Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty, I know he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: One are the top BLS staffers is actually working in
Speaker 3: the White House to help us understand the jobs numbers.
Speaker 3: When I saw the jobs revisions, I literally called up
Speaker 3: that person and said, I think there's a typo because
Speaker 3: I've been following these numbers all the way back when
Speaker 3: I worked with Alan Greenspan for something like forty years
Speaker 3: that I've never seen revisions like this.
Speaker 4: Okay, So that's Kevin Hassett whatever he is in the
Speaker 4: Trump administration talking about the economy. This was for your
Speaker 4: Trump hating news shows, the number one story all weekend long.
Speaker 4: That so, the jobs numbers came out on Friday, we
Speaker 4: talked about them. Trump fired the person in charge of
Speaker 4: those numbers coming out, though, as I learned over the weekend,
Speaker 4: they have very little to do with computing the numbers.
Speaker 4: There's a giant staff of people that do that and
Speaker 4: plugged him to formulas. And then this woman found out
Speaker 4: about him like two days before they came out, and
Speaker 4: then she just signs off on them.
Speaker 2: But there's really no discretion there no. So so as usual,
Speaker 2: Trump does what Trump does.
Speaker 4: So he came out and claimed that she is a
Speaker 4: hack and political and fudged the numbers to try to
Speaker 4: make him look bad, and that she's been doing that
Speaker 4: quote today's job numbers were rigged in order to make
Speaker 4: the Republicans and me look bad. And he said that
Speaker 4: sort of thing in various forms all weekend long. And
Speaker 4: then so there were all kinds of headlines in the
Speaker 4: New York Times, Washington Post, those sorts of places, NBC
Speaker 4: News and that sort of thing. There's Larry Summer, Summer's
Speaker 4: up on the TV on ABC this week. I watched
Speaker 4: him yesterday and Larry Summers actually said this is the
Speaker 4: sort of thing Richard Nixon didn't even dream of doing,
Speaker 4: which I was a little over the top on his end.
Speaker 4: New York Times headline was Trump fired America's economic data collector.
Speaker 4: History shows the perils and they go immediately into this
Speaker 4: is what Hitler did.
Speaker 1: This sort of thing Bureau of Labor Statistics. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: went in there and cleaned house. As you know, Hitler, will.
Speaker 4: I wish Trump wasn't claiming that this woman was you know,
Speaker 4: fudging the stats just to hurt.
Speaker 2: Him in Republicans and everything like that.
Speaker 4: But the real story, at least as explained by this
Speaker 4: Kevin Hassett person, I thought was kind of interesting, and
Speaker 4: the only place I heard it was on Meet the
Speaker 4: Press when Christian Walker asked him the question.
Speaker 2: So here is a somewhat.
Speaker 4: Lengthy but I think it might be helpful if you
Speaker 4: end up with in an argument with a friend about
Speaker 4: this explanation for what's going on here? What evidence does
Speaker 4: the administration have that she manipulated the jobs numbers?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Well, what we've seen over the last few years is
Speaker 3: massive revision to the jobs numbers.
Speaker 2: In fact, they were.
Speaker 3: Extremely reliable, the kind of numbers that you want to
Speaker 3: guide policy decisions and markets through COVID. And then when
Speaker 3: COVID happened, because response rates went down a lot, then
Speaker 3: revision rates skyrocketed, so that the typical monthly revision often
Speaker 3: was bigger than the number itself. And now we had
Speaker 3: a number that.
Speaker 2: Just came out.
Speaker 3: The actual number for the month wasn't so bad, but
Speaker 3: the two months before were revised down by more than
Speaker 3: it ever happened since nineteen sixty eight, and in twenty fifteen,
Speaker 3: Alan Greenspan and I were asked to attend a conference
Speaker 3: at BLS where we were asked to give advice about
Speaker 3: how to modernize the data. And we warned that if
Speaker 3: they didn't try to let the data collection and calculation
Speaker 3: keep up with the data that was happening in the economy,
Speaker 3: that we would have problems like this.
Speaker 4: For instance, a revised downward July from one hundred and
Speaker 4: forty four thousand jobs to nineteen thousand jobs. The biggest revision,
Speaker 4: as he pointed out, there since nineteen sixty eight COVID,
Speaker 4: and since COVID businesses reporting their job numbers has changed,
Speaker 4: they've stopped participating. So the numbers are all over the
Speaker 4: place and not a whack. And he's just making the
Speaker 4: argument that that the old formula and win of doing
Speaker 4: things doesn't work. And he and Alan Greenspan went to
Speaker 4: a conference as you just heard, and talked about it
Speaker 4: and blah blah blah, And as he said in that
Speaker 4: other clip, we're working with somebody right now from the
Speaker 4: Bureau of Labor Statistics to try.
Speaker 2: To figure out what the numbers actually are.
