WEBVTT - You Can't Erase Reality 0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:06.400 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:11.000 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty arm Strong 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:17.479 and Katty and no He Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:31.720 Smash and grab video captured a brazen robbery in San Jose, California, 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:35.280 on Friday. After crashing through the front of a jewelry storm, 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:38.080 more than a dozen thieves ran in and cleaned out 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:41.159 the place. Eighty eight year old owner was slammed to 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:43.120 the floor before the robber's gone away. 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:46.520 Yeah, if you haven't seen that video, it's something. They 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:48.839 just drove their vehicle into the window and then the 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:49.760 eighty eight. 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:50.120 Year old owner. 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:52.440 I didn't realize he's that old, almost ninety years old, 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:57.200 and he tried to rather than rather than shrink and 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:00.680 fear like that dude did with his son and the baseball. 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.840 He actually was gonna fight a group of young strong 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:05.440 men as an eighty eight year old. 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:07.280 He got knocked down as you would expect. 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:10.800 Probably not a great idea, but yeah, they brutalized him 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:16.080 and stole and you too can have this vote. Gavin Newsom, 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:17.560 twenty twenty eight, America. 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:20.679 So Apple's having its big meeting where it releases its 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:22.480 new products today. I got a little preview of that, 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:23.920 and I'll have to tell you a story about my 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:27.760 own iPhone that would have changed all of our lives. 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:31.000 All of our lives, well, not everybody listening, but everybody 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:34.680 on this show. Joe's life, my life, everybody's life would 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.400 have been changed if what nearly happened. 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:40.720 Had happened yesterday. Wow, stay tuned for that. What I know. 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:43.880 You should scold me for this after I tell you 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:48.280 the story. Okay, I don't like to think about it. It 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:53.640 gives me the sweats. Pull up my scolden pants. France's 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:58.960 government collapsed in a spectacular fashion yesterday after mccrone's hand 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:04.800 picked leader tried to reign in public debt. Macron understands 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:09.400 that they're on a course of disaster, and he has 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:14.280 been choosing people to be in his government that agree 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.960 with him. And uh, not enough voters agree. I guess, 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:20.360 so France's government. I'm reading for the New York Post 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:23.239 some of it and from other publications. France's government was 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:26.639 toppled in a vote of no confidence yesterday, forcing Emmanuel 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:29.840 Macrone to search for his fourth prime minister in the 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:35.360 last year and throwing EU's second largest economy into chaos. 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:39.760 The premiere was ousted overwhelmingly huge vote three sixty four 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:42.640 to one to ninety four, not even close against him, 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:46.519 losing an apparent gamble the lawmakers would back his push 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:50.200 for France to slash public spending to repay its debts. 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:55.360 That's the crazy idea that he had, Let's cut our 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.960 spending so we can pay down our debts. And he 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:02.400 got overwhelmingly trounced. He was voted out, ending his short 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:06.959 lived minority government after being appointed by Macron just in December. 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.960 Yeah, left wing and right wing joined together and said, yeah, 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:13.240 let's toss out the moderates and we'll fight for the scraps. 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:19.080 The former president now admitted Monday that his last speech 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:23.720 as Prime Minister was a gamble to tackle France's debt 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:27.160 crisis by standing by his unpopular economic plan, and it 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:30.280 didn't pay off. At the end of the first quarter 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:33.079 of twenty twenty five, France's public debt started at three 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:37.520 point nine three trillion, hilarious number by US standards, obviously 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:40.960 about four trillion dollars, but that's one hundred and fourteen 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:44.600 percent of gross domestic product. When you go over one 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:48.400 hundred percent. That's supposed to be like serious doomsday spiral. 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:52.240 By the way, just in case you were wondering, the 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:56.640 US debt to GDP ratio is one hundred and nineteen percent. 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:01.800 France is doing better than us at this point. Wow 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:02.640 wow wow. 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:07.880 The former president hoped to cut debt. Included a bid 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:10.200 to push a fifty one billion dollars savings plan that 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:14.440 called for scrapping two public holidays. They have a public 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:16.840 holiday a week practically in France. He wanted to get 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:19.360 rid of two of them. No, you can't do it, 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:22.919 and freezing government spending at its current level, not cutting 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:24.920 like this is what happened with the Tea Party. You're 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:27.320 not even trying to cut, You're just trying to cut 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:29.000 the rate of growth, and. 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:34.040 You get killed for it. They're doomed, they are, and 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:34.560 so are we. 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:38.040 True. 