Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jetty and Key Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: Congresswoman Porter, your thoughts on the idea of funding for
Speaker 3: undocumented immigrants statewide?
Speaker 4: Yes? Yes, And that's, by the way, what I think
Speaker 4: Californians deserve as answers to these questions, Elix.
Speaker 2: And for critics. Yeah, so that's all I need. I
Speaker 2: didn't watch the debate last night, California do gubernatorial debate
Speaker 2: because I only get three score and ten years on
Speaker 2: this earth, or that's what the Bible predicts. I'm hoping
Speaker 2: I get more now. I'm hoping for like threescore and thirty,
Speaker 2: but you only get that many years on Earth. And
Speaker 2: I'm not going to spend any of them watching the
Speaker 2: California to cubernatorial debate. But anyway, that was Katie Porter
Speaker 2: asking the question, should illegal get health care paid for
Speaker 2: by the taxpayers? And she's an enthusiastic yes. So that's
Speaker 2: all you need to know about that.
Speaker 1: Good God, including sex changes of course for legal immigrant felons.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how does that not end up being such a
Speaker 2: fringe position. Nobody would say it out loud. That's like
Speaker 2: the mainstream Democratic position.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Katie Porter, that delicate flower of American womanhood.
Speaker 1: Here she is in clip eighty six.
Speaker 2: Master, what's your view? What's your response?
Speaker 4: Donald Trump sucks and I don't think that anyone who
Speaker 4: doesn't see that he is targeting and hurting Californians and
Speaker 4: won't stand up for everybody who is counting on them
Speaker 4: to be their leader and keep them safe, has no
Speaker 4: business being governed.
Speaker 2: Did the moderators at any point say Donald Trump's not
Speaker 2: running for governor? So yeah, I was just gonna make
Speaker 2: the point that, well, if you're if your main strategy
Speaker 2: is to get stupid people to vote for you, you
Speaker 2: go with stupid arguments.
Speaker 1: And the main tone of the debate there was a
Speaker 1: lot about immigration, which is a federal matter, not a
Speaker 1: state matter, although with the whole sanctuary state thing it
Speaker 1: kind of crosses that line improperly if you ask me.
Speaker 1: But all of the Democratic candidates seemed to be running
Speaker 1: against Donald J. Trump, with the exception of Matt Mahon,
Speaker 1: who's not made much you know, headway so far as
Speaker 1: far as anybody can tell. But running against Trump which
Speaker 1: will affect gas prices in the state. How I mean,
Speaker 1: arguably I ran, but you can't run against Trump. You're
Speaker 1: running for governor. How about go ahead?
Speaker 2: I agree with you, but I think to be fair,
Speaker 2: I'm just thinking about people I know who are that
Speaker 2: crowd that are just obsessed with hating Trump. That's what
Speaker 2: they want to hear. They want to hear that you
Speaker 2: hate Trump too good. He hates Trump. She ates Trump
Speaker 2: as much as I do, thank God.
Speaker 1: Which is how California get to the state it is
Speaker 1: politically speaking, let's get some Steve Hilton going here, John
Speaker 1: with that sweet little miss porter Ady b here, Michael.
Speaker 5: But I'd like to actually respond to something Katie said,
Speaker 5: and I think it's probably a sincere policy difference between us.
Speaker 5: She said something very revealing, which is the only way
Speaker 5: really that California's economy has been growing in the last
Speaker 5: few years is through illegal immigration. And I just don't
Speaker 5: think that's the right way for us to be growing.
Speaker 5: I think we need to help small businesses create jobs
Speaker 5: and opportunity, and for Californians to be able to earn
Speaker 5: more and live the California dream, and for entrepreneurs to
Speaker 5: want to start businesses in California. That's how we should
Speaker 5: be growing our economy, not by illegal immigration.
Speaker 1: Congressrom and Porter.
Speaker 4: I mean, given that you're an immigrant and you added
Speaker 4: to our legals and we're all having to live with
Speaker 4: the consequences of that decision.
Speaker 5: Katie, it's there's a difference I think you'll accept between
Speaker 5: legal and illegal immigration.
Speaker 4: Yes, and I wasn't referring to what I was saying
Speaker 4: that immigration has been a major source of growth in
Speaker 4: California's economy, and.
Speaker 2: That is true. I'm booking a room at the Steve Hilton.
Speaker 1: How dare that fascist give that speech? I didn't actually
Speaker 1: pay attention to it, but I think he's a Republican,
Speaker 1: so so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the fact that she's for free healthcare for illegals
Speaker 2: is all I need to know about her. She's lost
Speaker 2: a lot of weight though, she's clearly on one of
Speaker 2: the gop ones because I saw the You're in My
Speaker 2: Shot video last night again. Yeah, and then her new
Speaker 2: ad and she's God, she's forty pounds lighter in her
Speaker 2: new ad. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Politicians do that. They can, Salem just tell them, Hey,
Speaker 1: to Porky, you gotta drop some weight. That's what the
Speaker 1: consultants is unless you're Trump. Yeah too, damn porky. So
Speaker 1: there are some fireworks. I do enjoy fireworks between Chad Bianco,
Speaker 1: the La Area Sheriff, and Antonio Viagro Saw among others.
