WEBVTT - An Unethical Sham! 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:07.560 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:09.039 Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:13.200 Jack Armstrong is Joe Getty arm Strong and Jackie I 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:20.760 know he Armstrong and Eddy. 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:28.000 Mitt Romney announced over the weekend. When he didn't announce, 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:31.360 somebody asked him. Mitt Romney said, when I asked, no, 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:33.720 he's not running for president twenty twenty eight, and he 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:39.159 quoted a statistic about the human brain and age that 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:40.600 I want to pass along to you because I had 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:42.160 been thinking about it since I heard it and find 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:43.680 it annoying. 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:50.200 Wow, Wow, Okay, I will stay tuned. This is this is, 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:56.040 this is. It makes you wonder what we're doing. Do 0:00:56.200 --> 0:01:00.600 we really feel this lousy about the economy? Diversity of 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:08.320 Michigan Consumer Confidence Consumer Sentiment Index much discussed. It's been 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:12.520 going on since the nineteen forties. The Michigan Survey of 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:17.720 Consumers is the poll for how Americans have felt about 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:20.920 the economy now for generation, and it's low. Right now. 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.119 We don't feel good about the economy more than more 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:24.560 than ever. We're despondent. 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:29.320 A key survey of Americans consumers is scraping bottom showing 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:32.319 they've never felt this lousy about the economy even at 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:35.640 the height of the recessions or when the COVID pandemic 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:39.800 COVID pandemic raged. We were talking about this a couple 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:43.800 of weeks ago. What could possibly explain that they're so 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:48.880 anti Trump? Some people are, there's a price of gas 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:55.400 when inflation is high. Nothing else manners. It's the survey itself. 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:58.919 According to a growing number of critics, including several economists, 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:03.400 They've pointed to methodology, methodology changes in the University of 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:06.200 Michigan's Consumers element in index as bugs in the machine, 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:10.680 saying they're skewing the results. Now the polling people are 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:14.519 saying no. Low sentiment likely reflects a profound shift in 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:18.280 mood since COVID struck, according to the survey director, but 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:20.959 it shouldn't be too surprising. People felt differently about the world, 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:24.000 including the economy, after the pandemic. It hit its lowest 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:27.880 mark in May, lowest ever of them. The low readings 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:29.959 they make the point in the journals seem at odds 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:32.840 with an economy that appears decent, if not stellar. The 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:35.880 country's adding jobs and consumers are continuing to spend despite 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:40.320 worries about inflation and affordability, and I would point out 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:44.600 increasing credit card and car loan defaults and the higher 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:47.480 and higher level of debt. Maybe you shouldn't be spending 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:55.600 that anyway. In twenty twenty four, Michigan, the University of 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:59.720 moved to conducting its surveys via the web rather than 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:03.680 a cell phone, a response to the problem the ongoing 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:06.400 problem everybody knows surveyor's face and getting anybody to get 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:10.400 answer the damn phone because everybody's being spammed all the time. 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:15.280 So a couple of years ago they made that transition 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.640 to online polls, and some critics think that made the 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:22.079 sentiment index more downbeat, in part because other research has 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:26.160 shown that when people are surveyed online, for some reason, 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:29.680 they tend to be more negative than when they're speaking 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:34.320 to a human being. Twenty twenty four analysis a couple 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:37.880 of economists you've never heard of estimated that this survey 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:42.920 method methodology shift shaved about nine points off the Michigan 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:47.400 sentiment index nine points. Recent analysis from the Chicago Fed 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:49.280 also took issue with the survey switch. 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:54.400 I think it's interesting that people are so much more 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:58.720 negative being online than if you're asked on the phone. 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:07.440 So sure, because of the algorithms feeding us depressing stuff constantly. 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.160 We've trained our brains soon as we go online to 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:12.920 immediately have a bad attitude. 