WEBVTT - Time Flies When You're Completely Engaged 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:06.600 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:10.200 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe. 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:17.720 Ketty Armstrong and Jatiety and know He Armstrong and Yeddy. 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:26.800 For some reason this popped into my mind. Joe and 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:31.640 I were talking during the commercials about humidity. This is 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:34.040 the sort of things we talk about during the commercial. 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:37.720 Doesn't sound all like a couple of old guys, does it. 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:40.640 It's solid humid. My feet hurt? To your feet hurt? 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:44.760 Is it always this humid? I told the story many times. 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:48.360 We left our family vacation last year early because it 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:50.879 was so hot in Florida in August. We ended up 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:52.880 flying up to New York and doing different stuff. But anyway, 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:55.480 my oldest son said the other day he said, that 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:57.320 was my favorite vacation we've ever been on because we 0:00:57.360 --> 0:00:59.920 did a lot of fun stuff. And my younger son said, 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:03.080 I liked the We did a road trip vacation before 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:07.559 last week, drove clear across South Dakota and and different 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:11.320 stuff Wyoming. But it was just on the got a 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:13.280 you know, working on a vacation for this year and 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:16.120 just thinking about, you know, the memories you create with 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:18.720 your family and for your kids that they'll have the 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:21.160 rest of their lives and all that sort of stuff. Yeah, 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:29.959 and your kids are grown up already, Joe. How quickly 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:32.440 it goes by? I mean, I mean, I know everybody 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:36.040 says that. I know everybody says that, But it's still 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:40.000 truer than that. It's still truer than the fact that 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:42.920 everybody says it. You think you got, well, I got 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:47.840 eighteen years before they're you know, even adults. It goes 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:53.200 by so freaking fast. True, What is that trick of 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:56.640 the brain where on a day by day basis, I mean, 0:01:56.680 --> 0:02:00.640 it's it's grueling, especially when they're younger, but it goes 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:03.840 by so fast. That period of time where you're walking 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:06.720 down the sidewalk holding their hand and everything is amazing 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:10.000 to them, is like that law. 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:13.960 Yeah, yeah, so true. I think it's a variation on 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:16.440 the old saying time flies when you're having fun. I 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:19.400 would say time flies when you're completely engaged in what 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:23.520 you're doing. It's like, you know, we've both worked jobs 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:28.600 of drudgery and physical labor and humiliatingly low wages, and 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:32.920 if you are busy at that miserable job, that's so 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:36.320 much better than not being busy. If you're standing around 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:38.480 board and you hate your job, that's the worst thing. 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:41.600 And then the age thing that nobody's ever quite figured 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:43.680 out why it works that way for as you get older. 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:45.760 But like my son, who's going to be a junior, 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:47.640 he's got two years of high school left, and he 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:50.840 hates school the way I hated school, unfortunately. But I 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:55.320 remember thinking two years was just you might as well 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:58.320 say a thousand years. It was so long when you're 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:00.320 that age. And I told me, I wish I could 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:03.520 give you you know what two years feels like for me? 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:07.919 For me, two years feels like six months. Yeah. 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:11.560 My daughter, who is very bright and well adjusted Delaney, 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:15.160 in spite of my best efforts, at one point is 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:17.800 she was contemplating her future. Said, you know, at the 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.920 end of law school, I'll be like twenty six and 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:26.680 a half. And I'm like, ah, yeah, I can't remember. 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:28.280 Can twenty six year olds. 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:29.959 Drive or walk or walk? 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:31.160 Oh? 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.480 That's ryan, You're not that young. But you're young, so 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:35.440 it's fine. But you're right, You're one hundred percent right. 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.200 And before we get to clips of the week, I 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:40.160 just I've almost got this down. 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:48.840 Buffaloed Buffalo buffalo buffaloed buffalo buffaloed buffalo buffalo. I got it, 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:52.440 I got the emphasis right. 