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Speaker 2: Have a new feature you've been mentioning Katie, where do
Speaker 2: people find Katie's corner?
Speaker 5: Go to Armstrong Getty dot com. It's across the top.
Speaker 2: Okay, And you decided to spell it with a K.
Speaker 5: I did because you both had conniption fits because I
Speaker 5: spelled it like a regular person.
Speaker 2: Feel that may make a big deal. And how do
Speaker 2: you spell your name? Katie is with a wire and
Speaker 2: I E an I E. Okay. Do you put a
Speaker 2: heart above the eye? No? Yeah, I did when I
Speaker 2: was like twelve.
Speaker 3: I'm cute Katie's corner as woman you're talking to's corner
Speaker 3: with a heart over the eye and a K for
Speaker 3: a corner.
Speaker 2: It sounds pretty good to me. On et Sea to
Speaker 2: sell your Doiley's you make it home.
Speaker 5: I will say there is a restaurant in San Ramon
Speaker 5: in the Bay Area in California that's called Katie's Corner,
Speaker 5: and they have the best eggs Benedict.
Speaker 2: I'll write that down.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's spelled Katie's with a Y, corner with
Speaker 5: a K.
Speaker 2: I take breakfast places more seriously than any other kind
Speaker 2: of restaurant. Love a good breakfast place.
Speaker 5: Oh it's hard, it's hard to mess up breakfast, I feel.
Speaker 2: But man, the good, the great from the good. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like they say about pizza and sex. I
Speaker 3: mean it's gonna be fine from the male.
Speaker 4: Point of view.
Speaker 2: If you had sex and you burnt the roof of
Speaker 2: your mouth, that's no good.
Speaker 4: What are you.
Speaker 2: Doing but breakfast?
Speaker 3: Yes, to achieve a solid B is practically effort true.
Speaker 3: But to get up to the AA plus ranking, then
Speaker 3: you're talking some really good food.
Speaker 4: I mean crazy good.
Speaker 3: I mean you get you spend twenty dollars on your breakfast,
Speaker 3: you have had deliciousness on par with a seventy dollars
Speaker 3: meal for dinner.
Speaker 2: Tell me, I'm wrong. No, that's absolutely right, that's absolutely true.
Speaker 2: You know I want to go to Katie's. Yeah, to
Speaker 2: get today, to get the best steak, you're gonna have
Speaker 2: to spend one hundred bucks. To get the best breakfast,
Speaker 2: you can spend twenty bucks. So you're right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, breakfast all day. That's got to be
Speaker 3: my new restaurant. But I'll spell it with a like
Speaker 3: Oh no, I gotta have a clever spelling, spell.
Speaker 5: It like an adult.
Speaker 3: Shoe.
Speaker 6: I remember you're going to have a restaurant called Walk
Speaker 6: this Way and you were in spell at w Ok.
Speaker 4: That's right. Yeah. One of my many ideas.
Speaker 2: Ye Chinese rest breakfast over Chinese. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Maybe I'll just have a whole food court.
Speaker 3: I'll like offer a suite of restaurants, like I'll buy
Speaker 3: out a strip mall and I'll have Walk this Way
Speaker 3: and then I'll have breakfast all day.
Speaker 4: And then I don't know, I'll come up with some more.
Speaker 3: Ideas, probably not as great as those two, it'll be good.
Speaker 4: Ah.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 3: Speaking of which, one final side before we get into
Speaker 3: the horrifying Ray Pee story from Nature and it's.
Speaker 2: Worse than you think. Okay, lady, lady.
Speaker 3: So, my old friend Drew, who worked in Mexico for
Speaker 3: several years, a.
Speaker 5: Sombrero.
Speaker 2: It's not catching. No, have you ever been to Mexico.
Speaker 4: Not everybody wears the sombrero.
Speaker 2: You raises culture, not a costume.
Speaker 3: Anyway, but he became aware of and this is very
Speaker 3: popular in rural parts of Mexisco, especially or people of
Speaker 3: of or not rich. Discatta it is the disc from
Speaker 3: a plow that they just change a little bit with
Speaker 3: welding and sometime it's referred to as the cowboy walk
Speaker 3: in the United States, and it's essentially an outdoor you
Speaker 3: put it over a fire walk to cook up your
Speaker 3: meat and taters and vegetables or whatever. And Drew would
Speaker 3: make this for a big party once a yar or so,
Speaker 3: and it's just absolutely fantastic, and partly because we're going
Speaker 3: to get our kitchen room modeled if the permitting ever
Speaker 3: comes through. I bought one, but I need like really
Speaker 3: good discatta recipes, including if people were like, dude, just
Speaker 3: go to a Chinese cookbook and that's what you do,
Speaker 3: or put anything in there.
