WEBVTT - No Biz With Bims! 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.280 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Show, Getty. 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:24.599 Arm Strong and Getty and he Armstrong and Yetty Tim 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:25.560 what could be a. 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:30.400 Significant step towards peace Ukraine agreeing to President Trump's proposal 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:33.839 for a thirty day seaspire, with the President turning the 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:37.640 spotlight on Russia, announcing he will speak to President Putin. 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:41.400 Hopefully President Putin will agree to that also, and we could. 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:42.280 Get this show on the road. 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:46.159 Secretary of State Rubio leading the talks in Saudi Arabia, 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:48.920 also saying Russia must make the next move. 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:51.880 Balls now in their court. As they say no, then, well, 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:54.320 unfortunately know what the impediment is to piece here. 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:58.440 Okay, So I'm hoping, as Keirs Simmons reporting on NBC, 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:02.680 I'm hoping we're a out to see the squeeze on Putin. Hey, 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:06.200 they had to get everything lined up, Squeezings and Lensky 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:09.839 to agree to the deal. Deals in place, As Rubio said, 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:12.280 Secretary of State, balls in Putin's court now, and I'm 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:15.920 hoping maybe you start putting pressure on Putin or saying 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:18.200 some bad things about him if he doesn't go along. 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:19.560 I guess we'll find out. 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:24.520 Yeah, it's an interesting strategy if indeed it is a 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:28.399 you know, a coherent strategy, and I don't know that 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:28.760 it's not. 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:31.000 I don't know that it is. 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:38.840 Um no, and Putin is so completely, almost ridiculously unreliable 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:41.000 as a party to an agreement. 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:43.839 So here's Richard Engel of NBC with a little analysis 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:44.080 on it. 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:49.960 So it has been a very trying time, fast moving events, 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:53.360 especially when people here know that their country is on 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:55.960 the line, that the future map of Ukraine is being 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:59.560 redrawn at this moment, and it is happening so quickly. 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:02.920 But today, today, at this very moment, I think they 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:06.120 feel quite satisfied with the end of this diplomatic process 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.000 because they want this. They want a piece, they say 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:11.360 that they want, however, a lasting piece, and if a 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:14.960 ceasefire can bring those negotiations, they certainly welcome it. And 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:18.840 if it can expose Vladimir Putin as someone who doesn't 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:22.079 want an agreement, all the better for Ukraine. 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:26.560 Well, that's interesting. And Richard Ingle wouldn't say that Ukraine's 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:31.799 pretty happy with this if they weren't, right, I want 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:34.080 to get this on. This is somebody on CNN because 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:38.640 I was accused of spouting MSNBC talking points on the 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:41.120 text line earlier, this being one of them. 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:43.600 It's a win for Ukraine and it gives them a 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:47.320 chance now to flip the narrative that the ball is 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:49.960 in Russia's court and now if Russia wants to be 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:52.960 the bad guy, you know, Putin has to decide. 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:56.000 I'm sorry, I miss read it. I said earlier this 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:58.840 might be a win for Russia and that you know, 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:00.560 if he agrees to a cease fire. It's the same 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:03.520 reason Hamas agreed to various ceasefires, so they could you know, 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:06.240 get some food and get some more ammunition and you know, 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:08.280 get their act together so they could attack again. 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:11.240 Ship in some more North Koreans to get mowed down 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:13.600 by machine guns the first day there in country. 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:17.000 And I was accused of spouting MSNBC talking points there, 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:19.520 But that's not an argument. Well yeah, but it's interesting 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:25.840 that Richard Engel and the CNN reporter both say Ukraine's 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:30.440 happy about this. It's a win for Ukraine to get this, Okay. Uh. 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:32.960 Here's our friend Josh Rogan of the Washington Post on 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:34.320 CNN eighty five. 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.520 I think what Zelenski achieved here was that he put 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:40.480 the spotlight back on the Russians to show that if 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.840 there's no ceasefire, it's Putin's fault, not Zelensky's fault. The 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:47.119 problem with the Oval Office meeting was that it convinced 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:51.280 Trump that the lack of peace was Zelenski's fault, and 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:54.880 he blames Elenskin. He punished the Ukrainians. Now it's on Putin. 