WEBVTT - I Ain't Dying In Crocs 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.200 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:07.680 Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:11.719 Jack Armstrong is Joe Getty arms Strong and Jetty and 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:17.280 he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:30.000 People don't want to hear about these stupid ideas that 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:35.080 they have transgender for everybody. And again the men and 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:39.760 women's sports. What is that a ninety to ten deal. 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:42.440 I don't even know who the ten would be, but 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:44.000 they were in the fighting for it. 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:45.839 And I try and. 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:48.159 Say to myself, because you always like to understand where 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:50.560 your opponent is, whether it's in business or anything else. 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:56.120 Is there something I don't understand, but we don't understand it. 0:00:57.280 --> 0:00:59.800 So Trump did a big interview with Maria Barbromo yes 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:02.240 day and a lot of different issues, but this is 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:04.520 what's getting the most attention, so we can discuss. 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:07.479 Look, I know that you inherited a mess, and you say, 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:09.119 I don't been here far. 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:13.920 Are you expecting a recession this year? I hate to 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:18.119 predict things like that. There is a period of transition 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:21.520 because what we're doing is very big. We're bringing wealth 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:25.240 back to America. That's a big thing, and there are 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:30.480 always periods of it takes a little time. It takes 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:34.039 a little time, but I think it should be great 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:34.399 for us. 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:35.679 I mean, I think it should be great. 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:40.360 So the fact that he didn't immediately say no, there's 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:41.399 not going to be a recession. 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:44.400 Him understanding the way the media. 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:49.480 Works and everything means something, right, right, I thought his 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:52.280 very brief screen about you know, it's important in any 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:54.720 sort of negotiation, I ask yourself, is there something I 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:56.639 don't understand about the other side? 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:59.360 Occasionally, because Trump's. 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:06.600 Very simple populist messaging sometimes strikes people including me, is 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:11.040 like crazy oversimplified, but that's often intentional, and occasionally he 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:13.399 shows a glimpse behind the curtain, and he's much more 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:16.720 analytical than he comes off. I think, right, can we 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:19.000 break out of the either like Trump or you don't 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:21.080 like him for just a minute to have this conversation. 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:24.600 Sure, so he's talking to the listener, I know you can, But. 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:29.200 I'm thinking about friends I know who would never never 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:31.000 be able to get past the they hate Trump so 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:36.240 much or whatever. But he talked a little bit about 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:39.200 having long term goals, thinking long term, how China thinks 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:42.320 in centuries in the interview, and I thought it was interesting. 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:44.680 On MSNBC this Morning where they do hate Trump so 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:48.080 much they can hardly see straight. David Ignatius of the 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:50.560 Washington Post saying this, He made a. 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:54.400 Very interesting comment yesterday that I did pay attention to 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:57.400 where he said China works on one hundred year cycle 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:00.560 of planning in the United States goes horror to quarter, 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:04.960 something I've heard from corporate CEOs for for years, and 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:07.640 I think he's right about that. I mean, it's not 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:10.200 to endorse the policies, but we do tend to get 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:13.040 so caught up in these short term movements that we 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:14.480 forget about what would be good. 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:16.040 In for the long run in the country. 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:19.559 But in any event, Wall Street's got the jitters today. 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:19.839 All right. 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:22.440 And it reminded me is that we've been saying for 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:25.720 years on this show. You always say that, you know, 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:29.840 the Dow is not the economy, or what's happening with 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:33.480 the stock market is not the economy. And Wall Street, man, 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:36.720 the Wall Street Journal gets quoted all the time. We 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:39.160 quoted all the time, and it's a great newspaper, but man, 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:41.600 they're a quarter by quarter what's best for the next 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:45.160 quarter newspaper and a bunch of people who make a 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:47.480 lot of money off of being able to read what's 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.840 going to happen quarter by quarter by quarter. But I 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:53.640 remember reading an article in the Wall Street Journal years ago. 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:56.800 There's never been any movement on this on how when 0:03:56.880 --> 0:04:00.000 reporting rules changed, and I don't remember when that happened, 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:05.240 but we went from reporting, you know, yearly or whatever 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:10.200 to quarterly to the stockholders really change the way we 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:12.720 do business in the United States, and people. 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:14.240 Started changing chasing that quarter. 