WEBVTT - The A&G Replay Tuesday Hour Four 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:14.200 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:18.959 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:26.040 Getty and he Armstrong and Getty strong Man. 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:30.320 So we'll set this up ahead of time so you 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:32.919 can fully enjoy the President of the United States, who 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:37.239 in one minute claims he was a professor at u 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:39.720 penn which he never was. It's one of his stories 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:40.800 he regularly tells. 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:43.600 Claims he taught a constitutional law class on the Second Amendment, 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:45.920 which he did not, says that you couldn't own a 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:48.360 cannon when the Second Amendment was first round, which you could, 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:52.080 and ends by failing to say the famous phrase the 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:54.400 tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots. 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:54.800 Enjoy. 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:57.440 I used to be at Love when I was no 0:00:57.520 --> 0:00:59.560 longer the Vice president. I became a professor at the 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:04.520 University of Pennsylvania before me and I taught a constitutional 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:06.880 law class. And so I'll talked to some Second Amendment. 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:09.720 There's never been a time that says you can own 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:14.280 anything you want. They never you couldn't own a canyon during. 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:17.400 The Civil War. Yeah, expect to think about it. 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:18.520 How much do you hear this. 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:23.520 Phrase the blood of liberty, wash of gough, give me 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:24.039 a break. 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:27.560 Oh, I made seriously. 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:32.680 And by the way, if they want to think is 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:34.640 to take on government if we get out of line, 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.680 which they're talking on again about, well guess what they 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:40.639 need at fifteen's They don't need is a rifle. 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:42.000 Folks. 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:43.880 Look, this is crazy what we're talking about. 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:47.600 Wow. So that was the president YadA YadA, YadA, ing 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:50.160 one of the more famous Thomas Jefferson phrases about the 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:52.040 tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:57.640 time with the blood of patriots and tyrants, the blood 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:04.080 of and laughing about the idea of uh people being 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:06.720 able to rise up against their government, which is an 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:11.240 interesting notion. But and then you know that's after So 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:15.400 that's just the that's the message there he starts with 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:18.880 the whole I was a professor upan, No, you weren't. 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:22.160 I taught constitutional law. No, go to the Washington Post. 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:25.679 You don't need to go to Fox, your own favorite blue, 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:29.919 wacky lefty newspaper. The Washington Post has debunked those, mister presidents, 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:32.760 So stop saying it. Boy, that was that was an 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:39.240 amazing density of falsehoods per minute. Yeah, but unlike you 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:45.720 know Trump, who exaggerates wildly and says also crazy. Of course, Biden, 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:50.880 there was just making up a biography. It's easily checked 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:54.280 and has been checked repeatedly. Well, he's senile, you know. 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:56.680 I'm gonna read this real quick. And then Charlie Cook, 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:58.919 the fabulous Charlie Cook at the National Review wrote a 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:02.720 great piecing hit with a part of but Dave writes, 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.560 my mother is ninety three and suffers from dementia. She 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:07.360 was good until about a year ago, and then her 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:10.079 mental and physical health took a precipitous drop over the 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:14.079 last six months. Can't remember anything, rambles, aimlessly, loses track 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:16.800 where she is, repeats herself, talks about things from her 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:20.120 younger days that may or may not have happened. Sound familiar. Yeah, 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:22.320 it's eerie and frightening to watch the leader of the 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:24.480 free world dwindle in the same way. Frankly, I don't 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:28.280 think he'll make it to election day, and Dave, I 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:32.959 think you're probably right. I still maintain that it's going 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:36.240 to become so obvious that he's incapable of executing the 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:39.920 office between now and the Democratic Convention in August. I 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:41.840 don't think he'll be the candidate. But I realize that's 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:45.920 kind of a long shot opinion. But yeah, mostly because 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:49.800 people can't picture and people close to Joe Biden and 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:52.320 the people around him can't picture the mechanism for that. 