WEBVTT - Stop Saying Hoof! 0:00:01.910 --> 0:00:05.750 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the 0:00:05.790 --> 0:00:07.770 George Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:07.830 --> 0:00:12.120 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now, 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:17.280 here's Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:24.570 --> 0:00:27.910 Kraft Mac and Cheese this week introduced Chili Crisp and 0:00:27.990 --> 0:00:32.850 Cinnamon flavored versions. As in, sorry kids, all we have 0:00:32.890 --> 0:00:35.470 left is Chili Crisp and Cinnamon flavored. 0:00:37.690 --> 0:00:38.269 Yeah. 0:00:38.610 --> 0:00:41.610 Pretty sure my kids do like the original Mac and 0:00:41.630 --> 0:00:45.409 Cheese flavor. Chili Crisp or Cinnamon? Or is that and Cinnamon? 0:00:46.130 --> 0:00:48.350 Is that two different flavors or is it mixed together? 0:00:49.310 --> 0:00:55.380 Cinnamon Macaroni and Cheese. That sounds terrible, but I'm digging that. 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:56.779 Katie? 0:00:57.380 --> 0:01:00.900 Do you think that these companies are releasing flavors like 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.100 this because they know people are going to have reactions 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:05.780 like we are and they're going to buy them and 0:01:06.530 --> 0:01:09.830 do like a taste test online and it's like free 0:01:09.890 --> 0:01:11.870 publicity for the company kind of thing? 0:01:11.970 --> 0:01:14.970 My immediate reaction was, oh yeah, mac and cheese. 0:01:15.030 --> 0:01:15.630 We love that. 0:01:15.709 --> 0:01:18.310 Maybe I'll make some of that, the original flavor. The 0:01:18.410 --> 0:01:22.750 chili crisp sounds good. I really like Kraft macaroni and cheese. 0:01:22.790 --> 0:01:24.770 It's so cheap. Who knows what's in it? 0:01:26.890 --> 0:01:30.780 I don't know if a cow came within a million 0:01:30.810 --> 0:01:35.020 miles of the cheese, but I like the flavor of it. Man, 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:37.020 you put some ketchup in there? That's some good eating, 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:38.399 aren't there? As I've said in. 0:01:38.660 --> 0:01:41.800 Years past, I live downwind of the giant Kraft plant 0:01:41.980 --> 0:01:45.950 in Champaign, Illinois, and it didn't smell like cheese, I'll 0:01:45.970 --> 0:01:48.590 tell you that. Good Lord. 0:01:49.190 --> 0:01:55.680 Speaking of restaurants, Outback Steakhouse is filing for bankruptcy, citing 0:01:55.780 --> 0:01:59.460 labor costs in California. It's too expensive to keep the 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:02.540 doors open with having to hire employees in California. 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:06.240 Yeah, with the artificially high wages, yes. It also said. 0:02:06.260 --> 0:02:09.429 I wanted to get the wording right because I kind 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:15.250 of liked it. Dwindling customers. That's a problem also. 0:02:15.730 --> 0:02:16.490 Now that's an issue. 0:02:19.230 --> 0:02:22.390 People don't like our food. But the labor costs also. 0:02:22.690 --> 0:02:26.650 Let's not forget that. Which brings me to what Ted 0:02:26.669 --> 0:02:30.269 Cruz said. I will tell you about Diogenes coming up. 0:02:30.310 --> 0:02:34.660 It's another Greek philosopher Thursday on the Armstrong and Getty 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:36.799 show where we go back to an ancient Greek philosopher 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:38.760 and we give a little bit of a bio on it. No, 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:43.290 I came across this Diogenes guy who invented... He was 0:02:43.310 --> 0:02:46.389 the original cynic in the term cynicism, which is a 0:02:46.500 --> 0:02:48.799 completely different word than the way we use it now. 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:52.740 But it's pretty interesting. But his wife, holy crap, I 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:54.860 learned about it. Here's a little tease. 0:02:54.900 --> 0:02:55.680 He lived in a barrel. 