Speaker 1: Let's start with eighty three, Michael, and go to the
Speaker 1: next one after that.
Speaker 2: You know you're an oathkeeper. We all know that, and
Speaker 2: I'm very of it. Well, I'm very proud of them.
Speaker 6: And guess what You're gonna swear an oath, and you
Speaker 6: swore an oath, you should know what you were swearing
Speaker 6: and be proud of defending it.
Speaker 2: Don't think an oath keeper is qualified to be gone.
Speaker 6: I don't think you know what an oath keeper.
Speaker 2: Let me let me answer the question.
Speaker 1: I said, if an undocumented person committed murder, they should
Speaker 1: be held accountable.
Speaker 2: They should go to jail. And you keep on saying
Speaker 2: that sanctuary prevents violent criminals. From that, I didn't.
Speaker 6: I said it prevents criminals. I said it prevents criminals.
Speaker 2: Don't buy for me. Fact as I said earlier.
Speaker 7: Thousands have been turned over since twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: Obviously not enough. And then the the ear is where
Speaker 2: it gets better.
Speaker 6: No one has broken the lawn in California. And this
Speaker 6: is why we fight in the streets and people are
Speaker 6: out rioting, burning down Los Angeles. Because politicians like this
Speaker 6: sit and lie to everyone. They get the I'm all
Speaker 6: next emotion because they and you.
Speaker 2: Said you're a proud oath Keeper.
Speaker 3: Are you referring to.
Speaker 6: The group I've sworn an oath three times to defend
Speaker 6: my constitution. Yes, and everybody that wants to like again
Speaker 6: lie and emotionally get all spun up about the oath
Speaker 6: Keeper organization. I just would before you do that, and
Speaker 6: I know none of you have. I want you to
Speaker 6: go read the mission statement of the oath Keeper mission
Speaker 6: statement and they saw.
Speaker 2: Them on attacking the capital.
Speaker 6: And the ACLU. I saw a politician molesting kids. Does
Speaker 6: that mean you molest kids? What exactly? You don't pull
Speaker 6: those stupid statements out and expect.
Speaker 2: Your out keepers. You have no reason there is to
Speaker 2: be governor of California.
Speaker 6: I am extremely proud of swearing an oath to defend
Speaker 6: my constitution against politicians like this.
Speaker 2: And do you still consider yourself a member of that group?
Speaker 2: To be clear, no, that's a pretty funny response. What
Speaker 2: I debates have a habit habit of this happening. Really
Speaker 2: good debaters pivot from things that aren't important, like the
Speaker 2: oathkeepers saying because that they're way too long a discussion
Speaker 2: about something that most people are like, I don't even
Speaker 2: know what that means. It's like when Trump and Biden
Speaker 2: got off on golf scores. Oh lord, really disciplined discipline.
Speaker 2: Debaters always pivot it back to an issue people actually
Speaker 2: care about, no matter what the question was.
Speaker 1: I think I cited that as the low moment in
Speaker 1: an American history, might including like the Battle van Tietum.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Do you want to know the scores from the
Speaker 2: California Post for everybody last night? Yeah? Actually, yeah, let's
Speaker 2: bottom line it. How's each did they thought Javier Bessera
Speaker 2: had the best night? With an A. He's the former
Speaker 2: Secretary of Health and Human Services. He has run like
Speaker 2: a big as a budget that he can practically have
Speaker 2: some planet Earth. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: He is an awful, awful democrat, but he's a skilled politician.
Speaker 2: I think I think he's probably gonna be the next governor.
Speaker 1: And gave it if I had a bit money, Yeah,
Speaker 1: in some weird compulsory casino.
Speaker 2: Yes, they gave Chad Bianco a B plus, another strong
Speaker 2: debate performance for him. Steve Hilton got a B. Said
Speaker 2: he had to dance around questions tying him to the president.
Speaker 2: I'll bet if he had his choices, he didn't get
Speaker 2: endorsed by Trump. But yeah, net negative styr B minus.
Speaker 2: This is his best performance ever, which isn't saying much.
Speaker 2: Matt Mayhannes c that's the mayor of San Jose. Antonio
Speaker 2: Viros got a D. Katie Porter a D minus.
Speaker 1: Oh, get off of my fing grade.
Speaker 2: Abysmal performance from a candidate who really needed to do well.
Speaker 2: She committed political malpractice by bringing up the thing voters
Speaker 2: don't like about her temperament and then used foul languages
Speaker 2: as if driving home the point. I don't know if
Speaker 2: I buy that sort of thing. People seem to like
Speaker 2: the cussing. It shows how how much you hate Trump.
