WEBVTT - The A&G Replay Thursday Hour Two 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:13.960 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:18.320 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty arm. 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:25.840 Strong and Getty and Pee Armstrong and Getty Strong and. 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:33.960 Philadelphia Zoo announced last week that a pair of nearly 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:37.640 one hundred year old tortoises recently welcome their first hatchlings. 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:40.280 You may have seen the tortoises on the MTV show 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:41.239 ninety nine. 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:51.720 Pregnant markets are surging if you're listening to us live, 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:56.880 so the bounce back has begun. And get into that later. Also, 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:59.400 latest polling on the whole tariff thing, get into that 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:03.120 later also. And oh and I just saw the real 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:05.720 ID deadline is a month away. This is going to 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:12.400 be my all time greatest hit screw up because it's 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:15.680 been I've seen it coming for so long and known 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:19.560 the entire time for years that at some point I 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:22.200 will be at an airport ready to get on a 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:25.200 plane someplace I need to go, yes, and they'll say 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:27.240 we no longer accept your driver's license, you need your 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:29.319 real ID, even though I knew it for years, I 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:30.880 am that is going to happen to me. 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.399 I'll like your high school teacher assigned you a book 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.880 report due in twenty years and you waited until the 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:40.200 last night and you're up all night, right, that is 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:43.520 going to happen to me? Yeah, it's funny, Judy, And 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:46.280 I heard that report, and I have a feeling. I 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:49.440 spoke for many, many millions of Americans when I said, 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:54.120 do we have real IDs? I've completely lost track? Is 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.160 ours real? She looked at it and said, yeah, yes 0:01:57.560 --> 0:01:59.280 we do. How that happened? 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:01.920 I don't recall, but I sure don't have one? Are 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:07.320 you sure? I'm positive you might. When did you last 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:08.200 for new year license? 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:09.960 I don't know? 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.040 So, so your driver's license? 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:12.359 Is it? 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:13.480 Yeah? 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:14.160 Oh it is? 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:16.079 Well, maybe I did have a real like the updated 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:18.919 does it have like a hologrammy looking thing on there? 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:24.079 Or yeah? Yeah, there you go. Maybe I do have. 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:26.320 It done and done, sir. That's my point. Nobody has 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:32.160 any idea. Yeah. 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:34.560 So, speaking of economics and that sort of thing, which 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:36.639 a lot of people are doing these days in reference 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:37.320 to the tariffs. 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:41.040 But to this too shall pass, I hope eventually. Uh 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:42.120 And and some of. 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:45.760 The support and lack of support are coming from some 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:49.320 interesting areas for the tariffs, and we can talk about 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:51.080 that more later, but I'm kind of tariffed out. 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:53.880 We brought this up kind of briefly at the end 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:54.080 of the. 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:57.040 So you see I could talk about tariffs for many 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:57.800 more hours. 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:01.720 Well you should feel free. How about one room over anyway? 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:09.240 I found this so interesting, big survey of America's employers, 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:14.920 especially manufacturers. They cannot find reliable, conscientious workers who can 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:19.880 pass a drug test. A good worker, like a good man, 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:23.440 can be hard to find these days. And who is 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:26.600 this writing in the Alicia Finley, who I think is 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:31.959 a terrific writer, But she says, blame government, which showers 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.880 benefits on able bodied people who don't work well at 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:37.880 the same time subsidizing college degrees that don't lead to 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:41.280 productive employment, and the result is millions of idle men 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:44.360 and millions of unfilled jobs, what an economist would call 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:45.960 a dead weight loss to society. 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:50.040 So failing the drug test, is it mostly the marijuana, 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:53.400 the Mary Jane, the lettuce, the hippie let? 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:57.360 Yeah, I don't know. I suspect so though. Sure I 0:03:57.400 --> 0:04:00.280 think it's mostly pot. But I think that it's just 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:08.000 brilliantly simply put, we are showering benefits on able bodied 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:14.520 people and subsidizing useless college degrees as as a people 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:17.640 because the government is theoretically doing our work right. 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:21.720 Well, I for one, don't like either end of that anyway. 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:24.360 Forty percent of small business owners and March reported job 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:29.320 openings they could not fill. Construction companies fifty six percent said, yeah, 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:32.760 we have unfilled jobs and we can't find anybody. Transportation, 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:35.719 I have a feeling that's mostly truck drivers fifty three 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:42.360 percent manufacturing, which the President is, according to many people, 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:47.159 admirably trying to shepherd back inside the country. More forty 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:50.039 seven percent of manufacturers say, no, we've got openings we 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:50.640 can't fill. 