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:56.440 Yeah. 0:03:56.520 --> 0:04:00.400 I don't know with Trump how much is strategy and 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:04.320 how much is a reaction to being challenged, because he 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:09.920 has a very rigid, hot temperty reaction to being challenged 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:13.360 by anybody, whether it's Zelensky or who was absolutely out 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:15.480 of line trying to litigate the case in front of 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:18.600 the cameras when everybody's supposed to shake hands and make nice. Anyway, 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:22.280 But the recent experience with Doug Ford up in Canada, 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:28.160 the premiere of Ontario saying all right, you're gonna levy 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.680 tariffs on off us. We're going to levy tariffs on you, 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:33.840 including the electricity, and Trump went nuts. I mean, his 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:39.599 rhetoric was like over the top. So there are those 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:41.640 though I could see you writing your emails right now, 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:45.080 say no that is the strategy. It's the Madman theory, 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.680 throwing everything up in the air, getting everybody on their heels. 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:50.520 Then he goes in and crafts the deal he wants 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:55.599 to craft. I can't believe we cut off intelligence to 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:58.000 Ukraine allowing that how they. 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:01.480 Get early alerts of a haack, drone attacks and missile 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:03.760 attacks so their civilians can run down in the air 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.640 raid shelters. We cut that off for a few days. 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:09.800 Why to force force them to the table. 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:19.799 Yeah. Anyway, this I found very very interesting and sort 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:23.200 of shakes up my view of the whole ceasepire thing 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:26.080 talking about Russia's economy and how bad it is. 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:31.479 That war is devastating Russia. They've raised interest rates to 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:35.160 twenty one percent because inflation is so high. They claim 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:38.320 inflation is nine percent, But that's bs. You don't have 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:41.359 twenty one percent interest rates if you have nine percent inflation. 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:43.960 True inflation is by forty percent or something like that. 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:48.039 The cost of borrowing is you want a mortgage in 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:53.880 moscows by thirty forty percent. Enterprises right now, a third 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:56.800 of enterprises right now are not paying each other. They 0:05:56.800 --> 0:06:00.480 don't have the money to pay each other. Factories but 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.840 butter is being locked up in supermarkets because it's become 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:08.000 so expensive that people are stealing it. Couldn't does not 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:11.720 have unlimited time. If the Ukrainians can hold out one 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:13.600 more year, Russia's economy collapses. 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:18.440 Been hearing that for a while though, since the beginning 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:20.200 of the war, when we really put the squeeze on them, 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:24.080 that they Russia wouldn't last long. But China gets around it. 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:29.160 Some of our friends continue to buy stuff from Russia. 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:35.279 I've read equally learned commentators say that indeed, yeah, Russia 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:37.200 and the Axis of a Holes as we like to 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:41.200 call it, have have made it so that Russia is 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:45.360 not really that isolated, and economically they're doing much better 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:46.320 than anybody expected. 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:51.120 But I mean, if mortgage a mortgages are. 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:55.400 Thirty forty percent, and that's an economy that's in terrible shape. 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:59.400 If inflation's anywhere close to forty percent, I mean, if 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:03.240 it's half that, you would think he's not long for 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:07.240 this world. Putin, somebody would take him out, you would think. 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:10.120 I mean, if it is a country run by Olive Arts, 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:14.800 as has been reported for decades now, those are billionaires 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:18.640 who run the country and keep putting an office. Why 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:23.240 are they going to continue that? Yeah? Yeah, and I 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.040 heard the rest of that report. That guy is Matthew 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:30.560 Brazinski on NBC, former Wall Street Journal reporter. I don't 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:34.040 know what he does now, but he made the point that, 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:38.160 you know, these dictators seem solid as a rock until 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:41.280 the day they're not. Let's see Ryan bashar Assad in 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.000 Syria or whatever. It's so unpredictable, you just never know. 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:46.880 So this is a quick aside for the golfers in 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:48.800 the audience, although I think everybody will get it. 