WEBVTT - I Vomited In Your Backseat 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.200 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.240 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty. 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:17.280 Arm Strong and Jetty I know he Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:26.239 I've got a sore throat and a couple other symptoms 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:29.760 I won't mention. And as Joe mentioned, there's a quindemic 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:30.360 going on. 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:33.440 We're getting a lot of quinn depends who you ask. 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:35.200 We're getting a lot of text from people have also 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:41.519 been quite sick with either RSV whatever that is, monkey pox. 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:44.560 Nobody's texted that has monkey pox, but that's going around 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:50.960 bird flu, covid, regular flu. And then there's one other 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:54.800 one going is there, I don't know. Oh, they have 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:58.840 the biggest tuberculosis outbreak in the Midwest they've had in 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:00.000 like a century or something. 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:04.760 Then you got your measles among mostly illegal immigrants, and 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:08.160 the AP says I should never use that term unvaccinated 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:10.840 people as well breaking out and a certain you know, 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:13.280 it's not a huge percentage, but a certain percentage kids 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:15.080 die of the measles. 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:16.000 It's not just you know. 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:21.160 Red spots, hmmm, extremely high fever, problems with the brain. 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:21.720 Terrible. 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:28.399 Anyway, coming up, I on the economy, a couple of 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:30.960 really interesting stories about you know, dollars and cents and 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:34.600 that sort of thing. Now, Michael, I'm gonna challenge you. 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:36.479 You remember when that was hot. Instead of saying, hey, 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.040 this is something you gotta do, I'm going to challenge 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:42.160 Michael to come up with some theme music for I 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:45.600 on the Economy. That's not the same damn music you 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:48.240 always play. I want a good Then you got like 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:50.480 twenty minutes, almost half an hour to come. 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:51.880 Up with it. All right, I'll come up with something. 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:56.360 All right, Now, we need five things you accomplished last 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:57.800 week to justify your employment. 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:01.680 Yeah, that too by noon. Oh so I thought I'm 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:04.040 working on mine. I haven't come up with number three yet. 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:08.480 I've got two solid ones, and I'm thinking I'm thinking hard. 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:14.360 William Laugines Fox News unleashed this report Friday after our show. 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:16.240 I liked it so well I reached out to the 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:17.960 Fellows to chop it up and have it for you. 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:22.720 It's not like it's plowing. 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:27.120 New ground, but the facts are with our worth reconsidering 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:32.640 yet again surrounding the so called bullet train in California. 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:33.480 It is. 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:40.160 Among the greatest thefts of money, particularly taxpayer money. 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:43.519 Perhaps in the history of humankind. 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:46.480 Definitely could be. That's not hyperbole, that actually could be. 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:50.000 When the pharaohs of old said, you know, I'm gonna 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:53.040 be dead soon, and I need a gigantic tomb. How 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:57.080 big like thirty feet mister pharaoh. No, no, no, like 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:01.400 five hundred feet tall, twice as wide, and we're going 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:03.720 to have people from all over the world slave away. 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:06.280 And you all got to get more granite than anybody's 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:08.120 ever seen in their lives, and you got to build 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:11.800 me a monument that was a smaller theft of you know, 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:15.680 community resources than the bullet trained. William Lauginext Michael, we'll 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.000 start with eighty Yeah, you got that ready, Let's hear it. 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:20.800 This is the biggest boondogo in the United States. California 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:21.160 knows it. 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:21.720 You know it. 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:24.040 So does President Trump, which is why he has called 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:27.440 for this audit, which could effectively kill the bullet Trained. 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:29.960 And it's also why this is how the LA Union 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:34.000 station looked like yesterday. Protesters, many union workers who depend 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:37.480 on that federal lifeline, turned out to throw tomatoes and 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:40.080 hackle Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:41.680 If you want to go protest somewhere. 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:44.200 If you want to shout at someone, go to the 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:48.160 governor's mansion, Go talk to Democrats in the legislature who 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:50.280 have brought us this crappy project. 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:56.000 You notice it was not would be rail riders protested 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:58.480 because they're so excited about the bullet. No, it was 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:03.000 people profiting from it, and only people profiting from it. 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:03.600 Next clip. 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:08.040 Seventeen years and sixteen billion dollars later, the project has 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:10.360 yet delay a single foot of rail. 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:12.080 It was sold to voters. 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:14.040 In two thousand and eight is a low cost, environmentally 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:16.560 friendly way to get from LA to San Francisco in. 