WEBVTT - Video Vomit Reflex 0:00:01.860 --> 0:00:05.710 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the 0:00:05.750 --> 0:00:10.770 George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong 0:00:10.830 --> 0:00:11.510 and Getty. 0:00:11.690 --> 0:00:21.270 And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:21.310 --> 0:00:23.770 You've got to love the traffic today. I'm so happy 0:00:23.790 --> 0:00:27.210 the Europeans came and kicked all the Native Americans off 0:00:27.250 --> 0:00:30.500 their land. Because the traffic is fantastic today. We should 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:33.420 do the next Monday, we should have off for us 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:36.379 taking the president of Argentina. And then like the first 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:39.830 Monday in November, maybe when England went down, let the 0:00:39.850 --> 0:00:42.269 Boers know what time it was. Jake, that's a day off. 0:00:45.470 --> 0:00:48.710 Lots of those. Wow. You're militant, but I can't tell 0:00:48.770 --> 0:00:55.900 in what direction. Rebel without a cause. Live from Studio C. C, senior. 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.060 A dimly lit room with something or other. And we're here. 0:00:59.340 --> 0:01:03.040 We are working on Columbus Day. Yes, we are. We're saying, 0:01:03.140 --> 0:01:07.030 take that. Who are we against here? Queen Isabella, bitch. 0:01:07.220 --> 0:01:09.870 And today we're toiling under the title of the show. 0:01:10.310 --> 0:01:15.150 Trump and Putin sitting in a tree. T-R-A-D-I-N-G. Or if 0:01:15.190 --> 0:01:20.260 you prefer... Unrest in Middle East celebrates its 5,000th birthday. 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:25.000 Quickly back to Columbus Day while I brought it up. 0:01:26.260 --> 0:01:28.419 I got one kid in high school who has the 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:32.740 day off because their school celebrates it as Indigenous Peoples Day. 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:35.100 And that has to be it. You can't go to 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:37.300 school on Indigenous Peoples Day or you don't respect the 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:40.260 Indigenous Peoples. You might as well build a Walmart on 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:43.340 their burial grounds. And then my other kids in a 0:01:43.380 --> 0:01:45.819 different school where they'd They call it Columbus Day, but 0:01:45.860 --> 0:01:48.060 they're in school, which I feel like when we were kids, 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:52.000 we went to school on Columbus Day, didn't we? I 0:01:52.190 --> 0:01:54.730 don't think so. I feel like I remember always being 0:01:54.750 --> 0:01:57.110 in school on Columbus Day and talking about it. It 0:01:57.130 --> 0:01:59.390 depends on the state of the teachers' unions at the time, 0:01:59.450 --> 0:02:02.910 I think. That's the driving force these days in school. Absolutely. 0:02:03.210 --> 0:02:08.340 But in California, it's officially a government holiday, but it's 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:10.959 Indigenous People's Day. I don't know how many places around 0:02:10.980 --> 0:02:13.120 the country are like that. Pretty good handful. 0:02:13.139 --> 0:02:13.260 Yeah. 0:02:13.470 --> 0:02:15.060 Last I heard, but I couldn't tell you the number. 0:02:15.340 --> 0:02:17.420 All right. It was dumb before, and it's dumb now. 0:02:17.460 --> 0:02:21.220 It's all dumb. So much dumbness. All just dumb. 0:02:21.820 --> 0:02:22.040 Yes. 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:27.120 More on that later, I guess. So your first title 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:31.440 there was about the whole, we're buying oil from Russia now? Yes, indeed. 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:34.770 We've exempted Russia from the very sanctions that were just 0:02:34.910 --> 0:02:38.930 signed into being the great Lindsey Graham project that we've 0:02:38.990 --> 0:02:42.130 talked about in the past. Trump has exempted Russia so 0:02:42.169 --> 0:02:47.660 that we can buy barrels of diesel, theoretically to drop 0:02:47.690 --> 0:02:48.269 the price. 