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:16.800 Probably, I wonder, or it could just be if there's 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:19.839 another human being, you don't want to appear too negative 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:25.640 and bitchy because it's not considered an attractive quality. I 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:30.080 don't know. There's also the fact that this is undeniable, 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:37.120 that the skew in partisan attitudes is as big as 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:40.400 it's ever been. You ask a Republican right now, Republicans 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:42.360 control the White House, as if the White House runs 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:46.320 the economy. For God's sake, people shouldn't anyway. But you 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:51.000 ask Republicans, they say, it's just freaking fine. You ask Democrats, 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:56.640 They're like, it's horrible. We talked about this. 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.839 I talked about this last week coming out of fourth 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:02.720 and and I took in a ton of two hundred 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:07.080 and fiftieth anniversary Founding stuff and up with America tweets 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:10.160 and books and TV shows and speeches and all the 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:12.200 different sort of stuff. And I was feeling pretty raw, 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:16.160 raw about America and actually thought, Joe and I need 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:20.520 to be less negative. We're too negative. But I did 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:22.520 want to push back on all the ra RA with 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:26.680 just a little bit of the All of those things 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:30.400 are true structurally historically, everything about the United States being 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:31.320 great and all that. 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:36.800 Forced for good, et cetera, et cetera. But this whole. 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:40.800 Educating the young people to hate their own country k 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:46.520 through PhD is new and real and is going to 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.760 bear fruit for a long time to come. 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:53.280 Oh yeah, if you believe Reagan that were never more 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:55.800 than a generation or two from losing our liberty, or 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:59.920 Jefferson that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance was 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.719 Jefferson said that you might as well have if you 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:05.839 believe those things, and if you don't, you're an idiot. Yeah, 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:09.360 this is a serious, serious problem, as I'm always saying. 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:16.960 And then you throw in a dose of online information 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:20.640 algorithm stuff that is all brand new to the world. Also, 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:24.960 I'm not as optimistic going forward as a lot of 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:26.200 the raw RA speeches were. 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:32.080 Yeah, it's funny because you know, we're conducting a for 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:38.080 profit enterprise here, and if we're too down beaten discouraging arguably, 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:41.920 you know, for two downbeaten discouraging, it's not going to work. 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:48.920 But from a purely patriotic standpoint, and this is distasteful 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:52.320 and inappropriate. But I also don't want to be the 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:56.480 guy telling Lindsey Graham, Oh, it's probably indigestion, don't worry 0:06:56.520 --> 0:07:01.160 about the chest pains, you know when they're is a serious, 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:07.280 serious threat. And that is the successful perversion of our 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:10.120 education system to become not a system of education but 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:15.200 a system of indoctrination, the Marxist ideals, the current woke, 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:21.360 postmodern version of it. So to me, you know, and 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:22.920 I care as deeply as I do, and I know 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:26.720 you do too, because I'm so positive about the United 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:29.400 States of America and love it so much. I mean, 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:31.240 it's the danger danger. 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:34.760 Will Robinson, Okay, I promised you some information about the 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:36.480 brain that I learned from Mitt Romney. 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:39.960 Yes, thought was interesting. Would have made a great president. 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.360 I've probably heard it. Yes, he absolutely would have. 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:50.840 Well, you talk about an anachronism to today's politics, Mitt Romney. 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:54.600 He was the left's. 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:59.160 Version of Hitler back in two thy twelve. Give me 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:03.760 a break. Every Republican is the left version of Hitler. 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:07.760 It goes with but Mit Romney, Oh, I know, I know. 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:13.160 Are you serious anyway? So Mitt Romney didn't announce he 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.800 wasn't running for president. He wasn't out there talking about it. Somebody. 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.040 He was doing an interview and somebody asked him and 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:20.200 he said, I'm not running for president. In twenty twenty eight, 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.640 he said, we need to do something about our move 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:28.000 toward really, really old people being in government all the time. 