WEBVTT - Cheap Chinese Talk Show Hosts 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.280 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:17.239 Arm Strong and Jetty and now he arm Strong and Yetty. 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:26.440 The corner said it was an accident, but it was 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:34.400 no accident. It was a monkey. When I was a kid, 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:37.640 my twin brother and I found something that loved to kill. 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:46.800 We have been chosen to witness its power over life 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:52.960 and death in its most devious ways. 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:01.560 So that's part of the that's part of the trailer 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:04.200 to the movie The Monkey, or if you member with this, Katie, 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:06.560 it's a it's like a little toy monkey, but it 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:07.840 did murders people and stuff. 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:10.360 Yeah, my husband said he wanted to see this, and 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:13.400 I hadn't looked at it. This thing's terrifying looking. 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:19.120 It's it's it's an interesting combination. Sounded like a parody, Well, it's. 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:22.240 It is a clearly killer in questions a toy monkey. 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:27.200 It's clearly a combo horror horror movie, kind of comedy 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.479 ish parody, satire of horror movies. But it's pretty well 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:33.440 stream movies kind of. Yeah, it looks really really well done. 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:35.319 My son actually wants to take a girl to it. 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:38.080 I don't know if the he said she likes horror films. Oh, 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:40.080 she'll clutch his arm and that's all. 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:40.640 That's it. 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:44.600 That's the whole point, right, many a fine international protect 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:45.800 you from the movie monkey. 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:48.640 Oh, because it's all the excuse to lean in and 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:50.000 you're cuddling. 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:55.280 Oh yeah, that's win win, Thank you monkey. 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:58.240 I didn't even they didn't even think of that's a 0:01:58.280 --> 0:01:58.920 clastic movie. 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:00.640 He's ahead of me on this one. 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:08.480 In other news, in other non evil monkey news, evil 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:12.399 toy monkey news. Trump was on the phone with Zulensky 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:15.359 yesterday for a while and it seemed to go fairly well. 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:17.000 Here's a news report about it, and then we'll fill 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:17.960 in some more details. 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:21.680 That call between Presidents Trump and Zelensky lasting nearly an hour, 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:25.160 the Ukrainian leader agreeing to the same partial CEASEFI ideal 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:28.800 as Putin, pledging to stop attacking energy infrastructure. But in 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:32.080 a stunning development, Trump also offered to take ownership of 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:36.160 Ukraine's electrical supply and nuclear power plants, saying America could 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:39.760 offer the best protection. It could include Europe's largest nuclear 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:44.480 plant at Zaparisha, which Russia currently occupies at least initially. 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:47.520 Ukraine seems open to the idea. There'll be further talks 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:48.200 this weekend. 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:53.080 So everybody's trying to guess what Trump's angle is on 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:56.560 this whole piece plan thing. I mean, everybody, I think 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:01.720 is a little confused. Yeah, starting to get a little 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:05.720 clearer to me. Well, okay, so here's the reporting. Trump 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:09.760 said that the US could be very helpful in running 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:14.720 all the power plants, electric and utility plants in Ukraine. 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.160 American ownership of those plants would be the best protection 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:20.880 for that infrastructure and support for Ukrainian injury energy infrastructure. 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:26.000 So is this similar to the rare earth metals mind 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:28.400 that we would run. Also, is it just we're gonna 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:36.840 happen so much economic intertwined reason to care about Ukraine 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:41.080 that'll be like, hey, Putin, don't be attacking basically the 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:43.400 United States his interests. 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:48.880 Yeah, it's becoming more clear to me, I think in that. 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:53.320 You know, Trump famously is transactional, and whether it's like 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:58.080 an actual philosophy of international relations. 0:03:57.680 --> 0:03:58.920 Or just his ego. 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:04.600 Needs to be seen as getting something when he gives something. 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:10.480 And so the framework is we will be so entwined 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:14.480 with Ukraine economically especially, but you know, on a human 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:16.400 level too, because obviously we'll have lots and lots of 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:22.800 people there that that is Ukraine's security, and he can 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:25.440 go on about and now we have cheap electricity and 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.480 access to rare earth minerals and blah blah blah. 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:29.800 It's a win for both sides. 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:35.200 It's an interesting way to go about it. And you know, 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:38.080 I wouldn't bet my life savings on it working. But 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:41.960 if that's what he's thinking, that's not nuts. 