WEBVTT - She Ain't Muzzleable 0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:06.480 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:11.200 Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:24.360 Jetty and now he is Armstrong and Yetty. I just 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:26.160 saw it right now and I couldn't believe it. It's 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:28.400 not something I'm used to the I'm a tourist, but 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:32.080 for me, that's too high, too expensive. There they we're 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:35.919 about like six dollars max, which is something that you know, 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:38.840 it hits everyone like crazy. But here's ten dollars. 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:40.160 Never seen that probably. 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:41.559 Could try to twenty dollars a gallon. And if you 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:44.200 have to get gas, you have to get gas. Where's 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:47.800 it ten dollars a gallon for gas? Big sir, California? 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:51.800 Oh okay, and the other reportation on that remote coastal 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:56.600 parts of California, it's hitting ten bucks a gallon. Oof. Yeah, 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:59.480 that will surely be a drag on the economy. Jack 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:03.720 reflected in the miserable job numbers. Job numbers, as we've 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:07.000 already mentioned, came out and they were huge, defying expectations. 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:10.320 The New York Times says US job growth blue past 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:15.440 expectations last month, a resilient rebound that defied concerns about 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:18.880 appending downturn. That's pretty positive language coming out of the 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.200 New York Times. Who wants the economy to be bad, 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:23.959 of course, so they can be mad at Trump. Yeah, 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:27.280 I'll issue the usual annoying caveat that these numbers are 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.680 going to get revised and sometimes substantially, so take it 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:32.680 with a grain of salt. But I mean, it's not 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:33.360 bad news. 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:35.520 No. 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:41.560 The job gains were driven by a big rebound for 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:45.880 the healthcare and social assistance sector, the pillar that has 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:47.800 held up the labor market for much of the past year. 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:51.080 It added about ninety thousand jobs in March, a reversal 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:54.960 from February, when a West Coast strike had sent usd 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:57.880 the other direction. Anyway, I'm sorry, what would the what 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:03.880 in social assistance sector? The healthcare and social assistance sectors? 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:07.040 The healthcare sector that really drove these numbers total number 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:09.520 one hundred and eight seventy eight thousand new jobs one 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:12.239 hundred and seventy eight thousand new jobs. I can't be 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:15.720 the only one asking what does social assistance mean? I 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:19.639 don't know, no idea, just the official and I never 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:25.160 I never understand how did the healthcare add tens of 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:29.679 thousands of jobs just all of a sudden last month. Yeah, 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:34.079 I know. Well that was a good country. Yeah yeah, 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:37.160 well we're aging too. Boy, that's the hell of a 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:39.480 lot of in the last month. Yeah, I know, I know. 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:44.960 I share your skepticism. Obviously, interestingly enough, and I've been 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.119 teasing this a bit. Let's pay it off now. Wall 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:52.960 Street Journal identified a particular field as the quote surefire 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:57.680 new path to American prosperity, plentiful jobs, potential six figure 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:00.880 and comes draw young people as other industries fall. It's 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:04.560 the modern middle class jobs engine, ladies and gentlemen. I 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:11.079 give you dog walker, I'm kidding. Nursing, nursing, nursing, So 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:14.880 that's the healthcare. Yeah yeah, And they first of all, 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:17.520 you've got to start a story with a specific human 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:19.440 being and tell their story for some reason these days. 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:23.560 And it's a thirty three year old gal who became 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:27.680 a licensed practical nurse after earning a community college diploma. 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:29.679 Later she went back to school. Urse, you go with 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:33.240 your ankles and they say you're fine walking off. That's 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:36.560 a practical nurse, right right, It's not gonna kill you, Kelly. 