Speaker 4: You can't screw it up. I'm just curious. I want
Speaker 4: to make the most out.
Speaker 3: Of it, but it's the food is delicious, stew is
Speaker 3: in its own juice.
Speaker 2: The fact that it was on a disc was a
Speaker 2: farm implement. Does that help the food or is that just.
Speaker 3: Is that I think in the same way, like like
Speaker 3: a cast iron frying pan cooks food a little differently,
Speaker 3: and you don't like wash it with soap, you'd wipe
Speaker 3: it out and it cures with the oils and stuff
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 4: It's one of those things. Why are you looking at
Speaker 4: me like that?
Speaker 5: Because you're like, oh, man, I just need some recipes.
Speaker 5: I wish there was something like a like.
Speaker 2: A box electronic and you could.
Speaker 5: Type in de scotta recipes and then there would be lists.
Speaker 4: You know what, girl, I wish there was like this thing.
Speaker 4: It's like a box.
Speaker 3: I don't know, some way to put letters and words
Speaker 3: into the box and then.
Speaker 2: Ask it I want stuff.
Speaker 3: People have actually chided, I'm not gonna go out into
Speaker 3: the freaking internet.
Speaker 4: I've already done that.
Speaker 2: It's like, I don't know anyway, but you're not wrong.
Speaker 2: So here's the deal.
Speaker 3: A locally famous sea otter in Canada, and you ask
Speaker 3: how does an otter become famous?
Speaker 2: Well, do you know honors? Have you seen honors. They're
Speaker 2: cute as can be. Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: You ever go to the Monterey Bay Aquarium or the
Speaker 3: aquarium most convenient to you where you live. They're unbelievably
Speaker 3: charming and charismatic. And Ali the Otter, oh, he even
Speaker 3: has a cute name, has his own Facebook fan page,
Speaker 3: Chuck full of adorable photos.
Speaker 2: But here's the deal. So, like that squirrel, Yeah, like
Speaker 2: Peanut the squirrel.
Speaker 3: Oh that the State of New York killed for being
Speaker 3: a conservative squirrel?
Speaker 2: Right right?
Speaker 3: He saved his nuts for winter. He didn't like go
Speaker 3: to the government and say, Oh, it's winner, I'm hungry.
Speaker 4: You gotta give me nuts.
Speaker 2: It's not my fault. Oh he's gaved them like a squirrel.
Speaker 2: Should they killed him for it?
Speaker 4: Anyway?
Speaker 3: So Ali is a sea otter, and like sea otters,
Speaker 3: sometimes he hangs out in rivers. But he's the only
Speaker 3: only see otter in the immediate area. And evidently, unlike
Speaker 3: my people, the Neanderthals that would get with Homo sapiens
Speaker 3: and you know, make sweet caveman love, sea otters don't
Speaker 3: get with with uh usually with river otters, huh okay,
Speaker 3: unless they murder them first and then have sex with
Speaker 3: their corpses. Whoa okay, says wildlife educator Molly Cameron. He's
Speaker 3: the only sea otter in the immediate area. So the
Speaker 3: assumption is that he does this. He kills the river
Speaker 3: otters then sort of had his has his way with
Speaker 3: them for multiple days to release the sexual tension of
Speaker 3: being the only sea otter around. So ish sea otter
Speaker 3: snuff films a regular thing? Or is it just this
Speaker 3: one aberant sea otter that's not well? The nature expert says,
Speaker 3: it's known to happen. I mean, they don't put a
Speaker 3: number on it.
Speaker 2: But Ali the otter.
Speaker 3: Oh look at him, is suspected of murdering at least
Speaker 3: twenty river otters over the last decade and having sex.
Speaker 4: With their corpses.
Speaker 2: Barbaric, it is, sir. So for days? Do they still
Speaker 2: have the website for the necrophiliac lord?
Speaker 3: He will carry his victims around, they say, according to
Speaker 3: this nature educator, like a Teddy Bear for days.
Speaker 2: So it's like a Jeffrey Dahmer sea otter. It's very
Speaker 2: much like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, wow, says CBC News. That's uh, that's the network
Speaker 3: up there in Canada. They have TVs now by the way. Uh,
Speaker 3: and they will have all the modern conveniences when they
Speaker 3: become our fifty first state. But CBC News talking to
Speaker 3: another ottero researcher, male seatters without access to females become
Speaker 3: sexually frustrating and frustrated, and the results often aren't pretty. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he's what sometimes is referred to as a satellite male.
Speaker 3: He's sitting there just hoping he's made a territory that's
Speaker 3: going to have females in it, and it doesn't, so
Speaker 3: instead he murders the innocent river oppers and then does
Speaker 3: what I.
Speaker 2: Said in cell sea otter exactly.