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:43.240 But it's different. 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.000 So yeah, So it's different than like having a NATO 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:49.240 guarantee with Article five, where an attack on one is 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.120 an attack on all. So if you have NATO troops there, 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:56.599 instead of doing that, you just make it more much 0:04:56.760 --> 0:05:01.000 more well transactional in that No, we have a bunch 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.720 of businesses there. There are billions at stake, dollars at steak. 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:06.880 Don't be attacking a country where we have billions of 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:08.040 dollars of business at stake. 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:09.440 I was worried at. 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:14.280 First because of Trump's you know, characteristic, oversimplified over belligerent 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:18.120 rhetoric that he was thinking more in terms of like 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:24.159 war reparations and having Ukraine's economy under our heel and 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:27.520 exploiting them for the rare minerals and the rest of it. 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:29.840 But like so often with Trump, that was the big 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:35.840 blustery opening, and it's starting to sound more like, you know, partnership. 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:37.960 My actual partnership might be both. 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:41.120 Yeah, I mean, because I don't want to be a 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:44.680 colonial power at this point. I think that's a terrible idea. 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:47.880 He might want to be in. Well, yeah, well, i'm 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:53.360 he works for me, especially in the twenty first century 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:55.400 in a part of the world where they are armed 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:56.000 to the teeth. 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:58.200 I don't think we want to a colony. 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.400 But if it is, here's how we bring him to 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:06.279 the West and put them under our umbrella through enormous 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:10.200 commercial interaction. I don't know, it's an intriguing idea. 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:12.640 Well, he wants to make Canada the fifty first state. 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:16.479 He seems to be fairly serious about figuring out a 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:19.719 way to get Greenland. I don't know. By the way, 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:21.960 I came across this tidbit yesterday, and then I'll be 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:26.040 done with this. But surely he understands the Canada thing 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:27.200 will never happen. 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:31.320 Right, we get more. 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:35.600 Oil from Canada at an incredibly discounted price, and with 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.359 no fear of disruption because it's right on our border 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:39.560 like all the other. 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:40.479 And there are buds. 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:43.839 We get more oil from Canada than the next five 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:45.479 foreign sources combined. 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:46.760 I had no idea of that. 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:49.760 I couldn't have told you that we get fifteen times 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:52.760 more oil from Canada than from Saudi Arabia. 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:55.600 Didn't know that. So interesting. 0:06:56.640 --> 0:07:06.800 Yeah, King of Ukraine, Western allies are meeting as we speak, 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:11.000 or just did. No, it's today to hash out a 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:13.920 bold European idea. When was the last time you heard 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:17.520 the phrase bold European idea? I know, let's make our 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.720 acconemy even more socialist than wreck it. That was really 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:24.200 the last one I heard. They're thinking of sending ten 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:26.920 to thirty thousand troops to Ukraine to help enforce any 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:31.040 eventual peace deal with Russia. Defense officials from dozens of 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:36.800 Western nations, not America. We are not involved. Zuos met 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:42.040 in the UK today. They met today, Yes, it's later 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:45.880 today over there to hammer out details of the so 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:48.640 called Coalition of the Willing, led by the UK and France, 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:51.160 that could help Ukraine deter Russia from attacking in the future. 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:52.640 No US troops would be involved. 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:57.920 Again, the Eastern Euros are saying, yeah, well, we're right 0:07:57.920 --> 0:07:59.760 next to Russian. We don't want to piss them off, 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:03.760 and we need them for our own defenses. But Britain, France, Sweden, 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:07.000 Denmark and Australia have all said they're considering putting boots 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:07.600 on the ground. 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:08.480 Right. 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:11.720 So this is being portrayed, of course by the Trump haters. 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:14.440 As look, Europe is in such a desperate situation since 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:16.880 we've abandoned them that they feel like they need to. 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:19.240 Act on their own. 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:22.080 Okay, that's one way to look at it, or another 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:24.200 way to look at it would be it's their freaking continent. 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:27.800 Why aren't they doing it instead of us or with us? Even? 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.560 You know, I see the world through metaphors and I 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:31.520 find it illustrative. 