WEBVTT - Oh Darlene... 0:00:01.850 --> 0:00:05.690 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the 0:00:05.730 --> 0:00:07.730 George Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:07.770 --> 0:00:12.039 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now, 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:17.239 here's Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:23.660 --> 0:00:27.020 Kyota Masaev, a dentist and the only doctor on board, 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:29.720 ran toward the cockpit. He told us he found the 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:33.080 captain severely wounded and helped stop the bleeding. He says 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:35.460 the captain was praying and he was afraid he would 0:00:35.500 --> 0:00:35.979 lose him. 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:37.839 Others holding the attacker. 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:40.519 Down tied his hands with headphone cords and kept him 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:44.400 pinned for 55 minutes until the plane landed in Saudi Arabia. 0:00:44.420 --> 0:00:48.330 So who actually landed the plane? Somebody was on board 0:00:48.350 --> 0:00:49.790 that was an actual pilot? 0:00:50.229 --> 0:00:53.810 Two relief pilots who were supposed to take over. You 0:00:53.830 --> 0:00:56.450 know how a plane flies several legs in a day. 0:00:57.160 --> 0:00:59.180 It was the end of the shift for the guys 0:00:59.240 --> 0:00:59.660 in the cockpit. 0:00:59.700 --> 0:01:00.320 Lucky them. 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:03.480 So the two guys were on board ready to just 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:05.220 move into the cockpit for the next flight. 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.340 It was a plumber that got in there. He says 0:01:08.580 --> 0:01:13.520 strangled the wannabe terrorist. then hold back on the stick 0:01:13.540 --> 0:01:15.360 in the way that we've all seen in TV shows. 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:17.389 And that's exactly how he knew how to do it. 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:19.530 He said, I saw it on TV that kept the 0:01:19.569 --> 0:01:22.130 plane from plunging into the ground and killing everybody, which 0:01:22.209 --> 0:01:26.190 is just, I mean, it had to be seconds away 0:01:26.230 --> 0:01:28.850 from everybody dying. It had to be, they're going 700 0:01:28.850 --> 0:01:29.450 miles an hour. 0:01:30.590 --> 0:01:34.720 So, uh, Benjamin Netanyahu, and maybe we can get this 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:37.760 audio at some point, uh, was talking to Fox news just, uh, 0:01:37.860 --> 0:01:40.610 not long ago. And there were a couple of, things 0:01:40.650 --> 0:01:45.150 he revealed that were especially interesting. Number one, the co-pilot, 0:01:45.170 --> 0:01:53.110 who was the murderous jihadi, allegedly, was bound and gagged 0:01:53.140 --> 0:01:56.180 and all. He was repeatedly begging the crew to kill him. 0:01:56.940 --> 0:01:57.280 Wow. 0:01:57.860 --> 0:01:59.860 It was clear he was suicidal. That's not a question. 0:01:59.900 --> 0:02:01.900 It was clear he was going to down that plane. 0:02:04.390 --> 0:02:07.990 The second thing Netanyahu said that was very interesting was 0:02:08.030 --> 0:02:10.670 he said the co-pilot, who's not yet been publicly identified, 0:02:10.690 --> 0:02:15.840 had undergone, quote, Islamist radical indoctrination before the attack, although 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:17.420 he could not say for certain whether or not he 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:21.500 was connected to Iran or another terrorist organization in particular. 0:02:21.820 --> 0:02:25.669 He'd been flying with FlyDubai for less than a year. 0:02:27.350 --> 0:02:33.829 So you told us earlier that this wannabe jihadi, perhaps... 0:02:35.169 --> 0:02:37.869 Was pretty extreme, at least currently, where he wouldn't shake 0:02:37.910 --> 0:02:40.090 hands with a woman or a variety of things. 