WEBVTT - It Helps Being Dumb 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:10.719 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:12.480 and Getty and he. 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:17.240 Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:26.120 I think it's useful for all of us to step 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:29.280 back and ask us, ask ourselves, what has the globalist 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:33.800 economy gotten the United States of America? And the answer is, fundamentally, 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:37.120 it's based on two principles. Incurring a huge amount of 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:40.199 debt to buy things that other countries make for us, 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:41.880 and to make it a little bit more crystal clear, 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:45.760 we borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:49.080 those Chinese peasants manufacturer. That is not a recipe for 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:52.360 economic prosperity. It's not a recipe for low prices, and 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:54.360 it's not a recipe for good jobs in the United 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:55.240 States of America. 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:02.200 Jadie Vance is very, very smart, smart enough to know 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.399 when being full of crap will sell. There's a fair 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:09.360 amount of what he says that's full of crap. Trade 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:15.000 imbalances don't really matter with individual countries. It just doesn't matter. 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:18.080 We're a gigantic market. We're always going to be buy 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:20.319 more than we sell to these little countries. It's okay 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:23.280 to have a trade inbalance, but how about the tariff imbalance? 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:26.840 Though I still somebody explained to me why it's okay 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:31.039 for Europe to tariff our stuff forty but if we 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:37.440 come close to terriffic back it's awful right that I'm 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:39.840 not saying it's not. I just don't understand why that 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:41.679 is the question. 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:45.319 Boiled down brilliantly by my partner, mister Armstrong. It helps 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:50.720 being dumb, well, it helps to get to the core 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:53.280 of the issue, as opposed to some of the more 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:58.520 fancy arguments that you're hearing. The Wall Street types will 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:02.560 make much, much, much, much more money over the next 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:07.640 two to eight years with the status quo than if 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:11.560 we change the status quo substantially and rejigger all the 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:13.760 tariffs and get into a quote unquote trade war, which 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:15.400 I don't actually think is going to happen, well two 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:16.120 to eight years. 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:18.680 As we all know, most of your Wall Street companies 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:20.079 are worried about this quarter. 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:22.720 Correct, Yeah, I'm thinking about two years. What is best 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:25.880 for the American worker the American economy in the short, 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:29.640 medium and long term is often very, very different than 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:31.960 what's great for Wall Street now. I'm not anti Wall Street. 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:33.720 I got a who bunch of money invested, trust me. 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:37.000 I'm counting on someday retiring from this dead end or 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:45.120 racket anyway. So you've got so many competing interests here 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.400 which often intersect. If you have a four to oh 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:50.880 one K, you don't want to see the market go 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:54.560 to hell, catch fire and sing into the ocean, of course. Not. 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:59.000 On the other hand, a situation in which, for instance, 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:03.840 are good pals in the European Union have been hitting 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:06.920 us with thirty nine percent tariffs on the stuff they 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:09.400 let in they won't in let in lobster and beef 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:13.760 and a couple other things at all. And now we're 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:17.960 jacking up our horrific tariff against Europe to twenty percent. 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:21.440 They're still at thirty nine percent on our goods. In 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:23.880 what sense is that starting a trade war? It's not. 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:30.000 It's reshaping the playing field in a way that makes 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:36.080 Wall Street and American corporations very nervous because they can't plan. 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:39.800 So they're yelling and saying this is a terrible mistake 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:43.840 because it will cost them. They are sincere, but they're 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:49.280 not sincere about all of it. If I would love 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:52.080 to see the five or so points of view on 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.440 this staunchly in favor of it, somewhat in favor of it, 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:59.440 kind of neutral, blah blah blah, all fed sodium pentathol 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:04.160 or a couple good stiff drinks make them honest about 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.119 why they're objecting in the way they're objecting. 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:11.240 Should I be concerned that Bernie and Elizabeth Warren and 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:14.680 AOC are silent on this topic because this tends to 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:18.440 be a lefty thing over the years of wanting to 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:22.359 get into tariffs. Yeah, well, I mean politically, you know 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:25.000 your bedfellows. My bedfellows seem to be Bernie Sanders and 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:25.680 Elizabeth Warren. 