WEBVTT - What Are We Even Doing Here? 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:09.920 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:17.599 Armstrong and Getty, I know he Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:25.599 One are the top BLS staffers is actually working in 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:27.880 the White House to help us understand the jobs numbers. 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:31.000 When I saw the jobs revisions, I literally called up 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:33.160 that person and said, I think there's a typo because 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:35.120 I've been following these numbers all the way back when 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:38.240 I worked with Alan Greenspan for something like forty years 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:39.640 that I've never seen revisions like this. 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:45.280 Okay, So that's Kevin Hassett whatever he is in the 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:49.600 Trump administration talking about the economy. This was for your 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:54.840 Trump hating news shows, the number one story all weekend long. 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:58.200 That so, the jobs numbers came out on Friday, we 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:03.360 talked about them. Trump fired the person in charge of 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:07.720 those numbers coming out, though, as I learned over the weekend, 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:10.400 they have very little to do with computing the numbers. 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:13.280 There's a giant staff of people that do that and 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:16.880 plugged him to formulas. And then this woman found out 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:19.080 about him like two days before they came out, and 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:20.319 then she just signs off on them. 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:25.800 But there's really no discretion there no. So so as usual, 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:29.520 Trump does what Trump does. 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:32.800 So he came out and claimed that she is a 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:37.120 hack and political and fudged the numbers to try to 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:38.880 make him look bad, and that she's been doing that 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:42.160 quote today's job numbers were rigged in order to make 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:45.360 the Republicans and me look bad. And he said that 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:47.680 sort of thing in various forms all weekend long. And 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:49.320 then so there were all kinds of headlines in the 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:52.520 New York Times, Washington Post, those sorts of places, NBC 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:54.840 News and that sort of thing. There's Larry Summer, Summer's 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:56.559 up on the TV on ABC this week. I watched 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:59.120 him yesterday and Larry Summers actually said this is the 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:02.080 sort of thing Richard Nixon didn't even dream of doing, 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:05.840 which I was a little over the top on his end. 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:09.760 New York Times headline was Trump fired America's economic data collector. 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:13.239 History shows the perils and they go immediately into this 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:14.480 is what Hitler did. 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:19.120 This sort of thing Bureau of Labor Statistics. Yeah, he 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:21.760 went in there and cleaned house. As you know, Hitler, will. 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:25.640 I wish Trump wasn't claiming that this woman was you know, 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:27.640 fudging the stats just to hurt. 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:29.079 Him in Republicans and everything like that. 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:33.079 But the real story, at least as explained by this 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:35.920 Kevin Hassett person, I thought was kind of interesting, and 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:37.760 the only place I heard it was on Meet the 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.360 Press when Christian Walker asked him the question. 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:43.679 So here is a somewhat. 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:45.040 Lengthy but I think it might be helpful if you 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:47.080 end up with in an argument with a friend about 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:51.320 this explanation for what's going on here? What evidence does 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:55.240 the administration have that she manipulated the jobs numbers? 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:55.519 Right? 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:58.480 Well, what we've seen over the last few years is 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:00.960 massive revision to the jobs numbers. 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:02.200 In fact, they were. 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:05.000 Extremely reliable, the kind of numbers that you want to 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:09.160 guide policy decisions and markets through COVID. And then when 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:12.400 COVID happened, because response rates went down a lot, then 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:17.120 revision rates skyrocketed, so that the typical monthly revision often 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:20.000 was bigger than the number itself. And now we had 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:21.120 a number that. 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:21.639 Just came out. 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:24.200 The actual number for the month wasn't so bad, but 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:28.440 the two months before were revised down by more than 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:33.200 it ever happened since nineteen sixty eight, and in twenty fifteen, 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:35.840 Alan Greenspan and I were asked to attend a conference 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.280 at BLS where we were asked to give advice about 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:41.800 how to modernize the data. And we warned that if 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:45.280 they didn't try to let the data collection and calculation 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:48.360 keep up with the data that was happening in the economy, 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:50.080 that we would have problems like this. 