WEBVTT - The A&G Replay Monday Hour Three 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:14.320 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:18.439 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:26.119 Armstrong and Gatty, and he Armstrong and Getty Strong and. 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:35.159 Came across a fantastic think piece by a fellow by 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:38.440 the name of Tom Klingenstein about de EI in the 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:39.880 United States Military. 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:43.280 And I've heard various folks, including. 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:46.879 Some of serv talk about how it's hurt readiness, and 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:49.800 I believed it, but I've never heard it fleshed out 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:52.000 this well. And I wish we had hours and hours, 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:55.680 because I'd love to read the whole thing and discuss 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:58.319 it with you. But his point that is quite eloquently made, 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:01.040 and we'll post it at Armstrong and Giddy under hot Links, 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:02.040 is that. 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:03.600 Well. 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:05.760 He writes, the military is often perceived by well meaning 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:08.760 Americans as the last holdout in the progressive march through 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:12.000 the institutions. In reality, however, it was among the first 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:17.200 American institutions to formally embrace the radical logic of group quotas. 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:22.679 And he talks about the difference between civilian society and 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:27.959 mill military society in its values, in its training, in 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:32.119 its social norms, and why they're so important, and how 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:39.720 DEI is utterly incompatible with the cultural norms that have 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:44.399 underpinned every military in the history of time, discipline, sacrificing 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:49.400 oneself to the unit, everyone being the same, your only identity, 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:51.520 as I'm a member of this unit. It's very, very 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:54.200 well written, and it's made me all the more dedicated 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:58.760 to stamping out this radical ideology wherever it happens. I 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:02.520 was encouraged to see a guest editorial in New York 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:06.400 and The New York Times pointed out by fabulous frequent correspondent, 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:09.400 Paolo DEI is not working on college campuses. 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:11.160 We need a new approach. 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:15.840 It's by a couple of academics from Stanford Law and 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:20.640 Stanford University, and they write it in a way that 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:28.480 is they are lefties approaching lefties. So it's fairly gentle 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:33.240 about how the DEI. 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:35.239 Programs that exist on campuses. 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:38.920 Are not quite what they purport to be and don't 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:42.440 really achieve what they've said they should achieve, pointing out 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:47.000 the rampant anti Semitism on all of these enlightened campuses. 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:49.800 And again it's it's very well written and I'd love 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:53.440 to go into more detail on it, and anti Asian bias, 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:54.680 which we'll get to in a second. 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.600 Oh yeah, yeah, And we could certainly get into the 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:00.160 report that just came out from Columbia University about how 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.400 miserable a failure Dei has been in rooting out anti 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:08.040 Semitism there, and he gets into the I'm sorry, these 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:11.400 two academics get into the rigidity of these programs and 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:14.560 how and again, this is not a revelation to us 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:19.760 at all. They don't seem to actually be about diversity, 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:24.080 equity and inclusion, whatever those things mean. They seem to 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:27.480 be rigidly enforcing a particular point of view, and they 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:31.560 seem to just want to see the power at the universities. Well, 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:35.480 welcome to enlightenment, my friend. But what was interesting was, 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:38.720 and this is what Paolo, the service Polo provided, which 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:41.600 I appreciate very much, he says, more interesting than the 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:44.480 article are the generally pretty solidly left New York Times 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:45.520 reader's comments. 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:48.480 If you view the reader's picks. 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.400 Meaning the comments on the story that got the most 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:53.840 thumbs up and that sort of thing, you'll see that 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:58.720 they are all critical of Dei, and they run from 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:01.280 as a white males perfectly fine, can be even helpful 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:03.320 to ask me to examine my values and beliefs for 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:05.920 racism and sexism. But it's not fine to assign me 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:08.320 the category of a pressor based solely on my race 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:08.880 or gender. 