0:02:48.090 --> 0:02:49.030 Before the midterms. 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:52.380 Desperate plea to get that across the line, but Russia 0:02:52.419 --> 0:02:56.240 doesn't sell enough oil or diesel, rather, to really move 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:57.060 the needle much at all. 0:02:57.260 --> 0:02:59.329 Even if it did. Even if it dropped at a 0:02:59.370 --> 0:03:04.030 dollar in a week, it's unconscionable. Well, it's horrific. It's unconscionable. 0:03:04.310 --> 0:03:10.019 We are financing now and continuing Putin's war effort against Ukraine. 0:03:10.100 --> 0:03:10.660 Yeah. 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:10.900 Right. 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:15.060 Right. And Trump blaming Zelensky all weekend long for the 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:15.620 price of oil. 0:03:16.260 --> 0:03:16.399 Right. 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:19.600 Because Zelensky keeps attacking Russia's oil. You know why Zelensky 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:22.800 keeps attacking Russia's oil? Because Russia attacked them. And if 0:03:22.820 --> 0:03:24.820 they don't win the war, they're all going to die 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:27.400 or be enslaved. That's what they're doing is they're trying 0:03:27.419 --> 0:03:30.160 to win the war. Well, it's worse than that because 0:03:30.540 --> 0:03:35.020 Russia is helping Iran with targeting information, which means they're 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:38.060 also helping the Houthis with targeting information, so that they 0:03:38.090 --> 0:03:41.230 can strike at the Saudis and other oil facilities in 0:03:41.270 --> 0:03:43.250 the Middle East, which are jacking up the price. But 0:03:43.950 --> 0:03:46.530 we're not hearing the president griping about that. No, we 0:03:46.570 --> 0:03:49.650 just hear bitching about Zelensky. All right. So if you 0:03:49.690 --> 0:03:53.810 weren't following the story over the weekend, Trump announced on 0:03:53.890 --> 0:03:59.100 Truth Social that there was a deal between... Russia and 0:03:59.220 --> 0:04:04.030 Ukraine for a halt in attacking each other's energy infrastructure. 0:04:04.310 --> 0:04:06.410 We have reached a deal. Both sides have agreed to 0:04:06.450 --> 0:04:10.010 which Zelensky said, what? I haven't heard about this at all. 0:04:10.050 --> 0:04:10.870 If it's true, sure. 0:04:11.750 --> 0:04:14.990 Russia responded by bombing oil facilities and Russia responded by 0:04:15.070 --> 0:04:18.310 bombing energy facilities all weekend long, including like. 0:04:18.190 --> 0:04:18.710 An hour ago. 0:04:19.580 --> 0:04:19.669 Yes. 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:22.650 Paying no attention to what's over. When they weren't bombing 0:04:22.750 --> 0:04:25.969 bus stations and apartment buildings. Man, I saw the video 0:04:26.010 --> 0:04:28.570 of that bus that got hit and all the dead 0:04:28.630 --> 0:04:31.610 bodies laying around and everything like that. Pretty horrific. And 0:04:31.710 --> 0:04:34.710 Zelensky got lectured over the weekend and Trump said they 0:04:34.750 --> 0:04:36.700 need to get a new president because he's standing in 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:44.460 the way of world peace. Zelensky is. Not Putin. Zelensky is. Right. Right. 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:46.380 I don't even know what to do with that story. 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:51.570 Stop getting invaded. You're ruining everything. Yeah, no, I'm horrified 0:04:51.589 --> 0:04:51.810 by it. 0:04:51.890 --> 0:04:58.050 Horrified. Well, anyway, baseball playoffs are going on. Very exciting. 0:04:58.170 --> 0:05:02.240 So then Saudi Arabia's airport got bombed pretty hard. I tried, yes. 0:05:02.500 --> 0:05:04.780 And I don't know if you saw the videos of that. 