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:54.480 Like Mark Alpern wrote the other day, if Joe Biden 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:57.600 has some secret plan, he hasn't told anybody because none 0:03:57.640 --> 0:03:58.600 of the people around him know. 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:00.240 Ah. 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:03.120 Yeah, I think like I say, I think events and 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:06.880 perceptions will force everyone's hand. But we'll see, we'll all 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:09.960 find out together. So Charlie Cook for the National Review 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:13.680 right that it's now by near universe. It is by 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:16.919 now near universally acknowledged that Joe Biden is too old 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:20.640 to perform his duties. It is less universally acknowledged that 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:23.559 this has serious implications, which is what we're talking about, 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:25.839 the chief among which is that, for all of the 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:29.080 pageantry that attends his re election campaign, Joe Biden is 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:31.960 not in fact running to be the president of the 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:37.040 United States. And he says, now, this is not a conspiracy. 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:41.120 He won, he's currently serving, he's eligible to on again, etcetera, etcetera. 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:43.360 He says, instead, I mean that Biden is operating as 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.479 a stand in a widget or a mcguffin whose primary 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:48.640 purpose is to make it to November fifth of this 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:52.320 year without expiring. Most candidates have plans for their coveted 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:55.120 four years. Biden has none. He does not expect to 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:57.800 be there in the public agrees with his hunch. He 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:00.200 points out that this is that it's not normal, and 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:03.479 then a whopping eighty six percent of Americans now believe 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:07.960 Biden is too old to be president. And then he 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:13.840 also points out, and this is clearly true, inevitably well, 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.080 that Joe Biden has been transmitted into a little more 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:18.920 than a game token is routinely implied by the substance 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:22.960 of our political conversations. Inevitably, discussions of Donald Trump's candidacy 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:25.839 revolve around what will happen if Donald Trump wins the presidency, 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:29.680 and inevitably, discussions of Joe Biden's candidacy revolve around what 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:32.280 will happen if Donald Trump wins the presidency? 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:32.880 Right? 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:36.960 Right? And then he unleashes a couple of sentences that 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:41.080 I love. Filter out the partisan hallucinations in which Biden 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:43.600 is cast as a successful president, and you'll find a 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:45.799 little more than an anti matter left within the residue. 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:49.400 Biden must win because Donald Trump must not. And because 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:52.120 Biden must win, then Biden cannot be too old or 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:54.640 too incompetent or too misguided, because if Biden is too 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:57.120 old or too incompetent or too miscotted, then Donald Trump 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:59.960 might win, and was established earlier, donald Trump must not win. 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:04.800 And then finally he says, what makes the whole thing 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:10.040 so startlingly, utterly, unfathomably weird is that the people who 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:14.160 are responsible for this whole token candidacy are the very 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:18.320 same people who will immediately begin orchestrating Biden's removal if 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:22.119 he manages to win in November. After all, twenty three 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:25.479 seconds after he's won, everything will change, and when it does, 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:29.680 the reversal will be astonishing in both speed and scope. Instantly, 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:32.920 all of Biden's senile techs will be visibled, all within 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:36.520 seconds of his inauguration, the science will begin to cast 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:39.400 doubts on the ability of any octogenarian to do such 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:41.600 a demanding job. After a couple of bad polls, the 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:44.520 muttering will begin. After the first public slip up, the 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.040 Sunday shows will swoop in and as the party starts 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:48.960 to look forward to the midterms, the number of amateur 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:52.800 grim reapers will multiply into a requim chorus that drowns 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:56.120 out all but their own. Yeah, and then he mentions 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:59.560 the late night comics and friendly cable channels will practice 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:05.680 their row full faces and blah blah blah. So just 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:08.200 so we can not talk about Joe Biden for a while, 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.640 jam this in here. Polling came out on the whole 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:13.360 student loan thing. This is very maddening. As a taxpayer, 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:17.080 I hate that program period, the bailing out the most 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:21.320 privileged people in America to help the working class somehow. Anyway, 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:24.480 the first polling came out on that yesterday, and relatively 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:27.880 few Americans are fans of it. Three in ten US 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:30.200 adults say they approve of how Biden has handled the 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:33.920 issue of student loan debt thirty percent, four and ten disapprove, 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:36.960 So he's upside down on that. And according to this 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:40.680 poll from the University of Chicago School of Public Policy, 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:46.160 the outlook wasn't better for among those responsible for unpaid 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:50.040 student loan debt, either for themselves or for a family member. 