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:10.680 Blah blah blah. How about this one? 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:13.440 As a black immigrant from Africa, the idea that groups 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:16.560 are inherently oppressed based on skin color is shocking to me. 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:20.000 All races and genders have issues because we're all human beings. 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:22.919 I've received far more discrimination in Africa on the basis 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:25.480 of my tribe than I have from any white person. 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:28.119 And he goes down that line for a while. 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:31.440 As a staunch liberal and white minority, ally, the only 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:33.640 thing that's ever made me consider voting a Republican is 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:36.560 having to write diversity statements for a university job. It's 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:39.520 a blatant tool of discrimination and everyone knows it. 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:42.360 Wow. A couple one more quick one. 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:44.960 As a professor at a university, I agree for students 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:46.560 to succeed in the university. 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:47.360 They must feel that they belong. 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:49.680 For a minority student from a public school and a 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:51.839 class full of white kids, it's tough to feel like 0:04:51.880 --> 0:05:00.880 you belongs. Uh this guy does he finally get to 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:04.640 the point. Oh, It's that socializing with peers, involvement in 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:10.640 student groups, for participating with a broad array of people 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:14.200 is what breaks down those barriers. Not being set into 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:17.560 camps and set against each other. That's the opposite of 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.640 what works. So, as I've said many times, this is 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:23.760 not the beginning of the end of this neo Marxist garbage. 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:25.640 It's the end of the beginning. 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:29.440 People are starting to realize, Wow, this isn't about diversity 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:32.240 or equity, which is communism or inclusion at all. They 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:35.360 just want to take control of things by cowing us 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:38.080 into silence, by calling us racists. 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:40.880 On the racial breakdown at colleges. Maybe you saw this headline. 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:44.600 I saw the initial headline over the weekend after Supreme 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:50.640 Court ruling against affirmative action. Black acceptance to MIT drops 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:53.840 ten percentage points, and they presented it only that way. 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:56.599 I think it was The New York Times had it, 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.680 and obviously it's supposed to be a horror that happened. 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:03.040 Rich Lowry actually wrote in The New York Post yesterday 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:06.880 digging into it a little more. A spike in Asian 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:10.400 Americans who were admitted to MIT, who you can only 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:13.800 assume were not getting in even though they deserved it 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:18.240 before because of affirmative actions. So the whole numbers on that. 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:21.000 So MIT is the first top level college to release 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.039 their numbers on this. We're gonna be hearing more about 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:26.280 these in the fall, I assume from Harvard, Yale, whoever else. 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:30.239 But MIT released its first post affirmative action admissions number 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:33.960 for the incoming class since the Supreme Court ruled the 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.680 affirmative action in these universities is wrong, and the percentage 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:40.200 of Asian American students increased from forty to forty seven 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:46.320 percent the first year are the first opportunity to have, 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:50.320 you know, merit based admissions. Black students dropped from fifteen 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:54.159 to five, Hispanic students from sixteen to eleven. White stayed 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:57.359 roughly the same, and as rich lowry rites. Either the 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:01.200 MIT admissions office has been somehow infiltrated by racists who 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.760 want to exclude as many Black and Hispanic students as 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:09.640 possible while boosting Asian Americans for some reason, or they 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:13.200 were working to keep out meritorious Asian American applicants all 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:16.040 these years, people that deserved to be in the school 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:19.200 and weren't allowed in because they weren't the right race. 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:21.640 What could be more racist than that? 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:25.280 Well, and to take a step back to I think 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:28.760 the greater and more important issue is now that we 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:33.360 haven't papered over the difference is in achievement by shoving 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:36.200 kids in who probably can't make it at MIT, because 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:39.000 there's a huge incidence of that the kids who are 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:42.400 elevated beyond their level of achievement and stuck into these colleges, 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:44.200 they fail at unbelievable levels. 