1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:06,320 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:10,920 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong 3 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: and Katty and he Armstrong and Natty. 4 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 2: UNC football coach Bill Belichick last night made his college debut, 5 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 2: and only six years after his girlfriend made her college debut. 6 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 3: Bill Belichick embarrassingly lost his first Tar Heels game as 7 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:42,840 Speaker 3: head coach forty eight to fourteen. The only thing worse 8 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 3: would have been at the score was seventy three to 9 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:46,200 Speaker 3: twenty four. 10 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:50,960 Speaker 4: That's pretty good jokes. Yeah, that is a good joke, 11 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:55,319 Speaker 4: is it. So we've talked about this many times over 12 00:00:55,360 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 4: the past. A lot of humor is to indicate to 13 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 4: others the guardrails we have in society. 14 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 2: Yeah. 15 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 5: In fact, there's that ang T shirt which I have 16 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:11,040 Speaker 5: and I wear. It's the Latin phrase, which I can remember. 17 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:15,839 Speaker 5: It translates as mockery teaches mortals, right, So that's what's 18 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:19,360 Speaker 5: going on there. All the jokes and they're endless everywhere 19 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:23,959 Speaker 5: about this is to indicate to others and ourselves that 20 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 5: we don't think this is really the best way for 21 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 5: society to have dudes hooking up with girls. 22 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 1: Fifty years younger. Than them fifty. 23 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 2: Five zero booty for riches, a pretty face for riches. Yeah, 24 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:44,760 Speaker 2: we don't know that's what's going on there, but no, 25 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 2: but that's where the mockery comes from. 26 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:47,280 Speaker 1: Yeah. 27 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, anyway, coming to I was just glancing up at 28 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 4: the television where they're showing that Chinese parade, which is 29 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 4: absolutely horrifying, absolutely freaking horrifying. 30 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:00,080 Speaker 1: But that's not what I was going to te. 31 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 4: Last week or I guess before you went to England, 32 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 4: we were talking about how England has gone off the 33 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 4: rails in terms of free speech. They just went even 34 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 4: further off the rails in the last forty eight hours 35 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 4: arresting a guy for a couple of tweets and it's amazing, 36 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:17,919 Speaker 4: So stay tuned for that story. 37 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 5: Yeah, I decided against intentionally violating their laws and getting arrested. 38 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 5: I thought, you know, let me get through one visit. 39 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:28,359 Speaker 5: I'll go back and do that, but I think it'd 40 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:31,080 Speaker 5: be an interesting experience. I still would like to do it, 41 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 5: which I realized is a nod thing to say and 42 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 5: shows premeditation, which will probably get me an. 43 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:38,679 Speaker 1: Extra day in the brig or the Gulag or the 44 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 1: Limey or. 45 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 5: The cracky or whatever the hell the jail over there anyway, 46 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:45,680 Speaker 5: total change of topic. 47 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 1: There are times I feel like I'm rereading The. 48 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:52,519 Speaker 5: Great Gatsby or there's another classic Hemingway book or something 49 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:56,519 Speaker 5: like that that I remember that The Lover. There was 50 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:57,959 Speaker 5: a couple that was kind of at the center of 51 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 5: the novel, and the woman was, you know, beautiful and clever, 52 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 5: but utterly irresponsible in spending them into oblivion and stuff 53 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:08,400 Speaker 5: like that, and the guy would object to it, and 54 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:12,240 Speaker 5: she'd say, oh, darling, you so tiresome. You know that 55 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 5: that sort of dynamic. And I feel a little bit 56 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:19,400 Speaker 5: like the Western world is that. 57 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:22,359 Speaker 1: Woman, Darling. 58 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:26,359 Speaker 5: We're spending ourselves into oblivion that we'll never recover from. 59 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:29,639 Speaker 1: Oh, don't be so tiresome. 60 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 5: And there are some real signs of it. The bond market. 61 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 5: Nobody cares about the bond market. I'll keep this brief. 62 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 5: The bond market collectively around the world said, hey, all 63 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 5: you Western governments, your debt it's starting to look less attractive. 64 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 1: You're gonna have to pay us more interest to. 65 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 5: Have us lend you any money, Okay, in a pretty 66 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 5: significant way. 67 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: Eh one day we'll see. 68 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:59,119 Speaker 5: American companies once again beating profit expectations. Way to go, 69 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 5: America go. But it's not because of consumer spending and sales. 70 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 5: It's because of massive cost cuts, massive layoffs, turning to 71 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 5: new technologies. 72 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 1: The bottom line is better. 73 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 5: But company after companies as we're holding down hiring and 74 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:23,279 Speaker 5: finding ways to get employees to work more efficiently. Oh, 75 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:30,040 Speaker 5: which reminds me, where is that The Wall Street Journal 76 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:30,920 Speaker 5: had a piece? 77 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 1: Oh? Here it is. 78 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 5: Your boss doesn't have time to talk to you. Amazon 79 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 5: wants bigger teams. Bank of America is flattening, Corporate America 80 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:43,120 Speaker 5: is shedding managers, and the workplace is changing radically. And 81 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 5: here it is. According to this data research and advisory firm. 82 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 1: There was. 83 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 5: There was one manager for every five employees in twenty seventeen. 84 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 5: Looking at big corporations in America, it was a one 85 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 5: to five manager to team members in twenty seventeen. 