WEBVTT - The A&G Replay Friday Hour Four 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:13.320 Damn broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:18.160 George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Caddy arm. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:25.400 Strong and Jettie Gee Armstrong and Jetty Strong. 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:35.479 A friend of mine who's slightly overweight, to put it mildly, 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:39.159 went to a drug store in London and he was 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:40.080 able to get one. 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:42.120 Of the fat shots. I caught the fat shots, said. 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:45.199 Jan, if you lose weight, he knows exactly who I 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:45.880 was talking about. 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:48.519 He called, He said that was interesting. He said he 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:50.519 was very concerned that I might use his name. It 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:53.840 might slip. Now he doesn't have to work, but he 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:57.280 called me. He said, Hey, a strange thing happened. 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:01.600 I just bought the drug, same company, plan, same everything. 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:05.520 Everything was the same in New York thirteen hundred dollars, 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:06.440 and in London. 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:09.800 I'm paying eighty eight dollars. He said, what's going on now? 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:11.360 He knew not that he's a very smart guy, he's 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:15.200 a very rich guy. His big problem is he's seriously overweight. 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:17.200 But I don't think the drug worked. Okay, to be 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:19.840 honest with you, but it makes him feel good anyway. 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:24.720 That's like day three of Trump's story about his fat 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:27.240 friend his drugs. 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:31.240 He so workshops his comedy routine, you know, tries it 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:32.360 for different audiences. 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:34.800 I don't want to. I'm gonna get into the foreign 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:37.000 policy speech he gave yesterday. I want to get sidetracked 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:40.640 by this whole drug prescription thing. It is so complicated, though. 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:44.360 I've listened to a number of podcasts where they got 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:47.560 into the details, and it's so easily easy to be 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:50.240 misled by a lot of statistics. So a lot of 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:54.920 the now it sounds like they're his fat friend, very fat, 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:59.360 incredibly fat. His fat friend there was paying thirteen hundred 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:01.400 dollars in New York, can pay eighty dollars in London. 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:04.640 Want to know why. That's a perfectly reasonable question, like. 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:06.360 Why am I paying so much in the United States 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:09.160 and so cheap here when we developed in the reasonable question. 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:11.760 But just in general, a lot of the stuff you 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:14.720 hear about drugs, the statistics for costs, it's for the 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:18.160 name brand, which practically none of us are actually getting. 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:22.919 We're getting the generic, so it's the tiniest percentage of that, 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:26.440 so it misleads the statistics. There's all kinds of things 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:29.079 going on in that world that make it hard to 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:30.520 nail down and the. 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:34.799 Way money flows into and out of various entities, from 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:37.280 your insurance company to the pharmacies, to the drug companies 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:41.120 to the pharmacy benefit managers. An unholy group of humans 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:43.200 if there ever was. When yes, so complicated. 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:45.880 I'm on eight drugs for the whooping coth right now, 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.480 which is crazy. But like so, I went to the 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:52.639 doctor on Saturday after spending time there, and I think 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:56.440 I picked up four new drugs, just like everybody else 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:59.360 when they go to pharmacy. I have the slightest idea 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:03.080 what the little screen was gonna say they cost, had 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:05.120 no idea. I wasn't very worried about it because it 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:06.600 probably wasn't gonna be very much. 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:09.480 So, like one of them was three cents, one. 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:11.240 Of them was a dollar five, one of them was 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:13.680 forty four bucks, and then the other one was like 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:17.280 four and I just pressed okay and tapped my card 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:18.239 and walked out the door. 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:20.440 And I don't have any imagine if groceriy st are 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:23.080 like that. Let's see, this ham will be one hundred 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:26.200 and seventy five dollars, this bread is two cents, this 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:28.960 cheese will be a dollar one. And you think. 