WEBVTT - The Evil Quasi Moon 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:06.680 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:11.880 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Kaddy Armstrong, and Jackie 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:13.000 and He. 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:26.320 Arms Rong, who live from studio scenes say he said, 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:27.760 You're a dimly. 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:30.040 Lit room deep with them the bowels of the Armstrong 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:33.560 in Getty Communications Compound, and today we are toiling. Under 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:36.640 the title of the show, the village has been overrun 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:41.120 by the idiots. We no longer have a village idiot. 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:49.120 Every village idiot visits every village via the Internet. We're 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:53.040 a world full of village idiots. We're overrun. Alternate titled 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:57.480 Dudes triumph again in girls' sports? Uh another one of 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:03.640 the oh yeah yeah. Actually, one fellow who's dominated track 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.400 and field girls track and field in California for quite 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:10.440 a while now ran rough shod over those stupid females 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:14.240 at the girls sports meet. I to go, buddy, and 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:16.480 the school or the tournament or somebody came up with 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:18.319 an interesting way to handle it, so we can talk 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:21.240 about that later. You got to do something, well, the 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:23.320 easiest thing to do would be saying if you got 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:26.160 a penis, you can't run, or if you were born 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:30.360 with one, or whatever. Yeah, but they took a cowardly, 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:35.120 pathetic third route unintentionally hilarious, and I say thank you 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:40.880 for the laughs. Where did we first come across that 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:47.840 bit of wisdom about all of these violent shooters that 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:49.840 has changed my view of looking at them for the 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:52.840 rest of my life. Where did that come from? We're 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:56.520 one hundred percent on the same track. Oh gosh, who 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:58.960 wrote that? It was so good? You can go ahead. 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:02.160 And but the main thing fitting in with a lot 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:04.680 of the horrifying shootings like what went on in San 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:10.760 Diego yesterday, is people that are basically suicidal, but they 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:16.960 latch onto a topic for their suicide and become ultimately 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:19.360 focused on that, but their real goal is killing themselves. 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:21.880 They're miserable and they want to kill themselves and it 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:24.320 doesn't cite a cost. But they had like no history. 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:27.560 It's a very very recent passion. Yeah, and I think 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:29.560 that's what's going on in San Diego with these two 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:32.200 people that clearly wanted to commit suicide, that was the plan, 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:39.040 and picked Muslim school kids as their target. Unbelievable. Yeah, 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:43.120 these losers, Yeah, might just have easily been you know, 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:46.640 I don't know. Building the cop city in Atlanta or 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:51.040 you know, anti healthcare executive to cite another story, It 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:55.320 could be anything. Part of it could be. Charlie Kirk 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:59.119 is another example. Yeah, absolutely, part of it could be 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:03.000 it's always been this way. But part of it also 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:06.639 may be in the modern world where you know, if 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:08.720 your baby took their first steps and you didn't get 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:11.240 it on video and can post it, it doesn't count. 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:15.520 That whole phenomenon that affects all of us to a 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:17.720 certain extent, where it just seems like life doesn't count 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.520 if it's not put on some sort of place for 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:23.720 somebody to say, hey, nice job, or cool new shoes 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:29.359 or whatever. Perhaps the most sacred moment of someone's life 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:32.200 when they decided to decide to join together with another 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:35.360 person as partners for the rest of their days. Fingers crossed, 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:39.960 that's got to be a performative show put on for 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:42.880 the internet. Getting engaged. So you can't just kill yourself. 