86 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 4: It seems like too many managers, doesn't it. Well it 87 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 4: could well have been absolutely Yeah. These things move in cycles. 88 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:12,160 Speaker 4: It's like, you know, the Grand theory of democracy. I'm 89 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:14,680 Speaker 4: always spouting that we veer all the way to the 90 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 4: right guardrail, figure, Oh this is too far right, so 91 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:20,159 Speaker 4: we go way to the left and then smash into 92 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 4: the left guardrail and are way way too far left, 93 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:24,720 Speaker 4: and we passed the sweet spot in the middle, and 94 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:28,359 Speaker 4: never have any idea anyway. But that one to five 95 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 4: has increased to one to fifteen. 96 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:35,479 Speaker 1: Wow in the intervening eight years. Wow. That's quite a change. 97 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 5: It appears to be growing further today, according to this 98 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:44,800 Speaker 5: management corporation. Google recently said it cut thirty five percent 99 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:48,279 Speaker 5: of its managers of small teams following the restructure Amazon 100 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:52,279 Speaker 5: as we pronounce it in Britain, one of the US's 101 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:55,039 Speaker 5: largest employers, told investors earlier this week it was working 102 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:57,920 Speaker 5: to increase the ratio of employees to managers. Many other 103 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:01,559 Speaker 5: companies want to flatten hierarchies as well, Intel, Stay Lauder, 104 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 5: Match Group, City, Bank of America, you had. 105 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:05,240 Speaker 1: Personal Service and others. 106 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 5: Blah blah blah. 107 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:07,480 Speaker 1: So that's a trend. 108 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:11,960 Speaker 5: Back to what I was going to talk about there, 109 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 5: It is these retailers are selling cameras that are spying 110 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:21,600 Speaker 5: for the Chinese Communists. As impressive as that military parade was, 111 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:26,920 Speaker 5: I think more impressive is the rest of China's effort 112 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 5: to subvert and supplant us all the ways they're effing 113 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 5: with us. Pardon my French, We're British, including stuff that 114 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:41,960 Speaker 5: we have no clue about. I think most of us, 115 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:45,480 Speaker 5: I still say. China decides one day to flip the 116 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 5: switch and cell phone service disappears, our banks shut down, 117 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:54,080 Speaker 5: the lights go out, maybe the water stop stops flowing. 118 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 5: Who knows there's a drone attack on like fifteen different 119 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:02,760 Speaker 5: military basis. Yeah, from when that they purchased nearby and 120 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:03,839 Speaker 5: nobody cared. 121 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:07,680 Speaker 1: Right right, yeah, yeah, Oh hey, it's the free market. 122 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 1: You know, what are you gonna do? 123 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:12,160 Speaker 5: Ah, Not to be too big a downer, but if 124 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 5: you're not familiar with Chinese whole of society, thou to 125 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 5: achieve their rightful place on earth, which includes stepping on 126 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:27,000 Speaker 5: our heads every sink, from bankers to plumbers, to school 127 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 5: teachers to filmmakers, every single Chinese person is required by 128 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 5: law to aid the effort to become the greatest country 129 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:40,920 Speaker 5: China can be. And again, a lot of that has 130 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:43,840 Speaker 5: to do with stepping on our heads anyway. So independent 131 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:49,360 Speaker 5: analysis have concluded that cameras manufactured by the Dahua company 132 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:53,920 Speaker 5: have severe security lapses that enable hackers, including Chinese commies, 133 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:56,960 Speaker 5: to access video and audio feeds. Findings that have spurred 134 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 5: bands in several other countries. Let's see who has also 135 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 5: allegedly provided goods at the Chinese government service of its 136 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:10,040 Speaker 5: weaker genocide and among other sins but anyway. Washington Examiner 137 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 5: reviewed review identified listenings for Lorex branded cameras that are 138 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 5: made by these Chinese people on online storefronts managed. 139 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 1: By Amazon or I'm sorry, Amazon. 140 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 5: Best Buy, Costco, Cole's Office, Depot, Home Depot, Wayfair, New Egg, 141 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:32,200 Speaker 5: and Target. In other words, everybody selling Chinese spying tools. 142 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 1: Chijin Ping has just got to laugh himself to sleep 143 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 1: every night. Does he die at some point? 144 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 5: He's kind of a fat old guy. Yeah, you'd think 145 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:45,600 Speaker 5: Putin's not fat, but he's old. Why did dictators live 146 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 5: so long? It must be good for him anyway. A 147 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:51,400 Speaker 5: final note out of Consumer News. Are you a tennis fan? 148 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:53,599 Speaker 5: I'm not really, but I noticed the US Open is 149 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:53,959 Speaker 5: going on. 150 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:55,079 Speaker 1: I'm kind of following it. 151 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 4: Yeah, because Venus is still in it for a Blushing 152 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:02,720 Speaker 4: Meadows or forty five. She's aged forty five. She's playing 153 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 4: doubles with this girl who's twenty two, less than half 154 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 4: her age of a bellowchick like relationship, and they've upset 155 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 4: a couple of people and made it into the semifinals. 156 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:15,200 Speaker 1: Good for her. 157 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:18,719 Speaker 5: I love rooting for the oldsters anyway. So if you 158 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:20,959 Speaker 5: go to the US Open, and why wouldn't you, and 159 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 5: you get a bit packish, as we say in Great Britain. 160 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 5: Here among your venu selections, caviar topped chicken nuggets for 161 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:33,320 Speaker 5: one hundred dollars caviar. 