Speaker 2: You say, F Trump. Yeah, I agree, F Trump. It
Speaker 2: seems to be kind of where we are. I don't
Speaker 2: like that that's where we are. But I don't think
Speaker 2: it damages you. I'd say, if it's going to hurt
Speaker 2: you or help you, it helps you more than it
Speaker 2: hurts you. Be my guess.
Speaker 1: I was so excited that Katie Porter was going to
Speaker 1: come in for a kicking there.
Speaker 2: But no, I agree with you. That's an eye of
Speaker 2: the beholder problem.
Speaker 1: That's written from the perspective of, you know, a conservative
Speaker 1: or moderate conservative on the left, where they are so
Speaker 1: frothing at the mouths obsessed with Trump.
Speaker 2: You know you do this.
Speaker 1: I can't put up with it. But if you listen
Speaker 1: to NPR for half an hour and then ms NOW
Speaker 1: for half an hour, you'll think, holy crapeh. I knew
Speaker 1: they were obsessed, but I didn't know was this bad.
Speaker 2: It's amazing. So Katie Porter, it's going She's going for
Speaker 2: that vote, the primary voter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I find it abhorrent, but it's not unwise.
Speaker 2: But what do you think about the whole that ad
Speaker 2: where at the end she says, now get out of
Speaker 2: my shot and then laughs that was a good idea.
Speaker 2: Why not? Yeah? Yeah, I agreed with you when you
Speaker 2: said it.
Speaker 1: I thought the consultants who steered her in that direction
Speaker 1: were right, and she came off as thoroughly reasonable. She
Speaker 1: didn't mention that she will it's big in being a
Speaker 1: single mom. She didn't mention wise.
Speaker 2: She's a single mom.
Speaker 1: Having attacked her husband with boiling potatoes among other you know,
Speaker 1: a snack and side dish foods.
Speaker 2: The polly threw rice.
Speaker 1: In my eyes and then god dang it, she dumpta
Speaker 1: or boiling hot to medley of spring vegetables down my pants.
Speaker 2: The latest polling we had yesterday, Unless there's been new
Speaker 2: pulling since then that I haven't seen, it's still the
Speaker 2: first place person is in the teens. Correct. There's so
Speaker 2: many candidates and there's so many undecideds that I really
Speaker 2: think practically anybody could emerge when people start getting out
Speaker 2: of the race. So it's very very up to start
Speaker 2: talking about who's first and second and if we had
Speaker 2: the runoff today is really nonsensical.
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially in a state where the whoever's the anointed
Speaker 1: Democrat is almost certainly going to win.
Speaker 2: And it brings me no pleasure saying that.
Speaker 1: And the most obvious you know guy is probably Bisera
Speaker 1: because he's had big, big offices. He did miserably at them,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't matter. Yeah, it's Biserah.
Speaker 2: I sure hope you get a Republican and a Democrat
Speaker 2: to run against each other, at least because people will
Speaker 2: pay attention.
Speaker 1: At least a little bit, and I would love to
Speaker 1: hear and I think Steve Hilton's more likely in chad Bianco,
Speaker 1: but you know, to each their own, I would love
Speaker 1: to hear that discussion just it would help at least
Speaker 1: to inch the electorate back toward reasonableness.
Speaker 2: Maybe, Oh, we're going to take a break. I just
Speaker 2: saw a headline in the Los Angeles Times California's biggest
Speaker 2: cities are heading in opposite directions. Why La is struggling
Speaker 2: while San Francisco is beginning a new life. There's no
Speaker 2: doubt about that. If you haven't been to San Francisco
Speaker 2: in the last two years or so, it's completely different
Speaker 2: than it was before. Policy matters, which was part of
Speaker 2: the point of the debate last night from the Steve
Speaker 2: Hilton side. For instance, does La have a two thousand
Speaker 2: pounds Sea Lion? No, No, they don't. What's his name, Chonkers, Chonkers.
Speaker 2: Chalker's still hanging around. That's a thick boy. I'll bet
Speaker 2: Chonkers goes on the gpl ones.
Speaker 1: No. Oh, he's all been totally into the whole fat
Speaker 1: acceptance thing. Then he's gonna flip and all of his
Speaker 1: followers are gonna hate him.
Speaker 2: For it right, but he'll be he'll have a six
Speaker 2: pack or a halfty pack. I don't know how many
Speaker 2: abs they have.
Speaker 1: Plus he'll have to get a hide tuck as well.
Speaker 2: Oh, he loses the way too quickly. Saggy skin, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it happens. We got more on the way. Stay here.
Speaker 3: Airlines are pinching pennies on snacks, and everyday Americans are
Speaker 3: struggling to make ends meet, which means it's the perfect
Speaker 3: time for the met Gala, the annual event when Americans
Speaker 3: come together to watch the richest people wear the most
Speaker 3: expensive clothes that make you say.
