1 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:07,520 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:11,560 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty. 3 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:32,879 Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jetty and he Armstrong and Letty. 4 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:30,520 Speaker 3: Images of the homemade explosive devices authority say shamsu Dingjabbar 5 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:33,240 Speaker 3: brought to Bourbon Street the night of the New Year's 6 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 3: terror attack. Surveillance video shows the suspect planting a pair 7 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:39,640 Speaker 3: of coolers they are on the street early that morning. 8 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 3: Authorities say inside they discovered a steel galvanized pipe with 9 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 3: two end caps surrounded by two dozen rolls of nails, 10 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 3: along with the radio controlled receiver. They also say they 11 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 3: found jars of flammable liquid inside the truck the suspect 12 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 3: used to barrel into those Bourbon Street crowds, killing fourteen 13 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 3: people and injuring dozens more. 14 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 1: Okay, I heard that last night when I was watching 15 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:04,520 Speaker 1: ABC News. I got a question about that. But this 16 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 1: is what the FBI had to say. This is not 17 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:10,680 Speaker 1: a terrorist event. What it is right now is there 18 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:15,200 Speaker 1: improvised explosive devices that was found and we are working 19 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 1: on confirming if this is a viable device or not. Okay, 20 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 1: So I'm a little confused by that. Also, so I 21 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:23,920 Speaker 1: have a lot of questions here. So I heard that 22 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 1: on ABC News and I thought, Okay, if I put 23 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 1: a bunch of crap in a bottle, nails and other 24 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:34,040 Speaker 1: stuff that could cut you and hurt you and stuff 25 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 1: like that, and I got a cell phone with some 26 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 1: batteries taped to it, does that count as a bomb? 27 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:41,520 Speaker 1: Even though it might not. I couldn't have done anything 28 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 1: with it. I mean, they didn't specifically say that the 29 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 1: guy could have set that it would have worked, that 30 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:49,440 Speaker 1: it wasn't just a crazy person throwing it together. So 31 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:50,840 Speaker 1: maybe you know if it was or not. But they 32 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 1: didn't say. 33 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 4: Reports i've heard said that he was shot down before 34 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 4: he could detonate them. I have not heard, which does 35 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 4: not disprove anything, but I have not heard anything. But yes, 36 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:05,440 Speaker 4: they could have exploded, okay, but I might have missed that. 37 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:07,960 Speaker 1: The person there just said at the end they're not 38 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 1: sure if they were viable or not. I don't know 39 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 1: what that. 40 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 4: That is the same FBI person who said this is 41 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 4: not a terrorism a terrorist event, which is unbelievably irresponsible, 42 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,959 Speaker 4: and I would say inexplicable, but I'm about to explicit 43 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:22,359 Speaker 4: because it's disgusting. 44 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:25,239 Speaker 1: A guy with a truck that has an ISIS flag 45 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:28,519 Speaker 1: on it, drives through a crowd. He's been to Egypt. 46 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 1: All his website stuff says he there's a video of 47 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 1: him you can look at of him swearing allegiance dices 48 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 1: this isn't a terrorist event. 49 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:38,800 Speaker 4: And he slaughters a bunch of people. That is today's 50 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 4: FBI apparently, or just ALTHEA Duncan, the FBI assistant special Agent. 51 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 1: Charge that part of the country. That's shocking. I didn't 52 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 1: like Trump forcing Ray out before his term is up. 53 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 1: I'm fine with it now. I mean that if that's 54 00:02:54,320 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 1: Ray's FBI, that's crazy. Yeah, yeah, it is. It. 55 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 4: It's another example of what we were talking about yesterday 56 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 4: with the absolutely horrific Muslim immigrants raping children in Britain's 57 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:11,920 Speaker 4: story and the cover up of it by law enforcements, 58 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 4: social services, local government, federal government in Britain. And this 59 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 4: is it's the same motivation that would have the FBI say, 60 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 4: and you know, I've had the privilege to, you know, 61 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 4: go on various ride alongs and talk at length to 62 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:30,239 Speaker 4: investigators of very sorts, including murder investigators. 63 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 1: And the one sacred. 64 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 4: Rule is thou shalt not leap to conclusions because that 65 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 4: cloud's your judgment. 66 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: You've got to take in all of the evidence and. 67 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 4: For her like and that was the next day to say, 68 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 4: this is not a terrorist event. That is spectacularly irresponsible. 69 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 4: What would motivate something so irresponsible, Well, that pathetic need 70 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 4: to oh, you know what, to cause an anti Islamic 71 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 4: backlash or whatever the hell it is. 72 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 1: Well, I I'm not worried about terrorism. Like in my 73 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 1: own life, I've never been afraid of it. This is 74 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 1: from Meet the Press on Sunday. The country is on edge. 75 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 1: We're mocking that the country is not on edge. I 76 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 1: traveled around. I was in Washington, d C. The next day, 77 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 1: hours after this happened. In the news broke. There were 78 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 1: people staying in line for every freaking thing that was 79 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 1: going on. Nobody seemed to be on edge. We're all 80 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:25,320 Speaker 1: fine at the same time. There's no reason to downplay 81 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 1: it either. Just tell me what is And clearly this 82 00:04:29,279 --> 00:04:32,279 Speaker 1: guy was inspired by ISIS. He might be a nut job. 83 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:34,240 Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if he directly talked 84 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 1: to anybody in ISIS. Let's find out, right, he is. 85 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 4: A dead ender and a loser who was angry about life, 86 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 4: and he latched onto a particular ideology that justified him 87 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:44,920 Speaker 4: hurting people, which is what he wanted to do. He 88 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 4: was hurting, so he wanted to hurt. That's the description 89 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:50,119 Speaker 4: of virtually all of these guys in school shooters or whatever. 