0:02:40.850 --> 0:02:43.450 Yeah, they talked to one of his co-workers and said, oh, yeah, 0:02:43.530 --> 0:02:45.109 he's a fundamentalist type. 0:02:45.190 --> 0:02:48.669 It's not crazy to think that Iran was able to 0:02:48.750 --> 0:02:51.889 get to, you know, let's look for some pilots and 0:02:51.930 --> 0:02:53.710 just ask around a little bit. Hey, what do you 0:02:53.730 --> 0:02:56.030 think about Israel? You know, get the guy to say 0:02:56.090 --> 0:02:59.810 something a little negative, feel him out, and then approach him. 0:02:59.889 --> 0:03:04.850 It wouldn't be that hard. Yeah, yeah, that's absolutely possible. 0:03:05.550 --> 0:03:09.790 On the other hand, you know, these people, their worldview 0:03:10.110 --> 0:03:15.850 is Islam must triumph. We are justified in doing anything 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:18.840 to bring about that triumph. The Jews are the most 0:03:19.139 --> 0:03:22.799 evil of humans, so we must exterminate the Jews. It's 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:24.900 not unreasonable to think that this guy just thought, I 0:03:24.940 --> 0:03:27.520 know what I'm going to do. I mean, if China 0:03:27.540 --> 0:03:30.639 were to take over America and I saw an opportunity 0:03:30.940 --> 0:03:34.370 to strike a serious blow against our new communist overlords, 0:03:34.770 --> 0:03:35.830 Nobody would have to recruit me. 0:03:35.850 --> 0:03:39.550 I would just do it. If that guy had been successful, 0:03:39.630 --> 0:03:42.150 and again, I think he'd do that experiment 100 times, 0:03:42.210 --> 0:03:46.390 he's successful 99 times. Certainly quite a few, yeah. The 0:03:46.430 --> 0:03:48.280 fact that that pilot was able to get that door 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:50.920 open in time for somebody to pull back on the 0:03:51.020 --> 0:03:53.320 stick when they're pointed toward the ground at 700 miles 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:57.700 an hour. But if that plane had crashed and everybody 0:03:57.720 --> 0:03:59.480 had died, I think Israel would have bombed the crap 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:01.160 out of Iran before they got any details. 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:03.040 Maybe. 0:04:03.060 --> 0:04:03.640 I don't know. 0:04:04.620 --> 0:04:06.680 You wouldn't want to wait around a long time if 0:04:06.700 --> 0:04:08.320 you think we're under attack by.... 0:04:10.260 --> 0:04:12.340 Well, and again, to your 99 times out of 100, 0:04:12.340 --> 0:04:15.980 whether that number literally is true or not, they struggled 0:04:16.020 --> 0:04:19.080 to land the plane because that plane is not supposed 0:04:19.100 --> 0:04:22.180 to fly at that speed. And it had busted apart. 0:04:22.220 --> 0:04:25.020 I think it was the rudder. And so they're having 0:04:25.060 --> 0:04:27.640 trouble controlling the plane. So who knows how many more 0:04:28.310 --> 0:04:31.390 You know, a thousand feet of plunging would have done 0:04:31.510 --> 0:04:34.380 in the rudder completely or the– I can't remember the 0:04:34.820 --> 0:04:36.440 thing that changes your elevation on the tail. 0:04:37.300 --> 0:04:41.160 I am not a pilot. But, yes, thank God and the. 0:04:42.740 --> 0:04:45.180 Plumber and the dentist who stabilized the pilot and the 0:04:45.220 --> 0:04:46.339 two pilots on board. 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:51.049 They had to be seconds away from dying. Who knows? 0:04:52.130 --> 0:04:52.250 Yeah. 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:58.960 Surely the Mossad is getting more information out of this weirdo. 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:01.960 They're having a word with him, yes. As we speak. 