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:45.320 How sad and pathetic would it be to kill yourself 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:49.680 alone in your house? Nobody knows as opposed to make 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:52.000 the news right that is, I don't know how we 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:55.240 stop that phenomenon. Well, I think that's nailed, though I 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:59.320 do not think this is a flawed theory. Whatsoever, this 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:03.680 kid could have knocked out, you know, the new hydroelectric 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:08.000 plant workers as easily as Muslims. I mean, it's just 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:12.400 it's one of those why you got, you know, just 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:16.000 take take yourself out, do it in reverse, as we 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:18.080 always say, do it in reverse, kill yourself first. It's 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:21.960 taken out innocent people. Just horrifying anyway, And that's probably 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:24.280 all there is to say about that story other than 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:30.000 yet another really brave security person guard principle, somebody, depending 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:34.640 on the situation, who made the loss of life much 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:38.560 less by risking their own lives. Now, get ready for 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:43.560 the inevitable flood of articles and you know, speeches from 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:51.160 the left about how it's the backlash, Islamophobic backlash, blah 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:56.120 blah blah. No, fundamentalist Islam is still fundamentally incompatible with 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:59.600 Western civilization. I will continue to say, so doesn't mean 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:01.839 you kill innocent people who just happen to be of 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:06.760 that religion. Please, it's a horror. Of course, Again, these 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:10.880 guys were not ideologically dedicated. I mean, they were as 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:13.920 passionate about this cause as I was about my favorite 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.479 band when I was eighteen years old. Or you know 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:19.599 some girl or you know something else that I went 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:23.640 wild about for, you know, a cup of coffee. This phenomenon, 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:27.480 you need to understand what it actually is. It's performative suicide, 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:30.360 which makes it more scary, not less. It's not like 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.279 it tempers these stories. It makes it more of a 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:36.880 problem and more scary because who knows who the suicidal 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:39.640 job is going to latch onto for their big show 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.359 of look how miserable I am. Although I think the 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:46.280 more universal that the knowledge of what it is becomes, 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:52.280 you know that that young person will think will recognizing 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:56.200 themselves maybe what they're doing, and think, yeah, I'm not 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:58.520 actually fired up over this. I just hate myself and 0:05:58.560 --> 0:05:59.960 want to die and want to take people with me. 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.560 So I get on TV. Do I really want to 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:06.360 do that? There's nothing like being able to name your 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:12.560 emotions or your emotional turmoil to help you sort through it. God, 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:14.880 talk with Claude or somebody you know, need to do 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:19.160 the chatbot therapist. But so we're in that first twenty 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:21.600 four hours period where often things turn out to be 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:26.360 not true. What you heard happens all the time. I 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:29.559 was just wondering, since they killed themselves, these two awful 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.600 human beings killed themselves, a white BMW and a BMW 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:38.280 if maybe this is one of those children of privilege 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:44.400 things that is so obviously also extra disturbing people with 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.479 pretty cushy lives who are suicidal and need to lash 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:51.440 out at the world affluenza. Yeah, so we don't know 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:53.720 the details on that, but I'm sure they will come in. 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:58.760 So that's one story. Did Trump taco or is this 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:02.600 just I mean, if the people came from and said, 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:05.200 you know, if they sense the big attack was coming, 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:06.880 that he was fed up, and they came to him 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:10.520 and said, look, we get it, and we're we need 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:12.880 to do something, Well, stop looking for a nuclear weapon. 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:14.520 Let's come up with a deal there. There'd be no 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:16.720 point in attacking him at that point, even if you've 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:19.360 tacoed five times or whatever you want to call it. 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:22.000 Yeah. 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:24.480 Well, when I see a pattern, I see a pattern, 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:26.440 and I think I see a pattern. I don't know. 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:30.400 One wag on the internet speaking of that evil force 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:34.120 that will destroy the world. Ah that has cutter got 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.600 Trump on some sort of solid gold choke chain or something. 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:41.600 What is happening here? Where do hear the negotiations? One 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:44.520 more trot Why would you do it, though, I mean, 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:47.880 why would you make the apocalyptic threat over and over 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:49.760 again and not follow through on it? What does he 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.800 think he's getting out of it? If it's the pattern, 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:55.320 you see, because I don't understand what benefit he's getting 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:57.880 out of it. Well, I just have been fooled over 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:01.680 and over again, thinking, Okay, the negotiats are clearly just 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:06.600 a joke. Iran is not at all serious about this. 