WEBVTT - Go Getters for Sit Downers 0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:06.360 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:11.560 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, Armstrong and Gettie 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:17.480 and he Armstrong and Jetty. 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:27.120 So, last week in Los Angeles, a federal judge issued 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:31.360 an order blocking the Trump administration from carrying out controversial 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:35.560 immigration sweeps in seven southern California counties. Well, that order 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:39.159 has no effect up here in Northern California, where we 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:42.360 joined a Border Patrol strike team today here in the 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:45.440 state Capitol as they went out and enforced immigration law. 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:46.960 Let's get right to that video. Take a look. 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:49.360 As soon as those border patrol agents pulled up to 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:52.840 a local home depot, suspected illegal immigrants took off running 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:56.280 in all directions. That then led to several foot pursuits 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:59.360 and we saw about ten people arrested in this one 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:00.560 single location. 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:04.720 Now that's the home depot and Flora. The only reason 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:06.640 I ever go over to Flora is because I go 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:09.479 to PCP Motorsports a lot to get my motorcycles worked 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:10.840 on and that sort of thing. But I'm over in 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:13.960 that area and it is pretty uh Spanish speaking, heavily 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:20.120 heavy over there, so it's not shocking and home depots 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:22.640 have seemed to be a target really all across the 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:25.759 country for so I've never actually done this, and I'm 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:28.800 kind of surprised I haven't, because we've needed lots of 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:30.640 workers out at the farm for a variety of things. 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:32.360 But so you can just show up to the home 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:35.640 depot and there's a bunch of Spanish speaking gentlemen hanging 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:37.680 around the parking lot who are willing to work. 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:41.760 Who you say, I need two guys for eight hours ex. 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:43.800 Twenty dollars an hour whatever. 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:47.880 And they probably aren't citizens of this land, uh, nor 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:50.120 properly registered as visitors. 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:54.400 That's what I've heard, Jack, But the governor of cal Unicornia, 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:57.360 the man with more lust for the oval office than 0:01:57.400 --> 0:01:59.560 a teenage boy has for the touch. 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:03.120 Of a female l presuming they're straight. We love everyone here. 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:08.359 Gavy blasts away, trying to escape a court order stopping 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:12.480 their reprehensible and illegal racial profiling and illegal rests in 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:16.360 La Border Patrol came to Sacramento to spread more of 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:19.600 their chaos and fear they should go do their jobs 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:24.120 at the border. Interestingly, he posted that online and the 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:27.360 comments were almost entirely Yeah, that's what we voted for. 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:32.080 For them to do what they're doing. Another eighty twenty issue. 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:36.880 Ah, and of course some of the local media, including 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:39.720 the reprehensible Sacramento will be reported that one of the 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:42.840 individuals captured by ICE is actually a citizen of the 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:43.680 United States. 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:47.040 But Bill Malugin explains why they did that. 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:49.560 In the next clip, Border Patrol went on to tell 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:52.680 us that record checks came back already on one one 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:55.320 of those men, showing he's a felon with a prior 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:59.720 conviction for fentanyl trafficking. Now, agents also chased down this man, 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.720 a US citizen. This is after Border Patrol said he 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:06.120 slashed the tire on one of their vehicles. Agents eventually 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:08.560 took him to the ground where he appeared to lunch 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:10.920 at one of the agents, causing him to get mace 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:14.440 in the face and placed under arrest. As he was arrested, 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:18.320 his wife was shouting that he's a US citizen. Agents responded, well, 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:20.480 too bad, because he slashed our. 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:23.519 Tire, mased in the fast. That's not the way you 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:24.440 want to spend your weekend. 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:28.200 You get to face mace in place under arrest. 