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:50.400 I had a conversation the other day. 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:52.920 We were going to play, but the forecast was terrible, 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:56.120 and we got this text string. There are twelve of 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:59.120 us that were going to play, and everybody was like 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.280 feeling each other out. I looks kind of rough today. 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:04.360 I'm not gonna be the first to pull out, but 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:08.360 what that forecast? The other guy right back? Yeah, you know, 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:11.320 kind of kind of rough looking, don't know, you know, 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:13.160 could go either way, but nobody wants to be the 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.080 first guy to pull out, so you feel each other out. 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:17.160 And I had a conversation with a buddy of mine 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:20.160 that it's exactly like when somebody wants to stage a coup, 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:22.880 like if you want to get rid of Putin. There's 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:28.160 a lot of boy Putin's some interesting moves lately, you know, 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:30.880 And then you're waiting for somebody to say, yeah, I 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:32.080 don't think it's very smart. 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.800 Then you know, I think give you a slightly different look. 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:37.000 You say, but I like them. They're interesting. But there, 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:40.079 you know, thinking outside the box. And I innovative was 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:41.160 the word I was looking for her. 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:43.439 Yeah, so what do you Then you turn to the 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.720 other guy, But what do you think of the job 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:48.120 our beloved leaders doing it? 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:51.520 I got some questions. You're just looking for hints. 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:54.720 That somebody's with you, except deciding whether to play golf 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:57.320 or not generally doesn't involve being shoved out a window 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:00.440 or executed as a trader after, you know, was several 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:01.960 months of beating his torture. 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:03.559 Well, and he had that weekend where it looked like 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:05.880 Progosion might march all the way to Moscow and have 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:08.760 a showdown, but he backed off for whatever reason and 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:12.959 then ended up being murdered in a plane crash. 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:18.160 Yeah, was he not the absolute classic example of if 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:21.240 you're gonna shoot at the King, don't miss. 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:21.959 How was that? 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.480 And don't say, you know what, I got a hothead. 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:27.319 I'm so sorry, my majesty. I'm I'm good. We're good though, 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:29.920 We're good right now, that's not a choice. 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:30.320 How did the. 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:33.079 Guys wiley as him think he was ever gonna survive? 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:38.400 That he thought he had cards to play? Wow? Misread 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:40.360 that one. I wonder if he I wonder if he 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:43.200 thought that is the plane was plunging toward earth. I 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:47.400 really thought I had that figured plat. Yeah, anyway, so 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:50.160 who knows where this is direction is going? I I 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:54.760 hope we hear some slightly nasty language about Putin, one 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:58.520 of the worst people on planet Earth. Yeah, I hope 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.600 we hear something, you know, not favorable about the guy. 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:06.440 A totalitarian megalomaniac who has zero interest in quote unquote 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:11.959 protecting Christianity no matter what your favorite lack adoodal right 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:16.120 wing influencer, and I'm a right winger is trying to 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:16.520 tell you. 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:24.600 So this hour, a state farm executive state farm Insurance 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:29.560 in California got caught on a hot mic on purpose. 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:34.120 It was a trap saying some really bad things, and 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:37.360 now he's out of a job. About those of us 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:38.800 who pay for insurance. 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:42.600 And it all fits into the greater story of rebuilding 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:47.920 LA after the cataclysmic wildfires, and how especially on the 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:50.840 left of politics, which is really the only side that 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:54.680 matters in California, they are really hot to trot to 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:57.560 not let this crisis go to waste what they're going 0:10:57.640 --> 0:10:59.160 to try to accomplish. 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:03.040 And the secret recording is a warning to those of 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:06.240 you that be careful on your Tinder dates. You don't 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:10.160 know this person that might be your lesson for the 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:14.680 day among us. I'll file that one away among other things. 