Speaker 4: Because I got these on Friday and called them up
Speaker 4: and said, is this a typo. This can't be right,
Speaker 4: and so it's all out of whack. That explanation makes
Speaker 4: way more sense than the way Trump portrayed it. And
Speaker 4: then if you you know, I don't know if you
Speaker 4: need to fire her, but if you said, we're gonna
Speaker 4: we're gonna get a fresh set of eyes on this.
Speaker 4: We need to they need to redo the whole system.
Speaker 4: So I've got somebody in there that's going to take
Speaker 4: a look at it. I think that would have landed
Speaker 4: a lot better than claiming it's a rigged system to
Speaker 4: try to hurt Republicans.
Speaker 1: Right right, I would agree this is the twenty percent
Speaker 1: of Trump's that even most big Trump fans wish he
Speaker 1: would rein in a little bit. Yeah, because Hassett makes
Speaker 1: an excellent point, and this does not smack as trying
Speaker 1: desperately to make sense of what Trump said to me
Speaker 1: like some other things do. If that makes sense, that okay,
Speaker 1: So these revisions are now I mean, like an enormous
Speaker 1: percentage of the total number.
Speaker 2: The original total number is is.
Speaker 4: Useless, correct if it goes from one to nineteen, why
Speaker 4: make any economic.
Speaker 2: Decisions or markets react to be regional number? What are
Speaker 2: we even doing?
Speaker 1: Here right exactly, and so yeah, you know the fact
Speaker 1: that the system was exposed as antiquated and no longer adequate,
Speaker 1: Trump reacted in a childish knee jerk fashion. Not all
Speaker 1: that shocking, but yeah, this this rings true to me.
Speaker 1: The revision should not be nearly so enormous, or the
Speaker 1: system is just completely broken.
Speaker 2: We need a new one again.
Speaker 1: Whether miss Mackinharfer or whatever his name, her name is
Speaker 1: needed to be Macintarfer, whether she actually has got kind
Speaker 1: of a velma of the Scooby Do gang look to
Speaker 1: her anyway.
Speaker 2: Find alluring or I'll just say intriguing anyway row.
Speaker 1: Oh so anyway, but yeah, whether she would have been
Speaker 1: a good person to be in charge of the turnaround
Speaker 1: or not, I don't know. It's entirely it is possible
Speaker 1: to do the right thing in the wrong way.
Speaker 4: Or it's possible that she'd have said, yeah, it's ridiculous,
Speaker 4: I'm all for redoing the way we come up with
Speaker 4: these numbers. Put me in charge of it. I'd love to.
Speaker 4: But who knows. It's possible this was to bump Epstein off.
Speaker 4: I mean, it ended the Epstein thing. Not I heard
Speaker 4: near the word once yesterday on the Sunday shows, and
Speaker 4: from all reporting, the Trump White House was pretty desperate
Speaker 4: to finally end that damn scandal once and for all.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's what happened here or not.
Speaker 2: It seems like I had one more thing to see. Well,
Speaker 2: you know, it's funny.
Speaker 1: I'm less likely to believe that just because of Kevin
Speaker 1: Hassett's explanation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it makes perfect sense there.
Speaker 1: Well, what are we even doing here with these statistics
Speaker 1: that they're that wildly wrong?
Speaker 4: But Trump's portrayal of it could have been to get
Speaker 4: everybody's attention, which it certainly did well. He is parlayed
Speaker 4: being under attack to his advantage now his entire on
Speaker 4: the political scene, and it's been helped along by the
Speaker 4: fact that, well he's been under attack for most of
Speaker 4: the time. Everybody overplays their hand, and I've been complaining
Speaker 4: about this for years. If people would stop doing that,
Speaker 4: it would be so much better. So I generally like
Speaker 4: Larry Summers, who was president of Harvard and Obama's economic guy.
Speaker 4: He's a generally pretty reasonable Democrat for a Democrat. I
Speaker 4: like him better than most people they put out there.
Speaker 4: But so he did a list of Trump of what
Speaker 4: we're headed now into now is authoritarianism. Trump did this,
Speaker 4: and he mentioned a couple of other things that were
Speaker 4: a little uncomfortable. I'm on with that Trump has done.
Speaker 4: And then he said in the way Trump has gone
Speaker 4: after the colleges, Okay, why did you say that?
Speaker 2: Why did you say.
Speaker 4: That Harvard had ranked last in free speech Columbia was
Speaker 4: not allowing Asian kids or Jews. I mean, come on,
Speaker 4: so everybody overplays their hand and then they lose all credibility.
Speaker 1: And how desperate is Larry Summers to have status among
Speaker 1: his peers or whatever.
Speaker 2: I don't know, it's inside the guys. He he's a
Speaker 2: smart guy, but.
Speaker 1: He was fired by Harvard for daring to suggest, you know,
Speaker 1: some of the imbalance in the stem fields is just
Speaker 1: men tend to be, on average better at this stuff
Speaker 1: and more interested in it. And for that he was
Speaker 1: hounded off the campus by the woke left. So you'd
Speaker 1: think he would have a little bit of a regard
Speaker 1: for the need to reform our disgusting perverse college campuses.