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:08.000 Saudi Arabia, Riyadh is a big city. It looks like 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:10.000 any big city in America. I mean, it's just, you know, 0:05:10.140 --> 0:05:12.440 it's a modern city. It was a modern airport. Video 0:05:12.460 --> 0:05:15.730 from inside the airport could have been, you know, Cleveland 0:05:15.750 --> 0:05:18.300 Airport or Burbank or wherever. Then all of a sudden, 0:05:18.660 --> 0:05:23.279 bombs hit. People are scurrying. Bodies laying around. And I 0:05:23.300 --> 0:05:26.620 assume Saudi Arabia is not going to put up with that. No, 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:28.580 but they have limited recourse. 0:05:28.660 --> 0:05:30.680 I mean, they fought the hell out of the Houthis 0:05:30.700 --> 0:05:32.580 there for a while back in, I don't know, seven, 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:34.540 eight years ago. 0:05:34.620 --> 0:05:37.720 Bloody, terrible, famine, etc. They could go back to that, 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.000 but it was pretty costly for MSB because he's trying 0:05:40.020 --> 0:05:44.440 to turn his country into a modern economy, trade, tourism, etc. 0:05:44.460 --> 0:05:46.969 And this is A miserable setback for him. 0:05:47.330 --> 0:05:50.369 And the Houthis, Jack, it's worth mentioning, are driven by 0:05:50.529 --> 0:05:53.670 Islamist fundamentalism. So it's not like you can cut a 0:05:53.770 --> 0:05:56.089 deal with them, unless it's to give them a big 0:05:56.150 --> 0:05:59.410 old chunk of a caliphate, and they'll, like Hamas, pretend 0:05:59.430 --> 0:06:02.070 to be content until the moment they can attack again. 0:06:02.089 --> 0:06:05.370 Okay. Just want to get those out there, because those 0:06:05.430 --> 0:06:07.830 are some really big stories that could lead to who 0:06:07.890 --> 0:06:12.360 knows what this week. I would never advocate. 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:15.700 any action by this great country of ours, Jack, that 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:17.800 would result in mass death. 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:19.779 Never. It's unconscionable indeed. 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:22.920 On the other hand, you remember back when, in the 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:27.540 midst of the 9-11, post-9-11 fervor and frenzy and the 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:31.660 war in Iraq, and various folks were advocating, how about 0:06:31.900 --> 0:06:35.170 we just nuke the whole region and turn it into 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:39.849 a parking lot? I understand their frustrations. I'll just say that. 0:06:42.620 --> 0:06:44.080 But I tell you what, if I live for another 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.920 5,000 years and I'm reading the same headlines, I will 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:48.780 tip my cap to those people and say maybe they 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:49.230 had a point. 0:06:49.490 --> 0:06:53.089 But again, the loss of life would be terrible. Katie, 0:06:53.110 --> 0:06:55.450 this is your son's first Columbus Day. It's very exciting. 0:06:56.029 --> 0:06:56.349 It is. 0:06:56.450 --> 0:07:00.390 And he's five months old today. You have him dressed 0:07:00.510 --> 0:07:04.029 as an Indian being told to get off his land 0:07:04.110 --> 0:07:08.130 or a little European explorer? No, he's dressed as the Indian. 0:07:09.130 --> 0:07:11.130 Get out of here. What? Covered him up with a 0:07:11.150 --> 0:07:15.590 little smallpox-infested blanket. It's ours now. Get. You know it. 0:07:15.830 --> 0:07:21.450 You should see him. He's running wild. Oh, my God. 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:22.460 Hey. 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:23.460 Oh, geez. 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:27.420 Well, it's very similar in that he discovered your house 0:07:27.460 --> 0:07:29.360 when you brought him home from the hospital, and now 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:30.179 he runs the place. 0:07:30.380 --> 0:07:33.080 Am I wrong? You're bringing it all the way back around. 0:07:33.220 --> 0:07:38.950 There you go. Is it a company holiday, Hanson? Are 0:07:38.970 --> 0:07:40.710 we working on a company holiday? You don't know? I 0:07:40.750 --> 0:07:43.810 don't know either. It might be. And do we call 0:07:43.850 --> 0:07:45.660 it Columbus Day or do we call it Indigenous Peoples Day? 0:07:45.670 --> 0:07:51.620 There aren't enough employees left to tell. Oh! I don't know. 