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Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George

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Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Gatty, and he Armstrong and Getty Strong and.

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Speaker 3: Came across a fantastic think piece by a fellow by

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Speaker 3: the name of Tom Klingenstein about de EI in the

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Speaker 3: United States Military.

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Speaker 2: And I've heard various folks, including.

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Speaker 3: Some of serv talk about how it's hurt readiness, and

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Speaker 3: I believed it, but I've never heard it fleshed out

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Speaker 3: this well. And I wish we had hours and hours,

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Speaker 3: because I'd love to read the whole thing and discuss

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Speaker 3: it with you. But his point that is quite eloquently made,

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Speaker 3: and we'll post it at Armstrong and Giddy under hot Links,

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Speaker 3: is that.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 3: He writes, the military is often perceived by well meaning

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Speaker 3: Americans as the last holdout in the progressive march through

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Speaker 3: the institutions. In reality, however, it was among the first

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Speaker 3: American institutions to formally embrace the radical logic of group quotas.

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Speaker 3: And he talks about the difference between civilian society and

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Speaker 3: mill military society in its values, in its training, in

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Speaker 3: its social norms, and why they're so important, and how

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Speaker 3: DEI is utterly incompatible with the cultural norms that have

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Speaker 3: underpinned every military in the history of time, discipline, sacrificing

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Speaker 3: oneself to the unit, everyone being the same, your only identity,

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Speaker 3: as I'm a member of this unit. It's very, very

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Speaker 3: well written, and it's made me all the more dedicated

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Speaker 3: to stamping out this radical ideology wherever it happens. I

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Speaker 3: was encouraged to see a guest editorial in New York

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Speaker 3: and The New York Times pointed out by fabulous frequent correspondent,

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Speaker 3: Paolo DEI is not working on college campuses.

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Speaker 2: We need a new approach.

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Speaker 3: It's by a couple of academics from Stanford Law and

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Speaker 3: Stanford University, and they write it in a way that

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Speaker 3: is they are lefties approaching lefties. So it's fairly gentle

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Speaker 3: about how the DEI.

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Speaker 2: Programs that exist on campuses.

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Speaker 3: Are not quite what they purport to be and don't

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Speaker 3: really achieve what they've said they should achieve, pointing out

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Speaker 3: the rampant anti Semitism on all of these enlightened campuses.

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Speaker 2: And again it's it's very well written and I'd love

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Speaker 2: to go into more detail on it, and anti Asian bias,

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Speaker 2: which we'll get to in a second.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, And we could certainly get into the

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Speaker 3: report that just came out from Columbia University about how

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Speaker 3: miserable a failure Dei has been in rooting out anti

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Speaker 3: Semitism there, and he gets into the I'm sorry, these

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Speaker 3: two academics get into the rigidity of these programs and

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Speaker 3: how and again, this is not a revelation to us

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Speaker 3: at all. They don't seem to actually be about diversity,

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Speaker 3: equity and inclusion, whatever those things mean. They seem to

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Speaker 3: be rigidly enforcing a particular point of view, and they

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Speaker 3: seem to just want to see the power at the universities. Well,

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Speaker 3: welcome to enlightenment, my friend. But what was interesting was,

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Speaker 3: and this is what Paolo, the service Polo provided, which

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Speaker 3: I appreciate very much, he says, more interesting than the

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Speaker 3: article are the generally pretty solidly left New York Times

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Speaker 3: reader's comments.

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Speaker 2: If you view the reader's picks.

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Speaker 3: Meaning the comments on the story that got the most

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Speaker 3: thumbs up and that sort of thing, you'll see that

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Speaker 3: they are all critical of Dei, and they run from

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Speaker 3: as a white males perfectly fine, can be even helpful

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Speaker 3: to ask me to examine my values and beliefs for

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Speaker 3: racism and sexism. But it's not fine to assign me

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Speaker 3: the category of a pressor based solely on my race

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Speaker 3: or gender.

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Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. How about this one?

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Speaker 3: As a black immigrant from Africa, the idea that groups

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Speaker 3: All races and genders have issues because we're all human beings.

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Speaker 3: I've received far more discrimination in Africa on the basis

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Speaker 3: of my tribe than I have from any white person.