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:17.440 Under three hours. 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:20.800 Even then, the claim was wildly misleading or a lie, 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:22.280 depending on who you believe. 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:24.080 This is a failed project. 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:27.719 It is a complete waste of money for California taxpayers 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:28.880 and federal taxpayers. 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:30.920 We want to say no to a king and yes 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:31.720 to high speed rail. 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.720 This is something that will help people for generations, will 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:36.880 help take vehicles off their own and help people have. 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:38.400 More options to get around California. 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:42.560 By the way, I just for my birthday, I traveled 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:45.680 to LA from northern California, like so many people do. 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:50.279 It took fifty minutes. It was quite cheap and very handy. 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:55.640 It's called Southwest Airlines three hours. Why would I ever 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:59.039 want to take a three hour train ride to LA 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:00.880 if I can fly there fifty minutes. 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:05.360 Maybe take in the beautiful scenery along Eye five if 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:09.039 you've driven ever driven I five between San Francisco and 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:13.880 La Hugh anyway, Ah. In a transparent maneuver, which we 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:17.520 talked about last week, the rail Authority and their union 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.640 buddies put out a study that said a majority of 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:25.080 America of California still support the high speed rail last week, 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:29.480 and Jack despaired over that. I think it is clearly 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:32.240 an example of and this is how it goes, which 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:33.480 is why you have to be at least a little 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:37.400 careful talking about issues pulling. The rail Authority commissioned a 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:39.520 poll from I think it was Emerson or somebody like that. 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:43.200 But the specific wording of the question is going to 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.120 be incredibly important in this sort of poll. I'll bet 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:48.400 they asked a high speed rail between LA and San 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:51.880 Francisco where you can zoom between there, and it's environmentally 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:55.880 beneficial and very inexpensive and it will always save a 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:57.800 nice comfy seat for you. 0:05:58.080 --> 0:05:59.680 Are you in favor of that? Against it. 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:03.599 They worded the question in such a rosy manners to 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:07.960 get the result they wanted, just before the Feds stepped 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:10.000 in and said, hey, this is a pilot crappen, a 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:10.640 huge theft. 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:11.880 We're not financing it. 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:14.760 Are you in favor of supporting high speed rail which 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.680 will save the planet and your child's life, or are 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:18.680 you a bad person? 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:19.560 Whichard? 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.119 Do you want your children to die of black lung 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:23.480 from the climate change? 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:25.280 Next clip? 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:29.120 So far, our federal taxpayers dumped about three billion into 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:32.440 the project, with another four million promised by but not 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:36.120 already spent from President Biden. How this audit could provide 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:39.760 President Trump the legal authority to claw that money back. 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:42.479 We're going to look at whether California High Speed Rail 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:45.600 has actually complied with the agreements that they've signed with 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:48.680 the federal government. And we can't just say we're going 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.320 to give money and then not hold states accountable to 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:53.200 how they spend that money. 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:58.000 A minimum of seven billion dollars of Californians in the 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:01.080 other states taxpayers money being squandered on them. 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:03.480 Was that this is what gives the energy to doge 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:08.640 and should four billion dollars Biden promised to give to 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:18.640 an already stupid, obviously wasteful program, four billion dollars of 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:20.559 people's taxpayer money from all around the country. 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:21.040 Nobody will. 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:23.400 I mean, they'll never be a train anyway. But even 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:26.760 if there were a train, none of these people's tax dollars, 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:29.000 These people are never gonna ride the dang thing. 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:31.360 I can't quit just to hand out the money. 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:33.040 Nobody's been ever to come up with a reason, Like 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:35.160 we're just talking about why you would ride the thing? 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:37.720 What are you gonna decide? You know what, today's day, 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:40.320 I'm gonna spend three hours getting to La or San 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:41.640 Francisco instead of the. 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:45.600 Fifty minutes that would take me to fly right right. 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:48.680 And it's a perpetual money printing machine too, because you 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:52.119 got the environmental groups who can fundraise off. They're gonna 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:55.960 put the track through the sacred habitat of the San 0:07:56.040 --> 0:08:00.320 joa Quen rat mouse. And then you've got all of 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:04.080 the attorneys who are gonna sue over all the phony 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:06.640 environmental claims and the rest of it. And we're not 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:08.680 doing enough for this and that and the other. The 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:10.440 point is to hand out the money. 