WEBVTT - That Toy Is Childish 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.200 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.920 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Show, Getty Armstrong and 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:17.279 Getty and Key Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:25.960 If there is no deal to reopen the government, the 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:29.479 FAA's mandating airlines reduced flights by up to ten percent 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:32.800 at forty of the country's busiest airports. 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:34.960 Multiple airline officials. 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:36.599 Now tell me the Trump administration will start this off 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:38.720 at about a four percent cut, then ramp this up 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:40.560 to ten percent through next week. 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:42.920 So, yeah, it's four percent today, a couple hundred flights. 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:45.800 If the shutdown continues, it'll go up up. By next Friday, 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:48.600 it'll be forty five hundred flights. And so it started today, 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:49.959 and we'll keep our eye on that and have more 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:50.880 on that later. 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:53.239 Here. 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:56.280 I'm strong Eyetty store is open for Christmas season. I 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:57.680 get uncomfortable talking about this. 0:00:57.760 --> 0:00:58.279 I don't know why. 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:00.600 Something about having my name on thing you buy for 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:02.560 Christmas makes me uncomfortable, even though I know a lot 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:04.880 of you want it, and you get people are fans 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:06.520 of the show and they would like it. But we 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:11.480 now have Armstrong in Getty pickleball paddles, among things wait 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:14.920 a minute, all the things in our story. A minute, 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:17.080 you go to Armstrong and getdy dot. 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:25.759 Com on one of those coffee mugs, water bottles. I'm 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:28.720 telling you the Fioliican party t shirts. 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:31.720 I want a hoodie that says starve the Lazy, That's 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:35.720 what I yes. So it's Friday. I don't know if 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:39.360 that means you're more likely to date or wish you 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:42.240 had a date. Probably, but it seems like a good 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:44.560 time to check in on hot dating trends with Katie Green. 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:48.440 Katie Jeez. I set it up like a cable news segment. 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:49.360 Yeah, that was great. 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:52.280 This is from the USA Today talking about dating trends 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:54.920 have reached new lows this year. One of the new 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:57.520 ones that we haven't talked about is called throning. 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:00.320 Well, let's let's start with shreking, the one we have 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:01.800 talked about, just to get it out of the way. 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:07.160 That is, you intentionally date. It's usually women dating guys. 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:11.440 Intentionally dated guy you don't find attractive, like he's a 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:15.560 Shrek looking character, because you think he'll treat you better, right, 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:17.440 which is one of the worst things I've ever heard 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:21.640 in my life. Because he's so he's feels like he's 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:23.720 so lucky to have you, he will treat. 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:26.000 You to hang on to you. Yes, yes, that's a 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:30.160 great basis for a healthy relationship. Yes, that'll go great. 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:34.360 So the fact that you are god every bit of 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:36.960 every phrase that comes to mind. I'm horrified by the 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:41.639 fact that you are lowering your standards because you think 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:44.560 he'll be feel so lucky to have you that he 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:48.000 treats you better than someone else. Is about as disgusting 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:52.640 a philosophy as I can imagine. But that's shreking. Okay, 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:54.120 So now what the hell is throwning? 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:58.200 So throning is when you date someone to raise your 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:01.600 own social status. So the goal is to land a 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:05.800 partner with clout so that your own image gets a boost. 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:08.880 I think that's all. Every celebrity in the world knows 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:10.360 what that's about, right. 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:15.280 That's probably well, it's depends on how much if that's 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.160 your main motivation. Obviously that's an odd way to go 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:22.000 about getting relationships. But I think in general people want 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:29.920 to be in a relationship with somebody that is, you know, 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:34.280 a good a good example of society, right, I mean, 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.400 isn't that just in general you're hoping you date somebody 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:39.320 that if your friends or family met them, they think, well, 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:43.720 they are very they're very you know, contributing member of society. 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:47.600 Where it's more calculating than that, where that crosses into throning, 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:48.080 I don't know. 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:49.520 Yeah, I take this. 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:52.920 This came from some TikToker who talks about dating says 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.840 if a person seems overly focused on your status or 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:59.520 your social circle and changes their behaviors towards you, depending 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:02.360 upon what whether you're in public or private, this can 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:03.200 indicate throning. 