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:55.060 Who cares? The whole thing is so silly. What is 0:07:55.100 --> 0:07:57.260 the theory behind Indigenous Peoples Day? 0:07:58.180 --> 0:08:04.280 Well, that Columbus was a genocidal colonial settler monster. who 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:08.489 displaced the people and brought on the great European Holocaust 0:08:08.610 --> 0:08:10.490 of the New World, blah, blah, blah. And so you 0:08:10.510 --> 0:08:12.850 can't possibly celebrate him. 0:08:12.870 --> 0:08:16.060 Well, I get that. I get how we got here. Well, right. 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.590 But then you've got to do the opposite as a, 0:08:19.060 --> 0:08:21.880 you know, a third world or, you know, a up 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:24.120 with the native peoples type. You got to say, you 0:08:24.140 --> 0:08:27.400 know what, let's do the opposite. Let's celebrate the people 0:08:27.490 --> 0:08:30.910 he displaced. That's as simple as that. Yeah, I understand. 0:08:30.930 --> 0:08:32.809 So we got her. But what do you do? Like, 0:08:32.830 --> 0:08:36.849 do you have a parade or a speech? I don't know. 0:08:37.330 --> 0:08:39.820 Eat a little maize? I don't know. Do a land acknowledgement? 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:43.500 Talk about Buffalo, how they used every part. I don't know. 0:08:44.500 --> 0:08:48.040 And then, as always, are we celebrating the people that 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:48.900 were here in. 0:08:52.330 --> 0:08:55.150 I don't know when it became a state or when 0:08:55.170 --> 0:08:58.550 the United States became a country or when Columbus landed 0:08:58.670 --> 0:09:01.030 or the people that were here 100 years before that. 0:09:01.070 --> 0:09:04.550 They were displaced by different people. No, no, no. It's 0:09:04.570 --> 0:09:06.510 just the people, the white people displaced. 0:09:06.550 --> 0:09:09.050 The people before that can go to hell, killing the 0:09:09.070 --> 0:09:11.010 hell out of each other for thousands of years. Now, 0:09:11.050 --> 0:09:14.440 that's irrelevant. Tens of thousands of years. Yeah, that's irrelevant 0:09:14.460 --> 0:09:17.880 to getting Marxism going. They need the narrative of victimhood 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:19.579 and oppression. That's all they want. 0:09:19.660 --> 0:09:22.370 That's all this is all. Any of this, that's all 0:09:22.420 --> 0:09:26.630 it's about. This land has changed hands. We don't know 0:09:26.670 --> 0:09:28.450 how many times because there are no written records, but 0:09:28.490 --> 0:09:30.650 it would have to be hundreds of times. 0:09:31.250 --> 0:09:31.449 Oh, yeah. 0:09:31.830 --> 0:09:37.020 Yeah. Over the years. You take an individual 10-acre parcel? Sure. Dozens, hundreds, 0:09:37.059 --> 0:09:41.400 who knows? Great deal of blood. Enslavement. 0:09:41.980 --> 0:09:42.150 Yeah. 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:47.400 Oh, enslavement, please. Even the slaves had slaves. I mean, sure. 0:09:47.660 --> 0:09:50.820 Yeah. But you've got to pretend otherwise to to push 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:53.850 the narrative that the current thing is evil and must 0:09:53.890 --> 0:09:54.449 be overthrown. 0:09:54.550 --> 0:09:55.979 On the other hand, That's what all of this is. 0:09:56.260 --> 0:09:58.380 I gotta admit, as a little kid, I was taught... 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:03.060 How about Columbus Day? Like Columbus got here and either 0:10:03.100 --> 0:10:05.459 the country was empty or there were like five Indians 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:07.380 and they were happy to see people come take the 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:10.959 land here. They were lonely. Sure. Cool. And you start 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:12.660 farming our land. Well, I'd love that. 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:13.580 Wow. 0:10:13.620 --> 0:10:17.800 You have totally different customs, totally different language. Your culture 0:10:17.830 --> 0:10:20.709 is enormously different. Heck, even your immune system is different. 