Speaker 2: What, that's crazy. The dress code this year.
Speaker 3: Was fashion is Art, which is nice but a little predictable.
Speaker 3: It's always fashion this and fashion that. Maybe just one
Speaker 3: year it could be something cool, like big rig trucks.
Speaker 2: I want to replay something we played earlier in the show.
Speaker 2: We were talking about what a great job Marco Rubio
Speaker 2: did yesterday doing the White House Press Conference. I really
Speaker 2: liked what he said had to say about the United States,
Speaker 2: and I just came across this Rich Lowry of the
Speaker 2: National Review, who I really like, retweeted the whole this
Speaker 2: may be the most articular response I've ever heard of
Speaker 2: this question. Marco was asked basically, what's good about America
Speaker 2: in this time? What hope do you have for America?
Speaker 2: With that whole you know, clearly we suck attitude that
Speaker 2: the media has and these are the hardest times ever.
Speaker 2: And I want to play this just because I want
Speaker 2: to memorize some of these phrases for when it comes
Speaker 2: up with, you know, my argument, my son's history teacher
Speaker 2: or whatever. Here's Marco Rubio from yesterday my hope.
Speaker 7: For America, and it's the same deal with that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Look, I mean my hope for America is what it's
Speaker 7: always been. I think it's the hope I hope we
Speaker 7: all share. We want it to continue to be the
Speaker 7: place where anyone from anywhere can achieve anything, where you're
Speaker 7: not limited by the circumstances of your birth, by the
Speaker 7: color of your skin, by your ethnicity. But frankly, it's
Speaker 7: a place where you are able to overcome challenges and
Speaker 7: achieve your full potential. I think that should be the
Speaker 7: goal of every country in the world. Frankly, but I
Speaker 7: think in the US we're not perfect. Our history is
Speaker 7: not one of perfection, but it's still better than anybody
Speaker 7: else's history, and ours is the story of perpetual improvement.
Speaker 7: Each generation has left the next generation of Americans freer,
Speaker 7: more prosperous, safer, and that is our goal as well.
Speaker 7: But it is a unique and exceptional country. As we
Speaker 7: come upon this two hundred and fifty year anniversary, I
Speaker 7: think we have a lot to learn and be proud
Speaker 7: of in our history. It is one of perpetual and
Speaker 7: continuous improvement, where each generation has done its part to
Speaker 7: bring us closer to fulfilling the vision that the founders
Speaker 7: of this country had upon its founding.
Speaker 2: That would be impressive if it was written. That was
Speaker 2: his extemporaneous answer to that question, and that might be
Speaker 2: the most articulate answer I've ever heard of that sort
Speaker 2: of question.
Speaker 1: Wow, certainly off the cuff. Yeah, it was absolutely brilliantly
Speaker 1: structured and everything. Those who would tear down this country
Speaker 1: in Western civilization in general, would deny a lot of that.
Speaker 1: But they have to deny it because you.
Speaker 2: Couldn't with any facts to back it up though.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, that's why they lie so much and
Speaker 1: how they twist or you know, history being as vast
Speaker 1: as it is, if you pick you know this two
Speaker 1: percent of the things that have happened and act like
Speaker 1: that's really the whole story. You can you can come
Speaker 1: up with any story you want. Ans story is this
Speaker 1: is a horrible country.
Speaker 2: That's why I really like the part where he said
Speaker 2: certainly better than any other country's history. That's the part
Speaker 2: I really like, because, yeah, exaggerate our flaws all you want,
Speaker 2: make them ten times worse than they are, still better
Speaker 2: than Great Britain, French. What country you're gonna hold up
Speaker 2: and use as an example whose history is better than
Speaker 2: the United States? Right, because everybody's got that sort of
Speaker 2: sordid past, only worse and longer, right, Right.
Speaker 1: The one thing people have to understand is that the
Speaker 1: Marxists lie. They lie a lot because they rely on you.
Speaker 1: Assuming they have good intentions and you're trying to discuss something,
Speaker 1: you can get to the truth. But they're not, to
Speaker 1: quote James Lindsay, for Marxist dialogue is not a way
Speaker 1: of attaining truth. It's a form for manipulation. So they
Speaker 1: manipulate history, and they lie and just and we let
Speaker 1: them into the schools, so well try to take them out.
Speaker 2: So, as I said, from here to July fourth, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna do nothing but founding nonfiction books. I'm into the
Speaker 2: new John Adams book and really really good stuff. But
Speaker 2: I had a friend he was super into histor. I
Speaker 2: remember asking him years ago the classic question, what do
Speaker 2: you think the Founders would say if they were brought
Speaker 2: back to day? And his answer was probably right. Good god,
Speaker 2: I can't believe it worked that it's still going after
Speaker 2: all this time. They would probably be shocked and happily.