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:42.679 The greatest risk was not to take a chance, he said, 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.360 to let things go on without changing anything, to go 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:48.480 on doing politics as usual. He said in his final speech, 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:52.360 the nation is facing a silent, underground, invisible and unbearable 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:56.800 hemorrhage of excessive public borrowing. Submission to debt is like 0:04:56.839 --> 0:05:00.599 submission through military force. Dominated by weapons or dominated by 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.360 our creditors because of a debt that is submerging us. 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:07.280 In both cases, we lose our freedom. That's what got 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:08.080 voted against. 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:11.440 And the unions and the leftists said no, we want 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:12.479 to keep getting stuff. 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:13.880 And here's my favorite thing. 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.880 He said in his final speech, you have the power 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:19.560 to overthrow my government, but you do not have the 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:21.400 power to erase reality. 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:25.600 Wow. That is some good ass right there. Wow. 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:30.359 Reality remains inexorable. Spending will continue to increase, and the 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:32.720 debt burden, already unbearable, will grow. 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:34.000 Heavier and more costly. 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:39.960 Good lord, how are there so few grown ups in 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:43.960 Western civilization willing to stand up and say this? Well, 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:48.320 they do, and you get voted out immediately by the 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:49.480 left and the right. 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:50.560 Yeah. 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:53.280 I was thinking about you know, the US obviously reading 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.320 about France, and we're just a couple of generations. I 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:59.760 guess away from politicians who would not vote for unsustainable 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:04.240 debt that they would consider that a horrible betrayal of 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:06.839 the trust placed in them. They would consider it personally 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:11.960 immoral and and and a crime against the kids and 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:16.000 the grandkids. You just you could not get somebody to 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:20.520 vote for what everybody votes for now, and I find 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:25.720 myself wondering whether a democracy with our current you know, 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:29.920 a moral view of overspending, can save itself. 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:34.000 By the way, just back to France briefly, that the 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:38.880 decision to boot boot him out created means there's no 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:42.559 dominant political block for the first time in France's modern 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:47.200 political history. I don't quite understand those systems, but they 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:49.560 are in a lot of turmoil over there. But back 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:52.560 to you got to cobble together a multi party coalition 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:56.600 that you can't get anything done. But back to his 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:58.839 quote that I love so much. You had the power 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.080 to overthrow the government. Do not have the power to 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:06.920 erase reality. God dang it, that's the whole reality. Bats last. 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:08.160 You can. 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:15.080 Ignore the growing debt and how it's unsustainable and all 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:20.320 these programs are gonna go broke for a while, but 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:24.480 the pain only gets worse. The pain that you will 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:28.760 not may will suffer at some point is only going 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:31.040 to be worse the longer you wait. 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:33.080 Yeah. 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:36.360 Meanwhile, there's a new report out in France about their 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:40.520 educational system and how it's just failing miserably. Sound familiar 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:46.120 and for the first time now, experts, educators there's a 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:49.640 book out that's made a huge wave in France. It said, look, 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:56.400 we've had rampant immigration, just unfettered immigration, and now one 0:07:56.600 --> 0:08:02.680 in five grade five essentially students speak a language other 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:08.320 than French at home, and forty one percent of under 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:16.480 fours are immigrants or immigrants children's and they're transforming the schools. 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.720 That number on speaking French at home is astounding. 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:24.800 Yeah, more than one in five year five pupils speak 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:29.480 a language other than French at home. And much like 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:33.080 in Britain, we've been discussing this and Germany. Germany's a 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.480 little behind Britain, but they're heading in the same direction 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:40.560 in France too, where it was just agreed upon. It 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:45.679 was literally agreed upon. I think it was in Germany. 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:48.280 I've got that around here somewhere by all of the 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:52.200 major parties that we won't blame this on immigration, all right, 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:54.559 you don't bring it up, and we won't bring it up. 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:57.280 And they made a behind the scenes agreement. 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:00.600 But now the people in Britain, in French, in Germany, 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:02.840 you're like, yeah, we are talking about it, We're going 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:07.240 to talk about it loudly. And things are nutty in Europe, 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:11.679 right now, politically speaking, where it goes nobody knows. I mean, 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:16.960 you combine popular disgust with being betrayed by the elites, 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:22.600 the immigration thing especially, and the Islamization of European countries. 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:26.080 They've allowed, you know, enormous numbers of people who despise 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:28.880 their very principles in their way of life. Anyway, you 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:32.720 combine that with the populist Once I get a benefit, 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:35.160 I will never accept you scaling anything back. 