you go. 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:24.800 Okay, well played. 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:28.960 More more importantly, Trump Big Truth social announcement, we haven't 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:32.560 even touched on today his Economic d Day post that 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:34.480 we should talk about a little bit later, that he 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:37.480 announced Economic d Day in all caps. 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:41.320 For a run right, all right? Ah, So if you're 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:44.760 just tuning in, you need to grab the podcast from 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:49.200 last hour Armstrong and Giddyon demand. We've been talking about 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:52.559 the fact that Mississippians several other southern states have utterly 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:55.640 turned around their educational systems. The kids are achieving at 0:01:55.760 --> 0:02:02.400 unbelievable levels, both the all of the smartest kids, the 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:05.400 middle kids, and the kids who are struggling the most 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:11.040 every race. They have reinvented their educational systems and are 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:14.240 now whooping the asses of California in particular and blue 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:19.720 states because they've returned to basics. And again, it's self evident, 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:21.600 it's obvious. A lot of us have been suggesting this 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:23.920 for a long time, but it's now actually being proved. 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:29.240 So why isn't that happening? Why aren't all the states 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:34.720 embracing this because it clearly works. In a related story, 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:38.680 Target is out this back to school season. Randy Winingarten 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:42.040 declared on Facebook this week urging teachers to spend their 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:46.519 school supply dollars elsewhere. In February, the American Federation and 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:49.200 Teachers that it wanted Minneapolis based Target to take a 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:52.680 public stand against immigration and Customs enforcement. 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:55.960 Operations in Minnesota. I just bought all my kids school 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.760 supplies like three days ago at Target, and they have 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:01.960 a giant Baptist section. A lot of it's sold out 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.160 because so many be chopped there. And the person in 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:07.839 charge of the teacher's whole thing in the whole country says, 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:10.120 don't buy a Target because of ice. 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:16.000 Wow, what does that have to do with educating kids? Well, 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:19.840 the union adopted a formal resolution or resolution, directing it's 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:23.080 one point eight million members to shop elsewhere and starts 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:25.880 it's and its stating it's plan to expand the boycott 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:30.480 to parents, communities, and AFLCIO is roughly fifteen million members. 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:34.440 One problem with the strategy the teacher's retirement fund owns 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:37.440 millions of shares of Target and billions of dollars more 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:42.040 in index funds. So good move. But the teachers' unions 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:47.320 are about politics and money, folks, politics and money. They'd 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:50.040 prefer that there weren't any kids at schools at all. 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:52.080 They are evil, evil, evil. 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:54.880 She is at the top of my list of how 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.920 do you look at yourself in the mirror? She has 0:03:57.960 --> 0:03:59.880 no soul or something? 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:03.400 Yeah, yeah, well she's agreed ahead in a. 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:06.840 Mobsit it's I understand screwing taxpayers for your own benefit 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:08.720 and all kinds of different things that people do. I 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:14.000 understand how you get there, how you screw little kids 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:18.560 who want to learn to read and sleep at night. 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:19.400 I don't get. 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:24.080 We're quoting an absolutely fabulous article with a bunch of 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:30.680 statistical information, studies and experts by Kelsey Piper entitled illiteracy 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:33.560 is a policy choice, and. 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:37.200 She is obviously it is. What do you think this 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:40.560 new breed of children were born with some inability to 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:43.480 learn to read, unlike all other human beings in history? 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:47.240 Yeah, and she makes the point that where is it? 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:52.840 It's it's she puts it. So, well, oh then I 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:55.039 lost it, I had it, then I lost it again. Well, 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:58.040 she she points out what is obvious to a lot 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:00.920 of us. Oh, here it is to fail. Here is 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:04.560 to lastingly abandon a significant fraction of our children to 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:08.520 a lifelong struggle. And blue states have been failing. We've 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:10.600 been spending lots of money on schools, but we've not 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:13.560 been willing to muster the political will and effort necessary 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.120 to hold those schools accountable and do and to teach. 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.800 You adopt teaching practices that actually work, even though they 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:23.920 are now known. So we went through the three pillars 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:30.040 of turning it around, and how wonderfully it works universally. 