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:39.800 A little ice and you'll be fine later, She went 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:41.640 back to school for bachelors and nursing and worked in 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:44.240 an emergency room during the pandemic. Four years ago, she 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:46.920 got her doctorate and became a nurse practitioner. Wow, that's 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:50.680 an advanced thing. But these days she's working at a 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:53.280 primary care clinic in Lincoln, Nebraska, earning about one hundred 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:55.000 and twenty k a year, which is really good money 0:03:55.040 --> 0:04:00.840 in Lincoln. Factory worker used to be Ka's or factory 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:03.080 work used to be America's most reliable ticket to the 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:08.520 middle class. But as automation globalized manufacturing now artificial intelligence 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:10.400 threat in a lot of these past healthcare jobs and 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:13.160 become the surest bet at the time of uncertainty in 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:15.640 the labor market, Nursing offers not only stability, but for 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:19.799 some a pathway to real prosperity. The median annual wage 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.960 for registered nurses in the US is ninety three six 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:26.680 compared with forty nine to five for all occupations according 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:29.480 to the Labor Department. For nurse practitioners and others with 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:32.200 advanced degrees, it's around one hundred and thirty two. OK. 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:34.960 I got a friend who mentioned their daughter's interested in 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:37.160 going into nursing. For quite a few years now, you 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.239 go in to nursing, you could get a job anywhere 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:41.360 in the country, which would be one of the really 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:43.840 cool things. You could work anywhere. It is one of 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:46.720 those traveling fill in nurse jobs. It's obviously got its 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:49.679 own challenges and stresses, but man, you can make really 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:52.160 good money for a while if you're footloose. I went 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:55.600 to an impractical nurse at Exemund. She said, sleep hanging 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:59.120 from your feet, and I thought, oh no, no, this 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:03.320 is not for me. Not practical. Healthcare in general has 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:06.159 generated some of the most consistent job growth of any 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:08.840 US proficient since the profession, since the eighties. Yet I 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.640 gotta say, I mean, you know, this is all interesting, 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:15.640 but I like how monthly they you write about these 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:19.960 big changes that are happening. Changes don't happen monthly, but 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:24.440 every month we act like a new giants, you know, 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:27.440 seismic shift has occurred of some sort. I guess you 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:30.400 have to write that. You're an economics reporter. That's your job. 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:34.440 Everything is what folks fill in the blank test. Everything 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:38.840 is click bait. That's right. This is not though, so 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:45.200 healthcare uh oh, soaring healthcare spending, aging population plus the 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:49.080 billions and billions of dollars of fraud of all of 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:51.880 the government healthcare problems. There's a hell of a lot 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:55.040 of profit and fraud. If you missed yesterday's discussion of 0:05:55.120 --> 0:06:01.440 the soon to be breasthtaking fraud that comes clear in California, 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:04.160 Holy crap, there's a lot of money in it. But 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:06.719 just a couple more figures then we can either analyze 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.240 or move on. Total jobs in the industry overtook those 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:12.240 in manufacturing and retail in their early two thousands. The 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:15.799 gap has widened since then. According to University of Chicago, 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:19.680 healthcare was the largest source of job creation in the 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:22.600 US last year, as many other industries cooled or contracted. 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.480 That trend continued in January through employment in the sector. 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:29.200 Oh though it dropped somewhat in February, partly because nursing 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:31.880 strikes in New York City and elsewhere. But anyway, as 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:34.640 we age and more and more money spent on healthcare, 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:36.720 it's a good gig. You got to be of a 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:41.400 certain level of intelligence ambition. You have to like to 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:43.839 work hard and deal with human beings. But it's good field. 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.080 I think the deal with human beings is the hardest part. 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:49.280 Like the person I had the other day when my 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:53.880 son went to get is a physical. She was so fantastic. 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:57.120 I thought, you have got the gift for this kind 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:01.880 of job, just personality wise. I couldn't do it. Yeah, 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:06.720 all day long, every day being nice to people. But 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:09.720 New York Times writing about unemployment rate and that sort 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:11.280 of stuff brought up and this is kind of interesting. 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:16.320 This actually is a change from fairly recently. The unemployment 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:19.000 rate is where it is in part because the Trump 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:23.080 Administration's immigration crackdown that has curtailed the supply of workers. 