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:17.000 On the way. Stay here. 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:22.440 The Museum of Failure houses some of the world's greatest flops. 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:27.600 Visitors can see attractions such as crystal Pepsi, carrot cake Oreos, 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:30.640 and of course that Don Lemon exhibits. 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:38.560 This tone of voice. Made that joke I read about 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:40.920 the Museum of Failure. It's actually a cool idea. There's 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:43.680 a huge legal dispute going on right now, but yeah, 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:47.880 the idea being, yeah, yeah, failure doesn't stop you. You 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:49.840 had to set back, you learn from it, you move on. 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:51.040 It's kind of a cool idea. 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:54.680 So coming up, we're gonna talk about this audio that 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:57.600 was secretly recorded of a state farm executive and it 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.360 gets into the how businesses become woken all that sort 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:04.520 of stuff. But the dude was secretly recorded on a 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:06.559 tender date that he thought was real but turned out 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:08.880 to be, you know, a honeypot sort of sting to 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:12.800 get him to talk and record him. And we actually 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:16.199 got into the conversation about this online dating stuff during 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:20.000 the commercials. Katie, you've done online dating. I don't even 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:21.800 remember if you talked about that or not. Nobody else 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.840 here has I don't think, Yeah you have, Yeah, I haven't. 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:26.520 Joe obviously has it. Michael, you haven't. 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:29.199 No, No, I wait, And judging from your tone of voice, 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:30.679 it was just a bull of cherry. 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:33.599 But I know a lot of people that have, and 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.080 one of the things that they all say is nobody 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:41.000 looks even close to like their picture, at least particularly 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.680 the tender stuff. I don't know about. Maybe e harmony 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:46.560 is more I don't know, real than that. I don't know, 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:49.520 because it's from what I understand, Tinder is still more 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:52.559 of a hookup app than the looking for my husband 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:53.120 or wife. 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:56.200 It kind of went down in the ranks as a 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:59.600 hookup app because there are more hook up apps that 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:00.760 have develop. 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:03.120 Since I used it, But yeah, it's it's probably it 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:06.199 probably probably floats around just like the popular bar huh. 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:09.600 Yeah yeah, And I mean I used it before all 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:11.880 of the filters and stuff were a big deal. But 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.200 I noticed that the guys tend to put up like 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:19.120 the best pictures obviously of themselves, that make it look 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.360 like they have different occupations than they actually have. 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:25.600 Well, wearing the medical lab code and that sort of thing, yeah, 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.360 our business suit. Well, putting up the best picture of 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:31.559 yourself is you know, yeah, it's par for the course. 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:33.840 I mean, everybody does that. But if it if you 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:35.559 don't look like it, I mean I would. I have 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.240 heard people talk about you walk into the coffee shop 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:40.360 or whatever it is and you don't even know that's 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:43.480 them over there. Yeah, I didn't go through that. 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:45.840 I was reading something the other day and got one 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:47.679 of those pop up ads in the middle of the article, 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:51.040 and it was for a filter app, and it was 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:54.200 saying the message of it was essentially for dating apps, 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:59.319 that the other apps make you look totally unlike yourself 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.840 and not like a real person. Our app makes you 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:06.800 look totally unlike yourself, but like a real person, just 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:07.520 not you. 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:10.079 So this is a much better app and. 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:13.400 I thought, Wow, so they just it's obviously just completely 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:15.079 accepted that that's what's happening. 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:16.720 Well, you can't get in the you can't make the 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:19.680 sale unless you get in the door. That's such a 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:23.320 shameless move. My anxiety would be through the roofified. 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:24.640 At that, going, oh my god, this guy's gonna walk 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:26.360 in here, and that is not me in that photo. 