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:10.080 Yeah, many years ago, I was driving a really nice 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:12.080 car at the time, and I had a girl in 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.000 like the second date or whatever, says something to me. 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:15.680 I picked her up in a different vehicle than my 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.120 really nice car, and she said, I'd kind of prefer 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:19.080 to be seen in your. 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:20.680 Other car when you pick me up. 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:28.720 And I thought, Oki, whoa, this isn't a good idea. 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:31.120 The next one they have here is bank seeing, which 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:35.880 derives its name from the elusive street artist Banksy. Like 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:40.800 a baffling Banksy art piece. Bank seeing in a relationship 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:44.960 involves slowly withdrawing emotionally from your partner without telling them 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:45.679 what you're doing. 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:49.520 All right, this is for Dack why are you doing this? 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:51.920 Is this to make them want you more? Or are 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:53.400 you just trying to get out of the relationship. 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:55.480 This seems like a really elusive way to get out 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:56.440 of a relationship. 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:00.840 This is what they're calling bank seeing now only withdrawing 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:03.680 because the fire is gone. That's called a relationship ending. 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:06.920 I'm gonna speak for our listeners. This is ridiculous. Everything 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:11.640 doesn't need a name. Everything isn't a trend. Slowly deciding 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.040 this isn't for me is not a trend. It's been 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:17.120 a trend since we crawled from the primordial ooze. I'll 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:18.400 not have this foolishness. 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.840 What Joe is doing is called rage talking right popular 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:24.440 thing now, it's a trend on middle. 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:28.919 Age right cold warrior? Do you mean nothing to do 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:29.760 with the Cold War? 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.760 When middle aged men get fed up with modern trends, 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:36.080 they do something called rage talking tread. 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:42.240 Tread. When someone branded people inhaling, they're exhaling what they're 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:43.400 done inhaling its. 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:48.320 Tread only our listeners to see how red you're getting. 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:50.640 This is incredible. Yes, just a time for the Christmas 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:53.320 was supposed to be fun. Yeah, right, you're supposed to 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:58.320 lighten things up here, when someone employs the bank sying technique, 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:00.599 it says they start destroying the relation and ship before 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:04.200 the other person even sees it coming, because banksy selfish. 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:08.160 Again, you know, I'm sorry this this is dumb. Yeah right, 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:11.640 I had great promise, Like so many of my schemes 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:14.080 in life, it had great promise at the beginning. I think, 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:17.720 I think, I hope. Shreking is not a very popular thing, but. 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:20.599 It's the only one that's stuck around for a while, 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.440 the shreking. I haven't heard any of these until this 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:24.200 stupid article. 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:27.159 You are such can we just awful? These things under 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:32.640 the heading here's what shallow stupid people do? You know what? 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:34.720 We're too tolerant as a society. You've got to be 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:39.200 less tolerant. That's ugly, it's stupid, it's shallow. I weep 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:42.160 for you that you didn't have a healthy relationship that 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:44.880 you can use to model what your relationships are going 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.320 to be like. If you're any of those things. Stop 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:50.440 being it. Michael just stopped calling it a trend. Michael 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:50.800 or Jack? 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:52.839 Are you guys both getting joy out of the fact 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:54.480 that all of this is happening While Joe is wearing 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:58.640 his cut the crap T shirt because that is yeah, precisely. 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:01.360 Yeah, man, So. 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:08.040 Everything being online in social media and people communicating with 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:11.320 each other. I suppose, I suppose it would make sense. 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:13.160 I hadn't thought about this before. This is just off 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:15.600 the top of my head. But if our politics has 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:22.480 gotten dominated by the worst among us, why wouldn't relationship 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:25.320 trends get dominated by the worst among us for exactly 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:26.160 the same reasons. 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:30.560 Yeah, the worst or dopiest or shallowest among us. 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.960 Yeah, so there are there are two more on this list, 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:35.480 but I don't want Joe to explode. 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:36.760 So I'm just gonna. 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.240 Take one edge of blood pressure pill and then Katie 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:42.400 will finish this off. 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:45.560 The go ahead quickly. They're dumb, like a medical procedure. 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:49.120 The sooner we started, the sooner. It's over ZIP coding, 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:52.240 all right, I can't even take it. Yeah, I see 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:53.800 the reef version of. 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:58.240 That, where people on dating apps will either stick only 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:01.440 to their ZIP codes or stick only outside. 