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:37.360 Where does that go? 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:44.720 Why is there such a small number of us who 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:47.920 are willing to accept the pain that has to happen. 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:48.480 Right now? 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:51.679 I realize my taxes are going to go up, and 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:55.200 I hate my taxes going up, and I'm not on 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:58.040 many government services, so I wouldn't notice those being cut. 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.880 But it's got to happen, So bring it on, like tomorrow, 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:03.280 Let's do it tomorrow. 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:05.080 Yeah. 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:08.360 Well, because those who profit from the status quo are 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:11.680 very very good at spinning the politics. It is so 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:15.200 much easier to say, not only do you deserve it, 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:17.360 but I'm gonna give it to you, and say we 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:21.160 can't give it to you anymore. And here's why taxes 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:23.040 are nails. Pitch is so easy. 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:25.400 Taxes are going to have to go up and services 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:28.880 are gonna have to be cut. That's just absolutely freaking math, 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:30.160 Like two plus two is five. 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:32.760 Jack Armstrong is trying to balance the budget on the 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:34.240 backs of the poor and the elderly. 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:37.200 I'm going to give the poor and elderly more. Vote 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:39.200 for me, and people will vote for me. I said, 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:40.000 two plus two is five. 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:41.640 I was gonna make a different point, two plus two 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:44.800 is four in this instant you're claiming two plus two 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:50.760 is five. You can come up with a different number equation, 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:55.080 but you can't. Yeah, oh my god, I almost ruined 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.520 my life, Joe's life, in many people's lives yesterday. 0:10:57.920 --> 0:10:59.559 Oh. 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:02.320 It actually is scary, and it fits in with the 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:06.280 fact that Apple's having their big thing today where they 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:08.280 announced their new products, which will hit you with a 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:11.520 couple of those things. But oof man frightening. 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:22.960 Uh stay tuned, Armstrong, hedy, So our hilth apartment is 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:27.520 right beside of Kentucky MIA's moonshine. They had put some 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:31.480 fermiented peaches in their dumpster, and I guess the two 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:36.080 baby raccoons had got into the dumpster and they were stuck. 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:38.959 Everybody that was around was like it's dead. 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:41.520 I mean, it's just not gonna make it immediately. I 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:44.640 just started doing CPR on it. I was tinkled to 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:46.840 death that he was able to join its mom again, 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:48.200 that poor little ratcon. 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:49.640 I hope it stays out of dumpster. 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:54.440 So that's a lady who saw what looked like a 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:57.760 dead baby raccoon, and rather than just shrugging your shoulders 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:01.440 and saying huh, I guess put that in the trash 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:03.960 or something, she decided to give it mouth to mouth 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:05.000 and bring it back. 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:09.320 Well, I've watched the video. It's actually chest compressions. The 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:13.280 picturing mouth and mouth is funnier, but she just gave 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:18.240 it like chest compressions to bring it around. Drunk trash 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.160 band does? What's this country going to. 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:28.880 Drunk records? Her? Uh? Was that your new uh outlaw 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:29.480 country band? 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:29.760 Yes? 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:35.680 A woman's Kentucky accent was charming. 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:38.120 Yeah, I was. She seems like a very nice person. 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:39.920 I'm glad she had that result. But I would think 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:44.320 if you put your finger on a half dead raccoon 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:46.880 baby or not, there's a decent chance you're gonna get your. 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:51.840 Bit hard, like really hard. Yeah, it's like a by 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:53.120 a wild animal hard. 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:58.000 Named the critter Otis Campbell named for the infamous Andy 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:00.880 Griffith show back the Drunk. 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:02.080 Back when the town Drunk was charming. 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:05.720 Yes, so Apple's having their big event today where they 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:08.840 announced new staff and apparently they actually have a new iPhone. 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:12.240 You know, usually every other year, the usually get a 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:15.200 new iPhone every other year. But the new one's supposed 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:17.880 to be the iPhone Air and really slim and light. 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:21.240 And we'll see when they make their announcement and if 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:22.800 it is, I might get one because it sounds kind 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:27.120 of cool. Also, maybe they're updating the Uh my favorite 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.160 Apple product of all time is the iPhone. I love it, 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:31.840 changed my life. And my second favorite product is the 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:34.719 Ultra Watch. Use it all the time, love it. And 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:36.600 they're gonna have an Ultra three come out today with 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:39.440 some new stuff and I'll see if that's worth getting. 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:42.720 But that's enough out of the Apple advertisement that they're 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:43.440 gonna have today. 