WEBVTT - A&G Replay Tuesday Hour Four 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:13.680 And broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:17.639 George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe. 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:25.280 Katty Armstrong, and Kattie I know Hee Armstrong and Getty 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:26.160 strong Man. 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:34.160 Philadelphia Zoo announced last week that a pair of nearly 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:37.840 one hundred year old tortoises recently welcome their first hatchlings. 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:40.520 You may have seen the tortoises on the MTV show 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:41.680 ninety nine and. 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:48.640 Pregnant markets are surging. 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:54.400 If you're listening to us live, so the bounce back 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:57.840 has begun, and get into that later. Also, latest polling 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:00.320 on the whole tariff thing, get into that later also. 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:04.679 And oh and I just saw the real ID deadline 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:05.360 is a month away. 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:09.360 This is going to be my all time greatest. 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:13.800 Hit screw up because it's been I've seen it coming 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:17.640 for so long and known the entire time for years 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:20.920 that at some point I will be at an airport 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:24.760 ready to get on a plane someplace I need to go, yes, 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:27.119 and they'll say, we no longer accept your driver's license, 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:28.600 you need your real ID. Even though I knew it 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:31.120 for years, I am that is going to happen to me. 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:32.800 I like your high school teacher. 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:35.520 Assigned you a book report due in twenty years and 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:39.280 you waited until the last night and you're up all night, right, 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:43.680 that is going to happen to me? Yeah, it's funny, Judy, 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:46.360 And I heard that report, and I have a feeling. 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:49.640 I spoke for many, many millions of Americans when I said, 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:52.560 do we have real IDs? 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:54.920 I've completely lost track? Is ours real? 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:58.200 She looked at it and said, yeah, yes, we do. 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:00.000 How that happened? I don't record? 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:01.480 Well, I sure don't have one. 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:07.240 Are you sure? I'm positive you might. When did you 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:10.800 last for new year license? I don't know so. Uh 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:12.600 so your driver's license? Is it? 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:14.360 Yeah? Oh it is? 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:16.280 Well, maybe I did have a real like the updated 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:19.119 does it have like a hologrammy looking thing on there? 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:20.640 Or yeah? 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:25.400 Yeah, maybe I do have it done and done, sir. 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:32.400 That's my point. Nobody has any idea part Yeah. 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:34.799 So, speaking of economics and that sort of thing, which 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:36.840 a lot of people are doing these days in reference 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:37.560 to the tariffs. 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:41.280 But to this too shall pass, I hope eventually. Uh 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:41.840 And and. 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:45.680 Some of the support and lack of support are coming 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:49.080 from some interesting areas for the tariffs, and we can 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.239 talk about that more later, but I'm kind of tariffed out. 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:54.080 We brought this up kind of briefly at the end 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:54.440 of the show. 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:58.160 You see, I could talk about tariffs for many more hours. 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:01.920 Well you should feel free. How about one room over anyway? 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:09.480 I found this so interesting, big survey of America's employers, 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:15.120 especially manufacturers. They cannot find reliable, conscientious workers who can 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:20.120 pass a drug test. A good worker, like a good man, 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:23.680 can be hard to find these days. And who is 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:26.880 this writing in? Alicia Finley, who I think is a 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:32.679 terrific writer, But she says, blame government, which showers benefits 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:35.200 on able bodied people who don't work well at the 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:39.200 same time subsidizing college degrees that don't lead to productive employment, 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:42.360 and the result is millions of idle men and millions 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:44.920 of unfilled jobs, what an economist would call a dead 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:46.200 weight loss to society. 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:48.920 So failing the drug test? 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:52.440 Is it mostly the marijuana, the Mary Jane, the lettuce, 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:53.360 the hippie? 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:57.600 Yeah, I don't know. I suspect so though. Sure I 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:01.960 think it's mostly pot. But I think that's just brilliantly. 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:08.680 Simply put, we are showering benefits on able bodied people 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:15.080 and subsidizing useless college degrees as as a people because 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:18.640 the government is theoretically doing our work right, Well, I 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:22.320 for one don't like either end of that anyway. Forty 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:25.040 percent of small business owners and March reported job openings 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:29.560 they could not fill. Construction companies fifty six percent said, yeah, 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:31.880 we have unfilled jobs and we can't find anybody. 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:33.680 Transportation, I have. 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:38.360 A feeling that's mostly truck drivers fifty three percent manufacturing, 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:43.679 which the President is, according to many people, admirably trying 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:48.120 to shepherd back inside the country. More forty seven percent 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:50.839 of manufacturers say, no, we've got openings we can't fill. 