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:36.120 What do you want them to do? Well, so we 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.280 got this text. This is kind of where I am 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:40.760 on this. Somebody said, I don't believe the polls. We'll 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:42.200 get into the latest poll that just came out a 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:44.960 couple of hours ago where people are getting less happy 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:48.040 with this. But this person texted, if we let in 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:53.160 twenty million people, there's gonna be some pain getting them out, 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:57.080 the country will be better for it. I think I 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:00.880 heard this from Sarahzger on the Dispatch. She's lizes polls 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:03.360 and issues and the different sort of stuff and then 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:06.200 the actual long term effect versus just the polling at 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:09.320 the time. I think ultimately the Republican Party and Trump 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:14.080 will be benefit from dealing with this, even if the 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:18.520 polling at the time doesn't look very good. For instance, 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:23.560 right now, the latest Raids IPSOS poll out fifty four 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:28.440 percent of people disagreed with the statement immigration arrests at 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:32.039 places of work are good for the country. Fifty four disagreed, 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:35.560 only twenty eight in support. That's a pretty big gap. 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:38.400 But again, at the end of the day, I think 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:41.039 people are going to reward the party that finally does 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:42.280 something about illegal immigration. 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:45.440 I think that's a really interesting point because you do 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:49.280 tend to forget about some of the rough patches that 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:52.359 took place as you're accomplishing an important goal. Once that 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:57.719 goes accomplished, what I had another thought is important. Oh, 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:01.920 I wish the Republicans were any good at messaging. It 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:05.039 must be because Conservatives, generally speak, are individualists and we 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:09.640 don't particularly like being told what to say. But why 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:16.120 not have everybody respond with some version of the Democrats 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:20.200 let twelve million. But whatever the good accurate number is 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:23.800 during the Biden years or Biden plus abom or whatever, 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:28.080 the Democrats let twelve million people into the country. It's 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:31.919 not going to be easy to fix that. Bear with us. 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:34.320 That's a good line, That's a great line. They should 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:35.160 all be repeating that. 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:38.600 You're right, yeah, yeah, And I actually do believe that 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:43.120 poll because I think so many of us interact and 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:47.120 all over the country with folks who maybe don't have 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:50.840 their paperwork in order, but they're doing jobs and seem 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:53.680 to be law abiding in the rest of it. The 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.800 further you get down the road toward law abiding and 0:05:56.839 --> 0:06:00.800 tax paying, the less support you're going to have. But 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:03.159 where the critical point is where you have so little 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:04.119 support you have to stop. 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:06.520 I don't know or how difficult it would be to 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:10.800 separate those out that wouldn't take either way too long 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:11.919 or costs way too much. 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:14.960 One other talking point I wish the Republicans to your 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:19.239 point I wish they would settle on, is if these 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:24.960 so called sanctuary states would turn over the criminal illegal 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:28.039 aliens to ICE, we wouldn't have to do this. 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:31.480 Excellent point. That would be a winning message. Excellent point. 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.200 There is a breakdown on the so only twenty eight 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:37.200 percent of Americans are in support of going into these 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.840 workplaces like the home depot down the street here, only 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:42.839 twenty eight percent. But it's a pretty big divide. Only 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:46.200 seven percent of Democrats while fifty six percent of Republicans. 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:49.160 But I think only fifty six percent of Republicans is 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:52.880 pretty striking, given the fact that I saw a different poll. 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:57.360 Trump's approval among Republicans just overall is it ninety percent, 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:01.680 ninety percent, but on this issue it drops down quite 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:05.560 a lot. Overall, Trump's immigration approval rating is down to 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:07.520 forty one in this poll. He was as eye as 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:10.760 forty seven just a month ago. It's down to forty one. 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:14.000 He could be in the thirties very soon. But you know, 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:18.400 to use a very tired sort of phrase, he's gonna 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:20.000 make an omelet you got to break some eggs. I 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:23.000 don't know how you deal with this mess without having 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:26.040 some pretty unfortunate stories out there. 