WEBVTT - Nice Job, Rabbit Hole. 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:11.080 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty arms Strong. 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:27.200 And Katty and He Armstrong and Eddy ladye BC's Saturday. 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:33.599 Night starring Shirts Colin. 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:49.000 With Genese, I'm Philly, Christen and Ladies and Jo. 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:58.120 They aired that in place of their normal live show 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:00.880 on Saturday Night. The very first EPISO of Saturday Night 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:04.120 Live aired this past Saturday night as they were headed 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:06.399 into Sunday Night for their actual live show, which was 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:09.080 a fifty year anniversary of the program, and all kinds 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:13.319 of former cast members and stars, and man, that was 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:15.360 some star studded crowd there. Every time they go to 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:18.479 a crowd shot thingy and do stuff is like, look, 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:20.560 there's so and so, and there's Kevin Cosner, and there's 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:23.880 there's Robert de Niro and there's It was just absolutely amazing. 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:29.680 A lot of people wondering about why Kevin Costner looked 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.800 so angry and off put. Everybody else was kind of 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:36.200 watching and laughing, and he looked crazed. I've read a 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:39.520 couple of different theories about that. There's a couple of 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:42.319 actors that are apparently that were there sitting near him 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:44.440 and were ripping him off financially, and he's in a 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:46.959 big court case with Maybe that's why he was acting 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:48.880 that way, or maybe he was drunk. I don't know why, 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:51.360 but at one point he ended up holding an Elmo head. 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:55.240 Toward the end during a musical number, he looked angry night. 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:58.720 He wasn't playing along at all, an angry very tan 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:02.880 chomping his gum Vian costner for some reason. Did you 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.600 see the Adam Sandler song he did toward the end 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:11.280 fifty years So I was thinking about that and wondering 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:14.600 just from a crafting entertainment standpoint. So Jack Nicholson introduced him, 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:16.200 which is cool. Jack Nicholson was in the crowd and 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:19.000 he hadn't been seen in public in years. Nobody know 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:21.520 if he'd ever be seen again. He's incredibly old, eighty 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:24.120 seven or something like that. He's my dad's age. 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:24.680 But so there he was. 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:26.720 He introduced Adam Sandler, and Adam Sandler does one of 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:29.280 his songs, and I was thinking, Adam Sandler has a 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:32.400 special talent for and this is probably why he has 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:36.160 sold a billion dollars worth of movie tickets in his life. 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:42.560 He has a talent for schmaltz and funny that doesn't 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:48.360 cross the line into too schmaltzy or too ridiculous to 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:49.960 be schmat I don't know, but he has got a 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:52.600 talent for that that's obviously unique, which is why he's 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:54.680 so incredibly successful and made so much money. 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:56.880 So I always think, is this too much? 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.880 And it always kind of gets me emotionally speaking, Yet 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:00.560 it's funny. 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:03.919 That's a tough balance, that thing right there. 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:09.240 Yeah, I don't Yeah, yeah, I might quibble over the 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:13.720 term schmalts okay sentimental differently, yeah, sentimental, Yeah. 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:18.000 Touching okay, Schmaltz is wrong because Schmaltz implies negative sentimental 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:19.960 and touching with funny. 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:23.520 To pull that off the way he does is incredibly. 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:24.400 Unique, and I guess that's what he did in all 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:26.280 his movies that he wrote that were so successful. But 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:29.079 I thought that was really good. But this happened toward 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:31.040 the end of the show, and thought it would be 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:34.320 a good point of discussion, So they had Tom Hanks 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:39.920 come out there and set up a bunch of highlight 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:43.280 clips from stuff that there's no way you could air 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:46.440 anymore on Saturday Night Live, and whether or not that's 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:48.080 good or not is its own discussion. 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:50.280 But this is this is what the setup sounded like. 