WEBVTT - That Freaks Me Out, Man 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.280 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty. 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:17.279 Arm Strong and Jetty and no he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:24.440 Wicked hits theaters tomorrow. 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:26.560 Here you. 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:30.680 And so far the movie is getting rave reviews. They're 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:33.080 very interesting that check out what they said. For instance, 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.959 this review said magical and uplifting and hang on, that's 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:39.519 actually a review for the shrooms your cousin brings to 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:45.199 Thanksgiving and that's sorry. This next review called it the 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:46.480 tale of two people who has. 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:47.800 Passed never should have crossed. 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:51.000 Hang on, that's actually a review for Mike Tyson versus 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:51.640 Jake PAULMS. 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:56.320 This is a mistake. I'm so sorry. Here's another. 0:00:56.560 --> 0:01:01.520 This review said Oz is back. This is insane. Don't 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:06.400 get ahead of me. I heard of you for Trump 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:08.200 putting doctor Oz and chars and medicare. 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:14.520 That's yeah, this is a likable guy. 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:17.880 So uh uh. 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:22.000 Seinfeld says Fallen is the most normal person he's ever 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:24.039 met in short show business, which always sticks in my head. 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:25.120 I find that very interesting. 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:29.399 Uh So, Wicked is a reimagining of the Wizard of 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:32.040 Oz movie correct, and it's supposed to be really cool, 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:35.160 so I might actually take the kids to that. I mean, 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:37.480 my high schooler will hate it, but he hates everything, 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:38.319 So what are you gonna do? 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:41.920 Ye the novel Wicked, and then you had the musical, 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:45.240 and this is yet a different mutation of it that 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:48.640 I don't think resembles the novel much, but I don't know. 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:49.160 So I want. 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:50.920 I only bring that up because I thought the novel 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:51.760 was fantastic. 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:54.000 Oh you did really interesting? Okay, cool, Well then the 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:57.960 movie might be good. It's kind it might be wildly different. 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:00.320 It's got a ton of big stars in it, which 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:02.840 is why on Saturday Night Live they did a sketch 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:06.840 about the screen tests for Wicked and all the different 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.280 people who had tried out for it. I meant to 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:11.240 grab this audio, what I never did, but so one 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:14.600 of them was Bernie Sanders trying out for a part 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:17.880 in Wicked, and it's Bernie Sanders says, the. 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.440 Wizard has millions and billions of dollars. 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:27.040 Well, meanwhile, the munchkins are living paycheck to paycheckutiful. 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:32.280 I thought that was hilarious. Yeah good, yeah, Oh, coming up. 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.040 We did one of those war game simulation thingies, which 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:39.200 I don't know how they work or how accurate they are, 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:41.399 but the Pentagon does it to see if we could 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.160 win a war, for instance, against China f China tries 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:47.040 to take Taiwan, and they briefed Congress on that yesterday 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:49.000 and some of the results are horrifying. 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.240 So stay tuned. Yeah. 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:54.880 I actually read something a couple of weeks ago about 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:57.040 a father and son I think they're Brits that came 0:02:57.120 --> 0:03:02.000 up with a computer game that was like the game Risk, 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:07.040 but not so boring and long. But it was essentially wargaming, 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:12.880 a wargaming computer game where you would assign assets and 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:15.760 weapons systems and move it around and employ different strategies 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:18.280 and stuff like that. And it's so good, and it 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:21.720 became so good they're now teaching it at like the 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:25.440 US War College and West Point and they use it 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:28.960 to wargame, which is really a story I think about 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:31.280 private enterprise and the amazing things you can do with 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:32.000 a little innovation. 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:36.480 There's a major caveat to this report, major, like so 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:39.120 major it makes you wonder why you even read the 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:40.080 report at Stay tuned. 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:44.480 Okay, all right, fair enough, So we have been trying 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:47.839 to help people understand for a long time about how 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:53.240 artificially mandated minimum wages, essentially the government mandating, let's see, 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:56.800 for that work, you shall pay them that amount, is 0:03:56.840 --> 0:04:00.400 a terrible idea. It's bad for workers, it's bad for business, 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:02.680 is bad for the economy, and that's just not the 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.440 way the labor market works, and it causes real damage. 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:08.320 And the fabulous Katie Grimes of the California Globe was 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:13.920 writing about this and she's it came up because Californians, shockingly, 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:18.040 for the first time ever, rejected a minimum wage referendum 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:21.800 a proposition, and it was rejected fairly narrowly, but it 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:24.839 would erased the state minimum wage to eighteen bucks for everything. 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:28.480 Wow. Now, now non Californians are saying. 