WEBVTT - Enjoy Your Cat Videos 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.720 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:17.239 and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:26.960 Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by a billionaire a 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:31.880 Jeff Bezos, just successfully launched its first orbital rocket into space. 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:35.080 It was a mission to prove its new Glenn rocket 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:38.839 could reach orbit. Blue Origin hopes to guide the rocket's 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:42.440 first stage booster safely back to Earth to be refurbished 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:45.919 and used once again, driving down the costs for future launches. 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:49.839 That is awesome that the technological advances that are being 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:52.760 made in rocketry and all this sort of stuff coming 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:55.760 from private sector. The two richest guys in the world 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:58.160 are doing the best stuff out there, and they've got 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:02.920 their egos and financeel incentives to get better and better. 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:09.720 It's fantastic ahead of Amazon, that's right. I also, I 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:13.480 think it's just enthusiasm for it. I think exploring the 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:17.440 universe is an incredibly attractive proposition for these guys, and 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:19.960 I'm glad they're into it. Jack one report on the 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:23.280 Blue Origin rocket though it's going to get back in 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:26.240 two days, but then we'll be stolen off the launchpad 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:29.720 by the junkie, the reference to Amazon, and they're back 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:32.440 back to you. We aren't going to do politics really 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:34.319 this segment. We're going to do other news. But Joe 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:37.600 Biden last night. The main nut of his speech, the 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:39.680 important part that will be remembered, I think, is him 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:43.120 warning about the oligarchy of the rich that are taking 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:47.040 over this country and blah blah blah tech industrial complex. 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:49.360 You got the two richest men in the world, Jeff 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:53.680 Bezos and Elon Musk, doing this whole thing with the rockets, 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:57.880 which is fantastic, your billionaire on your side. His goal 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:02.200 was not outer space, rocket technology, anything that could benefit mankind. 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:06.120 It was getting Marxist DA's into big cities so crime 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:07.080 can runt rampant. 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:11.040 You write a short defeting Western defeating Western civilization and 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:13.120 reinstituting Marxism wherever he could. 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:15.960 There's a real freaking hero, mister person that makes me 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:19.320 angry anyway, Oh, I can't stand it. This is not politics. 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:22.400 It does mention a Biden though Hunter Biden two hundred 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:24.280 of his art works destroyed in the fires. I don't 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.679 know if you. Oh, what a loss to the world 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:29.480 of ours, he says, valued under it, he says, crank 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:31.880 out like Tenna Day. Somebody who had two hundred of 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:36.160 his paintings. Oh, it's the guy who would that guy 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:38.400 who had loaned him all the money, the weird looking 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:41.320 guy that loaned hunder all the money. They met at 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:43.960 a party. Remember that whole dale paid off his taxes. 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:47.120 That guy's house burnt down. He lived in the Pacific Palisades, 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:51.040 and he had two hundred of Hunter's paintings. Again, you 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.600 bought Hunter's paintings, why just because you loved his art? 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:55.359 Any who? 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:57.560 Well, and he had him at praised at like half 0:02:57.560 --> 0:02:59.880 a million each or something ridiculous. 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:01.680 Like, yeah, millions of dollars. He says, Can you do that? 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:03.120 If I have a fire, can I say, oh, my 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:06.480 string art, my string art worth millions of dollars. I 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:08.360 was going to sell it, and I never got around 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:12.440 to it. But I was making birdhouses worth two hundred 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:17.200 and fifty thousand dollars each. You can try, yeah, please. 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:22.239 Speaking of leadership, this is getting so little attention because 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:27.040 of our domestic politics in the US. But South Korea 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:31.560 finally arrested their president, which is not gonna a thousand 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:34.000 police officers whoa I. 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:35.760 Didn't hear that. Yeah. 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:38.280 So, as we mentioned to you last week, I think 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:40.880 was they went to arrest the guy for his declaring 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:43.080 martial law and the rest of it, and of course 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:46.200 the president and his folks are saying this is unconstitutional. 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:48.760 The court was not did not have the jurisdiction, blah 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:53.000 blah blah. What I know about South Korean jurisprudence will not. 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:56.960 Take long delayout. Okay, who knows which side is right? 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:59.200 But so they went to arrest the guy, and he 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:02.880 had one hundred of security personnel and like city buses 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:08.360 ringing his presidential compound like in a siege, Like he 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:10.080 built himself a castle, and. 