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Speaker 2: And he goes down that line for a while.

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Speaker 3: As a staunch liberal and white minority, ally, the only

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Speaker 3: thing that's ever made me consider voting a Republican is

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Speaker 3: having to write diversity statements for a university job. It's

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Speaker 3: a blatant tool of discrimination and everyone knows it.

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Speaker 2: Wow. A couple one more quick one.

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Speaker 3: As a professor at a university, I agree for students

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Speaker 3: to succeed in the university.

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Speaker 2: They must feel that they belong.

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Speaker 3: For a minority student from a public school and a

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Speaker 3: you belongs. Uh this guy does he finally get to

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Speaker 3: what works. So, as I've said many times, this is

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Speaker 3: not the beginning of the end of this neo Marxist garbage.

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Speaker 2: It's the end of the beginning.

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Speaker 3: People are starting to realize, Wow, this isn't about diversity

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Speaker 3: or equity, which is communism or inclusion at all. They

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Speaker 3: just want to take control of things by cowing us

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Speaker 2: On the racial breakdown at colleges. Maybe you saw this headline.

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Speaker 2: I saw the initial headline over the weekend after Supreme

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Speaker 2: Court ruling against affirmative action. Black acceptance to MIT drops

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Speaker 2: ten percentage points, and they presented it only that way.

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Speaker 2: I think it was The New York Times had it,

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Speaker 2: and obviously it's supposed to be a horror that happened.

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Speaker 2: Rich Lowry actually wrote in The New York Post yesterday

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Speaker 2: digging into it a little more. A spike in Asian

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Speaker 2: Americans who were admitted to MIT, who you can only

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Speaker 2: assume were not getting in even though they deserved it

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Speaker 2: before because of affirmative actions. So the whole numbers on that.

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Speaker 2: So MIT is the first top level college to release

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Speaker 2: these in the fall, I assume from Harvard, Yale, whoever else.

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Speaker 2: But MIT released its first post affirmative action admissions number

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Speaker 2: for the incoming class since the Supreme Court ruled the

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Speaker 2: affirmative action in these universities is wrong, and the percentage

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Speaker 2: you know, merit based admissions. Black students dropped from fifteen

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Speaker 2: roughly the same, and as rich lowry rites. Either the

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Speaker 2: MIT admissions office has been somehow infiltrated by racists who

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Speaker 2: want to exclude as many Black and Hispanic students as

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Speaker 2: possible while boosting Asian Americans for some reason, or they

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Speaker 2: were working to keep out meritorious Asian American applicants all

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Speaker 2: these years, people that deserved to be in the school

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Speaker 2: What could be more racist than that?

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Speaker 3: Well, and to take a step back to I think

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Speaker 3: the greater and more important issue is now that we

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Speaker 3: elevated beyond their level of achievement and stuck into these colleges,

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Speaker 2: You're not going to read that in the mainstream media,

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Speaker 3: Instead of papering over the question of okay, why is

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Speaker 3: a disproportionately small percentage of black students able to qualify

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Speaker 2: They're even in school. Let's talk about kindergarten.

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Speaker 3: Let's look at first grade through eighth grade. Let's talk

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Speaker 3: about middle school and high school and the rest of it.

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Speaker 3: Let's address causes as opposed to these affirmative action at

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Speaker 3: the end programs that enable a people who are profiting

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Speaker 3: from this, the teachers' unions and don't want to solve

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Speaker 3: the problems, and b society that's uncomfortable talking about it.

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Speaker 3: Why do black kids underachieve? If you don't paper over

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Speaker 3: the process at the end. You're forced to reckon with

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Speaker 3: the problem at the beginning. And that's why I like

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Speaker 3: these problems as somebody who's not trying to take over

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Speaker 3: critical theory, neo Marxism.

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Speaker 2: I actually care about little black kids. So a Doke

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Speaker 2: researcher is expecting similar results in other Ivy League schools.