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:59.120 He lived in a barrel, and he defecated and did 0:02:59.139 --> 0:03:00.060 other things in public. 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:00.880 Oh, my. 0:03:01.650 --> 0:03:03.410 You wouldn't think you could invent a philosophy that would 0:03:03.430 --> 0:03:05.830 stick around for several thousand years with that lifestyle. 0:03:06.070 --> 0:03:08.970 Did other things in public. I do other things in public. 0:03:09.070 --> 0:03:10.950 All right. He masturbated in public. He made me say 0:03:10.970 --> 0:03:11.450 the word. 0:03:11.889 --> 0:03:12.230 Yes. 0:03:12.790 --> 0:03:13.130 Yes. 0:03:13.690 --> 0:03:17.470 The time for you see how you're mumbling half truths. 0:03:18.190 --> 0:03:21.240 You know, you saw the midterms, right? It's time for 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:25.280 hard truths. That's what I say. I blame others. So 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:26.940 I got to believe a lot of.... 0:03:28.540 --> 0:03:30.870 Big time politicians who are giving speeches and putting out 0:03:30.910 --> 0:03:34.430 long posts, it's because they're angling to run for president 0:03:34.490 --> 0:03:41.990 or at least sniffing around. DeSantis, governor of Florida. Governor 0:03:42.110 --> 0:03:47.800 Florida didn't lose a single statewide race from Republicans to Democrats. 0:03:48.220 --> 0:03:52.000 Texas lost all of them. I mean, that's quite a 0:03:52.060 --> 0:03:55.940 difference between two red states. One state lost every single 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:58.920 statewide race to Democrats. Ted Cruz is the only remaining 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:01.460 Republican because he wasn't up for reelection. He might have 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:03.620 lost two. Whereas in Florida, they hung on to all 0:04:03.650 --> 0:04:07.030 of them. Yeah, that's quite the difference. But anyway, Ron DeSantis' 0:04:07.090 --> 0:04:08.850 big speech, we'll play some of it a little bit later. 0:04:09.650 --> 0:04:12.370 He gave his reasons, everything like that. We talked about J.D. 0:04:12.410 --> 0:04:15.110 Vance last hour, and we'll be talking about that more later. 0:04:15.150 --> 0:04:15.790 He's angling. 0:04:16.130 --> 0:04:19.390 And I assume this post from Ted Cruz yesterday, and 0:04:19.430 --> 0:04:23.930 he did a big thing on his podcast. Everybody says 0:04:23.970 --> 0:04:25.370 he's looking at running for president, too. 0:04:25.750 --> 0:04:28.310 He's angling. But I thought this was interesting information. 0:04:30.310 --> 0:04:33.430 He's talking about why voters are so unhappy and how 0:04:33.490 --> 0:04:36.430 bad the economy is. And some of these stats are amazing. 0:04:36.970 --> 0:04:39.490 I'm just reading from Ted Cruz's. I think it's just 0:04:39.790 --> 0:04:43.430 from his podcast yesterday and transcribed. Here are some stats 0:04:43.470 --> 0:04:45.170 that are a lot more real and personal. 0:04:45.730 --> 0:04:46.310 Spam. 0:04:46.850 --> 0:04:49.990 Hormel's processed meat substitute. I don't know if I've ever 0:04:50.150 --> 0:04:51.190 actually had spam. 0:04:51.810 --> 0:04:55.589 It's not a meat substitute. What is it? It's spam. 0:04:56.670 --> 0:04:58.190 Have you eaten spam? I'm not sure if I have 0:04:58.230 --> 0:04:58.490 or not. 0:04:58.970 --> 0:04:59.250 Oh, yeah. 0:04:59.310 --> 0:05:00.110 Absolutely. Yeah. 0:05:02.690 --> 0:05:07.100 Spam, Hormel's processed meat substitute, broke record sales, selling 113 0:05:07.100 --> 0:05:10.440 million cans last year. That's nearly as much spam as 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:12.660 was sold during the entirety of World War. 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:16.120 II. 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:18.380 The spam index. 0:05:19.339 --> 0:05:22.160 Well, that's suggesting that people are eating more spam because 0:05:22.220 --> 0:05:24.140 regular meat is so expensive, which certainly might be. 0:05:24.260 --> 0:05:28.219 Regular meat is just insanely expensive. Jack, Classic Spam is 0:05:28.260 --> 0:05:31.640 a canned, pre-cooked meat product made from just six core ingredients. 