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:45.960 You're not going to read that in the mainstream media, 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:46.800 but it's true. 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:52.600 Instead of papering over the question of okay, why is 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:58.679 a disproportionately small percentage of black students able to qualify 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:02.040 for MIT start before. 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:03.960 They're even in school. Let's talk about kindergarten. 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.480 Let's look at first grade through eighth grade. Let's talk 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:08.240 about middle school and high school and the rest of it. 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:12.800 Let's address causes as opposed to these affirmative action at 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:18.120 the end programs that enable a people who are profiting 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:21.160 from this, the teachers' unions and don't want to solve 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:24.920 the problems, and b society that's uncomfortable talking about it. 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:30.040 Why do black kids underachieve? If you don't paper over 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:33.360 the process at the end. You're forced to reckon with 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:37.520 the problem at the beginning. And that's why I like 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:40.280 these problems as somebody who's not trying to take over 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:44.960 universities through my DEI critical thinking or I'm not critical thinking, 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:46.880 critical theory, neo Marxism. 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:50.280 I actually care about little black kids. So a Doke 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:53.959 researcher is expecting similar results in other Ivy League schools. 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:58.439 This fall a big increase for Asian American students, white 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:01.960 students staying about flat, and then a substantial drop in 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:05.280 Black and Hispanic admissions. Rich Lowry points out here it's 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:08.440 the same experience California had when the state passed the 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:12.360 anti Affirmative Action proposition in two thousand and nine, I 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:16.520 mean two nine. Back in ninety six, Asian Americans went 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:20.400 from thirty seven percent of freshmen at UC Berkeley to 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:25.920 forty three percent. White students dropped ten points. So you 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:29.719 can't claim it's white supremacy or white power structure or 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.000 something like that. The number of white kids getting into 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:35.120 Berkeley dropped from thirty percent to twenty percent. And this 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:38.400 is my favorite part of it. There isn't some giant 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:43.280 factory somewhere that's manufacturing generic Asian Americans either, who all 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:46.440 have the same backgrounds and attitudes. The category of Asian 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:50.440 American includes people from countries that hate each other and 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:53.480 always have people from countries that have little to do 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:56.840 with one on one another. For instance, China, India, the 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.679 Philippines whatever, They got nothing to do with each other. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.360 In some cases hate each other and always have hated 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:04.640 each other. They've killed each other by the hundreds of 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:08.440 thousands in brutal ways. It's not like some monolithic group 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:10.760 like you claim white people are, who are trying to 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:11.680 take over something. 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.960 Well, and you've got to drop your preconceptions too about 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:18.679 elite universities and such. I tell you what, here at 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:21.920 Joe's second tier university, you're gonna learn a hell of 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:22.160 a lot. 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:24.520 You're gonna drink some beer and get laid. It's gonna 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:28.839 be great at the superachiever universities will be for superachievers. 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:29.720 And that's fine. 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:33.240 And I remind you of the fact that generally speaking, 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.880 A students work for B students at companies owned by 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:36.520 C students. 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:39.520 As the old saying goes, Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned that, 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:41.840 because Rich Lowry did end with as for students who 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:45.280 would have been admitted under the old racialized system. It's 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:47.560 not like they'll have no future. If they end up 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:51.559 at a good state school somewhere, you'll be absolutely perfectly fine. 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:55.040 If that good enter off, probably yeah, very good chance 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:57.440 you will be better off. But the idea that your 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:02.800 life is ruined or something like that's insane. It took 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:06.800 us a long time to get here. These affirmative action 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:11.720 programs exist in large measure to prevent us from considering 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:17.720 the uncomfortable and difficult questions of black underachievement. I believe 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:20.479 that to my bone. That's really interesting. 