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:31.159 Well, didn't y'all raise it to twenty bucks? No, that 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:34.479 was just for fast food workers for some reason. Actually, 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:38.159 the reason is because the Service Employees International Union wants 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:39.520 to unionize fast food work. 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:44.240 Fast food that doesn't serve bread in some capacity. 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:48.359 There was a weird carve out for putting Rona Gavin's buddies. 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:49.640 Yeah, exactly. 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:54.719 But anyway, the folks at the Employment Policies Institute of 0:04:54.839 --> 0:05:00.600 California had took a serious look at what has happened 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:05.680 since the increase in the fast food minimum wage. The 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:08.800 rejection comes on the heels of California's twenty dollars minimum 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:11.640 wage law for fast food workers that seen severe backlash 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.840 from employees and business owners alike and led to a 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:18.480 notable amount of business closures and job losses that should 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:19.360 be numbered. 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:20.880 Not amount. You need me as your editor. 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:25.159 Anyway, Californians are sending Gavenusom in the SEIU a clear 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:27.520 message they're sick of being lab rats for the pet 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:31.799 projects devastating economic fallout center. 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:32.800 Here are the specifics. 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:36.719 After the implementation of the twenty dollars minimum wage. The 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:39.880 EPI survey found that the majority of restaurants say they 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:45.000 have the majority they've raised menu prices ninety eight percent. 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:47.039 Yes, we've raised menu prices. 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:52.640 So they called almost all the majority nice writing also. 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:56.599 Well, katie's busy and she's fabulous. Anyway. 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:02.360 Now, the devil's ad position might be, well, there's been 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:05.960 there are other reasons for raising prices, you know, inputs, 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:09.200 inflation and stuff like that. You're absolutely right, But the 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:11.760 idea that labor is in a significant part of the 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.599 cost of a fast food restaurant you don't know anything 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:19.840 about fast food restaurants anyway. What percentage of fast food 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:23.839 restaurants reduced employee hours? This got nothing to do with 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:30.279 the price base eighty nine percent, eighty nine limited employee 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:33.960 shift to pick up or overtime rules seventy three percent, 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:39.719 or just flat reduced staff seventy percent was the result 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:41.200 of the minimum wage law. 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:46.120 Wow, well, of course, of course, what are you gonna do? 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:50.880 I mean, I just I don't I don't understand. This 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:52.640 is one of those where you always say, like, if 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:55.240 you had ten minutes with people, you could have convinced 0:06:55.240 --> 0:07:01.200 them to vote the other way if you have to 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.679 pay more for your workers. It's because so many people 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:11.120 believe that prices are just like random, arbitrarily set. Yeah, 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:13.480 they're arbitrarily said. There's no supply and demand curve or 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:18.640 anything like that, So the restaurant can just charge more 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:21.560 for their hamburgers to cover those costs and the same 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:23.520 number of customers will come and eat there. 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:27.280 That just doesn't make any sense if you're a child. 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:30.800 Right, right, it really doesn't. And again, it doesn't take 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:33.600 a lot of economics training to understand the supply and 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:38.840 demand curves and elasticity. What elasticity is, anyway, has nothing 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:39.840 to do with your sweatpants. 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.640 You're wearing their to your Thanksgiving dinner. Michael, And what's 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:49.400 your favorite example of inelastic product? I have mine from 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.360 economics in college. I always always my. 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:55.720 Favorite example snake bite anti venom. 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:59.160 That's a pretty good one. Salt you're gonna buy the 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.680 same amount of if it was twice as much or 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:06.960 half as much, it's twice practically nothing. 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:17.400 Yeah, but you know, elasticity essentially means the tendency of 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:20.920 people to increase or decrease their purchase of it based 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:24.840 on price. So if if I walk into the hospital 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:26.920 and say, I just got bit by a rattlesnake, which 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:30.240 I've avoided through the years, it's more rare than you think. 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:33.160 But there are a lot of rattlesnake anyway, Sorry, I 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:37.080 just had to kill one not long ago. I meant relocated. 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:45.960 I relocated it right to a farm upstate. Anyway, me 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:49.960 and Madam tangents. Oh, if I walk into the hospital 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.720 and they say, you know, hey, good news, Joe, We've 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:56.360 got two for one on rattlesnake anti venom, I'm like, 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:58.000 I just need the one, right. 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:00.679 I'll pay you the five one hundred dollars. 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:03.000 And if they said, did we say five hundred dollars, 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:05.320 it just went up to five thousand, and you're going 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:06.920 to be dead in half an hour. If so, you've 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:08.719 got no time to go to the other hospital. I'm 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:11.480 saying five grand. It is dot cook me up. There's 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:13.000 zero elasticity there. 