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:09.600 In fact, they've given the middle finger to the very 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.280 idea of any sort of compromise over and over again. 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:16.560 Surely we will not extend the negotiations again to let 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:18.640 them work. That would be absurd at this point, and 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.400 it just keeps happening. I'm not just trying to figure 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:25.440 out a way where you know, you're a Trumpkin, Yeah, 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:30.480 you're you're a cultis practically. But him, of all people, 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:34.040 having spent his life making major deals, you would think 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:36.920 he would understand when he's being jerked around, as a 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.760 guy who has jerked other people around his entire life 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:44.040 in big deals. I could you know what this is. 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:45.840 This is going to piss some people off, but right 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:48.960 and tell me why I am wrong. You have some 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:51.800 billion dollar deal with the cutteries in the works to 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:56.000 benefit his family in this corporation. I hope that's not true. Yeah, 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:57.880 I hope it's not true too. But you just cited 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:00.040 to cite a couple of pieces of evidence that the 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:04.240 Trump family is above that for me, Well, I can't 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:08.440 do that in return for his nice new UH air 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:11.840 Force one was that from Cutter? Yeah I think so. Yeah, 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:14.320 that was not the UA, but Cutter, Yeah, well, I 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:17.120 sure hope it's not that. Yeah, I have I have completely. 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:23.839 I have no faith in limits or principles involved in 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:26.480 Your Trump phone is ringing, but you might want to 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:31.040 answer that. I can promise you it's not. I swear 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:33.480 on this Trump Bible. Your Trump phone will arrive within 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:37.200 six months. It's a flip phone. Yeah, well that'd actually 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:38.960 be good, and so we'd better than no phone, which 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.320 is what people curtly have. Yeah. I tell you what, 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:44.160 here's one thing Trump wouldn't do. Dot dot dot. I 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:48.040 find it difficult to finish that sentence confidently enough said 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:52.160 oh point, And you know what's super interesting, Just as 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.000 an aside to you personally, Jack, I'm you know, plowing 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:59.600 through email the last few days and uh, the staunch 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:06.400 defen are being outnumbered by the former defenders. That's you know, 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:09.880 it's not a great random defenders of Trump. Trump, Yeah, Trump, 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:12.520 the Hey, you guys got to hang in there. He 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:14.720 knows what he's doing. He's hanging tough. He's just waiting 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:18.320 or significantly outnumbered by the that's it. I've had it 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:21.240 with the guys. Well, I'm a still guy. You know. 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:26.000 I listened to a couple of long conservative podcasts yesterday 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:29.439 where they were really debating pretty harshly, the I ran 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:32.760 good idea or bad idea. As I've said many times, 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:35.880 are there podcasts on the left where they do this, 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:38.079 where they ever doubt their own side. If there are, 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:39.960 I would like you to point them to me, because 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:41.720 I would love to listen to him. I just never 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:45.959 hear it. I only hear universal, like watching MSNBC this morning, 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:50.680 everybody on the show agrees that, you know, this was 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:52.640 a bad idea, that was a great idea. Trump's wrong here, 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:55.800 blah blah blah. Never any like actual debate. Whereas I 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:59.480 listen to conservative podcasts Jonah Goldberg and Noah Rothman, two 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:02.440 my favorite conservative pugnits, really going at it over the 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:05.800 war and Iran yesterday I thought this is awesome. Two 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:10.719 smart guys who actually believe what they're saying debating. What 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.240 does this ever happen? On the left? Was there ever 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:16.280 a podcast where people are to be like seriously debating 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.840 among Democrats whether Biden should stay or go? I don't know. 