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:50.880 Well. 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:53.560 So, according to the last week's National Federation of Independent 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:54.960 Business survey, that might. 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:58.280 Be a flaw in the president's plan that hasn't been 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:02.200 discussed enough. He wants to bring back the fifties or 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:05.680 seventies or whatever golden era of manufacturing that we used 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:06.039 to have. 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:08.720 But back then people would do those jobs. 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:14.760 If half the manufacturing jobs out there or you can't fill. 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.400 Now, what if manufacturing did come. 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:19.600 Back to the United States, who, in theory is going 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:20.480 to do those jobs? 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:23.760 Well, not illegal immigrants, because thank god, the border has 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:26.640 been closed and the statistics are astounding. 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:28.400 Biden was a scoundrel anyway. 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:30.599 Was it going to be the woman who studies major 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:34.280 from your local university that goes works, They're probably not well. 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:37.000 It could well be the dudes who have no disability 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:41.039 on disability who are heaved off of that system, but 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:43.840 that would take some tough love, and that's not very 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:47.360 popular politically speaking. I mean, if you go into one 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:50.880 of the districts of the rust Belty places or Appalachia 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:54.200 or whatever where you have just ludicrous levels of people 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:57.800 on disability. Happened to read a couple things about this recently. 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:02.320 Didn't flog you with it on the air. But and 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:04.440 if you go into those places and say we're kicking 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:07.920 it off everybody on disability who's not like missing a limb, 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:10.960 you will lose an election by seventy points. 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:13.440 That's even possible. 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.080 Once people are on the toll man, once people have 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:21.640 a benefit, whether legitimate or perhaps questionable, taking it away 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:25.440 as political poison as you know, Labor Department's job openings 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:27.919 and labor turnover survey of businesses tell a similar story. 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:31.279 There are twice as many job openings in manufacturing now 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:34.080 than in the mid two thousands as a share of employment. 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:37.279 Save for the pandemic, America's workers shortage is the worst 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:42.839 in fifty years. Decades ago, productivity, enhancing technology and yes, 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:45.440 inexpensive imports costed men who worked on shop floors to 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:47.880 lose their jobs and drop out of the workforce. But 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:50.120 that generation is sailing into the sunset, and there are 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:53.160 many fewer young Americans who want to work in factories. 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.960 Listen to this now, the labor force participation rate among 0:06:57.040 --> 0:07:00.839 young among working age men is now about five percentage 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:04.080 points lower than in the early eighties. Okay, this is 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:08.080 not like the nineteen tens. This is the nineteen eighties, 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:10.760 five points lower. As a result, there are about three 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:14.440 and a half million fewer men between the ages twenty 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:16.960 five and fifty four in the workforce, and one point 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:19.800 three million between the ages of twenty five and thirty 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:23.040 four in a significantly bigger population than we had in 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:25.360 the eighties. Right then there would have been were it 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:30.120 not for this decline. Labor participation among working age women, 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:32.000 on the other hand, recently hit a record in part 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:37.000 because they are having fewer children, and then people aren't 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:39.400 coupling and that sort of thing at the risk of 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:42.640 stereotyping women are more inclined toward helping professions such as 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:44.880 services than those that require physical labor. 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:46.320 Well, that's just true. It's undeniable. 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:51.040 So I've not done a manufacturing sort of job before, 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:56.880 so I don't know what it's like, but I certainly 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:01.360 feel like there's a social stigma around it that doesn't 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:03.080 help true. 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:04.680 Why it is? 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:08.920 Why there's not a social stigma around having a meaningless, 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:14.880 soul deadening paper pushing job in a cubicle, I don't 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:17.920 know why that is. I mean, maybe the other way 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:20.239 around should be. There shuldn't be any stigma around any jobs. 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:25.000 Working for a living is considerably better than not whatever 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:25.960 the hell you're doing. 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:29.760 So why at least the vestige of the twentieth century 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:31.960 where a job where you used your brain as opposed 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:34.640 to your back was seen as a higher status job. 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:37.080 God, I don't know some of these jobs or you 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:38.480 use your brain. 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:42.240 That's barely not much, I mean, but they certainly don't 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:45.840 seem like they'd be much more enjoyable as starter jobs. 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:48.480 Right, Tedious is tedious. 