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:31.480 Yeah. Yeah, It's funny. Conservatism is evolving, and it's not 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:36.159 just toward quote unquote populism. I read a great, great 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:37.960 couple of sentences a while ago. I wish I'd had 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:40.159 a tattooed on my arm that the reason, one of 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:43.000 the reasons for the rise of Trump was that working 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:47.360 America had gotten nothing but condescension and judgment, no doubt 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:52.400 and dependency from the Democrats, and nothing but false promises 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:57.760 from conservatives. All those steel workers and car workers and 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:00.200 you know, washing machine workers and blah blah blah, who 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.520 are placed out of jobs because you can make it 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:07.600 cheaper in South Africa or Malaysia or wherever they got 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:11.239 false promises. Now, the rising tide did lift all boats 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:14.159 some but some boats much much, much more than others. 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:17.240 So now Trump comes along and says, no, We're going 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:20.840 to serve the American people, not the giant American corporations. 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:23.520 How does that contrast, by the way, with the whole 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:26.080 million ass a billion ass. Trump is half of the 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:27.800 billion as right. 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:29.839 Well, yeah, I was gonna mention The New York Times 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.680 today one of their side headlines around this, and this 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:36.680 is a giant story, this whole tariff thing. 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:41.480 Mean, this is enormous importance. You can't exaggerate how important 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:41.760 this is. 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:45.560 But one of their analysis pieces, Trump's tariff's our latest 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.320 sign of his second term appetite for risk. He is 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:52.760 not taking the soft, easy way to glide through four 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.960 years of being president and try to stay popular at all. 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:58.560 I mean, this is really laying it on the line. 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.720 Another angle of this whole tariff thing and restructuring the 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:04.359 global economy. I've heard this from a couple of places 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:09.640 which I've always been bothered by the concept of jobs 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:10.599 Americans won't do. 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:12.680 That just rubs me the wrong way. 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:14.480 For a variety of reasons, including the fact that I've 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:18.039 done a lot of really, really crappy jobs and I 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:20.520 never thought it was beneath me to do those jobs. 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:22.800 I you know, I structured my life in such a 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:24.960 way that I wouldn't have to keep doing those jobs. 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:28.560 Those jobs motivated everything I have become. 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:32.040 But the idea that we're too good for those jobs 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:34.800 just seems like a recipe. It's just, you know, I'm 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:36.599 a big fan of the French Revolution. It's got a 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:40.039 bit of a Louis the sixteenth culture to it. You know, 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:42.160 we don't have to do certain things, and you just 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:44.280 keep getting poorer and poorer. 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:46.960 And how big a fan of the French Revolution are you? 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.160 I mean, if I like descend, am I going to 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:52.080 get the you know, the old chopper rony whatever it takes? Okay? 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:54.080 But then this angle that I've heard a number of 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:56.320 times recently as I've listened to a ton of podcasts 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:58.400 on this. There's a piece in the Financial Times today 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:01.000 by this guy, Michael Strain. We should not be wishing 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:03.599 for American workers to return to the days of sewing 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:07.600 tennis shoes together in factories. So like if you got 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:09.960 Nike to come to the United States or Converse came 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:12.440 back to the United States like they had been, that 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:15.000 that would be a horror because you'd have Americans sewing 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:16.200 shoes and factories. 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:20.760 No, no, Americans should be in cubicles typing into computers 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:24.840 for that wages. That is what God has ordained. Yes, 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.800 that's that point of view, which I find very odd. 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:31.480 And if Converse through through the restructuring of the world, 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:34.400 Converse decides they need to be back in the United States, well, 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:36.120 they're going to have to pay workers whatever they got 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.040 to pay them to get them to show up, which 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:39.960 is the way it is with the fast food industry 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.440 and your cubical job and everything else. I just I 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:45.280 don't understand the horror there. And again getting back to 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:47.880 the reciprocal terrif idea. As you look at the chart, 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:50.560 and we'll post an easy link to find at armstrong 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:52.440 e geddy dot com if you want to look at 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:55.120 what the other countries around the world are charging us 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:58.560 in tariffs and what these new discounted reciprocal tariffs are 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:00.480 going to be on their goods. 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:05.720 You'll see a that is very reasonable. And b that's 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.800 not the end point. What the end point is gonna be. 