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:28.520 I'm not not going to do that, like out of 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:31.480 some moral conviction about online dating. If I were ever 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:33.160 going to do it, it'd be out of I don't 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.680 want to have expectations set. I don't want to look 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:39.120 at a disappointed face as they turn around and walk 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:43.280 back out the door. That sounds horrible. Jack gives himself 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:46.920 a nine inch mullet. Just better to have. 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.520 A picture of yourself like at the end of a 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:54.720 long night of drinking, half incoherent, uncamped, with the snot 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:57.080 coming out of your nose. Yeah, that way, anybody you 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:59.320 know is going to be pleased when you show up. 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:04.720 Oh oh, oh gosh, great, asked Michael. No, but I 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:07.040 was thinking, yeah, what is it any different than like 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:11.080 I had a quarter pounder with Jees at the McDonald yesterday. 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:13.440 It did not look like the one on the poster 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:16.400 in the restaurant. It didn't have the big fluffy lettuce 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.000 with the buns standing up over a fresh tomato and 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:23.040 all that sort of stuff. So you know advertising, Like 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:27.320 Joe said, yeah, well, it's it's similar. I'd say, looks 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:31.360 are more fundamental to the dancer of love than they 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:35.320 are wolfing down a cut rate burger. True, it's it's related. 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:35.680 Man. 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:38.000 I heard such an interesting podcast the other day. I 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:39.480 meant to bring some of this on the air and 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:43.400 look into it more about how damaging for society online 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:47.760 dating is for a variety of reasons, and statistics were amazing. 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:52.480 It's like ten percent of dudes are like the entire 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:57.960 online thing, and certain to a certain extent, same with women, 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:00.600 although it's a little different women just for the obvious 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:05.040 thing that guys will have sex with practically anybody, but 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:09.200 so they have a lot more opportunities. But there's like 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:11.840 a top ten percent of dudes who are good looking. 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:13.440 A lot of them might not be good people, but 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:16.600 they're good looking enough that like are eighty percent of 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:19.040 the of the matches and the people that go on dates. 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:22.440 So it's just the same ten percent of dudes dating 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:24.560 and having sex over and over and over and over 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:26.880 and over again, taking women out to eat, and then 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:29.240 you know, people get burnt out on the whole thing 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:29.800 because of that. 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:32.080 I think I mentioned this to you guys before, But 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:33.920 I was with a group of twenty somethings and they 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:35.840 were all on their dating apps, and they were sitting 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:38.920 there next to each other making sure that each other 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:41.160 were not talking to the same guys that they had 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:43.560 matched with, and I'm going, oh my god, I'm so 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:44.800 glad I'm not in this right. 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:48.160 And that's because that pool is so small. Yeah, in 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:50.520 whatever town you're in or you know zip code you're 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:51.160 putting in there. 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:56.960 I think coming up, the rebuilding of Los Angeles has 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:04.400 not surprisingly run headlong head on into politics, particularly progressive politics. 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:07.560 How that might play out and more coming up. 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:10.480 Yeah, this secretly recorded state farm agent because of a 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:14.000 tender date, bad idea. I got that on the way. 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:20.120 You stay here, armstrong and getty, like in. 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:24.560 Marin County in northern California, or some of the fringe 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:26.280 areas like where the count states. 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:33.639 Are can never be houses where like people want to 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:37.480 be filled in areas where I like really hard for 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:40.440 you that are here probably listening on the radio. That's 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:43.200 a state former state farm executive. He's been fired now, 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:45.800 Hayden Kirkpatrick. He was on a tender date in the 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:49.359 tender dages. What do you do for a living? Ooh, 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:53.960 home insurance sounds fascinating. Tell me more to get to 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:58.560 get him to talk about, among other things, their emergency 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:01.800 filing with the state of Californi after the horrifying fires 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:06.960 in Los Angeles, and Kilpatrick, the state farm executive now fired, 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:10.199 actually said that they went into a panic when they 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:12.800 realized how much this was gonna cost. To quote, our 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:15.560 people look at this and says, we've got like maybe 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:19.080 five billion dollars that were short if something happens. So 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:21.200 they had to go to the Department Insurance and say 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:23.400 we're overexposed. Here, you have to let us catch up. 