90 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 4: But yeah, again for the FBI, you don't say that 91 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 4: sort of thing unless you have a particular motivation, which 92 00:04:57,240 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 4: I think I've already laid out. But I find that 93 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:03,160 Speaker 4: absolutely obscene. Another aspect of this that's gotten a fair 94 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:05,159 Speaker 4: amount of attention is and I wish I had it 95 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 4: in front of me. 96 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:06,679 Speaker 1: I got so much stuff. 97 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 4: But is all the news media that reported that an 98 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 4: inanimate object had done the killing in New Orleans pickup 99 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 4: truck plows into crowd, Jills twelve or whatever, Ford f 100 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 4: one point fifty plowed into the They wouldn't say a person. 101 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:28,919 Speaker 4: They wouldn't say an Isis devotee. They wouldn't say even 102 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:33,839 Speaker 4: a murderer. The inanimate object did it, which is bizarre, 103 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 4: but is also explained by then they don't have to 104 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:40,480 Speaker 4: get into the person and their motivation, and we don't 105 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 4: want to have an anti Islamic backlash. 106 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 1: Well, first of all, I saw a tweet from Laura Logan, 107 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 1: who you know, formerly of sixty Minutes, who I often 108 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:54,600 Speaker 1: find a little off the rails in her comments nowadays. 109 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:57,960 Speaker 1: But she said, after decades of working with the you know, 110 00:05:58,279 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 1: following the news and questioning the FBI and everything like that, 111 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 1: she said, they never say anything in the early days. 112 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 1: You can't get a word out of them about anything. 113 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:09,839 Speaker 1: For the person to come out and specifically say this 114 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:14,360 Speaker 1: was not to make a declarative sentence is really something 115 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:17,680 Speaker 1: the FBI doesn't and then to have it be the 116 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:22,040 Speaker 1: opposite of what everybody's seeing with their own eyes is extraordinary. 117 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:22,920 Speaker 1: It is. 118 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:27,480 Speaker 4: Yes, it's troubling, and troubling isn't a good enough word. 119 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 1: It's worries activist by far. 120 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, I would agree. I would agree it's incredibly troubling. 121 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:39,479 Speaker 4: And then I want to get into the bigger picture. 122 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 4: Maybe next segment. But there was one more just it 123 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:47,919 Speaker 4: probably doesn't matter, but an incredibly annoying note. 124 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 1: And I didn't watch the Sugar Bowl. 125 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 4: I didn't watch much football other than my fighting line, 126 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:57,719 Speaker 4: I bravely beating down the favorite game Cocks. Pardon me 127 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:01,440 Speaker 4: of South Carolina, get a better name, South Carolina. 128 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 1: Did you see the Oregon spanking that happened. Holy crap, 129 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 1: that was one of the most extraordinary things in college boards. 130 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 1: I've ever seen the undefeated, far and away number one Oregon. 131 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 1: They were down thirty eight to nothing in the first quarter. 132 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 1: Oh by the mighty Ohio Ones. 133 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 4: Yeah, I uh, And I'd watched Oregon summ and they 134 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:25,000 Speaker 4: looked like an NFL style off. 135 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 1: I was astounded by the game. Well anyway, yeah, I've 136 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 1: got more to the way the so many players leave 137 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 1: before the bowl games happened. Which team had it had 138 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 1: seventeen players that didn't play in their game? They opted out, 139 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 1: as they say, that's I don't know. 140 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 4: They got to fix that somehow. But anyway, back to terrorism, 141 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 4: I don't think you can in America anyway. We can 142 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:49,400 Speaker 4: talk about that later. So it's the All State Sugar Bowl, 143 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 4: and the CEO of All State decided he needed to 144 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 4: and I'm sorry. The Sugar Bowl was in New Orleans 145 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:01,880 Speaker 4: the day after the terrorist slayings on the street. They 146 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 4: postponed it by a day, and then the All State 147 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:06,960 Speaker 4: to CEO, Tom Wilson, decided he should make a statement 148 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 4: before the game on the TV. 149 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 5: And here it is welcome to the All State Sugar 150 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 5: Bowl Wednesday, tragedy struck the New Orleans community. Our prayers 151 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 5: with the victims and their families. We also need to 152 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:25,480 Speaker 5: be stronger together by overcoming an addiction to divisiveness and negativity. 153 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 5: Join All State, working in local communities all across America 154 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 5: to amplify the positive, increase trust, and accept people's imperfections 155 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 5: and differences. 156 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 1: Together we win well. First of all, the leader of 157 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:42,840 Speaker 1: Vices has said, I. 158 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:45,800 Speaker 4: Was brought to tears by the head of All State 159 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 4: saying we should not be so divisive. He's right, good God, 160 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 4: And to me, a tragedy is an earthquake, not a 161 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 4: terrorist slaying of innocence. 162 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 1: I'd say that's a horrible crime. Why did he speak 163 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:04,880 Speaker 1: at all? He could have just said nothing. I mean, 164 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:06,760 Speaker 1: there is no need for him to come out and 165 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:08,560 Speaker 1: give a speech. But then he does come out and 166 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:10,840 Speaker 1: give a speech before the game. What was his goal there? 