Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jetty and no he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: Wicked hits theaters tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Here you.
Speaker 3: And so far the movie is getting rave reviews. They're
Speaker 3: very interesting that check out what they said. For instance,
Speaker 3: this review said magical and uplifting and hang on, that's
Speaker 3: actually a review for the shrooms your cousin brings to
Speaker 3: Thanksgiving and that's sorry. This next review called it the
Speaker 3: tale of two people who has.
Speaker 2: Passed never should have crossed.
Speaker 3: Hang on, that's actually a review for Mike Tyson versus
Speaker 3: Jake PAULMS.
Speaker 2: This is a mistake. I'm so sorry. Here's another.
Speaker 3: This review said Oz is back. This is insane. Don't
Speaker 3: get ahead of me. I heard of you for Trump
Speaker 3: putting doctor Oz and chars and medicare.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, this is a likable guy.
Speaker 2: So uh uh.
Speaker 5: Seinfeld says Fallen is the most normal person he's ever
Speaker 5: met in short show business, which always sticks in my head.
Speaker 2: I find that very interesting.
Speaker 5: Uh So, Wicked is a reimagining of the Wizard of
Speaker 5: Oz movie correct, and it's supposed to be really cool,
Speaker 5: so I might actually take the kids to that. I mean,
Speaker 5: my high schooler will hate it, but he hates everything,
Speaker 5: So what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: Ye the novel Wicked, and then you had the musical,
Speaker 1: and this is yet a different mutation of it that
Speaker 1: I don't think resembles the novel much, but I don't know.
Speaker 2: So I want.
Speaker 1: I only bring that up because I thought the novel
Speaker 1: was fantastic.
Speaker 5: Oh you did really interesting? Okay, cool, Well then the
Speaker 5: movie might be good. It's kind it might be wildly different.
Speaker 5: It's got a ton of big stars in it, which
Speaker 5: is why on Saturday Night Live they did a sketch
Speaker 5: about the screen tests for Wicked and all the different
Speaker 5: people who had tried out for it. I meant to
Speaker 5: grab this audio, what I never did, but so one
Speaker 5: of them was Bernie Sanders trying out for a part
Speaker 5: in Wicked, and it's Bernie Sanders says, the.
Speaker 2: Wizard has millions and billions of dollars.
Speaker 5: Well, meanwhile, the munchkins are living paycheck to paycheckutiful.
Speaker 2: I thought that was hilarious. Yeah good, yeah, Oh, coming up.
Speaker 5: We did one of those war game simulation thingies, which
Speaker 5: I don't know how they work or how accurate they are,
Speaker 5: but the Pentagon does it to see if we could
Speaker 5: win a war, for instance, against China f China tries
Speaker 5: to take Taiwan, and they briefed Congress on that yesterday
Speaker 5: and some of the results are horrifying.
Speaker 2: So stay tuned. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I actually read something a couple of weeks ago about
Speaker 1: a father and son I think they're Brits that came
Speaker 1: up with a computer game that was like the game Risk,
Speaker 1: but not so boring and long. But it was essentially wargaming,
Speaker 1: a wargaming computer game where you would assign assets and
Speaker 1: weapons systems and move it around and employ different strategies
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. And it's so good, and it
Speaker 1: became so good they're now teaching it at like the
Speaker 1: US War College and West Point and they use it
Speaker 1: to wargame, which is really a story I think about
Speaker 1: private enterprise and the amazing things you can do with
Speaker 1: a little innovation.
Speaker 5: There's a major caveat to this report, major, like so
Speaker 5: major it makes you wonder why you even read the
Speaker 5: report at Stay tuned.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, fair enough, So we have been trying
Speaker 1: to help people understand for a long time about how
Speaker 1: artificially mandated minimum wages, essentially the government mandating, let's see,
Speaker 1: for that work, you shall pay them that amount, is
Speaker 1: a terrible idea. It's bad for workers, it's bad for business,
Speaker 1: is bad for the economy, and that's just not the
Speaker 1: way the labor market works, and it causes real damage.
Speaker 1: And the fabulous Katie Grimes of the California Globe was
Speaker 1: writing about this and she's it came up because Californians, shockingly,
Speaker 1: for the first time ever, rejected a minimum wage referendum
Speaker 1: a proposition, and it was rejected fairly narrowly, but it
Speaker 1: would erased the state minimum wage to eighteen bucks for everything.
Speaker 2: Wow. Now, now non Californians are saying.
Speaker 1: Well, didn't y'all raise it to twenty bucks? No, that
Speaker 1: was just for fast food workers for some reason. Actually,
Speaker 1: the reason is because the Service Employees International Union wants
Speaker 1: to unionize fast food work.
Speaker 5: Fast food that doesn't serve bread in some capacity.