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:35.480 Number one, pork with ham, primarily chopped pork shoulder mixed 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:37.000 with ham cut from the hind leg. 0:05:37.230 --> 0:05:37.400 Hoof. 0:05:37.620 --> 0:05:44.490 Salt. What? Stop saying hoof. Salt, water, potato starch included 0:05:44.529 --> 0:05:48.090 to bind the ingredients and absorb excess juices during cooking, sugar, 0:05:48.250 --> 0:05:52.330 and sodium nitrate, a food preservative that keeps the meat 0:05:52.350 --> 0:05:55.690 from spoiling and gives it a pink color. Okay. What 0:05:55.710 --> 0:05:56.550 was that first thing? 0:05:57.310 --> 0:05:57.680 Pork. 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:02.779 But from where? With ham. Shoulder and the hind leg, 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:06.060 the ham. Both the shoulder and the ham. Okay, gotcha. 0:06:06.940 --> 0:06:09.880 Anyway, I guess the point is because hamburger and steak 0:06:09.940 --> 0:06:11.539 and all that sort of stuff is so expensive, more 0:06:11.580 --> 0:06:13.140 people are eating spam. I don't want to get hung 0:06:13.260 --> 0:06:14.710 up on this. I didn't mean to do a deep 0:06:14.730 --> 0:06:17.270 dive like it's Diogenes on spam. 0:06:17.610 --> 0:06:20.130 I've found it fascinating. 0:06:20.130 --> 0:06:23.550 29% of Americans have used buy now, pay later for 0:06:23.610 --> 0:06:27.770 groceries this year. That's double from two years ago. Oh, 0:06:27.870 --> 0:06:28.630 that's no good. 0:06:28.930 --> 0:06:32.650 Double the number. Almost a third of people doing buy now, 0:06:32.710 --> 0:06:36.000 pay later for groceries. I'm going to do a payment 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:40.080 plan for today's grocery run. It's a three-year payment plan. 0:06:41.540 --> 0:06:42.280 Come on. 0:06:42.660 --> 0:06:47.280 In August, banks repossessed 42% more homes than they did 0:06:47.339 --> 0:06:51.080 last year. So this most recent month, they got numbers 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.000 for 42% more homes repossessed than a year ago. 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:57.520 Part of that is skyrocketing interest rates for people who 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:04.020 took variable rate. Is that the term? Variable rate mortgages? 0:07:04.300 --> 0:07:06.659 It's that term. Six years ago. Yeah. 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:11.300 In 2024, car repossessions topped 2.3 million. That's above the 0:07:11.300 --> 0:07:14.400 2009 peak in the middle of the great financial crisis. 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:16.660 That's something. 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:22.930 In 2025, 6% of 401k holders took hardship withdrawals paying 0:07:22.970 --> 0:07:26.150 the penalties. That is a record and triple the normal number. 0:07:26.730 --> 0:07:27.590 Wow. 0:07:27.590 --> 0:07:29.930 6% of people took their money out of their 401k. 0:07:31.310 --> 0:07:34.620 I do have some questions about this, but I'll finish 0:07:34.630 --> 0:07:37.780 this first from Ted Cruz. Still bearded Ted Cruz. 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:38.860 Good. 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:42.360 Still heavier than when he ran last time by a lot. 0:07:43.020 --> 0:07:46.160 He's an older man. Here's one that's really stunning, says 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:50.880 Ted Cruz. Americans made more than 75 million paid plasma 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:52.640 donations in 2026. 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:53.460 That's another record. 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:57.120 That means 200,000 Americans every single day with a needle 0:07:57.140 --> 0:08:02.370 in their arm to pay for groceries. Now that's Ted 0:08:02.390 --> 0:08:08.850 Cruz putting the worst spin on already troubling numbers, uh, 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:10.700 I don't know. 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:11.740 It's anecdotal. 