WEBVTT - Now That's A Gesture! 0:00:01.900 --> 0:00:05.760 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the 0:00:05.790 --> 0:00:10.810 George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong 0:00:10.890 --> 0:00:18.690 and Getty. And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:23.370 --> 0:00:27.610 Under your vision of Medicare for all, can people keep 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:29.940 their health care plan if they like their health care plan? 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:30.460 Yes. 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:33.340 That health care plan has to decide that they're going 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:34.419 to continue to keep those people. 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:37.080 And right now what's happening is these health care plans 0:00:37.340 --> 0:00:39.880 are getting so expensive that they're knocking people out. 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:42.400 So that's a choice for those corporations to have to make. 0:00:42.420 --> 0:00:44.680 I feel like I've heard that question and answer before. 0:00:46.650 --> 0:00:50.629 It's oddly reminiscent of something. Yes, yes, yes. 0:00:51.630 --> 0:00:53.890 Here's a headline for you as we get into the 0:00:54.870 --> 0:00:58.170 broader topic of socialism and Great Britain and Islamism and 0:00:58.190 --> 0:01:00.450 all sorts of stuff. It all hangs together, but a 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:04.940 headline came out Friday. DeSantis Ron of Florida. Fraud crackdown 0:01:04.980 --> 0:01:11.040 drives nearly a billion-dollar spending plunge after they looked into 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:16.500 who was billing for what in Medicare fraud. They found 0:01:16.550 --> 0:01:20.770 that company after company was billing for, like, more hours 0:01:20.810 --> 0:01:24.369 than there are in a day. Yeah, Joe from our 0:01:24.410 --> 0:01:27.270 company worked 37 hours Friday. 0:01:27.910 --> 0:01:31.230 And Jenny worked 31. She's a slacker. 0:01:31.690 --> 0:01:34.160 And, yeah, yeah, yeah. And they billed the government for 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:36.780 zillions of dollars. And, you know, state after state, as 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.480 they crack down on this stuff, find enormous, enormous fraud. 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:42.760 And there's no way a computer or a human can 0:01:42.819 --> 0:01:46.840 catch that. I mean, come on. I know. It's amazing. 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:48.040 You know, it's funny. 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:50.300 I was reading that, and then this piece in the 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:54.180 Wall Street Journal, the welfare state is crushing Britain. The 0:01:54.260 --> 0:01:57.040 soaring number of people on disability and sickness benefits is 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:00.040 blowing up the country's welfare bill and imperiling its long-term 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:03.500 financial stability. And we'll tell you how severely in a 0:02:03.540 --> 0:02:06.220 moment or two. But here's the reality that some people 0:02:06.260 --> 0:02:10.640 get and some don't. First track on The Clash's fabulous 0:02:11.620 --> 0:02:13.760 Combat Rock album back in the day. 0:02:13.820 --> 0:02:14.459 Love The Clash. 0:02:15.260 --> 0:02:17.340 The same album with Rock the Casbah and Should I 0:02:17.380 --> 0:02:20.580 Stay or Should I Go? But it's called Know Your Rights. 0:02:21.060 --> 0:02:23.410 And it's kind of a sarcastic expression of what your 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:25.550 rights are supposed to be and how they are in 0:02:25.590 --> 0:02:28.910 the real world. And it's some good punk indignation. But 0:02:29.330 --> 0:02:31.750 one of them is you have the right to food money. 0:02:32.510 --> 0:02:37.050 If you don't mind a little investigation, humiliation. what Joe 0:02:37.070 --> 0:02:39.470 Strummer was talking about is the fact that, yeah, you 0:02:39.490 --> 0:02:40.070 got to fill. 0:02:39.930 --> 0:02:41.030 Out forms and you got to. 0:02:41.070 --> 0:02:44.540 Prove you need it to get the so-called food money. 