0:10:20.990 --> 0:10:23.890 Come on in. Only a fool would say that. 0:10:23.910 --> 0:10:24.069 Oh. 0:10:26.210 --> 0:10:28.709 Like, there's even pictures in my school books of Indians, like, 0:10:28.750 --> 0:10:32.130 standing on the beach waving, like, big smiles on their face. Like, hey. 0:10:34.550 --> 0:10:39.820 What happens? Sure. Fantastic. It's all just happy, happy, joy, joy. 0:10:40.100 --> 0:10:43.700 It's good for everyone. I don't know. I don't know 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:47.470 why we did that either. Now we're going the other 0:10:47.490 --> 0:10:50.930 direction too far. Well, they had to have pictures, right? 0:10:50.990 --> 0:10:53.270 It's history books for kids. And so, you know, and 0:10:53.290 --> 0:10:58.040 the pictures were friendly. They were child-friendly. There were greetings. 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:01.420 There were waves. Hey, look at those boats out there. Hey, 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:03.660 I wonder if they're coming ashore. Oh, this will be exciting. 0:11:03.980 --> 0:11:04.420 Sure. 0:11:05.570 --> 0:11:07.950 Oh, this will be exciting. Let's start the show officially. 0:11:07.970 --> 0:11:09.370 We've got to get to headlines and stuff. I do 0:11:09.410 --> 0:11:12.050 have a question about European exploration. We'll get to it later. 0:11:12.110 --> 0:11:14.430 I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty. On this, it is Monday, 0:11:15.010 --> 0:11:18.079 October 12th, known as Columbus Day or Indigenous People Day 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:18.980 of the Year 2026. 0:11:18.980 --> 0:11:20.819 We're Armstrong and Getty, and we approve of this program. 0:11:21.300 --> 0:11:23.920 Many years ago, I saw a political cartoon of the 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.400 Indians waving to the boats, and one of the Indians 0:11:26.420 --> 0:11:28.679 says to the other one, I guess we'll welcome them, 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:30.080 but I have reservations. 0:11:30.820 --> 0:11:35.060 Hey! Oh, I get it. I get it. Oh, no. Oh, golly. 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:37.610 All right, here's the beginning of the show. Officially, according 0:11:37.620 --> 0:11:39.590 to FCC rules and regs, here we go. At Mark. 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:43.590 Monday is Indigenous Peoples Day and Columbus Day, which is 0:11:43.630 --> 0:11:46.690 like if Easter was also National Nails Day. 0:11:46.710 --> 0:11:57.700 Oh, okay. Oh, my. Too much. Too much. Too much. Katie, 0:11:57.720 --> 0:11:59.910 how does headlines look? Give it a grade, A to F. 0:12:00.780 --> 0:12:02.220 We're going to go sold, A minus. 0:12:02.300 --> 0:12:02.760 Oh, cool. 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:03.540 Wow. 0:12:03.620 --> 0:12:03.940 Excellent. 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:05.760 Of course, with great inflation, it might be a C. 0:12:05.980 --> 0:12:09.320 It's hard to say. Everybody passes. Exactly. But we'll get 0:12:09.380 --> 0:12:12.190 to headlines and more deep dives into the news coming up. 0:12:12.230 --> 0:12:18.230 Stay here. Armstrong and Getty. I want to get into 0:12:18.250 --> 0:12:21.370 this story later. There's a book out about this. We 0:12:21.390 --> 0:12:23.390 think we talked about it already. But anyway, we're getting dumber. 0:12:24.150 --> 0:12:27.339 We are getting dumber, mostly because of staring at our phones. 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:30.160 But there's all kinds of stats around how we're getting dumber. 0:12:30.179 --> 0:12:32.939 And it's interesting. Better read that book quick while I 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:33.930 can still comprehend it. 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:34.660 Right. 0:12:35.980 --> 0:12:38.100 Hey, let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:40.679 story with Katie Green. Katie, hit it. All right, top 0:12:40.700 --> 0:12:41.800 of the alphabet networks. 