WEBVTT - A&G Monday Replay Hour One 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:42.159 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:46.240 Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Caddy. 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:46.879 Armstrong and. 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:53.760 He is Armstrong and Caddy Strong. 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:04.520 Welcome to a replay of the Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:07.039 We are on vacation, but boy, do we have some 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:07.760 good stuff for you? 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:09.039 Yes, indeed we do. 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:10.839 And if you want to catch up on your ang 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:14.120 listening during your travels, remember grabbing podcast Armstrong and Getty 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:14.520 on demand. 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:16.840 You ought to subscribe wherever you like to get podcasts. 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:19.399 Now on with the infotainments. 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:22.760 Some breaking news just out of our newsroom here at 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:25.480 Fox thirteen. A man is in the hospital after being 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:28.240 shot in the leg overnight if his police say he 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:29.240 was shot by. 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:33.840 His dog. Seriously, I don't think that's right. 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:38.360 This happened just before four am at a home on 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:42.520 Whitney Avenue in Fraser Wow. Police say the man was 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.640 lying in the bed with a girl with a gun 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:48.880 on the bed. Police say his dog jumped up on 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:53.200 the bed, got is Paul stuck in the trigger and 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:57.320 ended up hitting the trigger, shooting the man in the thigh. 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:58.520 Wow accident. 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:02.200 Yeah, so the dog claims you pretend to throw the 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:04.800 tennis ball, you stick it in the couch cushion one 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:05.880 too many times? 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:09.120 Right, And Dora, I'm supposed to be there in the 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:09.760 bed next to you. 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:11.120 And who is this? Huh? 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:13.120 You cheating bastard. 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:15.320 When's the last time I went for a walk? Can 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:19.080 you even remember? Wow? 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:22.680 Wow, bad boy, bad dog. 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:26.640 The dog ties him to a chair like reservoir dogs. 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:28.440 I'm not putting up with this anymore. 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:31.040 Right Wait? So, uh Jack Michael? 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:34.440 Do we have that the two rappers were talking and 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:35.760 gunshots went off? 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:38.400 That's a candidate for clip. 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:40.080 Of the year. So I like the way. 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:42.680 Clearly this news anchor who's got a bit of a 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:48.320 kent Brockman, Will Ferrell vibe Yah apparently was just handed 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:50.600 this breaking news not knowing. 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:51.960 He was about to do a story about a man 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:53.799 who was shot by a dog at four a m. 0:02:55.760 --> 0:03:01.920 Yeah, so could happens also possible that he was messing 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:05.120 around with his gun, or she shot him or something. 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:08.120 They don't want to tell anybody what actually happened. 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:10.919 Right, Yeah, that's that's at least, although you know, it's 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:14.440 not implausible that if you are living the lifestyle where 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:17.080 you're lying in bed with quote unquote a girl who 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:17.840 wrote that story. 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:18.680 Did they need a woman? 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:19.280 I would hope. 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:24.800 And there's a gun laying there for some reason, you 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.880 can't put it on the nightstand even Yeah, you're living 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:29.120 the sort of lifestyle where. 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:29.560 Your dog shoots. 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:32.000 Maybe he or she likes the gun pointed at them 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:36.520 during their romantic times. Oh good lord, no, I remember 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:39.520 seeing that in the Sopranos. Remember one of them. Somebody 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:41.600 liked having a gun to their head during Tawdrey. 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:42.840 It's way too tawdry. 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:47.640 No, a dog just shot someone. This is time for 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:54.120 friend talk. The pastor's rising up, as I predicted. Go ahead, Michael, 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:57.560 and choices we got in life? Those were your choices? 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:00.800 Who shadow? 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:10.400 Somebody got shot? Oh how good? The dirty dead? What 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:19.000 do I want with my idea? Don't shut me? Everybody, everybody, everybody. 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:20.880 That's the sort of guy who's in bed with a 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:22.279 girl and a dodge shot. 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:29.039 They have a much more relaxed, lighthearted view of shootings 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:34.480 in the room. On fire, shootings in the room. I mean, 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:37.719 it's not even an accidental shooting at the range or 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:38.760 outdoors or something. 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:40.560 We're in a room with a number of people. A 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:45.880 gun gots off, somebody's been shot. You good, I've been shot? 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.360 It you good? You good? 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:52.560 Everybody good? Okay, Bess, I was saying, Wow, you've different 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:57.880 lived a different lifestyle than I have. Who Who shot? Who? 0:04:58.440 --> 0:04:59.200 Somebody shot? 0:04:59.320 --> 0:04:59.680 All right? 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:04.240 Anyway, what are your plans today? 