WEBVTT - I Prefer One Armed Push-Ups With A Clap 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.240 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:17.239 Armstrong and Getti and he Armstrong and Yeddi. 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:27.360 President Biden claimed the country's stronger because of his work 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:31.840 to expand NATO support Ukraine, withdraw US forces from Afghanistan, 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:35.280 and take on China. In his remarks on Afghanistan, the 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:38.360 President only briefly mentioned the thirteen US service members who 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:40.720 died in the suicide bombing at the Kabol Airport during 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:43.960 the withdrawal of US forces, widely seen as one of 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:45.840 the darkest moments of his presidency. 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:47.600 Yeah, I'd say so. 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:51.839 And also just factually, it's when his ratings tanked and 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:56.720 never recovered. It basically ended his presidency. So I realized 0:00:56.760 --> 0:00:58.920 the President is trying to shape history with his speech. 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:03.000 Good luck with that, and horribly undermined his foreign policy 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:06.040 goals too, as America was displayed as weak and feckless. Yeah, 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:08.280 I was just going to say the whole you know, 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:12.000 the great saying, which is so true, watch what people do, 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:16.400 not what they say. Well, he's already done it, so 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:18.160 he can say anything he wants. 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:20.319 It's just kind of sad. 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:22.600 And useless in my opinion, and according to the Bob 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:25.640 Woodward book, it was a real indication to putin all 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:28.759 this this administration does not have it to act together 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:33.199 in terms of pushback to invading Ukraine when he saw 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:37.560 the pull out of Afghanistan, right that was done more. 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:38.480 Or less undisputed. 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:42.440 Outside of Morning Joe a lot to get to this hour, 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:46.200 including a chat with Congressman Tom McClintock about the wildfires 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:51.520 in California that absolutely are to a large extent caused 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:56.840 by politics or exacerbated by politics. Not climate change policy matters. 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:00.880 It absolutely does. But first take a look in the 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:01.960 China cabin. 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:11.040 Which is admittedly China. 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:14.880 China adoping named for a handful of that. 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:18.400 I'm sorry, Michael, I had forgotten that guy. Do you 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:26.120 have the China's a whole guy China as oh, oh, sir, true. 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:31.920 But harsh I thought this story was so interesting. The 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:36.600 Wall Street General reporting that China's reigning in it's once free, 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:41.400 willing finance sector with purges and pay cuts. Chinese Letursesian 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:44.840 ping is bringing the country's financial sector to heal, one 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:48.840 banker at a time, and they go through the list 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:52.400 of these guys who are often Western educated, who are 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:58.200 very skilled, brought in enormous levels of investment and profit 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:04.400 to China, which they finance Jesion pings goals for consolidating 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:08.000 power and growing China's you know, global influence of that 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:08.480 sort of thing. 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:14.640 But he is killing the golden goose. It is clear. 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:16.560 And I remember when you first brought us this story, 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:20.000 some communications had been leaked. I can't remember the exact 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:25.359 outlines of the story. But this guy is a real communist, right. 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:27.880 I think that's what I was saying to Ian Bremmer 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:30.080 when he said I was over egging the pudding. But 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:34.600 there were reports that, based on things she was saying 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:38.760 and reading and doing, here's the big story. He's actually 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:41.880 a communist. He's not just pretending to be a communist 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:44.680 so he can be a dictator. He actually is a communist. 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:47.920 I think you were one of the few commentators who 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.120 took that story as seriously as it should be taken, 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:52.200 and which is what does. 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:56.000 For us because communism doesn't work, oh no, it's miserable 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:58.560 in every way by every measure. 