Speaker 2: So it's a good point. Oh, we got a lot
Speaker 2: more on the link Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6: Joe.
Speaker 2: Take a look at that video I just sent you
Speaker 2: of a pitch a sho Heo Tani through last night
Speaker 2: the picture for the Dodgers. The guy swung at it,
Speaker 2: which means it looked like a strike to him as
Speaker 2: it was coming toward him. I was a ose Altuve
Speaker 2: who's won a couple of World Series himself, so not
Speaker 2: a bad hitter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a bit of a free swinger, but good god,
Speaker 1: look at that pitch that was like five feet off
Speaker 1: the well.
Speaker 2: Must not have looked like that way it was coming anyway.
Speaker 2: Shoeo Tani of the Dodgers was named Pitcher of the
Speaker 2: Month in the National League because he's the best pitcher
Speaker 2: in the National League and the most feared hitter in
Speaker 2: base well, which is just ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Shouldn't happen at the same time. Yeah, yeah, Wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: So I'm trying to figure out if we have time
Speaker 1: for this? Why not? Uh, it's funny. Awareness is good.
Speaker 2: I think solving.
Speaker 1: Problems starts with awareness, even if their giants societal problems
Speaker 1: came across One really interesting book review about this.
Speaker 2: Gal Fraya, India is her name, tells.
Speaker 1: The story of how girls her age she's a gen zer,
Speaker 1: were transformed by the modern world into products for consumption,
Speaker 1: shaped by social media, beauty filters, big tech. She says,
Speaker 1: young women in particular are starting to see themselves as
Speaker 1: something more and more like products rather than people. They're
Speaker 1: growing up seeing themselves as basically nothing but an object
Speaker 1: in a marketplace, and the goal of their life is
Speaker 1: to optimize themselves for the market, to package up their
Speaker 1: experiences and then to be rated and reviewed by people online.
Speaker 1: Her book explores all these different areas of girls' lives,
Speaker 1: how they look, how they feel, their relationships, and how
Speaker 1: they feel about the future. She said, I found there
Speaker 1: was so much in modern life that was magnifying these
Speaker 1: normal anxieties and more than that, exploiting them for profit.
Speaker 1: That makes really good sense to me. I've known a
Speaker 1: handful of young women who are super online and super
Speaker 1: Instagrammy and curating their feed and getting dolled up and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. And you are, in essence a product.
Speaker 1: I mean, I understand, I get it intuitively because we're
Speaker 1: a product. I'd like to think our product is, you know,
Speaker 1: fairly thoughtful discussion of what's happening in the world. But
Speaker 1: I understand that I am a product. I don't think
Speaker 1: adolescent girls who are desperate for approval understand that that's
Speaker 1: what they've become. Sounds pretty insightful to me.
Speaker 2: So hard for me to get in that headspace because
Speaker 2: I've never been a girl and i haven't been a
Speaker 2: teenager for a very very long time, but it doesn't
Speaker 2: surprise me that the way all of our communication and
Speaker 2: so media is built that that could happen. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I said, it makes really good intuitive sense.
Speaker 2: What is the name of this book?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, because I hear mothers and dads of
Speaker 1: adolescent and young adult women saying, what.
Speaker 2: The hell is the title. I need to get it,
Speaker 2: moby Dick. Moby Dick is correct. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, it's girls with an R as in a trademark. Okay,
Speaker 1: simply yeah. And then I came across this. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't be laughing, but I am. A survey of
Speaker 1: two thousand Americans found that one in three say they're
Speaker 1: currently experiencing an existential crisis.
Speaker 2: So does that mean you think you're gonna die? What's
Speaker 2: an existential crisis for a person? Yeah? See, that's the problem.
Speaker 1: If you don't agree on a definition, then that's why
Speaker 1: social you know, issue polling can be so ridiculous. Z
Speaker 1: leads all generations fit slightly over half of gen Z
Speaker 1: or say I'm in the middle of an existential crisis.
Speaker 2: What.
Speaker 1: Yeah, seems a little high. It's hilariously high. But I
Speaker 1: think we need to put aside our hilarity just for
Speaker 1: the moment. Stressful was the most common word Americans used
Speaker 1: to describe twenty twenty six so far. Thirty five percent
Speaker 1: said that's the number one word I would use, and
Speaker 1: respondent said they've already absorbed an average Yes.
Speaker 2: Well, how would you describe twenty twenty six so far?
Speaker 2: We're into May. I don't know if I would have
Speaker 2: a description same as different day. I don't know what
Speaker 2: I would probably be.
Speaker 1: An equivaler say you want me to reduce all of
Speaker 1: my experiences in the last four and a half months
Speaker 1: to a single word, No about what I expected. I
Speaker 1: don't know what to tell you. Ups and downs. That's
Speaker 1: three words.
Speaker 2: Deal with it. Let's see.
Speaker 1: Responders say they've already absorbed an average of two major
Speaker 1: unplanned life changes this year.