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:53.840 Thirty six approved, thirty four disapproved, So it's a wash. 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:57.080 It's fifty to fifty even on people who owe the money. 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:00.880 So you spent all that taxpayer money on the least 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.880 progressive thing progressives ever done have done, and you didn't 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.480 even get any votes out of it. I just think 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:10.520 that's a gesture of abandoning any pretense that the Democratic 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:14.600 Party has not become the party of college educated, young 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:17.320 white women who think with their feelings. But I was 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:20.920 just like their whole deal. I wish you could take 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:22.720 it back, since it's going to end up costing us 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:26.080 like eight hundred billion dollars or something. I mean, the 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:27.920 amount that it's going to end up costing us over 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:31.960 time is in is crazy for a variety of reasons 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:35.520 we could get into. But oh, I see what you're 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:37.640 driving at. I wish I wish he could say, oh wow, 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:39.400 it didn't even buy me any votes. Let's go back 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:41.720 to give the money back to the taxpayer and the programs. 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:46.440 This is my best idea ever. When there is political pandering, 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:49.800 people writing themselves checks from the treasury through their party 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:53.319 of choice, right, and it turns out that it didn't 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:57.760 actually buy them any favor and the program Yes, yes, 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:04.720 that's what I'm saying, is that it's the unsuccessful pandering amendment. Yeah, exactly, 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:08.160 if you're, if you're, if your attempt to buy votes 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.199 buys no votes, didn't buy votes, then you give the 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:13.360 money back to the taxpayer. There you go. This is 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:16.720 our contribution to the republic. All these decades of babbling 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:20.160 into microphones, we finally come up with something to help 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:23.120 the United States of America. Isn't that something that it's 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:25.360 a wash among the students and the parents who owe 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:28.800 the money. It's fifty to fifty on whether you like 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:31.720 it or not. Well, it's just it's idiotic. It's immoral, 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:36.040 it's impractical, it's anti progressive, it's unfair. I mean, it's 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:37.360 just it's stinks. 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:38.360 Right. 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.200 You can't even get a majority of people who would 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:48.000 be benefisheries of it to say, wow, that's cool. Nice. 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:50.040 You can't even pander. 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:50.720 You suck. 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:07.960 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty the Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:12.240 Why is it so cold with your Michael? Yeah, you know, 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:14.760 I had turned it up and then the air condition 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:18.040 turned itself back on. It's punishment, I guess it's punishment 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:21.560 for what I did to that we did to deserve this, 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:24.920 But it's like fifty eight degrees in here, being treated 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:27.840 like North Korean dissidents. Huh, what's up with that? Speaking 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:30.360 of North Korea, woke up to see that Putin and 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:33.400 North Korea assigned a pact. They now have a packed 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:35.840 to come to each other's defense if they are attacked 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:40.160 by I guess they're implying us well. And it's full 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:42.800 of what delights me in spite of the horror of 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:48.640 the thing. I am always amused by the stilted, grandiose 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:51.680 language that comes out of every pronouncement from North Korea. 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:57.640 The permanent friendship built of solid granite between our two 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:02.240 gargatchuan people's. I mean, they're it's just always that inflated rhetoric. 