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:33.560 I hope you do too. But it's like we had 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:35.280 a totally. 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:42.240 Dysfunctional relationship with a clingy, weak partner who is nothing 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:45.760 but clingy and weak, and we said, nope, you're on 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:46.079 your own. 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:47.040 We kicked them to the curb. 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.840 They learned about themselves, jack, as they say these days, 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:56.920 they worked on themselves and now potentially they are a stronger, 0:08:57.559 --> 0:08:59.800 more self reliant partner worth having. 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.800 I mean Europe was getting damned close. 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:11.840 To just as a useless ally, just weak paper tiger, 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:13.080 just clinging to us. 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:15.520 Well, right, I had that quote from the leader of 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:18.160 Poland last week that I thought was really good. He's 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:21.679 more on our side by saying, how are we supposed 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:24.720 to convince three hundred million Americans that they need to 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:28.920 protect five hundred million Europeans from one hundred and forty 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:30.120 million Russians. 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:34.040 Yeah, yeah, I like to cut his jib. It's worth 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:38.200 mentioning that. A defense expert at King's College, London, Bence Nameth, 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:42.640 said the chance of this force ever heading to Ukraine 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:45.360 is a long shot. European leaders say they'll only send 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:50.720 troops if there is a lasting piece in Ukraine. Wow, 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:52.920 I'll go kick his ass as long as he says 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:57.080 he doesn't want to fight. 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And that's 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:54.360 a opset in the making, So close dreams shattered, Joe. 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:56.840 Interesting perspective here. 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:03.520 Trump's Yemen campaign is promise to avoid quote unquote forever wars, 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:08.120 which is a term I hate. It's a catchphrase in 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:11.360 search of an argument. Nobody wants forever wars. Well, the 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:14.240 military industrial complex does you know what? You have a point, 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:18.199 But just because something takes a little while doesn't mean 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:21.480 you get to smugly call it a forever war on Twitter. 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.240 But there is no doubt that Trump's vale We're gonna 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:27.200 whoop the hell out of Hoothy's if they don't stop 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:31.120 their their horseplay, and we're gonna do it as long 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:33.840 as it takes, if it takes forever. That's, you know, 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:36.360 very much in contrast to what he's talking about during 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:39.480 the campaign. But you know, campaigns are all about oversimplification. 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:44.880 It'll be interesting to see, though, what his actual philosophy 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:48.960 is this time around, because it's already clearly not quite 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:52.160 as pat as was suggested during the campaign. 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:55.240 Not a shock. The question is does it make you happy? 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.880 The United States has fallen to its lowest ranking ever 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:01.040 in the World Happiness Report, which makes me unhappy, among 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:04.640 other things we've got to talk about on the waistate here. 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:11.440 Well, Khalil's not exactly an easy one either, because it's 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:14.439 some judge, you know, dlamdon de him. But the Democrats 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:17.200 last meek because of the stupidity of you know, they're 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:21.359 back in these ninety percent negative things. From the standpoint 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:24.520 people that hate Israel want to destroy it, people that 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:26.800 are murderers, people that are horrible. 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:29.600 That was a little hard to untease. 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:31.960 But what Trump was saying is that the Democrats lose 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:35.640 because they back things that nobody likes, and that brought 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:39.680 me to a chart that I saw. Steve Kernaki, who's 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:44.520 the head polster for NBC, puts this out recently, and 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:48.280 as he says, white non college men a more blue 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:52.360 collar demographic, and white college or plus women more upscale 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:55.720 one have come to exist in two polar opposite political 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:59.640 and cultural universes. And I think we knew that, but 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:04.640 looking at the polling, you look at Donald Trump positive 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:07.960 or negative, White men no degree plus forty one, white 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:12.400 women college or grad school minus thirty eight. With just 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:17.400 a little rounding, it's an eighty point gap. Wow, that 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:20.160 that can't exist in a single culture. I mean, if 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:24.360 you're talking about norwayan Yemen, I could see that sort 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:30.960 of gap existing. Jadie Vans, those are two very big groups. Also, well, 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:32.960 oh yeah, that's one of the points Karnaki gets to. 