Speaker 2: Oh, Campus Madness update coming up next hour, Stay with us.
Speaker 4: So hopefully that wraps up another Bureau of Labor Statistics Monday.
Speaker 4: Every Monday we check in on that bureau. Well, you
Speaker 4: gotta get it out of the way on Monday. Well,
Speaker 4: everybody's waiting for it over the weekend.
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Speaker 4: Have any opinion on the Naked Gun remake that came
Speaker 4: out over the weekend. A lot of attention among people
Speaker 4: who love those movies the Leslie Nielsen style of comedy.
Speaker 4: But this one has Liam Neeson in the lead role,
Speaker 4: and I've never pictured him really doing a comedy like that, but.
Speaker 2: The role it was pretty funny on Saturday Night Live. True.
Speaker 4: The Rotten Tomatoes reviews and critics' reviews have been fantastic
Speaker 4: on this movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Pamela Anderson, the old Baywatch chick, is the lead female
Speaker 4: in it, and they are said to be dating. Now,
Speaker 4: Oh that's right. Yeah, that's so interesting. How often people
Speaker 4: meet on the set and end up together? Is it
Speaker 4: just because they're all pretty people? And if you two
Speaker 4: put two really attractive people in a room, they're gonna
Speaker 4: end up together.
Speaker 2: Is that? Well, there's that, I guess.
Speaker 1: But having been a cesspian of some note in my
Speaker 1: younger days, you spend a hell of a lot of
Speaker 1: time with people. You are very close physically with them
Speaker 1: a lot, and you know, sometimes you're interacting in a
Speaker 1: role where you are acting various emotions and they start
Speaker 1: to feel a little realish. In fact, that's you know,
Speaker 1: one of the hazards of being married to an actor
Speaker 1: is you just if you spend weeks on a set
Speaker 1: or rehearsing a play pretending to be in love with
Speaker 1: somebody who's kind of attractive.
Speaker 2: Danger. Danger.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I wouldn't dig if my wife or girlfriend had
Speaker 4: a job where I'm going to be uh, six months
Speaker 4: in a hotel with this really hot young guy pretending
Speaker 4: to be in love with him.
Speaker 1: Right, and we're going to go through ups and downs
Speaker 1: and struggles and laughs and tears and frustration and all
Speaker 1: the ups and downs of life.
Speaker 2: But we'll do it together. Oh boy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, anyway, that's that story. So you said you had
Speaker 4: a gender bending mandis update campus madness? In the campus madness.
Speaker 1: That's also a look, believe it or not, we're going
Speaker 1: to go from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to congressional redistricting,
Speaker 1: which is one of the other big controversies of the day.
Speaker 2: But I promise you, promise you, it's not boring.
Speaker 4: And this is the first day for all of us
Speaker 4: in a world without Lonnie Anderson. More on that later stitches.
Speaker 2: We will Soldier.
Speaker 5: Liz Warren fell down on the Senate floor yesterday and
Speaker 5: to everyone's surprise, didn't even yell Geronimo.
Speaker 2: Our new Indian name is fall on Ass.
Speaker 4: That's pretty funny. How y'all doing? So we got some
Speaker 4: good Newsy stuff for you. We talked about this expensive
Speaker 4: bed on the One More Thing podcast to watch back,
Speaker 4: this really expensive mattress, which oh I remember that. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'll hit you at the price here in a moment,
Speaker 4: because if you haven't heard about this, it's shocking. We
Speaker 4: actually walked by one of these stores. It's Houstin's. I
Speaker 4: don't know how you pronounce it, h A S T
Speaker 4: e ns. It's Scandinavian so Hi Houston. I don't know
Speaker 4: how they pronounce it. But they don't have many stores.
Speaker 4: The beds are ridiculously expensive. And we walked by one
Speaker 4: of the stores on Park Avenue in New York. We
Speaker 4: were leaving Central Park and as we were walking along
Speaker 4: all these ridiculously expensive stores and oh my god, it's
Speaker 4: one of those bed stores. But you had to have
Speaker 4: an appointment, and then we were not dressed for people
Speaker 4: to go in and look at these kind of mattresses,
Speaker 4: but I would love to have laid down one.
Speaker 2: I don't even know if they know let us try,
Speaker 2: poor people, we can't allow you in here. So I
Speaker 2: don't remember how I came across this over the weekend,
Speaker 2: and it it.
Speaker 4: Reignited my interest in this sort of thing that it exists.
Speaker 4: But so I went on eBay and there's one available
Speaker 4: on eBay that's used, so they only want forty eight
Speaker 4: thousand dollars for it. This used mattress comes with the
Speaker 4: box spring, so it's mattress and box spring for forty.