Speaker 5: So I'm looking at an article on vox and apparently
Speaker 5: they're referring here to otters as the necrophiliac serial killing
Speaker 5: fur monsters of the sea.
Speaker 3: Okay, some that's a good phrase right there.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that they.
Speaker 5: Rape baby seals and hold others pups hostage for food.
Speaker 3: I was just gonna mention that twenty ten scientific paper
Speaker 3: documented cases of forced copulation between male sea otters in
Speaker 3: California and young arbor seals.
Speaker 2: This, this is wrong. They can't the baby rapers. They
Speaker 2: can't be that cute and act like this. That's an
Speaker 2: interesting stance. Well, like somebody who fills carneather king that
Speaker 2: is that is interesting. So I am a third of
Speaker 2: the way through the book Sapiens. I keep jumping back
Speaker 2: and forth in it, and he explains in that book
Speaker 2: what's unique about humans and they're evil from the animal world,
Speaker 2: taking into the account that sometimes monkey's murder and dolphins rape,
Speaker 2: and then you get the sea otter thing. It's something
Speaker 2: to do with animals generally do it to gain something,
Speaker 2: as opposed to the way people sometimes just do it
Speaker 2: for to be cruel. Usually in the animal world it's
Speaker 2: like to take over a you know, a chunk of
Speaker 2: the jungle, or drive them out of it or whatever,
Speaker 2: or to get your odd rocks off in this case.
Speaker 3: Now there are cases of dolphins doing what really looks
Speaker 3: like toying with their victims before they end them. But
Speaker 3: in general, though, I'm sure he's right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I don't remember. I'll have to
Speaker 2: find that again, because I thought it was really interesting you, So,
Speaker 2: does anybody have a lighter or more humorous note?
Speaker 3: Tend this with If I'd been thinking ahead, I would
Speaker 3: have come prepared with them.
Speaker 5: I apologize if after hearing that you want to hand
Speaker 5: feed an otter, you can go to SeaQuest in fulsome
Speaker 5: because I've done that there. Or you can hand feed them.
Speaker 5: They stick their little arms through a hole in the
Speaker 5: glass and they grab the shrimp out of your hand.
Speaker 2: And that is that's got to be cute as heck,
Speaker 2: it's so cute. But now that I know they do this,
Speaker 2: barbaric our otters are cute. They have the advance and
Speaker 2: some animals just have the advantage of being cute. Wow.
Speaker 3: So but I mean they murder and then have sex
Speaker 3: with the corpse, but they're cute.
Speaker 2: Oh boy.
Speaker 6: Don't forget when animals attack, which was on Fox at.
Speaker 2: The most horrifying comedy attack ever caught.
Speaker 6: On tap if you remember that, that's true story, Katie,
Speaker 6: and also on Family Guide when they advertise the Fox
Speaker 6: show Fast Animals, Slow Children another comedy classic.
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Speaker 2: I guarantee I'm not the only person who's had this happen.
Speaker 2: They recommend that if you're hiring well practically anybody really,
Speaker 2: but I'm hiring sitters in a college town tends to
Speaker 2: be college girls. Everybody recommends check their social media to
Speaker 2: try to get an idea, you know, whether or not
Speaker 2: you you know, you check their references, you check their
Speaker 2: social media, that sort of stuff. Yeah, this has happened
Speaker 2: multiple times where I'm hiring the college girl, I meet her,
Speaker 2: she comes to my house dressed in normal clothes and
Speaker 2: everything like that, like a normal person. And they and
Speaker 2: in this case, they've turned out to be incredibly re sponsible. Great,
Speaker 2: everything you'd want sitters. But I go to the social
Speaker 2: media and I see them in ways that I don't
Speaker 2: need to know that is there. There should be I
Speaker 2: don't know how you would do this. There should be
Speaker 2: some sort of social media. This is for the people
Speaker 2: who want to hire me social media for the people
Speaker 2: that want to date me. This is my social media.
Speaker 2: There should be two different versions. I don't like to
Speaker 2: see you in a thong bikini with your back toward
Speaker 2: me bent over in the pool, and then I have
Speaker 2: to agree with you. Do you have those links handy, No, Joe, stupid,
Speaker 2: don't do that. I'm not criticizing it. That's fine. You're
Speaker 2: a twenty one year old girl. That's what you're supposed
Speaker 2: to do with your life and whatever. I guess now.
Speaker 3: Showing your naked ass is what you're supposed to be doing.
Speaker 2: The thong.
Speaker 5: I have been a twenty one year old girl and
Speaker 5: did not do that.
Speaker 3: Well, some do, some don't, but again I'm not judging
Speaker 3: that at all. Incredibly responsible and professionally dressed, am I house.