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:54.160 So you got to post that somewhere because I think 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:56.040 it's better in print where you can look at it 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:58.000 and try to digest it. 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:00.000 I'm gonna have to write it out and explain it, 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:05.200 but yeah, yeah, yeah. We got a note from Scott 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:10.520 that the term buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:14.320 buffalo is grammatically correct and means the bison from Buffalo 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:17.200 that are bullied by other bison from Buffalo also bully 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:21.080 bison from Buffalo. I respectfully disagreed. You need some past 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:24.200 tense and at least one dash in there, But. 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:30.240 Buffalo to buffalo, buffalo, buffaloed buffalo buffaloed buffalo buffalo is 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:32.200 actually grammatically correct. 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:35.160 But yes, I will post it in print. The capitalization 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:38.360 matters too, it reeks of the lamp. I just came 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:40.880 across that phrase last night, But pardon me. 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:47.120 I like that almost as much as it insists on itself, 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:52.839 exists upon it as a review, itists insists upon itself. 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:58.640 I came across this last night. I'm starting to write, 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:00.600 and I'm wanting to do that like trying to get 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.160 in the habit of writing of it regular fabulous and 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:06.320 that I like, I play musical instruments every single day. 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:08.839 I've never been able to consistently write, so I'm gonna 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:11.480 try to build the habit of writing on a regular basis. Anyway, 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:13.160 So I've been watching a lot of and reading a 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:17.279 lot about writers and writing and stuff like that. And 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:22.440 Martin Amos quoted Samuel Johnson about overwriting. I mean, because 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.000 you got to rewrite and rewrite and rewrite, but at 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:27.159 some point you know it's perfect and now you're only 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:27.920 doing damage. 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.480 That's one of the best tricks to writing. And Samuel, 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.040 you stop painting. Same with music and uh. 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:35.600 And Samuel Johnson had a phrase of it, reeks of 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.039 the lamp as you stayed up too long, too late 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.800 adjusting it. I mean you over wrote it. Yeah, which 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:46.400 is a good phrase, Reeks of the lamp. Yeah. Wow, 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:50.560 that's funny. Boy. 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.400 Yeah, the whole buffalo buffalo thing. Does Reek of the 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:54.600 Lamp put it away? 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:57.520 Son? All right, it's the beloved Friday tradition. Let's do it. 0:05:57.600 --> 0:05:59.359 Let's take a fond look back at the week that was. 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:00.760 It's cal clips of the Week. 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:17.000 Anonymous. You call, we can save this. 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:27.320 It's possible to land this plane. But right now CBS News, 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:34.440 in my view, is on fire, fire, Where's going? 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:38.359 Part of our thesis here is that people do not 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:41.279 want their candidates grown in fasts. 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:42.800 P hustle, P hustle. 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:47.120 Redemption is not just some simple or easy destination. 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:48.800 It's a journey. 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.839 What kind of a creeper has been on a decade 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:53.560 on a platform like kick? 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:57.160 I said, none of this swell or should stop him 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:00.920 from coming us centator, I'm Sarah himself. 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:06.880 Is this perfectly amiable for completely unaccomplished establishment non entity? 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:11.200 Consumer prices with food and energy included rose four point 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:11.920 two percent. 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:15.000 You know what I really love? I love the inflation. 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:19.280 A little company that started in a warehouse in El 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:25.120 Segundo is now going public for the it was the 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.640 largest IPO that ever. 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:31.480 To be fair, I'm not crooked, but well, you play 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:33.000 right into the hands. 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:36.560 You're either crooked or you're stupid. Thank you, darling. Have 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:39.240 we good esser President? Let's please I travel all the 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:40.200 way to Wisconsin. 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:44.280 We hit them hard yesterday and we're going to hit 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:45.360 him again hard today. 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:49.840 And he said we'll bomb the s out of them. 