0:05:04.380 --> 0:05:07.920 By the way, back to the botched execution in Tennessee 0:05:07.940 --> 0:05:09.620 that's getting a fair amount of attention. We got a 0:05:09.660 --> 0:05:11.460 whole bunch of these texts, so I should pass them along, 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:14.640 I suppose. How do we have 100,000 people dropping dead 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:18.460 from one fentanyl pill? And we can't kill somebody. Give 0:05:18.500 --> 0:05:22.250 them a couple of fentanyl pills. Well said, friends. Well said. Here, 0:05:22.330 --> 0:05:27.910 snort this. Oh my God, that's such a good point. Here, 0:05:27.970 --> 0:05:30.029 smoke this. Snort it. Drink it. You can do whatever 0:05:30.070 --> 0:05:31.950 you want. It's fentanyl. You'll be dead. You've got all 0:05:31.990 --> 0:05:35.310 these unfortunate stories of a college kid thinking they're taking 0:05:35.730 --> 0:05:37.989 a Xanax and it's got fentanyl in it and they're dead. 0:05:38.470 --> 0:05:41.690 One pill. And we can't kill somebody who we're trying 0:05:41.710 --> 0:05:42.010 to kill. 0:05:42.610 --> 0:05:47.040 This is precisely the intention of the anti-death penalty squads. 0:05:48.010 --> 0:05:51.000 Try to make it as difficult and complicated as possible 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:54.620 so it's more likely to be botched. I get as 0:05:54.660 --> 0:05:58.669 a strategy, it's insidious but clever. But that's what they 0:05:58.730 --> 0:06:04.550 are doing. You give me 10 minutes. You give me 0:06:04.550 --> 0:06:09.710 10 minutes. Well, I don't even need 10 minutes because 0:06:09.730 --> 0:06:11.750 we already have. I could come up with two or 0:06:11.870 --> 0:06:15.630 three different ways to make 100% sure that this person 0:06:16.029 --> 0:06:18.410 is no longer alive and they will not suffer. 0:06:19.790 --> 0:06:23.960 It's not even hard. No, I don't think so. Unfortunately, 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.520 the fragility of human life, etc., etc. Cater, are you 0:06:27.540 --> 0:06:29.800 available to comment on a Babylon Bee headline that I 0:06:29.820 --> 0:06:30.940 found funny yesterday? 0:06:31.220 --> 0:06:31.400 Yeah. 0:06:32.250 --> 0:06:34.250 First, this one. This is not the one, but I 0:06:34.260 --> 0:06:36.850 thought it was funny. We're leading up to the one. 0:06:37.029 --> 0:06:42.130 Picture of a crosswalk and the button. Pedestrian pushes crosswalk 0:06:42.150 --> 0:06:45.910 button 17 times just to be safe. That is true. Yes, 0:06:46.029 --> 0:06:47.410 we do. We all do that. 0:06:47.730 --> 0:06:48.289 Yes, we do. 0:06:48.550 --> 0:06:51.980 A minimum of three. But I like this one. It's 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.320 a husband and wife on a couch, and she looks distraught. 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:55.800 Oh, no. 0:06:56.460 --> 0:06:59.240 Wife frustrated that husband doesn't realize she wants him to 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:02.200 be quiet and also talk to her and also leave 0:07:02.220 --> 0:07:05.660 her alone and also come talk to her. I feel 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:09.420 that in my soul. Do all of it at once. 0:07:09.780 --> 0:07:10.540 Thank you. 0:07:10.580 --> 0:07:11.800 Oh, boy, that's a funny one. 0:07:13.300 --> 0:07:17.380 Yeah, that's actually a really good point, because if you're chatty, 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:18.880 it's like, okay, I just want to sit here and 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:19.460 watch my show. 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.110 But if you're not talking, it's like, well, then what's wrong? Right. 0:07:22.430 --> 0:07:24.610 And I want you to solve my problems, but... Yeah. 0:07:25.010 --> 0:07:28.170 The best one of those ever, ever is so good. 0:07:28.190 --> 0:07:32.690 I think I read it on the air once. A woman, 0:07:32.830 --> 0:07:36.220 her husband picks her up and isn't saying much. And 0:07:36.420 --> 0:07:37.840 he's in a bit of a mood and they go 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:41.940 to eat. And he's just, again, he's distant. He's somewhere else. 