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Speaker 2: This fall a big increase for Asian American students, white

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Speaker 2: Black and Hispanic admissions. Rich Lowry points out here it's

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Speaker 2: the same experience California had when the state passed the

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Speaker 2: anti Affirmative Action proposition in two thousand and nine, I

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Speaker 2: mean two nine. Back in ninety six, Asian Americans went

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Speaker 2: from thirty seven percent of freshmen at UC Berkeley to

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Speaker 2: Berkeley dropped from thirty percent to twenty percent. And this

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Speaker 2: American includes people from countries that hate each other and

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Speaker 2: Philippines whatever, They got nothing to do with each other.

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Speaker 2: In some cases hate each other and always have hated

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Speaker 2: each other. They've killed each other by the hundreds of

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Speaker 2: thousands in brutal ways. It's not like some monolithic group

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Speaker 3: Well, and you've got to drop your preconceptions too about

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Speaker 3: elite universities and such. I tell you what, here at

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Speaker 2: You're gonna drink some beer and get laid. It's gonna

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Speaker 2: be great at the superachiever universities will be for superachievers.

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Speaker 2: And that's fine.

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Speaker 3: And I remind you of the fact that generally speaking,

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Speaker 2: because Rich Lowry did end with as for students who

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Speaker 2: would have been admitted under the old racialized system. It's

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Speaker 2: not like they'll have no future. If they end up

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Speaker 2: at a good state school somewhere, you'll be absolutely perfectly fine.

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Speaker 2: If that good enter off, probably yeah, very good chance

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Speaker 2: us a long time to get here. These affirmative action

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Speaker 2: the uncomfortable and difficult questions of black underachievement. I believe

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Speaker 2: that to my bone. That's really interesting.

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Speaker 1: The Armstrong and Getty Show or John or Joe.

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Speaker 2: Podcasts and our hot links The Armstrong and Getty Show.

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Speaker 2: Oh here's how money actually works.

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Speaker 3: Seven dollars beautiful, Are you about to say something? Okay,

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Speaker 3: so we're gonna do the one on one class first

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Speaker 3: the basics of economics, which is a fairly rare thing

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Speaker 3: in today's world, which is highly discouraging. But first of all,

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Speaker 3: they're talking about who's this writer. I like to give

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Speaker 3: credit because this is really well written. Matthew Henessy in

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Speaker 3: the Wall Street Journal is talking about the fellows in Oasis,

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Speaker 3: the British rock band which is getting back together.

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Speaker 2: Wonder Wall. He gets back, he gets.

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Speaker 3: Into some of the backstory, the Gallagher brothers who can't

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Speaker 3: stand each other and can't get along, but they're the

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Speaker 3: indispensable members of the band Oasis. Last month, the Boys

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Speaker 3: Buried the Hatchet announced series twenty twenty five concerts.

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Speaker 3: Fans were young and relatively poor during the band's heyday

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Speaker 3: I would argue to the journalists that know these are

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Speaker 3: Then they point out the obvious oasis could be nice

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Speaker 2: Well that's what Yeah, that's what people don't understand about sports,

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Speaker 2: it's not George Clooney or Shoheyo Tani or the Gallagher brothers,

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Speaker 3: A couple more quick tidbits of music industry guru explained

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Speaker 2: They want them to take the flack for all this stuff.

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Speaker 2: Gonna happen The gallery.

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Speaker 3: Good boys are going to put down their fists and

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Speaker 3: And supply will increase in the prices will I was

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Speaker 3: I have one thousand, five hundred stories that start that way,

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Speaker 3: Wow, Wow, Yeah, that legend not overblown. No, that reminds

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Speaker 3: Actually we're continuing to come to blows and scream at

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Speaker 3: Today is a major day in my life. To tell

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Speaker 3: I think many people have been through this. I I'm

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Speaker 2: There's no point in buying new shirts. This shirt fit before. Fine,

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Speaker 2: it'll fit again. I just need to get a little discipline.

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Speaker 3: A temporary measure, an emergency measure, if you will.

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Speaker 2: Is it a temporary measure? Is it? Or is it?

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Speaker 2: Or is it on the road to even bigger shirts.

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Speaker 2: I or an undershirt son, no flesh will be seen.

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Speaker 2: You know what, you're a different size than you were

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Speaker 3: Days of discipline are coming any minute now or not.

