WEBVTT - Doing the Right Thing 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:07.520 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:11.560 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty. 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:32.879 Armstrong and Jetty and he Armstrong and Letty. 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:30.520 Images of the homemade explosive devices authority say shamsu Dingjabbar 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:33.240 brought to Bourbon Street the night of the New Year's 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:36.960 terror attack. Surveillance video shows the suspect planting a pair 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:39.640 of coolers they are on the street early that morning. 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:43.720 Authorities say inside they discovered a steel galvanized pipe with 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:47.080 two end caps surrounded by two dozen rolls of nails, 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:50.360 along with the radio controlled receiver. They also say they 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:54.160 found jars of flammable liquid inside the truck the suspect 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:58.080 used to barrel into those Bourbon Street crowds, killing fourteen 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:00.000 people and injuring dozens more. 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:02.680 Okay, I heard that last night when I was watching 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:04.520 ABC News. I got a question about that. But this 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:07.080 is what the FBI had to say. This is not 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:10.680 a terrorist event. What it is right now is there 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:15.200 improvised explosive devices that was found and we are working 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:18.720 on confirming if this is a viable device or not. Okay, 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:20.440 So I'm a little confused by that. Also, so I 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:23.920 have a lot of questions here. So I heard that 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:27.360 on ABC News and I thought, Okay, if I put 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:32.000 a bunch of crap in a bottle, nails and other 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:34.040 stuff that could cut you and hurt you and stuff 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:36.440 like that, and I got a cell phone with some 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:39.280 batteries taped to it, does that count as a bomb? 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:41.520 Even though it might not. I couldn't have done anything 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:44.440 with it. I mean, they didn't specifically say that the 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:47.160 guy could have set that it would have worked, that 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:49.440 it wasn't just a crazy person throwing it together. So 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:50.840 maybe you know if it was or not. But they 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:51.520 didn't say. 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:56.320 Reports i've heard said that he was shot down before 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:58.880 he could detonate them. I have not heard, which does 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:02.400 not disprove anything, but I have not heard anything. But yes, 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:05.440 they could have exploded, okay, but I might have missed that. 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:07.960 The person there just said at the end they're not 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:09.760 sure if they were viable or not. I don't know 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:10.200 what that. 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:12.480 That is the same FBI person who said this is 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:17.960 not a terrorism a terrorist event, which is unbelievably irresponsible, 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:20.959 and I would say inexplicable, but I'm about to explicit 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:22.359 because it's disgusting. 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:25.239 A guy with a truck that has an ISIS flag 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:28.519 on it, drives through a crowd. He's been to Egypt. 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:32.000 All his website stuff says he there's a video of 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.600 him you can look at of him swearing allegiance dices 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:36.280 this isn't a terrorist event. 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:38.800 And he slaughters a bunch of people. That is today's 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:44.480 FBI apparently, or just ALTHEA Duncan, the FBI assistant special Agent. 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:48.160 Charge that part of the country. That's shocking. I didn't 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:51.040 like Trump forcing Ray out before his term is up. 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:54.000 I'm fine with it now. I mean that if that's 0:02:54.320 --> 0:03:00.440 Ray's FBI, that's crazy. Yeah, yeah, it is. It. 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:02.760 It's another example of what we were talking about yesterday 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:08.440 with the absolutely horrific Muslim immigrants raping children in Britain's 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:11.920 story and the cover up of it by law enforcements, 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:17.400 social services, local government, federal government in Britain. And this 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:20.560 is it's the same motivation that would have the FBI say, 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:24.200 and you know, I've had the privilege to, you know, 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:26.480 go on various ride alongs and talk at length to 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.239 investigators of very sorts, including murder investigators. 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:32.120 And the one sacred. 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:35.200 Rule is thou shalt not leap to conclusions because that 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:36.280 cloud's your judgment. 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:39.520 You've got to take in all of the evidence and. 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:43.040 For her like and that was the next day to say, 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:46.920 this is not a terrorist event. That is spectacularly irresponsible. 