WEBVTT - A BJ & A Vestibule 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.240 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty. 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:21.079 Armstrong and Katty and He Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:26.800 The food company Purdue Farms announced last week it will 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:30.560 offer so called six seven chicken nuggets, even though everybody 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:33.520 who thought six seven was funny is now too old 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:37.080 for chicken nuggets. 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:39.920 Yeah. I did notice when I was in and out. 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:42.720 I didn't and out the other day though, they skipped 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:45.320 sixty seven because we are roughly in that area for 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:47.720 calling out numbers and they must still see it's a 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:49.199 burden to their restaurant. 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:51.760 Is that still a thing among the youngsters? Or is 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:53.160 that just here today gone today? 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:55.120 My kids would roll their eyes at it, But I 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:58.080 find that, like if you're me, if you're like a 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:02.960 parent trying to amuse your children, you might still go there. 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:04.040 Yeah. 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:08.959 I came across in a similar Vein think piece about 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:14.760 the incredible damage the short video scrolling does to your brain, 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:17.760 but like really philosophical about it. 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:19.360 Ooh, I would be into that. 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:23.080 I mean, not like in a navel gazing way. It 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:25.000 has to do with the fact that the way we 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:29.760 as human beings perceive our reality is maybe I shouldn't 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:31.440 even delve into this because it's so well written, and 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:34.040 I'll do it poor job. But when you walk into 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:38.560 a room, you see a series of stories. You don't 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:43.240 just see individual objects. You see people and the surroundings 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:46.520 and the objects there, and you understand in a fairly 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:49.440 complex way the story that's unfolding in front of you 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:52.600 are multiple stories. And that from the time where little 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:57.760 children up until like last week, our whole lives were 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:02.000 about complete stories. Well, even little children's stories that you 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:06.000 read to your kids before bed has an introduction, a plot, 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:09.480 a resolution that's sort of a moral perhaps, And these 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:12.960 videos are just blurbs of blipps of action. That was funny, 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:17.320 the guy hit his head and there's like no story. 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:21.079 There's just a moment, over and over again. And now 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:23.120 that's terrible for your attention span. 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:23.520 In a way. 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:25.680 That's a lot more well, I think you get in 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:27.600 the idea. It's a lot more than just oh my gosh, 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:30.079 it seems hard to read books. Now you're actually reforming 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:30.560 your mind. 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.840 Are you susceptible to that sort of thing? I don't 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:36.080 do it. I really look at it as a danger. 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:38.720 Oh I know it's a danger, but man, I'm susceptible 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:39.960 to it and I hate it. 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:42.080 Like I'll go to YouTube. 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:46.080 For a specific thing, like piano lesson on a particular song, 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:49.800 but the YouTube algorithm with its shorts opens up and 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:53.360 starts playing automatically, and there's a highlight from an athlete 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:56.160 that knows I like, or a musician that knows I like. 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:58.760 And it's amazing how often it hooks. 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.160 Me because it's just thirty second, forty five seconds of 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:03.720 this great guitar solo. It knows I like from previous 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:07.200 stuff or this sports moment or political moment or whatever. 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:10.400 It's so good at figuring. Same with Instagram. 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:14.560 If I open Instagram, it hits me with, oh wow, 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.359 here's Steely Dan doing something. And I mean, it just knows, 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:20.000 and I think that's just a second, and the next thing, 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:22.520 you know, a half hour's gone by. It is like 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:26.280 the freaking worst drug, most of drug addictive drug ever. 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:29.359 Right, right, you can't even open them designed by the 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:32.360 most brilliant minds of our time, right Yeah. 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:33.919 I guess it's probably because I'm. 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:36.680 So annoyingly contrary that I know what they're doing and 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.160 I hate it. So I won't indulge my sets. 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:43.120 It's an interesting thing in that it used to be 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:44.600 a joke back. 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:50.600 In the nineties, I guess early two thousands. You know, 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:52.840 you got one hundred and fifty channels and you just 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:56.240 keep flipping through and can't find anything interesting. We wanted 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:58.320 to find something interesting. You're sitting there on the couch, 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:00.280 you got a little time, you've decided I did to 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:03.480 dedicate to watching television, and you can't find anything interesting. 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:05.720 Now it's the opposite problem. 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:10.960 Every single channel has got something that you have already 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:15.320 designated as among your most favorite things to watch, and 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:18.839 every channel is that, and it's and then sometimes I 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:21.840 have the well, I'm gonna spend a half hour of 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:22.719 my life. 