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:30.600 And maybe force the hand of the electorate and or 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:33.240 the Congress to say, all right, all right, all right, 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:35.680 all right, you've made your point. We need to enforce 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:37.920 the law. But the laws are a little broad. It 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:40.680 doesn't have support. Let's let's refine this, let's have better laws. 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.560 To my point about sanctuary jurisdictions, though, I like this 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:47.600 next clip, now heedy too. 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.320 The Border Patrol chief in charge of this entire operation 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:54.000 tells us the federal government can and will go wherever 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:56.400 they want, even in this sanctuary state. 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:59.880 Well, there is no sanctuary city. Sacramento is not a 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:03.960 sanctuary city. The state of California is not a sanctuary state. 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:05.840 There is no sanctuary anywhere. 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:06.640 We'll be here. 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:09.520 You'll probably see us in many of the locations as well. 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:11.640 We're here to stay. We're not going anywhere. We're going 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:14.760 to affect this mission, scare the homeland. So did the 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:18.080 Supreme Court decide to take that up? Nor did I 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:21.520 dream that were you gonna finally deal with that? Is 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:24.240 there such thing that guy's basically saying there's no such 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:27.000 thing as a sanctuary city or a sanctuary state, and 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:28.080 there is there shouldn't be. 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:31.520 Yeah, I want to say next session, it's on the docket. 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:33.640 Maybe I dreamt it too. That'd be weird if we're 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:38.720 dreaming the same dreams. I'm quitting the show's gone too far. Yeah, exactly, 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:42.920 I'm disturbed, but mostly I don't watch. You see, in 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:45.680 my dreams, some of them can get very well, let's 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:47.240 just say not for air. 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:50.200 It's like briefly when we were getting each other's notes 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:54.719 in our note portion of our iPhones. Remember that, What 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:57.160 the hell was that? Yeah? I don't even remember. 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:04.520 Highly troubling, Yeah, no kidding. Anyway, moving along, let's see 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:08.400 what else do we have. Oh, this is kind of 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:09.280 foun how come. 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:12.760 That hasn't been set out loud more strongly by more people. 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:15.440 There's no such thing as a sanctuary, So you can't 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:18.160 have a sanctuary from the current federal law. That's not 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:21.440 a thing, or you could, or or red states would 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:25.000 start having sanctuary gun law, we allow people to get 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:27.320 open carry here just anywhere they want, all the time, 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:29.800 and you can have as many rounds as you want. 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:31.880 That because we're a sanctuary gun in town. 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:36.040 Right right again. The Republicans are so terrible with their messaging. 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:40.720 It seems to me a pretty compelling sales pitch to say, look, 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:44.560 we're just going to deal with the criminals. We need 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:49.000 law enforcement everywhere to hand over the criminals and see 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:52.000 what percentage of Americans are in favor of that. This 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:54.760 is gonna be like everybody and at the same time, 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:56.920 and trust me, well, anybody who's been listening to this 0:09:56.920 --> 0:10:00.440 show for a long time knows tim as hardcore border 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:05.560 security serious immigration laws as anybody out there. But on 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:10.559 the conservative side of the aisle, there is undeniably sympathy 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:15.840 for the hard working go getter who disrupts their whole life, 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:20.280 busts their ass, shows up every single day, follows the law, 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:24.520 pays their taxes, loves their family, just happens to be 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.199 from a fur in land. If they want to come 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:29.080 correct and pay a fine or whatever and have a 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:32.480 pathway to whatever. There's a lot of sympathy for those 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.960 people on the right, and there should be. Maybe we 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:41.440 can enact a law wherefore every person like that who 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.880 we permit to stay in the country, we kick out 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:48.240 some free loading scumbags who are American citizens. 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:51.480 I don't care what they are. You're born in Omaha, 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.720 but you're living off the taxpayer. Yeah, get out. 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:58.520 Yeah, you're's the third generation sucking off the government's teeth. 0:10:58.600 --> 0:10:59.960 Please, no, you're out. 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:00.720 Go to that. 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:03.760 I'm a citizen. Well, go be a citizen somewhere else. 