Speaker 2: Now, if you're twenty three, I could just say stuff
Speaker 2: like that, major unplanned life changes in five months. That's
Speaker 2: correct as a twenty three year old, although you pretty
Speaker 2: much I had to lose a limit get pregnant to
Speaker 2: pull that off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, but that's see, that's the problem again.
Speaker 1: It's a lack of a definition of terms. Uh not
Speaker 1: Pogosian or was it Bogosian Height whoever? Wrote a couple
Speaker 1: of absolutely wonderful books about how we're teaching kids to
Speaker 1: do the opposite of what cognitive behavioral therapy teaches them,
Speaker 1: which is to understand their thought patterns and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: We're teaching youngsters to catastrophize everything. The slightest setback is
Speaker 1: a what was that major unplanned life change. So one
Speaker 1: of the major unplanned life changes, particularly for a woman,
Speaker 1: is when uggs the style for ugs went out from
Speaker 1: calf high to ankle high, and you realize you had
Speaker 1: to get a new pair of bugs. That's one of
Speaker 1: the major unplanned life changes and existential threats.
Speaker 2: Let's see.
Speaker 1: Financial pressure is a dominant driver across all age groups,
Speaker 1: with a separate survey finding that eighty seven percent of
Speaker 1: Americans believe the country is in an affordability crisis and
Speaker 1: half struggle to pay basic bills. Well, I'm not surprised
Speaker 1: by that, given the ramp and inflation unleashed by the
Speaker 1: Biden administration and not helped very much by the Trump administration,
Speaker 1: and fairness. Despite widespread anxiety, seventy nine percent of Americans
Speaker 1: say they're planning some kind of midyear reset. Nearly a
Speaker 1: third say twenty twenty six has gone better than expected. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I don't know. There's some amusement there, but not
Speaker 1: a lot of information. And then I came across this
Speaker 1: and it's long. Derek Thompson writes about trends and economics
Speaker 1: and polls and stuff like that. Really interesting writer's got
Speaker 1: a substack like everybody, but its title is of America
Speaker 1: is so rich? How did it get so sad? And
Speaker 1: he goes into stuff we've talked about a lot, you know,
Speaker 1: poll results saying people are feeling worse and worse and
Speaker 1: more and more pessimistic. But then if you go to
Speaker 1: an economist, then you look at people's standards of living
Speaker 1: and actual buying power and that sort of stuff. It's
Speaker 1: not that bad. Inflation is scary, though, I do not poopoo.
Speaker 1: No people being freaked out by inflation. No, we got
Speaker 1: into this too much last week. I don't want to
Speaker 1: get into it again. Right, Take take whatever you've got
Speaker 1: saved up and change it into two thousand.
Speaker 2: Dollars and give it. Get an idea of inflation and
Speaker 2: how much less it is than you think it is. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's scary.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the government stole thirty percent of your savings anyway,
Speaker 1: But is it possible that.
Speaker 2: We as a society forever had as soon as I
Speaker 2: get this, I'll be happy. And then we all got
Speaker 2: this whatever this is, and we realized we're Oh, that
Speaker 2: wasn't fulfilling, little bummer? Is that what probably happened to
Speaker 2: that country? Yeah?
Speaker 1: We're an enormously consumerist society. Sure, yeah, But he points
Speaker 1: out that the US has fallen to his lowest rank
Speaker 1: ever in the World Happiness Report, largely due to the
Speaker 1: astonishingly swift decline and well being among young people in
Speaker 1: that international survey, which is awful, And he asks who
Speaker 1: killed the vibes?
Speaker 2: I would say, say, I got two teenagers, and uh,
Speaker 2: they're unhappy more than they should be given their lifestyle.
Speaker 2: I would definitely say, I mean, if they had to
Speaker 2: live the life my dad left led to just go back,
Speaker 2: you know, generation before me, compared to what that was.
Speaker 2: You know, a school in manual labor through your entire
Speaker 2: teen years and no stuff, zero stuff, zero stuff, zero entertainment,
Speaker 2: just score work and physical labor. Would you still be
Speaker 2: as uh like me as you are today? Probably not.
Speaker 1: Why doesn't every human being know? Why wasn't I taught earlier?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: My parents were wonderful, but why wasn't I taught earlier
Speaker 1: that unrealistic expectations are an utter murderer of joy, and
Speaker 1: they cause you to ignore everything that's good, and comparison
Speaker 1: with other people is the thief of joy. Everybody should
Speaker 1: know that, like they know, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Early to bed, early to our eyes. Ben Franklin probably
Speaker 1: had a good one of those, but it didn't rhymes,
Speaker 1: so nobody remembers it.
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
Speaker 1: So anyway, this guy's trying to figure out what is
Speaker 1: it because COVID was terrible, terrible in a lot of
Speaker 1: ways and ruined people's moods, but we should have bounced back.