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:23.960 Amused and happy. 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.560 Is that a bad thing after having worked all day long? 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:31.360 But it never feels satisfying in any way. Ah, that's 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:36.160 an interesting insight. Yeah, yeah, it's amusing. But then when 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:38.400 it's over, you feel well unsatisfied. 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:38.640 Yeah. 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:41.359 I feel it's because sometimes I convince myself, what's the 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:45.880 harm here? Good lord, enjoy some comedy bits from comedians 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:47.760 you like or whatever it's feeding me. 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:51.560 But at the end, I'm always unhappy that I did it. 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:56.040 Always wow, wow, super interesting. Any thoughts on that? Drop 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:58.320 is a note mail bag at armstrong egetdy dot com. 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:00.680 I find this stuff absolutely fascinating. Mail bag at I'm 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:03.159 strung in getty dot com or if emailing your style, wanted 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:06.520 to text us four one five two nine five KFDC 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.560 as four one five two nine five KFTC and then 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:11.400 of course imagine if you've come to it as a 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.560 eleven year old or whatever without ever knowing any other 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:16.800 life or having anything to compare it to, then of 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:20.120 course you're perfectly fine just scrolling through it eight hours 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:20.719 a day or whatever. 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:23.120 Those numbers are on TikTok that are horrifying. 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:26.960 Right, Okay, So a couple of different story slash topics 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:31.839 that are maybe tangentially political but mostly about dollars and 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:33.360 cents and that sort of thing. I found this very 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:36.480 very interesting biz journals with an analysis of the various 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:41.000 billionaires taxes that are being proposed or enacted, and really 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:43.799 all the blue states where they are just the state 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:49.080 budgets have metastasized in like California and New York, for instance, 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:52.520 but the politicians say we need way, way more money, 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:54.680 so they're trying to come up with more ways to 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:59.040 tax and demonizing the wealthy is just super. 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:01.360 Popular in politics of env They've called it forever. 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:05.760 But an interesting analysis from biz Journals, The longest short 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:11.720 of it is that your big dollar philanthropic efforts, your 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:18.760 billionaires and multimillionaires who support your local symphony, opera, libraries, 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:22.359 aid to the poor. There are a thousand different examples 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:29.760 they're giving tends to skew substantially local. They've found, for instance, 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:34.880 that generous donors to your alma mater, say your university, 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:39.760 that giving grows and intensifies the closer you are geographically 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.839 to that university. I went to Illinois, I ended up 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:46.880 in California, blah blah blah. I'm like, yeah, I remember it. 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.640 But who cares? If you live in Champagne or Banna, 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.200 for instance, you're much more likely to kick them a 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:54.039 little bit of money. Why not, you're part of the 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:54.799 whole community. 0:06:54.880 --> 0:07:00.360 Well, you're a little venue for art or there's all 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:02.120 kinds of things. Everybody can name in every town has 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:04.480 got somebody's name on it. Oh yeah, government or day 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:08.760 theater everything. Yeah, the government didn't make them do that, right, 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:10.160 just did it here. 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:12.160 It is a twenty twenty five Bank of America study 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:16.040 of private philanthropy. Philanthropy found that seventy nine percent of 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:21.520 affluent donors gave locally seventy nine percent, and research consistently 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:24.040 shows that donors at all income levels are most likely 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:27.520 to give to local causes. So as you drive all 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:31.160 the billionaires and multimillionaires out of California, out of New York, 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:36.360 out of the Blue States, giving to charities will dry up. 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:39.480 I know that's true, and people should be aware of it. 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:42.680 I almost hate making this argument, though, because in my world, 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:45.640 if you're spending all your money on chocolate pies, you 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:49.160 get to keep it, right, I agree, But it's worth 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:51.200 knowing that they're also you know, building an arts center 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:53.440 and a hospital and all these different things. But it's 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:57.160 your money, and I don't just because you got really wealthy. 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:58.880 I don't get to take a whole bunch of it 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:02.960 just because on it. Right. Two little bits of analysis. 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:07.160 Number One, the public employee unions that are sponsoring these 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:10.840 tax drives, they don't care, they don't give a crap 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:15.240 about anything, but they're coffers. They make quasi moral arguments 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:17.080 about income inequality and the rest of it. 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:19.040 All it's just a grift. 