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:43.719 Oh. 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:46.240 One of the things that Bloomberg's really watching is how 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:48.800 much do the prices go up, because there's been some 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:52.360 rumblings and kind of threats from Tim Cook that with 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:54.880 the whole tariff deal there could be a pretty big 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:58.080 jump in the price of iPhones are all Apple products, 0:13:58.280 --> 0:13:59.720 and we'll find that out today. 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:02.199 And the other scuttle butt, of course, is how slow 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:09.040 they are onboarding AI compared to other devices. 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:14.440 I have done this a couple of times. I've got 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:17.480 to be more careful. Hanson executive producer hands and helped 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:19.920 me put in a safeguard yesterday. I have a habit 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:25.360 of leaving my iPhone laying around unlocked. Oh yeah, and 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:29.040 I did it yesterday for quite a long time. I 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:32.200 left it in the bathroom sitting on the counter unlocked 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:33.720 for probably twenty minutes. 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:35.560 And I don't know. 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:38.720 About your life and how your iPhone is, but if 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:43.880 you got into my unlocked iPhone, there are so many 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:48.280 bad things that could happen to me, whether I mean 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:54.960 just personally, financially, career wise, every aspect of my life 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:59.720 and others Joe and many other people who remain nameless 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.240 lives as would lives would be different if my unlocked 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:06.320 iPhone were picked up by somebody who wanted to spend 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:07.400 a little time figuring out. 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:09.240 Who it was and what was going on. I mean, 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:12.320 like disastrous. Wow. 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:18.000 I don't recall participating in and anything terribly nefarious lately well, 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:19.680 for our entire slandering. 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:21.720 No no, no, not for fear you, for you and me. 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:26.760 It would just be, you know, our entire business makeup 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:29.120 and history and everything like that would be there for 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:32.240 anybody if they want to do a little perusing through 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.120 all my emails and everything like that, all my you know, 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:36.680 and if you just want to be a criminal, you're 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:39.120 into lots of my bank stuff, credit card stuff like 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:41.760 that in personal life. I won't even get into all 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.560 the different personal life stuff that could be highly embarrassing 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:48.400 if somebody wanted to, you know, release it for me 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:51.360 and others. I don't even want to tell others that 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:56.040 I almost ruined their lives this way. Oh my god, 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:59.800 you're unlocked iPhone. I would rather leave the door to 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:02.480 my house unlocked with a sign at the front of 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:04.920 the cul de sac that says house's gonna be unlocked 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:08.080 the entire weekend. I would rather do that than have 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:10.840 somebody get into my iPhone. And it's not even close. 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:14.640 Wow, isn't it true? For everybody? I mean, because I 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:15.800 got everything laid out. 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:19.920 My finance is, all my emails for the past fifteen 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:22.160 years on every subject. 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:23.920 I mean, just it's all right there. 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:27.520 Yeah, the only thing that could you know, help you 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:30.320 out slow down the evil doers would be just the 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:33.880 sheer bulk. Yeah, but if they had ample time to 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:34.720 mess with it, you know. 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:37.320 Right, And so Hanson said, you got to set the 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:40.080 setting because I had the setting on never lock, because 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:42.240 it's such a pain in the ass to constantly like 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:45.600 you know, reface into it whatever. But I got it now, 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:47.320 so it locks after a couple of minutes. So if 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:49.280 I do that again, I won't ruin your life, my life, 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:52.200 and everybody's life of that, I know. Yeah, that's that's 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:56.400 just a good idea for theft reasons too. Oh that 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:58.240 was scary. I mean, like I had to sit down 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:01.760 and take a breath when I realized, havee you ought 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:03.000 engage in less evil? 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:03.440 No? 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:06.000 No, no, it's not that you want your whole financial 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:08.639 life laid out on the online. Would you like to 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:11.920 do that? Because that could have happened yesterday? Not so much, Yeah, 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:14.840 not so much. We need to get into a whole 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:15.919 bunch of other news stuff for you. 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:21.960 Stay tuned, Armstrong and Getty a couple of things. 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:25.919 First of all, Cracker Barrel is out with yet another announcement. 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:30.200 This is one of the greatest br disasters in history. 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:33.640 They're out with yet another announcement. We're listening to you. 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:36.520 You've shared your voices in recent weeks, not only on 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:38.080 our logo but on our restaurants. 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:39.879 We're continuing to listen. Today. 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:44.560 We're suspending our remodels. If your restaurant hasn't been remodeled, 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:45.400 you don't need to worry. 