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:46.020 And she is worried. And imagines an affair and he's 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:48.200 leaving me and oh my god it's over what have 0:07:48.260 --> 0:07:50.960 i done did i deserve this she cries herself to 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:54.730 sleep etc etc husband's thinking a. 0:07:54.760 --> 0:08:01.410 Two-foot pot who misses a two-foot pot so i got 0:08:01.610 --> 0:08:03.490 several more babylon bees that i grabbed the other day 0:08:03.510 --> 0:08:04.870 so we'll just run through these because they're all funny 0:08:05.470 --> 0:08:08.450 is it babylon bees or babylon's bee i don't know 0:08:10.500 --> 0:08:13.440 Bicyclist wants to be treated like a car, but also 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:15.300 be able to just kind of break the rules whenever 0:08:15.340 --> 0:08:23.580 he wants to. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. That's pretty good. Yes, yes. 0:08:24.930 --> 0:08:26.770 Here's a guy playing catch in the backyard with his son. 0:08:26.930 --> 0:08:27.250 Oh, no. 0:08:27.350 --> 0:08:29.990 Man playing outside baseball with his son has no idea 0:08:30.030 --> 0:08:34.970 what terrible thing happened in the news today. Oh, wow. Oh, 0:08:35.770 --> 0:08:39.380 that one was a little truthy. Picture of a certain restaurant. Report. 0:08:39.500 --> 0:08:46.679 Chili's only gets bad rap because it's awful. This one 0:08:46.780 --> 0:08:49.980 I agree with. I don't understand it. Uber driver carefully 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:54.250 selects worst possible photo for profile. Yeah, what is that? 0:08:54.450 --> 0:08:55.069 I know. 0:08:55.150 --> 0:09:01.170 It's like, dude. I mean, you're not a model, but 0:09:01.190 --> 0:09:05.510 you don't look like this. Right. Oh, I haven't told 0:09:05.550 --> 0:09:07.370 my Uber story. I don't think about the picture. I'll 0:09:07.390 --> 0:09:09.010 have to tell that. I was going to say, I. 0:09:08.950 --> 0:09:10.740 Brought this up the other day and nobody really jumped 0:09:10.790 --> 0:09:14.240 at it, but there's this, well, it's probably 99% online, 0:09:14.620 --> 0:09:17.880 but this online debate going on about Uber slash Lyft 0:09:17.900 --> 0:09:19.700 drivers that for a while. 0:09:19.460 --> 0:09:21.900 It was that, you know, the driver was stanky. 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:22.300 Yeah. 0:09:22.670 --> 0:09:24.030 And that became a thing. 0:09:24.170 --> 0:09:26.620 And some of those folks are foreign born and have 0:09:26.660 --> 0:09:30.059 different views of deodorants, et cetera. But now the thing 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:32.479 is you get into a car and they've got like 0:09:32.780 --> 0:09:34.080 eight deodorizers. 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:35.040 Yeah. 0:09:35.059 --> 0:09:35.800 Right. 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:38.330 And it's like you're in the midst of a chemical 0:09:38.450 --> 0:09:41.969 spill and you can't even breathe and it's overwhelming. And 0:09:42.090 --> 0:09:47.480 now people are, griping about that. Just one, one at most. 0:09:47.500 --> 0:09:51.410 You don't need two hanging from your rearview mirror, and 0:09:51.410 --> 0:09:55.780 then one in each vent of the car, some sort 0:09:55.780 --> 0:09:59.170 of glade auto you know version or whatever and then 0:09:59.290 --> 0:10:01.370 you're a thick with cologne and the rest of it 0:10:01.450 --> 0:10:03.090 oh stop. 0:10:02.850 --> 0:10:05.100 I don't think i told told my small town kansas 0:10:05.170 --> 0:10:06.880 uber story on the air i will in just a 0:10:06.890 --> 0:10:10.740 second a couple more babylon b jokes no one notices 0:10:10.820 --> 0:10:13.579 as the entire cast of the view replaced with shrieking 0:10:13.660 --> 0:10:19.720 feral pigs That's my favorite one. I like this one. 0:10:20.170 --> 0:10:26.010 Dyslexic Gavin Newsom celebrates $ 1. 87 gas. What the hell is 0:10:26.030 --> 0:10:27.910 going on? Remember his old, I can't even read a book. 0:10:28.970 --> 0:10:32.820 So this is not a good look for a small town, Kansas. 0:10:33.740 --> 0:10:36.059 This town almost got obliterated by a tornado last night. 