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:15.580 Just looking around, are people doing buy now, pay later 0:08:15.620 --> 0:08:19.460 on their groceries, getting their car repossessed, or donating plasma 0:08:19.850 --> 0:08:22.690 to maintain a lifestyle that we all should cut back on? 0:08:22.710 --> 0:08:27.330 Because restaurants and airports are still packed, and concerts and 0:08:27.390 --> 0:08:29.970 ball games, and people have iPhones. 0:08:29.990 --> 0:08:34.630 Consumer spending is up above the rate of inflation significantly. Yeah. 0:08:34.730 --> 0:08:38.059 Number one, a little political analysis. First of all, While J.D. 0:08:38.140 --> 0:08:43.040 Vance is doubling down on the Jews on the mind crowd, 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:48.959 Ted appears to be thinking, all right, the blue collar 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:51.770 coalition that came together for Trump, the working class folks 0:08:51.790 --> 0:08:55.030 who just care about kitchen table issues, that's my people. 0:08:55.110 --> 0:08:59.230 I'm going hard at them right now. Declaring his lane, 0:09:00.429 --> 0:09:03.290 the Budweiser vote. I just made that up and it's 0:09:03.309 --> 0:09:06.920 not very good. So, yeah, interesting. So I read this 0:09:06.940 --> 0:09:08.140 from Neil Ferguson mentioned it. 0:09:08.610 --> 0:09:08.780 Yes. 0:09:08.990 --> 0:09:13.570 Do you think that lots of people, the downturn has 0:09:13.590 --> 0:09:15.350 caused them to go out and sell plasma. 0:09:15.890 --> 0:09:18.260 To pay for their spam? Yes, clearly. The numbers are 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:19.000 right there. 0:09:19.300 --> 0:09:21.500 How much do I get? And is it per gallon 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:21.920 per liter? 0:09:23.929 --> 0:09:26.699 Gosh, I don't know. Nobody would want my plasma, so 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:27.660 I've never donated it. 0:09:28.620 --> 0:09:31.780 If you know anything about donating plasma, text, because I 0:09:31.820 --> 0:09:33.660 find that pretty interesting. How much do they pay you? 0:09:33.700 --> 0:09:38.929 How often can you do it? Text line 415-295-KFTC. As 0:09:38.990 --> 0:09:41.410 long as you can keep walking in, they'll take your plasma. 0:09:41.590 --> 0:09:43.150 You know, you pass out and crack your head. It's 0:09:43.210 --> 0:09:44.110 probably time to take a break. 0:09:44.130 --> 0:09:45.970 I'm feeling a little weak from yesterday, but I want 0:09:45.990 --> 0:09:49.240 to buy these concert tickets. Right, exactly. So I mentioned 0:09:49.260 --> 0:09:51.440 this very briefly at the end of yesterday's show, and 0:09:51.460 --> 0:09:53.660 I'm not sure exactly what it means, but Neil Ferguson 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.490 was one of many folks from the free press, the 0:09:56.510 --> 0:09:59.980 great Scottish historian, taking shots at what the election was. 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:02.040 meant and what it didn't mean and that sort of thing. 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:06.420 And the most interesting part of his screed to me 0:10:07.610 --> 0:10:09.570 was he was saying the economy is not nearly as 0:10:09.610 --> 0:10:13.510 bad as people seem to think. In September of this year, 0:10:13.970 --> 0:10:19.700 CPI inflation was 3.72%. And the unemployment rate was 4.2%. 0:10:19.700 --> 0:10:23.459 Added together, that gives you a misery index, a term 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:28.320 that was coined years and years ago, of 7.94%. and 0:10:28.420 --> 0:10:30.620 compare that with the worst month since he was born 0:10:30.660 --> 0:10:37.780 in 1964, May of 1980, 22 on the misery index, 0:10:37.780 --> 0:10:41.450 22 inflation plus unemployment. Only a third of the months 0:10:41.670 --> 0:10:44.590 since my birth, he writes, were better than this September. 