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:14.240 The Sanjuacin rat mouse needs to be protected, Yes, I 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.120 wish we would all catch on. I've only got on 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:18.160 in the last couple of years. The spending is the 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:20.600 point that needs to be on T shirts everywhere. The 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:23.559 spending is the point. They don't care if it actually 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:27.600 accomplishes anything. They just need to get it, you know, allotted. 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:31.360 If I'm Joe Biden and you asked me to be honest, 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:31.960 I would. 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:33.600 Say that care. 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:37.280 But before he was completely senile, he'd say, yeah, the 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.080 money's here March for the bullet train, but I don't 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:43.640 care if they use it to preserve Pelican habitat, or 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:48.720 build windmills or a library for BIPOC people. 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:51.120 I don't care. The point is to hand out the 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:52.440 money last clip. 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:56.360 So the train is decades behind scheduling, about one hundred 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.480 billion short. Governor Newsom wants to finish the Central Valley 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:03.440 lag Even that needs another twenty billion, and without federal help, 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:07.559 that's unlikely. Many say any money federal or state should 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:11.160 be better spent on wildlife or wildfire prevention and water 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:12.160 storage than. 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:15.880 Trained in nowhere or any light lighting it on fire, yeah, 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:20.840 or buying everybody in California pair of genes, or again, 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:26.040 practically anything. I'm good by the way I need to 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:27.400 get rid of clothes and I'm buy more. 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:32.440 That's funny. Uh to have time for this before we 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:35.240 take a break chair? Why not? 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:40.040 The UN had their big vote on this. It's the 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:44.040 three year anniversary of Russia invading Ukraine, one of the 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:49.319 worst aggressions, if not the worst aggression by a major 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:53.080 country since World War Two. The UN has adopted Ukraine's 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:56.840 resolution condemning Russian aggression, so that's good, and demanding the 0:09:56.840 --> 0:10:00.720 immediate withdrawal of Putin's forces. But the US join Russia, 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.600 North Korea, Belarus, and Hungry and opposing in the resolution. 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:08.000 For the first time we opposed a resolution condemning Russia 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:09.079 for the invasion. 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:12.640 Trump thinks he can strike a real deal with lad Putin. 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:16.760 These are meaningless. I mean, it's a meaningless debating society, 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:18.080 and these are meaningless things. 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:20.079 But it's that's something. 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:24.520 The United States sided with Russia and North Korea, Belarus 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:29.040 and Hungary and being against saying something is clear cut 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:32.679 obviously true, as Russia's the bad guy here and they 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:33.320 ought to get out. 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:37.640 Yeah, yeah, I just Trump would say, why would I 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:40.840 antagonize the guy We're about to go into negotiations I 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:44.800 just think he's wrong. Is trying to negotiate with an alligator. 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:49.000 You're not going to buy favor or intimidate or woo 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:49.679 or anything. 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:54.320 I understand the logic to a certain extent of sure. Look, 0:10:56.080 --> 0:11:01.040 your view of voting on the other side is right, 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:03.320 But what is it going to do in terms of 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:04.200 ending this war? 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:06.040 Is it going to make it more likely or less 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:09.400 likely to end it? Right? Yeah, that is his argument. 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:12.120 We'll see how this turns out. Man. That is something 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:18.520 more in the way. Bad attention on how to merge 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:19.400 onto the highway. 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:21.040 So you're going to be a dude at least the 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:25.480 speed limit, not crawling under speed limit, not making other 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:27.240 people break bad at tension. 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:31.360 Did that no issues? 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:35.920 You step on it, speed limit five ten above speed limit. 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:40.840 You merge with no issues whatsoever. Stop holding up traffic. 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:46.479 Mind your damn business in the right lane. Very simple, folks. 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:51.240 Well worn topic. But what is the thinking of the 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:55.000 people that enter the freeway so slowly? 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:57.320 I'm being cautious and safe. 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:00.800 To be cautious and safe, that means going slowly, simple 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:01.160 as that. 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:03.880 Right, Even though you were doing the most dangerous thing 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:06.800 anybody on the road's doing. You you just rupped the 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:09.199 likelihood of you dying in a fiery crash. 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:13.080 By a lot, but at an end innocence as well. Yes. Uh. 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:15.880 The interesting thing to me is how often I'll have 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:16.480 that happen. 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:19.240 Like I'm behind them getting on the on ramp and 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:21.560 they're going like forty five and okay, first off effort 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:23.439 I get I you know, check my mirror and get 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:25.480 around them and go let but then they'll pass me. 