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:11.240 And it might be in like a week or two, 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:13.480 or it might be in a six months. There might 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:15.040 be in a year or two years. I don't know. 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:19.000 This is a a passing through point on the way 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:23.520 to the post post World War two trade uh norms. 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:27.240 In my opinion, here's what the Wall Street Journal said. 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:33.319 Their panties are like in a wad, then bronzed, encased 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:37.079 in amber, and coated with steel. It's the most wadded 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:39.160 panties in the history. End Well, it's the what do 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:41.560 you call It's a wedgie. It's the atomic wedgie. You 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:44.640 pull a clip over their head. Yes, forbidden by the 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:50.360 Geneva Convention. President Trump unveiled his new Liberation Day tariffs 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:52.480 on Wednesday, and they are another large step toward a 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:56.079 new old era of trade protectionism. Assuming the policy sticks, 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:58.000 and we hope it doesn't, the effort amounts to an 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:00.000 attempt to remake the US economy in the world trade 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:03.760 trading system. All details aren't clear as we write this, 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:06.679 but mister Trump's tariffs look reciprocal in name only. First, 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:08.400 he's hitting every nation in the world with a ten 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:10.920 percent baseline tariff to sell in the US market for 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:13.600 those he calls bad actors. He's adding up the tariff 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.679 rates on US goods plus an arbitrary estimate of the 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:20.400 cost of its currency manipulation and non tariff barriers. I 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.080 don't think it's entirely arbitrary. But he then takes the 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:25.280 total number and applies half that in tariffs on the 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:27.920 country's exports to the US. So if they charge us 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:31.520 forty nine percent, we charge them twenty four percent. That 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:34.959 doesn't seem that insane. Then they go into some of 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:38.320 the details not worth sharing because we've done it. He're 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:42.720 the main point new economic Oh, let's consider some of 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:46.360 the consequences already emerging in this new protectionist stage. And 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.320 again I question whether charging them half of what they 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:54.079 charge us is quote unquote protectionist. New economic risks and uncertainty. 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:57.880 The overall economic impact mister Trump's tariff barrage is unknowable, 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:00.520 not least because we don't know how countries will react. 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:04.719 Could be widespread retaliation, there won't be. I don't think 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.199 there will be. There will certainly be higher costs for 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:10.400 American consumers and businesses. Tariffs are taxes, and when you 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:15.240 tax something, you get less of it. Tariffs are taxes. 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:18.880 They are one hundred percent taxes. That is correct on imports, 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:24.560 so we will get fewer imports until the tariff rates 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:28.600 adjust again, and then we get more exports. Theoretically, car 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.200 prices will rise by thousands of dollars, including those made 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:35.439 in America. That's correct. Mister Trump is making deliberate decision 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:39.000 to transfer wealth from consumers to businesses and workers protected 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:43.640 from competition behind high tariff walls. Over All this, over time, 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:46.840 this will mean the gradual erosion of US competitiveness. It 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:51.319 will harm American exports. One long term US trade goals 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:55.959 to expand markets for American goods and services. Mister Trump's 0:10:56.040 --> 0:11:00.520 unilateral tariffs blow up those arrangements and invite retaliation. In 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:07.440 what sense are they unilateral? I honestly, and if I'm 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:11.920 missing something significant, please drop us an email mail bag 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:14.760 at Armstrong in getty dot com. 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Trump says there will be 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:02.199 no tariff exemption, but watch that promise vanish as politicians, 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:04.880 including mister Trump, see exemptions as a way to leverage 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:09.080 campaign contributions from business. Liberation Day is by another yacht 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:12.240 day for the swamp woof, and it will be the 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:18.400 end of US economic leadership. The share of global GDP 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:20.720 has been stable at about twenty five percent for decades, 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:23.880 even as industries rise and fall. That era is now 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.720 ending as mister Trump adopts a more mercantile vision of 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:29.240 trade in US self interest. Don't bother you look it 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:31.160 up if you want. The result is likely to be 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:33.960 every nation for itself, as countries seek to carve up 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:37.959 global markets based not on market efficiency but for political advantage. 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:40.439 In the worst case, the world trading system could evolve 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:44.440 into a beggar thy neighbor policy as in the nineteen thirties. 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.360 And they say this will also be a major opportunity 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:48.640 for China. You know, I'm going to use that as 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:50.080 a measuring stick over the years. 