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:34.560 So why aren't we doing this? She says, good deal 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:37.000 has been written on the so called Mississippi Miracle and 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:39.360 some of the rising scores in other Southern states, but 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:41.599 there hasn't been the sort of saturation cover that was 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:45.160 lavished on past pushes for education reform, which helped turn 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:50.520 them into national cause celebs. There's no profile, and there's 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:55.359 no high profile philanthropic movement to spread these reforms or 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:59.039 politicians with national ambitions who've made this their pet project. 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:04.880 He's kind of amazed by that, and she asks a 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:08.000 lot of quest She lives in the Oakland area, Oakland, California. 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:11.760 She says, anecdotally, anecdotally, most parents I speak to have 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:14.200 not heard of the Mississippi miracle at all, or if 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:17.040 they've heard of Mississippi's success, it's as a one off 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:21.039 rather than the spearhead of a trend. Why not, this 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:25.680 is just a politically awkward story. Education policy expert Andy 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.880 Rotherham told me it's all those Red states. This is 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:34.400 a very ideological field. People struggle with calling balls and strikes. 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:37.960 This other expert agreed, I think the story is going 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:41.120 untold for the same reason journalists ignored the successful school 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:43.880 reopening stories in Florida and the rest of the Sun 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.800 Belt in August of twenty twenty. The appetite to tell 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:49.839 positive stories in red states is low. 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:53.560 Man, you wouldn't think if you were going to start 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:56.960 from scratch that public schools would be so politicized. 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:02.560 Right. Another expert who she's been quoting all along, and 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:04.840 there's a part of me that we will post this. 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.119 I think we can post this at Armstrong and Giddy 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:08.800 dot com. I'd love to just read the whole thing 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:11.120 to you because it's so incredibly well written, researched, and 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:16.520 just it's so powerful. But a third expert said, we've 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:19.120 been slow to learn the lessons of successful states when 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:23.360 the politics don't line up. There's also just a pervasive 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:26.320 sense of complacency about schools in blue states and cities, where, 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:28.840 at least until recently, local school boards have been more 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:33.360 interested in issues around equity than measurably improving learning outcomes. 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:35.640 Some of that is burnout from the last round of 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:39.240 education reforms, which were viewed in progressive circles as assaults 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:42.360 on teachers' unions that focus too much on teaching to 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:45.080 the test. But I routinely see people on the American 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.480 left say that our schools are doing well, And I'm 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:49.680 not sure whether they are unaware that one third of 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:53.679 our graduating seniors can barely read and interpret passages of text, 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:55.560 or they just think that's okay. 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:00.120 Well, nobody thinks that's okay. I guess by definitely, And 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:01.760 I think it's okay because it's happening and they're not 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:06.280 doing anything about it. But uh, yeah, I don't know how. 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:06.920 I mean. 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:10.200 I assume teachers all across the country, even in blue 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:13.760 states here, these national report cards are their local report cards. 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:17.080 They've got to be aware, right that they're graduating lots 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.280 of people that can't read or do math. They have 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:20.280 to be aware of that. 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:23.400 They've convinced themselves of the arguments that the teachers' unions 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:24.080 make though. 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.320 We don't have enough money, we have more money, we 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:27.400 could do it, we. 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:32.400 Need more money, or you know, people, The one thing 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:34.640 that amazes me more every single day I do this 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:37.480 job is the extent to which ideology can blind people 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:42.640 to that which is plainly clearly true. And you have 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:46.200 the solution. We all have the solution. But because you know, 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.679 as the one guy said, this is a very politicized 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:54.520 field of work. Education is the more the last field 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:57.320 of work should be that should be politicized. 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:00.920 Have is the wrong word. We have the solution because 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.959 this is one of the unique situations where we had 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.560 the solution. This isn't how you don't even have to 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:10.040 invent anything new. This is not a problem where there's 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:13.040 a solution that somebody came up with. We just need 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:16.800 to implement it. No, we had it for a thousand years. 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:22.160 How long we have figured it out. It's not rocket science. 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:28.559 Oddly enough, we got rid of the solution. No need 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:29.240 to bring them back. 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:34.920 Twenty thousand dollars to have a million stickers made of 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:38.360 various sizes and shapes, and I'm going to distribute them. 