WEBVTT - A&G Replay Monday Hour Four 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:14.800 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:19.920 Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong, Joe Gatty Armstrong. 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:26.400 And Jet Taky and no he Armstrong and Getty Strong 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:34.520 and why we're not here? It's the Armstrong and Getty 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:36.840 repe wet you see this story. This is while Tom 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:38.159 Brady just revealed. 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:40.840 That his dog is a clone of his family's old dog. 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:44.479 Then a second time Brady ran into the room and YO, 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:45.199 don't listen to him. 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:48.560 He's not the real Tom Brady. 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:49.559 That's amazing. 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:52.600 Yeah, many football teams, like the Jets, for instance, You're thinking, 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:53.000 can we. 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:55.040 Clone the owner of the dog? Is there any chance 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:55.400 of that? 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:58.320 That would actually be an interesting uh cloning, although I'm 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:01.960 against cloning humans. To make the point about cloning, if 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:04.040 you cloned it to Tom Brady, he would have the 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:07.120 same genetics, but a different brain and probably a brain 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:13.320 that doesn't decide to take a moderately athletic body at 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:17.040 age twenty two and turn it into something completely different 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:21.839 with an amount of work and dedication that has rarely 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:23.200 been seen on planet Earth. 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:27.880 Well, and that Tom Brady Junior would not interact with 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:30.679 Tom Brady's parents in the way that Tom did, nor 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.880 his friends, nor that girl who gave him an admiring 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:36.720 look after he threw his first touchdown pass or whatever 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:38.959 that shapes a person. 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:42.880 Anyway, Tom Brady cloned his dog, but he's invested heavily 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:44.160 in this company that does that. 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:48.520 So there you go. Please, I understand. So there's lots 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:50.160 of dogs, Tom, your numbskull. 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:52.920 First of all, not all the reporting has been good 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:57.760 over this major announcement by the Transportation Secretary that they're 0:01:57.760 --> 0:01:59.960 going to cut ten percent of flights at the forty 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.200 forty airports that they haven't named, but as Joe said, 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:07.560 the're probably gonna be the forty biggest airports. And I 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:09.519 was listening to one newscaster they said it could be 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:10.320 hundreds of flights. 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:13.080 No no, no, no, no. They say it's going to 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:14.880 be more like forty five. 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:19.880 Hundred flights canceled on Saturday, for instance, on Saturday, just Saturday, 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:22.959 forty five hundred flights, not hundreds of flights. 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:24.400 Four five hundred flights on Saturday. 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:27.240 So that is technically hundreds of flights, yeah, forty five hundred, 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:30.880 but it does not send the message that is what 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:33.919 you need. Then we got this text because I said, man, 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:36.720 it's really gonna be. There's no way they allow us 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:37.680 to go through Thanksgiving. 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:38.120 We got this. 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:41.000 There are millions of us working men and women who 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:44.120 could give a gd about taking a flight over the holidays. 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:47.000 It's just you whiny small men like Jack who care 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:47.880 about s like that. 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:53.560 But wow, I pity you, my friend, to have a 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:57.520 pinched heart full of dark hatred like that. You have 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:01.440 that attitude about family who don't see each other nearly 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:06.359 often as often as they'd like getting together for the holidays. 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:09.639 That's that's troubling. I mean, it was a pinched heart 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:14.160 that killed Dick Cheney. A pinched heart. I've never heard 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:16.160 that term. That's a good one. I'm gonna start using it. 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:18.440 You and your pinched heart, get out of here, your 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:19.400 bad attitude. 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:21.000 You gotta pick your spots. 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:24.960 But anyway, aside from just replying to that's got to 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:28.959 be trolling or somebody who's just profoundly unhappy. Seriously, sir, 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:30.680 I will I will pray for you and hope for 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:33.440 your finding joy someday. 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:34.560 I wasn't gonna get into this. 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:39.920 Let me turn amateur therapist for a moment. My guess 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:45.400 would be, you've got a family dynamic that you wish 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:49.840 was different for all kinds of reasons that may or 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:52.520 may not be any of your fault. And it makes 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:56.040 you angry that other people put so much effort into 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:58.560 getting together on Thanksgiving. Because we used to work with 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.760 a guy who's dad had left when he was a 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:06.000 little kid, and his take on Father's Day that it 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:07.880 was just a day to try to rub it in 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:10.640 the face of people who don't have dads. It was 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:14.240 like an angry, vengeful day, is what Father's Day was. 