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:32.440 The human brain, according to Mitt Romney, the human brain 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:36.959 shrinks by about twenty percent by the time you're eighty. 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:44.440 The size of your brain is a fifth smaller by eighty. 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:45.640 That seems like a lot. 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.200 That's horrifying. Yes, I'd say so. 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:53.320 That's one of his reasons why he didn't think people 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:57.760 his age, because he's eighty, should be president. Trump's Adie 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:02.840 Mitch McConnell's two six Lindsey Grahm was a mere Yeah, 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:06.800 Biden Lindsay Lindsey Graham was a mere seventy one? 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:11.000 Does so? 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:15.400 Does everybody's brain shrink, but some people just deal with 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:17.480 it better? Or is that like an average and some 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:22.280 people's brains don't shrink. To explain the Henry Kissingers or 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:24.560 whoever of the world, that they get to a really 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:27.280 old age and still their brain seem to work fine. 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:30.199 I would guess it's some shrink a little some shrink. 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:32.280 A lot, but I don't mind's like the size of 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:34.680 a golf ball right now, it's like fifty when it 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:35.240 once was. 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:36.000 I can tell. 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:38.679 It's just like I can shake my head and it's 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:41.000 like bouncing around in there. 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:48.440 Like a golf ball in a bathtub. That's just unfortunate. Yeah, 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:55.560 oh that's chilling. Absolutely, the great shrinking brain. At some point, well, 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:57.439 we were gonna we were gonna talk about a couple 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:04.080 of philosophical issues. At least we discussed it, one being 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:08.439 having taken the am I having taken the longest vacation 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:13.200 of my adult life. I'm thinking about retirement. And also 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:17.520 our discussion about the hot new dating app for youngsters developed. 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:21.240 I think it's Stanford, but it doesn't matter. That uses 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.199 a questionnaire. It's not about animal luster looks. It's about 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:26.520 interests and that sort of stuff. They hit both those. 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.520 Yeah, those are interesting topics. So I'm gonna get a fresh, 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:31.520 hot cup of coffee. 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:35.599 Also have some really cool tributes to Lindsey Graham, the 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:36.480 kind of guy he was. 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:38.880 Okay, I'm gonna take my tiny little brain down to 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:40.600 the coffee maker. We'll be back in just a second, 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:52.640 you know, Michael Malice's he calls himself an anarchist, and 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:55.520 he's a troll. He just likes to uh, he just 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:59.439 likes to get attention and provoke people. It's also a 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:02.920 super interest guy. He had Mark Alpern on his podcast 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:05.960 and they were talking about Mark Alpern believes Bernie Sanders 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:09.760 absolutely could be the Democratic nominee for president, despite the 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:12.120 fact that he's currently eighty four. He'd be eighty it 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.160 turns eighty five in a couple months. He'd be eighty 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:16.839 seven on election day. But he's as sharp as he 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:18.720 ever was. I should have used him as his example 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:21.000 of his brain must not have shrunk. He's as sharp 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.440 as he ever was. And that's the momentum of the 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:26.880 party right now, and he's the best voice of it 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:30.960 out there anyway. Michael Malice. I just came across a 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:40.040 retweet of his hilarious it's Lindsey Graham and Heaven at 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:43.760 the Saint Peter's at the Gates being hugged by a 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:49.400 robed George Floyd with Hulk Hogan in the background, fist pumping. 0:11:52.400 --> 0:12:00.600 What it's so stupid, right, it doesn't mean anything's designed 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:04.959 to provoke. Oh, I love that. I really love that. 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:09.360 Oh my god, boy, I also love my wife. 