167 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:15,040 Speaker 4: Well, and I could think of a dozen approaches better 168 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:18,520 Speaker 4: than Hey, we're too divided. We got to there's too 169 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:23,520 Speaker 4: much negativity. That's the problem. That's why a sworn adherent 170 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 4: of issis slaughtered a bunch of innocence in a violent 171 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:29,640 Speaker 4: and horrific manner, including children. We have too much divisiveness. 172 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:31,680 Speaker 4: What the hell was that? 173 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:38,520 Speaker 1: I don't know. I you know, we do this sort 174 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 1: of thing for a living, and I heard that, and 175 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:43,720 Speaker 1: I thought, I don't know what his intention was with 176 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:46,320 Speaker 1: that message, with that crafting of that message. Play that 177 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:47,079 Speaker 1: one more time. 178 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:51,319 Speaker 5: Michael, Welcome to the All States Sugar Bowl. Wednesday, tragedy 179 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:54,719 Speaker 5: struck the New Orleans community. Our prayers are with the 180 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:58,560 Speaker 5: victims and their families. We also need to be stronger 181 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:02,599 Speaker 5: together by overc coming in addiction to divisiveness and negativity. 182 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:07,559 Speaker 5: Join all state working in local communities all across America 183 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:12,839 Speaker 5: to amplify the positive, increased trust, and accept people's imperfections 184 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 5: and differences. 185 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:19,520 Speaker 1: Together we win. I thought he praised the Incadella's rights. 186 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 6: We spent too much time thinking about our difference is 187 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 6: I thought he was going to go with some sort 188 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 6: of But we decided to play the game because the 189 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 6: players and fans and we need something to root for 190 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:31,040 Speaker 6: or something like that. 191 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:33,960 Speaker 4: The people of New Orleans have been such great hosts. 192 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 4: Were horrified and saddened by the terrible thing they've endured, 193 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 4: but we've decided to play something route that s. 194 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:48,359 Speaker 1: I should use the word back to the attack itself. 195 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:52,080 Speaker 1: One of the first things I thought was because the 196 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:54,360 Speaker 1: reason I bought an electric car is not because I 197 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:56,760 Speaker 1: care about climate change, because they're so freaking fast and 198 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:58,719 Speaker 1: it's really fun. And one of the first things I 199 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 1: thought is he picked that lightning f one fifty electric 200 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 1: truck because of the power of acceleration. It has more 201 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:09,480 Speaker 1: than any other truck you could possibly drive if you 202 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 1: want to hit a bunch of people and. 203 00:11:10,559 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 4: Kill him that. I don't know if he does, but 204 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:17,960 Speaker 4: it's true. Just keep this in mind. Clip seventy four. 205 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:24,240 Speaker 1: Michael, this is not a terrorist event. That's right there. 206 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:24,600 Speaker 1: You have it. 207 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 4: That's the Federal Bureau of Investigation investigating. 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Yeah. 248 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 4: Wow, the senile, bitter old president who's trying to do 249 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:35,640 Speaker 4: as much damage to the Trump administration in advance as 250 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:39,000 Speaker 4: he can, you know, blocking off loyal oil leases and stuff. 251 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:41,920 Speaker 1: We'll talk about that down the roadeen days. 252 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:46,720 Speaker 4: I'd sell you what I've waited on more people at 253 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:50,000 Speaker 4: this restaurant than you have in your goddamn life, say 254 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 4: the waiters and waitresses of Washington, d C. Jack, where 255 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:58,120 Speaker 4: you just were. The Washingtonian, which is read in the 256 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:03,200 Speaker 4: self obsessed Nations Capital, has a piece about how DC 257 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:08,360 Speaker 4: restaurants have long been like politically neutral spaces. Obviously, to 258 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:11,400 Speaker 4: cite the cliched example, you got Reagan coming in, you 259 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:14,760 Speaker 4: got timp O'Neil coming in right, so you treat everybody 260 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:15,679 Speaker 4: with respectfully. 261 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:18,440 Speaker 1: But that changed during the Trump years. 262 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 4: Restaurant owners became much more politically outspoken. They were part 263 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:27,200 Speaker 4: of the resistance, and Trump officials became social pariahs when 264 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 4: dining out. You remember several incidents involving Ted Cruz and 265 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:36,160 Speaker 4: Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who got kicked out of a restaurant 266 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:43,520 Speaker 4: in West Lexington, Virginia. Homeland Secretary Kirsten Nielsen's dinner at 267 00:14:43,520 --> 00:14:47,480 Speaker 4: a DC Mexican Mexican restaurant was interrupted as they yelled 268 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:53,080 Speaker 4: shame Steven Miller tossing eighty dollars worth of takeout sushi 269 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:55,200 Speaker 4: after somebody cursed him and flipped him off at a 270 00:14:55,240 --> 00:15:00,240 Speaker 4: sushi place, somebody on the staff. But anyway, in the 271 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 4: Washington Washingtonian, anyway, you got all these restaurant tours and 272 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:10,080 Speaker 4: waiters and bartenders saying we're not gonna be silent, We're 273 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:12,080 Speaker 4: not gonna be quote unquote civil. 