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.240 You're a leech. Go to that El Salvador prison where 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.360 they make you bend over and walk around. Well no, 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:12.920 wait a minute, there are other alternatives, but call it. 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:13.840 Call it what would it be? 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:17.760 The the go getters for sit downers act. 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:19.640 No, that's not good. I gotta keep working on it. 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:22.400 But you get the point. I have a list of 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:25.320 some people you can grab. I gotta hear you. I 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:29.080 hear you. Put me in charge. I'll be fair. You 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:33.000 probably are on the story of the Chris Martin of 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:35.560 Coldplay does the kiss cam and the guy kisses the 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:37.960 girl but they're having an affair and they get caught 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.240 and it becomes a problem. He is a CEO of 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:42.559 a big company, and he put out a big statement 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:46.200 yesterday that I thought was interesting. Well, you know, put 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:49.240 that in our groupings of apologies that we we like 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:49.680 to read. 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:55.240 Yeah, interesting, is one word for his statement, among other things, 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:56.160 on the way stay. 0:11:55.920 --> 0:12:05.360 Here, the Steve Miller Band has canceled all of its 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:10.080 tour dates because of global warming. Oh god, yeah, organizers 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:13.199 admit it's a waste of fuel to go from Phoenix, Arizona, 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:21.880 all the way to Tacoma, Philadelphia, Atlanta, LA. 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:27.360 Why are you clapping for that? What he is? The 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:33.440 A plus policeman, different concert. I can't believe cold Play 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:37.600 with Chris Martin because he's a very u progressive musician. 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:40.160 You know, he's married to Gwyneth Paltrow. They named their 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:43.520 kid Apple. They believed in what was that conscious uncoupling 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.680 or whatever the whole package. That's right, But he's still 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.679 touring despite climate change. And I can't believe how much 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:53.000 attention the story is getting. The whole you've probably heard it, 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:55.560 are you're seeing it? If you watched any news yesterday. 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:58.720 It included the story of the they do a kiss 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:01.120 cam at their concerts like they do it baseball games, 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:05.120 I guess, and uh, they put they put the camera 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:07.920 on a couple who like immediately gets wide eyed and 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:10.199 like disappear, and Chris Marcus. 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:12.959 Usually couples see themselves and say, oh, let's kiss. It's 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:16.520 the kiss cam and everybody yy. But this couple's like, 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:21.560 holy crap, and everybody's yay. So here's what it sounded like. 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:30.559 Yeah, oh, all right, come on, Ruthie. What either an 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:35.679 affair or they're just very shut Yeah, you're right. They're 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.160 either having an affair. They're very shy. The CEO of 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:41.760 this corporation with the HR chief of his company. They're 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:46.720 both married to other people, and uh, pretty bold in 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:48.400 their affair. I would say to go out to this 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:51.600 concert anyway. He felt the need because this blew up 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:55.160 all day yesterday and social media. A statement from CEO 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:59.800 Andy Byron, New York, New York, July seventeen. I want 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:02.560 to acknowledge the moment that's been circulating online and the 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:05.240 disappointment it's caused what was supposed to be a night 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:08.080 of music and joy. Oh wow, I couldn't even when 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:09.360 I read that, I thought, I can't believe this is 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:11.559 where you're starting. What was supposed to be a night 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.240 of music and joy turned into a deeply personal mistake 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:16.200 playing out on a very public stage. I want to 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:19.120 sincerely apologize to my wife, my family, and the team 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:22.080 at Astronomery that's the company he runs. You deserve better 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:24.440 for me as a partner, as a father, and as 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:30.520 a leader. Wow, that's he's right. It has caused some disappointment. 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:31.640 I love that word. 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:34.360 His wife must be thinking, oh, he's having an affair 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:36.520 and actually going out with her on the town. 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:37.520 That's disappointing. 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.640 And his children are thinking, oh, Papa has another wife 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:41.360 across town. 