Speaker 1: There was a weird carve out for putting Rona Gavin's buddies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: But anyway, the folks at the Employment Policies Institute of
Speaker 1: California had took a serious look at what has happened
Speaker 1: since the increase in the fast food minimum wage. The
Speaker 1: rejection comes on the heels of California's twenty dollars minimum
Speaker 1: wage law for fast food workers that seen severe backlash
Speaker 1: from employees and business owners alike and led to a
Speaker 1: notable amount of business closures and job losses that should
Speaker 1: be numbered.
Speaker 2: Not amount. You need me as your editor.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Californians are sending Gavenusom in the SEIU a clear
Speaker 1: message they're sick of being lab rats for the pet
Speaker 1: projects devastating economic fallout center.
Speaker 2: Here are the specifics.
Speaker 1: After the implementation of the twenty dollars minimum wage. The
Speaker 1: EPI survey found that the majority of restaurants say they
Speaker 1: have the majority they've raised menu prices ninety eight percent.
Speaker 2: Yes, we've raised menu prices.
Speaker 5: So they called almost all the majority nice writing also.
Speaker 2: Well, katie's busy and she's fabulous. Anyway.
Speaker 1: Now, the devil's ad position might be, well, there's been
Speaker 1: there are other reasons for raising prices, you know, inputs,
Speaker 1: inflation and stuff like that. You're absolutely right, But the
Speaker 1: idea that labor is in a significant part of the
Speaker 1: cost of a fast food restaurant you don't know anything
Speaker 1: about fast food restaurants anyway. What percentage of fast food
Speaker 1: restaurants reduced employee hours? This got nothing to do with
Speaker 1: the price base eighty nine percent, eighty nine limited employee
Speaker 1: shift to pick up or overtime rules seventy three percent,
Speaker 1: or just flat reduced staff seventy percent was the result
Speaker 1: of the minimum wage law.
Speaker 5: Wow, well, of course, of course, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 5: I mean, I just I don't I don't understand. This
Speaker 5: is one of those where you always say, like, if
Speaker 5: you had ten minutes with people, you could have convinced
Speaker 5: them to vote the other way if you have to
Speaker 5: pay more for your workers. It's because so many people
Speaker 5: believe that prices are just like random, arbitrarily set. Yeah,
Speaker 5: they're arbitrarily said. There's no supply and demand curve or
Speaker 5: anything like that, So the restaurant can just charge more
Speaker 5: for their hamburgers to cover those costs and the same
Speaker 5: number of customers will come and eat there.
Speaker 2: That just doesn't make any sense if you're a child.
Speaker 1: Right, right, it really doesn't. And again, it doesn't take
Speaker 1: a lot of economics training to understand the supply and
Speaker 1: demand curves and elasticity. What elasticity is, anyway, has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with your sweatpants.
Speaker 5: You're wearing their to your Thanksgiving dinner. Michael, And what's
Speaker 5: your favorite example of inelastic product? I have mine from
Speaker 5: economics in college. I always always my.
Speaker 2: Favorite example snake bite anti venom.
Speaker 5: That's a pretty good one. Salt you're gonna buy the
Speaker 5: same amount of if it was twice as much or
Speaker 5: half as much, it's twice practically nothing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know, elasticity essentially means the tendency of
Speaker 1: people to increase or decrease their purchase of it based
Speaker 1: on price. So if if I walk into the hospital
Speaker 1: and say, I just got bit by a rattlesnake, which
Speaker 1: I've avoided through the years, it's more rare than you think.
Speaker 1: But there are a lot of rattlesnake anyway, Sorry, I
Speaker 1: just had to kill one not long ago. I meant relocated.
Speaker 1: I relocated it right to a farm upstate. Anyway, me
Speaker 1: and Madam tangents. Oh, if I walk into the hospital
Speaker 1: and they say, you know, hey, good news, Joe, We've
Speaker 1: got two for one on rattlesnake anti venom, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I just need the one, right.
Speaker 2: I'll pay you the five one hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: And if they said, did we say five hundred dollars,
Speaker 1: it just went up to five thousand, and you're going
Speaker 1: to be dead in half an hour. If so, you've
Speaker 1: got no time to go to the other hospital. I'm
Speaker 1: saying five grand. It is dot cook me up. There's
Speaker 1: zero elasticity there.
Speaker 5: It's one as opposed to a particular restaurant that raises
Speaker 5: their prices and you just think this is worth it,
Speaker 5: and you don't go there anymore.
Speaker 2: You go to other restaurants or eat home. Right, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: You have many, many alternatives anyway, So how about next year?
Speaker 1: The restaurants surveyed said next year, ninety three percent are
Speaker 1: going to raise their prices again.