162 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 1: I wish I was kidding. I'm not chicken nuggets. Yes, 163 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:37,560 Speaker 1: one hundred dollars. Boy. 164 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 4: I try to stay away from chicken nuggets, and I 165 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:41,640 Speaker 4: don't like caviar, so that's not a lot to like 166 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:41,959 Speaker 4: for me. 167 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:47,080 Speaker 5: There there's a drink cleverly named the Watermelon Slice, which 168 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:51,599 Speaker 5: includes a watermelon slice. It's thirty nine dollars. Wow, a 169 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:55,280 Speaker 5: forty dollars drink. You're sitting there in the sun, it's 170 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:57,280 Speaker 5: a little hot. You're thinking, you know, a little fro 171 00:09:57,480 --> 00:09:59,960 Speaker 5: yo is exactly what I need. Hey, honey, you get 172 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 5: me a fro yo. You want the larger, the small, 173 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:06,439 Speaker 5: the Small's fine. Let's be thrifty nineteen dollars for the 174 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:08,680 Speaker 5: small frozen yogurt. 175 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:10,360 Speaker 4: I don't know if I can get past that forty 176 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:13,000 Speaker 4: dollars drink. I've never had one drink in my life, 177 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:16,839 Speaker 4: so I'm gonna have two eighty bucks. I want to 178 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:23,199 Speaker 4: forget all of my problems for at least three days. 179 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 5: By the way, the nineteen dollars for the small cup 180 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:29,040 Speaker 5: of frozen yogurt, it's actually a couple of dollars more 181 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:30,400 Speaker 5: than New York's minimum wage. 182 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:34,319 Speaker 1: So anyway, I don't know what that means. This well, 183 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 1: I'll skip to the end. At the end. 184 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 5: The US Open signature drink, the Honey Deuce, made of 185 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:45,920 Speaker 5: vodka raspberry liqueur and topped and lemonade, topped with a 186 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:50,880 Speaker 5: skewer of honeydew melon balls. That's twenty three dollars a pop, 187 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:56,000 Speaker 5: and they sold thirteen million dollars worth of them last year. 188 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:01,439 Speaker 5: WHOA Now this writer trying to make some sort of 189 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:07,240 Speaker 5: you know, Hunger Games capital. The Romanovs partying is the 190 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:12,200 Speaker 5: surf starve in Russia unit. You got some damn much money. 191 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 5: You want one hundred dollars cavard top chicken nuggets. 192 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:16,120 Speaker 1: I say, go for it. 193 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:19,840 Speaker 5: Try It's no skin off my note, right, But they 194 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:22,280 Speaker 5: point out that the amount of money spent on the 195 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:26,480 Speaker 5: honeydewce dring slash year could have bought eight hundred years 196 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:28,280 Speaker 5: of groceries for a family of four. 197 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 1: Oh and if you're just thirsty and want a bottle 198 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:35,600 Speaker 1: of water, nine dollars nine dollars for. 199 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:37,960 Speaker 4: The bottle of water you can get for forty cents 200 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 4: at Costco nine dollars. 201 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 1: Yeah. 202 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 4: Wow, I've got the most interesting Epstein news you've heard 203 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:48,160 Speaker 4: in quite some time. 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I promise 230 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:07,920 Speaker 1: this will be short. 231 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:09,760 Speaker 4: I refuse to be drug into a conversation on the 232 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:11,440 Speaker 4: list Joe decides to go off on it. I will 233 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:13,199 Speaker 4: not say another word other than this. This is what 234 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 4: Mark Alpern wrote in his newsletter today about Congress coming 235 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:20,719 Speaker 4: back and starting up with the Epstein talk again. There 236 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:28,120 Speaker 4: remains not one public, credible evidence backed specific allegation against 237 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:32,599 Speaker 4: anyone besides Epstein and Maxwell as it pertains to a 238 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:34,160 Speaker 4: child sex trafficking ring. 239 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:38,680 Speaker 1: None the end, as far as I'm concerned. 240 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:42,959 Speaker 4: Okay, if this were a different era, we would have 241 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:48,719 Speaker 4: come back with the Google Google Dolls song iris. We 242 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 4: can't play songs anymore because of copyright thingies. But anyway, 243 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:56,679 Speaker 4: that song was according to the Wall Street Journal, And 244 00:13:56,960 --> 00:13:58,920 Speaker 4: you've heard the song, even if you don't think you've 245 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:01,440 Speaker 4: heard no the song, know the song because you can't. 246 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 4: I couldn't escape it for a while. You can't escape 247 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:07,640 Speaker 4: it now. That song was the number one streamed song 248 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:10,840 Speaker 4: of the summer. It's from nineteen ninety two or whatever, 249 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 4: is forty some years old. Oh this summer, this summer. 250 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:16,960 Speaker 1: Yes, so it was in some. 251 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 4: Netflix show, and for whatever reason, everybody who is like 252 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:22,960 Speaker 4: the nineties was their heyday was like, oh yeah, I 253 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:25,600 Speaker 4: love the Googoo Dolls and started streaming that song again. 254 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:27,600 Speaker 4: And then it caught on as a big karaoke thing, 255 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:32,560 Speaker 4: and so it was the number one stream song in 256 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:34,480 Speaker 4: the summer, and the Googoo Dolls just happened to be 257 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:36,640 Speaker 4: out touring, you know, like you do if you're a 258 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:39,360 Speaker 4: band forty years later and now you're old men and 259 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:41,040 Speaker 4: you think, hey, that'd be kind of fun. Maybe we'd 260 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 4: make a couple of dollars playing at the county Fair. 261 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:46,160 Speaker 4: They're bigger than they've ever been. They're bigger than they 262 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:48,720 Speaker 4: were in the nineties, and the lead singers, I ammed, 263 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:51,360 Speaker 4: we don't know, this is so crazy. We go around 264 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 4: and we play absolutely packed houses. We can't sell enough 265 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:56,800 Speaker 4: T shirts. We never thought this would happen. I just 266 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 4: thought that was kind of funny. 