Speaker 2: And he's says it's probably not.
Speaker 1: A cultural, big cultural shift like the decline of religion,
Speaker 1: because that's been going on for decades now. It's probably
Speaker 1: not about old fashioned wage inequality, and he cites the statistics.
Speaker 1: It's probably not just about phones and social media. It's
Speaker 1: part of it. But and then he says, the third
Speaker 1: section of this article is the permademic, The pandemic never ended,
Speaker 1: Part one. The sheer uses the s word poopiness of inflation. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so the pandemic going into rampant inflation. Then you've got
Speaker 1: the smartphone world.
Speaker 2: And I think, and I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I don't think he gets well, this is very, very long.
Speaker 1: I'm trying desperately to summarize. But he also gets to
Speaker 1: what we were talking about. I guess it was last
Speaker 1: hour that you are an You are constantly a target
Speaker 1: of politics, and you'd never get political change or contributions
Speaker 1: or enthusiasm unless you can convince people that they are
Speaker 1: getting screwed and that change has to happen, or if
Speaker 1: you're the party in power, that if the other guys
Speaker 1: get power, you will be royally screwed and you wish
Speaker 1: that change hadn't happened. So in an era of everybody
Speaker 1: obsessed with politics every day of their lives, the most
Speaker 1: powerful forces in our society are constantly selling misery because
Speaker 1: that's the only way they can get your attention, to
Speaker 1: your votes, and your money.
Speaker 2: I think that's a huge part of it. So what,
Speaker 2: going back to the beginning, what percentage of people say
Speaker 2: that they've experienced an existential threat or Looking owner.
Speaker 1: That study, a third of people say they're currently experiencing
Speaker 1: an existential crisis.
Speaker 2: So I ask Quaud what that would mean when you're
Speaker 2: talking about a person. It said, literally, it's a threat
Speaker 2: to your life for survival, serious illness, violence, severe poverty,
Speaker 2: or anything that could end their existence. But the phrase
Speaker 2: often gets used loosely too, especially for young people like this.
Speaker 2: Deadline is an existential threat to my sanity. It's hyperbole
Speaker 2: for something that just feels overwhelming. Well, good God. If
Speaker 2: we're going to use I'm dying for when I feel
Speaker 2: somewhat overwhelmed, it's going to be hard to have conversations.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of Luis K's bit about the words literally, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm literally starving.
Speaker 2: No, you're not. I like this psychological or philosophical sense.
Speaker 2: A threat to the foundations of who they are, their
Speaker 2: sense of meaning, purpose, identity, or place in the world.
Speaker 2: That's probably what people mean. Huh.
Speaker 1: I could believe that, particularly because it was gen Z
Speaker 1: that fifty two percent of them say they're currently undergoing
Speaker 1: a Can you repeat that.
Speaker 2: Threat to their sense of meaning, purpose, identity, or place
Speaker 2: in the world. That's fair enough. Yeah. As a young person, yeah,
Speaker 2: especially with the pace Yeah, I don't know what it's
Speaker 2: like to be a teenager with the TikTok paste brain.
Speaker 2: It was rough enough at the slow pace brain.
Speaker 8: They're insane in the brain, exactly, Marco, Thank you, mister
Speaker 8: Secretary National Security Advisor dj soa uh press uh Press
Speaker 8: Secretary yesterday filling I bet we.
Speaker 2: Don't understand the sense of time that teenagers have if
Speaker 2: we didn't live at ourselves. We all know time speeds
Speaker 2: up when you get older and that whole thing. But
Speaker 2: what's there? You know, just with the TikTok, everything's fast
Speaker 2: and short. I just that's that's a factor for sure.
Speaker 1: I bet it is plus in again being a drama
Speaker 1: queen as part of being young.
Speaker 2: I have no problem.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to criticize the youngsters for that, because
Speaker 1: it was pointed out to me that, you know, a
Speaker 1: kidd'll say I've never been in this, I've never been
Speaker 1: this in love.
Speaker 2: Because you haven't, right, So fair enough. Yeah, I was
Speaker 2: about going off on a tangent when my son says
Speaker 2: about the pickings of teenage girls what they all think
Speaker 2: and believe. But hmm, I don't know if he's right
Speaker 2: or not. He piqued my curiosity. Yeah, he certainly could
Speaker 2: be right based on a lot of what I've read.
Speaker 2: We're going through a weird period. I wouldn't, you know,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't. I don't know. I was about to say
Speaker 2: I wouldn't want to be younger than I am. I
Speaker 2: suppose if I could sign down on a piece of
Speaker 2: paper and actually be younger than I would probably sign
Speaker 2: up for it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, if Satan's listening, I'll give you my home address.
Speaker 1: You can stop by. I'll sign the paperwork today.
Speaker 2: I guess a more accurate way to phrase it would
Speaker 2: be I wouldn't want to have lived my life during
Speaker 2: now as opposed to when I did, if I had
Speaker 2: to choose between the two. Yeah, yep, I hear you.