0:10:44.970 --> 0:10:47.990 That is hardly a disaster that merits a political, that 0:10:48.010 --> 0:10:50.010 he uses a French word I've never seen in my life. 0:10:50.370 --> 0:10:51.690 And yet here we are. 0:10:51.710 --> 0:10:51.850 So to. 0:10:53.770 --> 0:11:03.380 Your point, By objective measures, is the economy really just 0:11:04.059 --> 0:11:07.880 not great? But people are so addicted to a certain 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:13.440 lavish lifestyle that they're spending themselves into foreclosures and repossessions 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:19.910 and spam purchases and plasma donations. Isn't the obvious course 0:11:19.950 --> 0:11:23.030 of action to just live a much simpler and down-to-earth lifestyle? 0:11:23.370 --> 0:11:26.650 I don't know exactly. I don't know that anybody knows 0:11:26.770 --> 0:11:27.290 for certain. 0:11:28.210 --> 0:11:31.199 And look, those of you out there who are picking 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:33.540 up your keyboard, it's probably just sitting there. You don't 0:11:33.580 --> 0:11:35.670 need to pick it up. You've got pen in hand 0:11:35.730 --> 0:11:39.329 writing us a blistering email. I scrimp and I save. Yeah, 0:11:39.370 --> 0:11:41.730 we know you do. You are out there. A lot 0:11:41.750 --> 0:11:44.590 of people don't, though. Come on, go to Starbucks. We're 0:11:44.630 --> 0:11:47.630 not indicting you. Get in the drive-thru at Starbucks. 0:11:47.970 --> 0:11:50.209 Everybody's in line for something you don't need to buy 0:11:50.790 --> 0:11:54.300 at all. All day long, there's a line at every Starbucks, 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:56.420 and there's one on every block in every town in America. 0:11:56.700 --> 0:11:58.460 People are in line to buy things they don't need 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:02.809 to buy at all. Right. For a ridiculous price. As 0:12:02.850 --> 0:12:04.410 we used to say back in the day on the show, 0:12:04.429 --> 0:12:08.270 if we're not talking about you, we're not talking about you. 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:10.059 We are talking about a lot of you, though. A 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:11.079 lot of you are liars. 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:12.400 Oh, no, no. 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:14.280 Go target our audience. I won't have it. 0:12:14.460 --> 0:12:15.939 You're as crazy as J.D. Vance. 0:12:16.179 --> 0:12:17.240 Somebody needs to rein you in. 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:20.650 A lot of people pretend they don't have a $ 1, 200 iPhone. 0:12:20.690 --> 0:12:24.250 Go to Starbucks once a day. Travel way more than 0:12:24.290 --> 0:12:26.550 their parents do. Drive a way nicer car than their 0:12:26.570 --> 0:12:27.250 parents did. 0:12:27.270 --> 0:12:28.450 Giant house. 0:12:28.530 --> 0:12:31.770 Have five different subscriptions. 0:12:31.790 --> 0:12:34.270 You don't need them all. Lots of people do that. 0:12:35.030 --> 0:12:37.050 My God, he's lost his mind. Michael, it's like we're 0:12:37.090 --> 0:12:40.510 working with Diogenes here. Go back to your barrel, you madman. 0:12:40.530 --> 0:12:45.559 Quit yelling at us. Go back to your barrel. Yes, Katie. 0:12:46.300 --> 0:12:48.860 Joe, you knew exactly what you were doing when you 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:49.770 wind him up. 0:12:50.860 --> 0:12:56.100 It's just so satisfying. That's true. 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:58.200 He winds me up, and then he's like, okay, I 0:12:58.220 --> 0:12:58.800 got a few minutes. 0:12:59.300 --> 0:13:02.950 Drink some coffee. He just had a snack. About time 0:13:02.970 --> 0:13:05.510 to yell at him to calm the hell down. Calm 0:13:05.530 --> 0:13:08.810 the hell down! He completely walked away. Oh, he's still going? 0:13:08.850 --> 0:13:13.809 I still got another minute. Relieved myself. Oh, boy. Not 0:13:13.850 --> 0:13:17.229 in public, by the way. Okay. We will tell you 0:13:17.250 --> 0:13:19.710 about Diogenes, among other things, on the way. Stay here. 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:25.400 Armstrong and Getty. 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.580 President Trump criticized Democrats and said, quote, the Democrat Party 0:13:28.620 --> 0:13:31.400 has nominated the most extreme and dangerous slate of candidates 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:32.280 in American history. 