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:51.120 Well. 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:53.760 So, according to the last week's National Federation of Independent 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:55.159 Business survey, that might. 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:58.479 Be a flaw in the president's plan that hasn't been 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:02.440 discussed enough. He wants to bring back the fifties or 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.880 seventies or whatever golden era of manufacturing that we used 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:08.920 to have. But back then people would do those jobs. 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:15.400 If half the manufacturing jobs out there you can't fill. Now, 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:18.839 what if manufacturing did come back to the United States, who, 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:21.600 in theory is going to do those jobs? Well? 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.160 Not illegal immigrants, because thank god, the border has been 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:28.640 closed and the statistics are astounding Biden was a scoundrel anyway. 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:31.080 Was it going to be the woman's studies major from 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:34.520 your local university that goes works, They're probably not. Well. 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:37.240 It could well be the dudes who have no disability 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:41.240 on disability who are heaved off of that system, but 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:44.040 that would take some tough love, and that's not very 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:47.600 popular politically speaking. I mean, if you go into one 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:51.080 of the districts of the rust Belty places or Appalachia 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:54.400 or whatever where you have just ludicrous levels of people 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:58.040 on disability. Happened to read a couple things about this recently. 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:02.880 Didn't flog you with it on the air. But if 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:04.800 you go into those places and say we're kicking it 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:08.119 off everybody on disability who's not like missing a limb, 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:12.360 you will lose an election by seventy points, if that's 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:16.839 even possible. Once people are on the dole man, once 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:21.480 people have a benefit, whether legitimate or perhaps questionable, taking 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:24.960 it away as political poison. As you know, Labor Department's 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:28.120 job openings and labor turnover survey businesses tell a similar story. 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:31.479 There are twice as many job openings in manufacturing now 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:33.760 than in the mid two thousands as a share of 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:37.159 employment save for the pandemic, America's workers shortage is the 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:43.039 worst in fifty years. Decades ago, productivity, enhancing technology and yes, 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:45.680 inexpensive imports costed men who worked on shop floors to 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:48.080 lose their jobs and drop out of the workforce. But 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:50.320 that generation is sailing into the sunset, and there are 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:53.360 many fewer young Americans who want to work in factories. 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:57.159 Listen to this now, the labor force participation rate among 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:01.039 young among working age men is now about five percentage 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:04.279 points lower than in the early eighties. Okay, this is 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:08.280 not like the nineteen tens. This is the nineteen eighties, 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:11.040 five points lower. As a result, there are about three 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:14.640 and a half million fewer men between the ages twenty 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:17.120 five and fifty four in the workforce, and one point 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:20.320 three million between the ages of twenty five and thirty. 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:23.280 Four in a significantly bigger population than we had in 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:25.560 the eighties. Right then there would have been were it 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:30.320 not for this decline. Labor participation among working age women, 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:32.200 on the other hand, recently hit a record in part 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:37.240 because they are having fewer children, and then people aren't 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:40.400 coupling and that sort of thing. At the risk of stereotyping, 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:43.400 women are more inclined toward helping professions such as services 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:45.800 than those that require physical labor. Well, that's just true, 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:50.240 it's undeniable. So I've not done a manufacturing sort of 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:56.080 job before, so I don't know what it's like, but 0:07:56.640 --> 0:08:00.480 I certainly feel like there's a social stigma around it 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:03.600 that doesn't help true. 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:04.920 Why it is? 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:09.200 Why there's not a social stigma around having a meaningless, 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:14.360 soul deadening paper pushing job in a cubicle. 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:15.960 I don't know why that is. 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:18.760 I mean, maybe the other way around should be there 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:22.000 shouldn't be any stigma around any jobs. Working for a 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:26.160 living is considerably better than not whatever the hell you're doing. 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:29.560 So why I at least the vestige of the twentieth 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:31.840 century where a job where you used your brain as 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:34.840 opposed to your back was seen as a higher status job. 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.320 God, I don't know some of these jobs or you 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:38.679 use your brain. 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:42.480 That's barely not much, I mean, but they certainly don't 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:46.040 seem like they'd be much more enjoyable as starter jobs. 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:48.720 Right, Tedious is tedious. 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:52.120 I had a sort of manufacturing job for one summer 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:54.920 and it was pretty tedious, honestly. But I'm sure it is. 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:57.320 You know why I go and went ahead and took 0:08:57.320 --> 0:08:59.360 it and kept it. It was because it paid pretty good. 