0:10:36.100 --> 0:10:39.020 But we landed at the airport. United now flies into 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:41.020 this little town, actually, where Joe and I started our 0:10:41.070 --> 0:10:44.150 radio careers. United now flies into that town. So I 0:10:44.190 --> 0:10:48.170 flew direct when I went to see my parents. But 0:10:48.210 --> 0:10:50.050 I was getting there at 1230 at night, and I 0:10:50.090 --> 0:10:52.120 wasn't even sure there'd be any Uber or Lyft that 0:10:52.170 --> 0:10:53.840 time of night. So I asked some friends who live there, 0:10:53.860 --> 0:10:56.270 and they said there should be somebody around. And so 0:10:56.290 --> 0:10:59.600 I dial up an Uber from the airport, 1230 in 0:10:59.620 --> 0:11:02.280 the morning on a weeknight in a very small town 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:09.040 in rural America. And there is somebody available, and the 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:13.180 picture comes up, and it's got a woman's name, Darlene 0:11:13.220 --> 0:11:17.520 or something like that. And I thought... Obviously, this isn't Darlene. 0:11:17.820 --> 0:11:20.079 And I've seen this happen before where the picture doesn't 0:11:20.100 --> 0:11:21.600 match the name, and it seems like a husband and 0:11:21.620 --> 0:11:23.590 a wife or boyfriend and girlfriend are, like, sharing their 0:11:23.610 --> 0:11:25.770 account or something like that, which probably isn't cool, but 0:11:25.929 --> 0:11:29.429 I don't care. But it's fine. But so, like, this 0:11:29.550 --> 0:11:33.150 old dude, this fat old dude, was clearly not Darlene. 0:11:33.570 --> 0:11:36.700 And then Darlene shows up. Yep, that was Darlene. That 0:11:36.740 --> 0:11:40.000 was absolutely Darlene. She just looks like an old fat man, 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:46.170 and she's smoking in her... Early 90s pickup. She's smoking 0:11:46.230 --> 0:11:50.949 a cigarette with a dog sitting in the seat. Oh, my. 0:11:51.470 --> 0:11:53.910 That is quaint. There's three of us. So I get in, 0:11:53.970 --> 0:11:55.610 sit next to the dog, which was fine with me. 0:11:55.650 --> 0:11:58.550 Didn't bother me. Very cute dog. And I petted the 0:11:58.570 --> 0:12:01.830 dog all the way to the hotel and everything like that. 0:12:01.910 --> 0:12:06.740 The cigarette smoke I could have done without. And poor Darlene. 0:12:06.770 --> 0:12:09.219 Now, wait, now, is Darlene just homely or is it 0:12:09.260 --> 0:12:10.260 a transgender thing? 0:12:10.340 --> 0:12:14.199 No, it was just, she was just not an attractive woman. 0:12:14.340 --> 0:12:16.670 And doing that thing, the Babylon Bee joke, like, you 0:12:17.070 --> 0:12:19.990 don't look as bad as this picture. I mean, you 0:12:20.030 --> 0:12:22.229 are clearly a woman. This picture, you look like an 0:12:22.390 --> 0:12:23.550 old man. 0:12:24.620 --> 0:12:25.040 Darlene. 0:12:25.860 --> 0:12:28.360 And then she's complaining about I hardly make money anymore 0:12:28.420 --> 0:12:31.400 smoking a cigarette because gas prices so high. I drove 0:12:31.450 --> 0:12:33.870 two people to Wichita last week and I barely broke 0:12:33.929 --> 0:12:35.929 even on the gas. What's because you're driving in a 0:12:37.270 --> 0:12:41.890 Ram 2500 from the early 90s and probably getting 11 0:12:41.890 --> 0:12:45.120 miles to the gallon. What are you doing, Darlene? Plus 0:12:45.140 --> 0:12:48.099 the cost of smokes. Plus the cigarettes and the dog food. 0:12:48.740 --> 0:12:49.080 Right. 0:12:50.929 --> 0:12:53.990 Oh, my, my, my, both my boys were just really 0:12:54.030 --> 0:12:56.390 struggling not to laugh because they understood all of where 0:12:56.410 --> 0:12:58.630 everything was going on here. Because I had said to them, 0:12:58.650 --> 0:13:00.930 that's clearly not Darlene when I showed them the picture 0:13:00.980 --> 0:13:03.320 of the, and then we got in the car. Oh, 0:13:03.340 --> 0:13:06.920 the boys were with you? Yes. Oh, I didn't know that. 0:13:06.940 --> 0:13:08.840 Me and my two teenagers got into her truck. That's 0:13:08.860 --> 0:13:12.000 why I had to sit next to the dog. Oh, 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:13.900 were they in the cab or were they with you? 