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:52.560 You're right, it's been We have been about a quarter 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:56.600 of the world's GDP for quite a while. Now, where 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:58.880 will we be five years from now, ten years from now? 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:01.200 An interesting way to look at it. 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.559 Yeah, we need to take a break, but there's more 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:06.960 to be said, and we will say it, and you 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:07.840 can take your input. 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:11.400 Yeah, you're your input at text line four one KFTC. 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:18.920 Corey Booker just delivered the longest speech in Senate history 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:21.440 at twenty five hours and five minutes. 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:24.200 Check out the other historically long speeches that knocked off 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:24.880 the top of the list. 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:28.360 Senator Strom Thurmond in nineteen fifty seven, your dad after 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:30.720 he found weed in your sock drawer. Your coworker telling 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:33.000 you about a dream they had last night. Adrian Brody 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:35.880 accepting the Oscar for Best Actor. Every group of bridesmaids 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:37.720 whose speech starts with for those of you who don't 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:40.080 know us, we're Becka's best friends from growing up. The 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:42.240 person over fifty when you asked them for directions, the 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:44.440 waiter reciting the specials when you already know you're just 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:48.120 getting the burger, and Joe Biden saying one sentence, Hey. 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:50.960 Yeah, that's a fucking good the list now he holds 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:56.720 the records are really good. Boy. That Corey Booker, idiotic stunt, 0:14:56.840 --> 0:15:01.200 gotten zero attention, hilarious bride He's made for those who 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.320 don't know we've been best friends since here comes the 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:04.000 lost story. 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:05.480 Boy. 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.480 It's not for me, it's for them. It's their day. Sure, 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:12.840 so I'll just think about something else. Why I tell this? 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:15.200 So let me run through a couple of things for 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:18.920 you in our limited time. In this segment, Kanye West 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:23.760 confirms split from his wife Bianca after his disturbing rants, 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.240 which Joe mentioned the other day if you haven't watched him, 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:27.520 he did an interview in. 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:31.560 A full Ku Kus Klan outfit, but black instead of white. 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:34.800 The Pointy Hood and everything did the interviews through the mask, 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:38.560 so it was wrong and an interview guy had to 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.359 be thinking, dude, I get it, all right, you're outrageous. 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:43.320 Take off the mask. So this is audio. 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:46.080 It sounds terrible anyway. So his wife is taken off. 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:49.040 He says he's tracking her on her on his app. 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:52.200 He's tracking her and she ran away. Okay, So there's 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:56.640 that Another New York Post got her chipped like a dog. Well, 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:58.440 you know you probably do. Maybe you do this, I 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:01.280 don't know, but you know, like you share your location 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:05.960 with youruse absolutely his sons whatever. Yeah, but i'd thought 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:11.400 she'd have turned dolf. Yeah, New York Post headline. Another 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:14.920 one dog breaks Guinness World record for a number of 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:17.480 tennis balls in mouth at once. M I didn't know 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:19.520 that was a record. The question is does a dog 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:21.680 know he was breaking a record? His dog has looks 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:23.480 to be like five tennis balls in his mouth the way. 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:27.400 That's a good boy, good boy, we've set a world record. Congratulations. 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:29.880 And I had another one I wanted to get on. Oh, 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:33.000 this high school baseball player whose name happens to be 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:36.040 Jack Bauer. If you're old enough to remember the TV 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.560 show twenty four, he wears the number twenty four on 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:40.520 his jersey because his name is Jack bar. I'm sure 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:42.320 his parents had to tell him about this because he 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:44.880 was born after that show was on. But he's a 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:47.000 high school kid and he throws one hundred and two 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:50.360 miles an hour. No and uh yeah, and he's like 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:51.840 everybody's paying attention to him. 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:54.080 Obviously. He had a game Tuesday. 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:58.120 His fastball averaged between ninety seven and one oh one 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:00.560 in the Tuesday game. Now, as a high school player, 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:02.360 you gotta be thinking, can I just can me just 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:04.280 do they have a thing where I can just forfeit 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:06.520 my bat bat so I don't take one in the 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:07.480 head if he happens to. 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:10.680 Lose it, I would be at the far back outside 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:16.159 corner of the batter's box, covering myself up, saying, dude, 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:19.080 you're either going to throw three strikes or four balls first. 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:21.320 I'm either going to head to the bench or first base. 