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:02.280 It was my best option, right, So yeah, you got 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:04.640 and and well you should have to make a living. 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:06.400 You got to support yourself somehow. 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:07.439 No, you don't. 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:09.760 What kind of monster are you listen to this? Would you? 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:10.240 So? 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:12.160 Where have all the good working men gone? Some are 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:15.400 subsisting on government benefits, are living off their parents. About 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:19.520 seventeen percent of working age men are on Medicaid, seventeen percent, 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:22.320 seven and a half percent on food stamps, and six 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:25.680 point three percent on Social Security, many claiming disability payouts. 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:28.800 According to the Census Bureau. Many spend their days playing 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:35.479 video games and day trading, well, day trading hilarious, speculating 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.400 on meme stocks, or you tell somebody your day trading. 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:40.640 I don't know how often you're actually trading and making 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:43.920 any money, because you don't want to say I just 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:46.320 play video games and live in my parents' basement, So 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:50.040 you say you're your day trader. So I don't remember 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:53.880 our a good friend, Craig the healthcare Genius's statistics. But 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:58.319 if I remember correctly, originally Medicaid was only supposed to 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:01.319 cover like a tiny percent people period. 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:02.280 Now it's covering. 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:04.920 Now it's covering, And that would have been like the 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:07.760 old and you know people that I got all kinds 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:09.280 of physical or mental problems. 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:11.760 Now it's seventeen percent of. 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:15.800 Working age men, not not like senior citizens. 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:16.800 That's nice. 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:21.600 Yeah, a couple more stats. Other missing men are taking 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:24.880 longer to finish college or pursuing graduate degrees. Only about 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:28.000 forty one percent amen complete a bachelor's degree in four years, 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:31.320 even though study after study shows they don't teach, you 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:32.120 don't have to work. 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:34.400 There's great inflation. It's dopey. 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:38.280 Only forty one percent and a quarter take more than 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:39.520 six years. 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:42.440 Wow, because you're in no hurry to get out of college. 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:47.760 My dad used to comment about perpetual college students, and 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:49.599 I never really understood what he was talking about. And 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:51.640 I'm sure it was a small number of people back 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:54.960 when he was in college, but now it is a lot. 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:56.840 Apparently. I'll just stay in college. 0:10:56.880 --> 0:11:00.600 I'll just keep borrowing money and because I'm too young 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:05.240 or unwise to understand what I'm doing, and I'll just 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:08.120 keep this game going. Of I get to sit around 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.880 with my friends and discuss the world without ever having to. 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:14.760 Engage in it. Yeah, and I have disability. My thumb 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:19.920 hurts on Thursdays. Final stat then I will I will stop. 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.839 We're just we are a fat, lazy, comfortable society. We're 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:27.520 headed to front denial, right, we are headed straight toward France. 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:27.840 Yeah. 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:31.480 The unemployment rate Jack considered this among recent college grads 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:35.760 with a sociology degree is about seven percent, and their 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:38.320 medium wage, if they do have a gig, is forty 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:39.440 five thousand dollars. 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:41.679 According to the Federal Reserve. 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:44.720 Bank, Social grads can earn twice as much working on 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.480 an auto assembly line, which pays an average hundred thousand 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:50.520 dollars a year. Good gig, but not many want it. 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:54.720 The reality is that masses a young people, writes Alicia Finley, 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:56.880 who again as a genius, has been taught that capitalism 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:59.280 is exploitive. They don't want to work in factories. They'd 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:03.240 rather mooch off taxpayers or their parents. How CHORL Marx 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:03.720 is that? 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:04.319 Yeah? 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:07.760 Some of it is that, I'm sure, But I just 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:09.760 I think a lot of it is just the cultural 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:13.280 that would be embarrassing for your parents and for you 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:17.280 if you worked over it the whatever factory. Yeah. More 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.920 embarrassing in our current society than if you just live 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:23.440 at home and you know you say you're a day trader. 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:28.400 It's more embarrassing to have a job at a plant 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:29.840 than to live with your parents. 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:30.600 But I think it is. 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:34.320 Or having taken six years to get an undergrad degree 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:38.000 in gender studies, you're now getting a master's degree in 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:41.839 the theoretical decolonialization of art, or whatever the s. 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:49.719 They sometimes think for soft people. Man, there is no 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:51.720 more iron law of humanity than that. 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:04.640 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty the Armstrong and Getty show. 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:09.920 Thank You. 