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:15.420 It was a, it was a crew cab. So they 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:18.600 were sitting in the backseat, but. Yeah, I guess there's 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:20.740 not a lot of competition 1230 at night in this town. 0:13:20.900 --> 0:13:24.300 You know, give her five stars because what was my 0:13:24.330 --> 0:13:28.170 other option? Walking? There are a pack of smokes back there, boys. 0:13:28.250 --> 0:13:31.150 Pass it up front, would you? He don't bite much. 0:13:32.770 --> 0:13:40.230 More on the way. Stay here. Armstrong and Getty. 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:46.300 I have all sorts of arguably, well, not arguably, economic-type 0:13:46.330 --> 0:13:48.709 stories here. But I finally got a chance to dig 0:13:48.770 --> 0:13:51.950 further into that Wall Street Journal poll about how folks 0:13:52.010 --> 0:13:54.170 on both sides of the aisle now are embracing, like, 0:13:54.250 --> 0:13:57.590 populist economic stuff, price caps and stuff. 0:13:57.630 --> 0:14:01.270 And I just, I think we may be doomed as 0:14:01.330 --> 0:14:06.150 a people. That credit card one particularly, like 90% between 0:14:07.270 --> 0:14:10.329 Republicans and Democrats say credit cards should be capped at 10% 0:14:10.330 --> 0:14:14.250 interest rate. That makes no sense if you talk about 0:14:14.270 --> 0:14:16.459 it for like five minutes. Well, there are a bunch 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:19.200 of examples. Child care costs. Rent. 0:14:19.380 --> 0:14:21.930 Rent increases should be limited. The government should be in 0:14:21.970 --> 0:14:24.660 charge of that, the rest of it. It's the road 0:14:24.700 --> 0:14:25.260 to serfdom. 0:14:25.380 --> 0:14:25.700 Read it. 0:14:25.780 --> 0:14:26.180 It's good. 0:14:26.350 --> 0:14:29.790 It's a little dry, but interesting. And then you've got this. 0:14:30.910 --> 0:14:35.150 Mortgages have now gone significantly above 7% as the bond market, 0:14:35.230 --> 0:14:38.350 I will not bore you, is super concerned about government 0:14:38.450 --> 0:14:42.510 spending itself into suicidal debt, not only the United States, 0:14:42.550 --> 0:14:43.620 but Europe and the rest of it. 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:46.460 And so it's getting tougher for the deadbeat government to 0:14:46.500 --> 0:14:49.100 borrow money. Deadbeat is an overstatement. 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:51.760 People are more and more nervous about holding government debt. 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:55.160 and it's inched the interest rates up, and so now 0:14:55.200 --> 0:15:00.820 mortgages are above 7%. And just when the housing market 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.500 ought to be untangling itself from the weirdness of the 0:15:03.580 --> 0:15:08.200 COVID years and the post-2007, 2008 crash years, there are 0:15:08.220 --> 0:15:13.750 a couple of factors combining to hold interest rates high, 0:15:14.330 --> 0:15:18.840 and normally that would drive prices lower, Because, look, I 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:20.750 want to buy your house, but I can only afford 0:15:21.030 --> 0:15:23.910 X amount of payment, and these are the interest rates. Therefore, 0:15:23.930 --> 0:15:26.850 if I'm buying your house, your price has to be lower, right? 0:15:26.890 --> 0:15:30.220 But that's not happening because inventory is so tight, because 0:15:30.260 --> 0:15:34.380 people are still in their 3% to 4% mortgages in 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:37.030 the wake of the pandemic. And so every time it 0:15:37.070 --> 0:15:39.690 looks like there may be signs it'll shake out, something 0:15:39.910 --> 0:15:42.430 else happens, so the housing market continues to be really, 0:15:42.490 --> 0:15:46.510 really weird. I thought this was really interesting, and we 0:15:46.550 --> 0:15:50.440 don't have a lot of time for it, but if 0:15:50.500 --> 0:15:54.160 inflation is high, nothing else matters. And the Republicans and Trump, 0:15:55.340 --> 0:15:57.560 they ought to be jailed for how terrible. 0:15:57.180 --> 0:16:00.560 Their messaging is around inflation. They deserve to lose the midterms. 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:01.260 They suck. 