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:16.599 And I thought, God, that's horrible. And you know, I 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:19.320 can't really blame him. I didn't have that experience, thank God, 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:21.240 of my dad walking out the door when I was 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:21.960 two years old. 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:28.720 But still, I mean, today's word is projection, projection or projecting, 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:32.400 putting your psychology on somebody else. 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:34.960 That's sad, that's too bad, right, And I guess I'm 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:37.200 guessing that's what's going on with this Thanksgiving thing here. 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.760 But as I pointed out with Joe coming with the 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:43.400 fantastic word cascading, if you'll remember from past holiday flubs 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:46.320 with the airlines and everything like that, even if people 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:48.520 are just driving, there won't be a rental car. 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:51.280 The roads will be absolutely packed, and people won't be 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:53.360 able to get anywhere or stay at a hotel while 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.640 they're traveling or anything, because it all just it just 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:58.080 all falls apart, the whole travel thing. And it's the 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:01.159 busiest travel weekend of the flip and year, whether you 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:05.680 travel a sert or not. Right, So anyway, well, I 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:07.960 can yeah, you can't interesting with somebody like that. 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:09.320 I find it interesting though. 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.000 Well, And while we're preoccupied trying to figure out what 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:14.240 flight to take, the turkeys will flee into the woods 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:15.880 not to be seen again. We'll be forced to eat 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:20.680 I don't know what hamburgers are, something terrible awful. So 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:25.320 the word of the year, if we're picking a word 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:28.320 of the year based on the last thirty six hours, 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:34.680 would be affordability. All of your pundits claiming that's why 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:38.680 Democrats won, and the Republicans talking about we need to 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:40.920 start talking more about that, and et cetera, et cetera. 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:43.560 You know why, because it's true. It is one of 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:48.440 the biggest problems we've got going in. It's COVID and 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:51.000 then all these ridiculous bills we went and an inflation, 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:53.839 and we've never adjusted emotionally to the new prices. I know, 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:56.640 I haven't. I'm still shocked. Every time I go to 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:58.919 the grocery store or go to a restaurant. I'm still 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.920 surprised at the end by the bill, and for isn't 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:05.000 much more rapidly than wages, and everything is so expensive, 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:07.120 Like they were using an example I think is New Jersey. 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:09.720 Their energy prices had gone up twenty percent in last year. Yeah, 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:11.800 well California were like, well, we'd love it if it 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:12.760 were only twenty percent. 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:15.920 So many things are so expensive. 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:19.520 I think regularly, how would twenty five year old me 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:22.800 have survived. I probably have a couple of roommates and 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:25.040 I don't know, maybe take the bus because I couldn't 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:26.200 afford car insurance. 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:28.000 It's just crazy. 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:30.360 My son, my high school son, last night, was saying, 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:31.760 I don't understand how I'm going to be able to 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:34.080 move out when I'm eighteen. I just don't understand how 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:35.320 I'm ever going to be able to afford it. And 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:37.560 I said, well, you're fifteen, so we don't have to 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:38.600 worry about that right now. 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:41.080 But I wonder about that too. 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:45.640 Car insurance is very insane, energy bills are insane, and 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.880 of course rent and home prices are crazy. And one 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:50.680 of the big numbers that came out yesterday that got 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:53.400 so much attention that I wanted to talk about is 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:57.800 the median age of a first time home buyer hit 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:01.799 a record high forty years old in the most recent survey. 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:02.960 Wow. 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:07.120 Comparing that fairly recently to it was thirty three in 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:11.320 twenty twenty one, it was twenty Wait wait, wait, wait, 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:15.440 it's moved seven years in four years. 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:19.320 That's practically impossible. That's crazy. Well, what was an interest 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:21.760 rate in twenty twenty one? Two percent? 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:27.720 Yeah, granted right, and again it hit forty average, The 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:31.320 median age of first time home buyer hit forty It 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:33.880 was twenty nine in nineteen eighty one. 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.680 That's how much it has changed now. 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:43.800 And over the last year, first time home buyers made 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:46.160 up just twenty one percent of purchases. That's the lowest 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:48.640 it's ever been in terms of a percentage of people 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:52.640 buying houses. First time home buyers. Now there is the 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:57.800 not just can you afford it or not? I'm a renter, 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:00.440 I can afford to buy a house. I'd thought it 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:02.760 was a bad idea. A lot of people are doing that, 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:08.040 even younger where you you know, you might have come 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:11.720 to the legitimate conclusion that I'm better off renting right 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:14.040 now than buying a house, even though I've got enough 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:15.800 saved up i could buy a house or whatever. 