0:02:44.900 --> 0:02:47.359 And of course, that was seen as just an offensive 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:51.639 thing to, you know, a young leftist punk musician in 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:56.049 Britain in that time. But if there's one thing humanity 0:02:56.070 --> 0:03:01.660 has proved, it's that Every single program that exists to 0:03:01.700 --> 0:03:06.410 help the downtrodden will be abused and defrauded by masses 0:03:06.470 --> 0:03:10.090 of people. I mean, it's like gravity. There's no escaping it. 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.660 Everywhere it exists, there will be rampant fraud. 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:17.970 Well, there's an incentive on both sides is the problem. 0:03:18.010 --> 0:03:20.869 There's an incentive on the greedy, I'd like stuff for 0:03:20.970 --> 0:03:24.510 free side, obviously, and as always happened with human nature. 0:03:24.889 --> 0:03:27.190 And then there's an incentive on the more people we 0:03:27.220 --> 0:03:29.340 get signed up, the more we can claim there's a 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:32.980 need for this and grow our department. Right, right. 0:03:33.060 --> 0:03:37.540 And or our NGO or, you know, as I hammered 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:41.350 for years and years. If you are dependent, you can't 0:03:41.410 --> 0:03:45.170 be independent. And if I am utterly dependent on the 0:03:45.210 --> 0:03:48.170 Democrats being in power for my daily bread, I'm going 0:03:48.190 --> 0:03:50.830 to vote for them every single time. You don't think 0:03:50.870 --> 0:03:53.510 that's occurred to the politicians? You think that's like an 0:03:53.970 --> 0:03:56.130 accidental after effect? 0:03:56.470 --> 0:03:58.770 Please, grow up. Who are you yelling at? 0:03:58.850 --> 0:03:59.170 I don't know. 0:04:00.150 --> 0:04:01.290 So let's get back to Britain. 0:04:01.910 --> 0:04:05.190 Seven million people, which is more than 10% of their population, 0:04:05.910 --> 0:04:08.850 now claim at least one or more sickness or disability benefit. 0:04:09.450 --> 0:04:13.470 Numbers are growing fastest among working-age people who should be 0:04:13.510 --> 0:04:18.150 powering the country's economy. It surged more than 60% in 0:04:18.370 --> 0:04:21.710 six years. Well, you know, that's funny what you brought 0:04:21.730 --> 0:04:23.920 up at the beginning of this, because I've always thought 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:27.780 shame is the only thing that keeps these things in check. 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:32.610 Cultural shame. And if you get rid of the idea of, 0:04:32.779 --> 0:04:36.140 I don't want any handouts... I would never take a 0:04:36.180 --> 0:04:38.180 hand out of any kind. Once you get rid of 0:04:38.300 --> 0:04:43.490 that stigma, these things completely fall apart. Right, right. 0:04:44.070 --> 0:04:46.650 And it's turned the corner, as you've observed many times, 0:04:46.710 --> 0:04:50.390 from I don't take charity to everybody's doing it. 0:04:50.430 --> 0:04:52.550 I'd be a fool not to. Well, at some point, 0:04:52.570 --> 0:04:54.770 that becomes reality. I've thought that myself. 0:04:56.470 --> 0:04:59.940 So not including health care, not including health care, the 0:04:59.980 --> 0:05:02.380 country will spend more than $ 100 billion this year on 0:05:02.500 --> 0:05:04.700 all types of welfare benefits for the sick and disabled, 0:05:05.020 --> 0:05:09.270 about a third more than defense spending in Britain. The 0:05:09.310 --> 0:05:11.789 tab is surged by a quarter in just four years. 0:05:12.420 --> 0:05:14.040 and is on course to hit a giant new number. 0:05:14.540 --> 0:05:16.960 Many of the newer disability claims are for mental health 0:05:17.020 --> 0:05:20.580 issues like depression, anxiety, and ADHD, which can be harder 0:05:20.620 --> 0:05:23.060 for the government to verify than a physical disability. 