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:21.679 I don't I don't ever hear them. I don't hear 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:25.760 in public. I don't hear them anyway. I'm still in 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:31.480 the this was a good idea a camp, but maybe 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:32.960 we can talk about that later because we're unning out 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:34.160 of time. But to me to say it was a 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:37.680 bad idea, like pundit Joanah Goldberg said, how do you 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:41.480 know yet? This is you got You're remodeling half your 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:43.160 house and they tore it down, and you say this 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:46.360 was a bad idea. We have no kitchen. Clearly it's 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:48.599 terrible idea. Well, maybe we wait till it's finished to 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:50.920 see if it was a good idea or not. But 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:53.480 that's where I now. We have a powerful email on 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:56.040 that very topic as part of mail bag Stay Too Cool. 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:58.520 I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty. On this it is Tuesday, 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:02.080 May nineteenth, twenty six. We are armstrong in getting we 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:05.840 approved of this program. Oh boy, all right, let's begin 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:08.360 saying what needs to be said precisely according to f 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:10.640 C see rules rags. Here we go at Mark, his 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:14.400 children are better off without learn about me. Like they're 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:20.240 calling enjoying funny. I'm stunning on business, Bryan Folkson, I 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:27.800 don't give millions of Americans liked it. So those two 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:32.720 of these three ten headed moron chicks outside the Luigi 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:36.720 Mangioni trial in New York yesterday with press passes that 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:40.360 they've gotten somehow from the mayor's office saying, he's it's 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:43.280 good he was murdered. I'm glad it happened. I don't 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:45.439 give an f that he died. Yeah, it was pretty 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:47.959 hard to hear. But like the one saying, I think 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:50.040 it's a good thing that he's dead. His kids are 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:52.719 better off without him. His kids are better off without him. 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.480 Can you imagine saying that as a human being. Yeah, 0:12:56.080 --> 0:13:00.920 about just a guy who was just doing his job right, right, believable. 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:04.480 And they got passes to get into Luigi Mangioni trial 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:09.320 from the mayor's office, correct, from Mamdani the Kami. Yeah, 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:11.640 oh man, we got more on that coming up later. 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:19.440 That's horrifying, ugly, evil cross eye leftist revolutionaries. People deserve 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:23.600 to die for disagreeing with me. That is a dangerous trend. God, 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:25.840 I'd say so, and it seems to be growing anyway. 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.240 We've got more headlines and news on the waist. There, 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:38.720 here's a headline. I know what podcast I'm listening to today. 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:41.800 I just was reading about button this is the only one. 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:45.760 Candace Owens interviewed Hunter Biden for like an hour yesterday, 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.920 and I guess there was quite the amazing stuff being 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:53.200 said there. Oh, I'll check that out today. Oh, I 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:56.840 hate to put a cent in her pocket. What area? 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:00.160 I'm kind of interested how far down the road of 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:03.200 the blaming the Jew's craziness under Biden's building to go? 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:07.120 So check that out. One other headline I want to 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:10.920 get to before Joe starts with his Russia lost ground 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:15.560 in the war. Sustained loss over a month for the 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:19.720 first time since October twenty three, so in quite a while. 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:23.200 Russia starting to lose ground in Ukraine. Can it be 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:28.000 kept going is the question? But I've heard a number 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:31.480 of military experts on various cable news channels say Ukraine 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:36.560 could win this thing. Yeah, yeah, it'd be exciting. Yeah, 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:38.480 I want to talk more about that. I came across 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:41.160 a couple of great pieces of analysis and reports and 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:44.640 that sort of thing. Yeah, yeah, it's wild how the 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:47.920 tide has turned. Just the toughness and resilience of Ukrainian 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:50.800 forces and their leadership actually, and they're making it enormous 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:54.760 strides and stamping out the oligarchs and crooks that were 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:57.360 part of the government too. Really. Yeah, boy, how this 0:14:57.400 --> 0:14:59.920 looks in five years is a kind of an excite 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:03.760 on inspiring mystery. Anyway, a handful of more headlines. He 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:07.040 heard about the two teenage gunmen who killed a handful 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:10.120 of people at a San Diego mosque. We talked about 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:14.680 that last segment or so been, As often is the 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:16.720 case with these things, could have been so much worse. 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:19.840 Thank god it wasn't. Oh yeah yeah. Indeed, a brave 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:23.160 security guard there sacrificed his life to save the people 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:26.680 behind him. Let's see, there's that absolutely classic story of 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:31.240 a public employee union gone wild. The Long Island commuter 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:33.200 line there in New York. We don't talk about a 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:37.080 lot of New York public transit, but it's brought to 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:40.200 you know, like a quarter million riders to their knees. 