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:43.880 I too, am disappointed or our family is going to 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:45.520 split up and having been through that, this will be 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:48.000 the most devastating thing that's ever happened in my entire 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:50.720 life as a child, and I'll never ever be the 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:54.480 same afterwards. But how disappointing, how fun for everybody to 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:57.360 see it happen on the Cold Play stage. This is 0:14:57.400 --> 0:14:59.360 ironic that it was supposed to be a night of 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:04.120 music and joy. That's a weird way to look at it. 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:05.880 This is not who I want to be or how 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:08.360 I want to represent the company I helped build. It's 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:12.840 about the company. I'm taking time to reflect, to take accountability, 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:15.480 and to figure out the next steps personally and professionally. 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.360 I asked for privacy as I navigate that process. Well, 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:20.640 he probably was thinking lawyers and hr and all that 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:22.680 sort of stuff immediately, in addition to the fact that 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:24.440 he may have blown up his family. 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:30.200 Having already issued a fairly mediocre apology, he decides to 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:31.280 write a little more. 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:34.640 This is the part's amazing. I also want to express 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.680 how troubling it is that what should have been a 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:42.960 private moment became public without my consent. Oohoo, So you're 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:46.560 kind of angry at someone else for the way this 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:50.040 has turned out interesting. I respect artists and entertainers, but 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:52.080 I hope we can all think more deeply about the 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:56.440 impact of turning someone else's life into a spectacle. You 0:15:56.520 --> 0:16:01.680 were literally in an effing stadium full of people. In 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:08.080 what sense is that a private moment? That is hilarious? Sir, 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:11.960 I can't believe that with a little bit like rereading it, 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:14.200 he thought, he didn't think. You know, I probably shouldn't 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:17.520 blame anybody for this, because I have created this situation 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:21.560 completely on my own, acting like it's someone else's fault 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:23.800 somehow at the end of the letters, probably not a 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:25.480 good idea, but I don't know. Maybe that helped him 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:28.760 sleep last night, probably in a hotel. It's a great 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:33.960 example of how we can come up with self justifying 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:38.720 arguments that are just completely ridiculous, because I mean, for 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:42.840 him to claim that was a private moment, that's hilarious, 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:45.760 but he believed it enough to write it and issue it, 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:48.520 or that that's the real or that that's worth even 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:53.360 bringing up at all. So if Chris Martin hadn't put 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:55.600 the camera on you, you'd been able to have your 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.400 affair and go to the concert with your lover and 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:01.640 continue both of you lie to your families. And wouldn't 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:06.760 that have been grand? I mean, what, wow, what a dope. 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:11.280 Anyway, coming up, they call them the monster trucks of 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:15.560 the Lake. They're banned in many places, and a brilliant 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:19.639 young economist explains the economics of doing it yourself or 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:20.880 not doing it yourself. 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:26.280 Intriguing stuff. I like all this. Stay tuned, Armstrong and Getty, 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:30.760 And finally, today Uber announced a partnership to deploy more 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:34.200 than twenty thousand robotaxis over the next six years. 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:38.040 Lyft also has a robotaxi, but it's just a regular 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:39.760 car where the driver's covered by a blanket. 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:45.520 That's interesting that he makes it seem Likelyft is a 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:49.520 poor man's Uber where I was told a couple of 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:51.600 years ago and I struggled with Uber that somebody told 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:53.720 me no, no, no, you got to dot Lift is Target, 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:55.960 Uber is Walmart. But then other people have told me 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:58.840 it varies from town to town, which might be true 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:01.960 or maybe it's all, but it's certainly not clear that 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:07.639 Lift is like clearly lesser than Uber. I have looked 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:10.680 for patterns and not to find them. No, I can't either, 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:13.679 although the price office sure varies a lot sometimes so 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:17.520 I do check both. If one comes back high, yeah, 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:20.040 absolutely true. But that's another pattern I haven't been able 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:22.879 to figure out. If it's just if it just happens 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:23.960 to be a day where there's a bunch of. 