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:26.409 Well, it's impossible to verify. You can't verify it if 0:05:26.470 --> 0:05:29.790 you want to with your own kid. Right. Let alone 0:05:29.810 --> 0:05:32.609 the government verifying it. Sure, yeah. 0:05:32.650 --> 0:05:37.450 Between 2017 and 2025, disability claims for cancer doubled, which 0:05:37.510 --> 0:05:42.650 is difficult to explain. But benefits claims for all psychiatric 0:05:42.690 --> 0:05:45.120 issues surged fourfold. 0:05:45.779 --> 0:05:49.560 They quadrupled in eight years. See, I was speaking of 0:05:49.620 --> 0:05:52.200 old music that most people have never heard. I'm jamming 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:55.880 Charlie Daniels on Friday. in my truck on a beautiful day, 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.490 listening to a long-haired country boy. I ain't asking nobody 0:05:59.529 --> 0:06:01.630 for nothing if I can't get it on my own, 0:06:01.670 --> 0:06:07.490 which was and is a very proud, rural, redneck sort 0:06:07.570 --> 0:06:12.790 of vibe. I ain't asking nobody for nothing. That's not cool. Well, 0:06:13.029 --> 0:06:14.250 once it crosses over to. 0:06:16.150 --> 0:06:19.550 Almost everybody's getting something. At what point am I the 0:06:19.790 --> 0:06:23.470 idiot for not claiming that I've got ADHD or something 0:06:23.490 --> 0:06:25.950 like that and getting some of my own tax money back? 0:06:26.860 --> 0:06:28.859 At some point, it crosses over, doesn't it? 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.580 Yeah, and this actually crosses over into the hilarious hit points. 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:35.470 I mean, it's tragically hilarious, but One benefit created to 0:06:35.510 --> 0:06:38.029 help those with disabilities to be more mobile allows people 0:06:38.050 --> 0:06:40.310 to give up part of their welfare cash handout in 0:06:40.370 --> 0:06:42.750 return for a new car every three years. 0:06:43.150 --> 0:06:43.370 What? 0:06:43.410 --> 0:06:45.680 Wait a minute. Why would you need a new car 0:06:45.700 --> 0:06:48.359 every three years? How crappy are your cars in Britain? 0:06:48.540 --> 0:06:52.480 I don't get a new car every three years. Nor 0:06:53.100 --> 0:06:55.380 do I. And it's a new car. 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:55.469 Wow. 0:06:55.930 --> 0:06:59.310 Anyway, it now accounts for around one of every seven 0:06:59.370 --> 0:07:00.890 new car sales in the UK. 0:07:00.910 --> 0:07:01.210 Wow. 0:07:01.940 --> 0:07:05.310 Among those who got new cars last year, 40 people 0:07:05.370 --> 0:07:08.289 whose primary medical condition was tennis elbow. 0:07:08.310 --> 0:07:12.869 Oh, my God. Oh, my God. 0:07:12.870 --> 0:07:16.030 50 with wheat intolerance. 0:07:17.890 --> 0:07:22.520 I just can't tolerate wheat. Can I have a car? 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:26.200 And 320 with dyslexia, according to government figures. 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:29.180 Can I have a rack or car? I can't tell which, 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:32.060 but could you give me one? I have dyslexia. And again, 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:39.710 these numbers are all skyrocketing. You're into full-on socialism at 0:07:39.750 --> 0:07:43.410 the point that people claim tennis elbow with no way 0:07:43.450 --> 0:07:47.510 of verifying it. Get a car from the taxpayer. It's 0:07:47.570 --> 0:07:50.410 beyond socialism. It's into what the hell is them? I mean, 0:07:50.790 --> 0:07:53.110 I don't even know what system that is. God, can 0:07:53.130 --> 0:07:54.790 I get a couple of cars? Because I can't handle 0:07:54.850 --> 0:07:57.450 wheat and I've got tennis elbow. I get tennis elbow 0:07:57.490 --> 0:08:02.730 in both arms. Two-handed backhand, you know? Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. 0:08:02.810 --> 0:08:05.870 Okay, more on this situation in a minute after a 0:08:05.870 --> 0:08:07.800 word from our friends at Incogni. 