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:45.840 It won't be. 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:49.199 So they've actually backed off not only on the sign, 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:52.280 which who cared, but the remodel, which I did care about. 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:57.960 But they just completely backed down. Did they ask I 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.920 talked about this when you were gone? How I've seen 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:05.200 this in action. Nobody ever has the guts to tell 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:08.040 the boss that they might be wrong about something. 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:10.520 That's why these things. 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:14.439 Happen, because if you did, unless you're surrounded by lunatics, 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:17.919 like handpicked lunatics, which is kind of the same thing. 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:19.800 Also, they're just gonna say yes to whatever you say to. 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:23.840 They would have said, people love our old, tiny look 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:24.720 and everything like that. 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:26.560 That's what people like about the place. 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:31.199 Yeah, I don't know anything about their sales trends or 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:32.360 or or. 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:34.560 What motivated them to do that. 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:38.280 If it was some sort of alleged forward thinking CEO, 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:40.560 the gal who's in charge. 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:44.240 You just thought, Yeah, this is tapering. I don't know anyway. 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:47.000 They backed they've backed off completely. So there's that the 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:51.000 Philadelphia Karen. I just watched the whole video. It's the 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:53.639 first time i'd watched the whole video. I'm a little 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:56.240 more sympathetic toward the dead. I still would have never 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:58.159 given her the ball in front of my son, no 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:02.240 freaking way. But she's there a lot longer than I realized. 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:02.920 I just watched the. 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:06.959 Whole video, and she just continues to scream like a lunatic. 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:08.840 A lunatic. 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:12.600 Security had to be about ten seconds away from getting there, 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:13.119 I would say. 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:15.399 But I would have waited for security if I had to, 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:17.119 or fodder if. 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:19.280 That's what it required. But I'm not going to give 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:22.040 her the ball. Well, most games I go to, I 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:25.440 end up fighting a woman. Yeah that's part of the fun. Yeah, 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:28.760 it's just inexcuse. Well, I just wanted to de escalate. 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:32.240 Maybe you would fight the woman who tries to take 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:34.520 the home run ball at a Phillies game. Would you 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:37.760 fight the Secretary of the Treasury, That's a different question. 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:41.600 Apparently he's up for it. Some so bizarre current events, 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:42.679 fight club we're running here. 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:44.320 I don't blame you if you don't know who the 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:47.280 Secretary of the Treasury is. His name is a Scott Bessant. 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:49.080 Here's what he sounds like, just so you can hear 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:49.719 him a little bit. 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:53.840 Yeah, we look, we're not gonna do economic policy off 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:55.159 of one number. 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:56.359 We believe that. 0:19:56.840 --> 0:20:01.720 Okay, he's a very he's a very u A mild mannered, 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:07.240 pointy headed, looks like an accountant, like you'd expect sort 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:08.960 of policy geek. 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:12.040 Is who Scott Bessant is? Is he the gay fella? 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:14.040 I don't think. I don't know if he's gay or not. 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:16.119 I have no idea, and I always get him and 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:17.800 that doesn't matter in my world. 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:20.480 That doesn't matter. He's gay, okay, not that there's anything 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:20.959 wrong with that. 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:22.800 I always get him confused with the guy who has 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:26.160 a similar name, who's also Hassett, who's. 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:28.360 An economic advisor. Anyway, back to Scott Peasant. 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:31.760 So this is from Mark Halprin's column today because he's 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:34.880 got the insidest of inside his scoop on what happened here. 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:39.800 Scott Bessant, born and bred Southerner, usually very polite, Yale 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:46.840 clothes horse, married dad of two, philanthropist, friend to billionaires, 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:50.600 presidents and kings, also the US Secretary of the Treasury, 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:54.159 and apparently a trash talking, hot headed brawler. Here's what 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:58.560 happened to tell last week at an exclusive dinner for 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:02.760 Trump's Uppermost Inner at the New Executive Branch private club 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:06.800 in Georgetown, as first reported by Politico, this is somebody 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:10.800 who was there writing to Mark Alprin, Bessant fell into 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:15.159 a fierce altercation with Bill Pulte, the ambitious Federal Housing 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:16.439 Finance Agency director. 0:21:16.440 --> 0:21:18.000 I don't know who that is or what that is, 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:19.360 doesn't make any difference. 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:23.840 Clued in by several allies that Pulte had been disparaging 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:27.680 him to President Trump, Bessant got up in Poulte's grill. 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:31.119 This is at the dinner in front of other high 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:34.120 powered people. This is what Besson says. I won't use 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:37.240 the actual words. Why the aff are you talking to 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:38.199 the president about me? 0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:38.760