Speaker 2: Eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And the owner of it, since I put it
Speaker 4: on my watch, sent me an offer yesterday, took four
Speaker 4: thousand dollars off. They're only asking forty thousand dollars now
Speaker 4: for this mattress and box spring. This mattress is made
Speaker 4: of horsehair and some particular rare kind of horse and cotton.
Speaker 4: It's all natural materials, it is said by reviewers. I
Speaker 4: remember when I talked about this on our podcast, the
Speaker 4: person who reviewed it, I think for the New York
Speaker 4: Times said it's ridiculously overpriced and nobody is ever going
Speaker 4: to buy one. Of these, But it is unlike sleeping
Speaker 4: on anything you've ever slept on.
Speaker 2: It's as if you're suspended. You're just floating.
Speaker 4: You can't even tell her anything, there's any pressure on
Speaker 4: any of your body.
Speaker 2: You're just kind of floating there. And it's amazing.
Speaker 4: But the original price on this particular mattress in box
Speaker 4: Springs that I'm I'm you know, I'm trying. I'm deciding
Speaker 4: whether or not to pull the trigger at forty grand
Speaker 4: was eighty four thousand dollars eighty three Please, eighty four
Speaker 4: thousand dollars for a mattress in box Spring.
Speaker 1: Look, if you fly private all the time, go ahead
Speaker 1: and buy the Horrors hair mattress.
Speaker 2: We prefer sex workers hair. By the way, Jack these
Speaker 2: horse the beast of burden.
Speaker 1: Oh, I apologize, I'd misunderstood. But if that's your lifestyle,
Speaker 1: go ahead. If not, that's insane. Don't you remember that
Speaker 1: email we got from a gal She said, yeah, we
Speaker 1: bought one of these things, and you've got to like
Speaker 1: have the Horrors hair massaged every.
Speaker 2: Two weeks or that's the most uncomfortable thing ever. No,
Speaker 2: that's part of the upkeep.
Speaker 4: Yes, you have to have it's what is it called
Speaker 4: a rejuvenation or something like that. Somebody needs to come
Speaker 4: into your home at least once a year and re
Speaker 4: massage it to make it. But it's just reinterview from
Speaker 4: somebody who's got one on Reddit. They said, if you
Speaker 4: have the person come and rejuvenate it all the time,
Speaker 4: they've had it for four years, feel exactly like it
Speaker 4: did on day one. If you don't get it rejuvenated,
Speaker 4: you have a very expensive sack of garbage, they said.
Speaker 4: But wow, I would like to lay down on one.
Speaker 4: There's a store in uh Silicon Valley, No surprise, I might.
Speaker 4: I might have to go over there sometime and I'll
Speaker 4: wear my suit jacket and try to look like I
Speaker 4: belong there and make an appointment and lay.
Speaker 2: Down on one so I can repull back.
Speaker 4: Isn't it amazing though, that anybody would ever pulled the
Speaker 4: trigger on a four eighty four thousand dollars mattress and
Speaker 4: box spring like a lot of things. I think it exists,
Speaker 4: so you can mention that you have it, But I
Speaker 4: can't believe they sell enough of them to be able
Speaker 4: to even be a company.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't think you'd sell to a year. Well, it's
Speaker 2: at the store.
Speaker 1: There are thousands of billionaires and more every day. I
Speaker 1: don't know that that's supposed to last billionaire.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe they get you. They sleep very
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 4: I would think if I walk into the I would
Speaker 4: think if i'd have walked into that store in Park Avenue,
Speaker 4: I had been the first customer six months.
Speaker 2: You So, I don't know anyway, you here on purpose, sir?
Speaker 1: Oh my lord, oh my god, oh my god.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay, it'll be okay, all right, here we go, right. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, it's funny.
Speaker 1: I was just reading that according to several organizations, companies,
Speaker 1: people that would know, American consumers are going way towards
Speaker 1: thrifty now. A lot of luxury buying is down, generics
Speaker 1: are up, bulk buying is on the rise. Even your
Speaker 1: fancier burritos are going unordered in your eateries.
Speaker 2: Your fancier burritos.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, trust me when I tell you, Like Chipotle,
Speaker 1: they keep very, very careful track of what is being
Speaker 1: ordered and what's not, and they're seeing a trend.
Speaker 2: Toward lower dollar orders. Wow.
Speaker 4: So matched out credit cards, student loan payments coming back.
Speaker 4: Probably a certain amount of uneasiness about the future. That'd
Speaker 4: be I'm terroristed with the center. I would never buy
Speaker 4: that bed anyway, but I would never be able to
Speaker 4: sleep because I'd be thinking, God, if the economy early crashes,
Speaker 4: I'm going to feel like an idiot on this eighty
Speaker 4: three thousand dollars bed.
Speaker 7: She Many, Armstrong, and Getty. A high stake showdown in
Speaker 7: Texas as House Democrats flee the state to delay a
Speaker 7: controversial Republican led push to redraw the congressional map in
Speaker 7: cities like Austin, Houston, and Dallas. The proposed map could
Speaker 7: flip five seats from likely wins by Democrats to Republicans.