267 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 5: Well not to e Quipple, but what I'm say backing 268 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:03,720 Speaker 5: this through it was thirty years ago, and change if 269 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:05,880 Speaker 5: it was ninety two, but no, because I'm thinking through 270 00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:10,200 Speaker 5: the cycle of you're hot, then you're not hot, then 271 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:12,960 Speaker 5: you're old, then you're Oh, I. 272 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 1: Love those guys again. 273 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:19,239 Speaker 5: But you've got to wander through the desert of irrelevant 274 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:21,480 Speaker 5: and kind of embarrassing. 275 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:25,840 Speaker 1: For fewer years than I think you used to. And 276 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:26,240 Speaker 1: I was. 277 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 4: I was listening to it. So I read this and 278 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:29,960 Speaker 4: then I dialed it up and I was listening to it. 279 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:32,760 Speaker 4: And it's got the whole, you know, that whole period 280 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:35,720 Speaker 4: of ninety songs where they were all that you bleed 281 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 4: just to know you're alive, just all that angst that 282 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:45,080 Speaker 4: that all those songs from that era had that inward. 283 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:48,160 Speaker 1: My life sucks. It's so tough to be a live thing. 284 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 1: And I'm super emotive. Yeah, that kind of previewed where 285 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 1: we were going. I feel like as a nation, for 286 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 1: better or worse. 287 00:15:56,880 --> 00:15:59,520 Speaker 4: But that's gotta be something when you think you're doing 288 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:04,680 Speaker 4: your kind of embarrassing has been County Fair tour part 289 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:07,120 Speaker 4: of your life and you end up being bigger than 290 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:09,440 Speaker 4: you were back when you were young and attractive. 291 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:12,000 Speaker 1: That's not you take. 292 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:14,640 Speaker 4: Good for them, Yeah, exactly good for them. You take 293 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:17,600 Speaker 4: the break, says they come. I was talking to how 294 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:20,880 Speaker 4: much time by Michael? Okay, two minutes, I'll start it. 295 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:22,680 Speaker 4: Maybe we'll talk about it more later. I was talking 296 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:25,240 Speaker 4: to my niece, saw her Walter in Kansas for my 297 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:27,040 Speaker 4: dad's birthday and all that sort of stuff. She was 298 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:30,200 Speaker 4: in Australia all summer interning for a doctor. There's part 299 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:34,040 Speaker 4: of her university education and become a doctor. She was 300 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:38,920 Speaker 4: talking about how Sydney was so clean, no homeless people, 301 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:42,920 Speaker 4: no trash, nobody talked about crime or anything like that, 302 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:49,120 Speaker 4: and it got me starting started on the topic I 303 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:51,880 Speaker 4: think about a lot is just culture. The culture we 304 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:54,640 Speaker 4: have in the United States, the permissive culture we've let 305 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 4: toward cultural decay, the cultural decay that we've allowed in 306 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:00,760 Speaker 4: this country over many many dedays, and whether or not 307 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 4: we can turn it around. 308 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:05,159 Speaker 1: And Australia is. 309 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 4: What we were like in the forties, fifties or just 310 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:13,919 Speaker 4: the culture was clean, neat, orderly. We don't put up 311 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:17,879 Speaker 4: with crime or trash and we let that go away. 312 00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:21,080 Speaker 4: And you know, you don't have to do that. It's 313 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:26,680 Speaker 4: not just inevitable that that happens, right, right, Yeah, it's 314 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:29,800 Speaker 4: all a question of balance though. No, no, because I'm 315 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:31,960 Speaker 4: thinking of an example. I don't have time for this 316 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:34,200 Speaker 4: whole story. I shouldn't have launched you don't. I shouldn't 317 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:35,760 Speaker 4: have launched into this. I'll have to get into it later, 318 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:40,119 Speaker 4: because I think it's a very important discussion about the 319 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:43,879 Speaker 4: culture of just allowing nonsense to occur. 320 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:45,879 Speaker 1: You don't have to have that. 321 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 4: It's not the laws, it's the culture that doesn't get 322 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 4: enough attention. 323 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:53,639 Speaker 5: Being tolerant to the point of, well, we have to 324 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:56,800 Speaker 5: put up with anything, no matter how horrifying, because we're 325 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:59,359 Speaker 5: not allowed to say we don't like anything. I mean, 326 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:02,359 Speaker 5: it's just kosis. It's terrible to that. But you're right, 327 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:03,440 Speaker 5: that is an important discussion. 328 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 4: You to that point, Trump sending the National Guard or 329 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:08,960 Speaker 4: talking about sending in the National Guard into Chicago to 330 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:09,720 Speaker 4: deal with the crime. 331 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:12,439 Speaker 1: Is it legal? Is it constitutional? Is it allowed? All right? 332 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:15,000 Speaker 5: Those are really good questions. Here's something nobody's talking about. 333 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:16,080 Speaker 1: It's working. 334 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:20,320 Speaker 5: It's working unbelievably well, arm strong and getty. 335 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 6: When you crunch the numbers here that fifty people were 336 00:18:26,119 --> 00:18:29,240 Speaker 6: shot at last check, eight of them fatally. We're told 337 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:31,800 Speaker 6: those numbers could likely go up later this morning, after 338 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:35,399 Speaker 6: the full weekend count. Numbers like that only bolster the 339 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:39,600 Speaker 6: White House's message that true presence is needed in Chicago. 340 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:42,640 Speaker 7: I think it does, and I think what the President 341 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:45,879 Speaker 7: can point to is the reduction in crime in Washington, 342 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:46,159 Speaker 7: d C. 343 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:49,040 Speaker 1: Since he federalized DC's police. 