0:08:08.260 --> 0:08:09.260 I know, I know. 0:08:09.860 --> 0:08:12.380 So they want to remind you that anytime you get 0:08:12.420 --> 0:08:14.800 a call from your bank where they know everything about you, 0:08:14.820 --> 0:08:17.440 your name, address, last four digits, your social security number, 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:21.710 that is probably a scammer. It's a scammer who bought 0:08:21.730 --> 0:08:24.530 your info from a data broker. They've got everything on you. 0:08:25.890 --> 0:08:28.180 It makes it so difficult because sometimes it is your 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:30.440 bank or insurance company that calls you, but there's just 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:33.720 no way of nailing it down anymore. It's troubling that 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.439 all your information is floating around out there. The data brokers, 0:08:36.500 --> 0:08:39.790 thousands of them collecting your personal info and then selling 0:08:39.830 --> 0:08:42.770 it to anybody who pays, including crooks. And that's why 0:08:42.830 --> 0:08:44.030 we're using Incogni. 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:49.640 Yeah, Incogni sends removal requests to 420-plus data brokers and 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:52.360 people search sites for you. They keep watch so they 0:08:52.380 --> 0:08:54.460 don't badge you back in. You couldn't do it yourself. 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:56.719 It would take hundreds of hours, but Incogni handles it 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:57.080 for you. 0:08:57.500 --> 0:09:00.760 Yeah, go to Incogni.com slash Armstrong for 60% off. I 0:09:00.780 --> 0:09:03.280 check out my Incogni account at least once a week 0:09:03.300 --> 0:09:06.400 to see how many different websites have gotten my information off. 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:09.260 Incogni.com slash Armstrong. 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:15.160 That's I-N-C-O-G-N-I.com slash Armstrong. Incogni.com. slash Armstrong. 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.260 So as the interest rates have gone up from the 0:09:18.380 --> 0:09:22.360 crazy artificially low levels of COVID and the government continues 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:25.300 to grotesquely overspend here as well as there, the borrowing 0:09:25.340 --> 0:09:30.370 costs are higher and higher and higher. And so the 0:09:30.410 --> 0:09:34.390 government has raised taxes, binged on debt, etc. A slow 0:09:34.429 --> 0:09:39.250 but steady exodus of wealthy Brits are leaving for tax-friendly locales, 0:09:40.130 --> 0:09:41.109 including Dubai. 0:09:41.130 --> 0:09:44.150 They figure we're just getting soaked too much and How 0:09:44.170 --> 0:09:46.420 would you not? You know, back to the whole, I 0:09:46.790 --> 0:09:48.980 ain't asking nobody for nothing. If your neighbor is getting 0:09:49.020 --> 0:09:52.319 a new car because of their weed intolerance, I mean, 0:09:52.340 --> 0:09:55.230 you either got to, you got to join them or leave. 0:09:55.250 --> 0:09:59.410 That's your only choice. Once that becomes entrenched in society, 0:09:59.470 --> 0:10:01.179 what do you have? I'll tell you what you have. 0:10:01.260 --> 0:10:05.100 So in 2025, useless waste of skin UK Prime Minister 0:10:05.179 --> 0:10:09.480 Keir Starmer announced plans to tighten eligibility requirements for sickness 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:13.580 and disability welfare because it was skyrocketing like it wasn't. 0:10:13.830 --> 0:10:18.170 People with tennis elbow were getting cars. The backlash was 0:10:18.410 --> 0:10:24.460 so sharp. Starmer and the government abandoned the cuts and 0:10:24.500 --> 0:10:27.900 then investors who are freaked out that a government with 0:10:27.940 --> 0:10:31.400 a big majority couldn't push through those basic reforms. 0:10:31.730 --> 0:10:33.689 So they sold off British government bonds. 0:10:33.929 --> 0:10:37.790 The pound fell sharply and their their Treasury Department, in effect, 0:10:38.429 --> 0:10:40.449 cried in Parliament and said, we've got to do something. 0:10:40.470 --> 0:10:42.880 This is terrible. They are drowning. 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:44.320 They don't know what to do about it, and their 0:10:44.340 --> 0:10:45.119 people won't put up with it. 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:48.780 What, am I supposed to walk everywhere with my upset stomach? 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:50.880 I had a bowl of cereal this morning. Right, my 0:10:50.940 --> 0:10:51.819 elbow's throbbing. 