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:54.560 As we celebrate the achievements of the past fifty years, 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:58.080 we must also take a moment to honor those who 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:03.840 we've lost, countless members of the SNL family taken from 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:08.840 us too soon. I'm speaking, of course, about SNL characters 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:10.200 and sketches. 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:11.240 That have aged horribly. 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:18.159 But even though these characters, accents and let's just call 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:28.960 them ethnic whigs, were unquestionably in poor taste, you all 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:35.679 laughed at them. So if anyone should be canceled, shouldn't 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:36.120 it be you? 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:40.839 The eyes something to think about. 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:43.800 So I had friends that reacted to the whole thing, 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:46.880 and then they ran a montage of a bunch of 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:51.599 clips like lots Eclipse over many decades. It's been on 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:54.360 for fifty years. That were some of the funniest things 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:56.560 and most memorable things I've ever done in Saturday Night 0:04:56.600 --> 0:05:00.760 Live history, but including bleeping things and blurring things out. 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:05.440 But for the most part, like some of my friends 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:07.760 were highly offended that they treated it that way. I 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:12.479 thought it was Lorne Michael's doing what he does with 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:15.400 the colin Jos Michael cha bit where they write each 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:18.480 other jokes and they act like they're so disgusted by 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:19.520 the jokes, but it's. 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:22.359 An opportunity to get the jokes on. I just felt 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.520 like I just felt like it was the same thing. 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:28.000 We're going to pretend that was just so wrong that 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:29.719 we did this, and now are a bunch of the 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:30.839 stuff that you really liked. 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:33.159 I think so, I think you've nail it. Yeah. 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:40.919 I think Lorne probably understands pretty well. Where some standards 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:44.480 have changed, maybe appropriately, A lot of standards have changed 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:47.640 completely inappropriately, right. 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:49.520 I mean for Tom Hanks to say that we're in 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:55.039 questionably in poor taste, as if in poor taste makes 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:57.560 something out of bounds for comedy. When when did that 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:01.720 become a thing something poor taste can't be funny or 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:02.480 for the public. 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:06.000 I mean that, come on, now, that's hilarious. Yeah, yeah, 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:06.800 I agree. 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:12.760 But it included a few things that I don't understand. 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:17.800 Why ethnic accents are off limit. Now. You know, it's 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:22.120 like Hankazaria retiring Apuh's voice from the Simpsons because you 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:25.080 can't sound like somebody from India. 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:29.200 Why, yeah, I consider it completely absurd. They would say, well, 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:34.240 you're reducing it to a stereotype and lampooning them merely 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.080 for their nationality and the rest of it. It's an 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:42.640 absolutely universal human truth that when we hear languages and 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:46.880 accents unlike our own, we notice them and they are 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:48.359 odd or amusing to us. 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:49.960 It's universally true. 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:52.760 Well, going way way back, John Belushi, Chieberger, Chea Berger, 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:56.040 you know ethnic immigrants in Chicago running a diner. 0:06:57.800 --> 0:06:59.880 Are the people that are offended by Then? 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:04.839 No, no, don't is that every thing but the the 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:09.039 and then body shaming had some body shaming there, okay, fine, 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:13.480 fat jokes, and then you know, the ambiguously gay duol. 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:16.280 I can't believe that actually was a thing for a while, 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:21.760 but I'm just surprised it was a thing, because I 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:25.240 don't know, gay is just so accepted now. I'm surprised 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:30.360 that ever worked. But the most famous one, and it's 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:36.720 definitely an interesting point of discussion, is Chevy Chase calling 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:40.000 Richard Pryor the N word on Saturday Night Live, which 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:45.480 aired in the seventies on network television. And it wasn't 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:49.200 really even that big a deal. Is are we in 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:52.800 a better place now by not doing that or a 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:55.440 worse place? And I would think we're in a worse place, 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:56.680 but obvious. 