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:43.280 These people already make a tremendous amount of money, but 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:46.040 the Union is on both sides of the bargaining table, 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:50.280 as it often is in Blue states. Average national price 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:55.840 National average price gasoline is up fifty six percent since February. 0:15:56.040 --> 0:16:00.200 That's a lot from two to eighty nine average to 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:06.600 four fifty two average. I understand. I hate it every 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:08.240 time I fill up with gas. Actually, I hate it 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:10.720 any time I buy anything. It's still shocking to me. 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:13.040 What it costs to the grocery store, what it costs 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:16.760 that urban eats Jack s urbanites last night for Henry 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:20.080 and I'd eat there. Just ridiculous. But do the math 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:22.960 on your gas. I've been saying this long before the roar. 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.800 I've been saying this for decades. People don't do the 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:29.880 math on their gas before they freak out. How much 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.640 do you drive? Start there? How many miles do you drive? 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:34.840 Then figure out your mileage, figure out what it's actually 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:38.160 costing you before you, like, change your travel plans. I 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:40.800 was reading about all the people changing the Memorial travel plans. 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:43.280 That's too silly. How far are you planning to drive? 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:45.600 I mean, do the math if you're driving a couple 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:47.880 hundred miles and you get twenty to twenty five miles. Again, 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:51.760 you're talking like an extra four bucks each way or something. 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:54.960 Don't change your weekend plan over that. All right, it's 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:58.240 a cup of coffee. We're driving a barrel Alaska. Anyway. 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:01.720 Let's see cubas denying reports a stockpiling weapons. But the 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:05.919 war drums are beating looking at Cuba as well. Oakland 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:09.240 Jerry tossed Elon Musk's lawsuit against Open AI and more 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:12.720 stuff to come, including cost of living super great analysis 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:16.320 of that. Why it feels like we're also squeezed right now? Yeah, 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:18.840 it feels that way. It certainly feels that way. Camore 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:23.840 on the way, Armstrong and Getty. Hey, so the Instagram 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:27.080 launched a news snapchat like feature called Instance that allows 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:34.080 users to send disappearing photos. Please just say nudes. That's 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:36.840 a good point. What else are you saying that sending 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:39.919 ever that needs to disappear. Here's my kid on his 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:42.840 new bike. Gotta have it disappear within thirty seconds or 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:45.880 anybody see. I don't want to hanging around out there 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:49.719 on the internet. Yeah, that's great. Uh, we have I 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:54.720 think breaking news I can't find it, though, where is 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:58.240 that coming from? Okay, hold on, this is worth getting 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:08.040 to think me tease something America is increasingly saying Ai booh. 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:11.640 The anti AI backlash has begun in earnest. Now back 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:14.600 to Jack searching for breaking news. Iran has submitted their 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:23.560 new proposal. So Trump threatened obliteration again. Then late yesterday 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:25.840 put out a long truth social post that was both 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:30.280 a threat and a pause. If you're not following through 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:32.800 in this, we remain ready to obliterate you. All right. 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:36.120 Don't get all boyse guy on me, but I've been 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:38.880 told by three different Arab countries to hold off because 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:41.159 we're close to a deal. Iran has submitted their new 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:43.000 proposal to the United States to end the war. The 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:46.520 terms include five demands US troops leaving areas close to Iran. 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:50.440 That's probably okay, maybe, the US paying war reparations, and 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:54.479 end of I don't need to read the rest lifting 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:57.480 sanctions on Iran, releasing Iran's frozen assets, and ending the 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:00.399 US blockade. Okay, well, I would like to quote one 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:05.359 of the great thinkers of our time. I say again, 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:09.840 putting in there paying war reparations is just like whizzing 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:13.719 on you or something. Yeah, I mean it's like flipping 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:19.760 you off. Hey, here's my new proposal. Or back in 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:21.520 the day, you might have been ditting you back and 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:27.160 dropping your pants, a delightful tradition known as mooning. Yes, 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:29.800 that is exactly what that is. It's verbal mooning. Here's 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:30.600 my new proposal. 