344 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:53,679 Speaker 7: Since he deployed National Guard on the streets, assaults are 345 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:57,199 Speaker 7: down compared to a similar period last year. Assaults were 346 00:18:57,320 --> 00:18:59,959 Speaker 7: down from fifty three to forty three. Burglaries were down 347 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:04,159 Speaker 7: from seventy seven to forty. Violent crimes were down by 348 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:08,880 Speaker 7: about half. Homicides were down by more than half. Combined 349 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:12,320 Speaker 7: violent crime incidents in twenty twenty four during that same period, 350 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 7: we're one hundred and eighty incidents. During the time that 351 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:18,399 Speaker 7: the Trump had National Guard on the streets, during the 352 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:21,240 Speaker 7: time he had federalized federal police, crime went down to 353 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:24,120 Speaker 7: ninety two incidents, so we're seeing a big reduction crime. 354 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 1: So there you go. That's from News Nation, that's not Fox. 355 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:30,680 Speaker 4: Just going through the crime statistics of how much it 356 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:32,439 Speaker 4: changed with the National Guard troops there. 357 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:34,239 Speaker 1: And I was listening to Morning Joe This Morning Joe 358 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:35,800 Speaker 1: Scarborough saying. 359 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:39,320 Speaker 4: Yeah, I know that people are on social media talking 360 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:42,760 Speaker 4: about the dictator takeover and how awful this is and 361 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 4: their protests. He said, but everybody, I know, when we 362 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:48,200 Speaker 4: get onto a train and we see National Guarden troops, 363 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:49,840 Speaker 4: we get on the subway, we think cool. 364 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:53,600 Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, it's funny. 365 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 5: You should point out that was News Nation and not 366 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:59,280 Speaker 5: you know, avowedly conservative outlet, none other than Murial Bowser, 367 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 5: the insufferable mayor of DC is saying, hey, this is 368 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:08,200 Speaker 5: like really really working well and the way I was 369 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:11,840 Speaker 5: thinking of presenting this information originally, and we've kind of 370 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:14,960 Speaker 5: already done it. But is that the question of Trump 371 00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:20,880 Speaker 5: deploying like the National Guard to Chicago and whether that's legal, constitutional, etc. 372 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:24,119 Speaker 5: I mean, you have the Posse Comatatis Act of eighteen 373 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:27,320 Speaker 5: seventy eight, maybe you know it. Essentially the US military 374 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:30,000 Speaker 5: can't be used to execute domestic law it's not what 375 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:32,920 Speaker 5: they're there for. We don't want that, and we don't 376 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 5: want that. And it's a worthy question and a good 377 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:39,600 Speaker 5: one and an interesting one, and we will work our 378 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:40,080 Speaker 5: way through it. 379 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 1: With the help of some very very helpful judges, I'm sure. 380 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:49,440 Speaker 5: But that's a distraction from like the question that affects 381 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 5: actual human beings and their lives, and that question is 382 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:57,680 Speaker 5: why is it so miserable in America's blue cities and 383 00:20:57,760 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 5: can anything be. 384 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:02,520 Speaker 1: Done about it? Answer is yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. 385 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 7: It can be. 386 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:06,200 Speaker 4: That's what even Scarborough was saying on MSNBC, and I 387 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:09,000 Speaker 4: mentioned him because he's they're such an important voice for 388 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:10,960 Speaker 4: the left that MSNBC show. 389 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:14,639 Speaker 1: Scarborough even saying, you standing up there saying we. 390 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:17,919 Speaker 4: Don't want your troops in our city while the headline 391 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:22,600 Speaker 4: over your head is fifty some shot, eight dead, is 392 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:23,679 Speaker 4: not working. 393 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:26,359 Speaker 1: That's not the way normal people react. 394 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,880 Speaker 4: Normal people react to holy crap, fifty some people were 395 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:31,280 Speaker 4: shot in one weekend. 396 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:36,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, something needs to be done, of course, says I 397 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:37,840 Speaker 1: was ranting about yesterday. 398 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:41,480 Speaker 5: It takes an Ivory Tower type or a media type 399 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:44,600 Speaker 5: to look at the numbers and not say, my god, 400 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:46,440 Speaker 5: this is horrible and I don't want to live like this. 401 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:50,000 Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, if I got stabbed five times yesterday 402 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:53,359 Speaker 5: and today I got stabbed four times, that's a twenty 403 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:54,840 Speaker 5: percent decrease. 404 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:57,200 Speaker 1: In the stabbings. I don't want to get stabbed anymore. 405 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:01,080 Speaker 1: I don't think it's a difficult point to make. 406 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:04,240 Speaker 4: So the One Street Journal seems to think there will 407 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:07,359 Speaker 4: never be a National Guard troop in Chicago, but Trump 408 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:09,800 Speaker 4: will get the full political win out of it anyway. 409 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:13,720 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And there's there's Trump again, and there's 410 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:17,040 Speaker 5: politics again. Although politics is like everything we govern ourselves 411 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:22,080 Speaker 5: and Trump is almost a distraction here. Uh. And I 412 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:26,080 Speaker 5: was gonna get to this point ultimately, But it's about policy. 413 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:32,240 Speaker 5: It's about Yes, we can make our world better closer 414 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:33,399 Speaker 5: to home the more you know. 415 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:34,200 Speaker 1: True, that is. 416 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:40,399 Speaker 5: But no, crime and filth and junkies and misery and 417 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 5: fear are absolutely not inevitable. 418 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:47,720 Speaker 1: They're the opposite. Well, they're evitable. Uh, they can absolutely 419 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 1: be affected. 420 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:52,040 Speaker 5: A couple more things very quickly on the mur Muriel 421 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:54,480 Speaker 5: browser thing, Bowser thing, and and at some point Michael 422 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:56,960 Speaker 5: reminded me, I really want to take just a few 423 00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:01,840 Speaker 5: minutes to make the case of how stupid Brandon Johnson 424 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:03,480 Speaker 5: is the mayor of Chicago. 