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:00.160 One hundred percent because we've gone from that was a 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:04.560 really good, insightful use of comedy to make a serious 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:09.040 point to a point now where we're just so paranoid 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:12.000 about it and it becoming less so because the Ebram 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:15.120 Kendy garbage era is on the way, and at least 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:18.760 in normal society, not academia. But and so we're all, 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:21.440 especially white people, just terrified to say anything at all. 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:23.560 So you just tell us what to say and take 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:26.160 control of our institutions and we will obey you, so 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:27.480 you don't call us racists. 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:30.200 So you can't have an honest discussion like that. Okay, 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:31.160 do you have a question? 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:34.679 No, I don't have a question. I was just in 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:37.480 watching this whole thing. I was it was cool to 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:39.000 see stuff that I had heard of but I had 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.280 never seen before. I did appreciate them bringing back some 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:42.160 of the older skits. 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:45.240 All right, because you're young enough, Sarah, I've started before 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:48.559 you were born, as Sabrina Carpenter said Saturday, and I've 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:53.520 started before her parents were born, which is really something. Yeah, 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:58.240 but I don't I what percentage of America if you 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:00.760 had all of those clips that were in poor taste, 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:04.080 and you know, the death of these characters because obviously 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:06.320 they can't be heard anymore. I would love to see 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:09.600 polling on each and every aspect of those because I. 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:14.439 Think they're majority okay. Majority of people would say they're okay. 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:17.720 M of course, then the pushback would be all the 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:20.080 majority of the country's white and so of course you 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:21.960 think it's okay to be racist or whatever. 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:26.120 Yeah, well, kiss my ass would be my response. Uh, 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:27.520 you know, Yeah. 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:32.200 Comedy exists to push limits and to call out authority 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.760 and to make people uncomfortable at times. That's its purpose, 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:41.240 and I despise efforts to censor it, to preemptively censor it. 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:43.839 There are jokes and comedy that I hear that I 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:47.240 think are awful, They're stupid, they're mean, they are actually 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:51.480 racist or whatever, and I'll gladly tell you when I 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:53.800 think that, But the idea that they need to be 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:58.040 preemptively censored so they never offend anybody all crack. 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.240 Well, and most of the time, as Ricky Gervasi's pointed 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:04.040 out before, we're all laughing because our laughter is us 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:06.040 in agreement that that is not okay. 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:08.200 That's what the joke is so. 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:11.400 It real reinforces norms. It reinforces that it's not okay, 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:15.720 which is interesting. I noticed that, and I was looking 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:19.880 for it. One thing that they used to do regularly 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:24.040 on Saturday Night Live in the nineties, I guess because 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:28.040 I know Chris Farley was involved, probably late eighties old 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:31.400 in the early nineties was Pat the you couldn't tell 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:33.600 if it was a dude or a chick. I mean, 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:36.040 that was an ongoing bit, and she'd go into a 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.400 barber he or she. Nobody knows if Pat was a 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:40.600 man or a woman. We'll just say Pat. Pat would 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.280 go into a barbershop to get their haircut, and the 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:45.920 barber would keep asking questions to try to get a 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:48.040 hint is whether this is a male or a female, 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:53.760 and everybody would howl with laughter. They didn't include that 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:56.960 because apparently they feel like that one's too dangerous or toxic. 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:00.920 Wow, that's right. They didn't have any Pat. No. 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.080 That was actually a code at one of my old jobs, 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:07.119 because you know, you'd have somebody. 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:08.680 Come through and you'd want to be like, oh, hello, 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:11.880 miss oh wait a minute, yeah we had a Pat 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:15.200 come from today. Yeah, miile three, which is fine. 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:20.199 Yeah, but that was a common phrase to observe it 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:22.680 and and and make reference to how that makes you 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:26.280 feel uncomfortable because we're used to responding to people's sex 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:30.400 that there's nothing wrong with that, anybody, you're hurting them. 