Speaker 7: The move could help them keep their razor thin House
Speaker 7: majority by carving up cities like deep blue Austin into
Speaker 7: multiple red districts, leaving just one Democratic stronghold in the center.
Speaker 1: So this is controversial, and it's not usually done midway
Speaker 1: between censuses. Usually redistricting is done every ten years when
Speaker 1: the census comes out. But if there is probably no
Speaker 1: other topic in politics that has more hypocritical posturing than redistricting.
Speaker 1: As each side yells at the other that, well, we'll
Speaker 1: show you what they're yelling in a moment or two.
Speaker 1: But the President of Texas, Greg Abbott, has told the Democrats,
Speaker 1: you got to come back to the session or you're
Speaker 1: maybe committing a felony and we're gonna get you. And
Speaker 1: the Democrats reacted by quoting a famous line from Texas history,
Speaker 1: come and get it, meaning us or something.
Speaker 4: Well, and how do they teach us when we're seventh
Speaker 4: graders that jerry mandering is illegal? And then you grow
Speaker 4: up and you realize, like practical everything in the country
Speaker 4: is jerry mandered.
Speaker 1: Right exactly, It's just called redistricting. And the sad and
Speaker 1: pathetic state of jurisprudence on this is actually the interesting part.
Speaker 1: We'll get to that in a second or two. But
Speaker 1: here's some of the heated rhetoric. Seventy two Michael.
Speaker 6: If Donald Trump is allowed to do this, if he
Speaker 6: is allowed to once again cheat and get away with it, Wow,
Speaker 6: there's no stopping this.
Speaker 2: This will spread across the country. This is an American
Speaker 2: and this is undemocratic.
Speaker 8: Republicans are stealing our democracy right before our very eyes.
Speaker 4: So if you ever look at the map of districts,
Speaker 4: you see how and the Republicans and Democrats work together
Speaker 4: oftentimes on these so they can not battle over very
Speaker 4: many seats. It's really ugly. But they'll like, you know,
Speaker 4: the lines go, see, grab this part of a town
Speaker 4: that's all going to be blue voters, and then this
Speaker 4: little part of the country that's going to be all
Speaker 4: red voters. Are separate even though the town like this
Speaker 4: is the way it used to be in the town
Speaker 4: I'm in now, I don't know what the lines are now, but.
Speaker 2: They had carved it out. It should be the whole town.
Speaker 4: We all live in this town, so we should be
Speaker 4: a voting block people in this town.
Speaker 2: But they didn't.
Speaker 4: They grab part of the town where the liberals lived
Speaker 4: and the other part of the town for one district,
Speaker 4: another part of the town for Republicans, and just yeah,
Speaker 4: it's ridiculous, right, yeah, do you being.
Speaker 1: That they want mostly safe districts so they don't have
Speaker 1: to spend any money in them, and then they're a
Speaker 1: handful of up for grabs districts that have great fights
Speaker 1: in them. One more bit of heated rhetoric. This from
Speaker 1: fat immoral child mutilator JB. Pritzker, the governor of Illinois.
Speaker 8: We know that you are making great sacrifices to resist
Speaker 8: the power grab that's being perpetrated by Donald Trump, by
Speaker 8: Governor Abbott, and by Texas Republicans. We will not let
Speaker 8: power go unchecked for, or let your voices and their
Speaker 8: voices go unheard.
Speaker 1: In a hilarious and soon to be forgotten aspect of this,
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom came out and said, essentially, this is thieving democracy,
Speaker 1: this is aut American, this is immoral.
Speaker 2: We need to do it.
Speaker 1: So he's threatening to re re redistrict to California to
Speaker 1: squeeze out the few Republican seats. Actually they're a pretty
Speaker 1: good number, but anyway, so I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. They're all grand standing in Sooner or
Speaker 1: later the Democrats will come back and there'll probably be
Speaker 1: some sort of compromise. But that's not the interesting part. Oh,
Speaker 1: And that's all you're gonna hear all day long is
Speaker 1: they look they're fighting.
Speaker 2: They're fighting. But that'll get it, that'll get worked out eventually.
Speaker 1: What the interesting part to me is that, and this
Speaker 1: is such a failure of our system. The status of
Speaker 1: law about redistricting is one of those parts of the
Speaker 1: law that everybody just kind of says, nothing to see here,
Speaker 1: don't look too closely. So you got your Voting Rights
Speaker 1: Act pasted a number of years ago. Supreme Court is
Speaker 1: going to take on a major, may truly historical case.
Speaker 1: They announced on Friday during the October session they're going
Speaker 1: to rehear a redistricting challenge, and they broadened the case
Speaker 1: even more by asking the parties to address the question
Speaker 1: of whether the state's creation of a second majority minority
Speaker 1: conjectural district violates fourteenth or fifteenth Amendments. I know this
Speaker 1: is a little bit thick, but here it is. The
Speaker 1: Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution says you can't change
Speaker 1: what you do government because of the race of the
Speaker 1: person involved, or the religion or the creed, or who
Speaker 1: they sleep with or whatever. You can't. But Section two
Speaker 1: of the Voting Rights Act says, yeah, actually you can
Speaker 1: if they're.