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:45.350 It's Iran. At least 20 killed in week of attacks 0:12:45.429 --> 0:12:49.790 on Saudi airports. That's coming from ABC. Fox hooties threaten 0:12:49.850 --> 0:12:55.209 Saudi Arabia's airspace after airport attack. And we also have 0:12:55.309 --> 0:12:59.010 Saudi airport struck again a day after deadly attack in 0:12:59.050 --> 0:12:59.670 deadliest day. 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:03.500 This could go any direction and turn into anything. 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:07.080 Yeah, I've got that scholarly piece which I've read and 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:10.540 comprehended most of about how the Middle East is going 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:14.760 to change shape fundamentally. Because all the old alliances are gone, 0:13:14.820 --> 0:13:17.480 the old assumptions are gone, and where it ends, nobody knows. 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:18.140 Oh, goody. 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:24.760 For Maxios, Trump bears down on Zelensky as Russia keeps up. 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:28.880 Attacks on Ukraine. Yeah, including very recently, I was just 0:13:28.910 --> 0:13:32.880 looking at some of the news, and Zelensky made the announcement, hey, 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:36.160 Russia's still striking our energy facilities, just letting you know. 0:13:36.179 --> 0:13:37.740 And look, if. 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:42.020 You have a pushback on this, weigh in, mailbag at armstrongandgetty.com. 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:44.760 But Trump is saying, hey, you've got to let yourself 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.820 be defeated, so gas prices come down a little bit 0:13:47.860 --> 0:13:48.800 in time for the midterms. 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:52.760 CBS News. 0:13:53.670 --> 0:13:57.740 Secret Service's deputy head said drone swarms are a, quote, 0:13:57.820 --> 0:14:01.200 huge problem that the agency has not solved yet. 0:14:01.380 --> 0:14:03.760 Yeah, there was a lead story on 60 Minutes last night. 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:05.780 We'll talk about that later. Pretty darn interesting. 0:14:08.090 --> 0:14:12.650 From The Wall Street Journal, the welfare state is crushing Britain. 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:16.400 Yeah, I'm all over that one. A couple of related stories. 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:21.620 It is the world's most predictable disaster, and it happens everywhere. 0:14:21.700 --> 0:14:24.660 They implement the system that the left in America is 0:14:24.700 --> 0:14:26.060 demanding we implement here. 0:14:26.300 --> 0:14:31.890 It's math. Yeah, it's math. From The Washington Post. 0:14:32.610 --> 0:14:38.210 Substitute teacher fired over OnlyFans account says business is booming. 0:14:38.230 --> 0:14:41.810 This always happens. Yeah. They figured it out. Hot, hot 0:14:42.220 --> 0:14:43.880 women who are willing to do this have figured out 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.320 if they get fired as a stewardess or a teacher 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:49.460 or whatever for their OnlyFans account, it gets the news 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:50.859 and attention and they make more money. 0:14:51.260 --> 0:14:55.170 Mm-hmm. New York Post will run some softcore shots of them, 0:14:55.210 --> 0:14:58.440 and they'll make even more money having already decided to 0:14:58.480 --> 0:14:59.220 move on in their lives. 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:02.780 And you dudes that apparently have unlimited time and desire 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:06.640 for looking at naked chicks online will check that out. Well, 0:15:06.900 --> 0:15:09.240 for me, it's a civil liberties issue. That's why I 0:15:09.300 --> 0:15:09.979 read those articles. 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:14.170 It's unfair that these poor women are fired just for 0:15:14.210 --> 0:15:16.370 expressing themselves nakedly. 0:15:18.030 --> 0:15:19.150 Speaking of the New York Post. 0:15:20.180 --> 0:15:25.190 Whizzing college professor pees on student's backpack found to be 0:15:25.230 --> 0:15:28.210 campus mystery cereal sprinkler. 