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:32.840 Okay, right, and I don't have Well, it's way more 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:36.600 complicated than even that example, because like somebody may have 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:40.080 that one that cost eight cents, my insurance company might 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:42.160 have paid a five hundred dollars for and I got 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.720 spread around everybody else that's insured by that company for 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:45.320 some reason. 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:46.040 I don't know. 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:48.400 I don't know any idea what it actually cost the 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:51.760 insurance company. And then what are what are my options 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:57.760 anyway to not press? Okay, I will not pay forty 0:03:57.800 --> 0:03:59.520 four dollars for whatever that drug is. 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:03.280 It should be much less than that and incur the 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.200 wrath of the already surly pharmacy employee. 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:10.920 No way, I feel bad for those people. The other day, 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:12.720 I got to the pharmacy. I've been there way too 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:15.080 much lately. I get there and some old guys walk 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:18.440 in my way and he says he said something old time. 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:21.760 He says, like railroading. Me, it's train robbery or something 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.640 like that. I said, what's that and he said, it's 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:27.640 train robbery around here, that's what it is. I just 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:32.440 kind of said, tell you, like the poor girl who's 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:35.880 you know, at pharmacy school, has any role in it whatsoever? 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.520 What's she supposed to do. I don't know. 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:41.279 It's your insurance. I work for CBS. They I don't 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:42.480 know what am I what do you want? 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:44.440 Such a mess? 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:50.520 Okay, different topic than Trump's fat fat friend. Who people 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:52.200 who know Trump and his friends are trying to figure 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:58.159 out which fat friend that he's talking about. So Donald 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:00.800 Trump gave like a forty five minute sp each yesterday 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:01.760 in Saudi Arabia. 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:04.960 And this was Mark Halprin's ride up of. 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:09.320 It today, in which he said Trump's Tuesday speech, which 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:13.120 shockingly gets almost zero coverage in the American media, was 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:16.480 one for the ages, with some observers not unreasonably calling 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.240 it extraordinary and some supporters saying it was one of 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:21.640 the best and most important addresses by a US president 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:24.320 in many, many years. It warn't your time to watch 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:26.040 it and full if you have not to understand Trump's 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.320 unusual distinctive worldview. And I'm gonna read a little bit 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:32.400 from you that will portray that worldview. But I also wonder, 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:37.520 since Trump is a very interesting guy. He's primarily interested 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:41.360 in economics and that sort of stuff, although he was 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:44.880 pretty hardcore anti the Iraq war back in the day, Like, 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:46.760 how much of this speech did he sit down with 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:50.720 speech writers and explain to them what he wanted to communicate. 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:52.840 Did Jade Vance write most of this? 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:55.080 And Trump is like, sure, fine, I don't care, or 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:58.120 what I don't I don't actually know, but let me 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:01.680 read some of it. He's talking about the success of 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:03.600 all the people in that room, because he had people 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:08.000 from Saudi Arabia and Qatar and you know, those incredibly 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:10.680 rich areas of the Middle East that we see with 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:14.640 their gleaming buildings and more modern than anything we've got 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:18.000 in the United States. It's crucial for the wider world 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:21.680 to know this great transformation has not come from Western 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:25.440 interventionists or flying people in beautiful plains giving you lectures 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:27.440 on how to live and how to govern your own affairs. 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:31.240 In the end, the so called nation builders racked far 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:34.800 more nations than they built, and the interventionalists were intervening 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:39.200 in societies they did not understand themselves. No, the gleaming 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.440 marbles of Riad and Abu Dhabi were not created by 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:46.880 the so called nation builders, neo cons or liberal nonprofits 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:50.320 like those who spent trillions and trillions of dollars failing 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.320 to develop Bagdad and so many other cities. 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:57.320 That's a good point. Now, this is very JD. Vanside. 0:06:57.360 --> 0:07:01.279 That's what I thought, solidly reasoned so far decent point. 