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:06.200 You guys are hungry? 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:08.840 I'm hungry? Yeah? Crazy? Can I want to hear that 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:09.280 another one? 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:12.720 Just the beginning part where the anchor gets to the oh, 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:13.960 because I just find this funny. 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:16.800 We want to get you to some breaking news just 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:19.520 out of our newsroom here at Fox thirteen. A man 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:21.880 is in the hospital after being shot in the leg 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:27.600 overnight if his police say he was shot by his dog. Seriously, 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:32.240 I don't think that's right. This happened just before four 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:32.640 a m. 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:33.800 He don't know. 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:36.240 A dog Hitney Avenue in the Fraser Wow. 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:39.440 Police say the man was lying in the bed with 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.360 a girl with a gun on the bed. Police say 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:46.200 his dog jumped up on the bed, got is Paul 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:50.359 stuck in the trigger and ended up hitting the trigger, 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:52.760 shooting the man in the thigh. 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:58.080 Wow. Four in the morning. I ain't eating lamb and 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:02.840 rice anymore. Give me some real freaking food. Was it 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:06.760 a hunting dog? Boy? 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:09.840 So there's actual and of course some background checks. We 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:12.080 don't know any of those things. Gun loopholes, what went 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:12.520 on there? 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:15.040 Wow? Wow? 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:17.040 Well, and if I was going to make a serious 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:19.360 point about it, that's the very sort of person that 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:25.400 Democratic prosecutors would never enforce gun laws against. They howl 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:28.880 for more gun laws constantly. And then the guy who's 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:33.599 I'm confused. You know what I walked into that didn't I? Yes, 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:35.599 you know, Perhaps it's best to just move on to 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:39.200 other fair I don't know why I enjoy giving jiv 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:42.600 names to features sets of stories, but I do. 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:43.000 Jack. 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:49.160 So you get the choice between golden state of confusion. 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:51.640 Or how markets really work. 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.960 I'll go with a second, much more sober, just because 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:58.000 the lack of jiviness. 0:06:58.040 --> 0:06:59.920 I'm just curiousity after the dog predic Caul. 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:03.960 Yeah, okay, So story number one why the US keeps 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:08.000 losing to China in the battle over critical minerals Because 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:13.640 everybody knows that the minerals, the rarest the metals everybody's 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:15.480 talking about that go into. 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:16.400 So much new technology. 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:21.360 He or they who control access to those things controls 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:24.320 the world economy to a large extent. And the obvious 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:27.760 issue with that is that if we continue to be 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:31.120 highly dependent on China to come up with those materials. 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:33.280 We're screwed as an economy the minute they decide to 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:37.320 tweak us or bring us to our knees. So you 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:41.000 have this story of the effort to get a big 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:48.400 giant New America and our allies run graphite mine and 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:53.400 the goal to challenge China's dominance over the world supply 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:56.160 of a critical mineral used in everything from electric vehicles 0:07:56.160 --> 0:08:01.960 to submarine hubs. And so this Australia based mining company, 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:05.840 backed by more than one hundred million dollars of US 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:11.600 government financing, maybe a worthy goal. Kind of funny, There 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:13.520 wasn't any discussion of this, but this is what our 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:17.400 giant government does. Opened a mine in Mozambique and built 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.480 a graphite processing plant in Louisiana, the first of its 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.160 type in the US, and also signed a sales deal 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:26.600 with Tesla, which is historically brought graphight for cars from 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:28.480 China for the battery specifically. 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:30.200 But then things started to go off the rails. 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:32.600 China, which provides more than ninety percent of the world's 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:35.880 battery grade graph height supply, jacked up its production. 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:39.120 How many what did the market? How many stories include 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:46.280 China supplies ninety eight percent of this or that way 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:47.040 too many. 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:53.000 And whether Trump's plans bear fruit or not, and whether 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.840 He's allowed to even get the plans going fully is 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:58.560 anybody's guess. But this is the very sort of thing 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:02.479 that he and his ads are trying to wean us from. 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:03.120 The sort of dependence. 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.520 But anyway, the gist of the story is so China, 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.360 which provides where ninety percent of the world's battery grade 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:12.120 graph height supply, jacked up its production, flooding the market 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:15.840 and driving prices so low that this mine, this company 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:17.679 could not mine profitably. 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:18.319 Wow. 