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:57.100 You know, I didn't get to pivot into Islamism and 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:01.929 how Britain, because partly of their fiscal woes, is now 0:11:02.030 --> 0:11:09.010 turning more and more to Middle Eastern shakedoms. including the 0:11:09.790 --> 0:11:14.430 regrettable Qataris for money and how that's got them on 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:18.420 the hook to Islamists. That's part of the reason Britain's 0:11:18.460 --> 0:11:21.980 in the Straits. It is with their giant Muslim immigration thing. 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:25.780 They dare not anger some powerful people in the Muslim 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:27.980 world because they're their sugar daddies. 0:11:28.900 --> 0:11:35.670 Oof! Our dad, England, is a drunken wreck on a 0:11:35.730 --> 0:11:38.250 park bench. I think it's our mother country, isn't it? 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:41.199 It depends how you look at it. I don't know. 0:11:42.059 --> 0:11:44.860 Mother country? All right. You do this one, then. 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:50.500 Our mother is a bedraggled drunk on a park bench. Wow. 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:57.460 Bedraggled. Yes. Humiliating. I think it's humiliating that we're going 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:00.780 to support Russia in the war against Ukraine. So do 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:04.699 some of my favorite Fox announcers. Very unhappy with what 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.020 Trump announced over the weekend. We can get into that 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:09.000 a little bit later. Also, I had one of those 0:12:09.059 --> 0:12:11.699 situations over the weekend. I love when this happens. When 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:14.800 a clerk at a store insults you after you just 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.560 bought something. I'm a big fan of those stories. I've 0:12:17.580 --> 0:12:20.160 told them before. Got that and other stuff on the way. 0:12:20.179 --> 0:12:22.990 Stay here. Armstrong and Getty. 0:12:28.390 --> 0:12:28.750 Grounds 1-4. 0:12:28.820 --> 0:12:32.800 Way to center field. Milwaukee takes the lead. Bottom of 0:12:32.900 --> 0:12:37.380 the order gets it done. Brewer ball right there. Sacrifice one. 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:37.620 Base hit. 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:37.689 2-1. 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:41.760 Brewers beat Dodgers game one of who gets to go 0:12:41.780 --> 0:12:44.920 to the World Series in the National League. The Brewers 0:12:44.940 --> 0:12:48.700 were very excited to win. I saw somebody post last 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:54.260 week when the Dodgers clinched their that series so they 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:58.230 could move to the NLCS. as was pointed out, they 0:12:58.330 --> 0:13:03.240 acted like it was a Tuesday win in June. And 0:13:03.260 --> 0:13:06.059 I wonder if that happens. You win too much. It's 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:07.080 just like, yeah, whatever. 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:08.280 I don't know. 0:13:08.460 --> 0:13:11.800 I have no idea. I don't know. Yeah, you could argue, well, 0:13:11.820 --> 0:13:14.930 they're businesslike about it. They're focused on the next one. 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.330 I don't know. Enthusiasm is something, though. The Brewers are 0:13:17.350 --> 0:13:19.050 acting like they won the World Series last night and 0:13:19.070 --> 0:13:21.949 just won game one, so. As a baseball purist, that 0:13:21.990 --> 0:13:25.510 means old guy, I really like the Brewer style of play, 0:13:25.590 --> 0:13:29.429 the sacrifice punt, the hit and run, small ball. So, 0:13:30.470 --> 0:13:33.130 homecoming dance Saturday night, my son went and he needed 0:13:33.170 --> 0:13:37.100 some clothes. He wanted an outfit. And one thing he 0:13:37.140 --> 0:13:39.360 wanted was some new tennis shoes, which he needed anyway. 