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Speaker 3: I don't feel like Jim Harbaugh going to the Los

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Speaker 3: Angeles Chargers. What a terrible idea. We need to change

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Speaker 2: But I I thought the discipline was coming all of

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Speaker 3: But it wasn't working. In the reason the buttons were

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Speaker 2: So anyway, it's just somewhat relaxing to have just giving up.

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Speaker 2: We still accept you, thank you, thank you. Wow. There

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Speaker 3: That's a kind of a Michael's art director of DEI,

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Speaker 3: Lizzo is my hero and fat acceptable is my cause.

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Speaker 3: So there you are, enjoy your infarction. It's fairly common,

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Speaker 3: It isn't to have a group of clothes that you

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Speaker 2: Oh I got half a closet full.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, of like mostly two different weights are all

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Speaker 3: I describe it as this realistic and unrealistic. Do you

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Speaker 3: I have clothes.

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Speaker 2: What that I've you said unrealistic.

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Speaker 3: So I just wondered to like, if you have some clothes,

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Speaker 2: cool T shirts, a concert, fun places I've been, that

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Speaker 2: I was just thinking, luckily, so far, I still wear

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Speaker 3: Speaking of economics, moving along, Argentina's new president, this Mela

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Speaker 2: And all of the four horses who are fighting him

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Speaker 3: And when you have a socialist system, for more than

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Speaker 2: This is inevitable. It happens every time socialism rampant corruption.

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Speaker 2: But the similarity to the drug to a drug.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if you can imagine that.

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00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,960
Speaker 3: But yeah, if you go from Goblin five oxy count

441
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:32,399
Speaker 3: in a day to seven, you know, Okay, that's just

442
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:35,160
Speaker 3: two pills. But man, you're making it harder and harder

443
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:35,879
Speaker 3: and harder.

444
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:39,280
Speaker 2: To ever get straight. Yeah. Once you're getting something for free,

445
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:41,920
Speaker 2: even if it kind of didn't make sense to get

446
00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:43,440
Speaker 2: it for free in the first place, how you ever

447
00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:46,160
Speaker 2: going to take it away from someone? Oh, I know free.

448
00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:48,960
Speaker 2: I'm using my finger quotes and italics in bold. There's

449
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:50,760
Speaker 2: no such thing as free. I hate that word. It

450
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:53,960
Speaker 2: ought to be banned from the English language. Yeah, and

451
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:54,480
Speaker 2: there are.

452
00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:58,719
Speaker 3: Hundreds of examples in our system, our welfare programs that

453
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:02,639
Speaker 3: on Tuesday, I've imagined it that you need it or

454
00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:04,320
Speaker 3: want it, or anybody would do it for you.

455
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:06,480
Speaker 2: On Wednesday, they grant it.

456
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:12,840
Speaker 3: By Thursday, you're militantly against it ever going away because

457
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:19,840
Speaker 3: you're you're saying that would cause me pain and financial difficulty.

458
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:21,919
Speaker 2: And the rest. And it's sincere that's true. It will

459
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:22,359
Speaker 2: do that.

460
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,600
Speaker 3: And you know my final thought on this screed because

461
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:29,119
Speaker 3: I can't help myself. The people who pass these programs

462
00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:33,240
Speaker 3: are one hundred percent cognizant of these facts. They're not

463
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:38,560
Speaker 3: accidentally getting you hooked on them. You're dependent on them.

464
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:42,520
Speaker 3: Final note, And I thought this was so interesting. Everybody's

465
00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:47,200
Speaker 3: heard the stock markets are the various indices are setting records.

466
00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:49,280
Speaker 2: Right, you're S and P your Dow Jones. I know,

467
00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:50,960
Speaker 2: I just looked at my four oh one K the

468
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:51,400
Speaker 2: other day.

469
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:51,879
Speaker 1: What.

470
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:56,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've resisted the temptation because I'm afraid it's going

471
00:25:56,920 --> 00:26:00,639
Speaker 3: to go kurb Bluey, particularly after reading this. Sorry, and

472
00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:03,120
Speaker 3: this is not just doom saying. I found this so interesting.