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:40.480 I'm going to drive around the country and distribute them 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:45.240 everywhere that say teach phonics. Now I want them. I 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:47.839 don't care if it's littering. I want them everywhere. I 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:51.160 want them on light poles, on gas pumps, on vehicles, 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.480 park next to you at the parking lot. Needs to 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:58.040 be everywhere. We've got to save our children. And the teachers' 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:02.400 unions embracing aggressive politics it's not a very good counter 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:06.840 argument to saving the children. God, this makes me insane, 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:07.800 It really does. 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:11.280 Right, you can get way more excited about coming up 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:14.120 with electric school buses than can the kids do math. 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:17.160 By the way, on the electric school was no huh, Well, 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:17.680 look at. 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:23.199 Churning out illiterate children. We've been slow to learn lessons 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:27.640 of successful states when the politics don't line up. Same 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:30.960 reason they ignored successful school reopening stories in Florida and 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:33.280 the rest of the Sun Belt in August of twenty twenty. 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:37.000 The appetite to tell positive stories about red states is low. 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:41.120 Well, and the example I've used a million times where 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:44.400 I was I moved to my kid seven miles from 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:47.200 a closed school to an open private school. How do 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:51.200 you explain that. How do you explain there's a school 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:54.480 right over there, it's open and people aren't dying when 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:55.880 they aren't stacking bodies. 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:58.040 La la la la la la la la la la 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:00.480 la la la la la la la gets through a 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:02.079 force field. La la la la la la. I won't 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:04.599 answer that question. I'll even pretend I didn't hear it. 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:05.880 La la la la la la. 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:09.280 Do you have those California statistics handy that you opened with. 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:17.480 Four out of five? Oh? Oh, the educational stuff I do. Ah, 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:18.640 those are amazing. 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:20.200 Everybody should know that. 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:24.920 There you go in the home state of California. Her 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:28.959 home state of California, thoroughly unioned up, throwing more money 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:32.120 per student at kids than any state in the Union. 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:37.320 Only thirty percent of public school fourth graders can read proficiently. Okay, 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:41.640 that's shocking enough, because proficiently is not like proficient sounds 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.760 like you know, I'm a proficient surfer. I'm there on 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:47.400 the big Island, I'm on the big waves. I'm proficient. No, 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:52.960 that means you're adequate, You're not failing. Really, here's the nightmare. 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:57.679 Here's why, and I'm serious. I have horror violence, but 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:04.120 parents should be in the streets with bandanas and axe handles, 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:08.480 just to make a point, don't hit anybody with it. Fully, 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:14.000 forty one percent cannot even read at a basic level, 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:17.400 which is to say they cannot really understand and interpret 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:21.640 written text at all. That's fourth graders and eighth graders, 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:26.160 as you might expect, look almost as bad. And these 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.120 numbers have been tumbling downhill in California and the other 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:33.040 blue states across the US for years, years, and a 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:36.079 few red states too, until they did what Mississippi and 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.840 Alabama and Louisiana are doing, go back to phonics basis 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:43.440 education and teaching the teachers how to teach this stuff. 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:45.640 Getting back to basics. 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:48.680 Man, you cannot as a parent with a public school. 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:52.120 I've had private school experience, and private schools stay on 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:53.800 top of it. They let you know if your kid 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:57.240 is not doing well. But public school you got to 0:12:57.360 --> 0:12:59.440 You've got to like almost have your own set of 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:03.000 tests your kids to have any idea how they're actually doing. 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:05.440 It's a nightmare. 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:08.240 You can't just assume that if you send them off 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:09.880 to the school, they're going to learn to read and write. 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.200 As you just heard from the statistics god that it 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:15.440 is a sin. It's horrifying. Hey, if you want a 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:17.320 comment on that, you know, order to find his text 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:19.840 line four one two nine five KFTC. 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:30.280 Maderna and Merk say that a personalized mRNA vaccine combined 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:34.079 with the immunotherapy Kutruda succeeded in. 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:36.480 A late stage trial for melanoma. 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:40.600 The vaccine is based on the same technology behind COVID 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:44.319 nineteen vaccines. The study is still ongoing, but so far 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:48.200 results have shown the treatment prevented cancer from returning or 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:51.400 spreading among high risk melanoma patients. 