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:52.880 For instance, a revised downward July from one hundred and 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:56.320 forty four thousand jobs to nineteen thousand jobs. The biggest revision, 0:03:56.360 --> 0:04:00.600 as he pointed out, there since nineteen sixty eight COVID, 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:04.880 and since COVID businesses reporting their job numbers has changed, 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.560 they've stopped participating. So the numbers are all over the 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:09.360 place and not a whack. And he's just making the 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.000 argument that that the old formula and win of doing 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:14.320 things doesn't work. And he and Alan Greenspan went to 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:15.840 a conference as you just heard, and talked about it 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:17.960 and blah blah blah, And as he said in that 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:20.839 other clip, we're working with somebody right now from the 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:23.080 Bureau of Labor Statistics to try. 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:24.360 To figure out what the numbers actually are. 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:27.040 Because I got these on Friday and called them up 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.320 and said, is this a typo. This can't be right, 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:34.960 and so it's all out of whack. That explanation makes 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:37.560 way more sense than the way Trump portrayed it. And 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:39.320 then if you you know, I don't know if you 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:41.080 need to fire her, but if you said, we're gonna 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:42.840 we're gonna get a fresh set of eyes on this. 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:45.920 We need to they need to redo the whole system. 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:48.080 So I've got somebody in there that's going to take 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:50.040 a look at it. I think that would have landed 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:54.080 a lot better than claiming it's a rigged system to 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:55.160 try to hurt Republicans. 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:59.479 Right right, I would agree this is the twenty percent 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:02.839 of Trump's that even most big Trump fans wish he 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:05.880 would rein in a little bit. Yeah, because Hassett makes 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:08.960 an excellent point, and this does not smack as trying 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:11.279 desperately to make sense of what Trump said to me 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.840 like some other things do. If that makes sense, that okay, 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:17.919 So these revisions are now I mean, like an enormous 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:19.320 percentage of the total number. 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.040 The original total number is is. 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:26.760 Useless, correct if it goes from one to nineteen, why 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:28.640 make any economic. 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:31.280 Decisions or markets react to be regional number? What are 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:32.359 we even doing? 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:36.840 Here right exactly, and so yeah, you know the fact 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:41.200 that the system was exposed as antiquated and no longer adequate, 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:45.040 Trump reacted in a childish knee jerk fashion. Not all 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:47.719 that shocking, but yeah, this this rings true to me. 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:51.960 The revision should not be nearly so enormous, or the 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:53.440 system is just completely broken. 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:54.479 We need a new one again. 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:58.039 Whether miss Mackinharfer or whatever his name, her name is 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:01.480 needed to be Macintarfer, whether she actually has got kind 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:05.400 of a velma of the Scooby Do gang look to 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:07.159 her anyway. 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:14.359 Find alluring or I'll just say intriguing anyway row. 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:20.520 Oh so anyway, but yeah, whether she would have been 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:23.640 a good person to be in charge of the turnaround 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:27.080 or not, I don't know. It's entirely it is possible 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:28.719 to do the right thing in the wrong way. 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:31.160 Or it's possible that she'd have said, yeah, it's ridiculous, 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:34.320 I'm all for redoing the way we come up with 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:36.359 these numbers. Put me in charge of it. I'd love to. 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:41.640 But who knows. It's possible this was to bump Epstein off. 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:45.000 I mean, it ended the Epstein thing. Not I heard 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:48.080 near the word once yesterday on the Sunday shows, and 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:51.839 from all reporting, the Trump White House was pretty desperate 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.880 to finally end that damn scandal once and for all. 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:57.200 I don't know if that's what happened here or not. 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:00.320 It seems like I had one more thing to see. Well, 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:01.120 you know, it's funny. 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.720 I'm less likely to believe that just because of Kevin 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:04.719 Hassett's explanation. 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:07.360 Yeah, because it makes perfect sense there. 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:09.480 Well, what are we even doing here with these statistics 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:10.720 that they're that wildly wrong? 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:14.600 But Trump's portrayal of it could have been to get 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:18.120 everybody's attention, which it certainly did well. He is parlayed 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:23.120 being under attack to his advantage now his entire on 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:25.960 the political scene, and it's been helped along by the 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:28.560 fact that, well he's been under attack for most of 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.520 the time. Everybody overplays their hand, and I've been complaining 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:34.280 about this for years. If people would stop doing that, 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:37.120 it would be so much better. So I generally like 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:41.880 Larry Summers, who was president of Harvard and Obama's economic guy. 