473
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:10,480
Speaker 3: There are eleven sectors that the is this The SNP

474
00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 3: looks at eleven different sectors from where's the list industrials, financials,

475
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:28,320
Speaker 3: consumer staples, real estate, healthcare, utilities, materials, and tech. Ten

476
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 3: of those eleven indices are flattered down. Only tech is up.

477
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:37,280
Speaker 3: Only tech yipes has dragged the S and P up.

478
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,679
Speaker 2: That's a good perspective, right, there. Yeah, I was shocked,

479
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:42,280
Speaker 2: shocked by that.

480
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,440
Speaker 3: Let me get to the ten other sectors are trading

481
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,240
Speaker 3: an average of fifteen percent below their all time highs,

482
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:50,639
Speaker 3: and none has set a new record in January. The

483
00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:52,840
Speaker 3: equal weight to S and P five hundred, which gives

484
00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 3: the same status smallest and largest companies in the index,

485
00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:57,640
Speaker 3: is down point three percent this year.

486
00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:00,880
Speaker 2: The market's rally two years ago is much wider.

487
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 3: Seven other sectors, industrials, financials, consumer stables joined tech to

488
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 3: trade at new highs in the two weeks that was

489
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:09,160
Speaker 3: January twenty twenty two.

490
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:14,560
Speaker 2: And that fits with what I'm feeling, or what Americans

491
00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 2: seem to be feeling. I mean, when I keep hearing

492
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,760
Speaker 2: about these records in the stock mart, I keep thinking, Man,

493
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,200
Speaker 2: it doesn't feel like that, all right. Well, that's because

494
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,879
Speaker 2: it's just the tech sector. It's it's kind of like

495
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 2: our old story of if Bill Gates, Bill Gates walks

496
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,960
Speaker 2: into a bar, the average networth in the bar is

497
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,880
Speaker 2: now forty billion dollars. Well, that doesn't that doesn't tell

498
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:34,000
Speaker 2: you anything, right, right?

499
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:37,359
Speaker 3: Final note they give it For example, if SEC is

500
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:40,680
Speaker 3: set not SEX six, if six of the biggest tech

501
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 3: stocks were to pull back to their two hundred day

502
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 3: moving averages, which is the measure they have for.

503
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 2: To see longer term price trends.

504
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,359
Speaker 3: It eliminates the updown, updown, updown, and you see the

505
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:56,720
Speaker 3: greater trend. So anyway, if the six biggest tech stocks

506
00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,119
Speaker 3: were to pull back to their two hundred day moving average,

507
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,480
Speaker 3: it would knock about five percent off the S and

508
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:04,359
Speaker 3: P five hundred. A five percent drop would be a

509
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:06,159
Speaker 3: cataclysmic issue.

510
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,439
Speaker 2: Sure, oh yeah, I'd get your attention.

511
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, which is not to say, well, it's a little precarious.

512
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:14,639
Speaker 3: I mean, text in good shape. People need technology, chips

513
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:16,439
Speaker 3: and the rest of it. But it does give you

514
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:17,359
Speaker 3: a different perspective.

515
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:23,720
Speaker 2: By the way, the Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said yesterday,

516
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,080
Speaker 2: I think most Americans know that prices are not likely

517
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:31,720
Speaker 2: to fall. About the whole inflation thing, I don't know.

518
00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:33,360
Speaker 2: Do you watch the news much. That's not what they

519
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 2: tell them on the news, or that's not the way.

520
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 2: Our Vice president doesn't seem to get that.

521
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 3: Yep, our talking heads don't know that inflation is down.

522
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,080
Speaker 2: Finally, prices are easing.

523
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 3: Inflation is down, you chuckleheads, you inchits yous.

524
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 1: Thee Armstrong and Getty sharp.

525
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 3: I have not packed off of my crackpot theory that

526
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:14,000
Speaker 3: because of the pandemic, then the post pandemic high people

527
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 3: around the bounce back spending, revenge spending, there were a bunch.

528
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 2: Of terms for it.