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:21.840 All they want is money and they don't care about 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:25.960 anything else. Second thing is the only reason I brought 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:27.320 this is that I think there are a lot of 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:30.280 people who are just kind of half paying attention that thinks, yeah, 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:32.280 these people do have a tremendous amount of money, and 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:34.680 we're short of tax dollars, so yeah, let's go ahead 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:36.720 and stick it to them, and pointing out that yeah, yeah, 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:39.880 charitable giving is going to get decimated in your area. 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:42.000 I don't know, maybe it'll make them think. Plus, the 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:44.880 amounts never add up. The math doesn't work. 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:47.360 You can tax all the billionaires, it doesn't even come 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:52.000 close to closing whatever deficit you have federally or in your. 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:53.839 State, right right. 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:55.720 And the idea that a one time tax could do 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:58.600 anything and do any good structurally is hilarious. But again 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:01.200 the unions make that argument, Hey, we'll get a one 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:04.439 time giant truckload cash dropped off at our front doors. 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:07.760 It's all we want, it's all we carry you one time. Right, Well, yeah, 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:10.200 that too. This I'm not sure we really have time 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:10.720 to get into this. 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:11.320 Maybe later. 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:18.680 But there is a couple of home distiller cases, people 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:19.200 brewing their. 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:20.160 Own whiskey at home. 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:26.480 Specifically, that could well end up upending a lot of 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:31.320 absolutely terrible precedents on the Commerce Clause at the Supreme Court, 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:35.720 the huge overreach that began in when was it nineteen 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:40.480 forty two Wickered v. Philburn, infamous case in which the 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:43.960 Supreme Court said a farmer growing wheat to feed his 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:48.880 own livestock might have a tangential effect on the interstate market, 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:52.040 so the government can regulate his growing of wheat to 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:56.720 feed his own livestock. A wild abuse of the Commerce clause, 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:59.600 which grants federal government the right to regulate commerce between 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:03.280 the state as it's put And that kind of built 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:06.360 that set of presidents built on that idiotic case. 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:09.080 But home distillers might be tearing that down. 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:11.880 And I can explain how in a little bit afterward 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:13.959 from our friends at Incogny. 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:16.120 Yeah, we've been talking about for years. 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:20.000 Is there something that can be done about all the 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:22.760 spam texts, emails and calls you get? 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:25.000 Why can't we stop this? Can they write a law 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:25.719 or whatever? I don't know. 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:27.640 Maybe they'll have a law someday, but for now, it's 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:30.120 Incogny and COGNI is the answer to this problem. 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:30.400 For you. 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:32.960 Yeah, it's so tough to enforce the laws. They try, 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:34.000 but it's weak. 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:37.400 So each scam text, spam call, sketchy email with your 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:39.599 name starts the same way. Somebody found you on a 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:42.120 data broker site. So what do you do? 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:42.959 You disappear? 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:47.120 Yeah, and Cogny can actually go onto all those data 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:50.880 you know, hard drives and everything that's got all your 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:53.760 data stored there, and they can force them by law 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:55.880 to take it off there. You're going to see a 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:58.640 reduction in the number of spam texts, calls, and emails 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:01.160 really really fast when you sign onto Incognate. 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:04.120 Both using it, we've both seen a difference. They can't 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:06.040 spam you if they can't find you. Right now, get 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.320 sixty percent off with an exclusive deal at in cognity 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:12.520 dot com slash armstrong. Go to incog ni dot com 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:15.320 slash armstrong, take back your privacy. That's in cognity dot 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:19.520 com slash armstrong. And the last thing I wanted to 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.280 bring to you, where did it go? Oh, from the 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:28.079 Department of Bad Ideas. This is politics. Well I started 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:33.920 worried about US democracy. Astronauts are launching a political nonprofit 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:38.080 new nonpartisan group of NASA veterans, says it will advocate 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:42.719 for rule of law and score political candidates on civic responsibility. 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:45.880 And if you read into this account happens to be 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:49.840 in the Wall Street Journal. Again, it's a mix of Republicans, Democrats, 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:52.480 and independence, but it's one more than one hundred former 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:56.640 NASA astronauts have formed essentially a political action committee. Is 0:11:56.720 --> 0:12:01.880 there a topic there? Well, like I said, the rule 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:04.000 of law and civic. 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:07.000 Responsibility, I smell some particular issue that they're into. 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.079 In an open letter to the American people, of the 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:13.319 group states quote, for decades, we've seen a steady erosion 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:17.000 of our founding values and principles that weakens our democratic systems. 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:18.679 I would agree with them completely. Sure. 