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:52.680 What would motivate something so irresponsible, Well, that pathetic need 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:55.360 to oh, you know what, to cause an anti Islamic 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:57.280 backlash or whatever the hell it is. 0:03:57.400 --> 0:04:00.760 Well, I I'm not worried about terrorism. Like in my 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:04.080 own life, I've never been afraid of it. This is 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:07.520 from Meet the Press on Sunday. The country is on edge. 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:09.840 We're mocking that the country is not on edge. I 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:13.400 traveled around. I was in Washington, d C. The next day, 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:15.960 hours after this happened. In the news broke. There were 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.400 people staying in line for every freaking thing that was 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:21.000 going on. Nobody seemed to be on edge. We're all 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:25.320 fine at the same time. There's no reason to downplay 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:29.200 it either. Just tell me what is And clearly this 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:32.279 guy was inspired by ISIS. He might be a nut job. 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:34.240 I don't know. I don't know if he directly talked 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.520 to anybody in ISIS. Let's find out, right, he is. 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:39.680 A dead ender and a loser who was angry about life, 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.640 and he latched onto a particular ideology that justified him 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:44.920 hurting people, which is what he wanted to do. He 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:47.560 was hurting, so he wanted to hurt. That's the description 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:50.119 of virtually all of these guys in school shooters or whatever. 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:54.640 But yeah, again for the FBI, you don't say that 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:57.200 sort of thing unless you have a particular motivation, which 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:58.880 I think I've already laid out. But I find that 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:03.160 absolutely obscene. Another aspect of this that's gotten a fair 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:05.159 amount of attention is and I wish I had it 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:05.680 in front of me. 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:06.679 I got so much stuff. 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:10.240 But is all the news media that reported that an 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:15.120 inanimate object had done the killing in New Orleans pickup 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:19.520 truck plows into crowd, Jills twelve or whatever, Ford f 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:23.440 one point fifty plowed into the They wouldn't say a person. 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:28.919 They wouldn't say an Isis devotee. They wouldn't say even 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:33.839 a murderer. The inanimate object did it, which is bizarre, 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:37.640 but is also explained by then they don't have to 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:40.480 get into the person and their motivation, and we don't 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.320 want to have an anti Islamic backlash. 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:47.760 Well, first of all, I saw a tweet from Laura Logan, 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:51.200 who you know, formerly of sixty Minutes, who I often 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:54.600 find a little off the rails in her comments nowadays. 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:57.960 But she said, after decades of working with the you know, 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:01.520 following the news and questioning the FBI and everything like that, 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:04.520 she said, they never say anything in the early days. 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:06.640 You can't get a word out of them about anything. 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.839 For the person to come out and specifically say this 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:14.360 was not to make a declarative sentence is really something 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:17.680 the FBI doesn't and then to have it be the 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:22.040 opposite of what everybody's seeing with their own eyes is extraordinary. 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:22.920 It is. 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:27.480 Yes, it's troubling, and troubling isn't a good enough word. 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:31.400 It's worries activist by far. 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:37.320 Yes, yeah, I would agree. I would agree it's incredibly troubling. 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:39.479 And then I want to get into the bigger picture. 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:44.200 Maybe next segment. But there was one more just it 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:47.919 probably doesn't matter, but an incredibly annoying note. 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:49.760 And I didn't watch the Sugar Bowl. 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:53.520 I didn't watch much football other than my fighting line, 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:57.719 I bravely beating down the favorite game Cocks. Pardon me 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:01.440 of South Carolina, get a better name, South Carolina. 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:06.000 Did you see the Oregon spanking that happened. Holy crap, 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:10.440 that was one of the most extraordinary things in college boards. 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:14.520 I've ever seen the undefeated, far and away number one Oregon. 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:17.680 They were down thirty eight to nothing in the first quarter. 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:19.960 Oh by the mighty Ohio Ones. 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:23.240 Yeah, I uh, And I'd watched Oregon summ and they 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:25.000 looked like an NFL style off. 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:27.640 I was astounded by the game. Well anyway, yeah, I've 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:31.080 got more to the way the so many players leave 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:33.760 before the bowl games happened. Which team had it had 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:37.720 seventeen players that didn't play in their game? They opted out, 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:39.760 as they say, that's I don't know. 