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:16.160 It's one as opposed to a particular restaurant that raises 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:18.120 their prices and you just think this is worth it, 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:19.080 and you don't go there anymore. 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:22.120 You go to other restaurants or eat home. Right, Yeah, exactly. 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:25.680 You have many, many alternatives anyway, So how about next year? 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:31.240 The restaurants surveyed said next year, ninety three percent are 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:33.320 going to raise their prices again. 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:35.760 They'll have to Wow. 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:37.760 Man, I'm glad she wrote about this. I wish more 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:39.880 people were aware of this. They should be teaching this 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:43.400 in school. Going forward, eighty. 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:46.840 Seven percent said we're going to reduce employee hours even more. 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:52.000 Eighty seven percent, reduce staff or consolidate positions that means 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:55.200 fire people seventy four percent. 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:57.560 So three quarters of them are going to reduce people. 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:02.400 So your effort to to make a better life for 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:06.280 employees for a whole bunch of them. You made their 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.720 lives much worse as they no longer have a job. Yeah, 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:12.360 which is the most practically the most well, is the 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:15.240 most frightening thing that can happen to you job wise, 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:16.360 losing your job. 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:17.160 Yeah. 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:21.160 The best number that the good folks at the Employment 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:23.800 Policies Institute can come up with last year as a 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:27.400 net job I'm sorry, since January is a net job 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:29.280 loss of forty four hundred jobs. 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:31.240 Yeah, well California. 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:32.600 Well, I would like to know for the cut hours thing, 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:34.920 which you said, what was ninety percent of them? Because 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:39.000 employers don't like to fire people, see, but they probably 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:40.880 cut a ton of people's hours. 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:46.440 Yeah, yeah, so yeah, forty five hundred people or so 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:51.200 now have no job at all because of this, many 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:53.480 many thousands have fewer hours and have had to pick 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:56.840 up another job. Thanks, Gavin, You're a real friggin saint. 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:59.920 And more to come. This year, almost without a doubt, 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:04.439 the state has seen the first fast the worst fast 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:07.920 food job growth rate since the Great Recession. 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:16.760 Anyway, that's I can't believe the voters were into this 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:20.720 enough to reject an all out minimum wage race for 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:22.199 everyone and. 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:23.520 I thought I read the other day, is the first 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:28.200 time a minimum waged prop had lost in America since 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:33.559 the nineties mid nineties. I'm glad people have caught onto 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:35.559 this the way it works. Man, if everything had gone 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:39.080 up to eighteen dollars an hour in California, wooh, that'd 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:39.679 have been rough. 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:42.120 Yeah. 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:45.199 I love the idea of the states being laboratories at democracy. 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:49.200 It's a wonderful, wonderful vision. I just it depends on 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:53.840 the lab results being reported accurately to everybody else to 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:57.280 hear how it came out, and the prejudices of our media. 0:11:57.360 --> 0:11:57.560 You know. 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.760 I would like to think if I were staunchly in 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:02.400 face of a policy and it turned out to be 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:04.800 a disastrous mistake, I. 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:05.520 Would say so. 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:08.319 In fact, I have said so through the years. I 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:10.440 can think of a couple of different examples. What's the 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:12.960 matter with you? Moral cowards? And you liars? 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:15.560 Who can't you just I don't know what's. 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:17.920 Wrong with you that you won't say, Wow, I was 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:20.160 My intentions were great, honest to God. 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:21.440 Because I think a lot of you are. 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:24.160 You think this is a good idea to help poor people, 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:27.200 You're wrong. That doesn't make you a bad person. But 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:30.120 when you won't admit you're wrong and let the damage 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:33.719 continue to more and more poor people, that does make 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:34.480 you a bad person. 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:37.400 But so like Bernie, I think Bernie's completely sincere on this, 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:41.800 and he talks about a living wage. How has he 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:44.920 not come across the information that if you paid people 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:47.440 a wage where they could support their family, you wouldn't 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:51.479 have a single restaurant in the country. 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:53.800 Certainly fast food. Yeah, I don't know. I'd love to 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:57.600 have that conversation with him, But like both, my kids 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:00.560 can't wait till they can work jobs. Unfortunately, in modern 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.480 society you have to be sixteen. I was working when 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:07.920 I was twelve, thirteen, whatever. But my son, who's going 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:10.400 to be fifteen here soon, I can't wait to get 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:13.520 a job be less like much less likely a job. 