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.880 I had a sort of manufacturing job for one summer, 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.679 and it was pretty tedious. Honestly, but I'm sure it is. 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:57.160 You know why I go went ahead and took it 0:08:57.200 --> 0:08:59.160 and kept it. It was because it paid pretty good. 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:02.920 It was my best hop right. So yeah, and well 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:05.000 you should have to make a living. You got to 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:06.160 support yourself somehow. 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:08.960 No, you don't. What kind of monster are you listen 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:09.560 to this? Would you? 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:10.040 So? 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:11.960 Where have all the good working men gone? Some are 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:15.200 subsisting on government benefits, are living off their parents. About 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:19.319 seventeen percent of working age men are on Medicaid, seventeen percent, 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:22.040 seven and a half percent on food stamps, and six 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:25.440 point three percent on Social Security, many claiming disability payouts. 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:27.040 According to the Census Bureau. 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:31.000 Many spend their days playing video games and day trading, well, 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:37.040 day trading hilarious, speculating on meme stocks, or you tell 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.080 somebody your day trading. I don't know how often you're 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:42.959 actually trading and making any money, because you don't want 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:44.960 to say I just play video games and live in 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.280 my parents' basement, so you say you're your day trader. 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:51.400 So I don't remember our a good friend, Craig the 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:57.199 healthcare Genius's statistics. But if I remember correctly, originally Medicaid 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:01.120 was only supposed to cover like a tiny percentage people period. 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:02.439 Now it's covering percent. 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:04.680 Now it's covering And that would have been like the 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:07.520 old and you know people that I got all kinds 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:09.040 of physical or mental problems. 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:11.520 Now it's seventeen percent of. 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:15.559 Working age men, not not like senior citizens. 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:16.600 That's nice. 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:21.440 Yeah, a couple more stats. Other missing men are taking 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:24.640 longer to finish college or pursuing graduate degrees. Only about 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:27.760 forty one percent amen complete a bachelor's degree in four years, 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:31.120 even though study after study shows they don't teach, you 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:31.920 don't have to work. 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:34.160 There's great inflation. It's dopey. 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:38.080 Only forty one percent and a quarter take more than 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:39.280 six years. 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.240 Wow, because you're in no hurry to get out of college. 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:47.520 My dad used to comment about perpetual college students, and 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:49.400 I never really understood what he was talking about. And 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:51.400 I'm sure it was a small number of people back 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:55.319 when he was in college, but now it is a lot. Apparently, 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:58.040 I'll just stay in college. I'll just keep borrowing money. 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:03.800 And because I'm too young or unwise to understand what 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:06.320 I'm doing, and I'll just keep this game going. Of 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.600 I get to sit around with my friends and discuss 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:12.200 the world without ever having to engage in it. 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:15.599 Yeah, and I have disability. My thumb hurts on Thursdays. 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.760 Final stat Then will I will stop? We're just we 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:25.280 are a fat, lazy, comfortable society. We're headed to front denial, right, 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:27.280 we are headed straight toward France. 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:27.640 Yeah. 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:31.240 The unemployment rate Jack considered this among recent college grads 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:35.560 with a sociology degree is about seven percent, and their 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:38.120 median wage, if they do have a gig, is forty 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:39.240 five thousand dollars. 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:41.559 According to the Federal Reserve Bank. 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.600 Social grads could earn twice as much working on an 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:47.559 auto assembly line, which pays an average hundred thousand dollars 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:51.000 a year. Good gig, but not many want it. The 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.640 reality is that masses a young people, writes Alicia Finley, who, 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:57.400 again as a genius, has been taught that capitalism is exploitive. 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.640 They don't want to work in factories. They'd rather mooch 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:03.520 off to their parents. How CHORL Marx is that? 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:07.079 Yeah, some of it is that, I'm sure, But I 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:08.840 just I think a lot of it is just the 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:12.640 cultural that would be embarrassing for your parents and for 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:16.600 you if you worked over at the whatever factory yeah, 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:20.440 more embarrassing in our current society than if you just 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:22.640 live at home and you know, you say you're a 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:26.840 day trader. It should be more embarrassing to have a 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:29.640 job at a plant than to live with your parents, 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:30.360 but I think it is. 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:34.160 Or having taken six years to get an undergrad degree 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:37.800 in gender studies, you're now getting a master's degree in 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:41.640 the theoretical decolonialization of art, or whatever the s. 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:44.040 Wait they. 