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:40.979 So we went, we were at the mall, and he 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:44.180 picks out some high-top Jordans that he really, really liked. 0:13:45.380 --> 0:13:48.500 And we're at one of those many, many shoe stores 0:13:48.540 --> 0:13:50.120 they have at the mall that sell that sort of stuff. 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:55.650 And a guy goes and gets his size and wants 0:13:55.670 --> 0:13:58.110 to try them on. And he says, I got to 0:13:58.150 --> 0:14:01.490 lace them up first. And the kid, cool. Doing the lacing. 0:14:01.830 --> 0:14:03.890 And my son and I are sitting there talking for 0:14:04.220 --> 0:14:06.619 a really long time. And I thought, why is it 0:14:06.660 --> 0:14:08.440 taking him so long? And I look over and he's like... 0:14:09.020 --> 0:14:12.079 barely gotten anywhere on it and then he brings it 0:14:12.179 --> 0:14:13.980 i thought i could have i said to henry i 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:16.000 could have had five shoes laced by now i don't 0:14:16.020 --> 0:14:18.160 know what he's doing and eventually he brings up for 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:22.320 the shoe and it's just like randomly the way the 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:25.920 laces are going from hole to hole he clearly had 0:14:26.090 --> 0:14:28.810 no idea how to lace up a pair of shoes 0:14:29.790 --> 0:14:34.270 working at a shoe store Wow, that seems like the basics. 0:14:34.650 --> 0:14:37.830 Really seems like right there at the, and, you know, 0:14:37.990 --> 0:14:40.230 I hate to be critical, you know, Katie, whoever, tell 0:14:40.250 --> 0:14:42.790 me if I'm being overly critical, but I feel like 0:14:42.830 --> 0:14:45.440 it's the sort of thing that's kind of intuitive anyway. 0:14:45.460 --> 0:14:48.620 I don't feel like it's a heavy lift to figure 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.900 it out. I think my mind. My mom taught me 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:55.020 when I was about seven. Yeah. Or, you know, look 0:14:55.070 --> 0:14:56.610 at some of the other shoes in the store. You 0:14:56.650 --> 0:14:59.470 see how crisscross is there every other hole. It's really. 0:14:59.850 --> 0:15:02.710 Is there anything else specific about this employee? Did he 0:15:02.730 --> 0:15:07.110 seem drunk? So we're really struggling to, like, figure out 0:15:07.130 --> 0:15:08.890 how to get the shoe on and, like, tighten it 0:15:08.970 --> 0:15:10.650 up and have any sense of whether or not it 0:15:10.700 --> 0:15:12.800 fit right or not. But it is a little bit like. 0:15:12.700 --> 0:15:14.460 The guy at the Home Depot grabbing the wrong end 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:16.080 of the hammer and saying, yeah, this one's got. 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:18.740 A nice feel to it. With a head in his hand. Right. 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:26.070 It is simpler. You work at a shoe store, and 0:15:26.090 --> 0:15:29.790 you have not the slightest idea how to lace shoes. 0:15:30.590 --> 0:15:33.030 I just found that pretty dang funny. Anyway, so then 0:15:33.050 --> 0:15:36.100 we get up to the register, and we're buying the shoes, 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:40.520 and a young woman there says, and we end up 0:15:40.540 --> 0:15:44.360 getting in a conversation about her age. She's actually 35, 0:15:44.940 --> 0:15:48.410 which kind of factors into the story. Okay. what are 0:15:48.450 --> 0:15:53.440 you doing? I'm buying these. He's going to homecoming dance tonight. And, um, uh, 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:56.370 his first one, he's a freshman high school. And she said, 0:15:56.430 --> 0:15:59.970 you're in high school. You look 12. Which, of course, 0:16:00.350 --> 0:16:02.530 is an incredible insult to a young man. 0:16:02.700 --> 0:16:03.010 Right. 0:16:03.100 --> 0:16:06.140 As he's headed off to the dance, already uncomfortable about things. 