0:13:32.700 --> 0:13:35.000 You mean James Tallarico? 0:13:36.350 --> 0:13:38.750 He looks like he waited until he was 21 to 0:13:39.030 --> 0:13:40.110 try seltzer. 0:13:44.429 --> 0:13:48.470 That's a funny line. A woke Democratic soy boy sent 0:13:48.630 --> 0:13:51.939 to the Senate from Texas. What do we got coming up? 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:57.100 Coming up, some people are saying, look at the woke 0:13:57.360 --> 0:14:02.200 socialist lunatics elected to Congress. Others are saying moderate Democrats 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:05.500 clearly won the day. They're both right. We'll put it 0:14:05.620 --> 0:14:08.290 into perspective for you, let you know a little bit 0:14:08.309 --> 0:14:14.189 of what to expect from the new Democratic majority. So 0:14:14.309 --> 0:14:16.370 how did I get started on this yesterday? I don't know. 0:14:16.429 --> 0:14:17.069 The idea of. 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:23.840 Coming out of election, thinking about cynicism, which by the 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:26.380 modern definition that we all use, there's a lot of 0:14:26.420 --> 0:14:29.760 that going on in politics and that sort of thing. Well, 0:14:29.780 --> 0:14:33.690 how would you define cynicism in the modern way? 0:14:35.470 --> 0:14:38.870 You're knee-jerk against everything. You're just kind of snarky. 0:14:39.410 --> 0:14:42.150 And a certain amount of most people. I mean, this 0:14:42.220 --> 0:14:45.360 is how it got started in around... think the year 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:48.750 200 or something like that um when it got remade 0:14:48.850 --> 0:14:51.290 i'll go back to the original version of cynicism but 0:14:51.510 --> 0:14:54.710 the modern version started with yeah all those people claiming 0:14:54.750 --> 0:14:56.590 that they care about this and that in the world 0:14:56.650 --> 0:14:58.330 and blah blah blah they're just they just say that 0:14:58.370 --> 0:15:01.260 they're hypocrites they're all hypocrites none of them actually mean 0:15:01.300 --> 0:15:04.080 it which is a very cynical view using the word 0:15:04.100 --> 0:15:05.920 the way we use it now but it started with 0:15:05.980 --> 0:15:09.500 this guy diogenes he's a greek philosopher and uh his 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:15.320 whole thing with cynicism at the time was um The 0:15:15.380 --> 0:15:18.660 more stuff you have, the more stuff you'll want, and 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:20.800 you'll never be happy. And the only way to be 0:15:20.860 --> 0:15:23.540 happy is to not care about stuff was basically his 0:15:23.620 --> 0:15:24.750 thing for. 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:25.350 A long, long time. 0:15:25.540 --> 0:15:28.010 He lived in a jar or a barrel, depending on 0:15:28.150 --> 0:15:30.190 how you define the sort of thing, a big ceramic 0:15:30.250 --> 0:15:34.510 jar in Greece. He lived in a big ceramic jar. 0:15:34.670 --> 0:15:37.790 Whoa. Was it like turned on its side? Yeah. 0:15:37.810 --> 0:15:39.229 Or did he have to climb in and out of 0:15:39.250 --> 0:15:41.440 the top? All the pictures show it turned on its side. 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:43.380 So yeah, you just kind of hang out in there. 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:46.040 I mean, I keep picturing, you know, various homeless people 0:15:46.060 --> 0:15:48.590 and thinking, but he became very famous for this. He 0:15:48.620 --> 0:15:51.230 walked around with a candle for a very long time. 0:15:51.630 --> 0:15:54.910 And everybody's asking me, I'm looking for one honest man. Okay, 0:15:54.930 --> 0:15:55.790 that was one of them. 0:15:56.130 --> 0:15:57.630 Oh, you're blowing my mind. 0:15:57.750 --> 0:16:00.870 He lived with absolutely nothing. He begged, which I don't 0:16:00.930 --> 0:16:03.850 get how that fits into any philosophy. You're counting on 0:16:03.910 --> 0:16:05.890 other people to feel sorry for you to give you stuff. 