Speaker 2: Black or brown or white.
Speaker 1: In fact, you can draw these crazy ass districts to
Speaker 1: make sure that there are the right number of what
Speaker 1: they call majority minority districts, meaning, for instance, I don't
Speaker 1: know when Kansas a lot of Hispanic people, they got
Speaker 1: to get a district and I'm about to black folks
Speaker 1: over by Kansas City.
Speaker 2: It ain't gotta have a.
Speaker 1: District over there, and I don't care how crazy quilt
Speaker 1: weird looking it is, you gotta drawma district. Well, obviously
Speaker 1: those two things are not compatible. And the Supreme Court
Speaker 1: back in nineteen eighty six unleashed a ruling that satisfied
Speaker 1: no one, and nobody can figure out that it requires
Speaker 1: states to draw these majority minority districts if the minority
Speaker 1: populations are large, compact, and politically cohesive, but the white
Speaker 1: votes sufficiently as a group could defeat a minorities preferred candidate.
Speaker 1: So it's to be it's got to be a community
Speaker 1: of the racial minority people. It can't be a crazy
Speaker 1: quilt boa constrictor you know, laid across parts of the state.
Speaker 1: And those two things have been completely at odds for
Speaker 1: the longest time now, since nineteen eighty six. Nobody knows
Speaker 1: what the law is. States think, well, we can't be
Speaker 1: run a fellow of the Equal Protection Guarantee. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: can't get in trouble unders two of the voting right tack.
Speaker 2: So what do we do. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Let's kind of just half ass these weird districts.
Speaker 2: So it's long overdue.
Speaker 1: The Scotus is gonna say, all right, here's the deal,
Speaker 1: and it's probably gonna be one or the other.
Speaker 2: Boy, it'd be something if they.
Speaker 4: Had a ruling that would cause us to redraw districts
Speaker 4: all across the country and get it back to well something,
Speaker 4: not what it is. Like we were just explaining, the
Speaker 4: two major parties have worked together to make most of
Speaker 4: the seats safe. Do you know that that's why third
Speaker 4: parties can't ever get anywhere? They've gone out of their
Speaker 4: way to make sure the Republicans and Democrats will have
Speaker 4: a certain giant number that are almost impossible to dislodge
Speaker 4: people from, and then they'll fight over the other fifty
Speaker 4: or whatever number they've decided on that they'll make competitive.
Speaker 4: And if you drew all these lines in a more
Speaker 4: normal way, like this town is represents a group of people.
Speaker 4: All the people living a rural lifestyle outside of it
Speaker 4: are a different group of people like that, which would
Speaker 4: make more sense. We'd have way more competitive races. And well,
Speaker 4: does anybody think the way things are going right now
Speaker 4: is a good thing?
Speaker 2: No? Nobody.
Speaker 1: Congress has its lowest approval ratings ever, and they're like
Speaker 1: lower than everything but paper cuts Rhea.
Speaker 4: And there's such an advantage to play in towards the
Speaker 4: fringe of your own party as opposed to the middle
Speaker 4: of the country, the middle of politics, not the middle
Speaker 4: of the country. But it was just a little while
Speaker 4: back that Clarence Thomas was commenting on this Louisiana case
Speaker 4: and said, look, Court, you've got to figure this out,
Speaker 4: because this is absurd. This is exactly what we're supposed
Speaker 4: to do, and we're not doing it. Figuring out whether
Speaker 4: the Section two or this stupid case run a foul
Speaker 4: of the Constitution's Equal Protection clause.
Speaker 2: So there could be a.
Speaker 1: Giant change coming in the way these maps are drawn
Speaker 1: coming up in Uh, well, the session is in October.
Speaker 2: Then when do they at least those decisions. It's not
Speaker 2: the next June, isn't it usually the big ones?
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Well twenty twenty six is going to
Speaker 1: be a giant ear for redistricting.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 1: I thought that was the interesting part that we've been
Speaker 1: existing in this weird Yeah, everybody knows the Constitution doesn't
Speaker 1: permit this, but the Court hasn't taken it on situation
Speaker 1: that's about to end. I think we're going to get
Speaker 1: into the whole blue jeans commercial thingy again in hour three.
Speaker 1: Some interesting things were said over the weekend about that
Speaker 1: whole controversy. I heard about this the Nazi eugenesis blue
Speaker 1: jeans commercial. Plus speaking of that sort of thing popular
Speaker 1: young women. Does Caitlin Clark have a civil rights case
Speaker 1: against the WNBA?
Speaker 2: Well, I say absolutely, shit.
Speaker 4: Oh that'll be exciting. I just saw this headline. I'll
Speaker 4: have to dig into it. China is standing firm again.