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:22.960 Last May, the Biden administration delayed new rules that would 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:26.960 have penalized US buyers from buying Chinese graphight for reasons 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:29.160 that I don't recall, probably because they were trying to. 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:30.560 Get hijin ping to do something. 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:36.400 In Mozambique, farmers resettled from the mining company's mind staged protests, 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:40.680 shutting down the mining, and the Louisiana plant, now open 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:43.400 for a year, has yet to make its first commercial sale, 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:45.960 and the company's stock is plunged by around ninety percent 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:48.000 since the start of twenty twenty three. 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:49.680 Wow, that's really interesting. 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:55.360 And once again the difficulties of a an authoritarian country 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:58.040 where one guy can make decisions and a democracy. 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:03.520 Yeah, and as always, there's a lot more detail and 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:07.679 nuanced to it, but we'll leave it here. I love, love, love, 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.160 love love the free market in so many ways. It's 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:13.480 lifted billions of people out of poverty, on lace new 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:17.559 medicines across the globe. It has profit is the reason 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:21.640 for charity. It's the reason charity exists. You have to 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:24.840 have more than you need to feed yourself to give 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:32.280 to charity. Anyway, as we retrench from the dream of globalization, though, 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:34.840 there are going to be some rainings in of the 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:36.720 free market, and it's going to be stops and starts. 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.439 It's going to be really difficult anyway not to get 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:41.280 hung up on that, because you could talk about it 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:43.240 for a year and a half and write five thousand 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:45.800 page books on it and not cover it. I thought 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:48.800 this was interesting, how markets really are Jack the rise 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:54.120 and fall of the Napa Valley of cannabis. When Colorado 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:57.480 became one of the first states to legalize a recreational marriage. 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:01.680 You wanna and an enthusiastic county commissioner in Pueblo said, 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:04.800 he wanted Pueblo to become the Napa Valley of cannabis. 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:07.880 And they talked a little bit in the Wall Street 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:10.960 Journal about the situation. Big slaughterhouse had closed years earlier, 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:14.520 steel mill had been shedding workers. They're really hurting for 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:17.400 jobs and tax revenue, and a cannabis boom would do 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:20.760 that for them. The streets were going to be paved 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:23.679 with gold, recalled one resident. The elementary schools were going 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:28.400 to be the greatest in the country. Then they talk about, 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:31.360 you know, the classic meme, how it started, how it's going. 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:36.520 In the first weeks, the only two shops then licensed 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:39.720 in the county, round rang Up combined one million dollars 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:43.320 in sales the first month, Wow, sending fifty six thousand 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:46.439 dollars in taxes to the county. 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:48.200 Everybody was just thrilled and happy. 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:53.400 Decade and high decade later, Pueblo's dreams have gone up 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:56.719 in smoke. A once thriving industry of retailers, growers, and 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:58.359 cannabis oil extractors. 0:11:58.559 --> 0:11:59.400 There were more than. 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:03.520 Two hundred of these businesses in twenty seventeen in that county, 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:07.480 more than two hundred. It's collapsed. Only forty five remain. 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:11.440 State records indicate county tax revenue plunge from more than 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:13.760 seven point one million dollars to four point eight million 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:16.319 twenty twenty three, which is still a pretty significant amount 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.440 of money. And you could argue that they're just thinning 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:20.760 the herd and the stronger surviving the way it goes 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:21.600 in capitalism. 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:24.320 But here's the problem. In California knows this too. 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.960 It's been a huge problem because the rosy rosy promise 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:29.839 is made to Californians. 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:30.840 In Colorado is alike. 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:35.600 Even after legalization, illicit growers and sellers thrived, even right 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.840 in Pueblo. Last year, they accounted for seventy percent of 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:43.679 the US market according to research companies. The black market dealers, 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:47.760 unlike licensed ones, face neither Texas nor red tape, so 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:51.640 they're more efficient and they're cheaper, and it's bad. 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:54.520 For your brain. That's interesting, man. 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:58.400 If you're counting on enough people smoking enough pot to 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:01.520 you know, make your school's great and everything like that, 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:02.880 that's just that's an interesting thing. 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:07.520 It is, and it's probably not a sustainable way to 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:11.720 run a society. Nationwide, only twenty seven percent of legal 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:15.840 cannabis businesses are profitable, which is down two percent just 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:16.600 three years ago. 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:17.280 Did not know that. 