Speaker 2: We'll finish strong next. Look through my notes, things that
Speaker 2: I didn't get to yet, trying to figure out this
Speaker 2: thing I want to jam in here we talk about
Speaker 2: I don't want to do it now, but maybe tomorrow.
Speaker 2: We need to talk about US military deaths. People bring
Speaker 2: up how many soldiers we lost in Iraq in Afghanistan,
Speaker 2: tiny percentage compared to suicides. Why this isn't more of
Speaker 2: a topic, I do not know. It's amazing. Started on
Speaker 2: that because somebody, a friend of mine, was calling the
Speaker 2: VA hospital. He said, if you're committed thinking of committing suicide,
Speaker 2: press this number and someone will get back to you.
Speaker 2: And their response was like, WHOA, So there's not a
Speaker 2: live person there. You'll take my information and somebody will
Speaker 2: call me. Eventually, all the money we spend in the
Speaker 2: Pentagon budget, we can't have a human being to answer
Speaker 2: the phone when somebody says, yeah, I'm thinking to kill myself.
Speaker 2: Was a veteran. With the number of deaths we've had,
Speaker 2: I don't like that AnyWho. We will talk more about
Speaker 2: that tomorrow. Nick Fuentees, the world's most America's most famous
Speaker 2: Nazi anyway, confirmed that he is now a moderate Democrat
Speaker 2: yesterday calling for President Trump to be impeached. Wants the
Speaker 2: GOP to be destroyed, and he admitted that he's never
Speaker 2: cared about immigration. He just went along with it to
Speaker 2: get Trump elected. His sole litmus tests is the hatred
Speaker 2: of Israel, and the Democrats are closer to where he is.
Speaker 1: Wow, so he's just an old fashioned Jew hating fascist.
Speaker 2: Well what if you're the Democratic Party and he got
Speaker 2: Nick flente is the most famous Nazi in America saying yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm becoming a Democrat because you're a lot closer to
Speaker 2: where I am. And it's very provable that he's right. Yes,
Speaker 2: look at your college campuses. Nick Fluentes could have been
Speaker 2: on the campus at Columbia University that have been carrying
Speaker 2: him around on their shoulders.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, all he had to do was trim his
Speaker 1: rhetoric here a little bit insignificant ways. Yeah, I got
Speaker 1: all sorts of headlines about uh Anti Semitic attacks in
Speaker 1: the US reached a record high last year. Not surprisingly,
Speaker 1: it'll be broken this year. It's nineteen thirty six again.
Speaker 2: He got my sagiti out go get you what they got.
Speaker 2: He's through the fireworks. He sounds for final thoughts. Here's
Speaker 2: your host for final thoughts, Joe Daddy.
Speaker 1: Let's got final thoughts from everybody on the crew to
Speaker 1: wrap up the day. Michaelangelow in the control room. Michael,
Speaker 1: what's your final thought?
Speaker 2: I have a question.
Speaker 1: Will gas prices actually go back to normal or will
Speaker 1: they just lower them just enough so we don't complain
Speaker 1: and keep a little extra profit.
Speaker 2: You can't do shrink flation with gallons of gas like
Speaker 2: you can with boxes a raisin brandy.
Speaker 1: Yeahs prices are stickier on the way down than the
Speaker 1: way up. Michael, It's it's absolutely true.
Speaker 2: Jack. Do you have a final thought for us? Yeah?
Speaker 2: What is it about pizza? What's the unique quality pizza
Speaker 2: that has that you can just continue to eat it
Speaker 2: until you think you should stop. Other foods you get
Speaker 2: full of and like you just your fool and you
Speaker 2: have to stop. But pizza doesn't work that way.
Speaker 1: For some reason, said many times, I only stop eating
Speaker 1: pizza because I'm ashamed and I realized people are looking
Speaker 1: at me, or the box.
Speaker 2: Is empty, But never because you'd need to. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: it's a fight.
Speaker 1: It's the perfect food and a little sweet, a little savory,
Speaker 1: a little acidic.
Speaker 2: A little milky. It's just it's everything pulled it in
Speaker 2: your hand.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's proof that God loves us and wants
Speaker 1: us to be happy. Speaking of which, I really need
Speaker 1: to get the planning started on my Joe Getty basic
Speaker 1: atarian community. We're gonna get away from most of the
Speaker 1: modern world and have actual friends and civic organizations and
Speaker 1: go play sports together and stuff like that. Get her
Speaker 1: out of our houses and put down her freaking phones,
Speaker 1: farmstrung and gedtdy, wrapping up an other grueling four hour workday,
Speaker 1: and I get to have sex with all the young women.
Speaker 1: An it's usually a part of those things. I'm just
Speaker 1: going along, right, I kid so many people to think.
Speaker 1: We'll see tomorrow.
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