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:33.040 So the bit was you're not sure if this is 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:35.600 a man or a woman, and then you're going to 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:40.800 politely ask questions to try to determine that so you 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:42.280 can be more comfortable. 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:45.000 How is that bad? Nobody? 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:49.280 The bit was never I'm mean to them or going 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:51.560 to hate them or something. It was always I'm politely 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:52.720 asking questions. 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:56.719 Yeah, well, we can't have that because that's hurtful. And 0:11:57.200 --> 0:11:59.920 and if you're offended, you're always right, you know. It 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:02.839 strikes me the ultimate oil and water. The things that 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:08.880 don't mix is hypocritical, crusading do gooders, and a sense 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:12.360 of humor. They just do not intersect. 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:17.080 Right, And Saturday Night Live, which launched as like the 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:22.440 counter culture dangerous, you know, we stick it to the 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:30.119 man edgy, then becomes kind of the like leader in 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:33.360 enforcing political correctness over time is something. 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:36.800 Yeah, yeah, exactly becomes a tool of conformity. 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:41.440 Yeah, we got some more breaking news out of that 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:44.120 big meeting in Saudi Arabia over trying to wind down 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:44.920 the war in. 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:48.439 Ukraine that is either good or not or not. A 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:51.360 whole bunch of other stuff. On the way. Stay here. 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:56.479 I want to talk about test driving the Tesla cyber truck. 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:58.680 With my kids and why I can't why I can't 0:12:58.720 --> 0:12:59.040 get it. 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:03.559 Some updates from the Middle East on the peace talks 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.199 or whatever you want to call them, negotiations about inn 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:09.080 and the war in Ukraine. Just got a tip from 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:11.080 somebody I know who works in the federal government about 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:13.440 the federal government layoffs and how people are taking it, 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:14.480 among other things. 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:15.960 On the way, let's. 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:19.600 Talk about state government jack in state policy around two 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:23.000 of the compare and contrasts between California and Florida's homeowners 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:27.920 insurance situation. California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara last week announced 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:32.839 a one billion dollar surcharge on private insurers meaning they're 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:37.000 policy holders, to prop up the state's insure of last resort, 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:41.560 which is now wobbling. Fair The Fair Plan or whatever 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:45.640 it's called means. Meantime, State Farm is asking regulators for 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:48.840 an emergency twenty two percent rate increase to avoid a 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:50.960 dire situation in two. 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:57.160 It's on top of right, it's already insane. Yeah, I know, 0:13:57.520 --> 0:13:57.760 I know. 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:02.199 Meanwhile, in Florida, where Governor Ron de santiss is announcing 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:05.440 lower rates thanks to their legal reforms, that's right. Several 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:08.080 of the major insurers in Florida have filed for rate 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:12.600 decreases and it doesn't have It's not about fires and storms, 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:16.480 it's about policy. Democratic insurance regulators in the Golden State 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:21.080 for years suppressed rates even as home values ballooned. State Farm, 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:24.240 which is the state's largest fire insurer, said earlier this 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:26.600 month it's paid a buck twenty six in claims for 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.720 every dollar it's collected in premiums over the last nine years, 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:32.200 resulting in five billion dollars in losses. 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:34.200 And California until. 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:38.120 Recently, was the only state to prohibit insurers from pricing reinsurance. That's, 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:42.720 an insurance company has insurance itself, that's part of their costs. Well, California, 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:46.680 for reasons that defy any explanation, don't let State Farm, 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:50.760 for instance, factor that into their cost basis and so, 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:53.440 and they don't allow them to use catastrophe models to 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:57.200 adjust rates. The state also bars insurers from dropping policies 0:14:57.240 --> 0:15:00.240 and areas affected by fires for a year thereafter, which 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:03.120 has made it hard to limit exposure. And when they 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:05.440 do approve a rate increase is usually less than what's 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:06.040 asked for. 