0:15:28.730 --> 0:15:29.390 Wow. 0:15:29.910 --> 0:15:32.990 This guy's thing was he would pee on student's backpacks. 0:15:33.010 --> 0:15:35.330 That's not weird. You know, looking at his picture, he 0:15:35.370 --> 0:15:36.530 looks like he would pee on backpacks. He looks like 0:15:36.550 --> 0:15:39.150 the kind of guy who would randomly, secretly pee on backpacks. 0:15:39.170 --> 0:15:44.550 Backpack beer. All day long. Oh, my God. Sick. Study 0:15:44.590 --> 0:15:46.510 finds adults. 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:50.700 With ADHD struggle more to stop watching short videos. 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:57.010 Huh. I didn't think about that one. That's interesting. And finally, 0:15:57.030 --> 0:15:58.360 the Babylon Bee. 0:15:59.300 --> 0:16:04.730 Pentagon confirms Hassan execution to be hosted by Ryan Seacrest. 0:16:06.450 --> 0:16:11.380 The thing I need to fully internalize about looking at 0:16:11.430 --> 0:16:14.140 reels on YouTube or wherever I'm looking at short videos 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:19.220 is they are good. But there's endless good ones. I'll 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:20.760 get one and I'll think, well, this is really good. 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:23.140 This is something I'm really going to enjoy. This is 0:16:23.180 --> 0:16:27.030 entertainment I like. Yeah, but there's 8 million of those. 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:30.900 It's not wasting my time on stuff that's not entertaining. 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:32.550 It is entertaining. It's really good. 0:16:33.270 --> 0:16:35.470 But it's like eating until you vomit at a buffet 0:16:35.490 --> 0:16:38.930 that has really good food. Science needs to invent the 0:16:39.460 --> 0:16:42.300 video vomit reflex where you've taken in too much. 0:16:44.020 --> 0:16:45.120 Armstrong and Getty. 0:16:47.130 --> 0:16:51.170 The two oldest men alive who turned 114 and 113 0:16:51.170 --> 0:16:54.890 years old share the exact same birthday. And they shared 0:16:54.910 --> 0:16:56.890 a little high five, killing them both. 0:17:00.870 --> 0:17:02.430 My son and I laughed hard at that. I don't 0:17:02.460 --> 0:17:03.510 know if that makes us bad people. 0:17:04.020 --> 0:17:04.280 Yes. 0:17:05.580 --> 0:17:08.880 Shocking, shocking joke. I laughed out of shock and horror. Yes, exactly. 0:17:09.700 --> 0:17:12.620 We talked about this book a while back. This guy 0:17:12.660 --> 0:17:14.800 named James Marriott, he wrote a book called The New 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:18.000 Dark Ages. Yes. The Death of Reading and the Dawn 0:17:18.020 --> 0:17:20.219 of the Post-Literate Society. And we talked a little bit 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:22.400 about that when the book came out a while back. 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:25.869 It's interesting. And some of the stats around it are horrifying. 0:17:26.210 --> 0:17:29.530 And those of us who still read long form, we're 0:17:29.550 --> 0:17:31.609 a dying breed. Nobody's going to be doing that in 0:17:31.630 --> 0:17:33.970 the future. And I don't know if they'll stop printing 0:17:34.010 --> 0:17:37.379 all those books. And bookstores will go away. Except for 0:17:38.260 --> 0:17:41.880 self-help books and quickie political books. Those are the only 0:17:41.940 --> 0:17:47.090 things that sell. Like really shallow, quickie political books and 0:17:47.270 --> 0:17:49.100 some sort of self-help or diet books. Those are the 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:53.380 only things I currently sell, which ain't good. But here 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:55.440 are some of the stats around this broken down in 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:58.220 this opinion piece by the author in the Washington Post. 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:02.480 Because it's expanding. It's not just reading. It's movies. It's TV. 