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:46.600 He's a generally pretty reasonable Democrat for a Democrat. I 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:48.360 like him better than most people they put out there. 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:52.360 But so he did a list of Trump of what 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.920 we're headed now into now is authoritarianism. Trump did this, 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:58.280 and he mentioned a couple of other things that were 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:01.160 a little uncomfortable. I'm on with that Trump has done. 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:02.960 And then he said in the way Trump has gone 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:05.560 after the colleges, Okay, why did you say that? 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:07.000 Why did you say. 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:12.200 That Harvard had ranked last in free speech Columbia was 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:14.920 not allowing Asian kids or Jews. I mean, come on, 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:19.400 so everybody overplays their hand and then they lose all credibility. 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:23.679 And how desperate is Larry Summers to have status among 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:24.720 his peers or whatever. 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:26.200 I don't know, it's inside the guys. He he's a 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:26.800 smart guy, but. 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:30.960 He was fired by Harvard for daring to suggest, you know, 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:34.000 some of the imbalance in the stem fields is just 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.760 men tend to be, on average better at this stuff 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.360 and more interested in it. And for that he was 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:43.240 hounded off the campus by the woke left. So you'd 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:45.160 think he would have a little bit of a regard 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:49.400 for the need to reform our disgusting perverse college campuses. 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:52.240 Oh, Campus Madness update coming up next hour, Stay with us. 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:57.160 So hopefully that wraps up another Bureau of Labor Statistics Monday. 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:00.199 Every Monday we check in on that bureau. Well, you 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:03.319 gotta get it out of the way on Monday. 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True. 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:31.280 The Rotten Tomatoes reviews and critics' reviews have been fantastic 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:32.480 on this movie. 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:32.880 Yeah. 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:36.840 Pamela Anderson, the old Baywatch chick, is the lead female 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:39.360 in it, and they are said to be dating. Now, 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:43.439 Oh that's right. Yeah, that's so interesting. How often people 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:45.520 meet on the set and end up together? Is it 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:47.440 just because they're all pretty people? And if you two 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:49.600 put two really attractive people in a room, they're gonna 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:50.199 end up together. 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:53.640 Is that? Well, there's that, I guess. 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.760 But having been a cesspian of some note in my 0:10:56.920 --> 0:11:00.600 younger days, you spend a hell of a lot of 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:05.560 time with people. You are very close physically with them 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:08.880 a lot, and you know, sometimes you're interacting in a 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:13.160 role where you are acting various emotions and they start 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:16.000 to feel a little realish. In fact, that's you know, 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:17.960 one of the hazards of being married to an actor 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:21.320 is you just if you spend weeks on a set 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:24.360 or rehearsing a play pretending to be in love with 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:26.120 somebody who's kind of attractive. 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:27.480 Danger. Danger. 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:30.040 Yeah, I wouldn't dig if my wife or girlfriend had 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:33.199 a job where I'm going to be uh, six months 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:37.560 in a hotel with this really hot young guy pretending 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:38.439 to be in love with him. 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:43.240 Right, and we're going to go through ups and downs 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:47.079 and struggles and laughs and tears and frustration and all 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:48.160 the ups and downs of life. 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:51.319 But we'll do it together. Oh boy. 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:54.720 Yeah, anyway, that's that story. So you said you had 0:11:54.720 --> 0:12:00.240 a gender bending mandis update campus madness? In the campus madness. 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:02.960 That's also a look, believe it or not, we're going 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:06.880 to go from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to congressional redistricting, 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:10.040 which is one of the other big controversies of the day. 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:13.120 But I promise you, promise you, it's not boring. 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:15.040 And this is the first day for all of us 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:20.360 in a world without Lonnie Anderson. More on that later stitches. 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:25.160 We will Soldier. 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:32.560 Liz Warren fell down on the Senate floor yesterday and 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:35.040 to everyone's surprise, didn't even yell Geronimo. 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:42.280 Our new Indian name is fall on Ass. 