WEBVTT - Lookin' Out The Slit 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.080 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.720 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty arm Strong 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:17.240 and Jetty and he Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:26.479 So, if you're an NFL fan, the very first game 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:31.120 of the this year was last night Chargers Lions. Chargers 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:33.479 beat the hell out of the Lions in the Hall 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:38.479 of Fame game and can'ton Ohio anyway. I came across 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:42.280 this at Harbaugh. Jim Harbaugh, one of our favorite people 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:45.720 back when he was a forty nine Ers coach, said 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:48.720 to his team or media or somebody, because people are 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:52.400 talking about then all it's freaking July. There's an NFL 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:55.240 game and preseason and who cares and all that sort 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:57.480 of stuff, And he said, this game will get higher 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:00.760 ratings than a World Series baseball game or any NBA 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:04.240 Finals game. And he's right, that's how much bigger the 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:05.720 NFL is than the other sports. 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:06.880 Wow? Is that right? 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:09.440 He yeah, I didn't look it up, but that's historically, 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:12.839 that's true, that sort of thing. That's how much bigger 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:17.039 the NFL is. Wow, they are the five hundred pound guerrilla. 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:17.560 Anyway. 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:21.520 So Kamala Harris was on Colbert last night. We talked 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:23.080 about this a lot. Yesterday, She's got a book out. 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:26.039 She announced she's not running for governor of California. She's 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:29.080 clearly running for president, or at least trying to put 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:31.600 together a team to run for California, and if she 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:33.759 can get the money people behind her, she will run. 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:37.959 She's delusional. She was on Colbert. She was always good 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:40.720 at those. That's why she did them. She's good at 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:44.000 the smiling, laughing and if you have a host that 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:46.399 wants to help you along, she's fine at it. And 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:48.680 I think that's what convinced her in her head she 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:50.800 could be president because she was good at those. She 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.400 couldn't do any interview where she has challenged on policy. 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:55.040 But I just wanted to hear this a little bit 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:57.920 about the intro because I haven't heard this. 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:00.480 I've just read about it and it sounds gosh. 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:07.160 Thanks gentlemen, My guest tonight was Vice President of the 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:10.480 United States. Please welcome her back to the Lake Show. 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:12.720 Vice President Kamala Harris. 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:21.680 Listen to that crowd. 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:29.200 Keep you going there, my, She stands there and waves 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:32.520 because they're all on their feet, grinning. 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:34.760 The ear to ear excitement in the. 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:47.040 Air cheering wildly, I guess, And. 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:52.959 Here you go with the USA chance. Can you imagine 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:56.480 what the state of the USA would be if that 0:02:57.080 --> 0:03:01.280 half witted Well, that's not that though. What does that 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:06.040 tell you? That's good, Michael. What does that tell you politically? Though? 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:09.480 Now Colbert famously has a very left audience. That's what 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:12.760 he crafted on purpose. He was the number one show, 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:14.120 so blah blah blah. 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:20.480 Uh. But he's got that crowd. But she got beaten 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:26.480 by Donald Trump, and the crowd is chanting USA and 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:28.280 he can't get him to quiet down enough to even 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:31.359 ask her a question. Yeah, I'm just trying to think 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:35.160 of an analogous situation on the other side of the aisle, 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:40.880 like if Republicans Conservatives had just erupted in rapturous cheers 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:44.720 when Bob Dole was introduced for Mitt Romney after his defeat. 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:48.040 Although you could argue Mitt Romney was a was a 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:51.360 very good man, could have won, blah blah blah. But 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:53.520 you know the history. You always have that quote about 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:56.280 when people run for president and lose. That's the history 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:58.000 of people when they run for president lose. Even if 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:00.720 you're a good gut person. People are ardies are done 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:04.960 with you. You didn't come out to Chance of USA. Yeah, yeah, 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:09.040 especially because she was such a weak candidate. Is that 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:11.040 just I'm reading it? 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:19.320 Is it's just an opportunity to express your anti Trump enthusiasm, particularly. 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:21.320 Given the fact that anti Trump enthusiasm is kind of 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:24.480 tied up in the whole Colbert Show is getting canceled 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:27.680 right right because the first chant was Steve n Steve N. 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:29.359 So I think it's all kind of wrapped up for 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:30.680 those people. Yeah, I don't know. 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:35.240 I thought that was an interesting political moment. She's not 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:38.440 only a losing candidate. She lost to a guy whose 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.479 negatives were higher than anybody who's ever won the presidency, 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:46.760 and she was horrible at it and thunderous applause. 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:49.800 In Chance of USA. I mean that is if they 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:52.440 keep sharing, folks, maybe you can get to Kamala and 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:56.200 Mamdani as the VP nominee that got the juices in 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:56.599 her brain? 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:58.280 Do you have juices in your brain that got the 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:01.400 juices in her brain that we're thinking should I run 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:04.480 for prison or not? Into full tilt mode? I guarantee 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:07.680 you look at this should I run? How is that 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:10.760 even a question? Look at these people right. 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:13.480 The people want me. I would be a bad American 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:17.280 if I did not become their leader, right, they're begging 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:20.440 me as will Okay, So there's that. 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.120 And who knows what's going to happen in twenty eight 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:26.240 because who knows what the issues will be. It's possible 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:28.680 that one of the biggest issues for the mid term 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.880 or the presidential election are going to be how great 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:35.360 the tariffs were or what a disaster the tariffs were, 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:38.640 depending on how this all turns out. But so Trump 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:41.400 last night announces I think it was sixty eight new tariffs. 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:45.120 He had this big board with sixty eight countries on 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:47.160 there and what their new tariffs are, including a thirty 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:49.800 five percent tariff on Canada that kicks in today, and 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:52.200 it was a big deal. So on MSNBC, I was 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:55.640 watching their late night show that's on at eleven o'clock 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:59.200 East coast eight o'clock in California, and you know, it's 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:00.880 all about Hayte and try Up all the time. And 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.320 Stephanie Rule, the host of that show, had a guest 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:07.680 on and she sets him up with this anti Trump question, 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:09.680 hoping they're all just going to get to do some 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:11.920 good Trump bashing and I thought the guy's answer was 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:12.600 pretty interesting. 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:17.120 Trump wants people to focus on the big new tariff freeze, 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.719 but the reality is he's just pushing the deadline again, 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:24.240 like has Taco Tuesday become Taco Thursday at the White House? 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:26.880 You know, Steph, I don't think so. I think these 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:30.400 are for real. I think tonight's a fairly historic night 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:33.080 where I think you can go back and when you 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:36.160 write the history, you'll say this is the night that 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:39.640 the global free trade era begun by the United States 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:41.880 and the post war era led by the United States 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:44.720 really came to an end. There is now, I think, 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:48.320 a permanent tariff curtain around this country. 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:50.800 I thought that was some pretty good analysis and there 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:53.040 should be more of that. Whether it's going to be 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:55.360 a good and he says, he goes on to say, 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:00.680 which is abnormally fair for HIMSNBC. He goes on to say, 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:02.599 whether this turns out to be a good thing for 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:06.280 the United States or not, you know, will be proven 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:10.360 over time. He didn't automatically say it was gonna be 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:13.040 a bad thing, but it's a giant deal. 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:16.160 The whole taco thing is a stupid narrative. New York 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.040 Times wrote that a week or so ago, I mentioned 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:19.800 that The New York Times said, Hey, I know the 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:23.400 taco joke is funny, but the reality is Trump has 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:26.120 done it. We live in a much different world of 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:29.240 tariffs now than before he came into office. It's real, 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:30.760 it's not. It's not. 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:33.800 He talked big and there and things didn't change. No, 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:36.560 things changed a lot, and we'll. 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:39.600 See how it turns out. Right. Yeah, and this story 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:42.400 doesn't really lend itself very well to hit and run, 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.800 you know, media of whatever sort and what you just 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.120 quoted the fellas saying kind of anticipate in one of 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:50.080 the points I was gonna make. I have some pretty 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:56.239 strong opinions about some aspects of this, but we won't 0:07:56.400 --> 0:08:01.080 know until time passes. Well, hell, we don't even know 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:02.680 if the tariffs are going to be an acted stand 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:06.960 by for that. But if it were, if what Trump 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:11.840 is doing were one hundred percent right and wise and 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:16.640 patriotic and far seeing, there would be a period of 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:20.720 disruption and discomfort that we would have to get through 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:24.320 to get to that better result, which is one of 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:27.960 the reason modern democracies often don't solve their problems. I mean, 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:31.840 like our budgetary problems it's fairly obvious how we need 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:34.000 to do that, but we will never put up with 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:37.040 the difficult period that we need to go through to 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:43.160 fix it. And so I readily admit knee jerk analysis. 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.680 What Trump is doing is either going to be wrong 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:49.360 or it's just unfair. It's just dumb. Having said that, 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:54.360 and it is absolutely hilarious to me how little coverage 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:57.720 this is getting. The US Court of Appeals for the 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:01.480 Federal Circuit on Thursday yesterday heard oral arguments in a 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:08.120 challenge to the Worldwide Tariffs and the editorial board of 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:10.480 the Wall Street Journal's lead is, well, that was painful 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:14.520 for the Trump administration's lawyer. That is, judge after judge 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:18.120 doubted the administration's arguments. And so what you need to 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:22.120 know is the administration says the nineteen seventy seven International 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:26.920 Emergency Economic Powers Act also known as IEP or whatever 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:32.240 it is, grants the president's sweeping authority to impose tariffs, 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:36.120 and the judges seemed very very skeptical, which doesn't necessarily 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:38.120 prove anything. They'll put out a ruling then we don't 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:41.160 have to guess. But one of the judges right out 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:43.040 of the gate pointed out that no president has ever 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:47.520 used the emergency law to impose tariffs. And they got 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:51.800 into a discussion with the lawyers about, well, that's true, 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.120 but the law is written broadly to give the president 0:09:55.480 --> 0:10:00.400 the right to use whatever tools he deems appropriate. The 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:02.920 judges weren't buying it. Why should we read tariffs into 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:05.480 that statue? Is the plane meaning of regulate and that 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:07.960 has to do with a verbage in the statute to 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:11.440 impose tariffs or taxes? And isn't the administration uppending the 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:14.800 entire tariff schedule that Congress enacted. Then you have to 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:18.120 get into Nixon's across the board ten percent tariffs in 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:20.920 nineteen seventy one. It would take too long to explain. 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:24.800 But they said, no, this is very different in a 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:29.120 number of different ways, and it ends up being whether 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:31.959 you like it or not. And it'll get to the 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:35.200 Supreme Court almost certainly unless they think the appeals Court 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:36.599 is right. And they say, no, we're not going to 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.880 take it because we think they're right. It's a great question. 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:43.000 Hang on a second. It's a great question about Congress 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:45.280 versus the executive branch and who gets to do what 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:49.079 and how to interpret broad statutes. And you remember us 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:52.160 on the libertarian conservative side, we're really happy. Last year 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:54.560 the High Court put out a ruling happened to be 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:57.839 called Low or Bright that says, no, judges don't automatically 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:03.000 defer to the administrative state the regulator's interpretations of vague laws. 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:06.239 You got to figure out what Congress meant, and remember 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:10.560 the Major Questions doctrine says Congress must give the president 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:15.000 express authority for actions with economic or political significance, otherwise 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:16.199 he's overstepping his bounds. 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:18.200 But you said it'll get to the Supreme Court. Is 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:21.800 that something they could rule on before October, like jump 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:25.560 in and you know, take off their summer shorts and 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:27.680 put on the robes and look at this because October 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:28.679 is a long way away. 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:32.240 Oh yeah, yeah, sure, yeah. They could do a couple 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:35.520 of things. They could announce immediately that they're not taking 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:39.720 the case after this the Appeals Court rules. 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:44.000 And which means it stands, and you're anticipating the Appeals 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:45.760 Court will rule that Trump can't do this. 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:49.559 I'm leaning that way with you know, just a moderate 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:52.000 level of confidence. Well, because you know, as you pointed 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:55.120 out earlier, you can try to leap to conclusions based 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:58.200 on the oral arguments, but it's a slippery thing to do. 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:02.000 Okay, I got a question about that, But first we 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:04.360 ought to tell you about simply Safe, which is a 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:08.600 good way to protect your home. School starts here. Pretty 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:10.760 soon you're going to be, you know, running around all 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:12.800 day long. You know most home break ins happen during 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:15.640 the day, they do. And you got your simply Safe 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:17.880 systems set up there like I do. 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Theer's no safe flights, simply safe. 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:06.000 We're out of time, and we'll have plenty of time 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:09.000 to talk about tariffs in the coming days, weeks, and months. 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:12.360 But just on a broad principle though, how many times 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:16.560 did we say during the Biden administration to Democrats, don't 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:20.800 you understand your president using these extraordinary wild powers to 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:23.960 do things that are probably not the executives to do. 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.400 Don't you understand the other side of be in power 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:31.360 at some point and how unwise you're being? Well, I 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:34.160 am consistent. If nothing else, same thing applies. 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:34.400 Well. 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:36.560 My question was going to be Trump has been talking 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:39.800 about wanting to do tariffs his whole life. Was he 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:43.520 always planning on using this emergency Act? Or how was 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:44.640 he planning on doing it? 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:45.760 I don't know. 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:49.480 Huh, I haven't heard that question answered. Are you familiar 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:55.520 with the Oho network? The eighth tier sports network. It's 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:57.880 a thing and it's kind of funny, among other things. 0:13:57.960 --> 0:13:58.840 All the way, stay here. 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:00.640 Strong. 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.360 The Presidential Fitness test is back now. 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:07.960 Trump says he wants to be sure America's future generations 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:10.120 are strong, healthy, and successful. 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:11.920 At least I think that's what he said. He was 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:16.240 knowing on a KFC twelve piece at the time, the 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:17.640 Presidential Fitness Test. 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:21.200 If you're old enough to remember doing that, he had 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:23.520 some pretty high standards. Either you're going to be a 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:26.160 Navy seal or you're gonna you know, not pass. I 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:27.160 guess those are your sale. 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:30.840 That's right, Yeah, mushmallow, get out of my sight, said 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:31.600 my Jim teacher. 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:34.000 Coming up, we need to talk about this. I don't 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:36.080 know if you're tired of AI talk or not. I'm 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:40.320 definitely not. It is now officially much bigger than the 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:43.440 dot com boom of the nineties was in terms of 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.280 the way it has taken over the stock market. And 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:49.200 people talk about the dot com boom still because it 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:53.320 was such a disruptive force. But AI's significantly bigger than that. 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:57.760 VIDIA is worth more than it's got more than the 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:00.320 GDP of like every country on Earth's like but three 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:04.640 or something. Anyway, more amazing stats about that coming up. 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:06.960 Are you familiar with the OCHO? It started with it 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:10.360 as a joke. There was the movie dodge Ball that 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:13.440 was quite hilarious. And in the movie Dodgeball, it aired 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:16.520 on the OCHO Network. So it became a thing where 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:21.600 ESPN would talk about the OHO for like really third 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:24.320 tier sports, and then they started doing it, and now 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:25.760 this will be the ninth year in a row where 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:28.120 they have they set aside, I think three days of 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:31.680 programming on the O Show for all these sports that 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:34.640 you know aren't aren't really sports that I mean. They've 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.520 got everything from paintball, which is kind. 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:41.080 Of a sport. There's somebody I've had some great times 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:41.800 playing paintball. 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:44.320 I was gonna ask if you guys, have you ever 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:45.360 been shot with one of those. 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:47.720 I've never done paper and over again, which is surprising 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:49.400 you have, Joe, I've never done paintball. 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:52.360 Oh yeah, you remember. I used to do it with 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:56.480 my son in sun River, Oregon out in the woods. Uh, 0:15:56.840 --> 0:16:00.960 just a big wooded field of play, Katie. It was fin. So. 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:03.320 I grew up in a canyon, and so all the 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:06.440 guys that lived near us in our housing community, we 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:08.680 would go into the canyon and we'd hide behind the trees. 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:11.680 Oh soh of last, go paintballing. 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:16.640 Yeah, my son's super into it. Uh, but they have 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:17.040 all kinds. 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:17.920 How much time I got. 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:21.760 I don't know what the slippery stairs competition is, but 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:23.240 that sounds like something I would like to watch. 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:27.280 Oh, they put soap on inflatable stairs and you have 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:28.280 to try to awesome. 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:32.200 What is extreme archery? Yikes? 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:36.680 They do for the kids. They do, of course, have dodgeball. 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:41.040 They have a pillow fight competition. They have a mullet competition. 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:44.120 I don't know how that's a sport. They have diving chests. 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:45.920 You have to dive down deep into the water the 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:48.440 chessboards on the bottom, move your piece, then come back. 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:50.400 Up for air. Among other things. 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:55.840 Wow, robot fighting, yes, the foot golf you only use 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:57.880 your feet. 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:01.560 Wow. Uh. 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:05.520 There's a million of bike polo, world action and knife 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:08.000 throwing that sounds good. I don't know what banana ball is, 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:10.600 coffin wars. Don't know what that is either, tire wrestling 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:14.159 that sounds good, big boy soap hockey. 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:15.399 I don't know what that is. 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:20.640 Tire wrestling, uh huh, but that's on the OCHO. Look 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:22.520 for that over the next several days. Sounds like this 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:24.200 sort of thing. If you sat there drunk, you could 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:25.320 have a really, really good time. 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:32.040 Well belated Happy birthday too, medicare celebrating it's what was it, 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:36.400 fiftieth birthday yesterday? Jack sixty seventh, sixtieth sixtieth, Yes. 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:41.520 Lindon Mains Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law sixty 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:43.760 years ago this week. It has cost us many, many 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:46.120 trillions of dollars and not sure it's done anybody any 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:46.600 good at all? 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:47.040 How do you like? 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:47.199 That? 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:50.560 Reminds me of the old Internet meme, how it started, 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.960 how it's going. Yeah, and we'll talk to Craig the 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:58.719 healthcare guru about that next, among other fair shouldn't you 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:02.880 for all those trillions of dollars have amazing successful results 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:07.320 or at least some successful results for tens of trillions 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:10.720 of dollars. Are you asking about a government program or 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:13.679 like anything else on earth? And nobody program different stand, 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:17.760 nobody's talking about it anyway. We will coming up Armstrong 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:18.399 and Getty. 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:22.399 We're about to have our healthcare experts. Craig gotwalls on. 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:24.760 I'll bet he could do this so on the OCHO network. 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:26.920 One of the sports that they have on the OCHO 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:31.400 this weekend, the Microsoft Excel World Championship Finals. I'll bet 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:34.000 Craig would be good at that. Just wow, sort of 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:39.440 person that excels at excel. So we're talking about Medicare 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:43.200 and Medicaid. It's the sixty year anniversary of it being 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:46.960 signed into law. Listen to this stat will you? And 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:48.960 the Wall Street Journal was writing about this the other day. 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:50.760 It's why we decided to have Craig on, because he's 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:54.000 an expert in this. We have spent in this country. 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:57.160 Forty five trillion. 0:18:56.800 --> 0:19:02.399 Dollars since nineteen sixty five on these two with out 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:07.240 evidence of effectiveness, without any evidence that it's done anybody 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:12.119 any good. Forty five trillion dollars. And to prepare for 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:15.200 the chat, I've been flipping through every headline I can 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:18.720 find over the last several days about Medicare and Medicaid 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:23.040 turning sixty and they are either glowingly positive yep. Or 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:26.359 they talk about the savage, brutal, inhumane cuts that the 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:29.520 big beautiful Bill is going to enact for every single 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:32.879 one that came up in my gig gig Google search, 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:36.040 so to discuss that in other fair, please welcome to 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:38.160 the Armstrong and Getty Show once again. Craig got Walls. 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:42.879 Craig the healthcare guru attorney, law benefit consultant, Benefit Revolution. Craig, 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:43.520 how are you, sir? 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:45.600 I'm good, gentlemen. 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:49.200 How are you a Paul? Just terrific? Well, he's a Paul. 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:52.680 I'm terrific. So back to the internet meme. How did 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:55.520 it begin or how did it start? How's it going? 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:56.960 What was the idea in the first place? 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:01.639 Yeah, so, well, if you just medicaid, which is the 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:05.640 element that was designed to cover the lowest income amongst us, 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:08.320 those that were the most downtrodden, that needed the most help, 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:13.679 that was designed to cover two percent of the American population. 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:15.720 You can go back to the congressional record and you 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:18.040 can see it clearly written. This is this is just 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:20.520 a safety net, folks. This is what we this is 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:22.320 what we have to do at the bare minimum to 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:26.440 cover the most downtrodden amongst us. Well, it now covers 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:28.879 four out of ten babies born. 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:33.720 Well, that's because the standard of living is declined so 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:36.360 much in the last fifty years. Oh no, it's actually 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:37.800 quite the opposite. Go on, Craig. 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:42.440 Sorry, well, yeah, and that's just medicaid. When you combine 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:47.919 Medicare and Medicaid together, you'll see waste fraud and abuse 0:20:47.960 --> 0:20:50.920 studies that range from twenty five to thirty five percent 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:52.880 across the board within those systems. 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:55.159 Yeah, that's another thing is from the one article that 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:57.480 maybe a third of it we're spending about a trillion 0:20:57.520 --> 0:20:58.439 dollars year, about a. 0:20:58.400 --> 0:20:59.160 Third of it is waste. 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:00.679 I don't want to now you put you on the 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:02.800 spot because you're not a historian. But like backing up 0:21:02.840 --> 0:21:07.960