Speaker 2: They'll have to Wow.
Speaker 5: Man, I'm glad she wrote about this. I wish more
Speaker 5: people were aware of this. They should be teaching this
Speaker 5: in school. Going forward, eighty.
Speaker 1: Seven percent said we're going to reduce employee hours even more.
Speaker 1: Eighty seven percent, reduce staff or consolidate positions that means
Speaker 1: fire people seventy four percent.
Speaker 5: So three quarters of them are going to reduce people.
Speaker 5: So your effort to to make a better life for
Speaker 5: employees for a whole bunch of them. You made their
Speaker 5: lives much worse as they no longer have a job. Yeah,
Speaker 5: which is the most practically the most well, is the
Speaker 5: most frightening thing that can happen to you job wise,
Speaker 5: losing your job.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The best number that the good folks at the Employment
Speaker 1: Policies Institute can come up with last year as a
Speaker 1: net job I'm sorry, since January is a net job
Speaker 1: loss of forty four hundred jobs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well California.
Speaker 5: Well, I would like to know for the cut hours thing,
Speaker 5: which you said, what was ninety percent of them? Because
Speaker 5: employers don't like to fire people, see, but they probably
Speaker 5: cut a ton of people's hours.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so yeah, forty five hundred people or so
Speaker 1: now have no job at all because of this, many
Speaker 1: many thousands have fewer hours and have had to pick
Speaker 1: up another job. Thanks, Gavin, You're a real friggin saint.
Speaker 1: And more to come. This year, almost without a doubt,
Speaker 1: the state has seen the first fast the worst fast
Speaker 1: food job growth rate since the Great Recession.
Speaker 4: Anyway, that's I can't believe the voters were into this
Speaker 4: enough to reject an all out minimum wage race for
Speaker 4: everyone and.
Speaker 5: I thought I read the other day, is the first
Speaker 5: time a minimum waged prop had lost in America since
Speaker 5: the nineties mid nineties. I'm glad people have caught onto
Speaker 5: this the way it works. Man, if everything had gone
Speaker 5: up to eighteen dollars an hour in California, wooh, that'd
Speaker 5: have been rough.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love the idea of the states being laboratories at democracy.
Speaker 1: It's a wonderful, wonderful vision. I just it depends on
Speaker 1: the lab results being reported accurately to everybody else to
Speaker 1: hear how it came out, and the prejudices of our media.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I would like to think if I were staunchly in
Speaker 1: face of a policy and it turned out to be
Speaker 1: a disastrous mistake, I.
Speaker 2: Would say so.
Speaker 1: In fact, I have said so through the years. I
Speaker 1: can think of a couple of different examples. What's the
Speaker 1: matter with you? Moral cowards? And you liars?
Speaker 2: Who can't you just I don't know what's.
Speaker 1: Wrong with you that you won't say, Wow, I was
Speaker 1: My intentions were great, honest to God.
Speaker 2: Because I think a lot of you are.
Speaker 1: You think this is a good idea to help poor people,
Speaker 1: You're wrong. That doesn't make you a bad person. But
Speaker 1: when you won't admit you're wrong and let the damage
Speaker 1: continue to more and more poor people, that does make
Speaker 1: you a bad person.
Speaker 5: But so like Bernie, I think Bernie's completely sincere on this,
Speaker 5: and he talks about a living wage. How has he
Speaker 5: not come across the information that if you paid people
Speaker 5: a wage where they could support their family, you wouldn't
Speaker 5: have a single restaurant in the country.
Speaker 1: Certainly fast food. Yeah, I don't know. I'd love to
Speaker 1: have that conversation with him, But like both, my kids
Speaker 1: can't wait till they can work jobs. Unfortunately, in modern
Speaker 1: society you have to be sixteen. I was working when
Speaker 1: I was twelve, thirteen, whatever. But my son, who's going
Speaker 1: to be fifteen here soon, I can't wait to get
Speaker 1: a job be less like much less likely a job.
Speaker 5: If they raise the minimum waged eighteen, it could be
Speaker 5: that many fewer jobs for people with his skills, which are.
Speaker 1: Zero, right, right, And actually it occurs to me what
Speaker 1: Bernie's answer would be. But we don't really have time now,
Speaker 1: but we'll squeeze it in a bit.
Speaker 5: This whole war games thing with China is super duper interesting. Well,
Speaker 5: we got to tell you about that. If you haven't
Speaker 5: heard the as tech death whistle. You won't forget it.
Speaker 5: You won't forget it. I don't want to hear it again.
Speaker 5: It frightened me too badly the first time.
Speaker 2: Okay, stay tuned. I don't want to know how I
Speaker 2: spent the commercials.
Speaker 5: Besides writing down the phone numbers and names of all
Speaker 5: of our clients, i's been.