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:02.760 So many economists and bankers fear that the shakeup is 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.560 going to dampen what they call the animal spirits one 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:10.000 of my favorite Wall Street expressions. When everybody's feeling positive, 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:12.480 it's the animal spirits. Haven't we all felt the animal 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:15.120 spirits Friday night? Who knows, maybe a drink or two 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:20.359 ennus the animal spirits. Anyway, financiers and regulators are becoming 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:22.880 much more conservative to avoid mistakes that could get them 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:26.400 in trouble. So they're starting to play a very very 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.960 safe game, which if any you know, if you have 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:32.200 any sophistication as an investor, whatsoever, you understand, the more 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:34.039 safe you play at the lower your returns are going 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:36.599 to be. China is also losing bankers and regulators with 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:39.159 international experience and technical knowledge at the time when it 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:45.159 faces complex financial risks that require more sophisticated oversight and 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:50.200 animal spirits. Not less, they have trillions of dollars worth 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.640 of off the books local government debts, they have the biggest 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:58.880 property bubble in the history of mankind and. 0:04:58.920 --> 0:04:59.960 A shrinking pop. 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:05.599 And they're jailing or purging anybody who has any experience 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:10.400 and any verve in dealing with this sort of thing. 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:14.680 I was looking at some of the videos overbreak of 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:18.279 those cities. I mean, there's chunks of cities with all 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:22.960 these giant buildings, and they're all empty, just building after 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:25.840 building after building, a house after house after house that 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:28.640 they threw up. I don't know where they thought these 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:31.080 people were coming from, but anyway, they built all this 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.120 stuff and now they're just empty. And they, like you said, 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:37.039 a shrinking population and a shrinking economy. China could do 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:40.440 the whole. How did you go bankrupt gradually? Then suddenly 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:42.400 thing just collapse one of these days. 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:48.360 And they have horrific sociological problems too. The young people 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:51.080 don't have job prospects, they don't have hope, they don't 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:55.839 have families, no girls. Well, right, and then so many 0:05:55.880 --> 0:06:00.480 people have invested virtually their entire self forth in the 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:04.920 property bubble, which is now burst, and so they have 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:08.760 their life savings invested in an apartment. Say that may 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:14.840 may never exist. Let's see, there's one other aspect of this. 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:15.960 I wanted to get to. 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:17.760 Where'd that go? 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:19.520 Oh that's all right, We'll move along and come back 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:24.600 to it later. Let's see this story. Trump and She 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.640 face off expect Us China tensions as the two leaders 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:33.760 pursue opposing agendas. That's absolutely true, and it's appropriate, and 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:39.120 it's good any sort of You can't woo China. You 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:43.360 can just offer them cards at the poker table of 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:46.599 international relations that they will exploit. They are not going 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:48.640 to be nice guys. They are not going to help us. 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.080 They are not going to do anything that is not 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:56.240 in their naked self interest. And to wit I like 0:06:56.320 --> 0:07:01.240 this John Ratcliffe, who's a rare hold over from Trump 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:08.760 one's national security team. Ratcliffe is Trump's CIA pick and 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:12.680 he is expected to push for bare knuckle spycraft against China. 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:17.400 Ratcliffe is not screwing around, which I absolutely love. He's 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:20.600 likely to push from more aggressive spying operations targeting Beijing, 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:26.800 and that America says is about to take the gloves 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:28.920 off and it's shadow boxing with Beijing. 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:32.520 Well good, They took their gloves off a long time ago, right. 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:33.120 You know? 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.240 The part that I was trying to find in the 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:38.680 analysis of China and becoming more and more communists is 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:41.040 ta go ahead, is take the gloves off. We've discussed 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:41.560 this before. 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:44.080 A boxing thing like I'm taking off the soft gloves 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:46.160 and hitting with my bare hand. Or is it a 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:48.520 taking off the gloves sliping in the face dual thing? 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:51.480 Oh? Or is it. 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:54.040 You know, as a former hockey player, it's like a 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:54.960 hockey thing to me. 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:57.280 But I don't know what the origin is. 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.520 Everybody understands what it means, but yeah, what's of gloves 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:01.200 are we taking off? 