425 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:13,080 Speaker 1: He is a stupid, awful, stupid man. Two stupids. Yes, anyway, 426 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:14,240 Speaker 1: excuse me. 427 00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:17,600 Speaker 5: A DC mayor Muriel Bowser just issued in an executive 428 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:21,360 Speaker 5: order that requires local coordination with federal law enforcement quote 429 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:24,760 Speaker 5: to the maximum extent allow by law within the district, 430 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 5: no expiration date. That's the deep blue Mayor of DC 431 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:32,040 Speaker 5: is like, this is the best thing that's ever happened. 432 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 5: All law enforcement cooperate with these people all the time, please, 433 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:39,879 Speaker 5: starting now forever. Bowser issued in an executive order that 434 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:42,480 Speaker 5: requires local coordination with federal law enforcement. 435 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:45,240 Speaker 1: Oh I already read that it's a repeat by law. 436 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:48,600 Speaker 5: Trump's federalization of the DC Police Force lasts thirty days 437 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:52,120 Speaker 5: and is except to expire next week. Bowser's announcement may 438 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:56,960 Speaker 5: well any showdown over what happens after. By authorizing continued 439 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:00,320 Speaker 5: coordination between the city and federal authorities, I have to 440 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:02,280 Speaker 5: be like just so. 441 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 4: Drenched in the brainwashing of Trump derangement syndrome to get 442 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 4: on to walk around the corner in urban DC and 443 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:16,560 Speaker 4: see a National guardsman and your first thought be, oh 444 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:19,440 Speaker 4: my god, it's fascism as opposed to cool I'm not 445 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:20,080 Speaker 4: gonna get. 446 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:22,320 Speaker 1: Robbed here, right exactly. 447 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:24,879 Speaker 5: Now, DC is a special case if you're not hip 448 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:29,600 Speaker 5: to this, because it's a essentially the responsibility of federal government, 449 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:35,160 Speaker 5: and the federal government. Congress can can grant DC autonomy 450 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:38,359 Speaker 5: in certain ways. It's like, you know, you let your 451 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,720 Speaker 5: kid plan dinner or whatever. But if your kid's the 452 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:45,840 Speaker 5: dinner plan is ball bearings and malt liquor, well. 453 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:49,640 Speaker 8: You're going to get a good meal, not at all, 454 00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 8: not neither savory nor nutritious, a little hard to digest 455 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:56,480 Speaker 8: a right, Michael, there are a hundred things wrong. 456 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:00,800 Speaker 5: But anyway, at that point you would say, uh, okay, no, 457 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:04,040 Speaker 5: now we're having meet and potatoes in avestable. And that's 458 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 5: the relationship with the federal government has with DC. If 459 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:08,840 Speaker 5: you're not familiar with this, Chicago's very different case. They 460 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:12,920 Speaker 5: don't have that relationship. But that's why I'm a little 461 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:16,800 Speaker 5: bit annoyed by the distraction of some of the you know, 462 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 5: the big politics of this, because again, in terms of 463 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:23,480 Speaker 5: how people actually live, the lesson the takeaway ought to be, yes, 464 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:26,760 Speaker 5: we can deal with this. The I think this is 465 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:28,920 Speaker 5: The editorial board of the journal points out this is 466 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:32,119 Speaker 5: a failure of democratic big city governance. Mister Trump is 467 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,639 Speaker 5: showing in DC that the streets can be made safer 468 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:38,560 Speaker 5: if political leaders have the will. The presidents deployed federal 469 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:42,639 Speaker 5: officers DC National Guard. Now carjackings are down eighty seven 470 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:44,120 Speaker 5: percent from. 471 00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:48,760 Speaker 1: A year ago. Now, Muriel Bowser, who initially was. 472 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:55,240 Speaker 5: Muling about federal overreach, blah blah blah, and she opposes 473 00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:58,160 Speaker 5: massed immigration agents, troops from other states, blah blah blah, 474 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:01,639 Speaker 5: but quote, we greatly appreciate the surge of officers. 475 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:04,919 Speaker 4: Well, did you see the quote from that federal judge 476 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 4: who said it was illegal the way Trump sent troops 477 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:15,800 Speaker 4: to LA He included in his declaration that it was illegal. 478 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:20,080 Speaker 4: Some line about clearly Trump is trying to establish a 479 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:23,560 Speaker 4: fascist national army today. Okay, as soon as you start 480 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,080 Speaker 4: with that talk, I know that you're an id log 481 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:30,440 Speaker 4: and you're not just looking at the law, right, I mean, 482 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:34,600 Speaker 4: and it's it's poisonous and frustrating as a you know, 483 00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:39,720 Speaker 4: normal citizen that people go to that crap as opposed 484 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:46,680 Speaker 4: to saying, wow, what Trump did really helped people have happier, 485 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 4: safer lives. 486 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:52,640 Speaker 5: There are limits to federal power. How can we get 487 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:55,920 Speaker 5: that result in maybe a little different way. No, the 488 00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:59,920 Speaker 5: judge goes to Isday's try and establish a fascist federal army. 489 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:01,359 Speaker 1: Oh my god. 490 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:07,879 Speaker 5: Jason Riley speaking of the Journal, brilliant writer. His headline 491 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:11,639 Speaker 5: today simple solution of violent crime, more cops. The connection 492 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:15,760 Speaker 5: between poverty and lawlessness is complicated, but Trump gets a 493 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,920 Speaker 5: basic point right, and he's for what it's worth a 494 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:20,680 Speaker 5: black man, I don't know. He's a thinker and that's 495 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:25,880 Speaker 5: all I care about. But he's talking about the utter, 496 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:33,000 Speaker 5: undeniable wrongness of the progressive view of policing and an 497 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:38,600 Speaker 5: incarceration and how clearly if there's an imbalance of black 498 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,120 Speaker 5: guys in prison, that proves racism and blah blah blah. 499 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:43,440 