Speaker 2: Reading up on its sponsors.
Speaker 5: Haven't been reading up on the as techs since we're
Speaker 5: about to hear a weird sound. The as techs indigenous
Speaker 5: to Mexico and thriving civilization city states. Everything very modern,
Speaker 5: any like anything Europad. I've been to the big pyramid
Speaker 5: there outside of Mexico City. That's bigger, as big as
Speaker 5: the pyramids in Egypt. It's really quite amazing. But the
Speaker 5: Aztecs were conquered in fifteen twenty one when the Spanish
Speaker 5: showed up and killed them off. But the Aztecs were
Speaker 5: into cannibalism and human sacrifice. Just reading there is a
Speaker 5: documentation of one site where they believe eighty thousand prisoners
Speaker 5: were sacrificed over four days.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, can you.
Speaker 1: Imagine sacrifice to prisoners of Waria.
Speaker 5: Between one thousand and twenty thousand annually at least. But
Speaker 5: can you imagine eighty thousand slayings of humans in four days,
Speaker 5: just the organization of that, what it would be like.
Speaker 1: Well, and it's thought that during before those those rituals,
Speaker 1: they would blow the Aztec death whistle, and archaeologists uncovered
Speaker 1: this and noticed it was a musical instrument looking thing,
Speaker 1: but blew through it.
Speaker 2: Now they blow through three D.
Speaker 1: Replicas of it, so they're not messing with the actual artifacts.
Speaker 1: And then they've done psychological experiments on how people react
Speaker 1: to this whistle. And if you're listening, if you've been listening,
Speaker 1: if you're listening to the podcast in the future, First
Speaker 1: of all, did Elon make it to Mars the.
Speaker 2: Whole trump thing? How'd that work out?
Speaker 1: Anyway, we played this earlier and people drove off the
Speaker 1: road and we apologize for that. But this is the
Speaker 1: whistle that they would blow during the ceremonies.
Speaker 2: Oh, like that freaks me out. Man. Imagine if you
Speaker 2: had a whole bunch of people blowing that at the
Speaker 2: same time.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, oh, on each side of you as
Speaker 1: you're the young boy about to be sacrificed, and you
Speaker 1: got that going on or completely.
Speaker 2: Oh please, so I haunt my dreams.
Speaker 5: I've eaten some ass tech food when I was down
Speaker 5: in Mexico and stuff like that, and visited the sites
Speaker 5: and done all the stuff, you know.
Speaker 2: Blah. But the sacrifice and killing.
Speaker 5: They would sacrifice French warriors from all the tribes that
Speaker 5: they conquered, or they could sacrifice their own people to
Speaker 5: various gods and everything like that. But the idea of
Speaker 5: colonialism and how awful it is, and the Spanish came
Speaker 5: and destroyed their culture and all that sort of thing.
Speaker 5: You think the Aztecs wouldn't have done that to Spain
Speaker 5: if they'd have had the right ships and could have
Speaker 5: done it.
Speaker 2: Of course they would have.
Speaker 5: They just slaughtered them by the tens of thousands, in
Speaker 5: the same way.
Speaker 2: They did nearby tribes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they wouldn't have kept their warriors in nice
Speaker 1: camps and fed them. They'd feed them into volcanoes and
Speaker 1: blow the damn death.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, that's right. There are some cultures that
Speaker 5: are better than others. Ours is better than the Aztecs
Speaker 5: or the Chinese Communist Party. It was hell bent on
Speaker 5: taking over the world, with one step being taking Taiwan.
Speaker 5: We did some war games recently on how we would
Speaker 5: fare in that battle. How did it come out?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 5: The report was released yesterday Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6: A new escalation, massive explosions rocking Russia's cursed regions, Ukraine
Speaker 6: launching at least ten British made storm shadow cruise missiles.
Speaker 6: Ukraine fighting to hold onto a small patch of Russian territory,
Speaker 6: is holds in Kursk to use as leverage, but Russian forces,
Speaker 6: assisted by thousands of North Korean soldiers, are slowly pushing
Speaker 6: them back. The US in another policy reversal, now allowing
Speaker 6: Ukraine to use anti personnel land mines to try to
Speaker 6: slow the Russians down, with.
Speaker 5: The theory being that we're trying to or Biden's trying
Speaker 5: to get Ukraine in the best position for making some
Speaker 5: sort of deal.
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 5: Russia did or didn't fire a ballistic missile today That'll
Speaker 5: be sorted out throughout the next hours in a provocative
Speaker 5: of move. But I suppose, well, one if the war ends,
Speaker 5: we stop expending a lot of our munitions, which is
Speaker 5: going to fit in with our next story, but you know,
Speaker 5: and people stop dying, and then also the opportunity for
Speaker 5: it to spire. A lot of control goes way down
Speaker 5: if there's a settlement of some sort.