0:16:05.990 --> 0:16:09.010 I never get how that fits into a philosophy. But anyway, 0:16:09.270 --> 0:16:11.780 he begged rather than worked because of blah, blah, blah. 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:15.200 But some of the funny things was he'd defecate in public. 0:16:15.380 --> 0:16:18.000 He would masturbate in public because he just didn't believe 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:20.300 in any of the rules of society. 0:16:20.340 --> 0:16:21.340 They're all phony and. 0:16:23.100 --> 0:16:24.840 One of the most famous things he ever did is 0:16:25.020 --> 0:16:27.660 Alexander the Great was aware of him, the most powerful 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:29.090 man in the world at the time, and came to 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:31.650 Diogenes and said, I could give you anything. If you 0:16:31.670 --> 0:16:35.350 wanted one thing from me, what would it be? And 0:16:35.390 --> 0:16:38.880 Diogenes said, get out of my light. You're standing in 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.520 the sun. Um, that's all, all he asked for him. 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:46.830 Plato defined man as a, a featherless biped and Diogenes 0:16:46.870 --> 0:16:50.130 brought him a chicken that he had plucked and said, behold, 0:16:50.190 --> 0:16:51.810 Plato's man or something like that. 0:16:52.110 --> 0:16:56.990 But anyway, that's the founder of cynicism. They went down 0:16:57.030 --> 0:17:01.040 to the village square and yanked it. Quite a fellow. 0:17:01.060 --> 0:17:02.960 That's Diogenes. Lived in a barrel. 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:05.700 Some believe that he held his breath until he died 0:17:05.780 --> 0:17:06.780 finally in old age. 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:12.689 Yeah. And everybody around him said, good. Yeah. See you later. 0:17:13.430 --> 0:17:13.860 Wow. 0:17:15.460 --> 0:17:20.189 Armstrong and Getty. We need to abolish ICE. There is 0:17:20.250 --> 0:17:22.620 no reason for this institution to exist. I got one 0:17:22.630 --> 0:17:24.730 goal here on Senate Island, and that's to pass Medicare 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:27.280 for all. And I'm not afraid to step on people's toes. 0:17:27.660 --> 0:17:29.640 Our trans community needs abortion care too. 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:33.560 There are many more than two biological sexes. 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:34.400 In fact, there are six. 0:17:34.700 --> 0:17:38.020 We will not wait to abolish ICE and. 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:45.940 Pass Medicare for all. All right, shouting lefties, screeching about 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:47.220 their socialist nonsense. 0:17:48.030 --> 0:17:50.369 I assume a whole bunch of young Democratic voters who 0:17:50.390 --> 0:17:52.430 don't know any better because they haven't been through this 0:17:52.810 --> 0:17:55.990 a million times like we all have. When Medicare for 0:17:56.060 --> 0:17:58.240 all does not happen because they don't have the votes 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:01.980 to make it happen. And paying for it is a 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:04.460 pipe dream. It's like me buying a Learjet. But it 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:06.419 ain't going to happen in two years. It ain't going 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:11.460 to happen anytime soon. And there'll be disaffected voters the 0:18:11.500 --> 0:18:13.040 next time around because they'll realize. 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:16.550 You made all these promises. Medicare for all. Yeah, well, 0:18:16.570 --> 0:18:20.030 it didn't happen. So I don't work my fingers to 0:18:20.070 --> 0:18:23.629 the bone, but I read my eyes down to the 0:18:23.690 --> 0:18:28.770 retina or something like that. And I've been plowing through 0:18:28.810 --> 0:18:32.550 all sorts of takes on the Republican defeat, obviously, and 0:18:32.570 --> 0:18:35.050 the Democratic win and what it might mean. And I 0:18:35.090 --> 0:18:38.429 love Noah Rothman of the National Review. He's absolutely brilliant. 