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:24.319 The Armstrong and Getty Show or John or Joe. 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:31.520 Podcasts and our hot links The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:34.200 Oh here's how money actually works. 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:48.439 Seven dollars beautiful, Are you about to say something? Okay, 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.080 so we're gonna do the one on one class first 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.120 and then two to one class. If this first part 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:56.599 is too obvious for some of you, Congratulations on understanding 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.920 the basics of economics, which is a fairly rare thing 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.760 in today's world, which is highly discouraging. But first of all, 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:06.360 they're talking about who's this writer. I like to give 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:08.480 credit because this is really well written. Matthew Henessy in 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:11.440 the Wall Street Journal is talking about the fellows in Oasis, 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.600 the British rock band which is getting back together. 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:17.760 Wonder Wall. He gets back, he gets. 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.679 Into some of the backstory, the Gallagher brothers who can't 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:22.640 stand each other and can't get along, but they're the 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:25.920 indispensable members of the band Oasis. Last month, the Boys 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:28.560 Buried the Hatchet announced series twenty twenty five concerts. 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:29.280 Delirious. 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.800 Fans were young and relatively poor during the band's heyday 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:34.520 are now older and relatively rich. They have the willingness 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:37.880 and ability to pay to see Oasis and concert. Economically speaking, 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:40.880 that's called demand, but demand is only one side of 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:42.360 the economic story. 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:44.120 Morning Glory for the moment. 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:46.600 At least, the Oasis reunion is limited to a handful 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:48.560 of shows, and the Wembley Stadium is large. 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:49.880 It's not infinitely so. 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:52.400 And there's no guarantee the brothers will remain on speaking 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:55.599 terms beyond next summer. Fans understand that this may be 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:58.360 their last chance to see the battling Gallagher lads together 0:12:58.400 --> 0:12:59.000 on stage. 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.400 Supply is limited now. 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:04.560 Introductory economics tell us that when supply is tight and 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:08.400 demand is high, prices rise to an equilibrium, which is 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:11.960 exactly what happened. Then he talks about dynamic pricing and 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:15.600 how the tickets are significantly more expensive than they seem 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:19.520 to be when initially announced. Some accuse the greedy brothers 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:22.160 of ripping off their loyal fans. Many more aimed their 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:25.520 Furia ticket Master, the American ticket Sales BMTH, owned by 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:26.600 Live Nation Entertainment. 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:30.800 The fur revealed terrible. Probably not going to argue me 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:33.560 out of my anger aticket ticket Master in general, but 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:34.480 go on. 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:38.600 The fees, the fees that creep up onto your bill 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:41.839 at the end. That's a different topic and an interesting. 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:45.520 You're electronic sending me of the ticket cost forty dollars what? 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:48.760 Yeah, anyway, putting that aside, because this is just a 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:52.439 question of the price of the tickets. The Furer revealed 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:55.760 a terrible ignorance, even among the highly educated, of what prices. 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:56.240 Are and how they work. 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:59.880 I would argue to the journalists that know these are 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:03.320 people posing is being outraged, they're not actually outraged. Like 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:07.199 the very Prime Minister of Britain, kir Starmer, told the 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.319 House Commons that he found it depressing to hear of 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:13.360 the oasis price hikes. He promised a commission to investigate 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:19.480 what he called extortionate price resellers whatever. Culture Secretary Lisa 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:23.160 Nandy told the Bebe that quote, vastly inflated prices would 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:25.239 exclude ordinary fans. 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:29.800 They have a culture secretary, Yeah, why do you need 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:33.240 that secretary of culture? And there should be some sort 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:37.600 of government intervention in that some things are more expensive 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:38.160 than others. 