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:09.679 I'll find the specific story, but it's just that's pretty good, ridiculous, 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:17.280 solid gargantuan peoples. They're pledged an everlasting friendship and on 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:21.520 wavering support. I do agreement would form the backbone of 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:25.000 the countries. BA right, oh here it is. I am 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:28.120 confident that during this visit, the ardent friendship between the 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:31.240 two countries will be strengthening. Like I'm on a list, 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:41.520 all right. I don't get the crowd that doesn't think 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:46.640 we need to engage these people. Russia and China and 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:50.160 North Korea and Iran are intertwined in more ways than 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:55.600 they've ever been. Iran's providing weapons to Russia. Russia's providing 0:11:55.640 --> 0:12:00.120 stuff to Iran. It's shown up and fighting is that's 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:02.560 in Ukraine and all over the place. In China. Of course, 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:04.600 we know what China is and they're all working together, 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:08.280 and it's terrible. It's terrible for the world. This is 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:12.240 a major world moment. Yeah, it is. I think the isolationist, 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:15.160 crowded neo isolationists would say, well, they're just doing that 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:19.040 because the US has pressured them. They form a weird 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:26.600 kind of alliance with the self hating liberal. They believe 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:31.320 that all evil that befalls the world that has anything 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:32.920 to do with the United States is the fault of 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:36.000 the United Storce. Well, I spent a decent chunk of 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:39.400 my adulthood as a near isolationist, so it's not like 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:42.120 I'm completely out of touch with that thinking. I do 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:47.400 think I was wrong at this point. It would be 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:53.520 wonderful if isolationism worked. That would be great. Yeah, yeah, Oh, 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:57.200 you don't have to get involved in everything. That's certainly true, 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:58.719 and we've gotten involved in things we didn't need to 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:02.160 get involved in Yeah, I would say that's absolutely true. 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:05.720 And like most things in life, the extreme points of 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:07.960 view are very simple and easy to understand, and so 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:12.040 people like them. And the truth in foreign policy, like 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.360 in life, is that, no, it's going to be a 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:19.520 bunch of difficult judgments, and so many of them are 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:21.600 going to be like right on the margin, you're just 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:25.920 not sure. But the idea that you can just isolate yourself, 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:32.880 especially in the new global instantaneous communication, practically instantaneous weaponry world, 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:36.360 it's just not true. Yeah, And like I mentioned yesterday, 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:38.440 you weren't here on Friday when we talked to Josh 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.960 Rogan and his article in the Washington Post, US military 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:45.680 plans a hellscape to deter China, and it's pretty damned interesting. 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:49.040 But we're taking it super seriously as we should. That 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:51.240 China is going to move on Taiwan at some point, 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:54.720 and it could happen. I don't think there's any stopping it. Actually, 0:13:55.280 --> 0:14:00.120 there's a quote from Trump where Trump said, oh, in 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.760 the latest interview with Time magazine, when he asked if 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:05.199 we would defend Taiwan, he said it would depend on 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:10.720 the circumstances. President Trump once told a GOP senator in 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:14.240 a closed meeting that there isn't a blanking thing we 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:16.600 can do about it. If China decides to take Taiwan. 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:20.240 I think that's close to right. It's going to happen 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.440 in like an hour. I mean someday. All these military 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:25.160 exercises they have, like the other day where they got 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:28.240 the whole island surrounded with ships and planes and everything 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:30.560 like that, what if they actually do it for real? 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:34.000 How would we stop that? Yeah, it might not even 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:37.160 be an attack, it would just be a siege. But anyway, 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:43.400 the healthscape idea is, we got gazillions of unmanned submarines 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:46.320 and flying drones and all kinds of stuff that we 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:49.880 would unleash on them instantly to try to slow them 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:52.960 down to bias some time. Because our Pentagon knows that 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:55.200 they're gonna be able to do this in like, you know, 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.600 fifteen minutes if they decided to do it, So we 0:14:57.680 --> 0:14:59.640 got to move super super fast. So we got the 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.360 healthc that is the drone attack, and then that buys 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:05.840 us some time, plugged the zone with some drones. It's 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:11.440 a zone drone well exactly, good luck. But I read 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:14.760 Josh's piece at your recommendation and thought, wow, that is 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:19.960 really intriguing, and I'm not sure I'm buying it right. Well, 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:26.600 I have to say the incredible interconnection of virtually all 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:28.760 of the economies, No, that's not true. I mean North 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:34.200 Korean rush, aren't that introducing? Anyway? Economic intertwining is what's 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:38.760 holding China back at this point, and it would not 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:42.800 be an easy military victory over Taiwan, not by any 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:47.720 stretch of the imagination. Whether it could be turned back 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:51.680 is a different question. It would probably be really quagmiriy. 