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:16.880 And if you've ever worked for a big company, you've 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:21.000 seen them do things that you know is structurally a 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:25.040 bad long term idea. But they did it because it's 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:27.760 going to boost the stock price this quarter, and they're 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:29.839 not worried about the next quarter till they get to 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:32.160 the next quarter. And that's what Trump's trying to talk about. 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:34.040 And I don't know if you can actually do it. 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:36.359 I don't know if you can bring manufacturing back to 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:40.120 the United States. We start making things here, and you know, 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:42.560 China has its own orbit and we have our own 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:44.280 orbit and they're separate and all that sort of thing. 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:45.840 I don't know if you can do that in a 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:49.360 one term presidency. But that's what he's talking about. Yeah, 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:50.159 A couple of thoughts. 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:52.720 That is the challenge because it could easily take thirty 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:56.800 years to do it thoroughly. And it's so easy to demogogue, right, 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:00.360 difficult in between period in a democracy from the left 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:01.000 and the right. 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:02.920 Oh sure, absolutely, yeah, yeah. 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:05.599 I mean if if a you know, Jos Shapiro whatever, 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:08.000 decided that, you know, that's right, we got to onshore 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:10.520 a bunch of stuff because China are dirty communists and 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:13.640 bent on world domination and evil and it's it. But 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.680 it would take a couple two three decades to thoroughly 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:19.919 restructure the economy that way, and it's very difficult for 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:25.359 democracy to do that. And of course Trump's only got 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:29.719 four years and if his successor, whoever that might be, 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:34.719 gets in and is willing to continue those policies. But again, 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:38.039 the difficulty is we vote every few years, and the 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:42.240 average voter is completely unsophisticated. Now, you folks, you've got 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.760 in terms of savvy, you've got multiple PhDs. But you know, 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:48.880 the average schlub who turns out to the polls having 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.040 been convinced that they're going to take away the old 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:54.320 people's social security or Trump's a new Hitler. 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:55.920 I mean, that's a hell of a lot of voters. 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:58.280 And you can you can get those people fired up 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:02.640 and cut off the world's wisest long term plan at 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:05.159 the knees without even trying this. 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:08.040 This is a really big picture issue though. I mean, 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:12.680 I think this gets to the core of is an 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:15.920 authoritarian system where one guy makes the decisions like China 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:21.000 better than our system on this issue. We can people 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:25.919 govern themselves on this issue, think long term and the 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:27.520 reality of the new world. 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:30.480 No, but thank you for asking. 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.240 The other point I was going to make is actually 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:38.160 kind of a preemptive answer to that question, and that 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:42.760 is another thing democracy are famous for is being reactive. 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.160 One of my favorite quotes from Churchill was when he 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:50.880 said nothing changes until you're invaded. You can't get people 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:54.520 to vote for strong national defense until the poo has 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:56.560 hit the fan. I was thinking about this, oh, I 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:59.279 was listening to a good podcast and really thinking deeply 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:02.480 about the These are the things I daydream about. If 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:05.599 I were to design a plan for either party to 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:10.240 truly do long term reform of social security and medicaid, 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:13.800 what would the messaging be, How would we approach that 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:18.440 and like preemptively guard ourselves against the demagoguery of they. 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:19.560 Want old people to starve? 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:26.679 And honestly, I couldn't come up with anything that would work. 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:30.560 We will do nothing about those situations until they crash, 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:33.640 and then everybody will say how did this happen? And 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:37.800 we will have to enact strong, unpalatable measures to save 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:38.760 those two programs. 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:40.760 I just I don't know how to head it off 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:41.600 in a democracy. 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:45.440 I'm sorry to be discouraging, well like a bad talk 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:46.640 show host, and I apologize. 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:49.160 Dave Chappelle had a joke over the weekend of uh, 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:51.880 this all sounds great until you're paying nine thousand dollars 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:52.520 for an iPhone. 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:56.000 The problem being. 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:02.520 If China gets what they want, they're just gonna They're 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:06.800 just gonna take the Apple factory, and we'ren't right and 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:09.400 unless we're willing to send in the Marines, there's not 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:11.440 gonna be any getting it back. And then we'll have 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:13.440 to all of a sudden figure out how to make 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:17.239 the iPhone or MacBook or whatever in the United States 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:19.800 or in India or some friendly country or whatever. So 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:23.320 it's either there'll be fifty thousand YUS four or five years. 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.239 So it's either plan ahead or or it's gonna be worse. 