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:43.200 What, yeah, bollocks in economic terms, a concert ticket And 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:45.600 this is the really important part. This is the econ 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:47.400 one to one stuff that if you don't understand it, 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:51.000 you don't get anything about economic A concert ticket is 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:53.360 no different from a book, a bottle of wine, or 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:57.040 a house. It has no inherent value, only the price 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:00.000 a buyer is willing to pay, and a seller. 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:01.000 Is to accept. 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.200 The market clearing price of anything is where demand to 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:07.920 meet supply. The correct and fair price is whatever the 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.680 market will bear. No buyer has a right to a 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:12.800 low price, just as no seller has. 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:14.520 A right to a high price. 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:16.840 Then they point out the obvious oasis could be nice 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:18.840 guys and sellar tickets for five bucks, but. 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:21.320 Scalpers would snatch them all up and resell them for 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:22.440 much much more. 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:25.560 What good would it do for Oasis, for the ordinary 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:28.680 fan or anybody to allow third party resellers to capture 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:29.800 all that value. 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:36.080 Well that's what Yeah, that's what people don't understand about sports, 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:40.880 guitar players, whatever, actors and actresses. Somebody's going to get 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:43.080 that money because there's a demand for it. So if 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:49.360 it's not George Clooney or Shoheyo Tani or the Gallagher brothers, 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:53.360 then the company that puts on the show or the game, 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:55.080 or the network or whatever, they get the money. But 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:58.960 somebody is getting the money. It's just the way it works, right. 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.960 A couple more quick tidbits of music industry guru explained 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:05.200 that the acts hide behind Ticketmaster. 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.800 They want them to take the flack for all this stuff. 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:10.720 Oh that's pretty good. That's probably true. 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:13.600 Yeah, it's not good for your image, but Ticketmaster takes 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:18.080 all the flack. And he also writes, here's the dirty 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:20.560 little secret. Ticketmaster does nothing that the band does not 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:23.560 agree to. So anyway, I thought that was a good 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:27.880 little instructional on if there's demand and little supply, the 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:29.520 prices are going to go up, and it should and 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:30.080 you know what's. 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:31.080 Gonna happen The gallery. 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:33.080 Good boys are going to put down their fists and 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:36.080 open up their calendars and say, you know, I'm a 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:37.800 going to play half a dozen more shows, are you? 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:40.920 And supply will increase in the prices will I was 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:44.720 drunk in the backseat of an suv that could go. 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:48.280 I have one thousand, five hundred stories that start that way, 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:50.720 but in this particular one enter my seat. 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:53.400 I was drunk in the back of the suv on 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:56.160 the way to an Oasis concert Charlotte, North Carolina in 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:59.840 nineteen ninety five when we heard on the radio that 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:01.720 they had canceled the concert because the two brothers had 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:05.520 gotten a fistfight backstage. So I still have not seen them. 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:13.280 Wow, Wow, Yeah, that legend not overblown. No, that reminds 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:16.080 me when they were like in their sixties, the Davis brothers. 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:18.399 It looks like Davies but has pronounced Davis of the Kinks. 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:22.600 Actually we're continuing to come to blows and scream at 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:25.440 each other backstage in their sixties trying to tour. 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:31.520 Wow, get some counseling for us or something. Let it go. 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:41.879 Armstrong, the Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:53.280 Today is a major day in my life. To tell 0:17:53.440 --> 0:18:01.400 I think many people have been through this. I I'm 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:03.159 wearing a shirt that fits for the first time in 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:07.280 quite some time. I caved and gave in, just to help, 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:08.720 went ahead and got a bigger size. 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:11.480 Oh boy, because the size I had been wearing for 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:13.640 two years had stopped. 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:16.119 Fitting, and I was pretending that I was going to 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:17.280 get back into that shirt. 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:22.560 There's no point in buying new shirts. This shirt fit before. Fine, 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:25.240 it'll fit again. I just need to get a little discipline. 