529
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 3: I just think the feeling of and maybe there's a

530
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:24,400
Speaker 3: technical term for this in the world of psychology, but

531
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 3: I think the vacation money feeling has persisted among American

532
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 3: consumers in a way that it never has before. The

533
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 3: way you spend money on vacation and buy stuff and

534
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:40,000
Speaker 3: eat out and order the top shelf licker or whatever

535
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 3: your example is, you spend money on vacation differently. We

536
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 3: all make jokes about it. I just think that's like

537
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 3: stayed in our bloodstream.

538
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:52,440
Speaker 2: Could be that, or some sort of life's too short thing,

539
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 2: which is a dumb way to look at finances. Is

540
00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 2: that last several decades of your life is going to

541
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 2: really be really unpleasant if you don't have any money.

542
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 3: But yeah, you only live once, and you shouldn't be

543
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:10,200
Speaker 3: aiating dog food signed the eighty five year old you.

544
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 2: Based on my experience, Well, I guess dog food's cheaper

545
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:18,240
Speaker 2: than regular food, but it ain't cheap. What's a dog

546
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:23,440
Speaker 2: food I buy not the stuff worth eat. Right, speaking

547
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:25,640
Speaker 2: of eating, got this text. This is from something I

548
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 2: talked about earlier in the program. Jack listening to the

549
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:31,080
Speaker 2: first hour, and my heart dropped when you said that

550
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 2: you gave in. I thought you were going to say

551
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 2: that you had a drink. Thank God, that's not the case.

552
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 2: Glad to hear that you just ended up buying a

553
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 2: shirt that fit. Yes, because a major one way to

554
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:43,920
Speaker 2: put it, major moments in my life today where I'm

555
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:45,640
Speaker 2: wearing a shirt that fits for the first time in

556
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 2: a while, as I had become about ten pounds lighter

557
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 2: than I had been for a while, and I got

558
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:55,760
Speaker 2: all new dress shirts to wear with my suits, and

559
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 2: that worked for about a year and a half or so.

560
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 2: But I have a reclaimed those lost LB's and those

561
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 2: shirts were no longer fitting, and not only were they uncomfortable,

562
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 2: but I had this spread on my shirt where like

563
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 2: the buttons are gonna pop off, or where that's not

564
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 2: a good look and I should be no visible belly.

565
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 2: I went with that for a while, thinking, well, I'm

566
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:20,240
Speaker 2: not gonna get new shirts, I'm just gonna lose the

567
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 2: weight again or these shirts fed again. But I finally

568
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 2: decided the other day. It's been long enough. Clearly, clearly,

569
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 2: you're not going to do that. How about you buy

570
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 2: some shirts that fit. So I bought a larger sized

571
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:31,960
Speaker 2: shirt and that's what I'm wearing today, and it looks

572
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 2: much better, it's much more comfortable, and I just gave up.

573
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 2: So I've given up. What a beautiful example of spin,

574
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 2: something that is completely accurate. But it is clearly spin.

575
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 2: I bought a shirt that fits. It's true.

576
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 3: The other side of that coin is I've gained so

577
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 3: much weight. I was forced into buying new clothing, and.

578
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 2: I don't believe me.

579
00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 3: I'm not coming from a place of judgment. I'm just

580
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,720
Speaker 3: pointing out the rhetorical you know art there.

581
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 2: And I have a whole bunch of not inexpensive dress

582
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 2: shirts that I really shouldn't wear unless I want to

583
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:11,160
Speaker 2: be mocked as I walk away. Well, what size are

584
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 2: you in right now? Treshirt wise? This is your new size?

585
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 2: This is a large. I was wearing mediums, which a

586
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 2: medium is my size if I'm one eighty five, because

587
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 2: I'm I'm just that well, and size inflation, a medium

588
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 2: wouldn't have fit me in nineteen ninety. But everything's gotten

589
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 2: so much bigger. A large is like an extra large now.

590
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 3: Right, I just did and the media is like the

591
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 3: number the sixteen or fifteen and a half.

592
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 2: I don't know that the next size. I don't know that.

593
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 2: I don't know if my neck has changed much, but

594
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:43,480
Speaker 2: the uh, the circumference of my move area is certainly different.