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:20.400 So that factors in somewhat, doesn't it. Ah? 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:24.720 Sure, Yeah, Yeah. The housing market is in a very 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:28.040 weird spot. As we've talked about many times. It's stuck. 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:31.560 All the people who had crazy low interest rates on 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.240 their mortgages can't give that up. They can't move up, 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:37.760 they can't downsize, and that, you know, clogs everything up, 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:38.640 as we've discussed. 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:44.640 But major changes like this should get more attention. 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:46.720 And I guess that's what's happening over the last thirty 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:50.120 six hours with both parties realizing what's people's top issue. 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:53.280 But you go from meeting home first time home buyer 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:56.880 twenty nine when I was in high school to forty now, 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:00.760 that's a pretty big change in the structure of society, right, Yeah, 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:05.440 And there are sociological causes to I'm quite confident of that. 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:09.640 I mean, you just look at the prolonged adolescence of 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:15.160 young adult porn. You do have porn. I hadn't thought 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:19.720 of that. But and and also, and this is digging 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.760 a bit deep, but I think we need to dig 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:26.720 more to fundamental reasons than we do. Because I've been 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:28.280 reading about this a lot and it's one of my 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:33.880 top five or sog Hods Joe's top five ghods. Will 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:38.360 do that Friday at eight ought to actually list them anyway. 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:41.800 One of them is the idea of free range parenting 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:45.480 and how just read a great great thing piece that 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:48.199 I'll share with you at some point to parent better, 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:52.199 parent less, and how the style of parenting that has 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:57.320 removed all risk, all failure and learning to overcome failure, 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:03.559 free play decision making, just the whole free range parenting 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:08.480 thing or three free range child thing has contributed to 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:13.080 people who do not do the things it takes to 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.880 get ahead because they're still learning how to be an 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:18.680 adult at a much later age. 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:21.120 But it all factors in. You can't just cite one thing. 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:23.040 Oh, you're much less likely to buy a house if 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:26.800 you're not getting married and having kids, true, much less 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:28.800 likely if your focus is I want to be a 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.560 world traveler, so I want to have an apartment and 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:33.920 travel around a lot, which is a lot of young people. 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:38.199 You're you're putting your money into a backpacking through Europe. 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:39.839 You're not putting your money into a down payment on 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:43.200 a house, just yeah, And you get to do that 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:46.800 as long as as long as at some point you 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:48.640 don't come to me and say I need some of 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:49.400 your money. 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:53.320 Right, or we need policies that will allow me to 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:55.040 buy a house quickly in spite. 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:56.040 Of my backpackings. 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:59.199 So a couple of headlines really quickly to your point 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:01.600 about afford a bill being a great message. And my 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:06.360 one big caveat about this is that it is yet 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:10.199 another perversion of how we ought to look at life 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:14.640 and government, that if the economy is good, we credit 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:18.480 the president and his party, and if the economy is 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:22.280 bad the opposite that's dumb for the opposite president. 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:27.560 What's that? That's dumba. It is dumba, and it's it's. 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:31.880 It's worse than dumba because we don't believe in silent letters, because. 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:38.400 That excuse me. First of all, the economy takes care 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:40.400 of the economy. The government just. 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:44.400 Screws it up with a handful of exceptions. Yes, I'm 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:48.000 for reasonable regulations of the food industry and that sort 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:48.640 of thing. 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:49.719 Reasonable ones. 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:54.120 But once people get it into their head that if 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:56.440 the economy is good, I will reward this party, and 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:58.800 if the economy is bad, I will reward the other party. 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.400 They have I've made the assumption that the government ought 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:05.840 to run the economy, which is an incredibly stupid and 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:11.160 dangerous thing to do. You don't want that. Central planning sucks. 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:14.400 In words of a single syllable, anyway, a handful of 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:16.880 headlines I have assembled over just a few days. The 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:19.439 average cost of a family health insurance plan is now 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:23.200 twenty seven thousand dollars a year. WHOA, maybe you don't 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:27.320 you know pay it all? But somebody is. Maybe your 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:29.880 employer does. Wow, we all know what our deductible is. 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:31.880 If you're old enough, you can compare to what it 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:35.160 used to be. Yeah, indeed, I'm sorry, I've got so 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:40.360 many tabs open. We'll get to it as bear with me, 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:45.640 Stand with me. The average Oh there it is. Run 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:49.960 away insurance costs bring back talk of price caps. Increasingly, 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:53.199 insurers we're talking about homeowners and car insurance in both 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:55.240 red and blue states are being told to cap prices 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:57.440 as lawmakers come under pressure. 