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:52.360 And it's just tap tap tap. Instead, they're going to 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:56.040 have tap tap tap bombs dropping on key facilities in Iran. 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:59.280 But the straits have been open for a number of 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:01.520 months already and you just didn't know about it. 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.440 We have a signing. 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:07.440 And the documents. 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:09.920 You're in pretty final shape. 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:12.160 It's not a corporate ride. 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:20.800 Continuous cool, got no good. 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:26.160 But it's gone. Let's gone. It's gone. Godlo Maratha Garden. 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:30.000 They can't pull leaf it. It's Clips of the Week. 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:36.200 Mike Hanson, executive producer, with a brilliant job on Clips 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:37.000 of the Week as always. 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:39.439 Will they be anybody at the Spurs game tomorrow? I 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:41.079 don't know if any If a fan fight even go, 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:44.160 I think the players should just forfeit. After the other night, 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:50.520 it's call it good so the world's worst male voice. 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:53.080 Every time I hear it, my skin crawls. 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:58.960 It's pretty funny. I don't think. Just disqualifiz So he 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:01.680 worked in the plant nepaign. We never did play good 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:05.720 to the bastard. Yeah, we never did play the Platner's 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:07.720 acceptance speech and stuff like that earlier this week, but 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:10.080 you heard a little bit of it there. It was good. 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:15.199 It was really good. So if Susan Collins, the Republican 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:18.080 sitting senator, has oppo research, I suggest you dump it 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:20.800 when the appropriate time comes. Because he ain't gonna be 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:22.560 a pushover. No, he's a. 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:26.920 Forceful and articulate, one hundred percent a charismatic guy. Just 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:30.360 don't become his girlfriend, or don't burgle is bad. 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:32.440 Okay. I don't know if you've heard this. 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:38.440 He has a unique system of justice for burglars. 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:44.960 KRTB. Keep raping those burglars. You'd see him there coming 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.160 at you with his sharpened action, and you'd think, well, 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:48.920 I guess that's the worst of it. 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:52.600 Nope, nope, you ever seen pulp fiction? 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:53.000 Son? 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:54.320 All right? 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:58.000 Oh, and then the other, speaking of weird voices, play 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:01.640 get ready to play twelve Michael, This is a guy 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:05.400 who is inside of Walmart bizarrely, some troubled young man. 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:08.320 I think he's mentally ill judging. I just he looked 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:11.160 mentally ill to me. He set fire to an entire 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:12.360 display of bras. 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:13.160 Now. 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:14.960 I don't know if he's like a free the Nipple 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:19.840 activist or just like some loose or is completely nuts. 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:21.800 But so he sets this fire inside of Walmart and 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:24.280 the alarms are going off, and here's how one fellow reacted. 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:27.120 He can't make this out. Look at this, I mean 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:36.559 Walmart and written, he's on fire. Where's going? Why the 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.199 Mickey Mouse voice? Hey kids? 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:44.400 It's like, oh my god, is this an earthquake? What 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:45.320 are we supposed to do? 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:47.599 I don't know what to do. I don't want to 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:54.079 get hurt. Why would you do that? Go falsetto saw 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:55.840 a couple of flames when all mister Bill, I have 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:57.000 no idea. 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:58.480 Oh no. 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:02.280 More to come. Well, we're playing a lot of audio, 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:05.640 but you know, it's Friday, it's summer, we're barely working. 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:09.440 I think it fulfills our contractual obligations to play this. Also, 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:13.560 Michaelangelo has said this Bill Birthing really fits in with 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:15.320 what we were talking about with kids growing up faster 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:17.560 than that sort of stuff, So why not play it here? 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:20.760 Life could pass you by, it happens, you know, you 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:22.280 just keep living and living and living. You know what 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:23.920 it is you basically got I think you got like 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:27.080 twenty five thirty years to absorb as much as you can, 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:29.760 and then that's it. That's all you know, because right 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.960 around then you get married and it's over right. 