Speaker 2: I only know this because I went to the social media,
Speaker 2: but that's what they recommend, and there was nothing on
Speaker 2: there that was like a red flag in terms of
Speaker 2: wanting to hire them or whatever, and all the reference
Speaker 2: was good and they've been good, so I have no complaints. OK,
Speaker 2: It's just I feel weird that I've seen your ass.
Speaker 2: Just words me.
Speaker 3: Out that's on you that says You've said that sounds
Speaker 3: like you prom I think.
Speaker 5: This would make it more comfortable. Just casually bring it
Speaker 5: up in conversations. So what about that picture?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Confront them with pictures. Yeah, I'd be like, so what
Speaker 2: is this? Where were you? And why this is it? Hey?
Speaker 4: That looks like a really cool beach.
Speaker 2: Where is that that? Yeah, that's the way I do it.
Speaker 2: That's the way I do it. That lamp that lamp
Speaker 2: over there? Do you have any idea where I would
Speaker 2: get that because that's a cool lamp.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that would fit in beautifully.
Speaker 5: Here you can see like an inch of the beach.
Speaker 2: It's just all ask where was that? This sand looks
Speaker 2: very nice and solid. Yeah, you're right. Not everybody goes
Speaker 2: that far, but it's fairly common though. I mean I've
Speaker 2: had a quite a few over the last five years.
Speaker 2: It's pretty damn common. Certainly a bikini shot that's almost guaranteed,
Speaker 2: almost guaranteed, you're gonna see them in a bikini. And well,
Speaker 2: I find that weird.
Speaker 3: My dad never saw any of we had like two
Speaker 3: babysitters my whole life, but I guarantee you my dad
Speaker 3: never saw pictures of them in a bikini. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: I have been on beaches, both coasts, various lakes, Tahoe,
Speaker 3: et cetera.
Speaker 2: And yeah, that's sort of.
Speaker 3: Where the tiny bikini that's butt floss whatever is is
Speaker 3: fairly common.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I wouldn't make a big deal of that.
Speaker 3: I didn't, and I'm not. I just think it's weird
Speaker 3: that I've seen this. I wish there was a way
Speaker 3: I could not I.
Speaker 5: Think wearing the bikini versus taking a photo of yourself
Speaker 5: in it and putting it on the internet is two
Speaker 5: very different.
Speaker 4: Katie.
Speaker 2: Let me let me step in here, please.
Speaker 3: We have a society that overvalues the woman's physical form,
Speaker 3: and so young women get the idea that that's an
Speaker 3: important measure of their womanhood. And if they happen to
Speaker 3: be like what's the term crazy hot and in the
Speaker 3: best shape they'll ever be in in their lives, they
Speaker 3: might want to, you know, display.
Speaker 2: That little you're blaming in the patriarchy, I am, I
Speaker 2: am quite.
Speaker 5: Quite so, yes, yeah, yeah, I mean i'd like you'll.
Speaker 2: See it overthrown guilty as charged.
Speaker 5: There may be a bikini or two photos out there
Speaker 5: of you, uh huh, yeah, but I was twenty one
Speaker 5: and I'm never gonna look like that again.
Speaker 2: So exactly. Yeah. Well, like I said, I'm not condemning it.
Speaker 2: It just seems like, well, it's an interaction that didn't
Speaker 2: used to exist, but between employer employee when it comes
Speaker 2: to hiring, consider no doubt.
Speaker 5: I have another question. Is it a photo with intention
Speaker 5: to be provocative or is this just like she was
Speaker 5: on the beach with her friends.
Speaker 2: Hey, we're I'd say it's more of the latter than
Speaker 2: the former. He can't help but be provocative. You're hot
Speaker 2: in a thong. Yeah, I mean, it's just no matter
Speaker 2: what you're doing, provoke diseasy. You could be throwing out
Speaker 2: your taxes. It's still kind of provocative. Actually, that's double
Speaker 2: hot to me. Wait a minute, you look like that
Speaker 2: and you're good at doing taxes. Here's a ring.
Speaker 4: Just think about it.
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Speaker 3: Wall Street suffering it's worst day of the year, the
Speaker 3: Dow closing nearly nine hundred points down after the President
Speaker 3: refused to rule that.
Speaker 2: The US could be heading into a recession. Uh yeah,
Speaker 2: a lot of negative headlines about Wall Street yesterday. I'm
Speaker 2: always interested in that. In that a lot, a lot,
Speaker 2: a lot of Americans aren't in the stock market, and
Speaker 2: it's it's I'd like to know what percentage of the
Speaker 2: audience that watches mainstream evening news is in the stock market.
Speaker 4: Other are you including four one ks in that?