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:15.520 If they raise the minimum waged eighteen, it could be 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:18.760 that many fewer jobs for people with his skills, which are. 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.800 Zero, right, right, And actually it occurs to me what 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:23.959 Bernie's answer would be. But we don't really have time now, 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:25.360 but we'll squeeze it in a bit. 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:28.560 This whole war games thing with China is super duper interesting. Well, 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:30.000 we got to tell you about that. If you haven't 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:33.160 heard the as tech death whistle. You won't forget it. 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:37.079 You won't forget it. I don't want to hear it again. 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.280 It frightened me too badly the first time. 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:44.880 Okay, stay tuned. I don't want to know how I 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:45.800 spent the commercials. 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.960 Besides writing down the phone numbers and names of all 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:51.920 of our clients, i's been. 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:52.960 Reading up on its sponsors. 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:55.400 Haven't been reading up on the as techs since we're 0:13:55.400 --> 0:14:00.600 about to hear a weird sound. The as techs indigenous 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:06.560 to Mexico and thriving civilization city states. Everything very modern, 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:10.120 any like anything Europad. I've been to the big pyramid 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:13.360 there outside of Mexico City. That's bigger, as big as 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:16.080 the pyramids in Egypt. It's really quite amazing. But the 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:19.440 Aztecs were conquered in fifteen twenty one when the Spanish 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:22.200 showed up and killed them off. But the Aztecs were 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:27.280 into cannibalism and human sacrifice. Just reading there is a 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:31.840 documentation of one site where they believe eighty thousand prisoners 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:34.360 were sacrificed over four days. 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:36.080 Oh yeah, can you. 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:39.520 Imagine sacrifice to prisoners of Waria. 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.080 Between one thousand and twenty thousand annually at least. But 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:46.400 can you imagine eighty thousand slayings of humans in four days, 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:48.720 just the organization of that, what it would be like. 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:55.000 Well, and it's thought that during before those those rituals, 0:14:55.280 --> 0:15:01.280 they would blow the Aztec death whistle, and archaeologists uncovered 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:04.360 this and noticed it was a musical instrument looking thing, 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:05.240 but blew through it. 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:06.960 Now they blow through three D. 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:10.400 Replicas of it, so they're not messing with the actual artifacts. 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:15.240 And then they've done psychological experiments on how people react 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:20.120 to this whistle. And if you're listening, if you've been listening, 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:24.760 if you're listening to the podcast in the future, First 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.280 of all, did Elon make it to Mars the. 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:29.560 Whole trump thing? How'd that work out? 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:34.080 Anyway, we played this earlier and people drove off the 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:37.360 road and we apologize for that. But this is the 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:40.960 whistle that they would blow during the ceremonies. 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:49.040 Oh, like that freaks me out. Man. Imagine if you 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:50.800 had a whole bunch of people blowing that at the 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:51.360 same time. 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:53.760 Oh my god, oh, on each side of you as 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.520 you're the young boy about to be sacrificed, and you 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:58.920 got that going on or completely. 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:03.920 Oh please, so I haunt my dreams. 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.000 I've eaten some ass tech food when I was down 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.280 in Mexico and stuff like that, and visited the sites 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:09.400 and done all the stuff, you know. 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:13.360 Blah. But the sacrifice and killing. 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:15.800 They would sacrifice French warriors from all the tribes that 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:17.840 they conquered, or they could sacrifice their own people to 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:20.560 various gods and everything like that. But the idea of 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:22.960 colonialism and how awful it is, and the Spanish came 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:24.640 and destroyed their culture and all that sort of thing. 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:27.000 You think the Aztecs wouldn't have done that to Spain 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:28.680 if they'd have had the right ships and could have 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:29.000 done it. 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:29.840 Of course they would have. 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:33.320 They just slaughtered them by the tens of thousands, in 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:34.000 the same way. 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:35.120 They did nearby tribes. 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.680 Yeah, and they wouldn't have kept their warriors in nice 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:42.240 camps and fed them. They'd feed them into volcanoes and 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:44.680 blow the damn death. 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:52.960 Oh my god, that's right. There are some cultures that 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:55.960 are better than others. Ours is better than the Aztecs 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:59.480 or the Chinese Communist Party. It was hell bent on 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:03.239 taking over the world, with one step being taking Taiwan. 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:06.480 We did some war games recently on how we would 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:08.199 fare in that battle. How did it come out? 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:08.480 Well? 