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.040 Of their zip codes. What the hell? 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:05.400 Well, I can say see sticking two years zip code 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:07.000 just because you want somebody near those. 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:10.160 But there are other people that though, Yeah, but there 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:13.080 are other people that look specifically away from their own 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.720 zip code, which I would make more sense. 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:17.800 To me, might fit in with the that might fit 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:19.200 in with the stat we had a while back of 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:23.239 the percentage of people, particularly men on online dating sites, 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:24.400 who are freaking married. 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:26.280 Oh. 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:28.040 I was told by a woman the other day, she said, 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:32.079 you would not believe how many married men are on 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:33.360 the dating. 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:33.960 Website she's on. 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:37.800 She meets them and they talk and they're we're gonna 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:39.439 meet forgotty or whatever it is. And she does a 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:41.800 little research on them and turns out they they're married, 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:44.360 or she comes across husbands. 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:47.520 Of her friends, Oh gosh, and has to go tell 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:48.000 their friends. 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:49.720 Hey, you know, I hate to tell you this, but 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:53.760 your husband's on match dot Com looking for dates claiming 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:54.240 is single. 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:55.920 I mean, that is so crazy. 0:08:56.360 --> 0:09:01.839 There is an entire dating service dedicated to as Oh yeah, 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:04.920 sure this, I mean it came this came out years ago. 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:09.200 But Ashley Madison, Yeah, but the well, the idea is 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:12.240 just gross. You know, life is short have an affair 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:13.240 as their tagline. 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:15.360 Practically the oldest thing in the world is the idea 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:17.360 of an affair. But the idea that you're going on 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:22.080 to a dating website with your picture and everything while 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:24.400 you're married, claiman your single How do you think that's 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:25.160 going to end you? 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:25.680 Moron? 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:28.920 Not to mention the fact that it's an awful thing 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:32.720 to do. Yeah, embarrass your spouse horribly publicly. 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:34.960 I just I can't even believe that. I mean, so, 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:37.000 if that's true, and like I said, I know somebody 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:39.960 who's had this specific experience multiple times. 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:42.560 If that's going on, well maybe these other stupid things 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:47.160 are happening too, zeppelining or whatever we were talking about. 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:51.680 Here's the last one, Jodey deep breath. Okay, monkey barring. 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:56.600 It alludes to how in dating, people move from one 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.640 partner to the next partner, only letting go of the 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:03.720 previous once they've once they've sealed the deal. 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:04.280 With their next one. 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:09.679 I think that's a common emotional technique. Yeah, unfortunate, unfortunate also, 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:12.800 but it's called monkey barring. Now that's the trend. Not 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.560 a good idea according to any therapist. But monkey barring. Yes, 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:17.920 not everything needs name. It's not a trend. 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:21.679 Yeah, I promise an hour job until you got another 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:22.760 one lined up. 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.480 Okay, all right, okay, well job's okay. I don't know 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.120 about the relationships that now, if you know you're done. 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:31.000 You gotta tell them you got it. That's true, you 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:35.560 got it. That's not cool. Yeah, I promise an hour 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:37.520 three to get to this New York Times article about 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.920 people that are in relationships at their AI chatbots. This 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:44.080 is a serious piece of journalism. 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Offer ends soon webroot 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:53.520 dot com slash Armstrong. 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:56.480 The Secretary of War announced another boat got blowed up 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:59.360 down near by Venezuela. I think that's number fifteen or 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:01.640 something like that over the last several weeks. 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:04.400 Yikes, they're serious about it. I got a few details 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:05.720 on that, A lot of other stuff on the way. 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:11.760 Stay here. Some more news from Washington today. 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:15.080 Nancy Pelosi announced that she won't seek reelection and plans 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:18.040 on retiring in two years at the age of eighty six, 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.760 or as it's known in congressional terms your tweens. 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:29.880 And no kidding, eighty six. Damn near ninety. That's wild. 