Speaker 2: Hey, I think I have breaking news.
Speaker 5: Breaking easy for me to say, I'm not a Ukrainian
Speaker 5: who's about to give up twenty percent of their country
Speaker 5: to an evil, murderous dictator.
Speaker 2: But that's probably what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: I win, I win. Matt Gates dropped out. He did
Speaker 1: withdrawing his name from consideration. Wow, does it say what age,
Speaker 1: what turned the tide? What made the difference, because I mean,
Speaker 1: as of yesterday he was walking the halls. Although he
Speaker 1: was walking the halls talking to senators.
Speaker 5: I wonder if he talked to enough senators that said, look,
Speaker 5: I'm one hundred percent of no, one hundred percent, and
Speaker 5: once he got past four, which is all he could lose,
Speaker 5: and maybe he got to like twenty two who said
Speaker 5: I'm an absolute no, no matter what happens, I'm a no.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: He said he didn't want to be a distraction of
Speaker 1: the transition.
Speaker 2: Well, remember I opened this clastic, you know, political statement.
Speaker 5: I didn't predict he's gonna drop out, but I did
Speaker 5: say this morning when we started, like does the Trump
Speaker 5: administration want this to be the lead story every day
Speaker 5: because it was the lead story last night, it was
Speaker 5: a lead story this morning. There's always a new thing,
Speaker 5: like it was the canceled checks they found from Gates
Speaker 5: to the girls. It looks like for the sex and
Speaker 5: the party and everything like that, they're just gonna let
Speaker 5: Matt Gates be the lead story every news cycle for
Speaker 5: two months.
Speaker 2: Well, there are times you want to defy the media.
Speaker 1: If they all right, you make it the number one story,
Speaker 1: we're gonna win this one.
Speaker 5: But there are times it's just not worth it. I'll
Speaker 5: be interested in hearing the reporting.
Speaker 2: No what what? What made the difference?
Speaker 5: Maybe there was something that was so bad that somebody
Speaker 5: said we're gonna let this come out and he said, okay.
Speaker 5: Could be that could be from that report. There might be, Hey,
Speaker 5: we know about the and who knows what that is? Yeah,
Speaker 5: and they let him knowing that, Oh, I didn't think
Speaker 5: anybody knew about that. I liked your senator theory more
Speaker 5: because he and his people have been going around and
Speaker 5: getting Hey, Matt.
Speaker 2: I like you.
Speaker 1: But I'm not going to die on this hill just
Speaker 1: because the Biden justed the Justice administration the investigated the
Speaker 1: guy for two years. I don't think decided not to
Speaker 1: charge they would have leaked anything that would damage any Republican.
Speaker 5: I don't think these Republican senators would have said, hey,
Speaker 5: I like you, but I'm a no vote. They would
Speaker 5: have said, I hate you, and there's no way I'm
Speaker 5: allowing you to be attorney general. Based on everything I've read,
Speaker 5: everybody hates him except for like three people, Marjorie Taylor
Speaker 5: Green and you know, Nancy Mace. Every other member of
Speaker 5: the House, the Republicans and the House and the senators
Speaker 5: that are Republicans hate him, absolutely loathe him. So they
Speaker 5: might have made yeah, really clear. I wonder, Yeah, I
Speaker 5: can't wait to read the reporting on that. Well, I
Speaker 5: think that's good news. I think that's good news for
Speaker 5: Trump and good things happening. You get somebody who's not
Speaker 5: so dang controversial and move forward.
Speaker 1: Well, and my final comment on this will be and
Speaker 1: I think I made this point earlier, and I compared
Speaker 1: it to Rosa Parks being the perfect plaintiff in the
Speaker 1: Birmingham bus case because she was unimpeachable, unimpunable as a
Speaker 1: human being, and Gates is a scumbag, and he might
Speaker 1: have been effective and some of the allegations against him
Speaker 1: might be exaggerated or even false, but he's.
Speaker 2: Not a good guy.
Speaker 1: If you have somebody go into the Justice Department to
Speaker 1: really strip it down and get rid of the rod,
Speaker 1: and that person is like universally respected and is a
Speaker 1: good scholar, and just you're in so.
Speaker 2: Much better a position, way, way, way better.
Speaker 1: I know you want a bomb chucker, but have it
Speaker 1: be a bomb chucker who can't be disregarded for dopey reasons. Again,
Speaker 1: it's about effectiveness above all else.
Speaker 5: I don't know if Trump had any role in this whatsoever. If,
Speaker 5: like you know, Susan Wiley is that her name, If
Speaker 5: she went to Gates and said, hey, Trump, Trump wants
Speaker 5: you to get out because he gets out now, it'll
Speaker 5: be forgotten. It'll completely be forgotten. It did no damage whatsoever.