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:55.960 So I'm going through the America's Cold Wars with David sangerbook, 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:57.840 and he has got a long piece in there about 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:00.480 the relationship between Russian and China through the years, and 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:05.200 Stalin was somewhat shocked at one point when Mao, who chairman, 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:09.680 she idolizes and wants to be the new Mao. Mao 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:13.000 told Stalin, I'm perfectly fine with losing one hundred million 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:16.640 people if I have to defeat the United States a 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:18.080 hundred million. 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:19.120 Yeah. 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:21.720 Now, I don't know if she's close to that number, 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:24.080 but if he was a fraction of it, if he's 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:28.960 only willing to lose a million men, we don't have 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:31.680 that kind of appetite. Nothing within them a thousand miles 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.080 Oh no, no. And that's one of the great weaknesses 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:36.560 we have as Americans is we think everybody thinks like us. 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:39.640 Maybe it's because we're isolated by a couple of oceans. 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:43.680 But I've mentioned this before in Maine kompf Harr Hitler 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:46.160 mentions that if you're going to be one of the 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:48.280 great men of history, you have to be willing to 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:52.200 sacrifice the tens of thousands at any moment, and if 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:54.640 you don't have the gall for that, you're not going 0:16:54.720 --> 0:17:01.040 to be a great man of history. Well that's rough. Yeah, healthscape, 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:03.400 Can we do we actually have a hellscape ready to go? Well, 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:04.960 that's a secret. I hope we do. I hope we 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:08.439 have a healthscape of drones, submarine drones, submarine drones and 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:12.040 air drones at the same time. Very exciting. Flood to zone. 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:14.720 We need those Chinese We need those Chinese dogs. I've 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:17.040 seen the robot dogs with the machine gun on their back. 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:23.280 Are they gonna swim? Yeah? I guess dog paddle. It's 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:25.120 still looks scary. You if I see one of those 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:27.359 Chinese metal dogs running at me with a machine gun. 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:31.840 I'm gonna I'm gonna lose my mud, as they said 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:40.960 in the Civil War arm Strong see Armstrong and getting shot. 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:44.719 So a quick metal game here. How much money do 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:48.360 you need to be considered? What term do they use? Wealthy? 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:53.000 Like your net worth? How much would you have to 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:55.600 have in the bank to be wealthy? The trouble with 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:58.240 these questions, as we always point out, is where do 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:00.840 I live? Where I live currently? If I'm going to 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:05.360 stay here, it's a pretty big number. If I'm where 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:08.600 my brother lives, it's a much much smaller number to 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:13.000 have a perfectly happy life. So you are both absolutely 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:23.280 correct and a fun suck. All right, Let's specify you 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:31.119 are in a third quintile cost of living part of America, 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:36.760 so you're like above average, but not San Francis. So 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:38.760 the question is, and I'll stop being a fun suck, 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.159 So what's the number? What's the number that makes you 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:42.400 wealthy for your net worth? 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:43.520 Yeah? 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:45.440 Yeah, So anyway, we'll come back to that in a minute. 