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:12.000 He's like, come and get me. You never get me alive. 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:17.240 But they didn't fight, right right, They after hours of negotiation, 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:19.520 the authorities backed off. 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.400 That's the key to these things throughout history, going back 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:26.240 as old as time Shakespeare. It's all about will your 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:30.720 guys fire on countrymen to protect you or not? And 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:34.040 sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. That's what the 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:37.159 book I'm reading about Paris Napoleon the Third he told 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:40.040 his guys, when everybody was coming after him, fire on him. 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.159 And they're like, nah, we ain't going to shoot a 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.799 bunch of other frenchmen. You gotta go, and he left. 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.320 That's what happened with this guy in South Korea. 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:51.000 So the second attempt to arrest the president unfolded differently, 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:54.600 unlike the rushed initial try. Special investigators spent days planning 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:55.159 with police. 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:57.320 Youw and that's the president. 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:00.640 His security forces out numbered them last time, but when 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:04.200 just three investigators could deliver the arrest warrant, but before 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:07.760 dawn on Wednesday, some eleven hundred police and investigators turned up, 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:11.400 nearly triple the number of UN security personnel. So it's 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:14.760 just physical bulk, and we outnumber you, and we will 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:18.559 whoop up on you. No secret service bodyguards actively blocked 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:23.520 the arrest. No physical confrontations occurred. Instead, dozens of Yun's 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:26.520 ruling party lawmakers and officials blocked the entrance. Thousands of 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:31.000 protesters protested as protesters will. After about six hours, he 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.520 finally acquiesced if you're super committed to the guy, you 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:35.880 might take on those odds. I mean, we've seen that before, 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.880 people going down to the last to fight for their person, 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:40.880 but not in this case. They weren't like, I'm not 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:45.120 going to die for you, dude, well right, and they're 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:48.760 making the point, and it's worth mentioning. South Korea one 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:52.159 of our closest allies in the region, a really important 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:56.240 bulwark against China and totalitarianism. Perhaps you've heard of their 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:58.200 northern neighbor, fat head Kim Jong lun. 0:05:58.320 --> 0:05:59.320 There is a real country. 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:02.480 I was going to say, they have a functioning democracy 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:04.640 just since the eighties, so it's still a little new 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:09.039 and shaky. But he you and his people slammed the 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:11.240 arrest warrant is lacking legal merit. They will fight it, 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:13.920 et cetera. Let's just hope they can. They can shake 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:17.040 this out because I mean, this is used that everybody. 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:20.719 Every time the Trump, you know, is rude to a waiter, 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:25.039 everybody calls it a constitutional crisis. That in South Korea 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:26.240 is a constitutional crisis. 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.320 On what an underreported crazy story that is? I know it? 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:31.520 Yeah, Oh, speaking of Trump, one more real quick and 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:33.159 then Jack, I'm sure you have more to talk about. 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:37.400 Did you hear Milania Trump's documentary deal with Amazon? 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:40.320 I did not? You give Jeff Bezos. 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:45.680 Beware the tech kids USh real complex. Anyway, Former and 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:50.560 future First Lady Milania Trump inked an eye popping forty 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:54.840 million dollar deal with Amazon to license a documentary on 0:06:54.880 --> 0:07:00.200 her life, which included in the contract apparently cameos from 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:08.560 Donald J and the towering young Baron Trump. 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But more on that a little 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:14.800 bit later. The Wall Street Journal with the piece the 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:17.920 other day that got my attention, The bomb is back. 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:21.160 At the end of the Cold War, global powers reached 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:23.080 the consensus that the world would be better off with 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:26.560 fewer nuclear weapons. That era, according to the Wall Street Journal, 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:30.960 is now over. Treaties are collapsing, nuclear powers are strengthening 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.679 their arsenals, the risk is growing that nuclear weapons will 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:36.400 spread more widely, and the use of tactical nukes on 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:41.319 battlefields is no longer unimaginably and being regularly contemplated. The 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:44.600 latest estimate is that China has about six hundred INTERCONTINENTA 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.439 ballistic missiles and its arsenal, all of which can reach 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:49.800 the US mainland, and they're building more as fast as 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:53.400 they can. So the bomb is back. The fear of 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:59.319 the bomb is not back, though, for whatever reason, younger 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:02.200 people didn't grow up with this as a reality, so 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:05.280 there's no concern. It's concerned that this could actually happen, 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:08.000 It can actually happen, almost certainly will happen someday, but 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:10.520 who knows what. Yeah, it was funny. 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:15.200 I had muscle memory in reading that that peace, which 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:18.400 I saw as well. In that, I thought, oh, sweet 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:21.000 God and nuclear arms race. Then I remembered, Hey, I've 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:23.280 spent my whole life under that to that shadow. Wait, 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:25.760 I remember how this goes. You go about your business, 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:31.320 you try to think about something else. I mean, if 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:33.600 you want to talk about it and how it's dangerous 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:36.800 and awful and the various ways nuclear holocaust might unfold. 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.360 It's absolutely a valid discussion. The only thing you can 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:42.520 do is vote for people who take this seriously and 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:46.080 realize it could actually happen. Oh yeah, as opposed to 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.520 people who never talk about it and talk about wind 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:50.839 farms and crap like that. I almost dropped an S 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:54.680 bomb go ahead, things that aren't going to destroy mankind. 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:59.320 So finally, and we can expand on this later on 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:03.959 when we have time. I came across a piece written 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:07.760 by Christian Schneider which dovetailed quite beautifully in a number 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:11.480 of things I've seen recently, including Joe Biden's utterly life 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:14.680 draining speech last night which I took one for the 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.040 team and attempted to watch for a lot. 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:19.319 I did not watch it. That's a first review I've 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:21.760 heard using the term life draining. It was. 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:24.440 It was seriously, yeah, I'm less alive. I will live 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:26.760 a shorter period of time than I would have had 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:29.120 I passed on the speech entirely. But we can hit 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.719 you with some quote unquote highlights of that. But the 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:38.320 point is, and there are signs of this everywhere. Haakim 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:41.680 Jeffries the other day the Republicans are trying to pass 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:45.320 this law that says no dudes in girls sports, no 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:48.400 dudes in women's sports, no dudes in locker rooms, okay, 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:52.079 which seventy percent of America agrees with strongly. Hakim Jeffries 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:55.000 the other day said Republicans are trying to pass the 0:11:55.360 --> 0:12:01.000 child Predator Availability bill or child old predator. What was 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:04.880 the word he use, you know, a betting bill, And 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:07.160 everybody's like, what the hell are you talking about? 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:08.960 Well, I stand by my words. 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:13.400 So just completely out of step with America. You have 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:17.920 Wisconsin Democratic Chair Bed Wickler, who's currently running to lead 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:21.800 the Democratic National Committee. He issued a statement on x 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:27.000 previewing his tenure, we unite our coalition by making sure 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:36.760 everyone's at the table. LGBTQ minus plus of a black, Latino, Native, ethnic, interfaith, youth, disability, 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:41.320 just dripping in wokism, a bunch of other examples everything, 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:44.840 Joe Biden saying the Democratic Party has no idea why 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:47.599 they lost, which is great. 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:50.920 News for conservatives. Yeah, fantastic, glad to hear that. Double 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:55.280 down go further. Make those your lead issues. Oh yeah, 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:57.560 DEI is the most important thing you can do. Preach it, 0:12:57.600 --> 0:12:59.240 Preach it all the time, and there's no such thing 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:01.439 as a woman or man. Keep doing it right, love it. 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.400 You get to choose more on the way, stay tuned, 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:06.640 Armstrong and. 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.120 Yetty Well, I'm sure they're hoping for a deal of 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:11.200 some sort or figuring out somethings. They don't have to 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:13.360 shut down, but that's one of their options. And obviously 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:15.880 this whole thing is about leverage and negotiations and the 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:18.480 deal and which of the many things being floated will 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:20.480 be used. There's a lot of things that could happen here. 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:22.640 But the first thing is what the Supreme Court says, 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:25.520 and if they declare the ban constitutional based on national 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:29.000 security grounds, someone has to do something either Apple or 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:30.439 Google or byte dance. 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:33.560 Maybe one of the I'm sorry, I just jump in. 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:36.800 I wish people would refer to the ban on Chinese 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:38.120 ownership of TikTok. 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:40.360 There's a ban on TikTok. Yeah, I was about to say. 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:43.079 One of the reasons this thing gets complicated is people's 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:47.960 minds go lots of different directions. And the free speech direction, 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:51.960 the Chinese Communist Party spying on you, stealing information direction, 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:57.839 the kids wasting time on social media apps direction, or 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:01.080 you know, just a whole bunch of different and they 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:04.200 aren't all part of the legal part, but some of 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:07.160 them are still very, very very important to this point. 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:09.679 This guy Cal Newport, who I've never read any of 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.160 his stuff. He's written a couple of books. He's an 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:17.320 anti social media crusader, computer science professor, got a couple 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:20.160 of books out, Deep Work and Digital Minimalism. Anyway, he 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.880 detailed his experience of joining TikTok in an essay for 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:26.360 The New Yorker, and this is what he wrote A 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:30.880 decade ago. I viewed social media as Mannichan. These platforms 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.560 could distract and mislead their users, but they could also 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:37.600 topple dictators and enable free expression. But much of the 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:41.200 content on TikTok and on comparable services like Instagram, reels 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:45.200 and YouTube shorts borders on nihilism. It seems to revel 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:48.760 in meaninglessness, sometimes even poking fun at the idea that 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:51.920 a video should be useful. The most popular platforms are 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.640 saying the quiet power out loud that there is no 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:58.640 deeply meaningful justification for their digital wares, and their users 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:02.640 seem to understand and accept this new agreement. I found 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:08.440 that fascinating. There's some sort of I should ask my 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.320 kids about this. There's some sort of like unspoken or 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:14.320 maybe maybe set out loud agreement among young people. Yeah, 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:18.640 this is all about the meaninglessness of life. I get it, 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:20.880 They get it. We all get it. We're all we're 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:23.440 all participating in just this is all just a waste 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:26.520 of time. We're perfectly fine with amusing ourselves to death 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:29.280 because it's all pointless. Is that actually what's happening? 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:34.040 There is a vein of that running through society in 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:34.520 the West. 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:35.920 There's absolutely no doubt. 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:40.720 It's reinforced by you know, low birth rates, people not coupling, 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:43.680 people keeping to themselves. 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:45.960 It's not a healthy trend. I'll have to think about 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:51.520 this today. The nihilistic angle to all this in that 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:55.920 it's just everything is pointless, nothing matters, So why not 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:58.360 sit here? Who I don't care if the Chinese are stealing, 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:01.600 nothing matters, Just gonna sit here and scroll through videos 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:02.720 until it's time to go to bed. 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:07.640 If I am nineteen years old in a college dorm 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:13.360 and stoned, that conversation will take place, and it's okay. 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.440 But if you have a person or a generation of 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:18.640 people who don't grow out of that notion and don't 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.520 understand a you only get one chance at life, so 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:24.760 by God fill it, live a good one, live an 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:28.640 interesting one. And and you know, when you're old and 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:31.760 you don't have enough money to eat nor medicate yourself, 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:35.600 you're gonna wish you hadn't sat around scrolling through TikTok. 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:40.360 Those are indisputable truths. And I think, are we getting 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:43.080 shouted down? Are we sure of that this stuff hasn't 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:45.720 been around long enough? We don't know that there aren't 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:48.840 going to be fifty year olds perfectly happy with the 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.480 fact that they spent decades scrolling through TikTok. I would 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:54.200 assume if you're hungry, you'll you'll care, but because they 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:56.720 live in a socialist society where it doesn't matter, is 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:57.240 that what you're. 0:16:57.080 --> 0:16:59.520 Handing at or yeah, yeah, you'll be, you'll be, You'll 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:01.600 have some place to live and have some food. I 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:03.240 don't know if that's true. I hope you're right, but 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.600 I'm not sure that we're not going to have people 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:08.920 that are, you know, decades from now, sixty and seventy, 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:13.280 who are fine with continuing to just scroll through videos. 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:16.639 Well, if socialism continues to grow, you're right, But I 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:19.159 know people right now who've done well in life and 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:21.440 are looking at old age, and people who have not 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:23.600 done well at life looking at old age, and they 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:26.760 have a very different future from each other. 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:35.199 I found that fascinating. Much of the content revels in 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:38.679 its meaninglessness, sometimes even poking fun at the idea that 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:41.560 a video should be useful. The most popular platforms are 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:43.840 saying the quiet part out loud that there is no deep, 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:47.960 deeply meaningful justification for their digital wares, and their users 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:52.240 seem to understand and accept that agreement. That is troubling. 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:59.719 Yeah it is, I get it. A lot of video well, yeah, 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:04.439 I don't know. I'm not bullish on humanity. We'll do 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:07.000 some of the highlights which are worth discussing of Joe 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:10.040 Biden's speech last night, because he said some crazys they do. 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:13.600 Highlights are strong and getty. 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.360 I want to warrn a country some things that give 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:21.760 me a great concern. This is a dangerous concert, and 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:25.040 that's a dangerous conversation of power in the hands of 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:30.920 very few, ultrawealthy people, the dangerous consequences if their abusive 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:36.639 power is left unchecked. Today, an oligarchy is taking shape 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:40.280 in America of extreme wealth, power and influence. That literally 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:45.520 threads our entire democracy are basic rights and freedoms and 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:48.119 a fair shot for everyone to get ahead. 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:57.399 Okay, man, I don't feel like I'm threatened by an 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:01.959 oligarchy of the private right. It's one thing know how 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:04.960 to manage that. It's one thing for MSNBC to act 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:07.520 like it's a big problem that Elon Musk is at 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:10.000 mar A Lago so much, But for the sitting President 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:11.800 of the United States to go on TV in his 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:15.040 final address and act like this is a major threat. 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:18.640 We're living under an oligarchy where people can't get ahead anymore. 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:21.040 First of all, how did you combine those two things. 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:23.320 So because the Elon Musk's at mar A Lago, and 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:25.560 once the cut the size of government, people can no 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:28.439 longer become wealthy. And on what are you even talking about? 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:30.080 I know, it was just bizarre. 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:31.960 I watched a fair amount of the speech last night 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:36.640 with my jaw agape, not from sinility, but from being astounded. 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:41.560 Yet that was a complete disconnect. And obviously the hypocrisy 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:45.800 is almost hilarious. The tech leaders they could not put 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:49.400 in their pockets during the Biden years. They browbeat into 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:53.000 censoring free speech for them to make sure they could 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:57.879 subjugate the American people into utterly ridiculous and scientifically unsupportable 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:03.199 COVID measures. So, yeah, tech guys can be harnessed for evil. 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:06.639 We noticed, yeah, on the heels of Zuckerberg's Joe Rogan 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:09.240 interview in which he said Biden people were screaming at 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:14.080 him when he attempted to put up facts about side 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:17.639 effects from the vaccine screamed up by the Biden administration. 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:21.280 So you are giving us a lecture about oligarchs and 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:23.960 social media and that sort of thing. Also, britt Beher 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:28.840 pointing out last night the Democrats raised and spent two 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:32.760 to one dollars on this presidential election two to one 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:37.560 over the republicantic get dark money out of politics? What again? 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:41.280 What are you talking about? You know, as this is. 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:44.080 His valedictories on the way out. If I thought Joe 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:48.320 Biden had any beliefs, I could believe that maybe he 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:50.440 was like, yeah, we need to get the Democrat money 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:51.560 out of politics too. 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:54.480 But I don't think he has any actual beliefs. 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:58.480 So I'm just not interested. And so I guess we're 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:00.840 running some of the notable moment. And I refuse to 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:04.679 use the term highlights from the speech just as a 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:08.080 measure of how inept and out of touch Biden and 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:12.120 company are. I don't think any of this is very significant. Honestly, 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:15.480 it's just struck me as sad and pathetic. 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:18.120 It would have been twenty years ago, as I said earlier, 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:20.040 I think a president coming out and saying, look, we're 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:23.200 close to an oligarchy would have been holy crap, this 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:25.600 needs a national discussion. But now we're into the era 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:27.160 of people just say crap all the time. 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:31.480 Though, yeah, yeah, I should have taken a picture a photograph. 0:21:31.560 --> 0:21:34.520 I saw a graph on I think it was a 0:21:34.520 --> 0:21:36.480 special report with Brett beer last night may not have 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:40.160 been about the approval ratings that Biden is leaving office with, 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:45.320 and they are south of every single president from the 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:50.680 polling era except Dick Nixon, and not by much. Nixon. 0:21:50.840 --> 0:21:53.639 Does Nixon beat Biden to the bottom and give it 0:21:53.680 --> 0:21:59.440 to he is vastly less popular than the guy right 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:01.840 ahead of him that I think may have been George H. W. 0:22:02.040 --> 0:22:04.800