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:06.010 The idea that America would put Democrats back in charge 0:16:06.070 --> 0:16:08.530 because the one thing they're pissed off about is inflation 0:16:08.650 --> 0:16:12.410 is so insane of giving up on democracy. But I'm 0:16:12.430 --> 0:16:17.170 looking at the price change of goods since 2012. Beef 0:16:17.350 --> 0:16:21.250 and veal are up 98%. They've doubled, essentially. Bread is 0:16:21.350 --> 0:16:24.609 up half again just since 2012. Alcoholic beverages are up 31%. 0:16:24.610 --> 0:16:27.310 Then you want to drink more, and then you have 0:16:27.350 --> 0:16:31.630 to pay for that. It compounds. Used vehicles are up 20%. 0:16:31.630 --> 0:16:35.910 New vehicles, 25%. Pet and pet products, 24%. Furniture's up. 0:16:36.010 --> 0:16:39.280 Apparel is up a little bit. Appliances, oddly enough, are down. 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:43.680 But vehicle, here's where it gets insane. 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:44.300 Services. 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:47.240 Vehicle insurance is up between 117 and 124%. Vehicle repair 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:48.100 is up 80%. Yep, I've noticed that. 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:50.720 Rent. Food away from home is 70%. Daycare and preschool, 60%. 0:16:50.720 --> 0:17:03.560 College tuition, 55-ish percent. Public, everything, everything is skyrocketing. And 0:17:03.660 --> 0:17:06.200 even if we got inflation under control, how long would 0:17:06.220 --> 0:17:08.530 it take before you get used to the new prices? 0:17:08.590 --> 0:17:10.869 I've been wondering that since it started. I'm still shocked 0:17:10.910 --> 0:17:14.229 every time I buy beef, for instance. Still shocked. Or 0:17:14.290 --> 0:17:16.780 your wages rise enough to make it meaningless. It's going 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:17.300 to take a while. 0:17:17.940 --> 0:17:19.040 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:20.820 --> 0:17:23.800 A water park in Las Vegas recently gathered nearly 300 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:26.939 dogs to set the Guinness World Record for largest dog 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:30.180 pool party. Then they also set a record for most 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:32.350 dogs with mysterious rashes. 0:17:32.369 --> 0:17:39.230 You had something to tease? 0:17:41.210 --> 0:17:45.920 Yes, an update on the bizarre case of the. 0:17:47.410 --> 0:17:53.360 Mother and father-in-law gunning down the allegedly abusive trans New 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:56.479 York Times husband slash dad. 0:17:56.540 --> 0:18:00.890 Yeah. Okay, I look forward to that. I've always been 0:18:01.109 --> 0:18:04.030 fascinated by Richard Nixon, and I'm not exactly sure why 0:18:04.070 --> 0:18:06.970 that presidency holds fascination for him. It might just be 0:18:06.990 --> 0:18:10.830 it was the first presidency I was able to really 0:18:10.890 --> 0:18:14.929 be aware of and understand on any level. And all 0:18:14.970 --> 0:18:16.710 the Watergate stuff was happening when I was a little 0:18:16.730 --> 0:18:17.969 kid and it was on TV all the time. And 0:18:18.070 --> 0:18:21.210 maybe it's that. I don't know. He's also just fascinating 0:18:21.510 --> 0:18:23.730 flat out, no matter what period of history you grew 0:18:23.790 --> 0:18:27.950 up in. So I've been interested in this. The Nixon 0:18:28.020 --> 0:18:31.180 tapes have finally been unlocked. Neil Ferguson, who we really, 0:18:31.220 --> 0:18:33.980 really like on this show, historian, and this guy, Luke Nictor, 0:18:34.460 --> 0:18:41.030 are using AI to decipher 3,400 hours of of Nixon's 0:18:41.190 --> 0:18:45.250 secretly recorded conversations. Finally, we can hear the controversial presidency 0:18:45.330 --> 0:18:51.660 as it actually happened. There are 3,400 hours of tapes 0:18:52.940 --> 0:18:57.360 that came from Nixon's White House. He installed a tape recorder. 