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.159 Though we poured trillion I don't know about trillions, but 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:09.000 lots of money into Baghdad. It's still everything it's ever 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:13.880 been Abu Dhabi and ryodd that was ground up from 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:14.520 the inside. 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:17.280 Anyway, back to every mind the zillions of dollars spent 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:18.080 in Afghanistan. 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:21.520 Instead, the birth of a modern Middle East has been 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:24.400 brought by the people of the region themselves, the people 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:26.720 that are right here, the people that have lived here 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:30.600 all their lives, Developing your own sovereign countries, pursuing your 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.640 own unique visions and charting your own destinies in your 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:35.920 own way. They told you how to do it, but 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:39.480 they had no idea how to do it themselves. Peace, prosperity, 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.440 and progress ultimately came not from a radical rejection of 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:46.480 your heritage, but rather from embracing your national traditions and 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:49.560 embracing the same heritage that you loved so dearly. You 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:53.320 achieved a modern miracle, the Arabian way. No wonder. 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:59.960 People respect you so much. I thought that was a really. 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:05.480 Yeah, agreed, it's really good outreach too. I think it's savvy. 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:09.960 The most gleaming modern. 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:13.920 Looked like something from the jets and cities in the 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:18.640 world did come from those local societies. Whether you hate 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:20.800 their culture or politics or the way they treat women 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:24.520 or whatever, they were able to build these unbelievable cities. 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:29.680 And we've tried so hard to turn Kabul and Baghdad 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:31.720 and a whole bunch of other different places in the 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:35.839 Middle East into god, you know, anything close to Cincinnati, 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:37.840 and we haven't come within a million miles. 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:41.120 Yeah, this it gets a little more complicated, but you know, 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.560 the broad outlines of your point I think are true. 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:48.120 It helps to have unlimited numbers of petro dollars. And 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:51.040 the whole modern gleaming thing is partly because there wasn't 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:55.440 anything there twenty years ago. So yeah, it's it's modern 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:57.599 gleaming because what else would it be. Yeah, but I 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.319 think a certain amount of it has to do with. 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:04.840 Taking off the restrictions of here's the way we feel 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:08.640 like you need to treat women, gay people, minorities, the disentrenchised, 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.640 all this different sort of stuff, all these ties that 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:13.400 come with it. As opposed to Trump saying, hey, it's 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:15.560 your society, it's your customs, it's your heritage. 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:17.600 You know, you're building it the way you want, and hey, 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:21.200 look at your city. And honestly, in spite of the 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:27.040 lack of success with China doing this, I think there's 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:29.800 probably a fair amount of Hey, let's get these guys 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:33.960 up and involved in world economics and international diplomacy and 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.240 have them intertwined with bunches of other countries and it'll 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:39.560 drag them into the modern era much more effectively than 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:42.760 browbeating them will. Anyway, Well, there's. 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:45.280 Zero is there any Are there any good examples of 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:48.120 us trying to build from the ground up one of 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:50.960 these uh, turn one of these citters around having it work. 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:57.880 Certainly not in the Middle East. Yeah, it depends you know, 0:09:57.920 --> 0:09:59.880 how much involvement over what period of time you're t 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:04.600 talking about. And interestingly enough, there were some pretty good 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:08.439 success stories in Africa, but those have gone completely to 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:12.120 hell now and you could argue that, well, that's because 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:15.600 they didn't build up the infrastructure. It's like we're watching 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:18.920 the we're doing a bit of a remodel on our house, 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:21.880 and it's been super interesting to see how they dig 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:24.559 the hole for the footings and then pour the foundation 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:26.920 and all the rebar and the cinder blocks and stuff 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:29.760 like that. And we've made the point many times that 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:34.520 our system of government, our rights that we enjoy, our 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:39.559 constitution are built on the concrete and rebar and cinder 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:43.240 blocks of hundreds of years of English common law, Judeo 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:46.079 Christian principles, the rest of it. And then if you 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:50.720 try to build, at the risk of belaboring the metaphor, 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:52.600 if you try to build the house of that sort 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:57.960 of thing on sand, it's not going to work. And 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:01.920 so Trump is saying, y'all build your foundations the way 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:03.400 you want and then let's do business. 