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:27.960 I'm going like eighty miles nor they're going driving faster 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:30.680 than me. So they're more than willing to drive fast. 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:31.720 They just don't. 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:35.160 They can't enter quickly. Now I know someone, and I 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:36.920 just wonder how many people are like this. I know 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:40.680 someone why, like a lot who just finds it too 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:43.560 like taxing on the car. They feel like it's too 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:47.560 you know, it's too much demanding of their vehicle to 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:50.120 like hit the gas and speed up like like that. 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:53.679 Mm. They need to drive with me and my big 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:55.680 giant engine. 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:59.080 That's the fun Partah. 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:03.439 Well. Anyway, speaking of driving, so I took probably I 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:07.800 don't know, maybe a dozen lyft rides in LA, although 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:11.400 I had been told this maybe this is a northern California, 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:13.000 say I don't know where it is where you live. 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:15.080 But I was told I had a problem with Uber, 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:17.360 and somebody said, you use Uber, you gotta use Lyft. 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:20.280 Lift is target, Uber as Walmart, and so I started 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:23.200 using Lyft. Well, I had some bad experiences with Lyft 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:25.280 in Los Angeles and somebody told me, no, it's the 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:28.880 opposite in La by far. Oh really yeah, Uber, Uber 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:33.480 is Uber is Nordstrom and and and Lyft is you know, 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:35.040 your local convenience store. 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:37.400 So okay, But anyway, I had a couple of really 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.280 weird experiences with Lyft, who were. 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:43.040 Like the people driving just had no idea to get 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:45.319 to the where I'm going, And I had to get 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:47.560 out my phone and look up away myself and start 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:49.679 telling them how to get there, which was just weird. 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:52.079 I've never had to do that ever. Got they got 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:55.000 an app and I couldn't read it or something. 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:57.280 I don't know how many times I circled my hotel. 0:13:57.600 --> 0:13:59.360 I was in no hurry, so I just circling it 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:04.120 started going. I finally like said, uh, okay, or I 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:05.640 just can't figure out how to get there, he said 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:07.760 in a very thick Spanish accent. So I got out 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:09.679 my phone. I turn left here, turn left here, turn 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:11.480 right again. Okay, you can drop me off there. But 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:13.080 I mean, I don't know if he's a good driver 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.240 on the rest of his life. But got this notice 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:19.960 before one driver picked me up. Your lift driver is deaf? 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:24.080 Please text instead of calling. Learn how to say hello 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:27.880 or thank you an American sign language, which I tweeted. 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:29.280 Out and responded with, got this notice. 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:31.880 Oh sure, I'll just pick up sign language real quick 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:33.280 while I'm standing here on the corner. 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:34.240 No problem. 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:37.560 But it brought me a bunch of hate from people, 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:41.200 uh who believe I was being really like coarse and 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:46.520 non sympathetic to our disabled countryman by not learning it. 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:48.280 Oh would that really be too much to learn a 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:50.560 little sign language for someone who's deaf? 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:51.520 Wow? 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:55.960 How about to say hello, I wave with a smile 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:57.680 on face and to say thank you I give him 0:14:57.680 --> 0:14:59.520 a thumbs up with a smile on my phone. Or 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:01.320 how about we I don't interact at all, which is 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:04.320 my first favorite go to a proposal of marriage and 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:05.080 or a threat. 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:07.160 No, it's universally understood. 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:10.160 Well, So aside from the hate for me being so 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:14.400 lacking and compassionate for our deaf friends that I wouldn't 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:16.800 learn sign language real quick. Well, I'm standing there with 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:19.280 my bags on the corner. I don't pick up a 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:24.000 foreign language, which it is real quick. Uh, A number 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.280 of people texted. Now that's what the people do who 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:28.320 can't speak English, so that they don't get out. It 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:30.520 is not being able to speak English. It's very common 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:35.840 in l Yeah, yeah, I took this job. I don't 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:39.560 speak English. And to get around that, there are too. 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.960 Many layers to modern life. I swear, oh no, no, 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:45.160 you don't understand that this is going on. That and 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:47.440 here in LA is posed everywhere else. And then the 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:50.640 driver is going to claim to be Armenian because Armenians, 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:53.200 of course have no thumbs, and if you have no thumbs, 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:57.560 you don't have to turn right. Oh, this is too much. 