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:53.680 That's pretty funny. How y'all doing? So we got some 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:57.680 good Newsy stuff for you. We talked about this expensive 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.280 bed on the One More Thing podcast to watch back, 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:02.800 this really expensive mattress, which oh I remember that. Yeah, 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:04.200 I'll hit you at the price here in a moment, 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:07.840 because if you haven't heard about this, it's shocking. We 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:11.400 actually walked by one of these stores. It's Houstin's. I 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:13.200 don't know how you pronounce it, h A S T 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:18.360 e ns. It's Scandinavian so Hi Houston. I don't know 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:21.920 how they pronounce it. But they don't have many stores. 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:24.480 The beds are ridiculously expensive. And we walked by one 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:26.800 of the stores on Park Avenue in New York. We 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:29.280 were leaving Central Park and as we were walking along 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:32.280 all these ridiculously expensive stores and oh my god, it's 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:34.079 one of those bed stores. But you had to have 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:36.199 an appointment, and then we were not dressed for people 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:37.880 to go in and look at these kind of mattresses, 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:39.920 but I would love to have laid down one. 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:41.680 I don't even know if they know let us try, 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:44.880 poor people, we can't allow you in here. So I 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:47.920 don't remember how I came across this over the weekend, 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:50.640 and it it. 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:52.600 Reignited my interest in this sort of thing that it exists. 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:54.840 But so I went on eBay and there's one available 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:59.480 on eBay that's used, so they only want forty eight 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:02.600 thousand dollars for it. This used mattress comes with the 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:05.520 box spring, so it's mattress and box spring for forty. 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:05.960 Eight thousand dollars. 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:06.079 No. 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:10.280 Yeah, And the owner of it, since I put it 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:13.440 on my watch, sent me an offer yesterday, took four 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:17.240 thousand dollars off. They're only asking forty thousand dollars now 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:23.000 for this mattress and box spring. This mattress is made 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:28.640 of horsehair and some particular rare kind of horse and cotton. 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:32.640 It's all natural materials, it is said by reviewers. I 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:34.920 remember when I talked about this on our podcast, the 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:36.720 person who reviewed it, I think for the New York 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:40.560 Times said it's ridiculously overpriced and nobody is ever going 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:42.960 to buy one. Of these, But it is unlike sleeping 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:44.200 on anything you've ever slept on. 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:46.560 It's as if you're suspended. You're just floating. 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:48.880 You can't even tell her anything, there's any pressure on 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:49.640 any of your body. 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.280 You're just kind of floating there. And it's amazing. 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:57.280 But the original price on this particular mattress in box 0:14:57.320 --> 0:14:59.480 Springs that I'm I'm you know, I'm trying. I'm deciding 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:01.240 whether or not to pull the trigger at forty grand 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:07.280 was eighty four thousand dollars eighty three Please, eighty four 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:10.240 thousand dollars for a mattress in box Spring. 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:16.360 Look, if you fly private all the time, go ahead 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:18.480 and buy the Horrors hair mattress. 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:20.960 We prefer sex workers hair. By the way, Jack these 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:22.560 horse the beast of burden. 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:27.280 Oh, I apologize, I'd misunderstood. But if that's your lifestyle, 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:29.720 go ahead. If not, that's insane. Don't you remember that 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:32.240 email we got from a gal She said, yeah, we 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.200 bought one of these things, and you've got to like 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:37.320 have the Horrors hair massaged every. 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:40.480 Two weeks or that's the most uncomfortable thing ever. No, 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:41.800 that's part of the upkeep. 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:44.080 Yes, you have to have it's what is it called 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:46.800 a rejuvenation or something like that. Somebody needs to come 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:49.880 into your home at least once a year and re 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:53.720 massage it to make it. But it's just reinterview from 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:55.880 somebody who's got one on Reddit. They said, if you 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:58.360 have the person come and rejuvenate it all the time, 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:00.600 they've had it for four years, feel exactly like it 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:03.239 did on day one. If you don't get it rejuvenated, 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:06.440 you have a very expensive sack of garbage, they said. 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.880 But wow, I would like to lay down on one. 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:15.800 There's a store in uh Silicon Valley, No surprise, I might. 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:17.480 I might have to go over there sometime and I'll 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:19.160 wear my suit jacket and try to look like I 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:21.720 belong there and make an appointment and lay. 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:22.680 Down on one so I can repull back. 