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:53.360 The sert A vaccine for people who talk too slow. 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:55.720 That is a really good news. 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:57.920 That is, it's amazing. 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.319 One of the deadliest cancers out there, the really bad 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.040 kind of melanoma. They might be something really good there. 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:04.439 So I hope that's true. 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.520 Yeah, yeah, yeah, promising technology for sure. 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.679 Uh. Speaking of drugs, interesting article in the Wall Street 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:14.640 Journal about the billions of dollars food makers are going 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:17.360 to lose out on because of gop ones. 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:20.120 Oh yeah, they're desperate. What are we supposed to sell? 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:22.280 I hadn't even really thought of that angle of it. 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:25.640 As the Wall Street Journal says, for decades, food companies 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.200 have relied on a proven playbook cater to consumer's taste, 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:32.520 boods with sugar, salt, and steadily expanding galaxy of flavors. 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.440 You know, in the calexy of flavor. 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:38.360 You know how there's like nineteen different kinds of Dorito's. 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:41.240 That sort of thing. Fine tuning products to cravings and 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:44.120 indulgence has led critics to accuse food makers of hooking 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:47.120 consumers on food and addicting them and snacks the same 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:50.920 way nicotine hooks smokers. But now with gop ones, people 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:54.240 are eating a lot less, taking in fewer calories, and 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:56.080 the food makers are trying to sid what are we 0:14:56.080 --> 0:15:00.720 going to do? Now, that's an interesting one, say, Yeah, 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:01.920 how do we package it? 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:04.640 What color do we make it? Isn't we don't know. 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:06.800 I think you're just out of lock. People are gonna 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:10.960 eat less of your stuff. Find a new line of work. 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:16.280 I think maybe adapting what you do and trying to 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:19.280 find innovative solutions would be worth trying. But to a 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:20.320 large extent, you're right. 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:25.160 Yeah, you might have to go healthy protein, variety of 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:29.760 things that gop one users want because they ain't gonna 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:34.680 want the stuff that you have. There as many as 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:38.000 fifty five million Americans, or fifteen percent of the population 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:40.000 they think will be on this by twenty thirty five, 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:45.800 which is only you know, nine years away. Yeah, yeah, wow, 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:50.440 I hadn't even thought about that angle of it. I 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:52.760 went to a restaurant the other day where I normally 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:56.520 eat you know, X meal, and I eat b y 0:15:56.600 --> 0:16:00.840 meal because of the being on the zep bound tiny salad, 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:04.280 and that was it. I didn't even want that. I 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:05.960 only ate that because I thought I should. 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:11.240 Are you going to the bathroom more? Trying to be delicate? No, 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:12.280 I'm quite serious. 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:15.200 You're trying to be delicate by asking a grown coworker 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:17.520 are you going out? 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:19.000 Stool calls your. 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:23.000 Stool because of the drug, right, you do have to 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:25.240 watch eat the amount of fiber they tell you to 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:27.280 take in. How am I supposed to get that much fiber? 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:29.760 How am I supposed to pack the much into my 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:31.840 life when I'm not first and I'm not hungry anyway. 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:34.680 So you've got to make sure you have plenty of protein, 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:37.040 plenty of proto muscles from going away, and lots of 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:41.880 fibers so you're not stove up as traffic on I five. Yeah, 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:43.800 I haven't figured that out. Maybe those of you are 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:45.480 on and have figured it out. But to get the 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:47.680 amount of fiber and protein that you need when you 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:48.800 don't want to eat. 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:50.240 What. 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:55.040 Gotta have the uh metamucile of protein shake. I guess, 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:57.200 I guess lots of them, whether you're hungry or not. 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:58.240 Suck them down. 0:16:58.880 --> 0:16:59.840 Suck them down. 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:02.720 So Trump with a heck of a truth social post 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:07.200 economic d Day, he announced on Iran and anybody who 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:09.480 supports them, among other things we've got to talk about. 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:11.000 You know, he knows a lot about flag bol. 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:13.840 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:18.000 As you remember, I donated the flag poles, one on 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:21.719 each side, Chris, the White House didn't really have an 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:25.200 appropriate American flag. It had a small one on top. 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:28.919 We left that, but it didn't have an appropriate American flag. 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:30.960 And this is a great pole. This is the top 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:32.600 of the line. It's tapered. 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:36.280 This isn't a straight up and down job, which looks terrible. Frankly, 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:37.760 that's a tapered bowl. 