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:36.280 You have a couple of kids. You're sucked in the bubble. 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:39.200 You don't have time to pay attention to what's going 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:41.440 on on the world. You just suck with these kids. Eh, 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:43.880 don't be a stereo killer. Don't touch that. You're just 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:47.280 sucking that. You have three, four kids. That is a 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:52.000 twenty five year sentence trying to get them all through college. 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:56.160 Society just keeps going. You get the last month through college, 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:57.440 you step back out of the bubble. 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:01.560 Just you don't know what happened. 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:03.800 You're not even paying attention. You go back to your 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:04.760 old record collection. 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:13.960 Baby, even have an over Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, back 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:16.040 into the real world. I have the opposite thing, because 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:17.480 I was talking to something about this yesday. Because I 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:19.880 didn't have kids, so I was forty five, so I 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:26.360 don't have Uh. I didn't delay all the things that 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:28.559 I wanted to do. I wish I would have, but 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:30.120 I didn't delay all the things I wanted to do, 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.160 so that you know, I had, I had more stuff 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:36.960 than jam in there. But I get his point. Mm hmm, yeah. Yeah. 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.439 I wouldn't call it a sentence by any stretch of 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:41.160 the imagination. 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:46.280 Oh no, absolutely not. Yeah, I already dread when it's 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:51.240 over with the combination of if it doesn't end, something's 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:55.320 gone wrong. So that's a weird contradiction coming up. 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:57.199 I want to get to this, Is Mexico safe enough 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:58.160 to go to the World Cup? 0:12:58.559 --> 0:12:58.679 Uh? 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:02.480 The answer is probably yeah, But the reasons why are 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:07.400 just crazy interesting. It's amazing how little we pay attention 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:14.760 to the half a narco state unstable critical trading partner 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:16.240 that's right over there. 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:18.920 My neighbors are going to Mexico City on vacation this summer. 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:21.800 I went to Mexico City twenty years ago in vacation. 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:26.079 It was really, really awesome, very interesting. Got a fantastic 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:30.560 piece by a great writer named Matthew Continetti about how 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:35.960 it's around the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary looking back 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:39.800 on the bi centennial fifty years ago, how nostalgia warps 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:41.920 you into believing things are so much we're so much 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:44.040 better than they are and they are now and that's 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:46.600 a distortion and blah blah blah. It's really interesting. We'll 0:13:46.600 --> 0:14:05.640 get to that later. To stick around Mexico, ladies and gentlemen, 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:09.600 Mexico defeats some country you've never heard of in soccer 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:11.640 for the World Cup of the opening match there at 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:13.840 As Texas Stadium. Is that the name of ours? One 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:15.840 of the most legendary stadiums in the world. 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:19.120 Indeed, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I bet that's a hell of 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:19.920 an atmosphere. 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:27.680 Fun yeah, So the toneless tune of the Usela. 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:31.720 So a couple of journalists approaching the question of whether 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:37.520 Mexico is safe enough given the cartel nuttiness lately. 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:39.200 To go to the World Cup, To fly into Mexico 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.000 City and go to a soccer match, I wouldn't hesitate 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:41.600 at all, but. 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:46.360 Neither would Neither would I, although they're also having big 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:51.640 matches in the suburbs of Guadalajara, where manicured lawns sit 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:54.920 near high end shopping centers and eighty nine bags of 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:58.280 human remains have been found in the past year dumped 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:02.680 in ravines are dug up from unmarked graves and a 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:06.040 few miles from those discovery soccer plan fans will pour 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:08.720 into the big Akron Stadium outside. 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:11.240 Guadalajara for World Cup matches, blah blah blah, and. 