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:03.119 Car insurance, at least I Live is not Armstrong. 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:16.040 The Armstrong and Getty show. 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.640 More than thirty years after the murders of Nicole Brown 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:21.319 Simpson and Ron Goldman, attorneys for O. J. Simpson's estate 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:24.480 finally agreeing to accept a nearly fifty eight million dollar 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:26.480 claim from the Goldman family. 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:30.400 Wow, damn fifty eight. Of course OJ is dead. 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:32.640 I think Goldman going after his money all those years 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:35.120 was to make OJ miserable because he feels like OJ 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.880 got away with murdering his daughter. 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:42.640 But son, yeah, her son, sorry, yeah Goldman. Yeah, although 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:46.080 the Brown family was after him too. Yeah, that's interesting. 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:47.640 How much money is there in the estate. 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:49.880 I don't know. Coming up. 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:54.199 Jonathan Martin, the dean of political writers at Politico, says 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:58.640 Gavvy boy is the clear front runner for the presidency. 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.679 Let's say it out loud. We'll share that terrifying information. 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:03.560 That's you got his new book coming out soon. We 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:04.320 gotta tell you about that. 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:08.000 Oh good lord, I wouldn't use it to line my parrot. 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:11.040 A young man in a hurry speaking of at the 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.280 Armstrong and Getty superstore, going Strong. 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:15.840 It's order now, just in time for Christmas. 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:20.920 Ruin the entire country New some twenty twenty eight people 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:24.280 are loving that t shirt. Both cal Unicornians and those 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:30.880 who dislike progressive mismanagement of our nation's affairs again ruin 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:31.920 the entire. 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:33.480 Country New Some twenty twenty eight. 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:36.640 Oh in the Armstrong and Getdy air Force blue stainless 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:40.120 steel water bottle with heavy duty straw lid. 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:46.040 So Katie's wearing an Armstrong and Getdy sweatshirt today, hoodie, 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:49.080 one of my favorites. That's great, so comfortable. So we 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.480 were told by Hansen, you have a news headline for us. 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:53.280 Is this true? Do you know anything about that? 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:53.600 No? 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.000 Okay, I didn't know. If you're wrong, the most important 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:58.080 story of the day, he says, I do what I do? 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:00.520 Is it better not be idiotic? Because I'm yeah mood? 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:04.160 Because we do not like people just messing around saying 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:04.840 weird crap. 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:10.720 We mean not a salary, Harry Michael, what is our story? 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:11.680 Okay? 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.640 There are twenty six letters in the alphabet, but one 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.600 is just not getting in off love. Linguists say the 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:20.840 letter T is being dropped from words like kitten, mountain 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:24.160 and interview coast to coast, and no one knows why, 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:27.560 but they have named it. It's called T glottalization, and 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.400 it's a speech error that's happening mostly in the under 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:31.840 twenty five age range. 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:35.560 That's interesting. My son does that, and I have no idea. 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:38.800 So it's it's so annoying, it's. 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.040 It's a it's a well, you know, it's like up talk. 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:44.960 Originally was highly annoying, but it's just so common now 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:45.880 I don't even notice it. 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:47.280 It's like everybody does it. 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:49.560 So yeah, the dropping the tee thing, my son has 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:51.840 done that since he was younger, but I didn't realize 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:52.800 maybe he picked that. 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:56.360 Up from other youth. You know, it's a Southern California thing. 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:56.600 I think. 0:15:56.760 --> 0:16:01.920 Originally, like so many annoying speaking whether the Valley Girl, 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:04.840 the up talk in general. Now this I happen to 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:08.600 notice it from a couple of bands out of the 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:14.080 LA area who like, there's a one line was weight in, 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:18.400 and I'm like, wait, why did you say wait in 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:20.240 instead of waiting wait. 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:24.480 I'm waiting for Executive producer Mike Hanson joins us handsome. 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:29.000 Yeah, this has been a problem in our society for 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:31.640 quite some time, and it needs to come to an end. 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:33.600 And it's not just the twenty somethings. 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:36.760 This is crept up into people in their late thirties 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:39.640 and early forties taking over our society. I've been bothered 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:40.840 by it for years. It needs to come to an 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:42.600 end immediately. My children are being effected. 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:44.760 I don't like it. Bring back the tea. You've noticed 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:47.040 it in your kids. I've noticed that my kids. 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:52.560 One of our beloved colleagues is the first person that 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:54.000 started doing it. 