Speaker 4: It's the United States demands that it stopped buying oil
Speaker 4: from Russia and Iran. That is going to be a
Speaker 4: big deal.
Speaker 1: This and they've gone back, and this varies like every
Speaker 1: week after week. It goes back and forth. They've gone
Speaker 1: back to choking off our supply of various rare earth
Speaker 1: minerals and stuff we need.
Speaker 4: But this hole trying to squeeze Russia because they're not
Speaker 4: cooperating with the ceasefire or whatnot. The Indian China is
Speaker 4: going to be interesting to follow and it's going to
Speaker 4: happen over the next couple of weeks. A lot want
Speaker 4: to get to this story later too. Las Vegas Joe
Speaker 4: was manding people pulling back on spending. Las Vegas is
Speaker 4: down quite a bit year to year. Visits to Las
Speaker 4: Vegas were down eleven percent in June versus a year earlier.
Speaker 4: That's quite a bit one year year to year eleven percent.
Speaker 4: And I would certainly put trip to Las Vegas in
Speaker 4: the first things we cut when money gets tight category,
Speaker 4: wouldn't you?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, definitely. I don't like these trends.
Speaker 1: Mackenzie poll recently top concern for US consumers Forty five
Speaker 1: percent said rising prices and inflation about thirty little under
Speaker 1: thirty percent said tariff policies well, twenty three percent said
Speaker 1: ability to make ends meet.
Speaker 4: Well, that first number is quite possibly affected by that
Speaker 4: second one. I mean, so those all could be the
Speaker 4: same number, right, You're confirmed about concerned about inflation and
Speaker 4: tariff could be all the same thing. I think we
Speaker 4: all have a little PTSD around inflation. That's brutal. Inflation
Speaker 4: is brutal, man. You lose a lot of your net
Speaker 4: worth really freaking quick. Oh yeah when that when inflation hits,
Speaker 4: it's physically frightening. Hell yeah, I don't like to think
Speaker 4: about it. I was thinking about it on my walk
Speaker 4: the other day, like, just how much less I make
Speaker 4: than a couple of years ago because of inflation. Unless
Speaker 4: you have a job where it tracks with inflation, you've
Speaker 4: taken a pretty big pay cut over the last several years.
Speaker 2: Everybody has.
Speaker 1: And don't forget, it's a hidden tax. So the government
Speaker 1: class can spend lots of money and accumulate more power
Speaker 1: and wealth themselves. They tax you by devaluing what you own.
Speaker 2: That sucks. Fight the power, man, fight the power.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fiscal responsibility is not just some sort of like
Speaker 1: intellectual stance.
Speaker 4: It's protecting what's yours. So we'll do Lonnie Anderson the
Speaker 4: Reynolds years. That will be our three today.
Speaker 2: We're trying to fit.
Speaker 4: We're trying to break down our Lonnie Anderson tributes into
Speaker 4: different sections so we can on our every portion of
Speaker 4: her life. My brother is the king of Celebrity Dead,
Speaker 4: so I don't know what his tracking is, but he's
Speaker 4: always the first person to ever text me anytime in
Speaker 4: old celebrity dies. I don't know we got like TMZ
Speaker 4: style connections to the undertakers of Hollywood or what he
Speaker 4: hit me with the the world has lost Lonnie Anderson
Speaker 4: text in the middle of the day yesterday and I said, damn.
Speaker 2: It was my response.
Speaker 4: We've got more on the ways to hear.
Speaker 5: President Trump is bringing back the presidential fitness test for
Speaker 5: public schools. Teachers are excited because it means students will
Speaker 5: have much better stamina during sex.
Speaker 4: Oh oh wow, I saw two of those last week
Speaker 4: of the teachers having sex with you. You know, teenage boys.
Speaker 4: They always look the same, Yeah, pretty attractive, kind of blonde, whatever,
Speaker 4: on the verge of losing their girlish beauty and their
Speaker 4: power over males.
Speaker 2: Yet it's nut job.
Speaker 1: There ought to be like a recognized name for that syndrome,
Speaker 1: gray haired Cinderella syndrome or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but Joe and.
Speaker 4: I are of the generation like many of you, who
Speaker 4: went to school during the Presidential Fitness test that John F.
Speaker 4: Kennedy started in the early early sixties and it lasted
Speaker 4: for fifty years.
Speaker 1: I believe it's good for children to attempt something they
Speaker 1: can't possibly do.
Speaker 4: I was just reading that there's no data showing that
Speaker 4: that did any good. First of all, there are only
Speaker 4: four kids in a half a century in all of
Speaker 4: the country.
Speaker 2: That effort did require.
Speaker 4: Pull ups, right, I mean so, and we all felt
Speaker 4: that way about it. I mean, there was a there
Speaker 4: were a number of things that nobody in your school
Speaker 4: could do, or one kid could do, And so what
Speaker 4: were we supposed to do with that information?
Speaker 2: I guess we're all just failures.