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe not. I don't know investment, but certainly the
Speaker 2: average person watching the evening news is not into the
Speaker 2: daily ups and downs of the stock market. True, they're
Speaker 2: in the the long you know, the long game, and
Speaker 2: and and very little context ever around any of this
Speaker 2: stuff anytime. And I'm not just like now, just always
Speaker 2: there's almost no context. Biggest point, drop whatever, Sometimes they
Speaker 2: use points because it's more dramatic. Sometimes percentage whatever, and
Speaker 2: to go back and forth, and it's all very it's
Speaker 2: designed to make it sound as great or as awful
Speaker 2: as possible, to make it more exciting. But anyway, New
Speaker 2: York christ and on. This has been a big down
Speaker 2: for the last week and a half or whatever since
Speaker 2: the Tarif announcement. No doubt about that. New York Post
Speaker 2: headline today, buckle up Nasga, DAX suffers biggest loss in
Speaker 2: three years, Dal falls eight ninety after Trump recession dodge,
Speaker 2: after Trump didn't absolutely just flat out say no to
Speaker 2: the recession question. It's amazing how much news that made
Speaker 2: that one answer. And he knew that, like I said yesterday,
Speaker 2: he's aware of that, and he doubles down on Air
Speaker 2: Force one. Essentially, the significance of it is he didn't
Speaker 2: say we will do everything we need to to avoid
Speaker 2: a recession.
Speaker 3: That's why that's significant, right, which gets to what we
Speaker 3: were saying last hour. I wish he would give some
Speaker 3: sort of speech where he explained what his long game
Speaker 3: is and why I think he can get more people
Speaker 3: on board or calmed down. I think that is so
Speaker 3: obviously a great idea. It is shocking to me it
Speaker 3: hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 2: Drudge hates Trump, but his headlines economy cracks, stocks lose
Speaker 2: four trillion dollars. Oh, that's one of the things about
Speaker 2: the news reporting. I feel like it's for people who
Speaker 2: don't understand that that money didn't actually disappear, never to
Speaker 2: come back. It's that the stock is down and yeah,
Speaker 2: adds up to four trillion, But unless you sold yesterday,
Speaker 2: you didn't actually lose the money, and it could be
Speaker 2: back up in two weeks and nothing happened.
Speaker 3: I mean, well, and you quote unquote lost the money
Speaker 3: from if you would have sold it three weeks ago.
Speaker 3: So it's all, yeah, imaginary, it's not even on paper,
Speaker 3: it's in the ether.
Speaker 2: Any who so, getting to Mark Alprin's newsletter today, I
Speaker 2: think he is a fair arbiter of these sorts of things,
Speaker 2: and he gets a lot of He has a lot
Speaker 2: of connections in left and right, Republican and Democrat. He
Speaker 2: wrote this Monday, when job boning by all Trump economic
Speaker 2: advisors could not stop a market selloff or deter business leaders,
Speaker 2: economic analysis analysts, Paul's and Trump supporters from calling, texting,
Speaker 2: and emailing me to say the sky is falling, and
Speaker 2: it is in their collective view explicitly and unambiguously Trump's fault.
Speaker 2: In my career, I don't recall anything quite like Mundy
Speaker 2: as Whoosh, Team Trump lost the confidence of a bunch
Speaker 2: of key actors in one fell swoop. Thought that was
Speaker 2: interesting that behind.
Speaker 3: The scenes a lot of people that normally really really
Speaker 3: big on Trump werecalling Mark Aperton saying what the hell
Speaker 3: is he doing? The business world, the American business world,
Speaker 3: was absolutely confident that Trump would slash regulations and make
Speaker 3: permanent tax cuts and that would be his main thrust.
Speaker 3: This whole call it protectionism, you know, seeking a new
Speaker 3: global norm for trade, whatever you want to call it,
Speaker 3: is surprising to them and it's led to a great
Speaker 3: deal of uncertainty.
Speaker 2: Business hates uncertainty.
Speaker 3: Right, And then I got to get to what I
Speaker 3: was talking about yesterday, which I fully fully believe. I mean,
Speaker 3: don't well feel like the Wall Street journal crowd has
Speaker 3: your best interest in mind. They have the best interest
Speaker 3: of like what's gonna make the Dow close higher today
Speaker 3: for a lot of the crowd who actually does day
Speaker 3: trade or certainly this quarter not what's best for America
Speaker 3: long term. And you know, fortunately or unfortunately, I guess
Speaker 3: Anne Ryan would say, that's the way it's supposed to work.
Speaker 3: You know, they're looking out for themselves. That's what drives
Speaker 3: the whole thing. But yeah, I would say, as a
Speaker 3: guy who reads practically cover to cover the journal every
Speaker 3: single day, they have a wide range of opinions and
Speaker 3: writers there. Not all of them are merely chasing quarterly profits.
Speaker 3: But I wanted to get to this, and I didn't
Speaker 3: know this.