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:04.760 It's all kinds of different things. In a world of 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:10.310 constant distraction, script writers can no longer rely on audiences 0:18:10.369 --> 0:18:15.670 to pay attention. Executives at Netflix have reportedly demanded simpler 0:18:15.810 --> 0:18:20.669 scripts in which characters repeatedly announce what they're doing so 0:18:20.710 --> 0:18:25.670 that scrolling viewers can keep track of what's going on. Oh, my. 0:18:26.990 --> 0:18:32.220 I know. Wow. I know. That is such a gentle 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:36.459 yet devastating description. We've talked about, like, your daughter, my 0:18:36.500 --> 0:18:39.310 son does this, where they have their phones open while 0:18:39.330 --> 0:18:43.650 they're watching TV. So Netflix has picked up on that. 0:18:43.730 --> 0:18:47.669 People are doing the two-screen experience, so our characters have 0:18:47.690 --> 0:18:50.750 to repeatedly reset what they're doing. 0:18:51.070 --> 0:18:53.080 Are you ready to go in and rob the bank 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:56.780 to get money to finance our guerrilla group now? Yes, 0:18:56.920 --> 0:19:00.280 I'm ready, El Comandante, and to help you avenge your 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:01.740 father who was killed earlier. 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:02.700 Right. 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:03.919 Yeah. 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:07.960 Oh, boy. Right. According to Matt Damon. 0:19:08.010 --> 0:19:11.590 At least every husband on earth will probably not have 0:19:11.609 --> 0:19:13.910 to answer the, why is he doing that question? 0:19:14.990 --> 0:19:17.250 I don't know. That's what we're supposed to find out. 0:19:17.330 --> 0:19:18.730 I used to ask that as a kid. My dad 0:19:18.750 --> 0:19:21.010 would get so upset with that. How about we watch 0:19:21.530 --> 0:19:26.990 and find out? Wondering is part of the entertainment. Nevermind. 0:19:29.850 --> 0:19:32.650 According to actor Matt Damon, filmmakers are told it wouldn't 0:19:32.690 --> 0:19:35.530 be terrible if you reiterated the plot three or four 0:19:35.609 --> 0:19:38.619 times in the dialogue because people are on their phones 0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:42.220 while they're watching. Oh, no. The result is the inverse 0:19:42.260 --> 0:19:45.180 of the traditional creative writing advice of show, don't tell. 0:19:45.590 --> 0:19:48.170 It is hard to sustain interiority or nuance in a 0:19:48.210 --> 0:19:52.490 film in which every action must be clearly signed post. Oh, 0:19:52.530 --> 0:19:55.450 my God. I mean, that's the opposite of what, like, 0:19:55.590 --> 0:20:00.730 really great literature or writing has always done. It's always 0:20:00.770 --> 0:20:03.890 like unfolded and it dawns on you, you know, maybe 0:20:03.950 --> 0:20:06.350 several hours in or maybe even after you read the 0:20:06.390 --> 0:20:08.650 book or watch the movie. Oh, my God. 0:20:08.690 --> 0:20:10.860 You can see she's turning away from him because she 0:20:11.130 --> 0:20:13.160 still loves her husband who died in the war. 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:15.180 Oh, God. 0:20:15.300 --> 0:20:15.619 Right. 0:20:15.660 --> 0:20:18.420 It's heavy. It's powerful. I must turn away from you 0:20:18.460 --> 0:20:21.060 now for I still love my husband who, as you 0:20:21.100 --> 0:20:23.800 may recall, died in the war, as I explained in 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:26.700 an earlier scene. Well, if it must be that way. 0:20:27.780 --> 0:20:30.600 Maybe have the dead husband step into the scene. Remember me? 0:20:30.619 --> 0:20:35.020 Remember me? I was in a flashback. In fact, you'd 0:20:35.060 --> 0:20:40.130 have to pan to the picture on her dresser. Oh, right. 0:20:40.150 --> 0:20:40.850 The dead husband. 0:20:40.869 --> 0:20:41.189 Yeah. 0:20:41.230 --> 0:20:41.830 With the beard. 0:20:41.850 --> 0:20:42.050 Right. 0:20:42.130 --> 0:20:42.410 Okay. 0:20:42.430 --> 0:20:42.610 Yeah. 0:20:43.290 --> 0:20:46.290 Yeah, oh, Lord. The fact that Netflix is actually telling 0:20:46.369 --> 0:20:49.510 people that. The characters have to restate what they're doing. 0:20:49.690 --> 0:20:53.550 It's just, oh, my God. The same relentless pressures towards 0:20:53.590 --> 0:20:57.040