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:08.720 And so companies are just. 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.840 Fleeing the state, leaving hundreds of thousands of people with 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:14.160 no option but the fare plan, which is about to 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:15.840 become completely insolvent. 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:20.040 And why a lot of people talked about this back 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:21.200 when I was looking for a house. 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:24.040 Why a lot of people are choosing to rent rather 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:27.760 than buy, like practically for the first time ever, just 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:31.960 because the map between the price of homes, the energy bills, 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:34.880 and the insurance, it's quite the deal. 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:40.520 Yeah, absolutely true. So meanwhile, in Florida, DeSantis Ronda Santis 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:43.040 spearheaded a serious a litigation reforms in twenty two and 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:47.400 twenty three that have headed off an insurance disaster. Insurance 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:50.800 had been raising rates by double digits annually in fleeing 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:54.920 the market because of rampant lawsuit abuse, which ballooned their 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:58.080 insure of last resort, which was called Citizens Property. But 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:02.640 now that they've reformed that, eleven new insurers have entered 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:06.920 the market in Florida as the last as the result 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.600 of the last two years of tort reforms, and in fact, 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:11.800 again I think it's three of the Big seven. Don't 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:13.920 sue me if that's off. Oh, it's four of the 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:17.920 top ten have filed for rate decreases. And they just 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:22.160 took about half a million policies out of citizens property 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:25.600 and they now have better, cheaper private insurance that those 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:26.560 half a million homes. 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:29.960 That's quite the comparing contrast from two different models. 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:35.760 Yeah, I just the Golden State. Everybody wants no lever. 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:38.600 I'm leading the way. Like it or not. 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:44.760 It's just frustrating leading the way in one way U 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:46.760 haul rentals, which is true. 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:52.280 Yeah, what are you gonna do? Change policy? Nah? Try 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:52.920 something different? 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:53.600 Nah. 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:57.560 Year, it's a mob. It's a criminal gang. They do. 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:02.600 It's best for the mob, not the voters. Sons of 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:04.960 update you on some stories that are going on today. 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:05.120 Oh. 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:08.000 In this little piece of information I got about the 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:10.280 federal employees that are being laid off is kind of interesting. 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:11.919 It's an inside source source. 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:17.960 Stay tuned, Armstrong, Andy, we've lost the late great Norm 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:24.679 McDonald who hosted Weekend Up days. That's right, Norm McDonald 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:27.760 who hosted Weekend Update until he was fired for making 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:31.040 jokes about OJ Simpson and he's obviously one of my heroes. 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:33.160 So if you're watching up there, I just want to say, 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:34.200 we love you, oj. 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:39.560 Oh. That's right. 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:43.400 How's one of the Tom Hanks is uh? Looking back 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:48.320 on things that were mistakes having OJ is host? Boy 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:51.679 p did he is a musical guest or anything? We 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:53.720 didn't know exactly who knew? 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:55.480 Oh my god. 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:58.960 Norm McDonald got fired from Saturday Night Live because he 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:03.119 refused to stop making jokes about OJ being the murderer. 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:05.800 They finally fired him, then they had him back a 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:07.840 year later to host the show, which is weird. If 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:10.240 you've ever watched that on YouTube, it's pretty funny. 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:17.640 Damn, Where do I start? First? This the government workers 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:20.760 being so upset about being fired, nigga, and I'm not 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:21.719 happy you got fired. 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:24.400 I just I would like it if everybody who worked 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:26.439 for the government knew what it was like for the 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:28.400 rest of us in the private sector. I just think 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:32.119 that'd be helpful for the whole relationship between we the 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:34.160 taxpayer and you, the government. 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:38.880 Worker public servant. You mean you brute right. 