Speaker 2: So Mark Alpernan has a bunch of links to a
Speaker 2: whole bunch of different newspaper articles talking about the how
Speaker 2: much damage has been done, whether it's temporary, long term,
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. Then this team Trump came in with
Speaker 2: the theory of the case that they could rebalance the
Speaker 2: economy by shifting economic activity back to the private sector
Speaker 2: from the public sector. It's part of the whole doge
Speaker 2: thing and tariffs together. Trump advisors have said they think
Speaker 2: the government is now twenty five percent of the economy.
Speaker 2: Mark Awprin said, in reality, it's way higher, maybe closer
Speaker 2: to fifty percent. Wow, what fifty percent of the economy
Speaker 2: is the government with Medicare and Medicaid. No one wants
Speaker 2: to admit it, but to a large extent, the US
Speaker 2: economy has really just become the US government spending in transfers.
Speaker 2: This is evidenced by the fact that we've been running
Speaker 2: huge fiscal deficits during strong economic times, and the new
Speaker 2: Treasury Secretary has proposed fixing this by cutting government spending
Speaker 2: with musk combined with tariffs, to rebalance trade, to rebuild
Speaker 2: American manufacturing. But to bring it home, he gets into
Speaker 2: we live in a wah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: The top ten percent. Studies have shown there's a very
Speaker 2: high correlation between their propensity to spend, with spending being
Speaker 2: you know, two thirds of our economies people going out
Speaker 2: and spending money and where the stock prices are for
Speaker 2: whatever reason, when the top ten percent are feeling wealthy,
Speaker 2: they buy stuff. But if they're not feeling wealthy, they don't.
Speaker 2: And this especially is true now, and this could get
Speaker 2: us into a real doom loop of tariffs, negative feelings,
Speaker 2: stock market going down, people pulling back, et cetera, et cetera,
Speaker 2: cutting the government, which is half the economy. You see,
Speaker 2: there's the spiral.
Speaker 3: If DOGE is laying off people and cutting the government
Speaker 3: and it's fifty percent of the economy, that automatically is
Speaker 3: going to drop the economy, which makes the rich ten
Speaker 3: percent spend less, which drops the economy.
Speaker 2: And it's just that, you see, it's a cycle that
Speaker 2: could catch on.
Speaker 3: Yeah. My only objection to that theory, or a question
Speaker 3: I have about it, is that what DOGE is doing
Speaker 3: is nibbling around the edges of the actual thing, fiscal pie.
Speaker 2: Sure. I don't appreciate it because I like the edges
Speaker 2: of the pie. Oh, fiscal pie ambitious. Uh. And it's
Speaker 2: funny because you have conservatives saying.
Speaker 3: They're they're they're not attacking entitlements and that's most of
Speaker 3: the budget blah blah blah blah. But at the same time,
Speaker 3: it might cause a doom loop. I just I don't
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Well, nobody ever knows on any of this stuff, as
Speaker 2: we've said for years, because if you were the old thing,
Speaker 2: if you ask you know, ten economists, you'll get eleven opinions.
Speaker 2: Or there's only two people that understand uh, the global
Speaker 2: economy and they don't agree, you know, any of those sayings.
Speaker 2: And but you know, if you could predict this stuff,
Speaker 2: well you'd be the richest person on planet Earth, you know, immediately,
Speaker 2: so that you know, there's a lot of moving pieces
Speaker 2: and theory and everything like that. But I do find
Speaker 2: that very troubling. Yeah, all of it's troubling.
Speaker 3: I find myself imagining if Trump were to craft the
Speaker 3: sort of message you've suggested, explaining exactly what his goals are,
Speaker 3: why it's going to be worth enduring a bit of
Speaker 3: pain or upheaval for a while, be it two years
Speaker 3: or more likely five or ten or fifteen or twenty years,
Speaker 3: because that would get the popular support. Doing something difficult
Speaker 3: would require, because there's one thing democracies are terrible at,
Speaker 3: that's doing what is difficult. Like in your family, you
Speaker 3: could say, hey, we are going to severely restrict spending
Speaker 3: for this year to get a down payment together to
Speaker 3: buy the house, or make the investment, or open the
Speaker 3: business we've long dreamed of.
Speaker 4: You can do it.
Speaker 3: You're on the wall of a house with a pool
Speaker 3: and say this is why we're doing it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3: I've always been a fan of the like the thermometer
Speaker 3: thing where you actually track your savings, because it gives
Speaker 3: you enthusiasm for it.
Speaker 4: Judy and I used to do that when we were young.
Speaker 3: Anyway, as a family, you can do that. But democracies
Speaker 3: are famously horrible at saying all right, we're all going
Speaker 3: to endure some pain for a while an austerity plan,
Speaker 3: it happens.