0:18:38.490 --> 0:18:41.929 He's as serious as a heart attack, but a lot 0:18:41.950 --> 0:18:45.010 of great insights. And his headline is Here Come the Socialists. 0:18:45.369 --> 0:18:50.330 And he highlights quite a decent little cabal of cuckoo 0:18:50.369 --> 0:18:55.820 birds that are joining the squad type. You know, name 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:59.430 check some of them. Yeah, so since. 0:18:59.330 --> 0:19:01.729 NPR, and I think they mentioned there will be seven 0:19:02.130 --> 0:19:04.399 actual DSA members. I mean, you've got people that are 0:19:04.420 --> 0:19:08.300 DSA aligned, but actual DSA members. How do these DSA 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:13.180 members not have to answer questions about the platform? Your 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:16.790 platform says get rid of the presidency, for instance. 0:19:17.109 --> 0:19:20.830 And the Constitution in general. What the hell? I mean, 0:19:20.869 --> 0:19:26.650 you've got Milat Kiros, who's a woman from Colorado. She's 0:19:26.830 --> 0:19:32.119 a longtime DSA maven. Her platform included nationalizing the private 0:19:32.140 --> 0:19:40.240 health insurance industry, canceling all medical debt, slavery reparations, etc. Amazingly, 0:19:40.619 --> 0:19:44.150 Rothman writes she did so while articulating almost verbatim Osama 0:19:44.190 --> 0:19:47.710 bin Laden's logic for the September 11th attacks. Then you've 0:19:47.750 --> 0:19:52.080 got Adam Hamaway of New Jersey. longtime associate of the 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:55.000 blind Sheikh. I've been reading about him in the Atlantic 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:59.770 of all places, the lefty Atlantic. Dude is down with Islamism. 0:19:59.770 --> 0:20:05.090 100% hardcore political Islam needs to take over the globe. 0:20:05.210 --> 0:20:09.990 More on him later. Pennsylvania's new third district representative, Chris Rabb, 0:20:10.010 --> 0:20:11.730 will take office on the back of what he said 0:20:11.780 --> 0:20:15.700 should be America's universal basic guarantees, among them health insurance, 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:19.540 food and water, public transportation, high-speed internet, child care, a job, 0:20:19.660 --> 0:20:21.980 and an income, all of which should be guaranteed by 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:27.020 the government. Rabb flew under the national media's radar for 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:30.100 much of the campaign, except once when he claimed that 0:20:30.180 --> 0:20:34.270 we all know that that 2025 massacre of Australian Jews 0:20:34.369 --> 0:20:37.570 on Bondi Beach, remember that? He said, we all know 0:20:37.590 --> 0:20:40.970 it was committed by attackers who were likely Zionists themselves. 0:20:41.190 --> 0:20:41.550 Whoa. 0:20:41.970 --> 0:20:44.690 So he's one of those guys. He got to Donovan McKinney, 0:20:44.710 --> 0:20:48.100 was backed in Michigan, and a couple of other geeks. Oh, 0:20:48.140 --> 0:20:54.100 the delightful Daryliza Avila-Chavalier, the most dogmatic member of the 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:58.980 highly ideological cast from New York, who wants to seize 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:00.820 all property from landlords, etc. 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:04.640 I don't know what philosopher my current mindset fits in with. 0:21:04.780 --> 0:21:07.880 Maybe Diogenes. Maybe I'll start living in a barrel. 0:21:07.580 --> 0:21:10.780 And doing my business in public. 0:21:11.300 --> 0:21:15.660 Oh, Lord. But I've adopted the. 0:21:15.810 --> 0:21:18.290 I remember hearing George Carlin say this many, many years ago, 0:21:18.330 --> 0:21:22.270 the comedian George Carlin, the hippie comedian, that he just 0:21:22.330 --> 0:21:25.870 found the world interesting. And he just like, hmm, that 0:21:25.930 --> 0:21:27.990 person decides to be a suicide bomber and that person 0:21:28.010 --> 0:21:28.770 decides to do that. 0:21:28.830 --> 0:21:30.940