274 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 1: Let's see, here's this guy. What does he do. 275 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:21,440 Speaker 4: He's a DC restaurant. He's a manager at a club, 276 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:23,480 Speaker 4: big club in DC. If you're just going out for 277 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:27,000 Speaker 4: a nice dinner at your anniversary or birthday, and God forbid, RFK. 278 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:28,080 Speaker 1: Junior is sitting s to you. 279 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:31,600 Speaker 4: Now you're going to be dealing with whatever repercussions happened 280 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:34,680 Speaker 4: from that. He's saying, all this restaurants to have is 281 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 4: justified in cursing these people out and yelling at him 282 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:39,680 Speaker 4: and kicking him out. 283 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 1: Well, we'll see if this actually happens or not. Like 284 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 1: I said, bumping around d C, it was quite a 285 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:46,640 Speaker 1: bit different than the last time I was in DC 286 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:50,960 Speaker 1: when Trump got elected, he was being treated like a 287 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:55,560 Speaker 1: regular president. I mean, the number of Trump shirts, hats, pins, 288 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:58,840 Speaker 1: inauguration forty seventh president stuff that I saw. There was 289 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:02,560 Speaker 1: nothing like that in twenty seventeen when I was there 290 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:04,800 Speaker 1: for the inauguration. Right. Yeah. 291 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:06,840 Speaker 4: In fact, that was my question. I wonder if this 292 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,200 Speaker 4: is just big talk by little people. 293 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:10,360 Speaker 1: I'd be my guess. 294 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:13,040 Speaker 4: Here's a woman who's a server and manager at a 295 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 4: saloon on Capitol Hill. Quote, people who are a lot 296 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 4: more motivated the first time around to do these kinds 297 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:21,120 Speaker 4: of shows of passion. This time around, there's kind of 298 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 4: a sense of defeat and acceptance. But I hope that 299 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 4: people will still do stand up to this administration and 300 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:30,680 Speaker 4: tell them their thoughts on their misbehavior as they're trying 301 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:32,480 Speaker 4: to get a ham sandwich at lunchtime. 302 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:36,000 Speaker 1: Here's my biggest question about restaurants, DC restaurants because I 303 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 1: had this and I tweeted it out and it's the 304 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:40,040 Speaker 1: most controversial tweet I've ever put out ever. It got 305 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:43,280 Speaker 1: more responses than anything I've ever tweeted this question. So 306 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 1: I mean it in Gordon Ramsay's restaurant, which I wish 307 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 1: I'd had spent the time to look into what it 308 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:49,120 Speaker 1: costs to eat there, because it's the most expensive meal 309 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:51,200 Speaker 1: I've ever paid for for me and my two kids, 310 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:57,960 Speaker 1: partially because there was the we've added to twenty percent 311 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 1: already thing that rustaurants are doing sometimes now, and so 312 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:04,240 Speaker 1: service charge is that what they call it? Earth It 313 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:06,520 Speaker 1: just said, yeah, we've we've added a twenty percent service 314 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:09,080 Speaker 1: charge to your bill, and then it's got the line 315 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:10,960 Speaker 1: for the tip, and I thought, do I tip on 316 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:13,040 Speaker 1: top of this or not? And I tweeted that out. 317 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:17,760 Speaker 1: I googled it and tweeted it and same result either way. 318 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:21,119 Speaker 1: Plenty of people say, absolutely, that's not the tip. You 319 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:23,040 Speaker 1: need to tip on top of that. You're screwing your 320 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:26,120 Speaker 1: server or one hundred percent, that's the tip, No way 321 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:28,280 Speaker 1: you should give any more money. I still don't know 322 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:32,280 Speaker 1: what the answer is on that. But obviously, if they 323 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:34,960 Speaker 1: add twenty percent and I didn't know they were going 324 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 1: to do that, or I wouldn't have gone. If they 325 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:39,680 Speaker 1: add twenty percent and I'm supposed to tip twenty percent, 326 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:42,280 Speaker 1: that's forty percent on top of my meal, that's a 327 00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:45,840 Speaker 1: no go. That's a second group. That is the tip. 328 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:48,040 Speaker 1: No freaking way I'm eating there. A whole bunch of 329 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:51,119 Speaker 1: people adamantly said no, that goes to the restaurant, that 330 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:54,159 Speaker 1: the server will get nothing, and you absolutely need to 331 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:56,560 Speaker 1: tip on top of that. Maybe that's true, but I'll 332 00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:58,879 Speaker 1: never eat at a restaurant that does that. You can't 333 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:03,760 Speaker 1: pay forty percent top your bill. Nobody's doing that. That's ridiculous. 334 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 1: It is ridiculous. I don't know what the correct answer 335 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 1: is either, or if it varies from restaurant to restaurant. 336 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:12,520 Speaker 1: If you know, text line four one five two nine 337 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:17,360 Speaker 1: five KFTC. But what the hell Armstrong and Getty. 338 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:23,720 Speaker 4: A lot of people this year texted me their holiday card, 339 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:24,400 Speaker 4: and that. 340 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:26,479 Speaker 1: Is I just want to say, that is unacceptable. I 341 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:29,080 Speaker 1: want you. I won't even look at those. I would 342 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:31,320 Speaker 1: rather have no card. And in fact, that is what 343 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:34,480 Speaker 1: you sent. No card. I did not send a holiday card. 344 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:37,280 Speaker 1: A card is a card. I want something I can 345 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:40,840 Speaker 1: take out of the envelope. Look at Ask my wife, 346 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:41,959 Speaker 1: who are these kids? 347 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:45,760 Speaker 6: Never figure it out between us and then throw it 348 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:46,640 Speaker 6: in the garbage. 349 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:48,399 Speaker 1: Christmas, more than. 350 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:51,080 Speaker 6: Anything, is about killing trees, and I want that sacrifice. 