Speaker 1: And he quotes a book that I really have to 500 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:44,040 Speaker 1: get a hold of. 501 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 5: It'll join in one hundred other books in an honored 502 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:51,680 Speaker 5: stack of things I may never read. But it's from 503 00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:55,159 Speaker 5: a fellow by name of Rafael Manguel, who is a 504 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:57,560 Speaker 5: Manhattan Institute scholar, and he wrote this a couple of 505 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:01,560 Speaker 5: years ago. But it's criminal justice. What the push for 506 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:05,680 Speaker 5: decarceraization and deep policing gets wrong and who it hurts 507 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:09,680 Speaker 5: the most. And the book is all about empirical data 508 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:16,359 Speaker 5: on crime control strategies that the moron Brandon Johnson is 509 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:23,200 Speaker 5: staunchly against. He could not be more against traditional policing, incarceration, 510 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:25,919 Speaker 5: and the bizarre and racist notion that, look, we got 511 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:29,520 Speaker 5: laws and we got penalties for breaking the law. Now 512 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:33,760 Speaker 5: follow me here, if you break the law, you're going 513 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:38,440 Speaker 5: to get those penalties. Say, moron Brandon Johnson is against that. 514 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:41,120 Speaker 5: And he's not just an ideologue. There are plenty of 515 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,520 Speaker 5: very bright people who are ideologue and their ideology. 516 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 1: Makes them stupid. Brandon just came to the table stupid. 517 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:51,600 Speaker 5: But anyway, quoting from the book, the book cites empirical 518 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,719 Speaker 5: data on crime control strategies that mister Johnson dismisses as 519 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,360 Speaker 5: vouted as out of date. But Mangoil writes, quote, if 520 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:00,440 Speaker 5: I had to summarize one of the most concent and 521 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:04,640 Speaker 5: robust findings in the criminology of literature in a single sentence, 522 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:08,240 Speaker 5: it would be more policing means less crime. 523 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:10,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't doubt that. 524 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:14,040 Speaker 5: Academic paper a couple of years ago on policing Washington 525 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:16,840 Speaker 5: found the quote an increase in police presence of about 526 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:20,680 Speaker 5: fifty percent leads to a statistically an economically significant decrease 527 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:24,080 Speaker 5: in crime in the order of fifteen percent. Twenty sixteen 528 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:27,000 Speaker 5: study concluded that an increase in private police controls around 529 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:30,600 Speaker 5: the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia, quote decreased crime 530 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:33,680 Speaker 5: in adjacent city blocks by forty three to seventy three percent. 531 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:43,600 Speaker 5: And interestingly, Jason Riley makes the point that this disproportionately 532 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:45,280 Speaker 5: helps black people. 533 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:47,760 Speaker 1: Yeah. 534 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,960 Speaker 4: I don't doubt that, because if you live in a 535 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:55,280 Speaker 4: nice neighborhood, you already don't have crime, and more cops 536 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,280 Speaker 4: in the areas where they do have crime, isn't you're 537 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 4: paying for it, But it's not going to help you winning. 538 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:02,800 Speaker 5: Oh right, Yeah, And actually I want to hit some 539 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:04,959 Speaker 5: of those stats in a moment after a word from 540 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:06,480 Speaker 5: our friends at Prize Picks. 541 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:10,600 Speaker 1: The first oh, I know, I know. 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Remember the 574 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:49,800 Speaker 5: whole idiotic defund the police thing that caught fire there 575 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:52,640 Speaker 5: for a while, which is the dumbest slogan in the 576 00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:57,360 Speaker 5: history of everything. Why can't the argument be made better 577 00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:00,760 Speaker 5: that no, no, no, no, more cops in your neighborhood 578 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,040 Speaker 5: is disproportionately. 579 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,400 Speaker 1: Unfair to the taxpayer. I mean, this is one of 580 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:06,480 Speaker 1: those things you should like. 581 00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:10,120 Speaker 4: The people that don't have crime in their neighborhoods are 582 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:12,720 Speaker 4: paying for more cops in your neighborhood because you pay 583 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:13,400 Speaker 4: less taxes. 584 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 1: Right. 585 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:17,080 Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, in the racial part of this, which is 586 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:22,480 Speaker 5: so easy to demo demogogue, Look, black people disproportionately murder 587 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:26,360 Speaker 5: more than any other ethnic group, and they mostly murder 588 00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:27,520 Speaker 5: other black people. 589 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:31,800 Speaker 1: Uncomfortable with that ge, sorry, but that's the fact. 590 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:35,640 Speaker 5: And according to a twenty twenty analysis of the race 591 00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:39,080 Speaker 5: specific effects of larger police officers, there is now a 592 00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:42,440 Speaker 5: strong consensus in the academic literature that increasing the presence 593 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:46,280 Speaker 5: and visitibility cops reduces crime and moreover, the authors found 594 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,480 Speaker 5: that quote, though the total reduction in homicide is roughly 595 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:53,120 Speaker 5: equal across black and white victims, that a climate homicide 596 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:57,600 Speaker 5: is twice as large for black victims in per capita terms. 597 00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:59,880 Speaker 1: Sure, because there are fewer black folks. 598 00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:02,080 Speaker 5: So yeah, if you break it down by your rate 599 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:06,880 Speaker 5: or per capita, increasing policing is the best thing you 600 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,400 Speaker 5: could possibly do for black neighborhoods. 601 00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:12,200 Speaker 4: Any thoughts on any of that? Text line four one 602 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:14,560 Speaker 4: five two nine five kftc. 603 00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:24,520 Speaker 1: Armstrong Spirit Airlines. 