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:16.160 In Los Angeles, jury has awarded a man fifty million 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:19.840 dollars after he was seriously burned by a Starbucks drink. Now, 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:22.400 the person got burnt pretty good, but I had to 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:25.640 on his junk, on his junk and says he can't 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:27.800 have sex anymore. Although you would make that argument if 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:29.960 you're trying to get fifty million dollars. So whether that's 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:32.240 accurate or not, I do not know. But and I'm 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:34.120 not a lawyer, but I don't know how you work 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:37.880 this out in society. On one hand, I'm going through 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.199 the drive through at Starbucks. I don't deserve to be 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:41.240 maimed for life. 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:44.280 No, certainly not in my privets. 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:49.320 On the other hand, it's an impossible expectation that nothing 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:53.520 ever goes wrong ever, And you know, nailing down whether 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:56.319 it was the employee's fault or the person in the 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:59.439 car's fault is difficult. I mean, if you ever go 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:01.080 to Starbucks and you get more than one drink, they 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:03.760 give you that cardboard holder that the drinks fit in, 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:08.160 and this person claimed that they didn't secure the tea in. 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:10.840 It was sitting at an angle and then it spilled. 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:12.400 Oh maybe it was or maybe you hit it on 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:14.079 the window or with youurob or whatever. I don't know, 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:17.320 but anyway, you can't get everything perfect all the time. 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:19.520 Fifty million dollars. 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:22.240 The problem with this, to me is what it's what 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:25.560 drives so many of the things that make us nuts 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:28.400 in life. The fact that the school won't let your 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:31.280 kid play if it's rained the last two days, you 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:33.800 have to stay inside for reassss because they might slip, 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:37.040 and some jury will award one hundred million dollars. I mean, 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:41.280 it's just it's an unworkable situation for society. So I 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.640 don't and you know you wouldn't want Starbucks to be 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:49.080 able to like, here comes my girlfriend's ex boyfriend. I'm 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:50.960 gonna throw hot tea in his face at the drive through, 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:52.400 and there'd be no penalty for that. 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:55.560 I mean, so there's gotta be a ligne somewhere obviously. 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:56.560 Yeah. 0:14:56.840 --> 0:15:00.640 I just think we've gotten so far off tracks a society, 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:03.680 because it's very different than virtually any other legal system 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:05.520 on Earth. You're not going to get a fifty million 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:10.160 dollar reward like this in Argentina or or probably Britain. 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:13.640 I don't think, but I don't think we as people 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:16.200 understand how far off we've gotten. 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:19.360 And a big reason for that. What is the number 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:21.120 one profession among legislators. 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:25.200 It's not even close. You know, it's an attorney, right, 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:29.040 And the whole jury thing where this is one of 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:32.160 the reasons that we regularly say, you know, don't make 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:34.280 those jokes about how to get out of jury duty. 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:36.640 Show up on the jury so you could say, so 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:38.800 you could be there as a smart person, say fifty 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:44.200 fifty million dollars is insane, Yes, because you got to. 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:46.360 I'm guessing you got a jury fro of peoples of 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:49.320 Starbucks is rich, they can afford it. I don't like 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:53.360 them anyway, you know that sort of thing, right, Yeah, yeah, boy. 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:56.560 If there's one technology mankind has not perfected, it's the 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:00.640 getting the cup lid to click on the cup thing 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:03.520 in the world of coffee. And you know, granted, I'm 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:08.200 an older fellow now, and I've learned the hard lessons 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:11.080 of life, sometimes more than once, usually more than once 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:14.760 before I absorb them. Boy, anybody who has boiling hot 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:17.560 coffee and assumes that lid is on their right, you 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:19.600 are a bold man and a foolish one. 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:22.200 Yeah. I just when I heard that, I just thought, 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:26.040 oh crap, this is going to lead to even more Sorry, 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:30.280 we can't allow you to do this stuff, or you 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:33.440 get like room temperature coffee, right, coffee can't ever be 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:36.160 That might be the reaction from Starbucks, no more hot coffee. 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:38.880 I know lots of people order stuff extra hot, because 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:42.080 I've known Barista's order stuff extra hot. It's already so 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:44.160 hot you can't drink it. But it's the idea that 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.720 it'll be it's so hot that by the time you 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:49.400 get to work on your fifteen minute commute, it'll still 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:52.040 be hot. Well, I'll bet that goes out the window 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:52.920 after this settlement. 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:57.160 Yeah, So I shouldn't say this, but everybody's thinking about it, 0:16:57.240 --> 0:16:59.880 so I will. So, this guy got fifty million dollars 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.000 because he could never have sex again? 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:05.040 Was he any good at it? I mean, does that 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:06.360 factor into the juries? 