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:12.119 The report was released yesterday Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:19.520 A new escalation, massive explosions rocking Russia's cursed regions, Ukraine 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:23.359 launching at least ten British made storm shadow cruise missiles. 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:26.640 Ukraine fighting to hold onto a small patch of Russian territory, 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:30.080 is holds in Kursk to use as leverage, but Russian forces, 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:33.560 assisted by thousands of North Korean soldiers, are slowly pushing 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:37.240 them back. The US in another policy reversal, now allowing 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:40.280 Ukraine to use anti personnel land mines to try to 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:41.840 slow the Russians down, with. 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:44.600 The theory being that we're trying to or Biden's trying 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:48.320 to get Ukraine in the best position for making some 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:48.920 sort of deal. 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:50.400 I guess. 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:55.840 Russia did or didn't fire a ballistic missile today That'll 0:17:55.880 --> 0:18:00.000 be sorted out throughout the next hours in a provocative 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:05.080 of move. But I suppose, well, one if the war ends, 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:09.520 we stop expending a lot of our munitions, which is 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:12.399 going to fit in with our next story, but you know, 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:15.439 and people stop dying, and then also the opportunity for 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:18.000 it to spire. A lot of control goes way down 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:19.840 if there's a settlement of some sort. 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:21.720 Hey, I think I have breaking news. 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:23.960 Breaking easy for me to say, I'm not a Ukrainian 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:26.560 who's about to give up twenty percent of their country 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:29.040 to an evil, murderous dictator. 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:30.800 But that's probably what's going to happen. 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:34.960 I win, I win. Matt Gates dropped out. He did 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:38.600 withdrawing his name from consideration. Wow, does it say what age, 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:42.520 what turned the tide? What made the difference, because I mean, 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:45.280 as of yesterday he was walking the halls. Although he 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:46.920 was walking the halls talking to senators. 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:49.639 I wonder if he talked to enough senators that said, look, 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:53.359 I'm one hundred percent of no, one hundred percent, and 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:56.639 once he got past four, which is all he could lose, 0:18:56.880 --> 0:19:00.240 and maybe he got to like twenty two who said 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:03.159 I'm an absolute no, no matter what happens, I'm a no. 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:05.680 Yeah. 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:06.520 Yeah. 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:09.359 He said he didn't want to be a distraction of 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:10.119 the transition. 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:14.080 Well, remember I opened this clastic, you know, political statement. 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:15.960 I didn't predict he's gonna drop out, but I did 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:18.720 say this morning when we started, like does the Trump 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:21.320 administration want this to be the lead story every day 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:22.920 because it was the lead story last night, it was 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:25.680 a lead story this morning. There's always a new thing, 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:29.080 like it was the canceled checks they found from Gates 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:32.000 to the girls. It looks like for the sex and 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:34.320 the party and everything like that, they're just gonna let 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:37.679 Matt Gates be the lead story every news cycle for 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:38.280 two months. 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:42.240 Well, there are times you want to defy the media. 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:45.520 If they all right, you make it the number one story, 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:46.440 we're gonna win this one. 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:50.920 But there are times it's just not worth it. I'll 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:52.280 be interested in hearing the reporting. 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:55.840 No what what? What made the difference? 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:58.679 Maybe there was something that was so bad that somebody 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:01.119 said we're gonna let this come out and he said, okay. 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:06.080 Could be that could be from that report. There might be, Hey, 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:09.320 we know about the and who knows what that is? Yeah, 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:11.040 and they let him knowing that, Oh, I didn't think 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:14.879 anybody knew about that. I liked your senator theory more 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:17.240 because he and his people have been going around and 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:18.520 getting Hey, Matt. 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:18.679 I like you. 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:20.919 But I'm not going to die on this hill just 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:25.679 because the Biden justed the Justice administration the investigated the 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:28.560 guy for two years. I don't think decided not to 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:32.520 charge they would have leaked anything that would damage any Republican. 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:35.120 I don't think these Republican senators would have said, hey, 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:36.720 I like you, but I'm a no vote. They would 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:38.840 have said, I hate you, and there's no way I'm 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:42.440 allowing you to be attorney general. Based on everything I've read, 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:47.359 everybody hates him except for like three people, Marjorie Taylor 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:51.399 Green and you know, Nancy Mace. Every other member of 0:20:51.400 --> 0:20:54.720 the House, the Republicans and the House and the senators 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:59.520 that are Republicans hate him, absolutely loathe him. So they 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:03.399 might have made yeah, really clear. I wonder, Yeah, I 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:05.359 can't wait to read the reporting on that. Well, I 0:21:05.359 --> 0:21:08.240 think that's good news. I think that's good news for 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:12.359