0:16:06.380 --> 0:16:09.520 And I'm always just blown away. It's the opposite end 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:11.240 of when they say, and I went ahead and gave 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:13.980 you the dollar for the senior discount. Oh, thanks for 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:17.620 announcing that I'm obviously so old. Man, and it's really 0:16:17.660 --> 0:16:20.090 worth a dollar to have you announce to me. So 0:16:20.130 --> 0:16:21.990 I'll think about it all day long. It's like Shane 0:16:22.010 --> 0:16:23.970 Gillis was saying the other night on Saturday Night Live. 0:16:24.230 --> 0:16:26.970 Those insults that you think about all day long. Or 0:16:27.010 --> 0:16:29.690 maybe for the rest of your life. Hey, well, you 0:16:29.710 --> 0:16:31.130 can tell when you get an insult. This is what 0:16:31.170 --> 0:16:32.670 Shane Gillis said the other night. You can tell when 0:16:32.710 --> 0:16:34.930 you get an insult. It's like, oh, that landed. That's 0:16:34.950 --> 0:16:36.880 going to stick there for a while. And that is 0:16:36.930 --> 0:16:39.520 exactly right. It's like, I'm sure he had that on 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:43.800 his mind at the dance. I look 12. Freaking fantastic. 0:16:44.540 --> 0:16:48.040 Was that woman trying to express that high schoolers look 0:16:48.100 --> 0:16:51.200 young to her? Well, she's adult. I mean, that's just 0:16:51.220 --> 0:16:53.420 the long and short. You're dealing with adult. 0:16:53.820 --> 0:16:57.090 Well, the same. I've had the senior discount experience 10 0:16:57.090 --> 0:17:01.070 times in my life. hey, here's a tip. Ain't worth 0:17:01.110 --> 0:17:03.330 a dollar to me to have you announce to me 0:17:03.610 --> 0:17:08.010 that I'm obviously old. What are you doing? So, I 0:17:08.710 --> 0:17:11.610 don't know. I guess, is that where we are hiring, 0:17:11.630 --> 0:17:14.450 I guess? What, is unemployment so low? You're hiring people 0:17:14.510 --> 0:17:18.869 that can't lace up a shoe. I mean, that is, 0:17:19.290 --> 0:17:22.470 what is your IQ, dude? And yet he offered to. 0:17:22.530 --> 0:17:23.850 That's the interesting part. 0:17:24.910 --> 0:17:27.050 Right. Yeah. 0:17:27.550 --> 0:17:31.010 Huh. What a weird trip to the shoe store. I know. 0:17:31.109 --> 0:17:34.040 It's a nice store. We got good laughs out of it. 0:17:34.930 --> 0:17:37.149 Walking out of the store. Oh, my God. 0:17:37.170 --> 0:17:39.750 I'll bet the owner of that store would say to you, brother, 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:42.040 I interviewed 50 people. 0:17:41.780 --> 0:17:44.440 For each one of those positions. That's what I wondered, actually. 0:17:44.460 --> 0:17:46.940 This is the cream of the crop, my man. 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:50.040 These are the ones that got the job. The people 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:55.310 I turned away are... sitting on the couch eating paste, 0:17:55.380 --> 0:18:00.390 I guess. A third of them applied pantless, okay? That's 0:18:00.410 --> 0:18:01.450 what I'm dealing with here. 0:18:02.369 --> 0:18:02.649 Right. 0:18:04.170 --> 0:18:07.570 What Trump actually said about Ukraine and Russia and diesel 0:18:07.590 --> 0:18:10.730 and stuff over the weekend got a lot of people talking. 0:18:11.590 --> 0:18:12.930 It's our policy now, I guess. 0:18:13.450 --> 0:18:15.410 And I read a great essay about why you don't 0:18:15.470 --> 0:18:17.750 teach the AI systems that they're cognizant. 0:18:17.830 --> 0:18:20.430 It's the worst thing we can do. Armstrong and Getty. 0:18:22.210 --> 0:18:24.940 I suggest they get a new leader who can make 0:18:25.020 --> 0:18:27.840 a deal because he could have made many deals that 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:29.820 for some reason he never does. And let me go 0:18:29.859 --> 0:18:33.160 a step further. If I were president, you wouldn't have 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:35.780 ever had that war. That war would have never started. 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:38.730 There was no reason that that war with Ukraine and 0:18:38.790 --> 0:18:40.050 Russia started. 0:18:40.609 --> 0:18:42.490 It started due to incompetence. 0:18:42.510 --> 0:18:45.990 It should have never started. You wouldn't have lost 30 0:18:45.990 --> 0:18:49.310 percent of your country already. You've lost 30 percent of 0:18:49.330 --> 0:18:53.210 your country and you've had Over a million people killed. 