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:10.159 Yeah? I mean you think they should interview previous lovers 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:12.200 and say, so, how much of a loss is this 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:13.560 for humanity? Well? 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:15.800 Yeah, I mean because it's obviously lost to him, no 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:20.159 matter his skills, but to humanity, because shouldn't that be 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:22.640 a fifty to fifty thing on asco Consortium, et cetera 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:24.359 on a scale of me to wow? 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:25.760 Where was he exactly? 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:29.080 I'm just I'm asking these questions. I don't have the answers. 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:30.080 Yeah, God dang it. 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:34.919 Jack Armstrong and Joe The Armstrong and. 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:40.560 Getty Show, The arm Strong and Getdy Show. 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:44.640 So I mentioned this last week and we never got 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:46.120 around to it. I'm glad we are now, and I'm 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:48.280 looking forward to Joe's reaction to this. So this is 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:51.880 Ezra Cline of The New York Times on Lex Friedman's 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:56.480 podcast from a couple of weeks ago. And Lex Friedman's 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:58.320 an interesting guy if you've never heard his podcast. First 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:01.159 of all, they're all two to four hours. And I 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:03.800 don't know who listens to those whole things, but he 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:07.280 has people on of all different kinds of political stripes 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:09.600 and worldviews and stuff like that, and he just wants 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:11.920 to hear what they think. And he opened with this 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:14.280 great question for Ezra Kline of the New York Times, who, 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:21.800 if you don't know his act, he is a columnist, writer, liberal, progressive, 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:24.439 not a bomb chucker though that's just his I mean, 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:28.320 he's a really smart, he's an intellectual, but he's a progressive. 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:33.400 And Lex had him on to say the first question 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:37.159 was basically lay out the progressive point of view or 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:39.800 the democrat point of view of the worldview. And I thought, okay, 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:42.840 this is fantastic. I'm going to hear this from a 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:45.800 smart guy. And I thought, I am going to listen 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:48.320 to this podcast in my earbuds as I was like 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:50.200 doing laundry or something like that, and I thought, I 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:52.720 am going to, like in a relax manner, listen to this, 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:56.080 see if I can find any common ground, like fully 0:18:56.200 --> 0:19:00.240 understand you know where they're coming from, right, not the 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:03.399 cable news version, but like the intellectual version of how 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:05.760 they see the world. And I didn't make it more 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:07.760 than like thirty seconds before. 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:10.479 I said out loud in my bedroom. Oh, you've got 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:16.000 to be effing kidding me. So this is how it went. 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:18.640 You can define the left in different ways. I think 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:21.720 the left has a couple fundamental views. One is that 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:26.680 life is unfair. We are born with different talents, We 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:29.679 are born into different nations. Right, the luck of being 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:32.320 born into America is very different than the luck of 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:36.880 being born into Venezuela. We are born into different families. 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:42.040 We have luck operating as an ominive presence across our 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:46.359 entire lives, and as such, the people for whom it 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:49.040 works out, well, we don't deserve all of that. 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:50.639 We got lucky. 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:53.080 I mean, we also worked hard, and we also had talent, 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:55.399 and we also applied that talent. But at a very 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:59.520 fundamental level, that we are sitting here is unfair, and 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:04.159 that so many other people are in conditions that are 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:08.160 much worse, much more precarious, much more exploited, is unfair. 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:12.280 And one of the fundamental roles of government should not 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:16.800 necessarily to turn that unfairness into perfect equality, but to 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:20.479 rectify that unfairness into a kind of universal dignity. Right, 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:22.399 So people can have lives of flourishing. So I'd say 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:24.840 that's one thing. He has a very low voice for 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:31.320 a child. Yeah, I'll hold back for now. 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:35.639 I see what you mean. Though my eyes were wide. 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:38.040 You don't deserve that. 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:40.400 That's when I said in my bedroom, Oh, you gotta 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:41.200 be effing king. 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:45.399 Wow. 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:48.160 Well, and I want to hear the next part, obviously, 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:51.520 but he kind of denied his own purpose there at 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:51.800 the end. 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:56.359 We're not trying to come up with some perfect equality. 0:20:56.200 --> 0:20:58.600 But yeah, let's hear a little more and then we 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:02.040 can discuss The left is fundamentally more skeptical of capitalism 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:04.800 and part of the unchecked forms of capitalism than the right. 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:07.480 I was like, this is hard to talk about because 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:10.560 what we call unchecked capitalism is nevertheless very much supported 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:13.720 by government. So I think in a way you have both, 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:17.160 Like markets are things that are enforced by government. Whether 0:21:17.200 --> 0:21:18.920 they are you know, how you set the rules of 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:20.480 them is what ends up different between the left and 0:21:20.480 --> 0:21:23.280