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:13.520 So we were talking about earlier how the hot thing 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:16.440 in California college campuses is this dating app? Has it 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:20.120 got a clever name? I don't remember. It doesn't matter 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:24.360 that instead of like flipping through pictures, you fill out 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:27.840 questionnaires of your interests and your favorite thing. AI matches 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:31.680 you up amazing, and they are claiming an astounding ninety 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:34.640 plus percent level of let's do a second date, which 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:36.840 is a pretty good measure of success if you believe 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:39.400 the numbers. And I don't, Although you know, it's probably 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:43.040 a pretty good system. But my immediate reaction when I 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.440 first read about this, and I think the writer writing 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:49.520 about it said the same thing, is there's this funny 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:54.559 assumption that you need to have like hobbies and interests, 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:58.680 musical tastes in common and to fall in love with. 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:01.880 I know, where does that come from. I've never found 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:03.880 that to be true. It's not even true with my 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:09.480 male friends, right. Why we become friends and enter into 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:13.000 personal relationships doesn't seem to have anything to do with that. 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:15.640 Sometimes it's because you both play golfs, but you might 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:17.720 hate each other's music or whatever. 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:18.240 I mean. 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:23.280 There's just there's some overlap, but they just kind of accidental. 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:25.640 It's usually not why you're close. 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:30.199 Yeah, and you know, I've I've been with Judy now 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:31.800 for forty years. We just took a couple of weeks 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:36.400 off to celebrate it. I remember in the early days, 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:39.720 I mean we had some common interests. We met doing 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:44.439 are you quitting there? It was nineteen eighty three, believe 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:46.800 it or not when we met, and uh, and we 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:48.600 were both doing musical theater. She was in the cast, 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:51.920 I was in the band. But yond that, it's she 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:54.520 had no interest in golf. It plays a little now, 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:59.600 not like most of the music I liked, had no 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:03.960 interest in sports in general. And I was obsessed. You know, 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:06.640 I could go on down the line. Sure, But we 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:10.959 hit it off as friends, found each other to be attractive, 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:15.680 made each other feel safe, and made each other laugh. 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:19.600 And I couldn't have given a crap whether she liked 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:20.880 gardening or opera. 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:23.800 But in online dating, which I did for like six months, 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:27.160 if you're not into if you're not a foodie who 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:30.560 wants to do stand up paddle boarding, well then why 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:31.320 would I want. 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:31.600 To date you? 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:35.920 Okay, Well that denies all your friends who are happily 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:39.400 married who don't necessarily have those things in common. 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:44.560 Right, for all of human history, and anytime anybody says 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:47.800 that you really ought to think about it. For all 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:53.000 of human history, virtually all romantic connection was proximity based. 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:57.440 And what we're trying to do now, and oh man 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:00.320 rolland friar at a great, great piece of about this 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:04.920 and friendship. But anyway, what we're trying to do is, Okay, 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:07.920 we never brush up against real human beings anymore. We're 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:11.200 all on our screen. So let's let's figure out. Let's 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:13.480 try to figure out what attracted people to each other 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:20.680 without like the circumstance where it always took place. You 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:22.880 rubbed it, you brushed up against them, you were in 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:25.240 the same room with them, you saw them across the room, 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:28.800 blah blah blah, or he asked you if you knew 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:33.520 where the number three bus ran or whatever. Let's remove 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:36.840 all proximity in actual contact and try to figure out 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:38.680 how people get And I think we've done a poor 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:41.440 job of it. Yeah, I actually like any of those things. 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:44.480 Whatever that's called that speed dating thing where everybody gets 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:46.440 together in a room and you sit down for two 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:48.880 minutes and talk to each other. That seems like a 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:53.720 way better idea than that whatever that magic is, whether 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:56.360 it's pheromones or something in the brain we don't understand 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:59.400 or whatever, where you show interest in a person based 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:03.440 on something other than just looks, that makes more sense 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:03.680 to me. 