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:42.720 They got to fix that somehow. But anyway, back to terrorism, 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:45.280 I don't think you can in America anyway. We can 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:49.400 talk about that later. So it's the All State Sugar Bowl, 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:54.640 and the CEO of All State decided he needed to 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:57.520 and I'm sorry. The Sugar Bowl was in New Orleans 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:01.880 the day after the terrorist slayings on the street. They 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.200 postponed it by a day, and then the All State 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:06.960 to CEO, Tom Wilson, decided he should make a statement 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:09.560 before the game on the TV. 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:12.040 And here it is welcome to the All State Sugar 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:17.280 Bowl Wednesday, tragedy struck the New Orleans community. Our prayers 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.880 with the victims and their families. We also need to 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:25.480 be stronger together by overcoming an addiction to divisiveness and negativity. 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:30.360 Join All State, working in local communities all across America 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:35.760 to amplify the positive, increase trust, and accept people's imperfections 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:36.480 and differences. 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:41.360 Together we win well. First of all, the leader of 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:42.840 Vices has said, I. 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:45.800 Was brought to tears by the head of All State 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:51.720 saying we should not be so divisive. He's right, good God, 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:54.840 And to me, a tragedy is an earthquake, not a 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:56.920 terrorist slaying of innocence. 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:01.360 I'd say that's a horrible crime. Why did he speak 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:04.880 at all? He could have just said nothing. I mean, 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:06.760 there is no need for him to come out and 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:08.560 give a speech. But then he does come out and 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:10.840 give a speech before the game. What was his goal there? 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:15.040 Well, and I could think of a dozen approaches better 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:18.520 than Hey, we're too divided. We got to there's too 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:23.520 much negativity. That's the problem. That's why a sworn adherent 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.120 of issis slaughtered a bunch of innocence in a violent 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:29.640 and horrific manner, including children. We have too much divisiveness. 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:31.680 What the hell was that? 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:38.520 I don't know. I you know, we do this sort 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:40.600 of thing for a living, and I heard that, and 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:43.720 I thought, I don't know what his intention was with 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:46.320 that message, with that crafting of that message. Play that 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:47.079 one more time. 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:51.319 Michael, Welcome to the All States Sugar Bowl. Wednesday, tragedy 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:54.719 struck the New Orleans community. Our prayers are with the 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:58.560 victims and their families. We also need to be stronger 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:02.599 together by overc coming in addiction to divisiveness and negativity. 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:07.559 Join all state working in local communities all across America 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:12.839 to amplify the positive, increased trust, and accept people's imperfections 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:13.600 and differences. 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:19.520 Together we win. 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I know more 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:15.280 world leaders than any one of you ever met in 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:19.560 your whole goddamn wife, and I know how they see 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:24.120 not a joke. Oh yeah, So somebody stuck on microphone 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:25.560 in the face of that old man for some reason. 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:27.960 I don't know what's going on there. Yeah. 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:32.840 Wow, the senile, bitter old president who's trying to do 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:35.640 as much damage to the Trump administration in advance as 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:39.000 he can, you know, blocking off loyal oil leases and stuff. 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:41.920 We'll talk about that down the roadeen days. 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:46.720 I'd sell you what I've waited on more people at 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:50.000 this restaurant than you have in your goddamn life, say 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:52.800 the waiters and waitresses of Washington, d C. Jack, where 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:58.120 you just were. The Washingtonian, which is read in the 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:03.200 self obsessed Nations Capital, has a piece about how DC 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:08.360 restaurants have long been like politically neutral spaces. Obviously, to 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:11.400 cite the cliched example, you got Reagan coming in, you 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:14.760 got timp O'Neil coming in right, so you treat everybody 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:15.679 with respectfully. 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:18.440 But that changed during the Trump years. 