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:43.080 Dedicated my life to public service. Somebody I know who 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:44.560 works in the federal government, I don't know if I 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:46.400 told this story. I don't think you were here last 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:49.480 week and I told this story. So the boss was 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:53.399 super upset about having to let go of about a 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:56.919 half a dozen people and saying they'd moved here for 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:59.920 this job. Oh yeah, and I was losing a job, 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:02.960 and yeah, it happens a lot in the real world, 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:05.320 but here here it is. Apparently there was a call 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:10.720 probably all around the country for people who work in 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:13.719 the federal government, and they gave out a phone number 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:18.480 for a government funded therapy. Government funded what a term 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:22.360 taxpayer paid for therapy. So I'm glad I can pay 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:24.560 for your therapy. Are you paying for my therapy? No, 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:27.320 I'm paying here for your therapy, and said it's available 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:31.000 twenty four to seven for six months after termination or 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:34.320 for anyone struggling to come to terms with losing a coworker. 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:38.520 So not only are the taxpayer's paying therapy because you 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:41.520 lost your job, anybody else ever lose their job out 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:44.760 there and nobody paid for therapy on how to deal 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:49.120 with it or not even that one of your coworkers 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:51.639 got fired, so you lost a friend at work, So 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:53.800 now the taxpayer is going to pay for your therapy. 0:19:54.960 --> 0:20:03.520 Good Lord, we are far far down a road and 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:07.880 clon our way back is going to be uncomfortable or impossible. 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:09.640 That's what I've been saying for a couple of weeks now. 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:14.800 The pushback to Elon, the vilification of Elon, the chanting 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:16.840 in the streets, and all that sort of stuff shows 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:20.800 you just how much they'd feel like, No, they're owed, 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:24.879 they're owed a lifetime job, and nobody should pay any 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:28.120 attention to whether they're needed or not. It's really out 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:29.840 of bounds to question this stuff. 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:32.800 And that's the folks in the street. And I can 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:36.080 forgive them for having formed certain attitudes over the years. 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:38.840 I mean, they need to come correct and wake up 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:41.600 to the reality, but I don't resent them coming to 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:45.879 those conclusions because they've been told that for years and generations. Really, 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:49.040 the people I really want to kick where it hurts 0:20:49.560 --> 0:20:53.719 is the union heads who have realized, and they realized 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:56.560 a number of decades ago, if we could organize government 0:20:56.600 --> 0:21:00.199 workers and make it permissible for them to unionize, that 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:03.320 is the most permanent industry that has ever existed. We 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:06.080 will get crazy rich, and we will get crazy powerful. 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:10.280 And then the politicians who are propped up by those 0:21:10.359 --> 0:21:13.200 union heads. And this is the story of California politics obviously, 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:14.520 but increasingly federal too. 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:19.280 That is the true evil there. They are unholy. 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:23.120 They they work counter to the interests of taxpayers, even 0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:25.440 as they howl that the only thing they care about 0:21:25.520 --> 0:21:28.080 is the taxpayers and quote unquote public servants. 0:21:28.200 --> 0:21:30.200 It's a scam. 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:33.520 Well, this federal worker that I know said that is 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:36.840 one of the reasons they're upset is they are told 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:39.639 when they're hired, you know, you'll have to work this 0:21:39.720 --> 0:21:41.400 many hours, this will be your pay, but you can't 0:21:41.400 --> 0:21:42.000 get fired. 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:44.960 Really, so you're you know, that's one thing you can 0:21:45.000 --> 0:21:45.359 count on. 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:46.879 So you know, if I took a job and I 0:21:46.920 --> 0:21:48.960 was told I couldn't get fired, when I got fired, 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:50.600 I would be, you know, unhappy about it. 0:21:51.320 --> 0:21:52.240 The uh, the. 0:21:52.240 --> 0:21:55.520 Problem is we shouldn't have jobs, and why would you 0:21:55.680 --> 0:21:59.000 Why would there be such a thing as telling somebody 0:21:59.080 --> 0:21:59.959 you can't be fired? 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:01.159 Why would that? 0:22:01.280 --> 0:22:04.919 Why would those civil service protections exist? Last week we 0:22:04.960 --> 0:22:08.840 were talking about how most of the people that are 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:11.200 being let go so far fall within that first year 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:13.840 or two of probationary period where you don't before you 0:22:13.840 --> 0:22:15.160 get the civil service protections. 0:22:15.280 --> 0:22:18.280