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:33.000 I wasn't paying attention wild Nancy Pelosi. She'll be eighty 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:38.520 six when she's doing eighty six. Yeah. Yeah, So, speaking 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:40.559 of elections and that sort of thing, I've been reading 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:44.880 about redistricting lately and how difficult it can be even 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.920 if people are of good conscience, and they're not Gavinusum, 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:52.760 it's you know, shameless partisan jerrymandering. And I've been reading 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:58.000 about this mathematician whose the gig is her field, is 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:02.240 trying to figure out how heck to do redistricting in 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:06.000 a fair and logical way, and she mentioned something that 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:13.400 I found really intriguing. There are rules that vary by state, 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.280 but they have what they refer to as the Big 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:23.000 six population balance, compactness, contiguity, meaning your neighbors more or less, 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:27.120 respect for existing civic boundaries like counties, cities, towns, respect 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:31.920 for communities of interest, racial fairness, et cetera. So there 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.760 are a lot of layers to this. And obviously do 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:38.520 any of those things in most states, No, we certainly 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:44.600 don't do them honestly or in a good way. And 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:46.760 I thought this was really intriguing. I'm not sure it'll happen. 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:50.440 I think it would take a constitutional amendment. But they're 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:56.319 studying what they call proportional ranked ranked choice voting. Proportional 0:13:56.360 --> 0:14:00.360 ranked choice voting also known as single transferable vote method 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:05.360 or STV in this scenario, you have multi member districts 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:10.840 using ranked choice. For example, because we talked earlier about California, 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:14.400 it's sixty forty Democrat Republican. Well, if every district is 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:19.040 sixty forty Democrat to Republican, Republicans will have zero representatives 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:24.120 in the House, and that's a problem. So this STV, 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:27.920 for example, not to be confused with STDs, something completely different, 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:31.880 but rather than one representative per each of nine districts 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:36.160 in Massachusetts, reduced the number of districts to three and 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:41.320 have each elect three representatives by a ranking method. That way, 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:45.120 Massachusetts would probably get two or three rather than zero 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:50.520 Republicans in Washington, it's not common. The biggest American city 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.520 that uses STV is Portland, Oregon. It was a great 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:56.400 success in last November city council election. I'm told all 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:59.240 kinds of groups were able to elect their preferred candidates 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:02.200 in proportion the voting numbers, even though in a single 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:05.720 neighborhood they might be outnumbered. I thought that was intriguing. 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:09.960 Well, if you yeah, but you start here, we've had 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:13.440 four hundred and thirty five members of the House since 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:15.000 nineteen thirteen. 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.400 That makes no sense. What was the population in the 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:21.160 United States, then I don't know. Yeah, I remember, I've 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:24.400 seen those numbers that each representative went from representing, you know, 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:26.880 twenty five hundred people to now four hundred and fifty 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:29.120 thousand or whatever it is. Those numbers are not right, 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:31.440 but you get the idea. Yeah, it's it's a completely 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:32.240 different situation. 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.360 So in nineteen thirteen, the population of the country was 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:39.560 ninety seven million people, right, and now it's three hundred 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:40.360 and forty So that. 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:41.000 Makes no sense. 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:46.040 What you start there, right, we need if we wanted 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:48.400 to do it, if we thought that proportion was correct before, 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:50.240 we need to have And somebody figured this out. 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:50.960 I heard it the other day. 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:53.320 It might be this person you're quoting right here, because 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:55.440 there's a book out about it. But we should have 0:15:55.520 --> 0:16:00.400 something like five hundred and ninety House members, right, yeah, 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:02.840 and we're not even close, And so that I think 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:06.560 that's the place to start. Every member would have a 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:09.480 much smaller population, and it'd be a lot easier to 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:09.960 be fair. 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:12.640 Have to have Donald Trump blow out of all of 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:15.320 the capitol and expand it, though, I mean, because you're 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:18.160 not going to fit all those people. Let's paying all 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:21.640 those damned salaries, although you know, as a fraction of 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:24.240 the federal government that's placed nothing. 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:28.240 But well, the original intent or the way it would 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:30.680 have been one hundred years ago, you could have easily 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.040 gotten a hold of your house member, had some sort 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:36.000 of relationship with them if you wanted to. 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:39.400 Get actual politics. That's impossible now. Yeah, getting back to 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:41.760 the STV thing, I really like the idea because the 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:44.360 two states I'm most familiar with politically would be Illinois, 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:47.280 my home state, in California, where the show is based 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:50.560 and has been for decades now. And in both of 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:56.880 those cases, you have populous cities that so dominate the 0:16:56.920 --> 0:17:00.280 state politics they can do more or less whatever they want. 