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:38.040 Great. 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:39.280 I'm very good at flag poles. 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:39.679 There you go. 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:42.600 That might be my favorite Trump clip ever. That was 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:44.560 Sean Farrash, the Trump him. 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:45.639 I watched it yesterday. 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:46.080 It had to be. 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:48.439 That was him on the White House lawn with the 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:56.080 new helipad and discussion. Before I get to a couple 0:17:56.119 --> 0:18:00.360 of serious Trump things. That Eric Swalwell thing, I completely 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:05.320 misguessed what it was about. So Swallow former congressman, wanted 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:08.800 to be senator, wanted to be a president. Uh, grabbed 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:12.520 at the airport, took all of his electronic devices. FBI 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:14.200 showed up at his house, went in, took a bunch 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:18.159 of stuff. It's all about those sexual assault allegations, not 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:19.560 about the fang fang spy thing. 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:21.720 Sexual assault. 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:24.760 I remember, that's why. That's why he resigned, because of 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:27.159 all those videos rolling around on the bed with the 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:29.520 chick who said she was too drunk and all that 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:32.040 sort of stuff. Oh, that's why he resigned. Wasn't the 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:32.960 fang fang stuff. 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:34.600 Well, in short, he busted the. 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:38.199 Trust and then hey, bus, don't bust the trust he busted. 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:39.760 Don't bust the trust. 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:42.280 That was the billionaire he was living with. Who thought? 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:49.040 Who thought he was marrying the penthouse pet, serial fraudster, 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:55.520 thief girl. Oh boy, what a circle of friends. Wow. 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:58.960 Anyway, So there you go. There's that. To the Trump things. 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:02.159 I'll do the serious one than the non serious one. 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:04.000 I guess I'm going to do it in that order. 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:08.400 Trump with the truth social post early today, no one 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:11.120 has given the Islamic Republic of Iran a greater opportunity 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:13.479 to make a deal than me. I'd say that's true. 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:15.960 Tragically for them, they have failed to take it. Therefore, 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:19.159 today I'm announcing the this is an all caps most 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:23.359 crushing economic operation ever taking against any country. 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:29.960 All the ager to pum the most quite the acronym. 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:33.320 The most crushing economic operation ever taken against any country. 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:37.640 This will be economic warfare and isolation on an unprecedented scale. 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:39.679 Their navy has gone, their air force has destroyed, their 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:42.720 military factories are now rubble. They're currency is worthless, and 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:45.120 their country is hanging by a thread. All of its true, 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:47.159 except for that last part. We don't know about the 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:49.840 last part. Are they hanging by a thread or could 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:55.359 they easily hang on for like several more years. Right today, 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:59.040 I'm announcing that any all caps country that allows its 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:03.000 financial institute, businesses, airports, or government entities to provide any 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:06.480 time of lifeline to Iran will itself will itself face 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:12.840 tremendous economic consequences. Oil smuggling swap lines, cash transfers, exchange houses, 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:16.359 ship registries, front companies. It all needs to stop. Now 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:19.439 you know who you are. This will be an in 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:26.280 all caps economic d day. These are historic measures to 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:26.920 cripple them. 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:27.520 Now. 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:29.200 There is a story of the Wall Street Journal over 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:33.680 the weekend that there's some gazillionaire Chinese company that has 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:36.320 been doing oil business with Iran through this whole thing, 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:42.040 illegally sanctioned oil, doing it illegally. I'm sure. Obviously our 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:44.119 government's aware of it. If the Wall Street journalizes a 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:47.359 story about it, Do we have the ability to punish 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:50.399 that company in Iran? I don't know. There is an 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:57.439 announcement today by the UAE Universe Arab Emirates, which what 0:20:57.600 --> 0:21:00.440 is that AE I OU e I E I O 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:07.080 U A that they're going to stop something that they 0:21:07.119 --> 0:21:09.399 weren't supposed to be doing because of this announcement, So 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:12.159 uh uh what effect they'll have? Hopefully it will and 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:14.240 hopefully have the we have the ability to punish people. 0:21:14.760 --> 0:21:17.760 Yeah, war and profiteering go hand in hand. They always 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:19.960 have and always will. You limited as much as you can, 0:21:20.000 --> 0:21:21.880 but yeah, there are even some of our so called 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:23.879 allies who are like you know, yeah, we're with you, 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:25.879 but if we made a few million dollars around the 0:21:26.080 --> 0:21:29.200 edges here, what's the harm? So hey, he's going to 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:30.360 crack down on that stuff. 0:21:31.200 --> 0:21:36.520 Here's a dumb Trump story, not dumb Trump, but a 0:21:36.560 --> 0:21:38.000 story that is not important. 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:39.560