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:22.080 The result has been political polarization and subversion of key 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:26.920 constitution and institutional norms, including bipartisan cooperation, executive constraint, and 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:30.360 judicial independence. I would agree with all of that. Without 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:33.400 naming President Trump or other officials. The group promises quote 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:35.960 to take officials to task when they ignore the rule 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:38.320 of law, or distort or disregard the facts. 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:41.160 Okay, well, I wish you luck, because the first time 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:43.839 you flex your muscles on this, people are going to 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:44.360 deem you. 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:50.520 That side and then you're doing Garrett Riseman, aged fifty eight, 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:53.040 registered Democrat and one of the group's co founders, said 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:55.880 he decided to start the organization last year after the 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:58.920 conduct he saw while witnessing an immigration. 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:01.520 Raid at a local car there you go. Quote. 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:04.920 What I saw seemed to me just fundamentally Unamerican. It 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:06.679 seemed to me more like I was used to seeing 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.480 when I lived in Russia, where basically the security services 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:10.920 can act with impunity. 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:14.240 Okay, that's fine if you do that, but then you 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:18.400 come out really strong against what Virginia did yesterday and redistricting. 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:21.119 Need to see you working both sides of the aisle. 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:27.560 Here, and you've just politicized astronauts right right, leading to 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:32.960 exactly what you're decrying, increased partisan you know, polarization and 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:35.600 subversion of working across the island. 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:37.000 Stuff should have left you up there. 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:43.120 Everything, Oh boy, that's strong. Everything doesn't have to be political. Okay, okay, 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:46.840 go into space, come back, tell us about the moonnocks right. 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:49.160 Shot you into space once. We didn't have to bring 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:52.400 you back. Fair warning. 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:55.520 We got more Monica's thong, what it did for America, 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:57.080 among other things coming. 0:13:56.920 --> 0:14:02.960 Up, Hey, get this. 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.760 The Carnival cruise passenger just one a three hundred thousand 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.800 dollars lawsuit for claiming that the shift's staff serves her 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:13.360 fourteen tequila shots in the span of eight hours. Carnival 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:14.599 was like, how else are we going to kill the 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:16.960 nora Ins? 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:19.840 We talked about this. 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:24.560 This is a woman actually local tour we broadcast from. 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:27.560 I'm horrified by this. I was wondering when we talked 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:31.200 about this the other day, what percentage of Americans see, oh, 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:34.160 that makes sense. They shouldn't have given her so much booze. 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:39.080 And what percentage of Americans say. 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:41.480 You ordered him? It's on you, right, nobody made you 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:42.640 drink them. 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:46.880 You have a guess where we are is a nation 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:50.760 on that sort of topic. I don't personal responsibility versus 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:52.840 it's clearly somebody else's fault. 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:55.680 I think probably sixty forty the wrong way. If I 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:58.600 have to guess sixty forty the bad way, I bet 0:14:58.640 --> 0:14:59.120 you're right. 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.760 And those of us who are who have you know, 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:04.960 bellied up to the bar and stood there longer than 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:09.560 we should have. Who has ever me and none of 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:11.720 my friends who have gotten way drunker than we should 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:15.480 have as far as I know, have ever even contemplated 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:19.560 the idea that the problem was with the bartender or 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:19.960 the bar. 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:22.680 I know, it's how drunk I got last night or 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:24.240 what I did afterwards. 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.120 You know, as the people, we've been systematically trained away 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:30.120 from self reliance and being the captains of our own 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:31.400 ship because. 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:33.000 It's not useful for leftist politics. 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:37.320 In fact, it's like a it's like rat poison to 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:40.080 a rat, self reliance to Marxism. 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:43.320 You're always talking about how weird it would be to 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:45.560 be in someone else's brain. This would be a really 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:52.120 good example, because if you go through life with the well, 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:54.240 I got really drunk last night and crashed my car 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:56.440 or hit on somebody I shouldn't hit on or feel 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:59.960 sick today or whatever, and so that the bar's fault 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:03.960 or the bartender's fault. Your view of the planet on 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:07.240 every issue, I'm guessing, is so much different than mine. 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:09.600 It'd be like being a different species of person. 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:13.880 Michael, say, how many people on that jury were drinkers? 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:19.840 I bet the defense selected very very carefully for that. 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:20.800 I'll bet you're right. 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:24.920 You know, it strikes me that if you have that 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:29.760 mind set, well, let me put it to you like this. 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:31.880 If you're of our point of view that you're the 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:34.080 captain of your own ship, you need to take responsibility 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:35.960 for your own actions. Not only are you willing to 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:40.040 accept that, you like that? How liberating would it be 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:42.600 to never have to blame yourself for any of your 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:45.880 stupid moves and screw ups and failures. 