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.720 I think you're right. I remember when the speed dating 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:09.600 thing first came out, it seemed like, well, why are 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:12.680 you in such a hurry? Seemed kind of silly. But yeah, 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:14.520 I think compared to the online thing, is probably a 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:18.080 way way better idea. Yeah. 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:20.200 I suppose we'll have to figure this out since we 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:24.479 don't interact with the people anymore, and it's getting. 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:24.880 Less so and less so. 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:25.040 Oh. 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:26.320 There was a piece in the New York Times the 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:29.720 other day It's okay to date your coworkers. There was 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:32.960 somebody wrote a guest in the New York Times about how, 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:36.040 let's be realistic. This is where like everybody meets. It's 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:40.000 your best opportunity to meet somebody. It's crazy that we've 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:42.360 decided that's a no go zone since it's the only 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:45.560 place you're gonna meet anybody, which I've always. 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:47.800 Thought was true. That's funny, that's what we've been saying 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:50.720 before during and after the whole Me Too, madness and 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:51.680 ever since. 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:55.400 Yeah, yeah, you got some good Lindsay Graham stuff for us. 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:57.480 Yeah, some of the things that are being said about 0:16:57.640 --> 0:16:59.840 from both sides of the aisle, and just the kind 0:16:59.880 --> 0:17:02.880 of guy he was, really, really an admirable human being. 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:06.520 As he's up in Heaven, George Floyd with his arm 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:08.120 around him with Hulk Hogan looking on. 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:13.760 That says it all to me. That's America and Heaven. 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:15.760 I guess Heaven is America. 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:17.600 Okay, we got more on the way if you missed 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:20.320 the Seggets the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:24.000 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:28.520 I never thought to be in this position, Yeah, I said. 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:30.760 I thought Lindsey was going to be living forever. I 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:33.760 never thought. I never I said, Lindsey, you're going to 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:36.520 live forever. And he was going to have a big victory, 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:39.000 you know, he was. He was scheduled to win by 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:42.400 a lot. He had my support, and he was scheduled 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:43.800 he was going to win by a lot. He was 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:45.960 going to have one of his best elections ever. And 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:48.120 now he's got. 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:53.840 This terrible One of the most influential senators in the 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:59.960 country over the last quarter Century dropped dead over the weekend. 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:04.040 I mentioned this earlier. I think it's worth repeating. Stupid 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:08.720 people are unleashing stupid analysis for other stupid people, saying 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.760 that Lindsay Graham was a hypocrite and a psycophant of 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:14.280 Trump and had no principles. You could tell because he 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:17.840 criticized Trump then was with him, which is just so dumb. 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:22.480 Good Lord, Lindsey Graham had certain beliefs and if Trump 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:26.960 became president, and Lindsey was utterly dedicated to bringing those 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:29.320 beliefs to fruition. They had a lot to do with 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:33.280 a robust foreign policy and using American armed force and 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:35.919 defending freedom and pro life and the rest of it. 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:38.080 He was going to work with Trump because he had to. 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:40.960 He wasn't gonna stomp off and take his toys and 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:45.800 go home. And he also, just by disposition, he likes people. 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:49.800 He's definitely the sort of guy who brings people together 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:54.000 and shakes the hand of his opponents and smiles and 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:57.760 means it. It's interesting. I couldn't do it. 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:01.280 I just don't have the personality to like cozy up 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:03.159 to and spend lots of time with people that like 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:05.560 I just really have no respect for them. 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:08.320 I would find that really hard to do. 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:11.320 Like, if I think you're a lying grifter, I couldn't 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:14.760 play golf with you twice a week. And that's what 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:19.160 Lindsey Graham thought about Trump. Guarantee you I certainly did 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:22.480 back when he started running. But anyway, I understand the 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:24.879 point of if you have certain things you want to 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:28.800 get done, you need to be relevant enough to you know, 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:31.520 be in Trump's here and have an effect on foreign policy, 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:34.199 which I guarantee you he did. I guarantee he got 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:37.919 more of what he cared about done in office than 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:40.920 he'd been out of office. The difference is people who 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:44.639 flip flop and go with the wind who don't seem 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:48.680 to have either because like I don't know who'd be 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:51.440 a good example, but like I use the example of Biden. 