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:15.120 They go into the four Months of violence, spasm of violence, 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:19.440 cartel violence that paralyzed Guadalajara and the surrounding state of Jalisco. 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:26.080 I used to ride my motorcycle around Mexico, and I 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:29.040 don't know as i'd be it'd be comfortable doing that 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:30.960 now as I used to. But I always just think 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:32.880 back when I used to do it, people tell me, oh, 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:34.480 it's way too dangerous to do it down there. I 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:36.720 never had anything that came within one hundred miles of 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:40.200 even being sketchy while I was in Mexico. But things 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:41.440 are worse now than they were then. 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:44.400 Yeah, I don't doubt it. I would add that you 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:49.680 were aware of. But anyway, I've got a friend who 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:56.160 got the perfect window to go to Cairo, Egypt, and 0:15:56.200 --> 0:16:01.720 then Israel, including Jerusalem and and just all the holy. 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:02.360 Sites and everything. 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.120 He said, we had to cancel this several times because 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:08.040 I couldn't go before we went, and then I couldn't 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.760 go now. But so I got so lucky, and I think, 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:12.880 you know, at times Mexico is the same as kind 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.640 of up and down in terms of the situation. But anyway, 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:20.160 I thought this was super interesting. Tyler Cowan, who's a writer, thinker, economists, 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:23.520 a bunch of stuff, and he writes for The Free 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:27.120 press has been to Mexico dozens and dozens of times, 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:30.000 and his stuff, and I wish we had time for it. 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:35.200 But he's talking about how murder and Mayhem ruled the 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:39.040 Mexican ruled. After the Mexican government took out remember Elmentcho, 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:42.680 the leader of the powerful Hallisto New Generation cartel, the 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:46.320 cartel's response was swift and violent, most notably in taurist 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:49.000 hotspot Porta Vayarta, which used to be off limits. 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:50.240 Bah bah uh. 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:53.480 And then he goes into the entire history of the 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:58.240 country of Mexico is not being a coherent state. They've 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:02.440 never been a so coherent united country. 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:02.880 Wow. 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:05.399 And so it kind of just moves in waves like 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:07.760 we're talking about. But he said, yeah, I absolutely go 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:10.520 to the World Cup, but I wouldn't like to venture 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:11.320 into the countryside. 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:13.480 Similar to Cuba. If they could ever get their act together, 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:17.280 they'd be such a tourist. Valhalla, Oh yeah, it's a 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:18.119 gorgeous place. 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:19.919 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:28.080 The Congressional baseball game was one last night by the Republicans. 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:30.679 He defeated the Democrats eleven to two. And I'm not 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.320 saying they cheated, but I'm pretty sure there's no Senator 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:37.920 Otani from South Dakota. 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:41.720 That's amazing. There was a spectacular catch by one of 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:44.399 the Republicans, I think, yeah, dive and grab in the 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:49.080 left field. Yeah. So we're coming up on the two 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:53.640 hundred and fiftieth anniversary of our country. Gotta say, I mean, 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:57.080 I was a child for the Bisonentennial in nineteen seventy six. 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:03.480 I certainly feel like, well, there was definitely a lot 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:06.480 less America hating going on, if any. I don't think 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:07.159 there was any. 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:10.119 Un percent that was the fringe of the fringe, but 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:13.800 anything of all races. By the way, folks, all races, 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:14.240 And I. 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:15.720 Got a clue for you. 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:19.440 In nineteen seventy six, black people weren't stupid or blinded 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:23.120 to reality. Nor were they in nineteen forty five when 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:24.800 patriotism ran very high. 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:30.480 Anyway, thank to you. The word nostalgia literally means homesickness, 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:34.480 a homesickness for the past. Matthew Continetti writes about for 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:39.440 AEI and writes about how fifty years ago, for the Bisonentennell, 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:43.199 America was in many respects much more of a mess 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:46.520 than it is today, despite the way we remember it. 