Speaker 1: I mean, well, and it wasn't like that kid was
Speaker 1: an eight year old exercise devotee. They were just very
Speaker 1: skinny and strong for reasons of jeans, or they grow
Speaker 1: up on.
Speaker 2: A farm or something.
Speaker 4: Well, there's a certain build that works for pull ups, right, yeah,
Speaker 4: it doesn't even matter if you're very, very fit, It
Speaker 4: doesn't work for other people.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 4: We all recognized fairly quickly, including the gym teacher, that
Speaker 4: what are we doing here?
Speaker 2: I mean, there's one kid in the school.
Speaker 4: That can do this. What are we supposed to say?
Speaker 4: You're all gonna die? Or what is the message? It
Speaker 4: was an unall insterior It a little jimmy. Now. I
Speaker 4: heard somebody mentioning sitting at the bottom of the rope
Speaker 4: that they could never climb.
Speaker 2: Was rope climbing part of the presidential fitness thing? Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: Oh it was. Oh yeah.
Speaker 4: I could scramble to the top and touch the beam
Speaker 4: at the top of the gym like a monkey every time.
Speaker 4: It was easy for me but it was horrifying. I
Speaker 4: mean because you were at the top of a gymnasium
Speaker 4: over a hard floor, like thirty feet in the air.
Speaker 4: It was frightening.
Speaker 1: His hell, well, that was the sort of courage that
Speaker 1: defeated the nazzies, Jack, and that's what we've lost in America.
Speaker 1: You can't climb to the top of the rope. How
Speaker 1: are you going to defeat the modern nazzies.
Speaker 4: I didn't realize. I kind of remember when it went
Speaker 4: away ten fifteen years ago. They did away with it,
Speaker 4: and we mocked it back then, And so it's coming back,
Speaker 4: I hope, in a form that has some doable goals
Speaker 4: where you could as like a seventh grader or think, oh,
Speaker 4: I almost did it. You know, if I exercised a
Speaker 4: little bit next year, I could do it, whereas I
Speaker 4: could have worked out the rest of my life and
Speaker 4: I was never going to be able to do ten pullups.
Speaker 2: But the original.
Speaker 4: Intention of it was it was when TV became such
Speaker 4: a fad, and JFK and the administration at the time thought,
Speaker 4: in like nineteen sixty one, kids are watching way too
Speaker 4: much TV, and I get it fat and lazy. Unless
Speaker 4: we don't have the schools get involved in this, and
Speaker 4: that's where.
Speaker 2: It came from. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny looking back because I couldn't climb the
Speaker 1: rope at all, And you know I could do I
Speaker 1: could do a reasonable number of those pullups, but I
Speaker 1: couldn't do enough. Meanwhile, and this is twelve year old me,
Speaker 1: trust me, I take no pride in this. Meanwhile, as
Speaker 1: I'm utterly failing the physical fitness test, I'm running rough
Speaker 1: shot over the other kids in like three different sports.
Speaker 1: And so again, what are we doing here?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 4: Was the question we all had. I I think I
Speaker 4: could still climb the rope. Does anybody have a rope
Speaker 4: in the gym? They could have?
Speaker 8: Me?
Speaker 2: Come, could you open the gym on a weekend? You'd
Speaker 2: have to have a gym, oh, I see, like a
Speaker 2: municipal gym. Sure?
Speaker 4: Does anybody have a gym they could open on the weekend?
Speaker 4: Nobody has a freaking rope.
Speaker 1: We don't have like a one meter diving board in
Speaker 1: our swimming pools because some kid might jump backwards and
Speaker 1: crack their head open.
Speaker 2: Please, we're in a soft country. If you got access
Speaker 2: to an old timy gym, let me know. I'll come out.
Speaker 2: I want to see if I can still climb the
Speaker 2: rope to the top.
Speaker 1: I think I could one minute. Medicine balls are back
Speaker 1: in so old timey. What's old is new?
Speaker 2: Jack?
Speaker 4: Every gym has medicine balls in it now I've noticed that.
Speaker 4: M How I wonder is planking a thing dudes do?
Speaker 2: My gym? Only chicks are doing planking. Oh yeah, well
Speaker 2: they ought to be.
Speaker 4: So I'm over in the planking area and it's just
Speaker 4: it's just women talking about the new season of the Bachelorette,
Speaker 4: and uh over in the dudes are on the other
Speaker 4: side throwing weight around. I just wanted to mind, have
Speaker 4: I been tricked into doing the chick exercise?
Speaker 1: But wow, I'm just gonna let that that hang there
Speaker 1: in the air like somebody broke wind a check exercise.
Speaker 2: No check exercises.
Speaker 4: It's never been easier in human history to feed yourself
Speaker 4: than now, which is interesting given some hunger PSAs I
Speaker 4: keep hearing the blue gene ad with the sexy chick,
Speaker 4: Trump commented on it, so did JD.
Speaker 2: Vance Armstrong and Getty