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:49.960 Sometimes think for soft people. Man, there is no more 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:51.600 iron law of humanity than that. 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:02.000 The armstrong and getting shot. 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:09.240 So I've waited on more people at this restaurant than 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:12.280 you have in your goddamn life, say the waiters and 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:15.040 waitresses of Washington, DC, Jack, where you just were. 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:22.040 The Washingtonian, which is read in the self obsessed Nation's Capital, 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:26.280 has a piece about how DC restaurants have long been 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:31.600 like politically neutral spaces. Obviously, to cite the cliched example, 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:35.160 you got Reagan coming in, you got Tip O'Neil coming in, right, 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.280 so you treat everybody with respectfully. 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.040 But that changed during the Trump years. 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:43.839 Restaurant owners became much more politically outspoken. 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:46.880 They were part of the resistance, and Trump. 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:50.280 Officials became social pariahs when dining out. You remember several 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:56.480 incidents involving Ted Cruz and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who got 0:13:56.520 --> 0:14:01.600 kicked out of a restaurant in West Lexington, Virginia. Homeland 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:07.120 Secretary Kirsten Nielsen's dinner at a DC Mexican resta Mexican 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:08.720 restaurant was interrupted as. 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:09.440 They yelled shame. 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:14.960 Steven Miller tossing eighty dollars worth of takeout sushi after 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:17.559 somebody cursed him and flipped him off at a sushi place, 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:22.960 somebody on the staff. But anyway, in the Washington Washingtonian, anyway, 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:28.000 you got all these restaurant tours and waiters and bartenders saying, 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:31.200 we're not going to be silent, We're not going to 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:32.800 be quote unquote civil. 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:35.160 Let's see, here's this guy. 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:37.480 What does he do. He's a DC restaurant. He's a 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:40.760 manager at a club, big club in DC. If you're 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:42.760 just going out for a nice dinner at your anniversary, 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.680 your birthday, and God forbid, RFK Junior is sitting X 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.200 to you now, you're going to be dealing with whatever 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:52.400 repercussions happened from that. He's saying all this restaurant staff 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:56.600 is justified into cursing these people out and yelling at 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:57.560 him and kicking him out. 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:59.520 Well, we'll see if this actually happens or not. Like 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:01.920 I said, bumping around d C, it was quite a 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:04.520 bit different than the last time I was in DC 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:08.800 when Trump got elected, he was being treated like a 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:13.440 regular president. I mean, the number of Trump shirts, hats, pins, 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:16.680 inauguration forty seventh president stuff that I saw. There was 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:20.440 nothing like that in twenty seventeen when I was there 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:21.400 for the inauguration. 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:22.320 Right. 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:22.640 Yeah. 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:24.720 In fact, that was my question. I wonder if this 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.080 is just big talk by little people. 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:28.240 I'd be my guess. 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:30.880 Here's a woman who's a server and manager at a 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:32.360 saloon on Capitol Hill. 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:33.120 Quote. 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:35.520 People were a lot more motivated the first time around 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.560 to do these kinds of shows of passion. This time around, 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:40.840 there's kind of a sense of defeat and acceptance. But 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:43.720 I hope that people will still do stand up to 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:47.280 this administration and tell them their thoughts on their misbehavior 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:48.800 as they're trying. 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:50.440 To get a ham sandwich at lunchtime. 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:53.880 Here's my biggest question about restaurants DC restaurants, because I 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:55.320 had this and I tweeted it out and it's the 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:57.960 most controversial tweet I've ever put out ever. It got 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:01.160 more responses than anything I've ever tweeted this question. So 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:03.360 I mean it in Gordon Ramsey's restaurant, which I wish 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:04.920 i'd ha spent the time to look into what it 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:06.960 costs to eat there, because it's the most expensive meal 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:09.080 I've ever paid for for me and my two kids. 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:11.320 Partially because. 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:17.040 There was the we've added to twenty percent already thing 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:19.720 that restaurants are doing sometimes now. 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:21.800 And so service charge is that what they call it? 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:23.760 Earth It just said, yeah, we've we've added to twenty 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:26.520 percent service charge to your bill, and then it's got 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:28.400 the line for the tip, and I thought, do I 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:30.600 tip on top of this or not? And I tweeted 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:34.720 that out. I googled it and tweeted it, and same 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:38.360 result either way. Plenty of people say, absolutely, that's not 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:40.040 the tip. You need to tip on top of that 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:43.600 ere screwing your server or one hundred percent that's the tip, 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:45.840 No way you should give any more money. I still 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:49.520 don't know what the answer is on that, but obviously 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.640 if they add twenty percent, and I didn't know they 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:54.320 were going to do that, or I wouldn't have gone. 