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:48.240 Oh yeah, So why do I think the way I think? 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:52.080 This occurs to me a lot. When I was flat 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:56.200 broke for a long time, never crossed my mind that 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:59.960 it was anybody's fault other than I didn't apply myself 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:02.640 enough or choose the right line of work or whatever. 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.840 Never crossed my mind that there was something wrong with 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:08.800 our system or all. It's all kinds of different examples 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:12.160 of it. Just never occurred to me to blame somebody 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:13.480 else for the situation that. 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:13.920 I was in. 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:16.879 I hope my kids have that same belief I have. 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:18.720 I don't even know where I got it. I don't 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:21.479 remember my parents specifically talking to me about it, so 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:24.040 it must just kind of throw a bunch. 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:25.040 Of different circumstances. 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:27.440 You become aware as a kid that, oh, I don't 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:30.320 get to blame this on somebody or something. Nobody has 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:32.679 to like Let sure you about it, because it's said 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:35.520 a hundred times in a hundred different ways, like every single. 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:40.359 Day must yeah, yeah, yeah, having our folk tales and 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:42.359 traditional songs and everything. 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:45.600 Everything is about you know, you're in charge of you, 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:48.600 for good or bad, and we're losing that, I think. 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:50.800 But you know, fight against the teacher kids. 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:54.400 Folks very troubling. So one of the great what ifs 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:55.040 of history. 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:57.920 If Monica Leinsky hadn't worn in the thong that day 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:01.760 sticking out out of her skirt, how different could our, 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:07.600 for instance, entitlement problem be Gingrich and Clinton were working 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:08.560 on that and it got. 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:15.320 Derailed by a hot, hot chick. So according to some Katie, 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:19.159 why did you make that face with us? Armstrong and Getty? 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:21.200 The build is happening. 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:24.440 That build starts with twelve billion dollars to modernize air 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:27.840 traffic control, with upgrades now underway to radios, radars, and 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:32.360 safety systems. The next step in AI system merging airlines 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:35.760 flight schedules with FAA systems to cut airport delays. 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:38.800 The software will say, well, listen, we can see this 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:41.600 forty five days out. Let's move some of those flights 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:42.199 a little bit. 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:43.680 And so then you're not delayed. 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:46.440 The software has a possible price tag of six to 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:47.680 ten billion dollars. 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:51.200 AI is a tool, but we do not replace humans 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:53.399 and how we manage the air space? Am I going 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:55.760 to replace a controller and have AI manage their space? 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:57.679 The answer to that is hell, no, that's not going 0:18:57.720 --> 0:18:58.080 to happen. 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:02.480 Oh boy, to answer the question for simpletons at the end, 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:08.359 I guess the Oh goodness, ten to twelve billion. What why. 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:13.760 Could AI do a better job of scheduling planes and 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:15.239 figuring out how where they need to be? 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:19.560 When I got to believe it can. Yes, I've talked 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:21.720 to several friends who've had it. Like you put together 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:25.280 a vacation plan, you know, as a travel agent innocence, 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:26.240 and it works wonderfully. 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:28.359 Oh really, it's just it's a schedule. It's a grid. 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:29.040 You'd think. 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:35.000 So, Katie, when I mentioned Monica Lewinsky being a hot chick, 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:37.439 why did you burst out and laughing and roll your eyes. 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:40.600 I'm just curious. I didn't roll my eyes. It was 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:43.720 just the way that you said it. Okay, yeah, it 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:46.160 was fair. I can't remember the exact honing you used. 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:51.280 Now, So this book, which actually came out a while back, 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:52.960 but is back in the news for some reason. 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:54.280 I don't know why. I don't if they're going to 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:55.640 make a musical out of it or what. 0:19:56.200 --> 0:20:00.280 But the it's called the Pact Bill Clinton Newt Rich 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:03.920 in the rivalry that defined a generation. And I guess 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:07.680 they're because of where we are with our entitlement programs. 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:10.560 They are hinging on one particular chapter about how Newt 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:16.439 Gingrich and Bill Clinton were actually going to take a 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:22.320 big swing at dealing with our social Security Medicare problems 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:26.679 and like, we're serious about it. And I read this 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:28.800 chapter and it really gets into weeds on the way 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:31.160 in ways that you might not want to. But it's 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:34.199 pretty interesting that all of their internal polling, for instance, 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:37.160 their Clinton's pollster, Mark Penn, who by the way, has 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:41.119 been writing great stuff about how we're on the right 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:44.560