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:31.560 Like that. 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:40.760 You want to sign on to this? Right there? Always folks, 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:45.920 he's been over and waggon it to illustrate in the studio, shocking. 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:48.879 Don't ever do that again. Yeah, Michael, I join you 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:53.040 in that request. All right, So coming up the excuse me, 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:57.040 the backlash against Ai. But first, absolutely love Roland Fryar. 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:01.120 Do you know Roland. He's a young ish gosh, I'm 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:05.080 thirty something maybe forty year old black man, not that 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:08.240 that matters, but you might recognize him. He's an economist. 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:14.000 He's just a shaker upper of conventional wisdom. And he's 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:17.480 a professor at Harvard, founder of Equal Opportunity Ventures, senior 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:20.119 fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He's a realist and a 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:23.879 conservative anyway, So he's doing this analysis of why everything 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:27.840 feels more expensive in the Wall Street Journal, and it's 0:20:28.000 --> 0:20:31.320 of course Jack of course, because it's more expensive than 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:36.080 did I ruin its thanks for nothing. Of course it 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:40.760 is adjusted foreignflation, because anything that's not is so stupid 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:45.240 you ought to hold whoever wrote it in whatever analysis 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:49.800 in a low low esteem. So he points out, well, 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:55.000 he starts with the inevitable specific person, which we'll skip over. 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:57.960 But recent CBS news you go of Pohl found that 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:00.640 eighty three percent of Americans say it's harder to buy 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:03.640 a home than it was for previous generations, and seventy 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:07.640 seven percent say it's harder to raise family financially. They 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:11.160 are not wrong, but the explanation is more complicated than 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:16.920 either side's populists admit. So let's start with family income 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:20.080 since nineteen seventy five, and again all adjusted for inflation. 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:22.000 I'm skeptical of this, so I look forward to hearing 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:24.600 these numbers because I'm thinking, on my mom and dad 0:21:24.640 --> 0:21:26.919 were raising us, and they bought their first house at 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:31.960 like eighteen percent interest in blah blah blah, skipend kidding. 0:21:33.280 --> 0:21:35.919 Since nineteen seventy five, median family income has risen by 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:39.439 more than half, from about sixty eight thousand to one 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:43.000 hundred and six thousand in inflation adjusted terms. Wow, a 0:21:43.040 --> 0:21:46.520 gain of roughly thirty eight thousand dollars a year. You 0:21:46.640 --> 0:21:50.760 never hear that now that's family income. But much of 0:21:50.840 --> 0:21:53.119 the difference comes from one of the most important social 0:21:53.200 --> 0:21:56.400 shifts of the past half century. Labor force participation among 0:21:56.520 --> 0:22:00.879 married mothers rose from about forty five percent in the 0:22:00.920 --> 0:22:03.520 mid seventies. I'm actually slightly surprised it was that I 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:07.840 from forty five percent to seventy two percent last year. 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:11.800 But for families with young children, much of that thirty 0:22:11.800 --> 0:22:14.320 eight thousand dollars gain is spoken for for it ever 0:22:14.400 --> 0:22:17.840 hits the bank account to it. A year's worth of 0:22:17.960 --> 0:22:23.040 mortgage payments adjusted for inflation, has risen from about sixteen 0:22:23.119 --> 0:22:27.080 thousand dollars in nineteen seventy five to twenty five thousand 0:22:27.160 --> 0:22:30.919 dollars last year, or so, an increase of nine thousand dollars. 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:33.679 So there goes nine of that thirty eight thousand dollars. 0:22:34.600 --> 0:22:37.639 Workers now contribute about seven thousand dollars a year in 0:22:37.680 --> 0:22:41.000 premiums for family health insurance, roughly double the real cost 0:22:41.280 --> 0:22:44.240 back in nineteen ninety nine. Don't go back to seventy 0:22:44.240 --> 0:22:47.000 five double from feels like it's double from not that 0:22:47.119 --> 0:22:51.520 long ago. Amen to that brother. Full day Full day 0:22:51.680 --> 0:22:55.920 daycare for a single child typically runs sixty five hundred 0:22:56.000 --> 0:22:59.119 to fifteen to five depending on age and location, a 0:22:59.200 --> 0:23:02.320 cost most family in the nineteen seventies didn't occur at all, 0:23:02.520 --> 0:23:05.840 incur at all. Added up in these three expenses absorbed 0:23:05.840 --> 0:23:08.399 most of the thirty eight thousand dollars gain, leaving many families, 0:23:08.480 --> 0:23:11.399 especially those young children or in high cost cities, with 0:23:11.560 --> 0:23:14.680 roughly the same disposable income their parents had despite earning more. 0:23:15.080 --> 0:23:17.840 Would you like now, Jack, because this is your wheelhouse 0:23:17.840 --> 0:23:21.840 to get into the much larger houses. Yeah, more cars, 0:23:21.880 --> 0:23:24.280 more lavish lifestyles. I was thinking about that when you 0:23:24.320 --> 0:23:26.560 said the house well of Kate. Maybe your more edger 0:23:26.560 --> 0:23:29.239 payment is higher, But are you living in twice the 0:23:29.280 --> 0:23:34.399 size house as the previous generations. We lived in a 0:23:34.440 --> 0:23:39.240 very small house, yeah, as did we. Yeah, my kids 0:23:39.240 --> 0:23:42.240 grew up in a very small house until we started 0:23:42.240 --> 0:23:45.560 to make a little money, and then it got substantially larger. 0:23:45.680 --> 0:23:48.160 So it's just a priority these days in a way 0:23:48.200 --> 0:23:51.680 it wasn't back in the day when most of the 0:23:51.720 --> 0:23:54.960