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:56.940 Between the two of them, over two million people killed. 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:59.720 That's a war that should have never started. And I 0:18:59.740 --> 0:19:02.240 think it's time for Ukraine to get a new president. 0:19:05.980 --> 0:19:10.710 Wrong and irrelevant, the two points he made. I don't 0:19:10.730 --> 0:19:14.530 even know what to say about that. I find it appalling. 0:19:14.950 --> 0:19:18.429 So does Brit Hume, senior political analyst at Fox News. 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:23.169 So does Brian Kilmeade, host of Fox and Friends weekday mornings, 0:19:23.950 --> 0:19:25.550 can get to some of their quotes coming up a 0:19:25.570 --> 0:19:28.990 little bit later. It's an interesting conversation on the right. 0:19:29.530 --> 0:19:31.510 I know some of you are so against the idea 0:19:31.530 --> 0:19:35.410 of us supporting Ukraine in any way, not our war, etc., etc. 0:19:37.210 --> 0:19:39.619 Or such a fan of everything Trump does that maybe 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:41.540 you go along with this, the idea that, well, here's 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:45.490 CBS Evening News with what Trump's going to start doing. 0:19:45.590 --> 0:19:48.610 Trump turning to Russia with diesel prices pumped up by 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:52.090 the Iran war. The president announcing a deal Friday to 0:19:52.150 --> 0:19:57.380 buy Russian fuel despite sanctions. 300,000 tons now, 500,000 more 0:19:57.400 --> 0:20:00.760 in November, a million more after that. He says it 0:20:00.980 --> 0:20:02.100 will lower prices. 0:20:02.460 --> 0:20:06.920 We're going to buy oil for Russia who's struggling financially 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:08.989 because of their war. We're going to help bail them 0:20:09.090 --> 0:20:12.370 out so they can continue to kill Ukrainians as they're 0:20:12.410 --> 0:20:16.020 riding a bus to work or to school, which is something. 0:20:16.300 --> 0:20:20.399 Here's a Republican senator from North Carolina. That's about as 0:20:20.540 --> 0:20:22.840 red as you can get. Senator Tom Tillis on Meet 0:20:22.859 --> 0:20:23.680 the Press yesterday. 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:30.250 Look, this has deadly consequences. Giving Vladimir Putin any sense 0:20:30.290 --> 0:20:32.010 that we're going to put our foot on the brakes 0:20:32.030 --> 0:20:34.890 versus put our foot on the accelerator to ending this 0:20:34.970 --> 0:20:37.460 war is and ensuring peace in Europe. 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:40.620 We've got to go back, and I do believe. 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:42.680 There's a legitimate case for saying the president's not. 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:43.400 Following the law. 0:20:43.460 --> 0:20:47.800 We were very clear that Russia is the aggressor. Russia 0:20:47.859 --> 0:20:49.880 is the one who can end this war by backing 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:51.340 out a territory. 0:20:50.820 --> 0:20:51.859 That they occupied. 0:20:52.180 --> 0:20:54.690 In fact, it should go all the way back to Crimea, 0:20:54.750 --> 0:20:58.190 but at least the additional land that they've invaded over 0:20:58.230 --> 0:20:59.170 the past three years. 0:21:00.460 --> 0:21:04.570 So Brit Hume of Fox retweeted Boris Johnson, former prime 0:21:04.609 --> 0:21:07.990 minister of Great Britain, saying it is sickening that the 0:21:08.070 --> 0:21:11.470 USA is now lifting sanctions on Russia, Russian fuel and 0:21:11.510 --> 0:21:16.650 transparently ridiculous to blame Ukraine for the spike in diesel prices, 0:21:17.130 --> 0:21:19.760 gas prices around the world. Brit Hume said he's right 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:23.100 with that retweet. Then he had Brian Kilmeade get into 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:25.919 an argument on The Weeknd, Fox and Friends over The Weeknd. 0:21:26.650 --> 0:21:30.300 with one of the women sitting there on the couch 0:21:30.390 --> 0:21:34.360 with him who was going all, Zinlinsky needs to leave. 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:35.720