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:05.800 So you think JD. Vance had a hand in that 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:14.160 whole speech, both hands. It was completely It's a complete 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:22.840 rejection of George Bush's ideas of nation building, and it's 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:27.040 a rejection of democratic presidents with their coming in there 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:29.000 with we'll give you money, but here's the way we 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:32.800 think you should live. It's a complete rejection of that too. 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:36.400 Yeah, I'm still for the record, I'm super uncomfortable with 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:40.000 the fact that Cutter, for instance, is trying to buy 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:45.360 influence in America hundreds of billions of dollars, perverting our colleges, 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:52.440 having them become just viper's nests of Islamism, anti Israel rhetoric, 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:54.240 the rest of it. There are huge supporters of the 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:58.080 Muslim Brotherhood on Islamist organization that would like Sharia law 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:01.680 to conquer the entire earth, and they're not spending hundreds 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:04.160 of billions of dollars backing that because they don't believe 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:06.920 it or don't agree with it. But things, we don't 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:07.880 have to let them do that. 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:10.319 We can let them build their big, gleaming city, we 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:13.520 don't have to let them, you know, influence our colleges. 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:18.840 Well right now, well right, yeah, for instance, that's not 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:22.120 going to happen, but more on that later. Uh yeah, 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:25.160 Well the argument would be, well, we don't want to 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:28.640 participate in enriching them so they have even more finances 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:32.800 to back terrorism. But you know, if jdve Aansw were 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:35.160 to say to me, dude, that'll go away of its own. 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:38.200 That's what I think on a cord. It's not a 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:40.520 stupid argument. I'm not sure I agree with it, but 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:42.199 it's it's worth considering. 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:45.000 They play, they beat, they more than play footsy with 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:48.760 the terrorists, no doubt about it. But I don't think mbs. 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:53.520 His goal in life is not to establish a Muslim caliphate. 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:56.640 I don't think so. No, he wants to be starving 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:58.320 poor when the oil runs out. 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:04.839 Yeah, exactly, Jack Armstrong and Joe, The Armstrong and Getty Show, 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:13.439 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:22.640 You want to know if your marriage is heading to splitsville, 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:25.240 don't check your partner's phone, check their face, like. 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:25.600 Any of that. 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:28.280 You know, there's so many. 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:30.440 Stupid things out there, you know, the one sign that 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:32.760 he's gonna cheat or whatever the hell I mean, They're 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:36.920 just all dumb, but click bait. The subtle smirk of 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:40.920 superiority is the number one red flag for divorce, according 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:46.200 to this psychologist. And they get into why. Research found 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:52.839 that four nasty little habits, criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and stonewalling 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:55.520 are the four horsemen of the apocalypse when it comes 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:56.640 to dooming relationships. 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:57.640 I'll read those four again. 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:05.120 Criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and stonewalling. But contempt is the kiss 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:08.199 of death. That's the one, and you've said that for years. 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:09.880 That's the one you can't get past. 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:13.760 Done. The largest marriage experiment ever done. 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:17.960 They think of couples that you know, survive and don't 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:21.160 survive body language experts, which we've mocked for years and 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:23.680 all that sort of thing because they're usually stupid. Also 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:27.320 well on cable TV they are. Yeah, brought couples into 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:29.120 a lab. And if one member of the couple shows 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:32.760 a one sided mouth raise, which I had never heard 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:37.800 before as like a physical contempt thing. But I guess 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:41.360 we're just programmed. When we're feeling that feeling of contempt 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:43.880 for something or you know, the old pleaser get out 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:47.960 of here with that BS or whatever feeling, you raise. 