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:49.080 A couple of stories about financing money and retirement, that 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:50.879 sort of thing, getting away from politics, at least for 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:54.000 a little while. I thought it was interesting, and though 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:57.720 we are both gen Xers at the older end of 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:02.040 Gen xers. And I've been aware of this, I hadn't 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:04.800 ever really thought about it. The generation was the first 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:09.440 generation to see a massive shift in how Americans work 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:13.480 and save for retirement. Companies moved from pensions that promise 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:16.520 steady income after years of service, the gold watch at 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:19.360 the retirement you worked for one or two companies your 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:23.600 entire career, Dad did to a much much more mobile 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:29.360 feel of employment, and four A one k's becoming your 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:33.879 retirement savings method and it's in your own hands. And 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:36.720 in fact, there are some of the financial services industry 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:39.760 that call gen X. I think it's the four to 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:44.719 one K experiment generation. That's interesting. They call it an experiment, 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:48.080 which insinuates that they think it might not work or 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:51.719 be a good idea. Is that what they're insinuating, I suppose. 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:53.639 So I've never seen it as an experiment. It always 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:57.119 just seemed like such solidly a good idea, right. But 0:19:57.359 --> 0:20:00.320 you've got to admit, because you know, some some people, 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:03.399 whether they're lower education or they're you know, they're just 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:08.400 busy or don't have the interest in following politics and finance, 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:11.840 they got into four oh one k's very very late 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:15.840 or didn't appreciate the importance of starting early. Compound interest et. 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:18.800 It's a really good program in a lot of ways, 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:21.399 but you have to opt in. I've been hammering my 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:23.119 kids on that since they were too young to have 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:25.280 the slightest idea what it even means. Just so it's 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:28.560 in their head somewhere. Start putting in the max of 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:30.879 your four oh one K the first time you get one. 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:33.000 I don't care if you have to eat cats like 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:36.000 you're a Haitian immigrant. Put your money in your four 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:40.040 oh one k. Change your life. Yeah. Yeah, So, as 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:43.879 an individualist, I have zero problem with me being in 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:45.240 charge of my retirement. 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:45.600 No. 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:48.760 In fact, I wish George W. Had been successful in 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:51.840 privatizing social security. Everybody listening would be a good deal 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:54.359 ridger now where they are come retirement. We all know 0:20:54.400 --> 0:20:58.240 what the punchline to this is. Though, somebody that decides 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:00.600 not to put into their four oh one or the 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:04.080 George W. Bush style private retirement, they get to old 0:21:04.119 --> 0:21:07.000 age and don't have any money, and it's presented as 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:10.720 they don't have a dignified retirement and we need to 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:14.320 have a program for that. Oh absolutely, we need your 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:18.840 tax dollars, including you being taxed on the very Social 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:23.240 Security money that the government did in a paltry and 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:27.800 hilarious way pile up for you. Fact they they don't 0:21:27.840 --> 0:21:31.640 pilot up current workers. It's in a lockbox, and it's 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:36.240 not in a lock box. That's a blasting twenty four 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:39.560 years ago. But I enjoyed it. Ah, right, So we 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:41.960 could labor those points, but I think we're all kind 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:44.040 of up on it. I loved this article in the 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:48.200 Wall Street Journal. I loved to hate it. They're breaking 0:21:48.280 --> 0:21:52.399 every retirement rule to be off now, not later. Some 0:21:52.520 --> 0:21:55.479 workers want to spread retirements throughout their careers, even if 0:21:55.520 --> 0:21:58.160 it means a smaller four to h one k oh boy. 0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:02.600 And they profile is cute earl and her cute boyfriend 0:22:03.040 --> 0:22:06.560 and how they're taking years off of work and like 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:11.159 spending down their savings to retire now. And they say, 0:22:11.680 --> 0:22:14.280 even if I don't have as much money when I retire, 0:22:14.440 --> 0:22:17.600 this is totally worth it. Oh my god. See, if 0:22:17.640 --> 0:22:20.200 you're if this is the problem with the libert straight 0:22:20.280 --> 0:22:23.560 libertarian point of view, and so I'm a straight libertarian, 0:22:23.800 --> 0:22:27.280 good good for you, you moron, do it. Go ahead. But 0:22:27.359 --> 0:22:31.120 if I'm a realist slash conservative. I realize when they 0:22:31.119 --> 0:22:34.280 don't have any money when they're older, you're gonna take 0:22:34.359 --> 0:22:36.840 a bunch of my tax money or raise my taxes 0:22:36.880 --> 0:22:40.600 to help them out. I know that's what's gonna happen. Well, 0:22:40.640 --> 0:22:44.200 and these these sexy thirty one year olds say, oh no, 0:22:44.359 --> 0:22:47.840 it's totally worth it to go hiking here in the Alps. 0:22:48.359 --> 0:22:50.400 And if I have less money as an ulster, it'll 0:22:50.400 --> 0:22:54.479 be great. The idea that the Wall Street Journal didn't 0:22:54.520 --> 0:22:57.760 throw in a paragraph saying, now, obviously they have no 0:22:57.880 --> 0:23:00.480 idea what they're talking about. And there could be nothing 0:23:00.480 --> 0:23:03.320 more ridiculous than a thirty one year old saying the 0:23:03.359 --> 0:23:06.320 Thrills at age thirty one are quote unquote worth being 0:23:06.400 --> 0:23:10.720 paupers as old people. Right, that's so stupid, it's almost hilarious. 0:23:10.960 --> 0:23:15.320 Let's take a moment to laugh before they get back 0:23:15.359 --> 0:23:19.359 to the text of the article. But, as Jack has 0:23:19.400 --> 0:23:23.920