351 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:54,080 Speaker 1: When I got the card, texting a holiday card, that 352 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:57,600 Speaker 1: is the least I could do, as the saying goes. 353 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:04,920 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that brought me down. And it's because Judy 354 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:07,640 Speaker 4: and I cannot get our act together to send out 355 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 4: a holiday card. I'm glad I'm not the only one 356 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:12,359 Speaker 4: because it hurts my psyche every year. 357 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:15,239 Speaker 1: Well and mostly it's that we don't think of it 358 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:22,560 Speaker 1: until November thirty seventh, you know, Yeah, I just I don't, 359 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:25,239 Speaker 1: and and I'm a worse human being for it. I 360 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:29,360 Speaker 1: admit that. Yes, Michael, maybe this is the ear. It's not. 361 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:32,560 Speaker 4: I bought Christmas cards, I bought New Year's cards, and 362 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:33,640 Speaker 4: none of them got. 363 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:36,880 Speaker 1: Out well, and then it made that critical first step. 364 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:40,920 Speaker 1: Well yeah, but that you could pull off fairly late 365 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:42,119 Speaker 1: in the game. But if you're going to do the 366 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:45,119 Speaker 1: big family photo and have that turned into a card. 367 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:48,440 Speaker 1: It takes a little planning ahead of time. And I 368 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:51,440 Speaker 1: feel like those of you and I have many friends 369 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:54,360 Speaker 1: workers stuff like that. I believe you're only sending them 370 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 1: to me as a reminder of how much better you 371 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:59,000 Speaker 1: are than me. I feel like it's just an attempt 372 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:02,359 Speaker 1: to make me feel bad. It's a flex. It's absolutelyness. 373 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:05,680 Speaker 1: Look how organized we are. We got family photos, turn 374 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:08,159 Speaker 1: them into a card, know your address, and got them 375 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:10,720 Speaker 1: in the mail in time. So take a you know, 376 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:15,200 Speaker 1: looking looking forward to getting the same from you. Oh 377 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:18,920 Speaker 1: you couldn't. Didn't get that together, too unorganized. Oh sorry 378 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 1: to hear that couldn't be troubled. 379 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:25,760 Speaker 4: M No, all right, So I love this and this 380 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:30,119 Speaker 4: this story why the economy is trouncing Europe's It's from 381 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:33,320 Speaker 4: Edward Cannard in the Wall Street Journal. But it reminds 382 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 4: me so much of that Twitter thread we brought you 383 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:38,880 Speaker 4: last year, and I wish I had bookmarked it because 384 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:41,160 Speaker 4: it was so terrific. It was by your brit who 385 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:44,120 Speaker 4: is explaining the difference between Britain and the United States 386 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 4: culturally speaking. 387 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:48,159 Speaker 1: And we'll refer back to that in a second. 388 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:50,960 Speaker 4: But this this piece opens with, and I love this 389 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:56,719 Speaker 4: that economists never cite one of the most significant statistics 390 00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:58,040 Speaker 4: about the US economy. 391 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:00,640 Speaker 1: And we'll get to that. But according to. 392 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:04,879 Speaker 4: Data released last week by the OECD, the Organization for 393 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:08,879 Speaker 4: Economic I sound like Joe Biden Organization for Economic Corporation 394 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:13,480 Speaker 4: and Cooperation and Development. Only about twelve percent of Americans 395 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:17,800 Speaker 4: score at the highest levels on internationally administered academic tests 396 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 4: twelve percent, while thirty four percent score at the lowest levels, 397 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:27,159 Speaker 4: nearly three lower scores for every high score. Germany's figures 398 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 4: are nearly even, not three to one low to high 399 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:32,840 Speaker 4: eighteen at the highest level, twenty percent at the lowest. 400 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:36,200 Speaker 4: Put another way, Germany's ratio of high to low scores 401 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:40,879 Speaker 4: is almost three times Americas. Scandinavia's is five times better, 402 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:47,199 Speaker 4: Japan's seven times better. These enormous differences, there's twist, have 403 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:50,879 Speaker 4: profound economic implications. With more talent and fewer needy people. 404 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 4: Is it any wonder that northern European countries can afford 405 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:56,879 Speaker 4: more generous welfare policies than their neighbors to the south. 406 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:04,320 Speaker 4: Yet you're right to be Yet America excels relative to Europe. 407 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:09,040 Speaker 4: Despite these enormous differences. While Europe has created fourteen companies 408 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:12,800 Speaker 4: worth more than ten billion dollars in the last half century, 409 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,639 Speaker 4: with about four hundred billion dollars of market value in total, 410 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:19,600 Speaker 4: I realize that's a lot of money. Uh, fourteen companies 411 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:22,520 Speaker 4: worth more than ten billion dollars, Americans have created nearly 412 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:27,400 Speaker 4: two hundred and fifty such companies, or thirty trillion dollars, 413 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:29,600 Speaker 4: not forty four hundred billion. 414 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:35,600 Speaker 1: And of course that is an amazing stat right it is. 415 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,680 Speaker 4: It's mind blowing that success is driven up America's middle 416 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:43,720 Speaker 4: class incomes the median disposable US household income income. 417 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:45,480 Speaker 1: To inequality income inequality. 418 00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:51,359 Speaker 4: The median disposable US household income, according to the OCOECD, 419 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:55,240 Speaker 4: is now twenty five percent greater than the median in 420 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:59,520 Speaker 4: Brainy Brainy Germany, and sixty percent greater than the median 421 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:01,800 Speaker 4: household in Italy, for instance. 422 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:04,680 Speaker 1: Do you have it for Great Britain? Now they don't 423 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:08,280 Speaker 1: have that. It's interesting just because Charles CW. Cook of 424 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:10,880 Speaker 1: The National Review, who is a brit who has moved 425 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:15,440 Speaker 1: to the United States, constantly says Americans have no idea 426 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:21,080 Speaker 1: how rich they are compared to Europeans. The average American, right, 427 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:25,200 Speaker 1: and a poor American now compared to a poor American, 428 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:26,520 Speaker 1: say eighty years ago. 429 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:34,520 Speaker 4: Is vastly wealthier, vastly, But that's useless politically to point 430 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:34,960 Speaker 4: that out. 431 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:37,680 Speaker 1: Grievance gets people to the polls. Anyway. 