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:22.159 Go ahead. 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.640 I'm not gonna be killed today. One other sport thing, 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:30.320 you know. So, I was at my son's volleyball game 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:33.520 last night. Real volleyball where you have howard eight people 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:36.239 on each side. That is so much more entertaining than 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:38.760 the two person beach volleyball. I don't care what anybody 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:41.960 says regular volleyball is really exciting. 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:46.760 But they're not sexy babes wearing thongs, right, that's the thing. 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:49.040 They aren't not bigini, So it'll never be an Olympic 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:50.600 sport that anybody pays the attention to. 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:54.359 So we need to revisit the Ezra Kleine progressive view 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:56.600 of life that we touched on yesterday, and we've got 0:17:56.640 --> 0:18:00.560 some great reaction to that via email more of talk, 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:03.840 including I've meant to throw in. Speaking for myself, there's 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:06.480 no question this is terrible for me in the short 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:10.320 term financially speaking. Oh yeah, Oh it's awful. So believe me. 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:12.800 I'm not touting this because I think it'll help me. 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:16.479 Armstrong and getty. 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:20.120 You can see now that we are in a pre 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:24.399 civil war culture now, But I look at the politics 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:28.040 of it, of where people are in this country today 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:31.960 and the division and how they're holding fast and no 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:38.040 one's going to falter, no one's going to break or. 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:45.359 A compromise, and it's bad. Hands up, hands up, don't shoot. 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:46.320 That's Alec Baldwin. 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:49.719 I'm saying we're in a pre civil war culture. 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:53.320 So I I hope he's wrong about that. I'll grow 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:55.240 my beard out. I don't I don't know what to 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:56.080 do alec. 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:59.760 But we are quite polarized, and nobody's giving and I 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:02.639 don't know that I feel like it's improving any But 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:09.240 I've always been interested in the how, you know, people 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:12.840 grow up with a lefty view of the world, you 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:15.120 go up with a conservative view of the world, and 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:18.880 just they're so different and what causes that and all 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:21.240 that different sort of thing. But we were talking yesterday 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:23.119 about this interview I heard with Ezra Kline of The 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:26.040 New York Times in which he was asked to describe 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:30.119 the lefty point of view and to summarize it fairly succinctly, 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:33.359 And it made me scream out loud in my bedroom. Oh, 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:36.280 you've got to every beginning, because he got into the 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:41.359 whole Look, life is unfair, and people have different advantages. 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:43.639 Where you're born, how smart your parents were, how you know, 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:45.199 blah blah blah, the kind of school you went to 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:47.800 do So if you're successful, you didn't do that, you 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:52.080 didn't build that in the famous Obama thing. And so 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:55.040 the job of the government is to try to you know, 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:57.639 you can't get perfect outcomes, but the job of the 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:01.080 government is trying to level that out, right, I thought, Okay, yeah, 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:03.119 how so who's going to make those decisions? 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:05.840 First of all? You, I guess yeah, And gosh, who's 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:08.359 going to end up really benefiting from the power to 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:10.760 make those decisions? Golly, I can't even guess. 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:15.440 And always my thing, nobody ever throws in personal choices, 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:16.960 decisions you've made. 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:18.840 Throughout your life for how you ended up where you were. 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:20.439 It's just you were born in the right town and 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:21.879 your parents were this or that. 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:25.760 My parents weren't rich, by the way, But whatever Evan 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:29.159 Jews have, nobody gives you any credit or discredit for 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:30.160 life choices. 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:34.040 Right, And we talked about how, as laid out so 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:37.160 beautifully by Thomas Sowell in his book A Conflict of Visions, 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:41.480 you got what he calls the constrained vision of mankind, 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:44.600 which is essentially more conservative. It relies heavily on the 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:47.200 belief that human nature is essentially unchanging and that man 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:50.840 is naturally inherently self interested, regardless of the best intentions. 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:55.080 And those with a constrained vision prefer these systematic processes 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:57.880 of the rule of law and the experience of tradition 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:02.240 compromises essential because they're no ideal solutions, only trade offs. 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:05.960 On the other hand, the unconstrained or progressive ezraclined point 0:21:05.960 --> 0:21:09.200 of view, it relies heavily on the belief that human 0:21:09.280 --> 0:21:13.760 nature is essentially good. Those with unconstrained visions distrust decentralized 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:17.480