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.880 Isn't it amazing though, that anybody would ever pulled the 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:28.280 trigger on a four eighty four thousand dollars mattress and 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:31.840 box spring like a lot of things. I think it exists, 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:34.240 so you can mention that you have it, But I 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:37.960 can't believe they sell enough of them to be able 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:39.640 to even be a company. 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:43.400 You wouldn't think you'd sell to a year. Well, it's 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:44.040 at the store. 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:50.400 There are thousands of billionaires and more every day. I 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:52.480 don't know that that's supposed to last billionaire. 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:54.640 I don't know. Maybe they get you. They sleep very 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:54.960 you know. 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:56.960 I would think if I walk into the I would 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:58.960 think if i'd have walked into that store in Park Avenue, 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.120 I had been the first customer six months. 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:05.520 You So, I don't know anyway, you here on purpose, sir? 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:09.040 Oh my lord, oh my god, oh my god. 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:15.320 Okay, okay, okay, it'll be okay, all right, here we go, right. Yeah, 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:16.119 you know, it's funny. 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:22.520 I was just reading that according to several organizations, companies, 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:27.439 people that would know, American consumers are going way towards 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:31.440 thrifty now. A lot of luxury buying is down, generics 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:34.400 are up, bulk buying is on the rise. Even your 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:39.479 fancier burritos are going unordered in your eateries. 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:40.920 Your fancier burritos. 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:44.400 Yeah, well, trust me when I tell you, Like Chipotle, 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:47.640 they keep very, very careful track of what is being 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:50.639 ordered and what's not, and they're seeing a trend. 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:52.399 Toward lower dollar orders. Wow. 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:56.920 So matched out credit cards, student loan payments coming back. 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:01.440 Probably a certain amount of uneasiness about the future. That'd 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:03.480 be I'm terroristed with the center. I would never buy 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:05.919 that bed anyway, but I would never be able to 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:08.960 sleep because I'd be thinking, God, if the economy early crashes, 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:10.800 I'm going to feel like an idiot on this eighty 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:12.720 three thousand dollars bed. 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:20.800 She Many, Armstrong, and Getty. A high stake showdown in 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:24.119 Texas as House Democrats flee the state to delay a 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:28.119 controversial Republican led push to redraw the congressional map in 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:32.040 cities like Austin, Houston, and Dallas. The proposed map could 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:36.159 flip five seats from likely wins by Democrats to Republicans. 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:38.639 The move could help them keep their razor thin House 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:42.240 majority by carving up cities like deep blue Austin into 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:46.840 multiple red districts, leaving just one Democratic stronghold in the center. 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:52.800 So this is controversial, and it's not usually done midway 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:57.400 between censuses. Usually redistricting is done every ten years when 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:01.320 the census comes out. But if there is probably no 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:08.400 other topic in politics that has more hypocritical posturing than redistricting. 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:11.960 As each side yells at the other that, well, we'll 0:19:12.040 --> 0:19:14.360 show you what they're yelling in a moment or two. 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:17.600 But the President of Texas, Greg Abbott, has told the Democrats, 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:19.639 you got to come back to the session or you're 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:23.640 maybe committing a felony and we're gonna get you. And 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:28.560 the Democrats reacted by quoting a famous line from Texas history, 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:32.640 come and get it, meaning us or something. 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:37.000 Well, and how do they teach us when we're seventh 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:40.360 graders that jerry mandering is illegal? And then you grow 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:42.919 up and you realize, like practical everything in the country 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:44.080 is jerry mandered. 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:47.800 Right exactly, It's just called redistricting. And the sad and 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:52.680 pathetic state of jurisprudence on this is actually the interesting part. 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:54.040 We'll get to that in a second or two. But 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:56.320 here's some of the heated rhetoric. Seventy two Michael. 0:19:56.520 --> 0:19:59.720 If Donald Trump is allowed to do this, if he 0:19:59.840 --> 0:20:04.280 is allowed to once again cheat and get away with it, Wow, 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:06.840 there's no stopping this. 0:20:06.840 --> 0:20:09.800 This will spread across the country. This is an American 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:12.080 and this is undemocratic. 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:18.000 Republicans are stealing our democracy right before our very eyes. 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:20.280 So if you ever look at the map of districts, 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:23.280 you see how and the Republicans and Democrats work together 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:28.160 oftentimes on these so they can not battle over very 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:34.399 many seats. It's really ugly. But they'll like, you know, 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:37.159 the lines go, see, grab this part of a town 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:40.119