432 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:42,320 Speaker 4: Europeans incomes would be even lower compared to Americans if 433 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:46,000 Speaker 4: they weren't free riding on American innovation, defense spending, and 434 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:50,320 Speaker 4: higher drug prices which instead of ize research. Oh. I 435 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:52,840 Speaker 4: was talking to a good buddy of mine who's a 436 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:54,879 Speaker 4: doctor the other day, and he was talking about how 437 00:23:54,960 --> 00:24:00,800 Speaker 4: there's no money in antibiotics, and so the the big 438 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:06,720 Speaker 4: pharma companies that are so you know, demonized in reasonable fashion, 439 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:10,359 Speaker 4: justifiedly in some cases, but there's no incentive for them 440 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:13,080 Speaker 4: to innovate and come up with new antibiotics. And he's 441 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,440 Speaker 4: he happened to be a urologist, and he said, we 442 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:22,840 Speaker 4: used to run into these unconquerable infections like once every 443 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:27,480 Speaker 4: six months, and now it's once a week really, and 444 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:30,160 Speaker 4: he was talking about a hospital setting. But yeah, the 445 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:34,080 Speaker 4: infections they fight and fight but can't beat are becoming 446 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:37,720 Speaker 4: more and more and more common. As the then to 447 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:39,240 Speaker 4: get off on a not to get off on a 448 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:43,600 Speaker 4: too long at tangent, But as people use antibiotics for 449 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:46,600 Speaker 4: things they don't need them for, or take them just 450 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:50,119 Speaker 4: until they feel better, which is like a super power 451 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:55,480 Speaker 4: training program for microbes. It's selecting only those that can 452 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:59,800 Speaker 4: survive the first seventy percent of your treatment and turning 453 00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:02,639 Speaker 4: the loose on the world. Now, if you'd finished your treatment, 454 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:05,919 Speaker 4: you'd have kill them all. But this is rampant in 455 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,720 Speaker 4: Africa for instance. Anyway, why do you. 456 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,400 Speaker 1: Stop taking your antibiotics once you start feeling better? I mean, 457 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 1: I just you don't feel like you need medicine anymore. 458 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:17,760 Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean I'm a slacker, but I 459 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:21,639 Speaker 1: take the full ten days or whatever. Yeah, do that? Friends, 460 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:22,080 Speaker 1: do that? 461 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:24,639 Speaker 4: Of course, you're up against tens of millions of Africans 462 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:27,400 Speaker 4: who don't, and they sell antibiotics over the counter there. 463 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:29,480 Speaker 1: But anyway, we'll all be dead soon. 464 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:35,359 Speaker 4: To get back to the article, So Europe would be 465 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:40,120 Speaker 4: even worse off if they didn't piggyback on American technological 466 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:43,760 Speaker 4: developments in military spending that sort of thing. 467 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:45,639 Speaker 1: And here's the point. 468 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:49,480 Speaker 4: The outside success of America's talented entrepreneurs doesn't stem from 469 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 4: their superior intelligence or even education. It comes from working 470 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:56,280 Speaker 4: at companies like Google and Microsoft and Apple that mind 471 00:25:56,280 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 4: the technological frontier and expose employees to alluable knowledge, insights, 472 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:01,760 Speaker 4: and opportunities. 473 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:03,000 Speaker 1: That's absolutely true. 474 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:09,560 Speaker 4: But unlike Europe, the enormous success of American entrepreneurs motivated 475 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:13,280 Speaker 4: an army of talented Americans and motivates them us every 476 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:17,000 Speaker 4: day to get valuable on the job, training, work longer hours, 477 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 4: take risks, and succeed. A small amount of success bubbles 478 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:22,360 Speaker 4: up from large pools of failure. 479 00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:25,960 Speaker 1: And we have two things. 480 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:27,919 Speaker 4: Number one we have and this is critical and if 481 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:29,240 Speaker 4: we ever lose this, God help us. 482 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:31,719 Speaker 1: We have a culture of let's try it. 483 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:35,919 Speaker 4: Europe and Britain in particular, and this was the Twitter 484 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:39,439 Speaker 4: thread that I thought was so great, has a culture 485 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 4: of you'd better not to fail. It would be really embarrassing, 486 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:46,320 Speaker 4: it'd be humiliating. You're much better off not trying. And 487 00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:47,320 Speaker 4: we have a what the. 488 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:51,240 Speaker 1: Health culture that we're trying to stamp out as fast 489 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:54,359 Speaker 1: as we can, with places like California where you have 490 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 1: so many different regulations and hoops to jump through that 491 00:26:57,119 --> 00:26:59,159 Speaker 1: people say I'm going to try it, and then you 492 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:00,959 Speaker 1: go down to the office to get the various permits 493 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:04,760 Speaker 1: and you think, ask screw it. Yeah, absolutely true. 494 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:06,840 Speaker 4: And the other thing is, and they point this out 495 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,560 Speaker 4: and I came across it was it was a little 496 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 4: long and dry to present on the show, but it 497 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:14,320 Speaker 4: was a discussion of. 498 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:20,399 Speaker 1: Was it Denmark one? Are you your super oil. 499 00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:24,960 Speaker 4: Rich Scandinavian countries and their tax policies and how they 500 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:27,800 Speaker 4: have driven all of their entrepreneurs out of the country 501 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:33,320 Speaker 4: and now it's just oil revenue. But the other point 502 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:36,800 Speaker 4: they make in the journal is that in Europe, even 503 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,359 Speaker 4: more than the US, which has a very progressive tax code, 504 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:44,400 Speaker 4: but if you're successful in America, we punish you by 505 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:45,360 Speaker 4: raising your taxes. 506 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:47,399 Speaker 1: If you're a little successful. 