0:18:57.859 --> 0:19:00.440 I didn't know this. Um, well, let me read this 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:08.070 from this article about it. Um, Nixon installed recorders throughout 0:19:08.170 --> 0:19:09.710 the West Wing. I didn't know that. I thought it 0:19:09.730 --> 0:19:12.730 was just in the Oval Office, but throughout. Nixon installed 0:19:12.750 --> 0:19:15.250 recorders throughout the West Wing, including in the Oval Office, 0:19:15.609 --> 0:19:19.190 which activated automatically at the sound of people's voices. Prior 0:19:19.210 --> 0:19:21.670 to the Watergate scandal, the only people who knew about 0:19:21.690 --> 0:19:24.480 these recorders were Nixon, his chief of staff, Bob Halderman. 0:19:25.390 --> 0:19:29.359 Halderman's aides and the Secret Service. Nixon wanted everything taped 0:19:29.820 --> 0:19:31.760 because he believed it would be the foundation for a 0:19:31.859 --> 0:19:35.680 uniquely authoritative official history of the momentous presidency he envisioned. 0:19:36.060 --> 0:19:38.899 And he believed these recordings would remain entirely private and 0:19:39.050 --> 0:19:42.629 under his personal control. That was the idea, or at 0:19:42.670 --> 0:19:47.550 least it's our best guess, since Nixon never definitively said 0:19:47.690 --> 0:19:51.970 why he decided to start taping. once the tapes turned 0:19:52.150 --> 0:19:54.330 on and the vents and all this and people were 0:19:54.369 --> 0:19:55.469 able to get a hold of it and all that 0:19:55.510 --> 0:19:59.560 sort of stuff but so he he never explained for 0:19:59.650 --> 0:20:02.840 real for certain they're guessing why he decided to tape 0:20:02.900 --> 0:20:05.280 everything that was happening but he did seem to think 0:20:05.340 --> 0:20:07.540 he would always have control over it and only allow 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:09.740 out what's what he wanted. 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:13.300 To Yeah, he had a bit of a reputation for paranoia. 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:15.179 I always thought maybe that had something to do with 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:16.659 the tape thing, but I don't know. 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:19.699 I believe, though, there's no way you'd have had the 0:20:20.220 --> 0:20:22.790 candid conversations he had unless you thought you were going 0:20:22.810 --> 0:20:27.389 to control the tapes. Oh, yeah, clearly. So we're not 0:20:27.450 --> 0:20:31.900 always flattering to him at all. No. No, and these 0:20:31.980 --> 0:20:33.920 aren't either. Well, some of them are, some of them aren't. 0:20:34.220 --> 0:20:37.020 As they point out here, it is going to show 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:39.859 a human being, not just a president, but it's going 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:43.119 to be the best look we have ever had and 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:46.240 ever will have of what it's like to be president 0:20:46.270 --> 0:20:48.250 of the United States, because nothing like this is ever 0:20:48.290 --> 0:20:52.449 going to happen again. The result is approximately 3,400 hours 0:20:52.510 --> 0:20:56.129 of audio files that provide the most comprehensive behind-the-scenes documentation 0:20:56.150 --> 0:20:58.590 of an American presidency there ever has been or ever 0:20:58.630 --> 0:21:02.290 will be, as they say here. The problem was the 0:21:02.350 --> 0:21:05.760 raw audio has been available, but only really available in 0:21:05.780 --> 0:21:09.320 the most generous definition of the word. They're really hard 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:12.300 to listen to. They're hard to get access to. They're 0:21:12.320 --> 0:21:15.080 hard to understand. And how are they doing it now? 0:21:15.260 --> 0:21:18.700 With AI. They came up with an AI program that 0:21:18.740 --> 0:21:21.720 can pick up the words, figure out what's being said. 0:21:21.740 --> 0:21:24.850 Then they go back and listen to it to confirm 0:21:24.890 --> 0:21:28.909 that it's accurate. And they're going to be releasing all 0:21:28.950 --> 0:21:31.420 of these. And one of the things they talk about 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:35.920 is the, you know, I'm not sure every president's the same. 0:21:35.940 --> 0:21:37.639