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:32.080 Since again, but if we can't deal with the simple 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:35.400 math of social security as an issue as you've been 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:38.480 talking about. Well, then we're certainly not gonna deal with 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:42.360 the complexities of bringing manufacturing back to the United States 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.120 because we found out during COVID all the medicines and 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.120 masks and every every single thing you needed was made 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:53.120 in China or somewhere else, because we don't make anything right. 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:57.680 Yeah, other than certain aspects of Trump's foreign policy, which 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:00.719 I don't like it all, there a hell of a 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:03.320 lot he's doing that I think is great. I am 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:07.320 uncomfortably reminded of when Arnold Schwarzenegger was the governor of 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:11.599 California and he had like was it, five giant reforms 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:14.880 and he decided to push them all through at once, 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:20.240 which was a terrible tactical error, Yes, you lunkhead, because 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.800 all of the special interest groups were able to pool 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.440 their resources and energies and get it all defeated at once, 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:30.280 where even though the pulling on the individual topics was very, 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:33.800 very good, and I just I find myself thinking, if 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:37.640 the disruptions to the economy because of a legitimate long 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:41.520 term you know, brand of thinking make it really easy 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:45.920 to demagogue against that, then there go the other budget cuts, 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:49.600 all the enthusiasm for that will will go away. Elon Musk, 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:53.120 the world's richest man is brought on this recession be 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:56.280 fairly easy to sell and there goes the anti woke 0:09:57.000 --> 0:10:01.240 you know momentum. Maybe the reforming the universities in schools 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:04.320 to get the Marxist you know, indoctrination out of them. 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:06.920 I just I'm a little concerned. There's so much going on. 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:10.680 Well, if you could get a group of economists to 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:17.280 discuss this and check their trump fear, slash, love or 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:22.760 hatred at the door, do we need to think? Okay, 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:26.079 the whole globalization thing is over. That moment is over. 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.000 China is going to have their sphere of influence and 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:32.480 it might be half the planet. Everything is going to divide. 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:35.600 We need to bring everything back or to friendly countries. 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:36.920 Period. 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.480 Would most economists agree with that or not? I wonder 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:43.560 I think they would. 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:48.679 Yeah, Yeah, I don't unless they have a much rosier 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:52.560 view of China and its future than any sane human 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:53.160 being could have. 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:54.200 Yeah, they'd agree. 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:56.840 If that needs to happen. There's going to be an 0:10:56.920 --> 0:11:01.280 ugly period of making that happen. Yes, or more likely 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.520 it's going to be what you said, when when it 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.719 all collapses or the war starts or whatever, that's when 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:08.480 we'll have to figure out how to make a car 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:10.559 in the United States, an iPhone in the United States, 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.400 all that sort of stuff. I just I'm not I 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:15.319 don't I can't go with you that far that it's 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:17.120 all going to be made in the United States. I 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:19.840 think it'll be more regionalism as opposed to globalism. And 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:24.920 I just hope Trump's being realistic about well, he didn't 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:27.040 even want it massing. He didn't want to make things 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.440 in Mexico or Canada. Right now, It's exactly where I 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:35.200 was going with this. I think you would have to 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:37.559 go full on, like I don't want to get too 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:41.559 technical here, partly because my memories of this crap pretty fuzzy. 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:42.080 Uh. 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:49.000 You don't want to go full protectionist, mercantilist, isolationist economics 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:52.520 because that would that would so radically remake the economy, 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.280 that would shake out over you know, half a century 0:11:55.400 --> 0:12:01.200 or more. I like the idea of a much tighter regionalism, 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:05.480 but that's gonna involve because you know, Mexico, Guatemala, some 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:08.760 of the South American countries have much lower labor costs. 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:12.040 That's gonna involve some of the mass production being there 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:15.120 and not all on shore. I think, I think that, 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:19.200 you know, a mix of the two on shoring and 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:20.960 regional cooperation. 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:22.120 Is probably the sweet spot. 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:24.480 But the Bernie crowd's got to be happy about trying 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:26.800 to bring the jobs back to the United States. 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:30.800 Right, Yeah theoretically, Yeah, well that's interesting stuff. 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:33.360 Again, he's got three and a half years to do it, 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:35.880 whereas China's got a hundred year plan and one guy 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:36.920 makes all the decisions. 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:42.400 That's gonna be fun to watch. Tell you will it? 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:47.080 Stock up on dried goods and ammunition. 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:50.000 Folks, or horrifying A bunch of things to update you on. 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:52.640 Gene Hackman, Lebron James. 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:57.000 My favorite gender bending madness story of the year thus far. 