507 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,200 Speaker 4: We punish you a little bit, if you're moderately successful, 508 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:52,560 Speaker 4: we punish you moderately. And if you're very very successful, 509 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,720 Speaker 4: we punish you pretty badly by taking more of your money. 510 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:57,560 Speaker 1: In Europe, it's extreme. 511 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:00,800 Speaker 4: I mean, they treat you like you or a child 512 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,639 Speaker 4: murderer if you come up with a brilliant idea that 513 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:09,199 Speaker 4: succeeds brilliantly. And what they're urging is that let's not 514 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:10,639 Speaker 4: lose those two things. 515 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:12,639 Speaker 1: Number One, let's. 516 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:14,399 Speaker 4: Continue to be a what the hell, let's try it 517 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:19,440 Speaker 4: society because we're the beacon to the world in innovation. 518 00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:24,919 Speaker 4: And number two, let's not demonize people who have a 519 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 4: great idea, take a risk, bust their ass and succeed 520 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,440 Speaker 4: with it. That would choke us to death. 521 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:34,280 Speaker 1: I know, I just I'll never understand how you get 522 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,600 Speaker 1: to the Bernie Sanders Elizabeth Warren mindset or a lot 523 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:42,240 Speaker 1: of college students were billionaires. Shouldn't exist? How do you 524 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:46,480 Speaker 1: not understand what you're saying? Okay, okay, okay. 525 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:51,120 Speaker 4: I have an idea that people love, and if I 526 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:53,400 Speaker 4: sold it to one person, I'd make a dollar. 527 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:53,840 Speaker 3: Is that? 528 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:54,240 Speaker 1: Okay? 529 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:57,560 Speaker 4: Okay, same idea, more people hear about it, one hundred 530 00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:00,120 Speaker 4: people hear about it. I make one hundred dollars than 531 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,760 Speaker 4: one hundred thousand people. Now a billion people have heard 532 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:04,920 Speaker 4: about my idea. They all like it. I make a 533 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:08,880 Speaker 4: dollar per Now I'm a billionaire. I shouldn't exist. Explain 534 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:15,360 Speaker 4: that to me, please, Chay Marx Sanders Warren guovera, you 535 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:16,960 Speaker 4: idiotic college kid. 536 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:21,080 Speaker 1: You stupid effing moros. Oh I'm sorry. I'd vowed to 537 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:22,160 Speaker 1: be more restrained in. 538 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:22,680 Speaker 3: The new year. 539 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:28,520 Speaker 1: Oh boy, it's not an interesting Gallup poll right at 540 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:30,680 Speaker 1: the end of the year. But people's attitudes about all 541 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:33,400 Speaker 1: kinds of things about their own lives, which you can 542 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:38,000 Speaker 1: compare and contrast see if you fit in. And also, 543 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:42,080 Speaker 1: I've decided to embarrass myself as a punishment to try 544 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:50,160 Speaker 1: to get myself to better behavior. I'm embarrassing myself today 545 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:52,640 Speaker 1: and I'm going to do on a daily basis. Wow, 546 00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:55,040 Speaker 1: I don't know. It's a carrot and stick. I'm going 547 00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:56,960 Speaker 1: with this stick. I'm going with the stick approach with 548 00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:01,360 Speaker 1: myself to try to make my behavior better. Self flagellation exactly. 549 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:13,560 Speaker 1: We'll explain that coming up, among other things. Stay here first. 550 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,200 Speaker 1: The way that I'm going to embarrass myself into changing 551 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:21,880 Speaker 1: my behavior, I could lap, and I'm doing it today. 552 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:24,920 Speaker 1: I was looking through my closet to try to find 553 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:28,520 Speaker 1: my large dress shirts that actually fit, as opposed to 554 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,880 Speaker 1: my medium dress shirts that I was wearing throughout most 555 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:35,520 Speaker 1: of last year that fit at the time. And I thought, 556 00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,000 Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna wear my medium dress shirt 557 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:42,000 Speaker 1: that gaps in the front and show my bare chest 558 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,320 Speaker 1: because they're too small for me. And and so every time 559 00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:47,360 Speaker 1: I look in the mirror, I see it so that 560 00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:52,240 Speaker 1: I need better at home, I get it out in 561 00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:55,600 Speaker 1: the world. At work, I'm embarrassed to walk around in 562 00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:58,640 Speaker 1: this shirt. I find myself hunching my shoulders to try 563 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:00,680 Speaker 1: to get my shirt to go together. Oh, I know 564 00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:03,920 Speaker 1: that move, but I'm going to do it. I'm just 565 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:07,120 Speaker 1: going to embarrass myself until I finally come correct. 566 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:11,560 Speaker 4: Wow, that's an interesting lever to pull. But whatever works 567 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:12,600 Speaker 4: for you, see if it works. 568 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:15,840 Speaker 1: My brother was talking about a winter coat that he's 569 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:19,120 Speaker 1: got that he really likes. That he can't come with 570 00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:21,720 Speaker 1: the foot of getting the zipper to come together, but 571 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:27,840 Speaker 1: he's still holding out hope. We all do it so pathetically, 572 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,640 Speaker 1: we all do it. That is correct. So also seeing 573 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,480 Speaker 1: my family, we got on the conversation about the pandemic. 574 00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,360 Speaker 1: As we're at the five year anniversary mark, it was 575 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,240 Speaker 1: five years ago, we'll start hearing the dates five years 576 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:43,200 Speaker 1: ago the first case was seen in wherever it was, 577 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,120 Speaker 1: Washington State or whatever. And in March we'll have the 578 00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:48,800 Speaker 1: five year anniversary of them canceling the March Madness and 579 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:51,360 Speaker 1: I'll never forget in my life. When they announced at 580 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:53,000 Speaker 1: the school they're calling it off for a month, and 581 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:56,760 Speaker 1: everybody was like, why I'd just how could that possibly happen? 