Speaker 5: It'll be forgotten to history. It's overright. Whereas if you
Speaker 5: let it drag out over the next couple of months,
Speaker 5: it could be a really big deal.
Speaker 2: I asked Susie Wiles, Susie Wiles, there you go, Yeah,
Speaker 2: here you go, Here you go.
Speaker 1: Mister Gates accompanied VP elect Jdvans across the Capitol, meeting
Speaker 1: with Republican senators to win their support for his confirmation.
Speaker 1: Many senators in both parties have expressed concern over the
Speaker 1: choice of mister Gates to lead the Justice Department. That's
Speaker 1: the way you phrase it in public. Behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: you phrased it the way you just phrased Matt, I'm
Speaker 1: a hard no.
Speaker 5: Don't waste your time, right, And there's a bunch of us,
Speaker 5: Like I mean a bunch. Well, remember the Wall Street
Speaker 5: Journal reported that there were thirty hard nos of the Republicans.
Speaker 5: They said there were thirty people that said no way.
Speaker 5: So if there was any number like that, of course
Speaker 5: he got out. I had one other comment on this, Oh,
Speaker 5: when we come back from our next break, I will
Speaker 5: have for you some tweets of people saying it's the
Speaker 5: deep state, the deep state one with their lies and
Speaker 5: everything to keep you in Okay, here's doing everything that's
Speaker 5: good in the world.
Speaker 1: And this might not necessarily refute that. But in addition
Speaker 1: to his ethical and legal challenges, mister Gates has a
Speaker 1: long record of gleefully disparaging some Republican.
Speaker 2: Senators right whose votes he now needs to be confirmed. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's why they hate him. And they would say look,
Speaker 2: I hate you.
Speaker 5: You have a.
Speaker 1: Wipe off the sofa where you're sitting. Fraidy Cassam, your
Speaker 1: orgy hung on there. Huh you'r orgy monk. Hey, don't
Speaker 1: get any orgy on my upholstery.
Speaker 5: You disgusting walking STD who said that the other day. Oh,
Speaker 5: there's been dominant who couldn't be a bigger Trump honked like.
Speaker 2: To try to do anything to help Trump with everything. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and he called him a walking STD.
Speaker 5: Oh all right, I feel like we need to take
Speaker 5: a break and come back with the how the war
Speaker 5: games went between US and China.
Speaker 2: Yes, oh yeah, And I'll make this very very short.
Speaker 1: But we were asking before what Bernie Sanders response would
Speaker 1: be to the the inevitable and obvious result of artificially
Speaker 1: raised minimum wages, and that is that thousands of people
Speaker 1: got laid off, many many thousands in California.
Speaker 2: Got their hours reduced, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 1: He would advocate, I'm sure for a government mandated maximum
Speaker 1: level of profit and any profit beyond that.
Speaker 2: Would be distributed to the workers.
Speaker 1: Workers would own the businesses in like the spirit of
Speaker 1: the Soviet fantasy, and that less profitable to build businesses
Speaker 1: would be subsidized by the high taxes on the more
Speaker 1: profitable businesses, so everybody made a living wage, even if
Speaker 1: their job was to, you know whatever, flip burgers or
Speaker 1: something any child could be taught to do in ten minutes.
Speaker 5: By the way, I wouldn't cry any tears for Matt
Speaker 5: Gates if you were a fan. I'm sure he's going
Speaker 5: to work for some very lucrative company that his dad
Speaker 5: sets him up with, and he'll live his party, privileged
Speaker 5: lifestyle for the rest of his life. He'll be perfectly
Speaker 5: fine without the scrutiny of the country. Bunch of good
Speaker 5: stuff on the way, we will finish strong. Stay here.
Speaker 5: Country music superstar Jelly Roll lost over one hundred pounds,
Speaker 5: which you would have noticed if you watched the CMA's
Speaker 5: last night.
Speaker 2: You walked out.
Speaker 5: A tiny sliver of what he has been as a
Speaker 5: giant guy. See how long that lasts. Unfortunately, the diante,
Speaker 5: oh you know how that works. Would the US win
Speaker 5: a war with China over Taiwan? US lawmakers briefed on
Speaker 5: the potential outcome yesterday in Congress. Here are some of
Speaker 5: the headlines we uh the rest of the world could
Speaker 5: probably stop China from taking Taiwan, But you would lose
Speaker 5: a lot, is really the headline. House lawmakers were briefed
Speaker 5: Wednesday about the potential outcome if the US were to
Speaker 5: find itself at war with China over Taiwan within the
Speaker 5: next two years, which is the expected timeline for China
Speaker 5: to try to do this. The Chinese defense industrial base
Speaker 5: is operating at a wartime footing, says the report.