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:21.679 Yeah, investment is dried up, restructurings are rising, and in Pueblo, 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.720 sentiment about legal pots swung the other way, fueling a 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:28.319 backlash against the county's embrace of the industry. 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:33.920 And again, it's kind of complicated and a lot of 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:36.560 nuance to it, but it's just it's not nearly the 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:37.520 dream it was sold to be. 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:39.920 So I'm sorry. 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.360 And the one the one aspect you should understand it's 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:48.520 kind of intuitive is that if it's legal, enforcing laws 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:52.400 against the illegal stuff becomes so complicated because you know, 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:54.959 half of it, sixty percent of it, depending on where 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:57.280 you are, is legal. And so what are the comps 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:58.839 supposed to do if they see a bunch of guys 0:13:58.880 --> 0:13:59.600 smoking pot? 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:03.960 The Armstrong and Getty Show, more John your Joe. 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:05.400 Podcast and Our Hot Lakes. 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:10.640 The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:14.920 We had a conversation last week that I was very 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:19.000 uncomfortable with, and I felt very guilty about it because 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:23.640 I concealed a truth during the conversation. Confession being good 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:26.360 for the soul. I am here to confess it. But 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:29.880 like all good confessions, they work best in a multiple 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:33.680 choice format, and so I'm. 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:35.600 Going to give you multiple choices, but to up. 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:39.240 The anti, to up the anti, each of the. 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:43.440 Choices will get successively more evil. Oh boy, and you 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:46.200 have to choose which one I am actually guilty of. 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:48.560 I'm so uncomfortable right now. 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:52.800 Hey, I Joe Getty have a second wife across town, 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:55.560 with whom I have two children. She is in a 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:58.040 legal alien and I keep her in line by threatening 0:14:58.040 --> 0:14:59.000 her with deportation. 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:00.920 What's okay? 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.480 What's striking about this is you clearly didn't do that, 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:06.440 but you're going up the landing at worse. They're gonna 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:06.880 get worse. 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:10.680 Yes, yes, okay, anybody want to go for a or 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:12.960 you want to go on you want to roll the dice? Anybody, Michael, 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:16.680 Clearly that's not true, okay, all right, b I am 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:19.200 now and have been for thirty years an active member 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:21.600 of the American Communist Party, and have been working to 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:25.040 subvert the Constitution with every ounce of my energy, up 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:27.720 to and including acts of violence and sabotage. 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:31.040 So I think I think you've laid a really good premise. 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:35.040 Here, because you've got two very bad choices obviously not true. 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:39.640 Whatever something, What are auld did you do that. 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:43.400 Am I gonna want to associate with you after this? 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:45.280 I don't know, Comrade. 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:48.920 Perhaps again from a conversation last week in which I 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:55.320 conceal the truth or possibility, say, I had never seen 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:57.840 Gladiator until this weekend. 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:02.160 Oh wow, w oh, you saw the movie Gladiator. 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:07.960 My secret shame Gladiator one you recoded along with every conversation. 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:09.360 Are you not entertained? 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:12.520 Has growl? 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:14.760 I assume you went along with the facts because I 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:17.400 watched it with my son Henry a couple of weeks 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:19.560 back before we went to Gladiator two. He loved it 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:21.320 and it reminded me how much great it was. But 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:23.440 I said it might be in my top three movies 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:26.240 of all time, and I did not at that moment 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:27.680 reveal you know, I've never seen that movie. 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:31.000 Wow, that was good because I knew. 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:33.720 The derision that would rain down upon Were you probably 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:35.800 okay twenty years ago? Yeah, you were in the middle 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:37.480 of raising kids, So no, of course you didn't see 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:39.160 that movie because I am a house full of babies, 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:40.160 including a one year old. 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:44.000 Yeah, I didn't see anything between I don't know whatever 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:46.680 years twenty ten and like a year ago. 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.640 I am impressed, Joe, because you carried on a full 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:53.960 blown conversation about that movie, as if you it was 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:54.720 one of your favorites. 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:57.320 Yeah, well, you know, I read a lot, so I 0:16:57.560 --> 0:16:59.720 pick up clues from the you know, contexts and stuff 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:02.240 like that. But you know, Jack, you make a good point. 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:05.440 I remember roughly when the movie came out. Hey, dude, 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:07.680 you got to see this is great. It's an unbelievable movie. 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:10.240 Great guy villain. It's like two and a half hours long, and. 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:15.800 I'm my respons chance or if I'm gonna have a 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:17.880 couple two three hours, I'm gonna spend. 