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:27.639 But the discipline was not coming, and I was tired 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:32.000 of being squeezed to death, and so I just bought 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:36.760 a bigger shirt. And it is so comfortable. So I 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:41.040 just gave up or acknowledged reality. It depends on how 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:41.679 you want to look at it. 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:44.840 A temporary measure, an emergency measure, if you will. 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:47.679 Is it a temporary measure? Is it? Or is it? 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:50.280 Or is it on the road to even bigger shirts. 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:52.560 That's what we'll have to wait. That's what we'll have 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:57.720 to wait and see. So how bad was the previous size? 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:00.800 I mean, could you were the buttons like that between 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:04.320 the buttons gap? Bang's so bad you can see flesh? Yes, 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:07.440 oh boy, yes, definitely not good. 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:09.400 I or an undershirt son, no flesh will be seen. 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:10.919 But yes, yes, that was happening. 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:12.760 And and and I know for a fact that that 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:14.320 was not the case when I when I when I 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:17.560 bought the shirt. So something changed and that something is 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:18.879 well the number on the scale. 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:23.200 And uh, I just I just I just so it's 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:25.360 a big day. It's a big day. I just admitted. 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:27.240 You know what, you're a different size than you were 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:29.280 for the past two years. You just are. There's more 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:33.520 of you to love. Okay, yeah, well, and again, the. 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:39.520 Days of discipline are coming any minute now or not. 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:43.480 Okay, I hope they are. But they're trying to be positive. 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:45.320 I'm trying to provide a little leadership here. 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:49.879 I don't feel like Jim Harbaugh going to the Los 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:55.720 Angeles Chargers. What a terrible idea. We need to change 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:59.600 the culture here. You're not buying into my system, right. 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:02.280 But I I thought the discipline was coming all of 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:04.840 those days of wearing my shirt with the things split 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:07.480 open in the middle, thinking, you know, this is embarrassing, 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:09.600 but that's part of what's going to motivate you to 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:11.119 not eat you know, crap today. 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:13.439 But it wasn't working. In the reason the buttons were 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:15.920 gonna pop off and put somebody's eye out. Oh boy, 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:16.879 nobody wants that. 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:20.399 So anyway, it's just somewhat relaxing to have just giving up. 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:26.040 We still accept you, thank you, thank you. Wow. There 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:27.400 you go. Michael, that's nice. 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:30.160 That's a kind of a Michael's art director of DEI, 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:32.240 and he's making sure. 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:33.960 Jack feels inclusioned. 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:37.720 Lizzo is my hero and fat acceptable is my cause. 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:43.920 So there you are, enjoy your infarction. It's fairly common, 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:46.000 isn't it. I've never had this, but it's fairly common. 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:48.639 It isn't to have a group of clothes that you 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:52.720 want to be in or were once in here, and 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:54.720 then another group of clothes that you were currently wearing. 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:56.480 Oh I got half a closet full. 0:20:56.760 --> 0:21:00.240 Yeah yeah, of like mostly two different weights are all 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:01.240 the shades in between. 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:07.840 That's difficult to say. I will just. 0:21:09.280 --> 0:21:15.280 I describe it as this realistic and unrealistic. Do you 0:21:15.320 --> 0:21:17.080 have some clothes that like you'll never wear but you 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:19.880 still hang on to And then there's there's like the 0:21:19.960 --> 0:21:23.439 lawless border region, the gray area. It might be it 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:27.919 might conceivably be on me someday, but it's unluckly do 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:28.480 I have clothes. 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:30.200 What that I've you said unrealistic. 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:31.760 So I just wondered to like, if you have some clothes, 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:34.000 you think, yeah, that could happen, but it's not. 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:38.960 Yeah, yeah, yeah. In particular, T shirts. I got a 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:40.680 lot of T shirts, A lot of great T shirts, 0:21:40.760 --> 0:21:46.320 cool T shirts, a concert, fun places I've been, that 0:21:46.359 --> 0:21:48.159 sort of thing, and a lot of them. 0:21:48.800 --> 0:21:50.320 If I were to put them on now, well, they 0:21:50.400 --> 0:21:53.560 look like an undergarment stretched across me. 0:21:53.760 --> 0:21:56.160 I was just thinking, luckily, so far, I still wear 0:21:56.200 --> 0:21:57.919 the same size socks. When I need to go up 0:21:57.960 --> 0:22:00.240