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:03.840 And you've got these enormous swaths of conservatism in both 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:09.919 states that go more or less unrepresentative unrepresented, And I 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:12.359 think if you add a just a well, you'd have 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:14.800 to draw those districts too, and that would probably become 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:17.159 every bit as corrupt and disgusting. But I like the 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:24.320 idea anyway, Coming up, our friends from the Pacific Legal 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:26.760 Foundation on the Big Week at the Supreme Court. That's 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.320 next segment. Stay tuned if you can't grab the podcast. 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:30.840 Armstrong and Getty on demand later on. 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:35.080 It's almost exactly ten times since we first had four 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:38.800 hundred and thirty five House members back in nineteen thirteen. 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:43.520 Back then, each House member represented about fifty five thousand people. 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:47.560 Now each House member represents about five hundred and fifty 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:55.680 thousand people. Wow, that's a completely different structure, right, That's 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:57.280 the first place to go to fix it, as far 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:00.640 as I'm concerned. Yeah, Yeah, got a lot of work 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.560 to do. Supreme Court heard some important arguments this week. 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:05.960 We talked about it a lot with the whole tariff thing. 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:07.879 Is the president got the power to do that or not? 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:10.720 If it turns out he doesn't, well that's going to 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:11.480 be a big change. 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:14.960 Yeah, yeah, big doings at the Scotis. We'll talk about it. 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:18.280 X stay with us, Armstrong and Getty. 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:21.480 I think she's an evil woman. I'm glad she's retiring. 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:25.280 I think she did the country a great service player recheer. 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:29.439 I think she was a tremendous liability for the country, 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:32.680 And I think she was an evil woman who did 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:36.040 a poor job to costs the country a lot in 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:39.680 damages and in reputation. I thought she was terrible. 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:44.879 So that's not the way our politics used to be 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:48.240 when Elder's graciousness as a leader retires. 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:49.120 I love to hear that. 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:52.520 When Elders Statesman used to step down on the other side, 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:55.240 you would, you know, the dedication to public service, blah 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:57.040 blah blah, you'd sail this stuff even if you hated him. 0:18:57.359 --> 0:18:59.320 But we don't do that anymore, for better or worse. 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:01.080 And I go back back and forth on whether it's 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:01.800 better or worse. 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:02.199 I don't know. 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:04.040 Maybe we're just saying the quiet power up part out 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:08.040 loud now, but everybody was always thinking. She called him 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:10.080 the other day vile and the worst thing on Earth. 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:13.440 So right, there you go, that's where we are. That 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:17.240 pretty much sums up where we are this week he 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:18.800 had from Nancy and Donald Trump. 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:19.560 Oh he's vile. 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:21.600 He's the worst thing on planet Earth, the worst thing 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:23.760 on planet Earth, he said, she's even when corrupt. 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:27.760 There you go, fair enough. So we're trying to connect 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:30.400 with Anastasia Boden of the Pacific Legal Foundation to talk 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:33.760 about the Supreme Court this week, and we'll track her 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:36.360 down quickly. But I saw this and was just amused 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:40.400 by it on a couple of different levels. On election night, 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:44.760 all right, I guess it was late Monday night, Greg Abbott, 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:48.560 the governor of Texas, tweeted when it was starting to 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:51.600 look like Mum Donnie was indeed gonna win the election 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:54.600 from mayor of New York, Abbot tweeted he would impose 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:57.680 a one hundred percent tariff on New Yorker's moving to 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:01.800 Texas the polls close tomorrow night, I will impose one 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:04.320 hundred percent tariff on anyone moving to Texas from New 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:09.040 York City, which Jack, you're you're smiling. Obviously it's a joke. 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:13.359 It's it's funny. But here's why it matters. According to 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:16.879 one publication, tariffs are taxes on goods, not people, and 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:20.000 US states are not permitted to impose tariffs on imports 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:23.200 from other states, let alone people who. Further More, of 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:26.479 the Supreme Court has recognized the constitutional right to travel, 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:29.480 et cetera, et cetera. And then they go into a 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:34.880 bunch of people breathlessly angry online both you know your 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:38.960 your unwashed masses and New York Governor Kathy hokel her 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:43.359 press office. Well, that's actually kind of a funny response, 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:48.160 political commentator Ed Krasenstein. This is illegal. MAGA has become 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:50.320 the party of violating the constitution. 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:54.760 Boy, So there weren't a ton of people just reacted 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:57.239 with you can't put a tariff on a person, so 0:20:57.520 --> 0:20:58.320