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:23.120 Restaurant owners became much more politically outspoken. They were part 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:27.200 of the resistance, and Trump officials became social pariahs when 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:32.720 dining out. You remember several incidents involving Ted Cruz and 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:36.160 Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who got kicked out of a restaurant 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:43.520 in West Lexington, Virginia. Homeland Secretary Kirsten Nielsen's dinner at 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:47.480 a DC Mexican Mexican restaurant was interrupted as they yelled 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:53.080 shame Steven Miller tossing eighty dollars worth of takeout sushi 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:55.200 after somebody cursed him and flipped him off at a 0:14:55.240 --> 0:15:00.240 sushi place, somebody on the staff. But anyway, in the 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:05.400 Washington Washingtonian, anyway, you got all these restaurant tours and 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:10.080 waiters and bartenders saying we're not gonna be silent, We're 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.080 not gonna be quote unquote civil. 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:17.880 Let's see, here's this guy. What does he do. 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:21.440 He's a DC restaurant. He's a manager at a club, 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:23.480 big club in DC. If you're just going out for 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:27.000 a nice dinner at your anniversary or birthday, and God forbid, RFK. 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:28.080 Junior is sitting s to you. 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:31.600 Now you're going to be dealing with whatever repercussions happened 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:34.680 from that. He's saying, all this restaurants to have is 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:38.880 justified in cursing these people out and yelling at him 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:39.680 and kicking him out. 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:41.680 Well, we'll see if this actually happens or not. Like 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:44.000 I said, bumping around d C, it was quite a 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:46.640 bit different than the last time I was in DC 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:50.960 when Trump got elected, he was being treated like a 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:55.560 regular president. I mean, the number of Trump shirts, hats, pins, 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:58.840 inauguration forty seventh president stuff that I saw. There was 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:02.560 nothing like that in twenty seventeen when I was there 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:04.800 for the inauguration. Right. Yeah. 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:06.840 In fact, that was my question. I wonder if this 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:09.200 is just big talk by little people. 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:10.360 I'd be my guess. 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:13.040 Here's a woman who's a server and manager at a 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:16.200 saloon on Capitol Hill. Quote, people who are a lot 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:18.440 more motivated the first time around to do these kinds 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:21.120 of shows of passion. This time around, there's kind of 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:23.480 a sense of defeat and acceptance. But I hope that 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:27.120 people will still do stand up to this administration and 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:30.680 tell them their thoughts on their misbehavior as they're trying 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:32.480 to get a ham sandwich at lunchtime. 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:36.000 Here's my biggest question about restaurants, DC restaurants because I 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:37.480 had this and I tweeted it out and it's the 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:40.040 most controversial tweet I've ever put out ever. It got 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:43.280 more responses than anything I've ever tweeted this question. So 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:45.520 I mean it in Gordon Ramsay's restaurant, which I wish 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:47.040 I'd had spent the time to look into what it 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:49.120 costs to eat there, because it's the most expensive meal 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:51.200 I've ever paid for for me and my two kids, 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:57.960 partially because there was the we've added to twenty percent 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:02.240 already thing that rustaurants are doing sometimes now, and so 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:04.240 service charge is that what they call it? Earth It 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:06.520 just said, yeah, we've we've added a twenty percent service 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:09.080 charge to your bill, and then it's got the line 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:10.960 for the tip, and I thought, do I tip on 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:13.040 top of this or not? And I tweeted that out. 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:17.760 I googled it and tweeted it and same result either way. 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:21.119 Plenty of people say, absolutely, that's not the tip. You 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:23.040 need to tip on top of that. You're screwing your 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:26.120 server or one hundred percent, that's the tip, No way 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:28.280 you should give any more money. I still don't know 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:32.280 what the answer is on that. But obviously, if they 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:34.960 add twenty percent and I didn't know they were going 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:37.040 to do that, or I wouldn't have gone. If they 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:39.680 add twenty percent and I'm supposed to tip twenty percent, 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:42.280 that's forty percent on top of my meal, that's a 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:45.840 no go. That's a second group. That is the tip. 