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:49.640 One side of your mouth. It's funny. 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:52.480 If one member of the couple shows a one sided 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:54.320 mouth raise towards the other, he can tell you if 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:57.800 they're going to get divorced, because it's contempt. He could 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:01.480 predict divorce with an astonishing ninety four percent accurate fear. Now, 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:04.000 this is the part I thought was really interesting. Fear 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:08.160 comes in a burst, and then you calm down. Happiness 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:11.400 comes and then you go back to normal. Anger comes 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:15.040 and then you calm down, but not contempt. If you 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:17.600 feel scorn or disdain for someone else, and if it's 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:21.000 not addressed, it just festers and grows and stays at 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:25.520 the same level fear, anger, and then obviously happiness you 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:28.000 get back to a normal level. 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:32.160 Contempt does not go away, you know. In a definition 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.480 of contempt, the feeling that a person or a thing 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:39.080 is beneath consideration, worthless or deserving scorn. Yes, coming back 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:39.400 from that. 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:42.840 I've not felt contempt, but I have been on the 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:45.480 wrong end of contempt, I think. And having read this, 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:48.560 I thought, yeah, that's what was insurmountable. I mean, because 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:52.320 once you have contempt for someone you don't agree, you 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.280 don't think they are worth listening to on anything. 0:15:56.280 --> 0:16:01.680 Right, this is how I feel. This is my priority care. Right. 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:04.760 Yeah, that's a tough one to get past. So look 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:08.680 out for contempt and whatever started to bring it on. 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:11.080 The point is you start to deal with it right away. 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:12.120 Otherwise it does. 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.240 Just grow and faster, and then it gets into a 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:18.560 situation where it might might not be reversible. They also 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:22.080 believe that many couples get stuck in an endless loop 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:26.240 of the same three arguments throughout the relationship. They just 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:29.160 don't realize it. And if you can nail down what 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:32.560 your three most common arguments are you and your partner, 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:36.120 you can solve a lot of problems. Like you get 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:38.720 into something, you say, okay, here we're in argument number 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:42.880 two again. We always argue about this, and you can 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:45.320 you know, realize that you know, you don't see eye 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:47.360 to eye in this particular thing, and how you've dealt 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:48.480 with it in the past, which. 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:50.400 Is a pretty good key. Yeah, Actually, distracted by the 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:54.360 details or the trivia, you realize, oh, this is argument. 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:57.960 B Yeah, yeah, and that interesting. Back to the contempt 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:02.239 thing discussed. And contempt are to a relationship with gasoline, 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:08.000 and matches are to a fire. The telltale signs are irolling, mouthcrimping, 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:11.760 and then subtle fidgeting like picking it close or cleaning 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:16.240 fingers mid conversation as signals of disdain. This person said 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:19.920 that they dubbed this move the lint picker, a behavior 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:22.240 that he says, screams contempt. 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:25.359 Louder than words ever could. Interesting. You know, it's probably 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:28.119 worth presenting the other side of the coin at some point. 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:30.359 We don't have time now, But how do you prevent 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:32.280 that sort of thing? Niff it in the bud, having 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:35.480 lint on your shirt, no contempt in your. 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:42.680 No arm Strong and Getty, The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:47.760 Why is spok at a bipartisan event to encourage Democrats 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:52.000 or Republicans to work to protect social security together, which 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:54.280 seems about as likely to happen as a reboot of 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:58.960 Fiddler on the Roof starring Kanye West. But social security 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:02.440 is number one for Joe Biden. Literally, his social Security 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:05.160 number is one. 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:08.480 That's kind of interesting as a lead into this. Republicans 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:10.760 neverkats not being able to work together, it would seem 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:14.280 that they could work together on cutting spending based on 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:17.080 this polling that just came out from the Cato Institute. 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:20.440 CATO is a serious think tank. It's a conservative think tank. 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:23.720 They worked with you GOV on this survey, and it's 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:29.960 one of your really big, large number of people, wide reaching, 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:32.280 lots of questions sort of survey that comes out every 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:34.080 once in a while from these think tanks. I don't 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:36.119 know which of these numbers is my favorite. There's a 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:40.280 lot of them that are just mind blowingly make me happy, 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:44.080 But I can't believe because public will is a real 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:46.280 big part of getting anything done in a democracy. 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:49.080 Obviously, if you got big. 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:50.960 Majorities of people that want something to happen, you should 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:52.479 be able to get it to happen and run on it. 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:55.639 Here's my favorite of all the spending we've done in 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:57.520 the last ten years, and we've done a lot of 0:18:57.560 --> 0:18:59.000 spending in the last ten years. 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:02.600 Five percent. Now that's a big number. 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:05.000 Whenever you get eighty five percent of people in agreement 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:05.800 on something. 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:07.600 You'd think you could get political will to do something. 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:11.240 Eighty five percent say that spending is either not helped 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:13.399 them or made their lives worse. 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:18.400 Eighty five percent. That's astounding. 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:21.080 You wouldn't get that from taking it in through the 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:24.120 mainstream media, who feels like all government programs are wonderful 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:26.199 and doges trying to cut back on any of them 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:28.560 as a horror. Eighty five percent of Americans say all 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:31.000 that spending has either not done anything for me or 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:34.400 actually made my life worth the worse. Forty two percent 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:38.159 no impact. Forty three percent say it reduced to their 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:39.320 quality of life. 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:43.480 Wow, that's got to be inflation, which is the greatest 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:46.640 teacher of economic principles in the history of mankind. 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:50.240 Well, ors, it's just I regularly say, and this is 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:53.560 true for me in my own personal life. I believe 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:56.199 the government stops me from doing things more than it 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:56.639 helps me. 0:19:57.560 --> 0:20:00.240 Uh, yeah, I think so. 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:03.840 I mean, and well, do you drive on the roads. Yeah, 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:08.480 we we know you're an idiot. Course else I'm not 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:10.000 even gonna explain why you're moro. 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:10.760 I know, moron. 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:14.440 And by the way, this is a non partisan observation. 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:20.040 Eight and ten Democrats and nine and ten Republicans believe 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:22.880 that the increase in federal spending has either made their 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:24.159 lives not better or worse. 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:27.600 Boy, this is really heartening. I know, if the Republican 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:30.240 if the Republicans can keep between the ditches and not 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:34.280 roll the car of their messaging over, it seems to 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:36.880 me like the ground is super fertile for some good 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:38.680 solid conservatism in the years to come. 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:42.120 Three quarters of Americans say the government spends too much. 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:46.920 Love that, seventy six percent the government spends too much. 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:49.840 And again, it's not a partisan thing at all. Majorities 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:54.000 of Democrats fifty nine percent of Democrats think the government 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:56.760 spends too much money. Well, you'd never get that from 0:20:56.800 --> 0:20:58.639 the main from your mainstream media coverage. 0:20:59.000 --> 0:21:01.640 Yeah, and the question of what do you cut and 0:21:01.720 --> 0:21:04.840 how and how much? That's the devil is in the details. 0:21:04.840 --> 0:21:09.480 But we do have an enormous generalized agreement that Yeah, 0:21:09.520 --> 0:21:13.000 we need to cut again two thirds. 0:21:13.040 --> 0:21:16.240 You get the opposite message from all of the coverage 0:21:16.240 --> 0:21:19.440 of doges, for instance. So almost everyone agrees there is 0:21:19.520 --> 0:21:21.919 waste frauden abuse in the federal government. The number is 0:21:22.119 --> 0:21:25.840 ninety eight percent. I don't know if I've ever seen 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:28.719 a poll that reached ninety eight percent. Usually you have 0:21:28.800 --> 0:21:31.840 more than two percent. They're like, no opinion, I don't know, 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:36.320 refuse to answer. Yeah, but would you like me to 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:39.240 stab you right now? You might get ninety eight percent 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:40.560 saying no, no opinion? 0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:44.240 Ninety I'm not sure stab me as what. 0:21:47.720 --> 0:21:50.440 Ninety eight percent broadly agree there is waste frauder abuse 0:21:50.440 --> 0:21:52.439 in the federal government. Of course, just to say no, 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:56.600