Speaker 2: Are we operating at a wartime footing? We are not?
Speaker 5: Now has a shipbuilding capacity two hundred and thirty times
Speaker 5: greater than the United States, making a potential invasion of
Speaker 5: Taiwan a night not unlikely outcome.
Speaker 2: I think I've heard enough.
Speaker 1: Well, if it were not for China's financial and demographic problems,
Speaker 1: if you're going to ask me what's the next thirty
Speaker 1: years look like geopolitically, Joe, I'd say, well, they have
Speaker 1: two hundred sometimes our shipbuilding capacity, and naval power is
Speaker 1: going to be one of the deciding factors. So game over.
Speaker 2: Yeah. To steal a Joe Getti routine, it would be shocking.
Speaker 5: China has twice the shipbuilding capacity I'm sorry, twenty times, No,
Speaker 5: two hundred and thirty times. The shipbuilding capacity in the
Speaker 5: United States that is shocking. US military analysts have projected
Speaker 5: twenty twenty seven is the year by which China would
Speaker 5: be fully equipped for a military invasion. Explains how they
Speaker 5: do the whole war games thing to try to figure
Speaker 5: this out in China invading Taiwan, et cetera. During the simulation,
Speaker 5: the costs for all sides were high. The US lost
Speaker 5: ten to twenty warships, two aircraft carriers which would be huge,
Speaker 5: two hundred to four hundred warplanes, and more than three
Speaker 5: thousand troops were killed in the first three weeks of fighting.
Speaker 5: China loses ninety percent of its amphibious fleet, fifty two
Speaker 5: major surface warships and one hundred and sixty planes. The
Speaker 5: idea being that we could hold them off to be
Speaker 5: US in Japan mostly holding them off, but it would
Speaker 5: be a hell of a price to pay. The report
Speaker 5: emphasized four key points. One, Taiwan must hold the line
Speaker 5: of the ground invasion be up to them for the
Speaker 5: ground part.
Speaker 2: Two.
Speaker 5: There's no Ukraine model here where the United States can
Speaker 5: slowly escalate. It must decide immediately whether it's fully coming
Speaker 5: to Taiwan's defense. That's where the rubber meets the road
Speaker 5: really stole the words out of my mouth. Yeah, all
Speaker 5: of this depends on the will to engage in it.
Speaker 5: What military operations would be conducted through Japan. For the
Speaker 5: US needs to immediately increase its supply of anti ship missiles.
Speaker 5: But as it say says here, the scenario all depends
Speaker 5: on the current presidents, in this case, probably Trump's decisional
Speaker 5: whether or not they're going to defend Taiwan. Trump has
Speaker 5: made some noises in the past saying I don't think
Speaker 5: we would or I don't think we should. And I
Speaker 5: remember listening to the National Review podcast, which I listened
Speaker 5: to every week.
Speaker 2: I really love every member on their podcast.
Speaker 5: When they had this topic last year, sometimes said I
Speaker 5: don't think we would, and I don't think we should
Speaker 5: expend that level of expenditure three thousand. They don't think
Speaker 5: the United States would have put up with the population
Speaker 5: would be in.
Speaker 2: Favor of it.
Speaker 5: You know, we're you know, the politics runs our war machine.
Speaker 5: The person that makes the decision as an elected official.
Speaker 5: Three thousand deaths, two aircraft carriers, four hundred planes. Is
Speaker 5: the average American into that for protecting Taiwan? They don't
Speaker 5: even know what Taiwan is probably.
Speaker 1: Not right right, and we could make our own chips eventually,
Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera, not our issue.
Speaker 2: China would then control.
Speaker 5: I think the numbers are between twenty five and thirty
Speaker 5: percent of international shipping. It would no longer be open
Speaker 5: waters around the world as we have kept it since
Speaker 5: World War Two, and the bridge kept it before then
Speaker 5: that would be over.
Speaker 2: Right, right, Barbary pirates, et cetera.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm trying to figure out how this is not true.
Speaker 1: I think we are heading toward another period of wars
Speaker 1: of conquest. Vlad Putin kicked it off. Really, China's going
Speaker 1: to continue it. China has made enormous inroads in our hemisphere.
Speaker 1: In South America, by the way, I've been reading a
Speaker 1: great deal about this as well, and they're doing it
Speaker 1: by hook and crook and loan and assistance and trade
Speaker 1: relationships and all sorts of stuff. As we've ignored our
Speaker 1: own backyard to our detriment. But where those moves are resisted,
Speaker 1: say in Central America or South America.
Speaker 2: There it's some country country X.