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:48.040 No freaking way I'm eating there. A whole bunch of 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:51.119 people adamantly said no, that goes to the restaurant, that 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:54.159 the server will get nothing, and you absolutely need to 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:56.560 tip on top of that. Maybe that's true, but I'll 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:58.879 never eat at a restaurant that does that. You can't 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:03.760 pay forty percent top your bill. Nobody's doing that. That's ridiculous. 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:08.040 It is ridiculous. I don't know what the correct answer 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:10.480 is either, or if it varies from restaurant to restaurant. 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:12.520 If you know, text line four one five two nine 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:17.360 five KFTC. But what the hell Armstrong and Getty. 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:23.720 A lot of people this year texted me their holiday card, 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:24.400 and that. 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:26.479 Is I just want to say, that is unacceptable. I 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:29.080 want you. I won't even look at those. I would 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:31.320 rather have no card. And in fact, that is what 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:34.480 you sent. No card. I did not send a holiday card. 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:37.280 A card is a card. I want something I can 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:40.840 take out of the envelope. Look at Ask my wife, 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:41.959 who are these kids? 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:45.760 Never figure it out between us and then throw it 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:46.640 in the garbage. 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:48.399 Christmas, more than. 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:51.080 Anything, is about killing trees, and I want that sacrifice. 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:54.080 When I got the card, texting a holiday card, that 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:57.600 is the least I could do, as the saying goes. 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:04.920 Yeah, yeah, that brought me down. And it's because Judy 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:07.640 and I cannot get our act together to send out 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:10.000 a holiday card. I'm glad I'm not the only one 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:12.359 because it hurts my psyche every year. 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:15.239 Well and mostly it's that we don't think of it 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:22.560 until November thirty seventh, you know, Yeah, I just I don't, 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:25.239 and and I'm a worse human being for it. I 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:29.360 admit that. Yes, Michael, maybe this is the ear. It's not. 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:32.560 I bought Christmas cards, I bought New Year's cards, and 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:33.640 none of them got. 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:36.880 Out well, and then it made that critical first step. 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:40.920 Well yeah, but that you could pull off fairly late 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:42.119 in the game. But if you're going to do the 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:45.119 big family photo and have that turned into a card. 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:48.440 It takes a little planning ahead of time. And I 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:51.440 feel like those of you and I have many friends 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:54.360 workers stuff like that. I believe you're only sending them 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:56.760 to me as a reminder of how much better you 0:19:56.800 --> 0:19:59.000 are than me. I feel like it's just an attempt 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:02.359 to make me feel bad. It's a flex. It's absolutelyness. 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:05.680 Look how organized we are. We got family photos, turn 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:08.159 them into a card, know your address, and got them 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:10.720 in the mail in time. So take a you know, 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:15.200 looking looking forward to getting the same from you. Oh 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:18.920 you couldn't. Didn't get that together, too unorganized. Oh sorry 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:20.560 to hear that couldn't be troubled. 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:25.760 M No, all right, So I love this and this 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:30.119 this story why the economy is trouncing Europe's It's from 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:33.320 Edward Cannard in the Wall Street Journal. But it reminds 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:35.760 me so much of that Twitter thread we brought you 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:38.880 last year, and I wish I had bookmarked it because 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:41.160 it was so terrific. It was by your brit who 0:20:41.200 --> 0:20:44.120 is explaining the difference between Britain and the United States 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:45.600 culturally speaking. 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:48.159 And we'll refer back to that in a second. 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:50.960 But this this piece opens with, and I love this 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:56.719 that economists never cite one of the most significant statistics 0:20:56.760 --> 0:20:58.040 about the US economy. 0:20:59.000 --> 0:21:00.640 And we'll get to that. But according to. 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:04.879 Data released last week by the OECD, the Organization for 0:21:04.960 --> 0:21:08.879 Economic I sound like Joe Biden Organization for Economic Corporation 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:13.480 and Cooperation and Development. Only about twelve percent of Americans 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:17.800 score at the highest levels on internationally administered academic tests 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:22.840 twelve percent, while thirty four percent score at the lowest levels, 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:27.159 nearly three lower scores for every high score. Germany's figures 0:21:27.200 --> 0:21:30.080 are nearly even, not three to one low to high 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:32.840 eighteen at the highest level, twenty percent at the lowest. 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:36.200 Put another way, Germany's ratio of high to low scores 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:40.879