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:26.280 I mean, that's absolutely happened. People are not going back 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:29.360 and forth across the border like nobody is. We went 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:34.040 from millions of people to nobody like overnight. Oh yeah, 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.560 that means that employers don't need to create as many 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:38.240 jobs as they used to in order to keep the 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:42.400 unemployment rates steady. There ain't a whole bunch of people 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:47.560 in the country looking for jobs. There you go times 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.840 few that's noticed. There's a lot of volatility these days. 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:54.400 It seems like everything's changing all the time. You think, yeah, 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:57.800 has had lunchon with a client yesterday, who you're going 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:00.520 to hear more about on the air. In and coming 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:04.600 weeks and months. But he has kids similar age as mine, 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:07.280 are like, what are you supposed to be hoping your 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:11.040 kid does? Both? Discussing how most of the stuff people 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.320 been sending their kids to college for over the last 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:17.440 couple of decades are almost completely useless because of AI. 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:22.080 You know, that's even without the uselessness of college, because 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:24.520 they've destroyed their you know, their own thing by not 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:27.000 teaching anything and blah blah blah. But with AI coming, 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:30.160 what do you even hope for your kid? Nobody knows? 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:33.880 Two choices? Number one nursing. Number two defrauding the government. 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.120 You want to talk about, you know, making a good 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:40.760 living in it not being terribly difficult, judging by all 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:42.559 the stories coming out and everything I read about it. 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:46.000 Defrauding the government is not difficult. You gotta be willing 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.960 to run a you know, at least a slight risk 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:53.760 of doing time or getting fined, but very slight. A 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.280 Swiss bank. Do they still have those? Let's call it 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:59.439 working the system as opposed to defrauding the government. And 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:03.880 where where is that most prevalent? Always your socialist countries? 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:06.160 And why is it more prevalent here? Because we become 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:09.640 more and more socialists. The more giant programs you have 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:13.800 with money sloshing around, the more people who figure out 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:16.360 how to work the system. And a lot of the 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:20.040 people advocating for the growth of those systems intend fully 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:24.360 to what did you say, exploit the system. Yeah, that's 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:28.080 their intent when they promote it. Engage in a positive 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:31.960 way the system as it is. I did not get 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.240 to hammer this as much as I wanted to, but 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:36.360 there was a big story, I think it was in 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:39.839 the journal a while ago, about the insurance companies how 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:43.599 they they go to like all of their clients, and 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:46.920 they like send nurses to their homes and say, hey, 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:48.880 look this person over and come up with a list 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:51.000 of diseases that they may or may not have, and 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:54.560 then they charge the government for the treatment of those diseases. 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:58.560 There's never any treatment, there's never any definitive diagnosis. It's 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:01.600 a giant with that scal that would be so easy. 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:05.680 I mean, just look at we've all done this. You Google. 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:08.680 I have a headache and I've been really tired lately. 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:12.120 Anything I might have an at a list a thousand 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:17.760 diseases you have. Oh, he's clearly got blarney syndrome. Right, government, 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:20.760 you know it's ten thousand dollars for us to treat 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:24.400 blarney syndrome. Then nobody ever checks whether any treatment happened. 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.240 And in many, many, many cases, and with hippa, you 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:30.520 can't well right, And in many cases the person who 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:33.079 allegedly has the syndrome has no idea any of this 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:39.720 has happened. Sure, sure blank, unbelievable. He voting for bigger government. Thom, Okay, 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:42.240 it's fine, it'll work out great. We got to get 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:46.040 into Tiger Woods. I don't mind kicking him. There was 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:49.760 a piece in the Hey got a California post yesterday. 