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.720 It silently staring at a screen when you could hang 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:22.040 out with your wife or doing something. 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:23.640 I mean, yeah, not gonna happen. 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:24.200 It was fun. 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:26.280 Nobody could do what Russell Crowe did. I don't know 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:29.040 what magic he had there, But can you tell me 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:30.840 you like Gladiator movie? 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:41.880 Arm Strong and Yetdy the Armstrong and Getty shot. 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:44.760 I was removed from my varsity girls team and replaced 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:48.600 by a newly eligible male transfer student who received favorable treatment. 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:51.680 As a result of this unfair treatment, my teammate Caitlin 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:54.200 and I wore shirts that said save girls Sports and 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:57.400 stated that boys and girls are different it's common sense 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:00.720 xx is not equal x yth Like director made me 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:02.800 remove my shirt and told me it was like wearing 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:06.200 a swastika in front of a Jewish person and said 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:08.680 that I would face disciplinary action if I wore it again. 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:12.000 My title nine in free speech rights as a female 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:12.520 matter too. 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:15.879 That's a high school girl speaking in front of the 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:18.280 California Assembly about how she was told to take off 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:21.399 her shirt, asking that she not have to play against 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:24.160 dudes more or less because it was like a swastik 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:26.440 in front of a German or a Jewish person. 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:30.040 Meanwhile, the dude was taking off his pants in front 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:32.240 of all the girls in the locker. 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:34.760 Room and dominating in the sports. Just sick. 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:38.800 So California's held a couple of hearings lately in the 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:43.200 Assembly for the purpose of quickly quashing bills that would 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:47.480 restore girls in women's sports. Josh Hoover's California assemblyman, a 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:50.840 seventh Assembly district who's privy to the goings on at 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:54.160 the Capitol, obviously, and actually Josh, first of all, welcome, 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:56.680 It's always a pleasure. How are you, thanks, guys, great 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:58.560 to be back, great to have you so were you 0:18:58.720 --> 0:18:59.399 at the hearings. 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:01.800 So I was at the Capitol. 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:03.920 I wasn't in the hearing room, but I was watching 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:06.520 on my screen and got to see everything go down 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:07.480 and how did it go? 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:08.840 Well? 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:11.320 So, I mean, you guys played that clip. There was 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:16.600 just hundreds of amazing student athletes there in support of 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:19.600 the bills. Obviously, you guys know that Governor Gavin Newsom 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:21.840 has seen the light on this in some ways, but 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:25.560 the Democratic supermajority in the California Legislature has decided to 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:28.840 double down. There were two bills that were heard, So 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:33.040 AB eighty nine would have required CIF, which is our 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:36.480 sports body here, to limit high school women's sports to 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:37.440 biological women. 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:38.560 And AB eight. 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:41.960 Forty four would have returned California law to where it 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:46.120 was ten years ago, which essentially limits sex segregated sports 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:51.040 to basically buy sex versus gender identity, which is what 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:53.320 they changed it to about a decade ago. 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:55.040 Well, if Gavin Newsom had out, I don't want to 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:56.960 get stuck on Gavin Newsom, but if he had seen 0:19:57.000 --> 0:19:58.959 the light, he would have come out yesterday and made 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:01.119 a statement about this or prior to the hearings. 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:02.720 But he did not because he's a Coward. 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:07.120 One hundred percent totally agree. The Legislative Committee, the Arts 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:11.240 Committee there voted seven to two to kill both. 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:13.680 Of these bills back to back. Unbelievable. 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:18.200 Let us pull out. It's seventy nine to eighteen this 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:19.840 issue in America, so. 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:22.200 It's an eighty twenty issue. I don't even understand the 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:25.040 raw politics of this issue. It just seems like the 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:27.159 Democratic Party is so on the wrong side of this 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:29.159 just terms of staying in office. 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:32.680 What gives so Jack, you know, one. 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:36.120 Of the things you've expressed is what are the arguments 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:38.520 opposing these bills? And that's one of the reasons I 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:40.879 tuned into the hearing because I wanted to hear what 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:43.920 the opposition had to say about this. So they laid out. 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:44.919 Five basic arguments. 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:48.399 Number One, passing these bills would be an invasion of 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:51.879 girls privacy because somehow we're going to now require, you know, 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:54.840 inspections of some kind, even though we did it this 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:56.960 way for decades prior. 0:20:57.000 --> 0:20:58.600 The entirety of human history. 0:20:58.800 --> 0:21:04.120 Josh, sports are inherently unfair. With another argument they used, 0:21:04.320 --> 0:21:06.720