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:59.800 Oh boy, that sounds good. All on the way stay here. 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:05.840 Prime has launched. 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:08.400 A new tool that will use AI to dub movies 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:12.720 into English from foreign languages like Spanish, Korean, and Sylvester Sloan. 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:19.400 Oh I love that man, so AI could uh, I 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:21.320 don't have to read the dang foreign film. 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:22.200 That's cool. 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:26.520 So it's gonna I put my headphones on late. The 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:29.160 audio track is actually going to be translated. Yeah, AI 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:32.840 could do that obviously with good acting skills. I don't 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:33.520 know about that. 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:35.680 But I hear the past in the voice. 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:37.840 But if I'm reading it, what are my acting skills? 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:40.240 I'm reading the well, you hear the. 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:41.400 Voices on screen? Right. 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:44.240 It's like the the Everywhere all the time, up and 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:46.680 down and behind you movie that I thought was so good. 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:50.440 I finally watched Ye so prime a new prime minister 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.559 in Canada? Trudeau's out? Is that correct? 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:53.360 Well? 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:55.760 Not yet? Not yet? Okay, they haven't voted for a 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:56.280 new one yet. 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:59.480 The exciting realities of Canadian politics to come. 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:01.680 Also next hour. 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:04.679 What China is up to and how they're doing it 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:08.240 is absolutely clear now, dramatic, shocking, terrifying. 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:10.960 Stay with us. I just wondered if Christine was out yet. 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:15.800 Speaking of gender bending madness, this may be my favorite 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:17.080 gender bending madness. 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.400 Story of the year thus far, though it is early. 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:23.320 So in San Francisco, you got the uh, you got 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:25.840 one full nude Russian bath house. 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:30.160 Okay, I don't know what you're doing. I'm not a Russian. 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:31.040 What what do is do? 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:31.200 What? 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:33.840 Everyone I've heard the term bath house and then jokes 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:35.240 about it. But I don't really know what a bath 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:35.720 house is. 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:40.800 You go, it's like a hot tubbery are you so 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:43.960 can it's you soak in the hot tubs, into the 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.680 mud baths or whatever. And but I don't know. 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:49.280 I don't go to them, or are they a sexual 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:52.680 thing or are there are there above allegedly no? 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:56.080 In reality, yeah, that was the big hookup place in 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:57.160 San Francisco for years. 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:00.560 That's where the aids spread so so rapidly. I was 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:01.800 really ignorant on this topic. 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:04.720 But so they are like real bathhouses that just regular 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:07.600 people not wanting to have sex go to. I never 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:09.640 talked to anybody's Yeah, got back from the bathouse, is 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:09.920 going to go. 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:11.200 Had a good time? Oh yeah. 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:13.200 In a lot of cultures, and we're actually using up 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.640 all the time for the actual story I wanted to tell. 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:16.480 But you know what the hell? 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:23.480 Uh yeah, Russians, Finns, your Northern Europeans bathhouses, hot springs, 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:27.440 mud baths, saunas where you're naked, all that stuff is 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:32.160 super common. But anyway, so this all nude Russian bath house, 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:37.480 uh really it wants to have a ladies' night, so 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.520 so the women's there can just be there if of 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:42.800 whatever religious bent they are, that they're not supposed to 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:44.440 be naked around men, or just don't want to be 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:48.760 or whatever. And they published the new announcement of the Ladies' 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:52.920 Night saying, quote, in order to shelter religious preferences of 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:57.400 women in our community, only biological women will be allowed. Well, 0:15:57.520 --> 0:15:59.720 there was en up roar jack in San Francisco, and 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:04.000 theanguage was quickly updated to sex assigned at birth. 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:06.840 But then that was hosted. 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:10.840 Of course, everything lives forever on the internet, and there 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:14.280 are protests and counter protests and people yelling online and 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:17.320 that sort of thing. Even though they quote several transgender 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:21.480 people former fellas saying, look, it's one night a month. 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:23.120 No sane person. 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:25.920 Goes to the banya every day of the month anyway. 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:28.760 But so then, and I'm going to hurry through this, 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:32.280 they had to change it because nobody could agree on 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:38.680 the terms to fallus and nonfallous nights, phallic and non 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:41.400 phallic nights. Because if you're a woman and you go 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:43.320 to the bath house on Women's night and there's a 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:45.440 wang there, it is not women's night. 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:47.960 Well, yes, it is. 