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:55.840 It was such a bothered I couldn't understand. Why are 0:16:55.840 --> 0:17:00.360 you dropping your teas? Ye name names off the air myself? 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:03.320 What are you doing? What's wrong with you? We have cats? 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:05.800 And he says, oh, it's a kitten. And what I 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:08.399 never said anything about it? That is so great ing. 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:15.160 Oh goodness, I want to hit them. 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:18.040 Wow. Okay, well it's not just my son. 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.160 I thought, actually thought maybe he had like a speech 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:22.240 impediment or something with his tongue or something that. 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:24.639 And it sounds like it doesn't it? Yes, stop it, 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:27.440 stop it. But it's just picked up a social trend. 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:30.040 Oh darn. Thanks for bringing that to our attention. That 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:31.600 is an important story. You were right. 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:35.960 The Armstrong and Getty Showy or Jack or Show podcasts 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:43.200 and our Hot Lakes, The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:50.639 The irony of the message is pretty clear for everyone 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:53.360 if President Trump was a king, the government would be. 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:53.920 Open right now. 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:55.840 If President Trump was a king, they would not have 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:58.200 been able to engage in that free speech exercise out 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:00.280 on the mall by the way, which was open, because 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:03.239 President Trump hasn't closed it. So I mean it's they 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:06.480 needed a stunt, they needed a show. Chuck Schumer needs 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:08.639 cover right now. He's closed the government down because he 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:10.480 needs political cover, and this was a part of it. 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:13.720 That's a pretty decent point. I'd forgotten the shutdown was 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:14.080 going on. 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:17.560 I believe he forgot. Oh yeah, right. 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:19.919 And if Trump was a king, he could also do 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:23.560 something pretty quickly about our vulnerability to China in the 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:26.720 whole world of rare earth materials. 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:29.760 This is really an. 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:32.680 Interesting quandary for a free society and people who prize 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:37.080 the free markets. So as recently as nineteen ninety one, 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:39.640 the US led the world in the production of rare 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:44.240 earth minerals, partly because we had a giant mine in 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:51.000 California Mountain Pass. But when China faked out the US 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:55.359 and said, we're just a poor developing country and I 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:58.359 don't know, maybe communism isn't so great, and maybe we 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:00.800 could be friends, and maybe if if you help us 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:05.040 build our economy will become more like a democracy. Completely 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:09.240 duped us for decades. Read Michael Pillsbury's one hundred Year Marathon. 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:10.639 Its brilliant really describes it. 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:11.600 But one of the. 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:17.240 Things they did was they poured government money into their 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:23.119 rare earth mining and refining operations, and then when anybody 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:25.120 in the West, like the US, tried to compete, they 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:30.080 dumped their goods the supplies into the market, just crushed 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:33.080 the market. And so our companies went out of business 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:38.040 or sold themselves to Chinese entities, and then China consolidated. 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:40.760 There are hundreds of rare earth companies into a few 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:44.640 super giant powerhouses that could work with the communist Chinese. 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:48.600 And so even now as we're trying to resurrect our 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:53.280 domestic rare earth industry, China is doing it's using all 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:58.000 the levers a dictatorship can to try to crush that. 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:01.199 And so the u US is going to have to 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:03.600 take the US government, it's going to have to take 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:08.320 probably a more and more activist goal role rather in 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:12.479 fulfilling the goal of building up our domestic capabilities. And 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:16.160 you know, Trump's already got big investments in various companies 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:20.439 whatever the hell that means, and we might have to 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:25.640 get into these quasi public private partnerships that are really 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:30.640 really unhealthy for a system like ours for reasons I could, 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:32.760 you know, drone on about. But the point is when 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:36.119 you have the government controlling billions and trillions of dollars 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:40.080 worth of industry, then you get a situation where it's 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:42.679 just asking for good governance that has anything to do 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:43.639 with the needs of the people. 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:45.280 Forget it. There's too much money at stake. 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:48.080 But you can't let your number one enemy control the 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:52.520 entire supply klonamdium or whatever red metal is important. 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:55.440 Oh yeah, I'm glad you brought that up, because they 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:58.639 could crash the stock market in a day. Oh they 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:01.080 could bring all of our car companies and most of 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:05.000 our tech companies to their knees in a day if 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:07.600 they were to announce, Hey, by the way, you can't 0:21:07.600 --> 0:21:10.480 buy any of this stuff fu which is why. 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:13.520 China enacted some new restrictions. 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:15.399 I'm not going to describe them because it's kind of 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:18.160