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:35.400 I'm you know, as long as you know you're right, 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:37.360 that's a better way to prove in. 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.400 Native Americans and Arizona are really polar opposite in their 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:41.120 political views. 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:44.080 Either are two giant voting groups. 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:47.080 Well said, to quote mister Karnaki, both groups pack a 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:50.720 formidable punch. Eighteen percent of all voters last year were 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:54.640 non college white men, and seventeen percent were college educated 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:57.640 white women. So damn near twenty percent on each end 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:00.800 of the electorate. A little less so anyway, jd Vance 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:03.560 is only five points less polarizing. Elon Musk is a 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:07.240 seventy three point spread. Doge, as you might have guessed, 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:12.000 is eighty point spread. The Republican Party is a sixty 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:17.240 point spread. DEI is a seventy one point spread, with 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:22.000 white college plus women still plus thirty one on DEI. 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:24.160 Well, I clearly need. 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:28.120 To date a non college graduate dude if I want 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:28.600 to be. 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:30.840 In math checks out. 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:38.720 And the Democratic Party it's a fifty four percent spread. 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:42.840 White men no degree minus fifty eight, almost minus sixty 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.720 in approval, and white college women is actually minus minus 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:49.080 four because they don't think the Democrats are radical enough. 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:53.360 But so if you get this, almost twenty percent of 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:58.360 each group, so that's forty percent of the electorate total, right, yeah, yeah, 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:00.880 and they're that far apart. Is that ever happened in 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:01.960 our history? I wonder. 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:06.240 I doubt it very very much, only like in eighteen 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:08.400 sixty one, and I don't know if you've heard, things 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:14.440 went very poorly for several years after that. Yeah, it's shocking, 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.560 and I'm trying. You know, I certainly have my point 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:18.920 of view. We have our point of view, and we're 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:24.520 trying to litigate it and convince more people. For instance, conservatism, localism, 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:27.640 you know, not teaching your kids porn in school, all 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:30.920 this stuff is better than the alternative. On the other hand, 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:34.120 I really try to understand what's happening before I go 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:38.160 into litigation mode, and I can't come up. 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:40.240 With anything other than. 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:49.240 The constant indoctrination of progressive ideals into students and particularly women. 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:52.520 For the socio psychological reasons We've talked about why women 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:55.000 are more easily in doctrinated than men a lot of times, 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:59.600 and the fact that women are not marrying and having 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:04.120 children so biologically they have a desperate need for a purpose. 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:09.760 They've been indoctrinated that their purpose is Marxism, essentially progressivism, 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:14.359 and that's why we're seeing this mind boggling and unprecedented spread. 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:17.240 Well, I wonder if we crossed some sort of line 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:20.200 into a tipping point where it'd be hard to dig 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:24.920 out of this, Like what would be appealing about college 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:28.600 for a lot of men when all you see is 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:32.439 women who have a completely different view of the world 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:32.760 than you. 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:34.200 Well, in so. 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:38.440 Many degrees are worthless, and the youngsters barely learn anything, 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.879 and it's suffocatingly expensive. 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:48.160 Who could resist? Yeah, well that's interesting. Yeah, it's not good. 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:48.960 It's not healthy. 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:51.960 I got a lot in so many emails from young 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:53.880 men saying, dude's the reason I don't date is because 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:55.879 women are out of their freaking minds. 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:00.359 But not in the usual way in the college women 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:02.360 to be saying they're a bunch of maga idiots. 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:06.440 That was why it don't Yes, yes, correct, good? 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:09.520 They love not political war, any comic give us a 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:13.040 tax four oneftc. 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:14.760 Armstrong and Getty. 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:18.760 Coming out your next segment. One of the funnier things 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:23.159 Trump has ever said. That's saying something, but pretty funny. Also, 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:26.199 the big case against green Peace. Have you heard about this? 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:30.199 Really interesting saw the headline Menendez brothers continue to be 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:30.560 a thing. 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:31.920 Who are you? Who are you. 