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:02.240 Katie? Do you have the answer? 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:05.720 Yes, it comes from the practice of boxers removing their 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:08.520 gloves before a fight to inflict even more damage. Okay, 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:13.000 bare knuckle boxing. I teased yesterday the upside of dueling 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:15.400 and how we should bring it back, and it's really interesting, 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:16.760 So I hope I get to that today. 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:22.480 So anyway, what the article that I can't find. They're 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:25.920 making the point that as these headwinds grow and the 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:30.240 challenges within China grow and confront cheshion Ping and the communists, 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:37.760 they're going further down the road of aggressive nationalism, hostility 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:39.160 toward outside threats. 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:41.840 Up with China, we're the best, et cetera. 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:46.560 The problem with that is the international community, from you know, 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:49.440 the Western world to even the Third world. 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:50.480 Is like whoa. 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:55.040 China is getting weirder and meaner and more nationalistic, and 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.800 they're no longer talking about how they want to help everybody, 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.880 so it's going to exacerbate their wh So I'm telling 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:06.200 you their internal political situation is unstable. 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:15.120 The next quick look inside the China cabinet China. This 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.000 is this is related to China. 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:21.640 Chinese officials have discussed options for TikTok's US operations, including 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:24.320 a possible sale to Elon Musk. I have no idea 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:27.520 if Elon has any interest in buying TikTok, but you 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:30.840 certainly got the money. I was listening to one of 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:35.360 my favorite pundits yesterday, Harvard Lawyer of person that you 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:40.320 see on TV now and then explaining to people who 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.920 haven't done TikTok, like a lot of us grown ups, 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:47.360 how incredibly addictive it is, saying that if you're like 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:50.679 comparing it to YouTube or Instagram or Facebook or anything 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:54.400 like that, it's a completely different world of engagement and 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:56.559 how it lures you in, which I found fascinating and 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.280 almost makes me want to download the TikTok app just 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:02.080 to have had the experience. But I know that if 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:03.720 you download the app, there all of a sudden intelle 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.480 your phone and have all your information, But it's just 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:10.760 a com It makes Instagram look like nothing in terms 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:13.200 of guessing what you'd be interested in to waste your 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:15.600 time and that algorithm is worth something. 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:20.160 Uh yeah, absolutely is my goodness, it's it's indisputable how 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:24.199 successful it's been, to the point that because it's fun, 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:28.160 people are willing to overlook statistics like this. According to 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:31.400 a major study done on TikTok more TikTok, more than 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:35.679 eighty percent of the content generated in an Instagram search 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:40.400 on the Wigers was negative towards China. On Instagram. If 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:45.400 you if you search on the wigers, it's eighty percent negative. 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:51.800 It's eleven percent on TikTok. One in ten mentions of 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:55.920 the wigers are negative on TikTok. Search for tion Men 0:10:56.000 --> 0:11:00.720 on YouTube generated tian Men Square the massacre etcted content 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.960 that was sixty five percent negative, twenty percent on TikTok. 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:07.600 It's unquestionably a propaganda wing of the Chinese Communist Party. 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:09.840 It's owned by a hostile foreign power. There are laws 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:13.240 about that. It's not it is not a complicated First 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:16.840 Amendment argument in my mind, No, I don't. 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.400 Think it is. That's where it gets complicated. That it's 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:23.199 a complicated business ownership. Who gets to do what? How 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:26.040 do you stop them? Thing for the Supreme Court to 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:30.320 deal with, especially in the computer age, right, exactly. Internet's 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:32.440 the way, Internet's cross boundaries and all that sort of stuff. 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:33.760 Yeah, exactly, I. 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:39.120 Don't understand where are their factories? Would be the question 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:42.440 to asked by every single Supreme Court justice up until 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:46.400 roughly the current crop, because these challenges did not exist. 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:50.640 Yeah, so it looks like there might actually be an 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:53.800 Israel Hamas peace deal, which would be a huge win 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:56.800 for Trump. Among other things we got coming up, including 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:59.719 a congressman who we're friends with, Tom McClintock, wrote a 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.120 piece on The Wall Street Journal about how California policy 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:04.400 used to blame for a lot of the disaster. We'll 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:05.560 get to that this hour too. 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:08.560 Stay around. 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:13.080 At Kamala Harris's home in Brentwood, California, police responded to 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:16.280 an alleged burglary, but the suspects were instead detained for 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:20.200 violating curfew and thanks to Doug Emahoff, both of them 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:21.280 are now pregnant. 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:24.840 Wow. 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:29.880 Wow uh as a gut salt works edgy Hey tounished. 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:34.440 So this on kind of that angle, thought this was interesting. 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:39.680 Julia Roberts says, f you uses the actual word in 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:43.160 an interview to looters as her ten million dollar home 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:45.560 continues to be robbed during the LA fires. 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:50.000 Wow, Wow, what a beautiful example of the protected class 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:51.120 and the unprotected class. 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:52.240 More on that to come right. 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:55.240 And it was pointed out by someone online that Roberts 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:58.559 did ads for Kamala, who, of course, Kamala wouldn't even 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:02.200 take a stand on whether theft under one thousand dollars 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:05.480 should be a felony, wouldn't even make a comment on 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:08.480 that policy. She was so freaking weak. And that was 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:11.320 your hero, Julia Roberts. And now the sort of people 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:16.480 that have been trained that crime isn't a crime are 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.200 stealing from you. So I don't even know what to say. 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:23.800 Yeah, middle class people, working class people, really, everybody but 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:28.439 the elite has already been battered by crime and junkies 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:31.760 and the awful results of progressive policies. 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:32.720 And now that it's hit. 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:36.000 The Hollywood elite, they're like, oh, crime hurts, crime makes 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:39.679 me sad. Yeah, wow, thanks for your perspective. 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.240 So I'm not I don't know if it does this 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:46.319 any good to bring up these stories or not. Does 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:48.000 it convince anybody? I mean, we do it on a 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:51.160 regular basis. Maybe it's just good to be reminded. Maybe 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:55.240 if you get reminded enough at some point. The original 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:59.440 science backed seven minute workout to get fit Fast research shows, 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:01.280 and you brought up this sort of thing the other day, 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:06.840 reshirt research shows that a very simple little bit of 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:12.360 exercise can rapidly increase your health and how you feel 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:15.680 and all sorts of different things. It takes so little 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:19.840 to be better than nothing. Don't be sedentary anyway. This 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:22.640 seven minute workout that they're touting in the New York 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:25.360 Times today, and there's no arguing that this wouldn't be 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:29.560 a great idea compared to nothing. It's super simple. You 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:31.600 don't need to join a gym or buy an equipment 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:33.720 or do anything. It's push ups and jumping jacks and 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:36.040 set ups and stuff like that. It's basically the idea 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:38.280 of you do as many jumping jacks as you can 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:40.360 in thirty seconds. Then you take a little rest and 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:41.760 you can do as many push ups, and you can 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:44.280 do cheap push ups if you have to, whatever you 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:46.320 can do at this point. You just do as much 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:48.440 as you can for thirty seconds. Then you take a 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.320 little break and you just do it for seven minutes. 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:52.240 If you did that every day, it goes with the 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:56.600 percentages of heart health and tonality and blah blah blah 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:58.520 and less injury and all the things the benefits that 0:14:58.560 --> 0:14:59.080 you would. 0:14:58.840 --> 0:14:59.320 Get out of it. 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:01.880 Wow, need to post that at armstrong and Getty on 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:05.440 I'm sorry armstrong and getty dot com under hot links. 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:08.280 I prefer the one armed push ups with a clap 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:08.920 in between. 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:11.360 Yeah, I do a lot of those. It's the style 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:16.800 I prefer. There is a great benefit to uh. 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.440 It helps to be older because when you're young, especially 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:21.600 as a man, it's tough. But there's a great benefit 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:25.000 to letting go of how much weight are you're lifting, 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:27.160 or how many of these are you doing, or how 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:31.280 fast you're running. None, none of it matters. Oh yeah, yeah, 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:33.840 you're not trying to get babes. You're trying to stiff 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:36.560 arm the grim Reaper. I actually a completely different game. 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:38.600 I actually am trying to get babes. It depends on 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:39.840 your stiff arm. 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:41.760 Well is, you're going to be busy, but I'm going 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:43.560 to stiff arm the grim Reaper at the same time. 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:45.840 But I'm past the age of comparing myself to other 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.920 people and thinking that makes any difference. That's not what 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:50.720 I'm trying to accomplish. I'm trying to be as fit 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:54.240 as I can. I'm not trying to beat you, right, 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:55.640 that's where it breaks down. 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:58.440 Yeah, yeah, so run. 0:15:58.360 --> 0:15:59.600 As fast as you can, do as many push ups 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:01.320 as you can't, all that sort of stuff, which might 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:01.760 be very. 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:06.880 Slow and very few, but it's so much better than nothing. Yeah. 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:08.640 I was never a gym guy, per se. 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:11.200 I worked out a lot to play baseball and then 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:13.840 golf to some extent, believe it or not, but I 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:15.480 was never enough of a gym guy. I never felt 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:17.920 that sort of competition because it was useless. It was like, 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:19.880 you know, speaking of golf is like a guy who 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:22.960 can't break a hundred showing up and saying, who wants 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:26.760 some of this? You can't beat anybody. So that was 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:30.280 my point, the point of view in the gym. Yeah, 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.280 well it's different in the gym than like playing golf. 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:33.800 You can be out on the golf course and people 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:35.760 see you, they don't really know how good you are 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:37.560 or not. But in the gym, it is very clear. 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:38.880 How many plates are on your bar. 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:43.560 Few there are supposed to be plates on this bar. 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:47.080 This bar is heavy, few and small is the I 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:48.280 could barely lift the bar. 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:49.520 The kidding. 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:53.160 Tom McClintock is a congress person from California. He knows 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:54.960 a lot about the policy over the years that may 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:57.160 have led to these fires world did lead to these 0:16:57.160 --> 0:16:58.160 fires and disasters. 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:00.880 Long time ember of the Natural Race Source's Commission too, 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:05.200 he understands timber and water and infrastructure. Tom McClintock and 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:08.240 much more to come, Stay with us, Armstrong and Getty show, 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:11.679 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:15.760 Does the buck stop with you? I mean, you're Governor 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:18.760 of California and inviting it will be the mayor of California. 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:20.320 We're all in this together. 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:21.119 We're all better off. 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:21.840 We're all better off. 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:23.840 We're all better off, and we're working together to take. 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:24.280 Care of people. 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:27.120 And there wasn't a yes in there. Does the buck 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:32.479 stop with you? To Gavin Newsom? And then haamanahammahammanahamana. And 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:36.120 yesterday we mentioned the Mark Halpern line of health. Hell 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:39.600 hath no fury like a celebrity scorned. Maybe that's what 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:42.639 it takes to drive policy changes. Celebrities are upset. I 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:44.440 don't know it's sad that that's the case, but it 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:44.760 might be. 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:50.040 Congressman Tom McClintock represents California's fifth congressional district, longtime friend 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:52.959 of the Armstrong and Getty Show, member of the Natural 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:57.320 Resources Committee, and a significantly author of an absolutely terrific 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:59.600 piece published the other day in the Wall Street Journal. 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:04.520 Bad policy served as kindling for California's wildfires. Tom McClintock 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:05.920 joins us, Tom, how are. 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:07.760 You, sir, I'm doing five? 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:08.359 Thanks guys. 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:10.400 Yeah, Well, lay out along in short of your piece 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:11.320 in the Wall Street Journal. 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:20.120 Well, it's not altogether complicated. Throughout all recorded history, California 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:22.320 lost about four and a half million acres a year 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:26.240 to catastrophic fire. This is nothing new. What is new 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:30.200 is beginning in the nineteen hundreds, we established land management 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:33.400 agencies to do a little gardening. You know. We auctioned 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:36.000 off access timber to logging companies that paid us to 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:38.760 remove that access before it could choke off the forest 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:42.200 and burn. We leased public lands to cattle and sheep 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:47.040 ranches to suppress brush growth through grazing. We cut fire 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:50.600 brakes to contain fires. We used herbicides to keep brush 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:54.600 away from residential areas. We put out fires before they 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:58.360 could explode out of control, and fire losses in California 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:01.199 declined from about four and a half million acres a 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:04.560 year to about a quarter million acres a year throughout 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:08.040 all the twentieth century. But the environmental laws that we 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:12.280 passed have made the permitting for these practices endlessly time consuming, 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:15.879 ultimately cost prohibitive. So we stopped doing them, and in 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:18.840 twenty twenty fire losses we're back up to guess what 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:21.400 about four and a half million acres a year. That's 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:24.920 not a new normal, that is the old normal returning 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:29.240 because the environmental laws changed policies that we're working to 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:31.440 keep fires at a minimum. 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:32.600 Tom. 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:36.639 I know you as we value the environment quote unquote 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:40.680 clean air and water and the beautiful landscapes California, et cetera. 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:47.320 But who is this far left environmental cabal in California 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:48.760 and how much power do they wield? 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:51.200 Well, it's not just California, it's national laws as well. 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:54.439 It's a national environmental policy acting, Dangerous Species Act, the 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:57.920 Wilderness Act, and you have in California, the California Environmental 0:19:58.040 --> 0:20:01.720 Qualities Act. Of these were all passed with the promise 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:06.439 that they would improve the forest, environment and public lands management. Well, 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:09.359 I think after now living with these laws, for fifty years, 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:12.879 we're entitled to ask how's the environment doing? And the 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:17.920 answer is absolutely damning. Our force are now carrying four 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:21.239 times the timber density of the land can support, and 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:27.200 so we're losing them to disease, pestilence, drought, and ultimately 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:31.280 catastrophic wildfire. I mean, all of that excess timber and 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:33.159 growth is going to come out one way or another. 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:35.480 Either we're going to carry it out or nature is 0:20:35.520 --> 0:20:36.480 going to burn it out. 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:39.000 Well, a number of people have made this point, So 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:42.560 Gavin Newsom is dropping a lot of the environmental restrictions 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:46.359 with some sort of emergency you know, declaration, so people 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:49.240 will make it it'll be easier to rebuild. And of course 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:51.439 the reaction for a lot of us to that is 0:20:52.840 --> 0:20:55.320 so what's the logic there? If they can be done 0:20:55.320 --> 0:21:00.160 away with these environmental restrictions for this emergency, whyever have them? 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:05.520 Well, exactly right, I mean, this is an admission by Newsome. 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:08.040 I don't think he realizes it, but it's an admission 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:11.280 by him that these laws not only have not worked, 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:16.639 they've been counterproductive. And if this doesn't prompt a wholesale 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:18.520 revision of them, I don't know what will well. 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:19.360 You're right, You're right. 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:22.320 Obviously it is an admission because it's saying this will 0:21:22.320 --> 0:21:25.000 make things a lot easier and faster to rebuild. 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:27.240 Oh really yeah. 0:21:27.840 --> 0:21:30.920 And at the same time, these laws have hampered our 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:35.400 ability to deliver water projects for the next generation, as 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:37.919 well as to manage our lands to keep them healthy 0:21:37.920 --> 0:21:40.120 and fire resilient. I mean, look, this is the way 0:21:40.280 --> 0:21:44.840 nature gardens, and Natures allows the gardener. If you don't 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:47.040 believe that, just leave your own garden alone for a 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:48.560