Speaker 4: I don't think we're it's hard to get going.
Speaker 2: I don't think we're grown up enough for this. I
Speaker 2: think we're too used to easy sale in smooth saleing.
Speaker 3: But even if Trump were to do that, though, Wall
Speaker 3: Street would probably freak out for a while, and then
Speaker 3: people would see it, would check their four one ks
Speaker 3: and freak out, and I just I don't know if
Speaker 3: we have the right stuff to institute what Trump's talking
Speaker 3: about before it's a horrible emergency.
Speaker 2: Well imagine if Trump or somebody representing Trump came out
Speaker 2: and gave a speech says, look, half the economy is
Speaker 2: the government.
Speaker 3: Do you know that half the economy the government? And
Speaker 3: that can't be that's not sustainable.
Speaker 2: And our debt is this, and our deficit is this,
Speaker 2: and you know our payments are this, and blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: And if that wasn't go ahead, sorry, there's more.
Speaker 4: No, that's fine.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say.
Speaker 3: And if if that wasn't bad enough, folks, here's the
Speaker 3: chunk of they that would collapse and you would starve
Speaker 3: if China decides to jump ugly.
Speaker 2: So A, we got to rain in the government.
Speaker 3: B we've got to wean ourselves from being China junkies.
Speaker 3: Their economic heroin is they're gonna pull it back on us,
Speaker 3: and we're gonna be.
Speaker 2: On our hands and knees and our economy is.
Speaker 3: Gonna be puking and turning green and pooping on itself. Wow,
Speaker 3: because they're gonna pull it out cold turkey.
Speaker 2: Do you want that? Do you want that?
Speaker 3: Huh? Okay, We're gonna restructure the economy. You would be
Speaker 3: a disgusting economics teacher.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but compelling hm uh, there's no way this works
Speaker 2: because we have an election every two years. We're already
Speaker 2: like a year away from constantly talking about the mid
Speaker 2: terms and uh, and the Democrats are gonna run on
Speaker 2: He says, we can't blah blah blah. We say you
Speaker 2: we can blues with me.
Speaker 3: Everybody says, yeah, I want everything for nothing, And there
Speaker 3: you go.
Speaker 2: So the summarize were doomed. I'm moving along, aren't you
Speaker 2: glad you tuned in?
Speaker 4: Oh boy?
Speaker 2: But everybody should me and everyone we should realize we're
Speaker 2: not retiring today what the stock market does today unless
Speaker 2: you are retiring today somebody listening somewhere.
Speaker 3: And so then I hope you would have restructured your
Speaker 3: your investments.
Speaker 2: If somebody somewhere on our seventy stations listening is retiring
Speaker 2: today or yesterday, he retired yesterday, I understand while you're upset.
Speaker 1: Sorry, sorry, Jack Armstrong and Joe The Armstrong and Getty Show,
Speaker 1: arm Strong and Geeddy Show.
Speaker 3: So, speaking of generations, I thought this was both amusing
Speaker 3: and slightly annoying. But it's an article about how evidently
Speaker 3: some demographer social researcher by the name of Mark mccrindall
Speaker 3: has been come the go to guy for naming generations.
Speaker 2: Never heard of this guy, And the just of the
Speaker 2: article is.
Speaker 3: That he believes the whole like coming up with a
Speaker 3: groovy name for the generation and seeing if it catches
Speaker 3: on is kind of dumb.
Speaker 2: Well, I gotta believe that he or whoever was in charge.
Speaker 2: They came up with gen X way back in the day.
Speaker 2: I mean, this was the eighties when they started talking gen.
Speaker 3: X and far the coolest generation name, by the way,
Speaker 3: not just because of my year of birth. And then
Speaker 3: at the meeting where they came up with jen Y,
Speaker 3: somebody should have raised their hand and say, hey, I
Speaker 3: see like a problem coming down the road we might
Speaker 3: want to get ahead of with this whole lettering thing.
Speaker 2: We're running out of letters in the alphant What are
Speaker 2: we gonna do?
Speaker 3: Well, you got this silent generation, who weren't silent at
Speaker 3: all at the old hodown. And then you got the
Speaker 3: greatest generation, a fine generation, thanks for winning World War Two.
Speaker 4: But you know there's some good spot.
Speaker 3: Then you at the baby boomers. So there are a
Speaker 3: bunch of babies that once and now I'm a boomer,
Speaker 3: the most selfish generation that had ruined everything. Oh there's
Speaker 3: that is fair criticism hippies and yeah, damn hippies. And
Speaker 3: then then you got Generation X, again by far the
Speaker 3: coolest name. They go through a couple more letters, and
Speaker 3: then they, having run out of letters, they go with millennials,
Speaker 3: and then then.
Speaker 4: What's the next one?