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:34.120 People who are fighting to get the Menendez brothers out 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:37.399 of prison? But or even talking about it? 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:40.879 Yeah? 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:44.280 Do you not have a like, any interests or hobbies 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:45.440 or family to care about? 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:45.960 Anyway? 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:49.480 So what is Trump trying to do with the tariffs 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:53.320 and why is he going about it the way he's 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:56.080 going about it. Now, this might be two completely different questions, 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:58.639 but what's the plan. I have called for a Ronald 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:01.400 Reagan esque speak to speak to the nation saying, Hey, 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:03.240 this is going to be disruptive for a little while, 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:07.800 but here's what we're hoping happens. Here's roughly how long 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:10.080 it'll take. And that's why I'm doing what I'm doing. 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:13.280 You know, he constantly communicates with the press to the 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:17.200 point that any individual explanation, I think kind of gets 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:20.960 lost and it might illustrate the need to be a 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:24.800 little more selective in how often you speaking on what topic. 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:26.920 But you know he's going to do him. But jd. 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:30.840 Vance did an interview recently in which he addressed the 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:34.159 very questions of trade policy and what they're trying to accomplish. 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:36.399 It is in three chunks, Michael, we'll just begin with 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:38.080 first and to discuss as needed. 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:41.480 There were two conceits that our leadership class had when 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:45.919 it came to globalization. The first is assuming that we 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:48.879 can separate the making of things from the design of things. 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:52.840 The idea of globalization was that rich countries would move 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:56.000 further up the value chain, while the poor countries made 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:59.480 the simpler things. You would open an iPhone box and 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:02.320 it would say designed in Coupertino, California. 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:04.560 Now the implication, of course, is that. 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:08.280 It would be manufacturing, eng engein or somewhere else. And yeah, 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:11.320 some people might lose their jobs in manufacturing, but they 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:14.720 could learn to design, or to use a very popular phrase, 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:17.520 learn to code. But I think we got it wrong. 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:20.959 It turns out that the geographies that do the manufacturing 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:24.960 get awfully good at the designing of things. Their network effects. 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:28.200 As you all well understand, the firms that design products 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:32.320 work with firms that manufacture. They share intellectual property, they 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:37.280 share best practices, and they even sometimes share critical employees. Now, 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:39.879 we assume that other nations would always trail us in 0:20:39.960 --> 0:20:42.439 the value chain, but it turns out that as they 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:44.919 got better at the lower of the value chain, they 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:47.199 also started catching up on the higher end. We were 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:50.280 squeezed from both ends. Now that was the first conceit 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:51.160 of globalization. 0:20:51.400 --> 0:20:55.800 Wow, that's good stuff. Why don't we get talked to 0:20:56.000 --> 0:20:59.280 like that more often from politicians? Yeah? 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:02.639 This I can't remember precisely or he was he was 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:05.680 speaking too. Folks who are you know, probably more hip 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:11.560 to this sort of thing. Than the average voter. Yeah, 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:13.639 I agree with them as far as it goes. Some 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:15.800 of it's a little overstated, I think, And you just 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:19.320 can't argue with Yeah, if I manufacture it over there, 0:21:19.320 --> 0:21:21.639 I can offer the same product for thirty percent less, 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:25.960 because that is just too compelling in a free market 0:21:26.160 --> 0:21:27.080 to pass up. 0:21:27.119 --> 0:21:28.000 It's too attractive. 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:30.760 On the other hand, in the second clip, he gets 0:21:30.800 --> 0:21:34.080 to cheap labor, and I think. 0:21:33.960 --> 0:21:38.360 The second is that cheap labor is fundamentally a crutch, 0:21:38.720 --> 0:21:40.800 and it's a crutch that inhibits innovation. 0:21:40.880 --> 0:21:41.960 I might even say that it's a. 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:45.920 Drug that too many American firms got addicted to. Now, 0:21:45.920 --> 0:21:48.880 if you can make a product more cheaply, it's far 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:52.520 too easy to do that rather than to innovate. And 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:56.280 whether we were offshoring factories to cheap labor economies or 0:21:56.320 --> 0:22:01.080 importing cheap labor through our immigration system, labor became the 0:22:01.200 --> 0:22:04.320 drug of Western economies. And I'd say that if you 0:22:04.400 --> 0:22:07.080 look in nearly every country from Canada to the UK 0:22:07.240 --> 0:22:11.480 that imported large amounts of cheap labor, you've seen productivity stagnate. 0:22:11.520 --> 0:22:12.040 And I don't think. 0:22:11.960 --> 0:22:16.680 That's not a total happenstance. I think that the connection 0:22:16.920 --> 0:22:17.800 is very direct. 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:20.080 I assume he's getting to his ultimate point here in 0:22:20.080 --> 0:22:22.600 a little bit. Yeah. I don't buy that argument, by 0:22:22.600 --> 0:22:24.440