582 00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:59,040 Speaker 1: We all know how it played out. But so this 583 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:03,920 Speaker 1: gallop pole is I think mostly about just where we 584 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:09,240 Speaker 1: are psychologically since the pandemic, because it's comparing Americans' satisfaction 585 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:14,240 Speaker 1: with aspects of their life twenty nineteen versus end of 586 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:19,000 Speaker 1: twenty four Oh interesting coincides with pre pandemic and several 587 00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,640 Speaker 1: years you know after most of it's over. Depends on 588 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,240 Speaker 1: where you live, as back in Kansas, where the pandemic 589 00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:27,640 Speaker 1: was completely over in twenty one, as opposed to living 590 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:31,200 Speaker 1: in California, where the pandemic ended for some people hasn't 591 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:35,960 Speaker 1: ended yet still earn masks. But I thought these numbers 592 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:40,120 Speaker 1: were Some of these numbers were quite amazing. Your personal health. 593 00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:48,000 Speaker 1: Fifty four percent of Americans were satisfied with their personal 594 00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:51,640 Speaker 1: health in twenty nineteen, over half, and it's now forty one, 595 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:55,840 Speaker 1: a thirteen point crop. So is that just like a 596 00:32:55,920 --> 00:33:01,320 Speaker 1: psychological thing? Are that many people less healthy? I don't know, 597 00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,840 Speaker 1: I don't know. It's it's your own attitude. It's not 598 00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:10,520 Speaker 1: like a measurable number. Yeah, I'm shocked by that. How 599 00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:14,240 Speaker 1: about this one theory? Your family life a ten point 600 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:19,160 Speaker 1: drop from pre pandemic till now from seventy six percent, 601 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:21,320 Speaker 1: which I'm glad to hear, was that I three quarters 602 00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:23,640 Speaker 1: of people satisfied with their family life. It's now down 603 00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:27,600 Speaker 1: to sixty six percent, two thirds. Huh, how would you 604 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:28,240 Speaker 1: explain that. 605 00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:33,160 Speaker 4: The only thing I can offer to you, and I 606 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,160 Speaker 4: was going to get into this at some point, is 607 00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:38,840 Speaker 4: a study that was done that showed, well, there are 608 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:42,120 Speaker 4: a couple of studies out lately. One that is about 609 00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:47,440 Speaker 4: how girls have not bounced back academically and now are 610 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:52,600 Speaker 4: falling behind boys in several subjects in a way that 611 00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:54,600 Speaker 4: was the reverse of the trend for a very very 612 00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:59,080 Speaker 4: long time. And a sister bit of information, which is 613 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:04,680 Speaker 4: that neurologist say girls' brains aged during the pandemic in 614 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:08,759 Speaker 4: a way they've never seen before. Wow, the lack of 615 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:14,680 Speaker 4: socializing was crippling to the neurological development of young girls. 616 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,040 Speaker 1: One more example of how the. 617 00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:21,040 Speaker 4: COVID eer restrictions were not only unsupportable at the time 618 00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:24,240 Speaker 4: but absolutely did obscene damage to our young people. 619 00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:30,200 Speaker 1: Well, that could have something to do with this number, then, Oh, 620 00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:33,759 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, that's what I was working toward. If developmentally speaking, 621 00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:37,160 Speaker 1: it's been it was that devastating to young women, that 622 00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:42,600 Speaker 1: that might be a lot of that. Sure, my wife 623 00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:45,239 Speaker 1: dumped me during the pandemic, so my family life is 624 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:47,880 Speaker 1: less than it was before. And there were a lot 625 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:52,160 Speaker 1: of divorces during the pandemic, So maybe that's some of it. 626 00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:54,560 Speaker 1: I don't know, But ten point drop, I wonder some 627 00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:56,840 Speaker 1: of the other big drops. Your community is a place 628 00:34:56,880 --> 00:35:01,440 Speaker 1: to live A ten point drop six people were satisfied 629 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:06,040 Speaker 1: with where they lived now fifty one percent because of 630 00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:08,680 Speaker 1: the way it handled the pandemic. Or just is everybody's 631 00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:12,840 Speaker 1: overall attitude worse? Does that explain all these everybody's just 632 00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:14,240 Speaker 1: got a worse attitude in general? 633 00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:16,600 Speaker 4: You're a in my mind, I was just going to say, 634 00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:19,600 Speaker 4: Or is it just that that whole period pissed everybody 635 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:21,640 Speaker 4: off and we're in a foul mood. When you're in 636 00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:25,520 Speaker 4: a foul mood, flowers smell bad, meals taste bad. 637 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:28,759 Speaker 1: You don't care? True, true, if things aren't going your way, 638 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,520 Speaker 1: a beautiful, nice day and a cute puppy is annoying 639 00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:37,120 Speaker 1: that god damned thing out of my way. Yeah, that's 640 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:38,920 Speaker 1: almost got to be it now that I think about it. 641 00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:42,799 Speaker 1: For instance, your job or the work you do was 642 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:48,759 Speaker 1: an almost double digit drop and people being satisfied. So 643 00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:51,759 Speaker 1: I think it might just be we just aren't. We're 644 00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:56,520 Speaker 1: just have a worse attitude. It somehouse killed our will 645 00:35:56,560 --> 00:36:01,120 Speaker 1: to live or our ability to enjoy life. This is 646 00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:02,760 Speaker 1: a little partisan, but I can't resist. 647 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,279 Speaker 4: I also think that the folks that have been in 648 00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:07,759 Speaker 4: charge for a while on the progressive side of things, 649 00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:11,200 Speaker 4: there are things. Their message is, this is a bad country. 650 00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:15,080 Speaker 4: You're a bad person, You're defined by your race. I'm 651 00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:17,680 Speaker 4: judging you harshly. I'm going to shout you down if 652 00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:21,120 Speaker 4: I disagree with you. It's not a growth. 653 00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:22,759 Speaker 1: Let's do it. 654 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:26,960 Speaker 4: Positive American spirit on the progressive side gotta get rid 655 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:27,160 Speaker 4: of it. 656 00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:29,200 Speaker 1: If you miss an hour, get the podcast Armstrong and 657 00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:32,840 Speaker 1: Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty