WEBVTT - A&G Replay Monday Hour Four 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:14.040 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:18.080 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty. 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:25.759 Armstrong, and Jetty and He Armstrong and Getty Strong and 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:29.800 so Chuck Schumer was on the view. 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:31.920 Yet he's making the rounds because he's got this book out, 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:33.640 which I actually heard a little bit about it. I'm 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:35.440 glad he wrote it, and it's kind of interesting. He's 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:38.880 worried about the rise of anti Semitism in the United States, 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:41.879 including in his own party among your college kids. 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:43.680 And he's out talking about it. So that's kind of cool. 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:47.920 Chuck Schumer is an ancient Democratic Senator from New York 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:50.840 who has been majority leader in the senat a various times. 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:54.960 Now he's the minority leader. He is the king of 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:59.880 the Senate on the Democrat side. So he got some 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:04.080 blowback last week because he went along with the Republican 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:08.160 legislation that kept the government open and the aocs of 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:11.760 the world that wing Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, those people 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:14.480 wanted to shut down the government. Chuck Schumer said there 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:20.360 was no win in it, and Nancy Pelosi yesterday said 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:24.679 she kind of hit him with a little uh. She 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:28.080 still supports him, but I don't believe in giving something 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:33.199 away for nothing. She said after that, in that Chuck 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:36.000 went along with it but didn't get anything, which is true. 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:37.920 Nancy Pelosi was good at that. Trump's good at that. 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:40.800 If you're going to get something from me, I'm gonna 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:41.560 get something from you. 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:45.680 Always. If only they knew what they wanted. Really, maybe 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:48.280 that's a problem. They're so scattered anyway, I didn't mean 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:50.320 to talk about that. So he's on the view and 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:52.040 he said something that really bothered me. 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:54.280 So we'll start here the Republican Party. 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:55.920 Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:57.520 wait wait. I don't want that yet. Where we were going 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:01.200 to start with, remember Jerry Brown to start here. This 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:05.480 goes back to the governor of California few years back. 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:08.560 Four term governor. He was the youngest governor of California 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:10.560 for two terms. That he was the oldest governor in 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:13.960 California for two terms. He did date a young Linda Ronstadt, 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:15.160 which is a featheries cap. 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:17.680 Mmm. You can't take that away from aw. 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:23.919 Yeah, but he once said this about the way economics works. 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:25.520 I guess those. 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:29.880 Who have been blessed the most, who have disproportionately extracted 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:33.440 by whatever skill, more and more from the national wealth. 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:36.120 They're going to have to share more of that. It's 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:40.919 on the idea of paying taxes that those who have. 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:47.799 Disproportionately extracted from the economy more from the national wealth. 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:48.880 From the national wealth. 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:56.200 So success is taking money from the nation. It's not 0:02:56.440 --> 0:03:01.960 creating jobs and money and products and greater wealth for everyone. No, 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:04.960 it's a limited pie. And you took more than your 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:07.360 share by building a successful business. 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:10.280 Well, and it's not yours, it's the nations and the 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:13.840 steward of that money is the government, which we get 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:16.840 to here with Juck Schumer on the view when he 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:18.160 said this yesterday. 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.799 The Republican Party is a different kettle of fish than 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:23.880 it used to be, and that's why we're fighting them 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:28.280 so hard. They are controlled by a small group of wealthy, 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:31.480 greedy people. And you know what their attitude is. I 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:35.000 made my money all by myself. How dare your government 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.320 take my money from me. I don't want to pay taxes, 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:40.240 or I built my company with my bare hands. How 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.600 dare your government tell me how I should treat my customers, 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:48.760 the land and water that I own, or my employees. 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:50.280 They hate governments. 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:54.120 Government's a barrier to people, a barrier to stop them 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:56.040 from doing things they want to destroy it. 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:58.640 We are not letting them do it, and we're united. 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.040 So again that in there. 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:06.760 These greedy people who make money who want to keep 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:08.920 more of their money. Their attitude is, I made my 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:12.120 money all by myself. How dare your government take my 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:12.920 money from me? 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:14.640 Yeah? 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:21.159 Well summarized, and so that's an interesting philosophical breakdown. I know, 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:24.919 I know people personally who believe that and think that way. 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:29.279 That you're out there going to work making money, I 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:32.039 guess for the government. It runs through the government, and 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:33.360 then you get to keep some of it. 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:35.000 But it's the government's. 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:37.120 Money to spend on, you know, good things that make 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:39.480 everybody better, happier, or something like it. 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:43.000 And other people will, through the government, take your money 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:46.400 from you as much as they decide is proper, and 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:50.360 they will let you keep some of it. Perhaps, as 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:53.160 the great Thomas Soul said so famously, I have never 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:55.880 understood why it is greed to want to keep the 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.800 money you have earned, but not greed to want to 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:01.360 take someone else's mind. 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:07.120 I found that absolutely fascinating. I mean, that is some 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:15.720 big time philosophical disagreement on the structure of society. 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:22.120 Yes, and I would love to reduce our politics now 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:24.440 and again, maybe we can have one week a year 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:28.880 where we have learned, folks of you know, each side's 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:32.480 choosing debate in front of the nation, the notion of 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:37.320 either a what you earn is yours. Now we the 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.159 people ask you for a little bit of it to 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:40.919 help run the country. 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:43.560 Rhodes Police Army, et cetera, et cetera. 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:49.000 But indeed we have past laws saying the government gets 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:52.800 a little bit of it to run itself, versus the 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:56.160 folks who say, no, the government gets all of it. 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:57.560 If we decide to take. 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:00.960 All of it, it's not your money at all, it 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:04.120 never has been. That goes back and then I would 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:06.880 love then in the follow up a part my side 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:10.159 would would say, well, then why the hell would anybody 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:13.240 bust their ass to build a business if y'all are 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:15.960 going to take it all or half of it, which 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:17.440 is why socialism doesn't work. 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:20.000 Should have dug up the Barack Obama clip, the famous 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:21.960 one that he got beat up for a fair amount. 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:25.040 By anybody on the right. Anyway, you didn't build that. 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:28.840 It's the idea that government has put in place a 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:32.039 structure for you to go out and be successful, and 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:34.760 so you owe that money to the government because they 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:39.440 put all this together for you to be successful. The 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:43.200 government is the reason you're successful. That's what Chuck Schumer's saying. 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.760 Building a business with five hundred employees, it's like falling 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:49.760 off a log thanks to the government. 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:50.880 So we get most of it. 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:52.960 I mean, he used his mocking voice when he said, 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:55.400 I made my money all by myself. How dare your 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:58.440 government take my money from me? Okay, I'll say the 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:01.840 same thing in my regular voe. I made my money 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:05.839 all by myself. How dare the freaking government take it 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.200 from me? There, I said it without the mocking voice, 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:09.880 because that's what I actually believe. 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:15.560 I understand how a leech on the public like Chuck Schumer, 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:20.040 who like you know, Joe Biden or a thousand other 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:24.280 politicians on both sides of the aisle, have made their 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:29.800 wealth and their power purely from draining the vital fluids 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:34.760 of the American people. How actual production is foreign to them. 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:39.320 I'd love to have Mark Wayne Mullen talk to Chuck 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:42.280 Schumer about that. Mark Wayne Mullen, who built a He 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:45.800 was a plumber, he built a plumbing contracting business in Oklahoma, 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:48.720 became he's a senator now from Oklahoma. If you don't 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:50.760 know Mark Wayne, talk to him at the RNC. It 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:54.520 was great fun and very interesting. But have him discussed 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:58.840 with Chuck Schumer what it takes to build a business 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:04.000 as a to just you know, again, being a parasite 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:05.800 on the height of the American people. 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:10.200 That's something I mean that that I find that highly 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:12.920 troubling that that attitude even exists out there. 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:15.000 Let alone could win the day. 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:18.360 Well, yeah, the fact that Chuck Schumer promotes it is 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:20.800 not that shocking to me. The fact that tens of millions, 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:24.520 one hundred and fifty million Americans think the same way. 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:25.760 Now that bothers me. 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:29.360 I made my money all by myself. How dare your 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:30.960 government take my money from me. 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:32.160 I don't want to pay taxes. 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:34.280 You don't have to use the cartoonish voice. That's what 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:36.280 I actually believe, me and me and lots. 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:39.200 Of people, and I think virtually nobody says I don't 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:42.199 want to have to pay taxes. No, I don't want 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:45.320 to have to pay excessive taxes that are purely a 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:50.160 redistribution of wealth to gain you power, because I know 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:54.840 with one hundred percent certainty that's what you do. You 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:58.960 make moral arguments and compassionate arguments to get giant gobs 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:01.520 of money to enhance your own power and influence. 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.439 First of all, if you keep your money. Sometimes people 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:06.800 do things that are really good for society, you know, 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:11.000 build a rocket company or charity or whatever it is. 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:13.720 But what if you just go out and buy expensive 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:17.120 houses and cars if you're super wealthy for whatever reason. 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:20.600 It's Kensian when the government spreads money around because it's 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:23.120 just good spending money. But if an individual spends money, 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:26.200 it's not Kensian and not good for the economy. Is 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:27.480 fine with me, signed. 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:30.800 Everybody who worked on building that house end or car 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:34.760 end or services it or fixes that house or whatever, 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:39.880 or its restaurant and has employees. My final note on 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:42.719 this topic will be something I've said many times through 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.000 the years and will continue to if you will allow me. 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:55.960 You good people, imagine a charity that can feed, clothes, house, medicate, 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:57.480 and educate. 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:02.600 Thousands of children. Thousands of children. 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:07.640 That charity is called a business with employees who get 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:12.080 pay and benefits. You have accomplished all those things I 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:15.120 described by starting a successful business. 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:19.079 They don't see it that way. On the left, I 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:19.600 made my. 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.960 Money all by myself. How dare your government take my 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:24.800 money from me? I don't want to pay taxes? 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.880 True, that is true if this were not being broadcast live. 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.840 I have a simple two word response that rhymes with 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:36.200 duck whom. 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:40.480 The armstrong and getting shadows. 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:44.160 So when you think about these businesses and a one 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:46.800 hundred and five percent therapy put on them. 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:48.240 It's untenable for them. 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:50.800 They don't have the cash flow, they don't have the 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:54.680 access to capital, and it's basically locking up. 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:56.400 Production in the toy industry. 0:10:56.480 --> 0:11:00.320 No toys are currently being produced in China, and they're 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:03.120 all reports that major retailers here in the US are 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:04.640 starting to actually cancel orders. 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:06.880 So so Christmas is at risk. 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:11.640 That's some economic expert on CNN yesterday on the lead, 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:15.120 Christmas is at risk. Toy companies can handle one hundred 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:18.520 and forty five percent tariff. At some point the rubber 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:20.080 is going to meet the road on this isn't it. 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:22.560 I mean we all were relieved, I guess to find 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:24.240 out iPhones aren't going to triple in price. 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:25.400 But there is all that other. 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:28.240 Stuff right, you know, part of me he wants to 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:30.600 urge that guy to watch how the Grinch stole Christmas 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:34.640 Christmas and be reminded that it came. It came, It 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:37.800 came without boxes and bushels and bags the rest of it. 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:41.120 Yeah, Christmas, isn't it risk? But he was talking about 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:42.600 toy retailers, so I get that. 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:47.120 You know, the ready fire aim nature of the tariffs 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:49.760 is I think going to be counterproductive, although I suspect 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:51.360 it's just going to lead to better trade deals. But 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:54.800 it was pointed out by some learned folks that if 0:11:54.840 --> 0:12:00.120 you're a giant multinational conglomerate with lobbyists and perhaps a 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:02.400 tim cook who can pick up the phone and call 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.240 Donald Trump, you get a carve out. But all the 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:09.640 mom and pop businesses, all the small manufacturers, they don't. 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:12.880 They're gonna be you know, put out of business, right 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:17.680 because they can't on shore their inputs fast enough bankrupt, 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:20.199 which is the main from the right big critique of 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:23.559 tariffs in general, that it ends up being I mean, 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:29.199 you're like creating a reason for people to get special 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:32.120 treatment or do things to get special treatment. 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:35.600 Right, Yeah, it enriches the swamp. 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:39.560 I was just texting with somebody who said they were 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:42.320 about to do something, it doesn't matter what, and I said, 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:46.200 you're brave, Gail King, brave. I wonder if that will 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:52.560 catch on as like, well, you're like Gail King brave 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:53.959 there congratulations. 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:55.480 Yeah, yeah. 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:59.920 Oh, speaking of economic occurrence and stuff like that, there's 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:04.679 a lot of talk of recession because of the tariffs. 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:06.920 And all and how it shakes out. Nobody knows exactly. 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:08.800 We're not already be in one of many according to 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:10.120 many economists. 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:12.319 Well that's right, And I came across this from the 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:14.120 Wall Street Journal, which I thought was kind of a 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:18.000 good reminder what is a recession and how when will 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.760 we know if we are in one? Now, that common 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:23.120 rule of thumb is that two consecutive quarters of declining 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:25.959 griss product counts as a recession, the. 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:29.600 Last if it's during the Biden administration run, and that 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:30.280 doesn't run out. 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:34.800 But the GDP is not the criterion used by the 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:38.680 National Bureau of Economic Research, which is the long standing 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:43.319 arbiter of US recessions among economists, government officials, policymakers, and 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:48.760 news organizations including the Wall Street Journal. The NBR recession 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:52.120 dates are determined by its prosaically named quote Business Cycle 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:56.839 Dating Committee, a group of eight academic academic economists, some 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.520 of whom have been members of the committee for decades. 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:01.880 What I look for in order to make a recession 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:05.160 call this quote a significant decline in economic activity that 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:07.760 has spread across the economy and lasts more than a 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:08.360 few months. 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:13.959 Well, it's pretty employment wishy washy. Oh, it's very wishy washy. Yeah. 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.760 The main indicators they watch are on our employment, inflation 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:22.040 adjusted personal income, real consumer spending, real manufacturing and trade, 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:24.160 industry sales, and industrial production. 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:27.680 Well that's there's a democrat in office. Well, yeah, that's interesting. 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.480 So it's a little bit of like, that's just your opinion, man. 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:33.160 And I always remember a guy I knew ran his 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.000 own business. He was a very successful ange his own business. 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:40.040 And this was years ago, like mid two thousand and five. 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:42.960 I can remember and him saying we're in a recession. 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.680 And we weren't like officially in a recession, and he 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:47.760 said we're in a recession. And I was like, wow, 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:50.280 that's interesting that you just said that out loud when 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:52.520 you know it hasn't been declared. 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:56.000 And in this case, it ended up being declared. The 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:56.640 next quarter. 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:59.720 He had already felt it, But I thought at the time, well, 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:01.480 even if it's not for the rest of the United States, 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:03.800 if it is for your industry here, that's all that 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:04.680 matters to you. 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:07.440 So this is kind of a stupid term. 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:09.800 It's kind of like we always talk about when they 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:12.760 give you a national real estate to statistics. What's the 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:16.320 point of that more homes were sold last year than 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:19.680 this year. Well that's I don't even know if that 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.920 number is useful to anybody, but it's certainly not useful 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:26.440 to your state, county, neighborhood or whatever. 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.600 Well, my only argument against that would be that if 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:38.480 your policies cause one those policies should be reviewed and criticized. Yeah, 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:40.640 so it helps to be able to say, in even 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:43.120 a semi concrete way, hey, this isn't working. 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:47.920 It's hurting the economy. Right. But yeah, that makes sense. 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:52.320 But it's not what the media portrays it to be 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:56.720 some sort of all encompassing It's not a diagnosis with cancer. 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:01.880 It's just okay, things are not growing, economics or what's 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:02.240 going on. 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:05.360 If your industry on the entire West Coast is suffering 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:08.480 because of something the weather or whatever, you're in a 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:11.240 recession every bit as much as if they declared a 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:15.320 national recession. Yeah, so, yeah, I'm not sure that term 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:18.800 means that much to me anymore. What you said makes sense. 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:24.000 And again they changed the definition of it or went 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:27.680 with the specific definition of it when it applied to 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:31.920 Joe Biden, because by the definition we'd all been using 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:33.960 our entire adult lives, we were in a recession, and 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:38.160 they didn't want that to be true. Right, yep, what evs? 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:41.920 Yeah, I know, and I've lived through I can't. 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:45.080 Even tell you how many in my life, ten twelve, 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:47.880 I don't know, thirty, I don't even know, which is 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.400 part of my point. They come and go and we're 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:52.760 all fine, and you know, I don't want it to happen. 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:54.600 But it's not like the end of the world. 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:56.920 Well right, And there have been upsides, Like I've gotten 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.320 used to the taste of human flesh. There's been so 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.280 much cannibal during the recessions. 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:05.000 Yeah, it's his old hat. For me, it's the other 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:07.960 white meat. As far as I'm concerned, Armstrong and Getty 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:12.600 show to arms Strong and Geddy on demand. We're not boring. 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:15.120 A lot of news is boring and tedious and depressing. 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:17.640 It makes you angry. You don't want to live your 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:18.400 life like that. 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:21.639 Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty. We're Armstrong in Geeddy. 