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:56.960 If they add twenty percent and I'm supposed to tip 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:58.120 twenty percent, that's. 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:00.520 Forty percent on top of my meal to no go. 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:03.880 That's that second group that that is the tip. No 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:06.200 freaking way I'm eating there. A whole bunch of people 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:09.880 adamantly said, no, that goes to the restaurant. The server 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:12.359 will get nothing, and you absolutely need to tip on 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:14.840 top of that. Maybe that's true, but I'll never eat 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:17.399 at a restaurant that does that. You can't pay forty 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:21.639 percent on top of your bill. Nobody's doing that. That's ridiculous. 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:25.560 It is ridiculous. Well, I don't know what the correct 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:28.359 answer is either, or if it varies from restaurant to restaurant, 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:30.440 if you know text line four one five two nine 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:34.480 five KFTC. But what the hell are Strong. 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:41.480 The Armstrong and Getty shirt? 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:48.159 So this is so interesting. I came across this the 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:57.360 other day. A couple of scientists writers commentaries who ran 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:02.800 into each other after the one published a piece on 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:07.640 why young men have turned against the Democratic Party, and 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:10.840 this other guy, this other researcher, said, hey, you know, 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:14.080 I've actually been doing studies in that area, let's get 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:18.760 together and talk about it and compare notes. And they came, 0:18:19.800 --> 0:18:22.240 They've come out with a really, really interesting report. Young 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:28.280 people in general report fairly miserable mental health, with high 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:31.680 rates of anxiety and depression. But this is particularly true 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:37.080 for young women. And they make the point that assumptions 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:39.760 democrats make about how to attract younger voters may not 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:41.520 appeal to men for various reasons. 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:43.760 But they point out that this. 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:47.520 That it the one report they looked at very the 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:51.000 most interesting finding, which is that conservatives have much higher 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:53.360 self reported mental health than liberals. 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:55.719 Is this surprising to anyone? 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:56.640 No? 0:18:56.640 --> 0:19:00.600 No, The really interesting part is still to come self 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:05.960 reporting grain assault, but just a grain, not a shaker. 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:06.720 Why. 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:11.600 I don't know on self reporting on your mental health. 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:16.560 It could be that in certain communities it is taboo 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:18.679 to be honest about your mental health. 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:21.600 I think it's more likely the other direction, But yeah, 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:23.880 I'm just trying to be in there that in more communities, 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:26.840 it's the greatest prize of all to explain how I 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:32.399 have anxiety and depression and OCD and all these other things. 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:35.320 I agree with you completely, and I'm glad you pointed 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:35.640 that out. 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:36.800 Blah, blah blah. 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:39.080 It's a wide gap. 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:42.760 Too between conservatives and liberals, according to this giant study 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:47.920 with sixty thousand respondents that provides the opportunity for highly 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:53.639 detailed democratic demographic analysis. Among people who report excellent mental health, 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:58.119 conservatives outnumber liberals fifty one to twenty as a ratio, 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:03.600 but liberals out number conservatives forty five to nineteen among 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:06.439 those voters who say they have poor mental health. This 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:12.879 isn't the least bit surprising to me. What's interesting? And 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:17.679 they assigned points, So one hundred points scale zero is 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:21.480 poor mental health, twenty five is fair, fifty is good, 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:25.399 seventy five is very good, one hundred is excellent. 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:27.919 I think i'd go, what would you say for yourself? 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:30.080 I'm going I would say very good. Oh, there's might 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:33.040 disagree with me who know me, but I feel like 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:34.119 I'm very good. 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:36.199 Yeah. Can we have a round of rating where we 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:39.680 rate each other too? Even a town full of people 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:42.080 who are crazy? So that helps me stand out? I 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:44.439 feel like, are you graded on a curve in this? 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:45.080 I don't know. 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:48.399 So here's the first thing that popped in on my 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:53.280 mind is and part of the reason I leapt to 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:56.640 this thought was because we came across an absolutely fantastic 0:20:56.760 --> 0:21:03.840 quote which I've misplaced, damn it, that women more than men, 0:21:04.000 --> 0:21:08.000 not all women, but women in general, and like effeminate men, 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:12.560 filter information through a process not of is this true? 0:21:12.760 --> 0:21:18.119 But will believing this gain me social currency and acceptance? 0:21:18.359 --> 0:21:25.040 Will the group accept me for adopting this attitude? And 0:21:25.119 --> 0:21:28.640 so the first thing I thought was, Okay, maybe people 0:21:29.800 --> 0:21:35.840 of an unhappy or mentally fragile bent need more support, 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:40.639 and so they tend toward liberalism. Well, it's funny I 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:42.880 had that thought, and the guys immediately got to the question. 0:21:42.960 --> 0:21:46.040