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:26.120 They say no, and then we say, okay, well we're 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:29.760 then we're gonna cancel all these policies. So well, that 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:34.199 is pretty well known so far. Yeah, So I just 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:37.120 in general, the whole insurance thing, my life experience has 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:40.119 been you pay insurance your whole life, and then if 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:42.200 you have a wreck or something happens, to your house, 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:45.080 they either drop you or jack up your rates so 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:48.960 much that you end up paying back for what they covered. 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:51.040 I mean, that's what's happened to me anyway. 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:54.560 Uh, yeah, you know, it reminds me of the discussion 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:58.480 we had earlier about how people don't tend to sympathize 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:01.960 with convict inmates even when what's being done is horrible 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:05.919 and indefensible. It's just not a super sympathetic you know 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:11.960 a target. Likewise, insurance companies. I mean, even if the 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:15.240 way they have been done by the state is indefensible, 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:17.120 it's tough to work up many tears. 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:21.159 Yeah, And then I don't know it's being seen as 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:25.000 controversial that he said that people shouldn't have been building 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:27.560 in those areas anyway. It's just for their egos. They 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:29.919 want to live in a beautiful area like this and 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:32.960 there shouldn't even be homes there. But I don't know 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:33.920 if that's controversial. 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:37.760 Yeah, people want to live in beautiful places. It's not 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:41.760 much of a revelation whether it's for your ego or 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:45.120 you like the view. Well, and it's indisputable, and I'm 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:49.240 not some sort of industry hack. But as metro areas grow, 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:54.920 people are living in. There's a term for it where 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:59.720 you know, more urban areas meet nature and there's much 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:03.159 great fire risk, particularly in a place like California or 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:04.040 anywhere in the Westerlia. 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:06.040 I don't know if this state farm exec was fired 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:08.879 because he said something we didn't mostly already know, or 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:11.320 because the company thought, if you're going to go on 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:14.200 tender dates with randos and start talking about the way 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:16.720 we do business in the state, and maybe you should 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:23.760 work somewhere else. So is there more that's controversial about this? Really? Yeah, Well, 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:25.760 they go to the state and say, look, if you 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:27.840 don't let us jack up the rates, we're gonna start 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:34.760 canceling all these policies. Is not seen as cool, maybe 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:36.920 the way he phrased it, but that's precisely the case 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:39.200 State farms to take it. It's exactly what they do. 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:40.440 It's exactly what happens. 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:45.199 Don't be talking business with bimbos, yes, no, biz with 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:49.359 BIMs right, Okay, So I thought this was interesting speaking 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:52.480 of that sort of thing. The Wall Street Journal is 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:58.240 talking to a realtor about transactions going on people trying 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:01.440 to buy properties that are still standing or land or whatever, 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:05.920 and nobody can get insurance. And the one deal she's 0:21:05.960 --> 0:21:10.359 closed lately, it was a seven figure purchase. The buyer said, no, 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:13.840 I can't get insurance. I'll be self insured. I'll just 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:16.879 if my place burns down, I'm out. And that was 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:18.960 the only one she's closed in recent days. 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:22.399 Because so you've got a really expensive place and you 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:24.639 want to sell it, and you find out you can't 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:28.200 sell it because nobody can get insurance. That is rough 0:21:29.560 --> 0:21:30.600 right as they put it. 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:35.000 The question for LA isn't so much how to rebuild 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:39.440 the palisades, but who pays if it burns again? Said 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:44.560 State Farm General, writing the State Insurance Commissioner, not on 0:21:44.600 --> 0:21:48.320 a tender day quote writing new policies doesn't make any 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:54.480