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:48.440 Because of the way the brain works, which we're about 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:55.080 to get into. But inflation, gas lines, crime, unemployment, political violence, 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:59.880 race relations, geopolitical tensions, just coming out of the Vietnam War, 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:04.640 Middle East, everything was worse than it is now, despite 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:07.520 what we're telling polsters post. 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:10.160 Watergate as well, great cynicism and disillusionment. 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:13.960 Yeah, most Americans tell posters we're better off fifty years ago. 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:18.440 Here's the thing, lots of people always think things were 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:20.520 better fifty years ago. It's been that way since the 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:23.520 dawn of polling. What makes people think the past was 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:26.240 better isn't a careful study of statistics, but a lazy 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:30.480 inventory of feelings and a laser outsourcing to media vibes. 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:33.280 This tendency didn't begin with polling. The poll he just 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:37.240 made it easier to quantify the pull of nostalgia. 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:39.359 I'm not sure it's lazy as much as it's just 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:42.720 in us. That's what humans do. It's the great philosopher 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:46.159 Barber streisand put it to those two painful to remember. 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:49.160 We simply choose to forget well, and then the powerful 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:53.600 take advantage of this tendency, this human tendency to glorify 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:57.240 the past. Get back to Matthew continent. He's writing, ironically. 0:19:57.320 --> 0:19:59.520 The system so many people on the left, right, and 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:03.520 middle heat scorn on for failing the current generation fuels 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:08.399 the malaise. Political demigods, activist journalists, and big corporations seek 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:12.520 to exploit or monetize the natural human tendency to pine 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:17.320 for the simpler, happier times. The Roman poet Horace had 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:20.439 a term for such people two thousand years ago, and 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:23.680 he gives the Latin for it, appraiser of times past 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:28.400 when he was a boy. That has always worked, always 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:32.040 through human history. You could claim that, you know, back 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:34.199 when things were great. We all remember when things were 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:37.560 great fifty years ago, and then, you know, try to 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:40.440 sell something to somebody or convince them you should be 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:45.040 in charge now or whatever it is. Nineteen eighty nine 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:52.240 that was actually the peak. It was better than picking aera, 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:54.359 and you can find things worthy of nostalgiaa You can 0:20:54.400 --> 0:20:57.440 also find plenty of things almost nobody wants restored. For instance, 0:20:57.680 --> 0:21:01.399 the infant mortality rate three many times higher in nineteen 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:05.240 seventy six and thirteen times higher in nineteen twenty six, 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:10.000 fifty years before that. Yeah, anyway, this last paragraph is 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:11.240 what I wanted to get in because I thought it 0:21:11.280 --> 0:21:14.160 was really interesting, he writes. I'm a conservative, so I'm 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:16.640 the first to concede that the past is worth remembering 0:21:16.680 --> 0:21:19.880 and studying. But if all you do is cherry pick 0:21:19.960 --> 0:21:23.680 the good, real or alleged while blinding yourself to the bad, 0:21:23.760 --> 0:21:27.040 you're not studying the past. You're grading the present against 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:31.440 a past that never was. Well said, Yeah, that's pretty good. 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:35.240 It's a good thing to watch out for. Yeah, yeah, 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:40.840 I wonder is there a I always go to evolutionary reasons, 0:21:40.880 --> 0:21:44.560 assuming that most human nature stuff we have held onto 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:48.520 is because those of us who do these things have 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:51.760 survived versus people who didn't. And I wonder if there's 0:21:51.760 --> 0:21:56.680 just some advantage to remembering the good stuff and blocking 0:21:56.720 --> 0:22:01.120 out the bad for moving forward. You talked about Beniesia earlier, 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:03.919 how you forget how much work having a baby is 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:06.800 because if you remembered it, maybe you wouldn't have another baby. 0:22:07.000 --> 0:22:09.520 But you know, and maybe that's it. Maybe that's the 0:22:09.520 --> 0:22:13.200 whole evolutionary thing. I have no idea, or. 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:16.000 Even if it's not evolutionary, it might just be you know, uh, 0:22:16.240 --> 0:22:18.840 anthropologically adaptive, like. 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:19.840 Being nice to people. 0:22:22.320 --> 0:22:27.280 Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what's so interesting is, you 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:31.359 know when I read orwell earlier in my life, before 0:22:31.359 --> 0:22:35.639 I had much perspective, I got that if you can 0:22:35.680 --> 0:22:44.159 seize people's history, you can you can control them because 0:22:44.160 --> 0:22:47.159 you're controlling the perception of who they are. I kind 0:22:47.160 --> 0:22:50.240 of sort of got it, but now I really really 0:22:50.280 --> 0:22:54.040 get it. Oh yeah, because the neo Marxists right now 0:22:54.080 --> 0:22:58.159 are doing the opposite. Well, they're doing something similar to 0:22:58.200 --> 0:23:02.200