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:23.240 We try to bring you the truth and help you 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:25.119 figure out this crazy modern world. 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:27.840 I know something about a comedic tone. 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:31.440 We have a one arm Yes. 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:35.280 Listen to Armstrong You Getty on demand on the iHeartRadio app, 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:39.760 Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Jack Armstrong 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:45.760 and Joe Getty the Armstrong and Getty Show. I thought 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:49.320 this is interesting if you're new to the show. Jack 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:52.280 and I both have railed long and hard against critical 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:53.600 theory and DEI. 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:56.280 It's neo Marxism. We'll explain a little more about that. 0:17:56.680 --> 0:18:02.760 It masquerades quite successfully though, as we just want everybody 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:05.040 to get a fair shot in America, and a lot 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:09.840 of people think DEI actually is just we want more diversity, 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:12.600 We want people to be able to apply for jobs 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:15.600 and get them. No, everybody wants that DEI is in 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:20.960 in cities plot that masquerades as civil rights. Having said that, 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:25.080 the headline the Journal America is abandoning DEI. The NFL 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:28.000 remains all in. Everyone from the federal government as a 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:33.480 fortune five hundred are dialing back diversity efforts DEI efforts, 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:36.560 but America's most popular sport is standing its ground. 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:41.280 I'm not shocked by this. I don't like it. 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:45.000 I don't like the fact that journalism regularly fudges the 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:49.280 difference between DEI, which is a specific thing, and diversity, 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:50.640 acting like they're the same thing. 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:51.760 They don't know. 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:56.000 I honestly believe the percentage of Americans who understand that 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:59.080 that DEI is part of critical theory comes from the 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:02.240 Frankfurt school of philosophy. It's a it's a method of 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:07.159 taking over institutions. Essentially, you call everybody a racist unless 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:10.119 they agree with you. Perhaps you went to a delightful 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:14.320 training session where this happened. And obviously, if you're a racist, 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:17.840 according to the nice people who are running your DEI department, 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:20.200 you can't be in charge. And so they get rid 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:22.320 of you, and they bring in somebody who believes what 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:26.000 they do, which is neo Marxism, equity, et cetera. DEI 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:30.119 is Marxism. It's not diversity. 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:30.760 That reminds me. 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:33.440 I read a great piece yesterday on how Ibram X 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:35.760 Kennedy is one of the great sisters of all time. 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:40.879 Now that his run is over, I think, and to 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:43.639 shut down his anti racist institute. 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:46.400 He got fifty. 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:47.600 Million dollars I think in. 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:52.159 Donations from companies. Never did anything. No, people are falling 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:54.400 all over themselves to give money. I'm not a racist. 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:56.240 Don't call me a racist. Don't call me a racist. 0:19:56.440 --> 0:20:00.399 And you remember, no matter how you intended what you said, 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:03.800 if I say you're a racist, you are a racist. 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:07.720 It's a method of capture, of taking over institutions. And 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:11.320 he and Robin DiAngelo and that whole ridiculous scam which 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:12.159 is still going on. 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:15.680 They knew precisely what they're doing. 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:18.360 But back to my main point, I think a lot 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:20.919 of people don't understand it. Yeah, I see even in 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:24.400 fairly conservative publications, I still see people talk about DEI 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:27.560 as if it's just an honest and open hearted desire 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:29.480 to have, you know, like a black kid have the 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:32.760 same opportunities in America as a white kid. Again, everybody 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:36.960 wants that DEI is not that anyway. Having said that, 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:40.600 back to the journal thing, the NFL is a TV show. 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:46.040 Never forget that. It's an entertainment product from top to bottom. 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:50.240 It's not actually an effort to see which city has 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:54.800 the best forty guys to play football hired BMS. No, 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:58.680 it's a TV show, and it is an incredibly popular, 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:03.719 profitable TV show, and a huge percentage of the cast 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:08.359 are young black men and are incredibly important to the 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:09.359 game and its popularity. 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:11.480 I've noticed that, and given the fact. 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:14.119 That most people don't understand what DEI really is and 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:18.040 what it is not, including young black men who run, 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:22.640 you know, receiving routes and get tackled hard and stay 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:26.399 in incredible physical condition and memorize playbooks that would boggle 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:30.120 the mind of an MIT physicist, that they don't spend 0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:32.399 a lot of time acquainting themselves with the subtleties of 0:21:32.520 --> 0:21:34.320 sociological issues. 0:21:34.320 --> 0:21:35.320 Is not shocking. 0:21:36.440 --> 0:21:38.720 So I get why Roger Goodell has said, no, we're 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:42.960 still up with diversity, up with DEI, We're continuing all 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:46.439 our programs. I get why he does that. It annoys me, 0:21:46.520 --> 0:21:50.160