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:52.360 Tiger has been a fraud from the beginning, and people 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:55.640 are just catching on you. You were early on the 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:59.719 Tiger's a jerk. I've been an anti tigerist since like 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:01.800 the second year. Hear is on the PGA because of 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:08.040 his personality. He's utterly ingracious. Yeah yeah, well wait till 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:13.000 you hear how he acted when he got talked to 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:17.199 by the cops having flipped his car again. And another 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:21.040 thing to look forward to. More tape of Gavin Newsom 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:23.959 seeming like a drug addict is coming out, and also 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:28.319 of his Marxist wife shooting off her mouth. Oh my lord, 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:32.120 the gift that just keeps giving. The first partner, soon 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:35.440 to be if Gavey gets his wish, the first lady. Hmmm, 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:37.760 we got to get to that this hour, her talking 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.640 about the way she raises their kids. Oof. See if 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:48.000 you agree, All right, stay here. I think it's become 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:49.880 very clear over the years that Tiger Woods is not 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:54.959 a good person, right, He is a highly flawed individual. Yes, 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:59.240 so I guess that makes it easier for me to 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:01.240 do this. I was complaining a couple of weeks ago 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:08.439 with the Justin Timberlake stuff. You commit a misdemeanor, but 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:11.960 because it's on video and it's entertaining for all of us, 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:15.680 you get to be embarrassed in front of the world 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:19.800 for a misdemeanor. I mean, Tiger Woods is being charged 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:23.520 with two misdemeanors. I just looked it up, and there's 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:26.360 a decent chance because he did not submit to a 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:28.480 year analysis and all they've got to go on is 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:32.920 refusing to, you know, take the test or whatever, which 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:36.640 is its own crime. Second degree misdemeanor is what he 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:38.880 might be looking at in Florida. Does that mean we 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:42.400 all get to watch the video and then mock him. Well, 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:44.079 a number one, he still has to wait for the 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.400 blood test to come back, doesn't he or has that 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:49.880 been assessed? I don't know that, but uh no, I 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:53.800 get you your greater point, though I'm somewhat surprised having 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.640 since he does this every other year, it's still a misdemeanor. 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:03.120 I know. It's horror that you can exhibit this level 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:06.199 of recklessness of driving and uh and continue to drive 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:08.040 and not even really pay much of a penalty. The 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:11.000 penalties are the cost. That's what keeps people, most people 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:13.160 in line, the insurance costs and all that sort of stuff. 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:15.760 Obviously that doesn't apply to a Tiger Woods. But here's 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:18.400 the first part of the tape that came out yesterday, 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:20.439 and well, if you can't understand what it is, we'll 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:22.640 explain it. The ending of this is rich. This is 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.600 Tiger talking to the cops after he flipped his vehicle again. 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:31.680 Comes down on my phone and all of a sudden boom, 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:35.520 can't tell me what happened? Real quick? Yeah, I was 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:40.280 looking down at my phone. You to look at changing stations, 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:46.559 and next general boom, are you okay? Ye? Are you 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.040 all right? Are you in any pain? No back pain, 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:53.679 no neck pain, no me, nope. Unfortunately for the accident, 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:56.599 you are at faulty and subsequently you are usually a 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:59.560 citation for Kelly is driving resulting in a crash. Okay, 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:02.280 behind you that. 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.520 So at this time I do believe your normal faculties. 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.000 Are impaired, okay, and you're under the unknown substance. O 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:18.559 do yes, sir? Anarko ye? Okay? Okay? Which clip was that? Michael? 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:22.480 Somehow we got confused on this, Okay, I wanted twenty five, 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.640 but maybe I mis represented. Okay, that was so that 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:27.680 was him interacting with the cops and everything like that. 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:30.400 This is this is the rich one. Go with us, 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:36.120 mister Woods. Mister Woods, did you hang out down here 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:39.880 with us? Please? Thank you so much? All right, got 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:43.280 it all right? Thank you? So yeah, I just keep 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:44.280 you down here with us, please. 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:45.160 Yeah. 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:51.480 I was just talking to the president. I was talking 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:53.760 to the president. So he's over by the bushes. You've 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:55.840 probably seen the pictures and everything like that, and mister Woods, 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:57.920 can you come over we need talk? Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry. 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:00.440 I was just talking with the president. I'll come over 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:04.600 and talk with you now. Now that's a that's the 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:07.160 all time. Do you know who I am? I mean, 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:09.280 that makes do you know who I am? The same 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:13.960 way seem like nothing. But you wouldn't think Tiger Woods 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:17.680 would have a higher gear of do you know who 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:22.640 you're messing with? Right? Wow? No kidding, but you know 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:25.680 I'm talking to the Maybe if you can literally flex, 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:27.520 I was just on the phone with the President. You 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.320 do it, yes, Katie. I want to hear Trump's reaction 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:33.440 to him dropping that has anybody nailed down if he 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:35.480 actually was on the phone with the president, because he's 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:40.080 got he was Trump Trump said, yeah, that I talked 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:43.240 to Tiger. He's doing fine. He's a a tough time. 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:44.960 He has a lot of pain. I talked about this 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.520 the other day. He has a lot of pain. It's 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:48.920 not good what he did, right, But I did know 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:54.520 that that happened at the scene. Okay, so oh yeah, 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.400 I guess I didn't know that either, But yeah, yeah, 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.240 I assumed he talked to him later because because tis 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:04.600 dating Trump's daughter x and daughter in law ex daughter 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:08.080 in law she was she was married to Eric or 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:11.320 Trump Junior, whichever, but so now she's with Tiger Woods. 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:16.240 So did so Tiger has the President's number, his phone, 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:19.200 flips his car, and his thinking is I'm gonna call 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:21.840 the president. I wonder what he asked him to do. 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.240 I don't know. He's pilled up, so maybe his thinking 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:28.600 was a little glory. That's a that's a great question. 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:32.800 What was he hoping for? A pardon? Hey, it's the president. 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:34.320 Could you get on the phone with these cops and 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:36.880 tell them to leave me alone? Can I push you 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:39.400 on with the cops so they do? Could? They'll think 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:43.560 you're an imitator? So you got to like prove your view. What. Yeah, 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:45.800 I was talking to the president. I was talking to 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:52.560 the president. That's the all time flex. Man. Wow, good 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:57.280 on the cops for not You can't in the modern 0:16:57.320 --> 0:16:59.240 era of body cams and all that sort of stuff, 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:01.240 I suppose, but man, oh man, ohmen, it'd be pretty 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:02.760 easy to say, he's on the phone with the President, 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:04.800 let's just let him go. Let's just drive him home, 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:07.760 put his car back on the wheels, call it good. 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:10.280 I have more questions about the nature of the charges 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:12.159 than all were out of time, but more on that 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:15.320 to come stop stop trying to kill people. 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:22.800 Tuggert, Armstrong and Getty Exclusive CNN reporting about the extent 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:27.800 of damage to Iran's military capability. Roughly half of Iran's 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:32.719 missile launchers are still intact despite the daily attacks by 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:36.800 the US and Israeli military. Thousands of one way attack 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:40.679 drones also remain in Iran's arsenal. One source says Iran 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:44.119 is quote still very much poised to reach absolute havoc 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:48.400 throughout the entire region. A Pentagon spokesperson calls CNN's reporting 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:50.359 quote completely wrong. 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:54.159 Right, So this is really interesting, and I don't know 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:57.080 what to think. So you've got the mainstream media who's 0:17:57.119 --> 0:17:59.159 taking is negative a view on the war as they 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:03.360 possibly can, in some cases practically actively rooting for our defeat. 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:08.480 On the other hand, the history of all administrations in 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:13.440 my lifetime, going back to you know, Johnson and Obama 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:21.920 about Afghanistan, administrations lie always and sometimes are lied to themselves, 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:24.040 and then they lie to the public not knowing it, 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:27.960 about the success of their military operations. It's just a thing. 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:33.119 So and I fit that in with I was watching 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:35.119 a news Nation report today where they had somebody on 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:37.280 the ground in Israel where they got hit with lots 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:40.960 and lots of rockets overnight by Iran. Again and this 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:42.680 reporter is saying a lot of people here on the 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:47.960 ground are really confused and surprised by Iran's continued ability 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:51.760 to project power and shoot rockets at him. So, and 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:54.119 I think a lot of us are like, how is 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:56.679 this still possible that every day you can blow up 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:59.000 a tanker or hit this base or that base, or 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:02.600 keep firing it. I don't know what the right answer is. 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:05.919 So CNN's reporting that like half the rocket launchers are 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:11.159 still working, the Pentagon says that's completely not true. Right, boy, Well, 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:12.960 there are a number of topics you brought up there, 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:20.160 one being the necessary right to deceive in warfare, because 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:23.560 sometimes you have to do that as a government. It's 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:27.680 the perfect example of a power, granted that is always abused. 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:31.520 I mean, I get the reasons you do that, and 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:35.639 they're absolutely valid, but as you point out, every administration 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:40.119 abuses it and goes way beyond any justifiable keeping the 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:42.679 home front together or not demoralizing the troops or fooling 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:46.639 the enemy or whatever. They all like. The second thing 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:48.840 about the missile capability, I think, why do you think 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:55.480 that happens? Why did why did the Defense secretary and 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:59.120 everybody beneath him mislead Johnson in Vietnam? Why did everybody 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:01.480 lie to a bomb? And he thought the war was 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:03.880 going great in Afghanistan? And then the Washington Post blew 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:06.720 that open with now it's going horrible, and everybody write 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:09.760 up the chain. Everybody lied. Yeah, yeah, I think because 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:14.080 it's life and death, and people think since the stakes 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:21.240 are so high, their justification is strong to And they 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:25.720 wouldn't say mislead the president. They'd say stay optimistic, or 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:29.040 not be overly negative or what have you. It's a 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:31.080 great question. I'm sure there are books written about it. 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:33.040 I suppose to a certain extent, it might be as 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:34.960 simple as how often do you want to tell your 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:37.600 boss you're not doing a good job or haven't been 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:40.640 successful at the big project he gave you. That's part 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:44.240 of it. Yeah, you're tasked to accomplish something, and you 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:46.080 don't want to be the one to say is can't 0:20:46.160 --> 0:20:50.200 be accomplished, right, because that sounds like I can't accomplish 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:52.520 it anyway. There are a bunch of headlines to hit 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:58.720 today live updates. US fighter jet reportedly shot down over Iran. 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:02.280 A least one American pilot was reportedly ejected from their 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:05.439 aircraft today when it was shot down over southwestern Iran. 0:21:05.440 --> 0:21:11.080 According to multiple outlets, let's see a television channel in 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:14.840 this province instructed Iranians who find down US pilots to 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:18.520 leave them alive and take them to security agents agencies 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:21.760 for a precious prize rather than kill them as they 0:21:21.800 --> 0:21:24.720 had previously advised on the air well. That's very civilized 0:21:24.760 --> 0:21:28.879 of you, Thank you, aroon. Another headline, Iran beefs up 0:21:28.960 --> 0:21:33.320 defenses and recruits children as it prepares for a ground war. 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:38.160 Whoa yeah, They've stepped up defenses of their biggest oil port, 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:43.200 whilst threatening to attack a wider array of targets around 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:46.560 the Gulf and launching a mass recruitment drive reminiscent of 0:21:46.640 --> 0:21:51.919 its nineteen eighties war with Iraq. The Tehran is mobilizing 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:54.200 its population ways that seek to harness the spirit of 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:57.439 the eighties war with Iraq. That includes drives to recruit 0:21:57.520 --> 0:22:01.320 millions of Iranians, including children, fixture of the tribute to 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:04.120 martyrs via street signs and posters that are still part 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:07.680 of the Iran's daily life. Iran is also hardening defenses 0:22:07.720 --> 0:22:14.000 on karg Island, among the other strategic islands. Steps include boosting, 0:22:14.119 --> 0:22:17.800 guided missile systems, laying mines along the coastline, and booby 0:22:17.960 --> 0:22:25.159 trapping facilities. According to an Iranian official, I feel like 0:22:25.640 --> 0:22:30.600 the trying to get the uranium ount project has got 0:22:32.200 --> 0:22:37.240 historic disaster written all over it. I don't know if 0:22:37.280 --> 0:22:39.840 they're still considering that or not. Trying to secure a 0:22:39.960 --> 0:22:43.119 giant area and the number of people and the amount 0:22:43.160 --> 0:22:45.520 of equipment we'd have to have in place, I mean, 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:49.399 if RANN has got any ability to fire rockets or 0:22:49.600 --> 0:22:53.240 launch attacks or anything when that's going on, they will, Yeah, 0:22:53.280 --> 0:22:57.280 they would go nuts trying to achieve that psychological and 0:22:57.440 --> 0:23:01.800 you know, frankly real victory. Speaking of which, another headline, 0:23:01.960 --> 0:23:06.480 A great article written by the musically named Yaroslav Trauma Trofimov. 0:23:06.880 --> 0:23:08.680 We forgot to do our great tease. Let me do 0:23:08.800 --> 0:23:11.680 our great teas. Oh okay, sorry, we interrupt this story 0:23:11.800 --> 0:23:16.040 to bring you this. Gavin Newsom's wife is going to 0:23:16.080 --> 0:23:18.879 be the gift that keeps on giving. Oh yeah, as 0:23:18.920 --> 0:23:21.240 they dig up old interviews and probably once he was 0:23:21.320 --> 0:23:25.359 running current interviews, well yeah, because he's gonna try like 0:23:25.640 --> 0:23:28.680