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter anyway, So this guy says, all right,
Speaker 3: we got to quit screwing around.
Speaker 4: We'll just use Greek letters.
Speaker 3: Okay, so generation alpha just happened a while back, but
Speaker 3: now it's generation beta.
Speaker 2: When did alpha thing? Because I never even heard generation alpha?
Speaker 3: I know, I know, but apparently those who talk about
Speaker 3: this crap have. But anyway, the point is now it's
Speaker 3: generation beta. And of course beta is an insult in
Speaker 3: the modern world, right it means, for instance, a weak
Speaker 3: and passive man or something. And so there are parents
Speaker 3: evidently who are offended now their children are being Can
Speaker 3: we stop naming generations completely?
Speaker 2: What is a generation?
Speaker 4: Even?
Speaker 3: I mean Generation X fans for like twenty three years
Speaker 3: or something.
Speaker 2: This is crazy. Well, there's a number of problems with
Speaker 2: it that are fairly obvious. But at least back.
Speaker 3: In the day, you know how much changed between you know,
Speaker 3: this decade and that decade.
Speaker 2: Not a ton, whereas now, holy crap, if you're growing
Speaker 2: up in the smartphone world, it's completely different than the
Speaker 2: pre smartphone world.
Speaker 3: It just is, right, So let's go with more descriptive
Speaker 3: names like the smartphonies or or all digital weirdos or
Speaker 3: I don't yeah, I'm just spitballing here. Uh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: The change has been so massive so quickly, you might
Speaker 3: have to go like every five and a half years, right,
Speaker 3: have a new quote unquote generation if because you know,
Speaker 3: mostly I think it's useless. But if I'm a boss
Speaker 3: and you can say, all right, this next person we've
Speaker 3: known or we've hired is a beta zoomer, and you
Speaker 3: look it up and you see, oh, beta zoomers are
Speaker 3: extremely insecure and need to be coddled like little kittens.
Speaker 3: On the other hand, they're rebellious and blah blah. It
Speaker 3: might be a tool to help you deal with them.
Speaker 2: Right, It seems like giant world changing events would be
Speaker 2: better than just picking years like every so many years.
Speaker 2: Like I mentioned, smartphones, COVID would be a good marker
Speaker 2: if you were, you know, in if you're in grade
Speaker 2: school during COVID, you I know, teachers say those are
Speaker 2: different kinds of kids. How did jen X get its name?
Speaker 4: Fat?
Speaker 3: I mean, what a what does that even mean? How
Speaker 3: about Watergate and Vietnam made us very cynical? Plus half
Speaker 3: of our parents got divorced. I mean it's kind of long,
Speaker 3: but yeah, the latch Key generation anyway, Yeah, don't call
Speaker 3: them Generation Beta.
Speaker 2: It's hurtful, so so dumb.
Speaker 3: Did you know that seventy percent of TikTok's revenue comes
Speaker 3: from live streaming gifts. When people are doing live streamy stuff,
Speaker 3: you gifts or gifts gifts like presents. Yes, you can
Speaker 3: give people these little things that are called what are
Speaker 3: they called, their like little tokens.
Speaker 4: That they can redeem into real money.
Speaker 3: It's huge into sex live streaming. We need someone younger
Speaker 3: than us, Katie. Well, I'm trying to explain it to you,
Speaker 3: you old man. I need somebody who's done it.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it's you.
Speaker 5: Just go on and they have different dollar amounts so
Speaker 5: you can send from fifty cents up to one thousand dollars,
Speaker 5: I think.
Speaker 3: To tip them digitally exactly. That was a digital tipsy.
Speaker 3: Why did this catch on? Is it just easier or
Speaker 3: more fun or well as opposed to and mowing them
Speaker 3: or sending them a car. Oh, it's immeasurably easier. You
Speaker 3: have an account, you click click, they get a dollar
Speaker 3: of your money and then they can show you their
Speaker 3: blankety blank or whatever. And TikTok allegedly has filters for this,
Speaker 3: but they're super easy to get around. You use just
Speaker 3: use slang terms, including local slang terms. Because it's a
Speaker 3: global app. And so there's an enormous child porn market
Speaker 3: on TikTok. These underage girls from all over the world,
Speaker 3: who will you know, perform various acts or show off
Speaker 3: or whatever, and and TikTok gets a cut of that. Well,
Speaker 3: first of all, I'll show you whatever part you want
Speaker 3: to see for a five spot.
Speaker 2: If there's any demand, give you a ten not to
Speaker 2: That's what I'll do.
Speaker 3: I'll start a bidding war, and that's will I'll make
Speaker 3: my money and they please don't.
Speaker 2: Well went out, but I'll be the benefit. It's not temptation,
Speaker 2: it's extortion. I'll it's Runny's threat.
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