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:26.560 Lift drivers out. Yeah, but a lot of guys are 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:29.959 both anyway. Sure there's somebody who has a grasp on this. 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:31.879 Perhaps you can email us mail bag at armstrong e 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:34.560 Giddy dot com. But speaking of working and paying the 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:37.520 people to do things to work for you, I came 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:40.800 across this essay that I thought was so great by 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:45.800 Roland Friar. Roland is a fascinating guy. He's an absolutely 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:52.040 brilliant Youngish economist. He happens to be on the faculty 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:54.480 of Harvard. Among other things, he's won many awards. He 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:58.159 first came to fame as a young black man because 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:02.000 he published an extremely compelling analysis in twenty nineteen that 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:05.199 we talked about at length arguing that black and Hispanic 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:07.840 Americans were no more likely than white Americans to be 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:10.359 shot by police in a given interaction with police. 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:11.960 In fact, it was somewhat less likely. 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:15.800 And that was extremely controversial, and he was called all 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:19.320 of the things black folks are called when they dare go. 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:21.320 Against the progressive consensus. 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:23.919 But he's a really compelling guy and what he's writing 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:25.440 it do you have a comment on that, Jack before 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:29.719 before you head or Okay, he's talking about the economics 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:33.720 of d IY do it yourself? Should you hire someone 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:37.399 to mow your lawn or clean your house? And I 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:40.840 thought this is great and we'll close the CENTERIC. Oh yeah, 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:43.720 I know, and it's trust me, it pays off. We'll 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:46.800 post this at Armstrong and getty dot com. You might 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:52.680 get paywalled, but we'll see what we can do. He 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:56.199 mentions that Americans are real di wires. We clean our 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:59.720 own houses a large extent, assemble our own furniture a grill, 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:02.680 even when we'd be better off hiring someone else. 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:05.399 He says they are better off is a phrase that 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:08.240 should be put in quotes, because he can argue that 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:09.359 that's the whole point of this. 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:12.920 Indeed, still I mow my lawn and cook most nights 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:14.880 for my family, even though I work eighty to ninety 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:17.159 hours a week, not counting my side hustle as an 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:20.520 unpaid driver in sideline soccer coach for my two daughters. 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:25.240 I'm an economist able to think through these decision decisions rationally. 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:26.280 Yet here we are. 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:28.320 When a friend invited me to play golf and I 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:32.200 declined because the yard needed mowing, he couldn't hide his disbelief. Quote, 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:34.840 you can pay someone to cut your lawn, you can't 0:20:34.840 --> 0:20:38.359 pay someone to have fun for you. He meant it 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:40.560 as a joke. I took it as an indictment. He 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:42.520 was calling me out on one of the most basic 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:47.440 principles in economics, opportunity cost, meaning the things you give 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:51.520 up when you spend your resources, including time and money, 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:55.360 on something else. If I choose to be an astronaut, 0:20:55.359 --> 0:20:59.159 I have given up my chance to be an interpretive dancer, 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:00.240 at least. 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:02.479 For a while. I think that was a good choice. 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:09.240 If I if I have limited money, explored space as 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:12.680 opposed to world around in random ways and claimed it 0:21:12.680 --> 0:21:19.480 meant something so opportunity costs meaning the things you give 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:22.640 up when you spend your resources, including time and money, 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:23.240 on something else. 0:21:23.320 --> 0:21:23.760 Was he right? 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:27.960 Maybe, But a truly economics informed approach to dy is 0:21:28.040 --> 0:21:31.760 more nuanced than it seems. It gets really interesting. It's 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:35.440 tempting to treat decisions like this as simple arithmetic. Add 0:21:35.520 --> 0:21:38.280 up the cost of hiring help, compare it with your 0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:42.399 hourly wage, voila. In that light, it does seem crazy 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:45.000 for a tenured professor to mow his lawn. Yes, I 0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:47.120 talked about this a year or so ago. 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:51.240 Scott Linskim, who does the financial stuff economic stuff for 0:21:51.280 --> 0:21:55.840 the Dispatch, wrote a Colosscott long piece about that opportunity 0:21:55.880 --> 0:22:02.200 cost that really kind of convinced me toward hiring more people. 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:04.040 Though I don't know that I have which I have 0:22:04.080 --> 0:22:06.000