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:00.920 I would assume that it's a requirement to drive lift 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.680 or uber you speak English, right, because how else can 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:06.440 your passengers say no, drop me off here, or I've 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:08.320 changed my mind. I'd rather go to blah blah blah 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:11.680 if you can't talk to the person, or I vomited 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:16.520 in your back seat exactly, But if the but if 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:19.200 what we're going for here is some sort of agreement 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.960 where there's no chit chat. Sign me up. I'm all 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.480 day long, Pedro. I'm with you. Let's so you don't 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:27.360 talk to me. I don't talk to you. We're all happy. 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:30.720 I don't care if you're deaf or Guatemalan or Armenian 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:31.520 and umbless. 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:35.040 We're both happy here. Drop me off, just drive all city. 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:37.760 Yeah, drop me off someone near near my hotel, within 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:39.840 walking distance, and we'll call it good. 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:43.720 It's the big one that says help not it right there? 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:49.000 Oh that's right. You can't understand me, never mind right, wow, if. 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:51.280 You don't lie on the economy coming up in a 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:52.160 moment or two. 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:53.280 Joe's I'm the economy. 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:57.360 I've got an interesting nugget too about a consumer spending 0:16:57.360 --> 0:16:57.880 that we'll get to. 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:00.480 Uh what was I going to say? I must say, 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:02.120 I don't know. I've flip it out of my head. 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:03.960 Anyway, if you missed a segment or now, you can 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:05.600 get the podcast Armstrong and get you on demand. 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:07.520 We do four hours every day. I mean, it's ridiculous, 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:12.040 it's too much. I'm being held without against my will. Yes, 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:13.560 stay tuned if you can. 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:18.280 The economy stuff is actually really interesting, in thought provoking. 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:21.399 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.240 I'm not going to talk about it today, but the 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:30.160 topic that's about to take over our lives for those 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:35.240 of us who follow the news is the whole tax thing, 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:38.960 that bill that you got to get to like in 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:41.320 the next couple of weeks. There's a couple of giant 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:43.280 bills that are going to be proposed in the next 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:45.360 couple of weeks that are going to dominate the political 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:47.600 conversation for like the next six months. 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:49.439 Probably now. 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:52.160 If you're listening a while ago, you heard me challenge 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:54.520 Michaelangelow to come up with a good theme song. 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:54.880 Jack. 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:57.199 The tax bill might be in a future edition of 0:17:57.560 --> 0:18:01.560 I on the Economy like that. 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:06.480 I'm Kent Brockman. That's good. Ten out of ten. 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:10.320 The money, yes, that's oh wow. 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:13.399 It's turned harsh there, but I don't mind it. This 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:17.680 sounds like your local news in like nineteen ninety. 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:21.879 Eight seven dollars. 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:25.879 Hip it up a little bit and it's hi on 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:26.680 the Galloway. 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:28.560 I'm Joe Ketty. 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:33.320 Oh that's beautiful. Just tightened it up and when they 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:35.680 will be right in the sweet spot. So a couple 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:37.760 of stories I found very very interesting. 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:38.520 Uh. 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:42.920 First of all, the weird weird housing market we're in, 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:46.640 which everybody knows no matter whether you're in a house, 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:49.240 hoping to buy a house, hoping to sell a house, renting, 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:53.480 what have you. A nice piece by Alicia Finley in 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:56.480 the Wall Street Journal White of housing prices keep climbing 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:57.960 despite higher interest rates. 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:01.159 Well, the Biden and it's been confusing to me. 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:05.679 Oh yeah, Well, the Biden administration did some real activist 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:09.800 stuff that was Obama esque and did not really get 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:14.080 much attention. The federal government has allowed barwers to take 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:17.480 out much bigger mortgages they than they can really afford 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:22.160 to prevent foreclosures. That's bailing them out when they missed payments. 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:28.200 Behold another subprime housing bubble. Ah. The problems began, Alicia Wrights, 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:31.600 when the Obama administration eased underwriting standards by enabling more 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:35.200 home buyers whose debt payments exceeded forty three percent of 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:40.640 income oh to qualify for government backed loans forty three. 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:42.800 A higher than that. 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:46.600 So that sort of borrower is risky obviously, because they 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:48.320 might not be able to make payments if their income 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:50.359 drops or expenses rise, or you know, they blow all 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:54.159 four tires or whatever. You as the home client prices climbed, 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:58.600 the FHA, the Federal Housing Administration ensured more loans to 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:01.639 financially stretch borrows with as little as three and a 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:04.879 half percent down. Now, this was the Obama time, no 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:08.240 skin off lenders backs if the bar was defaulted, since 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:12.080 the mortgages were backed by the government. And you remember 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:15.560