595
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 2: Oh boy, all right? Anyway, was I gonna say baa

596
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 2: no idea? I was actually looking at jeans or shirts

597
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 2: or something the other day online and they said, we

598
00:32:56,640 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 2: don't do size inflation. This is our actual sizes. And

599
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 2: they gave the inches and I was like, okay, I'm

600
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 2: gonna have to recalibrate here. So if I want something

601
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 2: that fits in your shirts, I'm gonna have to get

602
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 2: an extra large as opposed to like a medium or large.

603
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 2: That's interesting that they're fighting that battle. I know.

604
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's nearly hilarious when you go and ladies you

605
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 3: deal with this times five, but you go, I don't know,

606
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 3: I'm gonna buy some golf shorts or whatever, and you

607
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 3: know that brand.

608
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 2: Oh I like that pair of that pair is good.

609
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 2: That pair is good.

610
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 3: And the thirty four is looser than this thirty six,

611
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 3: and the thirty five is way tighter than this thirty

612
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 3: it's and it's just you just have to try it

613
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 3: because there's so much size inflation.

614
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 4: True, Katie Joe Getty just named the exact reason as

615
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 4: to why I hate shopping.

616
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 2: Because the sizes are all over the place.

617
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 4: Every brand with I mean, pants, shirts, all of it.

618
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 4: I have so many different sizes in my closet it

619
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 4: doesn't even make sense.

620
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, but they all fit me.

621
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 4: Then they all range from a small to an extra

622
00:33:57,760 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 4: large because nobody can make up their mind on this side.

623
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why I tend to stick with a brand

624
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 2: once I get the size, just because I don't want

625
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 2: to do that anymore. But I wonder, I'm kind of

626
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 2: interested myself. Will I ever be back in those shirts again?

627
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 2: I don't know. I was pretending that I would be

628
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 2: there for a while, but I may have just decided.

629
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 2: You know, it ain't gonna happen, and I don't care

630
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 2: enough to make it happen. It is not enough of

631
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:25,720
Speaker 2: a priority. So whatever, not right now? Give it time?

632
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:30,880
Speaker 2: You think, sure, Yeah, I think realistically, if you're going

633
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 2: to be a betting man, no, I think for most people.

634
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 3: Well, right, But that's that's not the way I run

635
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:40,840
Speaker 3: my life. I mean, if there's a one in five chance,

636
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 3: I mean, like according to Las Vegas, but it's important

637
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 3: to me, I'll.

638
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 2: Make it happen. Well, I don't think it's important to me.

639
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 2: So you're telling me to let a change right now? Right,

640
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 2: I think you'll be back. You have it, you have it.

641
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 2: I think it's on your plate right now. Pun not intended.

642
00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,000
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be a health scare though, like

643
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 2: what I had to do. I'm not. I'm not health

644
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 2: scare heavy. I'm just not as skinny as I want

645
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:06,759
Speaker 2: it or not. No, I'm not. I know I'm not.

646
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:08,759
Speaker 2: So that's well.

647
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 3: I remember the other day you were trying to pay

648
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:12,920
Speaker 3: a toll at the Bay Bridge and you couldn't get

649
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 3: your head out the window.

650
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:20,439
Speaker 2: I I you know you most guys, when they are women,

651
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:22,400
Speaker 2: when they get divorced, they go all crazy skinny. I

652
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 2: decide to go the other way. You know what, I'm

653
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 2: gonna dare you to date me? That's what I did see.

654
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 2: See huh you want some of this? There's plenty more

655
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 2: of me to love, That's what I keep saying. My

656
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:34,480
Speaker 2: buddy Dave the Cyclist just to text it.

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Speaker 3: If you ever buy Italian cycling clothes, you will feel

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Speaker 3: morbidly obese. I wear three X sizes in Italian stuff

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Speaker 3: compared to large in US.

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Speaker 2: Why the three X is a little tight? Wow, now

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Speaker 2: that's reality. That would be good for all of us,

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Speaker 2: just for like one day, all the stores in America

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Speaker 2: go back to the sizes as they were in like

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Speaker 2: nineteen ninety five. Go shopping today, everybody, and see if

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Speaker 2: you feel the same way about yourself.

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Speaker 1: Armstrong and getty

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Speaker 3: Yahm