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:53.280 Trans women are women jack. According to people mostly in 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:55.960 San Francisco and places like that. But the bath house 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:57.880 is like, all right, what do we call it? So 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:00.800 nobody with a chance shows up. As are going through 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:04.000 about six different iterations, they came up with non phallic knight. 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:07.520 Thank you for making the point better than conservatives ever could. 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:10.200 I'm Christian, friends, Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:14.240 This is what it sounds like at the Highatt Regency 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:17.959 Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky, hundreds of high school students from 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:21.320 the Kentucky All State Choir uniting each night to sing 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:25.640 our national anthem, a longtime tradition in the Bluegrass State, 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.200 going all the way back to nineteen eighty seven. 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:51.400 Braid, Yes, Brade, I knew how it ends. 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:51.600 Bran. 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:54.120 Let's get to come up. We've got things to do wrong. 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:59.040 I'm sitting here with chills, my soul stir. Jack's bitching 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:00.640 about how long it is? Wow? 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:06.600 Nice little wow, let's move the metromenome up five clicks? 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:11.440 All right, little kind of built to that moment. Fucking okay. 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:13.800 I like the story for a little long, nice story. 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:16.960 That is a beautiful set and beautiful singing. Yeah, I 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:21.080 mean it was absolutely lovely coming up. Have cars gotten 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:25.360 too technologically advanced. Now they're making everyone insane. I've been 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:27.600 saying this for thirty years. Of course I'm a ludite. 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:30.800 You are ali it, but and you like fast anthems. 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:34.159 Everybody knows about you. But on the opposite end of 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:37.840 the technological spectrum. As things get weirder and more bloody 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:39.919 and horrible in the Ukraine, I don't want to talk 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:41.919 about the war and foreign policy and Trump and all 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:42.800 sorts of stuff. 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:45.200 But two technical notes. 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:50.560 Lately, as it's become kind of the experimenting experimental ground 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:54.080 for all sorts of weapons systems that will be unleashed 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:57.040 on other human beings for you know, the next half century. Promly, 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:00.000 Russia is doing two things to adapt to the technology 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:03.480 sophistication of the Ukrainians. Number One, they are now using 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:09.080 train for goodness sakes, drones that are actually tethered to 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:15.919 lightweight cable, extremely lightweight cable to communicate with the drones 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:19.920 over short to kind of medium distances because they can't 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:25.720 be jammed. Ah wow, it's like a landline for your drones. 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:29.000 And they literally have spools of super lightweight wire that 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:33.480 goes out how far I don't remember came across this 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:34.120 a while back. 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:35.600 But again, you're not going to send. 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:38.000 One five miles away, obviously, it's you know, you're there 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:41.240 at the front, and the other thing is on the 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:45.399 Eastern Front, Russia is saddling up a mainstay of battlefields 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:49.000 from centuries earlier to counter Ukraine's drone army. 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:51.159 Horses and donkeys. 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:55.520 The behooved animals carry supplies and soldiers to avoid the 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:58.119 attention of drones, which can easily spot and strike armbored 0:19:58.200 --> 0:19:59.760 vehicles and other vehicles. 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:00.960 Moving near the front lines. 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:05.040 But you use a horse and a donkey, especially you know, 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:07.200 in the dusk or dark hours, and then you can 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:11.000 get by. So they're you know, it's not super widespread 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:16.960 right now, but they're using horses and donkeys and manual 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:20.240 trolleys now to move wood, supplies and even the injured 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:23.240 for miles to and from the front because they're much 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:25.840 less easily observed. 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:26.880 Anyway. 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:32.480 Ukrainian forces are also experimenting with various unmanned land droney devices, 0:20:32.480 --> 0:20:36.440 including something a very dog like looking beast that looks 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:39.120 like exactly out of one of those Boston Dynamics videos 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:41.720 that inspire us all even as they're really freaking us 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:42.880 out and giving us nightmares. 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:43.960 Yeah. 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:48.480 Yeah, So the next war we're involved in is gonna 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:53.200 look a lot different than the previous ones, like that 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:56.560 we're actually fighting. We're involved in all kinds of military 0:20:56.600 --> 0:20:59.000 conflicts around the world, but like where we actually have. 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:01.560 Boots on the ground. 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:06.640 As they say, it's funny that we haven't developed nomenclature 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:12.159 what to call are various levels of violent involvement of 0:21:12.480 --> 0:21:13.600 the members of the military. 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:15.680 Well, all that, because it gets to the whole Only 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:21.119 Congress can declare war, but for the past however long, 0:21:21.600 --> 0:21:25.240 you use the same nine to eleven justification for every 0:21:25.320 --> 0:21:27.840 act you do all over the world, and the President 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:30.800 can make the calls, right, the President or you know, 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:34.080 the Secretary of State or even the CIA can declare 0:21:34.080 --> 0:21:36.560