Speaker 1: Where the government officials or would be government officials become
Speaker 1: more and more in league with China for their own profit,
Speaker 1: and forces within that country decide to resist that because
Speaker 1: they know how unholy and destructive that would be long term.
Speaker 1: And the war is on with China backing guerrilla factions,
Speaker 1: even if it's not overt first, you know, like non
Speaker 1: proxy wars of conquest. They're backing of military factions in
Speaker 1: our hemisphere.
Speaker 2: I think is about to explode.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think we don't come to Taiwan's defense,
Speaker 5: which would be a great shame for the United States
Speaker 5: of America, as we have promised that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: But I think there'd be a hell of a strong response,
Speaker 1: but not trodding the full horse of the Navy and
Speaker 1: our fighters out there.
Speaker 5: Now, Boy, would there be a strong response. As the
Speaker 5: war games say, you're either all in or there's no point.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry immediately quotes strong response. I should have said sanctions.
Speaker 5: You announced the toughest sanctions.
Speaker 1: I wasn't going to use the S word, jack, but
Speaker 1: you've laid it on the table. That's right, sanctions, the
Speaker 1: toughest sanctions anyone has ever seen.
Speaker 2: It will be a pariah.
Speaker 5: China is now a pariah and they're isolated as Russia's
Speaker 5: economy is growing faster than ours currently.
Speaker 2: They're isolated. Look up and smell reality.
Speaker 7: Strong Strong, You're ready?
Speaker 2: Yes, we love that one. I can back to a
Speaker 2: simpler time, doesn't it.
Speaker 5: That was a hit song back in the day. Did
Speaker 5: you know that, Katie? Maybe they're young. Here's your host
Speaker 5: for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Let's get a final.
Speaker 1: Talk from everybody on the crew. To wrap up the show.
Speaker 1: There is our technical director, Michael Angelow, laboring away in
Speaker 1: his cage, pressing the buttons. Michael, what's your final thought? Well,
Speaker 1: we're one week away from Thanksgiving, and so the following
Speaker 1: phrases is what I'll be saying to my.
Speaker 2: Relatives next week at this time.
Speaker 7: Let's see we got.
Speaker 2: Quit watching me too?
Speaker 1: And yes, this is my third plate, and you think
Speaker 1: you're better than me? And finally, yes, I grab mashed
Speaker 1: potatoes with my hand, deal with it.
Speaker 2: Wow, I place my rules.
Speaker 1: Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman. As a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna get my hands on one of.
Speaker 1: Those Aztec death whistles and just blow at whatever somebody's
Speaker 1: bothering me.
Speaker 2: Wow, that'd be funny and horrifying. Jack final thought for us, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I was just thinking.
Speaker 5: I need to set my parameters for the year on
Speaker 5: weight gain. What am I willing to put up with
Speaker 5: during this holiday season? Because if I don't have some
Speaker 5: sort of range of acceptance, that could get out of
Speaker 5: hand very quick.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 1: I was gonna mention and I went to my Bourbon
Speaker 1: Appreciation Society dinner last night and my weight has been really,
Speaker 1: really good.
Speaker 2: But the dessert was.
Speaker 1: A pecan pie with a full sized Reese's Peanut butter
Speaker 1: cup on top of it.
Speaker 2: Of course, of course, the course plays off a little
Speaker 2: of the pie, then a little of a cup.
Speaker 1: Put it in your mush and know that God wants
Speaker 1: us to be happy.
Speaker 5: Of course, the pie has a giant Reese's Peanut butter
Speaker 5: cup on top of it.
Speaker 1: Of course I never eat stuff like that. I looked
Speaker 1: at it, I'm like, what is this a joke? Well,
Speaker 1: I'll try.
Speaker 2: It featuring pie surely. Yeah, that's true, that's Truely.
Speaker 5: Armstrong and getting wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 2: So many people thanks a little time.
Speaker 1: Good Armstrong and Getty dot Com, the superstore, get your cut.
Speaker 2: The crap T shirt. It's time to stand up to
Speaker 2: the madness. The woke lunatics. Cut the crap back to sanity.
Speaker 2: Why did Gates drop out?
Speaker 5: Spend the day looking into that, and we'll have all
Speaker 5: the news for you tomorrow.
Speaker 2: God bless America. I'm strong and it's mere sound could
Speaker 2: could make you insane.
Speaker 1: Such as the what this one actually and I couldn't
Speaker 1: believe it?
Speaker 2: Okay, what in the hell I mean? This feels like
Speaker 2: a more red alert moment for democracy.
Speaker 5: So let's go with a buying so they like shelaq
Speaker 5: the banana or pray shellac in the banana is not
Speaker 5: something we need at all, not during the holiday season.
Speaker 2: Is strong and Getty