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:53.239 I hate to use him perfect I hate to use 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:54.920 Biden just because he's the other party and it sounds 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:57.760 like I'm picking a Republican to you know, venerate a 0:19:57.840 --> 0:19:59.679 Democrat to attack. But if you can think of a 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:01.800 good public and that would be fine. 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:02.760 Who who flip. 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:05.080 Flops and changes gears and you know, all that sort 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:08.439 of stuff but doesn't seem to have a through line. 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:13.240 If your through line is healthcare for everyone, or foreign 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:17.439 policy like Lindsay Graham, or abortion or whatever, and you 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:19.119 do whatever you got to do to stay in office, 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:21.439 to keep fighting the same fight. You always say the 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:25.880 same thing about your core mission. I get that, even 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:26.840 though I couldn't do it. 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:32.240 Yeah. Yeah, it's the difference between wanting to stay involved 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:35.520 in relevant to accomplish something or wanting to stay involved 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:38.320 in relevant just to profit from it or be relevant 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:43.560 be on TV. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, And I think it's 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:47.359 Jim Garrity perhaps in the Yeah. And the National Review 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:53.760 makes the point that though he was seen as some 0:20:53.800 --> 0:20:57.359 sort of reagunite holdover in a the relic of the 0:20:57.400 --> 0:21:01.480 past and a loser, he sure seem to win a lot. 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:05.400 The America first president is in office, but he kept 0:21:05.440 --> 0:21:08.320 selling arms to Ukraine. Well it's not for a while, 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:11.000 but I think we're back. Put Nicholas Maduro in jail, 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:14.440 made Marco Rubio, the de facto Viceroy of Venezuela a bomb. 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:16.600 The heck out of the Iranians throughout the year scared 0:21:16.640 --> 0:21:20.080 the Cuban government so badly it keeps emphasizing it's willing 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:23.440 to negotiate to avoid a US invasion, and next year's 0:21:23.480 --> 0:21:25.600 defense appropriation is going to be at a minimum one 0:21:25.680 --> 0:21:27.680 hundred billion dollars more than last year, if not five 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:31.920 hundred billion more. Graham figured out he can get more 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:35.160 done with Trump. Is an ally and developed a genuine 0:21:35.200 --> 0:21:42.600 friendship with the President. And he was a pragmatist he 0:21:43.240 --> 0:21:47.560 you know, he was also eloquent and hilarious. His defense 0:21:47.600 --> 0:21:50.919 of Brett Kavanaugh was a hero moment. We played that 0:21:51.000 --> 0:21:54.680 earlier today, we should play it again. But he's a pragmatist. 0:21:54.760 --> 0:21:56.280 He thought, I need to get done what I want 0:21:56.280 --> 0:21:57.720 to get done. If I've got to work with X, 0:21:57.880 --> 0:21:59.360 Y and Z, that's who I'm going to work with, 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:04.800 and a bunch of people with pouring out tributes, including 0:22:04.960 --> 0:22:09.040 Trump of course, to Lindsey Graham, here are some of 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:18.040 my favorites. John Fund remembers an interview with the Senator 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:20.200 last year. Right, So, Graham looked back on his career 0:22:20.200 --> 0:22:22.840 with satisfaction and gratitude. I thank the Lord my parents 0:22:22.840 --> 0:22:25.360 that I've done pretty well for being just a cracker 0:22:25.440 --> 0:22:30.560 named Graham. Jay Nordlinger shares a story of uh, well, 0:22:30.640 --> 0:22:32.960 that's kind of It's a dry joke, but he was very, 0:22:33.080 --> 0:22:37.679 very funny. Michael Brendan Doherty, who's a real kind of 0:22:37.720 --> 0:22:42.360 America first Trumpian conservative, says, I met Lindsay Graham while 0:22:42.400 --> 0:22:45.040 he was campaigning in New Hampshire for a profile piece 0:22:45.400 --> 0:22:48.360 for my questions. He quickly figured out my foreign policy 0:22:48.400 --> 0:22:52.479 perspective was Buchananite. He relished debating it out, made honest 0:22:52.480 --> 0:22:55.479 emissions against interest when we got deep in the weeds 0:22:55.520 --> 0:22:58.400 on the hoothies, and had far more in room charisma 0:22:58.440 --> 0:23:02.760 than I expected. He was funny, magnanimous, and extremely effective 0:23:02.760 --> 0:23:05.639 as an advocate for his views, especially where I disagreed 0:23:05.680 --> 0:23:09.480 with him. May you rest in peace. Minnesota Senator Amy 0:23:09.520 --> 0:23:12.320 Klobochar wrote, what can't be forgotten is the reason why 0:23:12.359 --> 0:23:14.560 so many people he worked with, from senator to staff, 0:23:14.560 --> 0:23:16.959 will earn his law more in his loss, Lindsay had 0:23:16.960 --> 0:23:18.720 a zest for life in the Senate that made you 0:23:18.760 --> 0:23:20.280 want to get to work on a bill with him, 0:23:20.320 --> 0:23:23.040 or at least debate him. He brought joy to his job. 0:23:23.480 --> 0:23:25.399 He was one of the few who was willing to 0:23:25.920 --> 0:23:28.159 work with me when so few would. On helping the 0:23:28.200 --> 0:23:32.240 Afghan refugees, and she goes on with the several other 0:23:32.320 --> 0:23:33.840 stories of them working together. 0:23:35.600 --> 0:23:37.919 Yeah, Corey Booker put out a great video yesterday, the 0:23:38.760 --> 0:23:44.720 Democrat from New York, New Jersey. Right, yeah, great video 0:23:44.800 --> 0:23:46.920