604 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,920 Speaker 6: Just filed for bankruptcy for the second time in less 605 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:27,400 Speaker 6: than a year. 606 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:30,600 Speaker 1: It's not good right now. Their accountants are drunken than 607 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:35,719 Speaker 1: they're pilots. Yeah. Oh so uh. 608 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:37,760 Speaker 4: There's a lot of talk obviously about crime and how 609 00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:39,120 Speaker 4: you deal with it and everything like that in the 610 00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:41,480 Speaker 4: National Guards. And I didn't get to finish this thought 611 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:44,080 Speaker 4: last half hour, so I'm going to do it here. 612 00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:47,680 Speaker 1: The cultural part of it. 613 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,080 Speaker 4: May very well be the biggest part of it, and 614 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,920 Speaker 4: I don't know what you do about it after it 615 00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:59,480 Speaker 4: has slid. And I've thought about this my whole life, 616 00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:02,240 Speaker 4: or anyway, since I moved out of rural areas. 617 00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:03,440 Speaker 1: I grew up in rural America. 618 00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:07,400 Speaker 4: Nobody locked their doors, you left your keys in your car, 619 00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:08,920 Speaker 4: You didn't worry about it. 620 00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:10,560 Speaker 1: It wasn't a problem. You didn't have crime. 621 00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:13,399 Speaker 4: So then I start living in more urban areas where 622 00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:17,480 Speaker 4: people lock up stuff, and I always attributed it to 623 00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:22,960 Speaker 4: it being something to do with urbanization, when you get 624 00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:26,520 Speaker 4: people closer together and packed more tightly or whatever, and 625 00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:30,359 Speaker 4: so more anonymous. Certainly that plays a role. But then 626 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:34,279 Speaker 4: I remember hearing this the old Dennis Miller radio show. 627 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:35,880 Speaker 4: If you remember that from back in the day, he 628 00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:38,440 Speaker 4: had Red Buttons on, a comedian. Doesn't matter if you 629 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:40,400 Speaker 4: know who any of these people are. The important thing 630 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:42,680 Speaker 4: is this guy Red Buttons, who was very, very old 631 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:46,000 Speaker 4: and grew up in the early twentieth century, was telling 632 00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:49,160 Speaker 4: Dennis Miller about how great New York City was back 633 00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:51,160 Speaker 4: in the day. He said, back in the forties, you 634 00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:53,960 Speaker 4: could go out, you could take your wife to or 635 00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:57,359 Speaker 4: your girlfriend to a Broadway show, and you'd walk down 636 00:34:57,400 --> 00:34:59,719 Speaker 4: the street and you'd sleep in Central Park at night 637 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:01,960 Speaker 4: and wait up in the morning, and and and and 638 00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:05,239 Speaker 4: Dennis was like, you'd sleep in sunder parts. So, yeah, 639 00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:09,680 Speaker 4: nobody's worried about crime or anything like that. And that 640 00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:12,440 Speaker 4: hit me really hard of course. Okay, so it's not 641 00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:18,200 Speaker 4: necessarily the urban thing. It's not just everybody being packed 642 00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:22,360 Speaker 4: together that causes it to be crime. It's something cultural. 643 00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:26,200 Speaker 4: Remember when Michael Moore that made that movie about Columbine 644 00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,319 Speaker 4: and it was up in Canada, going door to door 645 00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:30,239 Speaker 4: and showing that all the doors were unlocked. That's the 646 00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,800 Speaker 4: way I grew up. You can have a culture of 647 00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:36,920 Speaker 4: we just don't steal stuff and hurt people. Right now, 648 00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:42,360 Speaker 4: how you create that, I'm not exactly sure how that happened. 649 00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:44,600 Speaker 4: And it was that way for a very long time, 650 00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:46,279 Speaker 4: still that way in many parts. If you live in 651 00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:48,799 Speaker 4: an urban area, it's still that way in many parts 652 00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:50,840 Speaker 4: of the country. You live in a country full of 653 00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:53,200 Speaker 4: people who don't worry about locking their doors or having 654 00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:54,680 Speaker 4: their keys in their car in front of their house. 655 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:55,759 Speaker 1: They just don't have to. 656 00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:58,319 Speaker 4: So it's a can be a cultural thing. I don't 657 00:35:58,360 --> 00:35:59,600 Speaker 4: know how you get it back. I don't know if 658 00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:00,560 Speaker 4: you can get it back. 659 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:03,759 Speaker 5: That was one of the more interesting aspects of our 660 00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:07,000 Speaker 5: travels to London, and then conversations with friends who had 661 00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:10,400 Speaker 5: been to other cities around the world. How much safer 662 00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:13,399 Speaker 5: they are than a lot of American cities. How there's 663 00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:19,200 Speaker 5: just not junkies laying everywhere and bum camps and crime. Yeah, 664 00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:22,480 Speaker 5: it's it's cultural. It's you know, politics is downstream of culture. 665 00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:25,480 Speaker 5: And obviously this discussion could be like not only one 666 00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:29,120 Speaker 5: book but a series of them. But one major aspect 667 00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:32,000 Speaker 5: of it is a question of unity. Whether you feel 668 00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:35,600 Speaker 5: like you are part of something that you want to 669 00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:40,480 Speaker 5: be good. It's as simple as that. Whether America is 670 00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:42,920 Speaker 5: a place you believe in and you feel like you 671 00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:44,759 Speaker 5: have a role in making it a good place. 672 00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:48,000 Speaker 1: Maybe or your town, or your city or or your state. 673 00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:53,960 Speaker 4: I think it's a very very underappreciated, understudied aspect of. 674 00:36:55,600 --> 00:37:00,680 Speaker 1: Civilization and human nature. Yes, very complicated, but yeah, that 675 00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:05,080 Speaker 1: could be a lot of it. Just unity. It's complicated 676 00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:07,280 Speaker 1: in a way, but it's heart. It's very very simple. 677 00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:07,760 Speaker 1: I think. 678 00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:11,080 Speaker 4: We blowed the but Jesus out of some people in 679 00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:13,000 Speaker 4: a boat yesterday down by Venezuela. 680 00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:15,000 Speaker 1: Have you seen that. We'll talk about that in hour three. 681 00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:17,040 Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty