WEBVTT - The A&G Replay Tuesday Hour One 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.960 What you're listening to now is the Armstrong and Getty Show, 0:00:03.000 --> 0:00:05.559 but make sure to check out are many podcasts. 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:09.240 There's Armstrong and Getty Extra Large featuring interviews with interesting people. 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.520 There's Armstrong and Getty Select Cuts, and Armstrong and Getty 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:13.080 One More Thing. 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:15.880 All are free, and all are available on the iHeart 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:20.160 app or wherever you like to download your podcasts. 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:27.520 This from Aleen Anonymous. 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:29.360 We're on our way home from school tonight, and out 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:31.240 of nowhere, my twelve year old daughter says, do you 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:34.720 know why I'm worried about having kids racing myself for 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:38.519 some climate scare mongering or some other brand of crazy 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:40.600 that TikToker or teachers are pushing. 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:42.000 I responded, no. 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:45.319 Why, she says, I'm afraid they'll come home one day 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:47.640 and they'll tell me their trans and I'll say, oh, no, 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:49.920 you're not, and then they'll hate me, and the school 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:51.560 will call me in and yell at me and tell 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:54.319 me I'm anti trans, and I'll say, you damn right 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:54.720 I am. 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:56.040 This is a twelve year old. 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.360 By the way, Wow, who has a very similar attitude 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:01.560 is my year old? Isn't that interesting? 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:04.480 So many thoughts and emotions racing through my head. But 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:07.120 in the moment I couldn't ever stout laughing. I told her, 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:09.600 hope bad that will have passed by the time she 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:11.680 has kids. I certainly think it will. I wouldn't call 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:16.000 it a fad kind of one. It's a psychological contagion. 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:18.760 There are a bunch of examples of this through history. 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:20.160 How interesting is that. 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:22.440 Though, kids like her kid and my kid coming to 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:27.039 this conclusion in the face of everything around them other 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:28.280 than like reality. 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:32.600 Well, yeah, this young woman, obviously, God bless her, has 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:37.319 the I am not going to tell you to ignore 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:41.000 the evidence of my eyes and ears and my conscience. 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:44.880 Good for her anyway, Who knows, Maybe a little be 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:47.360 the kids of this generation, whatever they're called, who are 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:50.920 growing up rolling their eyes at the furries in their classrooms. 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:53.960 They're sick of having pronouns and gender issues shoved down 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:56.520 their throats. Who can see plainly and simply that the 0:01:56.640 --> 0:02:00.520 trans and nine non binary kids are mainly just misfits. 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:05.240 We're desperate for attention and belonging. Ding Maybe today's middle 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:08.480 schoolers will be the ones to rebel with conservatism and 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:09.760 put a stop to the madness. 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.440 Eventually, my son's always bringing up the furries, How does 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:13.880 he even know the word furries? 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:19.240 Brilliantly said an anonymous and good for your kid. You 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:23.919 are absolutely right on every single count. How's about this? 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:27.960 Greeting's big freedom, Old simple Jack in America's Sweethearts Michael, 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:31.440 Katie and Hanson. Our fabulous son, who just happens to 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:33.600 be of mixed heritage, is about the same age as 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:36.200 Jack's oldest and, like Jack, soon or a young man, 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:38.320 is starting the years of freshman at a very nice 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:41.880 California public high school. We've driven our son to and 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:44.560 from school since kindergarten in order to be sure he 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:49.760 attends better than nearby local schools up with school choice. 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:50.480 Let's see. 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:53.720 Due to this and to and fro drive time, our 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:58.200 son also enjoys the statistically proven educational advantage of listening 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:01.840 to the Armstrong and Getty Show. Our son, who naturally 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:05.280 understands the meaning of such words as Marxist, woke, progressive, 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:09.080 and scumbag, reported that his classes were pretty much chill 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:13.360 and relax. He reported that week one, after reviewing the 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:17.440 class syllabus, he asked his chill I think I can 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:20.000 you know I'm going to leave the subject even out, 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:23.320 But he asked his chill blank teacher, what does climate 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:25.839 change have to do with this topic? The teacher leaned 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:27.800 in and quietly told him nothing. 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:33.120 They make us teach this stuff. Oh my god, wow. Wow. 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:37.280 The notable exception to the mostly chill and relaxed teachers 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:40.680 who would say that to him was the wait for it, 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:45.720 young white, college educated female English teacher who has a 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:49.400 giant Pride flag hanging in her classroom. This has been 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:53.400 our son's English teacher's teachings. Week one read a novel 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:57.840 about the offensive nature of quote not seeing color. Next week, 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:02.000 definition examples and how to reac to microaggressions. 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:04.160 Oh man, Then he was. 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:09.680 To declare what genders he identifies as for that week. Boy, 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:13.120 the whole microaggressions thing has been so thoroughly debunked and 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:18.159 misproven that that or whatever the word is, that that's 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:21.400 the worst thing you can do is have people, you know, 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:26.080 focus on microaggressions. Finally, last week he was to declare 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.040 his to the class his pronouns. 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:29.160 This is English class. 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:32.320 Now he stood up and proudly declared that his pronouns 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:37.000 were HRH and HRM. His Royal Highness and his Royal majesty. 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:41.880 He reports that the class erupted in laughter and cheers. 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:45.120 His English teacher, on the other hand, was not amused 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:48.360 and angrily announced that his declaration was quote not appropriate 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:50.960 for her English class. 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:54.119 Why aren't you reading Shakespeare or something? 0:04:56.080 --> 0:05:02.120 Let's see on brighter side, substitute teacher came in, who 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:04.600 taught for decades. When the gentleman asked the class what 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:06.960 they had last worked on and was told pronouns, he 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:08.000 declared to the class, I. 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:09.720 Will be teaching English and nothing else. 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:17.320 Twitch The class of kids cheered, wow, A and G 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:20.240 S A y O, D A A, T A and G. 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:24.839 Saving America's utes one day at a time, Alnonymous. 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:29.480 You know it's not unrelated to the Wall Street Journal 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:34.160 opinion piece we read earlier about how America isn't ignoring 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:36.040 the fact that World War three is on the horizon. 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:42.120 They're not unrelated that we're so willingly like giving away 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:46.600 Western civilization or embarrassed by it. Of course they're related. 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:52.400 There's why would there be a great need to protect 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:58.360 something that you don't like? Yeah, yeah, I remember years 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:00.920 It just started years ago. When I think Harold Bloom, 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.719 his last name is Bloom. The world's greatest Shakespeare expert, 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:06.240 who taught at Yale for years and years, and how 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:09.279 he was so bothered by the fact that nobody taught 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:12.719 Shakespeare anymore so, the greatest writer in the English language 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:15.160 of all time was no longer being taught in the universities, 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:19.480 unless it was to point out how misogynist or racist 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.279 or you know, male toxic it was, or anything like 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:24.120 That was the only time I'd ever come up if 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:26.320 at all. Well, if you're that willing to give away 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:29.919 your culture, of course you're not figuring out how to 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:32.320 make sure China, Russia and Iran. 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:33.479 Don't band together to win. 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:40.520 Right, right in the success that they have had coming 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:45.039 up primarily through education the teachers, colleges and then the 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:49.480 schools in indoctrinating several generations of American kids and Western 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:51.400 kids in general into this stuff. 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:54.200 Admires the wrong word. 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:57.919 You've got to respect how incredibly evil and devious and 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:00.839 successful it has been, and we. 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:04.760 Let it happen under our watch. 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:10.760 I was reading Henry the Fifth and listening to it 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:13.600 at Fairmount over the weekend because I was doing this 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:17.200 history podcast about the Battle of Agancore, which is what 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:20.000 is in Henry the fifth the Shakespeare thing, that's the 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:24.720 famous speech we Band of Brothers. That whole speech is 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:28.960 from that. But man, the writing of Shakespeare. I know 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.200 this is a ridiculous thing for anyone to say, but 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:35.480 it's just so amazing. I mean, it's it's just unimaginably 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.160 rich and amazing. And the fact that we don't teach 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.840 it in universities anymore will come on in China, we 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:43.640 don't care about our culture. 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:50.720 No, I'm sure there are multiple really good books about this. Actually, 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:52.280 I can think of a couple that are more or 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:54.080 less on this topic. And I just bought a Douglas 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:57.160 Murray book, The Strange Death of Europe I think is 0:07:57.160 --> 0:07:59.559 the title. Can't wait to dig into that, probably tonight. 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:09.800 But how the civil rights movement followed fairly closely after 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:14.280 the development of the critical theory crowd in France and Germany, 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:23.240 and how they realized, oh, racial divisions and later sexual divisions. 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:27.360 That's where we convinced people to hate their own countries 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:30.240 and their own civilizations. It's not going to be workers 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:33.439 of the World unite. It's going to be every single 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:37.040 misfit or minority we can think of. We'll come up 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:41.960 with a way to convince them that there's no redeeming 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:44.920 their society and they've got to help us tear it down. 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.760 That's what we'll do. And just for what it's worth, 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:51.800 this is not my paranoid ratings. They wrote books with 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:57.160 their names on the cover describing this very process, and 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:00.920 they got it into the schools and universities. Again, it's insidious, 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:04.000 it's horrifying, it's heartbreaking, but it has been successful. 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.319 And as my twelve year old just finished reading Animal 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:10.959 Farm and picking up on the fact that the people 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:14.960 who promised, you know, a more fair world took over 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:19.240 and were the same tyrants as the tyrants before a 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:22.319 line from the Who song one of the best lines 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:25.200 ever in rock music. Meet the new boss same as 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:26.120 the old boss. 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:28.760 Yeah so good. Yeah yeah. 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:31.160 And as I tweeted the other day, I untleashed a 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:36.080 long screed about elections and political theory and stuff like that. 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:38.320 I don't know why the urge just overcame me, but 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:44.400 I was describing how elegant the description in nineteen eighty 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:48.959 four is of the scam the Orwell book. Obviously, and 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:53.080 interestingly enough, Well, I won't give you the context because 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:59.480 it's fairly straightforward but he explains how the time honored 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:07.000 technique is the middle says to the low, we're talking 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:12.120 about like layers of society. The middle says to the low, 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:16.040 we will overthrow the high. 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:19.640 You gotta join with us. We'll overthrow the high. 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:23.960 And the middle throws out the high and becomes the high, 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:28.360 and the low gets screwed. See Black America. Since you 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:32.560 know the New Deal practically, since the welfare state came 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.319 into being and debased the black family and made them 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:38.120 dependent on the largesse of the government as opposed to 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:42.400 their own genius and hard work. Anyway, then the next 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:45.360 time around the old high, remember they're now the middle, 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.360 they make the same promise to the low. Maybe they 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:51.640 throw out the current high, maybe they don't, but either way, 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:54.560 it's a scam. 0:10:55.160 --> 0:11:00.480 History of the world, yep, pretty much, Jack arm Strong 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.920 and Joe Armstrong and Getty show. 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:09.880 My son, who is in playing football last year said 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:13.400 he wanted to lift weights somewhere and then so I 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.600 started inquiring about getting gym memberships and found out that 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:19.520 you can't get a gym membership unless you're kid's sixteen 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:21.320 or eighteen, depending on the gym. 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:22.839 And I was surprised by that. 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:26.840 But so they came up with some sort of program 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.920 at one of the gym's for kids, so the coach 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:32.839 is involved, and because it's the school program for some reason, 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:34.960 they can do it in a room. I don't know anyway, 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:36.800 So I joined a gym last night, and is the 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:40.000 first time I had been like a big public gym 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:43.440 in decades. And I used to lift regularly. I did 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:45.599 that for decades, but I hadn't been there in a 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:47.720 long time. And Henry was over in one room working 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:50.360 out with people and beat red and wearing himself out 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:52.320 and everything like that. It's cool, and they do all 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:55.720 the fun modern stuff with the big ropes and flipping 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:58.200 over tires and all that sort of stuff that tying 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:00.800 yourself to things and pulling them trying to keep the 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:02.720 exercising exciting. 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:04.760 I was just out with the regular equipment. 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:08.319 And I have had I've heard enough women over the 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:12.199 years complaining about guys hitting him on them at gyms 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:18.080 that that's a thing, right, Katie, Yeah, unfortunately, So I 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:19.959 just I just had that in my head. So there 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:23.880 weren't very many women there. There were probably I don't know, 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:27.720 one woman for every five guys, and but I was 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:30.120 I just I just, you know, I'd lift. 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:31.079 Something and then i'd get done. 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:35.040 I'm walking around on restl accidentally make eye tie acid contact. 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:37.280 I'm just from trying really hard to like not look 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:38.600 their direction. Right. 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:42.120 But then I was also thinking about a number of 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:45.400 the women that I've heard complain about gym's being a 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:48.840 meat market and guys hitting on them date guys from 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:49.240 the gym. 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:51.480 So how does that whole thing work out? 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:54.079 I mean, I don't I don't quite understand if you're 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:56.440 dating guys from the gym. It seems like there must 0:12:56.520 --> 0:13:00.040 be some level of success that occurs, or there's a 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.760 good reason why guys are getting on girls at the gym. 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:05.320 Yeah, because if you're her type and you hit on 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:07.400 her at the gym, it'll work out. It has nothing 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:10.040 to do with the fact that you're at the gym. 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.760 It's like sexual harassment. It only exists among ugly guys, 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:17.920 among good looking guys. That's called really flattering. Well, I'm 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:22.640 unless it's bad and nasty, of course, right, that is 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:24.560 not the point in my life I'm in. I'm not 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:27.160 looking for that at all. In fact, I prefer if 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:28.640 the gym had zero women at it. 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:33.240 But but if there is dating occurring at the gym, 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:36.040 which clearly is happening, I can see why. Just like 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.920 anywhere else in life, some guys are taking a shot 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:41.840 now and then Hey, you work out here often or 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:43.400 hot stay or whatever. 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:47.000 Yeah, boy, these weights sure are heavy. I'd go with that. 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:51.079 That all it comes down to the woman. Also, the 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:52.640 women that are saying this are the same ones that 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:54.760 go to the gym also with like nothing on. 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:57.120 You know, I'm just gonna say I blame the women 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:59.520 for wearing their sexy, tight workout gear. You got to 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:03.720 start dressing like Billie Eilish in her oh I'm androgenists 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.600 and not sexy and not attractive period before she went 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:10.000 with her I'm crazy sexy. Look at my booby's period. 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:12.280 I'm not sure what she's doing now. But you gotta 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:14.959 dress like sweatsuit. 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:19.720 Billie Eilish, big baggy gray sweatsuits of the old style. 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:21.360 That's the way you gotta dress. 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:25.000 I can say women who dress who wear almost nothing 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.280 to the gym and actually still work out, because that 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:32.000 is a that's some risky business right there, because oh 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:34.840 things can pop out and oh you know what I mean. 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:37.640 Or move aside, or the way you don't. Yeah, I 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:38.960 have a little slip. 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:41.480 I'm thinking this throughout loud because I don't know if 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:44.000 this is fair or not. Is this the patriarchy having 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:46.640 its way or something like that, But it seems like 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:48.440 if I really am going to the gym and. 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:49.920 I don't want guys to look at me or hit 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:50.760 on me or whatever. 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:53.920 I just wear regular like sweats, not super tight clothes 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:56.360 or you know, a tube top or whatever you're wearing 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:57.840 whatever you call that your sports bra. 0:14:58.240 --> 0:14:59.400 With your tights. 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.360 Yeah, when you go to the gym and your underwear 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:05.240 on quote leg day and you're doing eight hundred squats 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:06.560 in front of a group of men, what do you 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:07.400 think is going to happen? 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:10.720 Yeah, but we're supposed to eat more than you're gonna need. 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:14.760 By the way, okay too, I like Joe's lines. You 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:16.880 ever pulled something like, really pulled a muscle? 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:23.080 Huh? You never done that? Yeah? I am. You know 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:23.520 what I heard? 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:23.880 He is? 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:29.640 You ever heard that? Explain now that that's hot talk? Yeah, 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:33.000 it's amazing. But batting average wasn't higher as a young man? 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:33.360 Eh? 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:36.360 Yeah? I uh. I like the gym. 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:39.000 I love going to the gym. If I hope this 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:41.560 song continue and Henry and I can go three times 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:44.000 a week. That's the plan. God, that's my favorite thing. 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:46.160 I feel so much better about myself when I'm done. 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:49.760 I went for That's absolutely true. But yeah, it's like 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:50.520 punishment for me. 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:51.000 I hate it. 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:54.960 See, I went from hating it like a borderline in 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:57.360 tears before I would go, but knowing that I had 0:15:57.400 --> 0:15:59.600 to go to Now if I don't go, I feel 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:00.320 like something wrong. 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:01.160 You have to go. 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:03.760 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah that that happens. It becomes a habit. 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:05.960 And I don't know if your body craves it or 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:08.200 your mind craves it or whatever. But let's talking to 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:12.440 Henry about how you'll get stronger. You'll you know, it 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:17.400 increases testosterone, which he cares about, and it somehow just 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:19.920 gives you confidence. I remember when I used to lift 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:22.360 all the time. He just feels stronger, tougher, and more confident. 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:24.240 I don't know anyone that's ever left the gym and 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:25.800 said I regret doing that. 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.240 Right, Yeah, yeah, Well all exercise is pretty much that way, 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:30.080 as long as you don't, you know, snap your achilles. 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:32.080 I would regret that if I snap my achilles. 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:34.560 Sure you drop the bar on your throat or something 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:37.160 that'd be Damn, that's a bad day. 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:39.360 Can somebody come get this bar off my throat? 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:43.080 I'm strong and get the reality is this is fabulous. 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:46.000 I thank you. That's enough of that. This is all crazy. 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:47.920 It's just the way it is. Yeah, but damn it. 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:49.720 We weren't allowed to ask about the big guys. 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:53.360 This is the United States of America. Let's not play games. 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:56.920 This is the Armstrong and Getty show. Jake Cost argues 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:58.200 in National Review. 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.240 That what we are currently doing defies how the US 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:05.720 system was design to work. Quoting him, now, Republicans and 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:10.119 Democrats today conceive of each other is totally, irredeemably corrupted. 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:14.400 And this is all from his new book, Democracy or Republic. 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:17.840 The People in the Constitution. The two sides fight over 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:21.480 everything large and small, from major problems to utter trivialities. 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:25.920 To borrow a phrase from Madison's Federalist number ten, where 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:30.359 no substantial occasion presents itself. Boy, that sounds right right now, 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:35.280 No substantial occasion presents itself. They fight both tooth and 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:39.240 nail over the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions. The mutual 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:41.760 hatred between the left and the right leaves little political 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:45.399 space for compromise. Fundamentally, they do not wish to compromise. 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:48.120 They want to destroy each other. So it is little 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:51.000 wonder that our government has been so frequently halted by gridlock. 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:53.760 The left and right wish to be hegemonic, but the 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:58.000 constitution is designed to prevent factional hegemens from emerging in 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:00.240 our country. In other words, you can't accompli is what 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:02.560 you're trying to accomplish. If the two sides enter the 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:05.399 government not with the spirit of compromise, but with a 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:08.359 spirit of destruction, they should expect to be blocked and 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:11.400 virtually every turn. That's the way it's set up, which 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:13.720 is precisely what has happened. This is no way to 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:16.439 run a country, any country, but it certainly dooms us 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:19.160 to failure under a consensus based regime like the United 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:22.119 States Constitution. If we want to rail against the evils 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:24.520 of our opponents for nothing more than the sheer pleasure 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:27.560 of the cathartic reliefs, so be it. But nothing will 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:30.400 get done while we spew o a s splenetic bile, 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:34.240 bile from our spleen at one another. That's the best 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:38.840 kind splenetic bile. Yeah, but if we actually want to 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.080 solve problems in this country, we need to recognize that 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:45.000 under our system of government, working together is the only 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:48.800 way to do that. That is an interesting point that 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:52.720 gets left out a lot. We have a system that 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:56.080 doesn't allow for what both sides are currently trying to do. 0:18:57.200 --> 0:18:57.440 Right. 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:01.200 Yeah, in fact, it specifically disallows it. The problem is, 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:03.000 and I'm sure he gets to this elsewhere in the book, 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:06.480 is even if you're not actually sincerely bent on destroying 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:10.480 your opponent, As Mark Leibovich's fabulous book This Town pointed out, 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:13.320 these people pretend to go at it hammerdon dongs, right, 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:15.960 and then laugh in the green room, then go to 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:18.320 the same cocktail parties and pick up their kids at 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:21.040 the same schools. But you know, our system is not 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:23.560 designed for that. But our fundraising is. 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:28.320 Yeah, that's an e specific god boom dunked. That is 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:30.679 kitty for the win. It's good stuff. 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:35.120 Well, you need but the after you need to write 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:39.959 the afterword for his paperback version of that book, because 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:43.680 that might Sorry, James madiside, I'm James Madison. 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:44.119 Listen to me. 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:46.560 Wow, So Kenny, just because he's short, you take a 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:48.640 sh he's one of the great thinkers of the Enlightenment 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:49.640 in you jackass. 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:53.400 Sorry James Madison, your system for government might be trumped, 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:57.520 if you pardon the expression, by the way, we got 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:00.480 our donor situation set up and cable news and media 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:03.639 and everything like that. Sorry, sorry, I can stay in office. 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:06.000 Somebody would raise their hand, they would Can I say 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:07.959 this anonymously because I don't want anybody to hear this 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:11.040 in my district. I can stay in office for the 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:14.400 rest of my life, eat at the finest restaurant, send 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:17.240 my kids to the coolest private schools, live a really 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:20.080 fun lifestyle, flying around private jets, doing all this cool 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:27.600 stuff by never compromising on anything. Correct, So you tell 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:29.040 me why I should compromise. 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:32.400 I got both my kids on my payroll, my wife's, 0:20:32.400 --> 0:20:35.560 my campaign consultant. We live in a giant house right 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:38.040 on the Potomac, and you're telling me to compromise for 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:39.639 the good of the country. Ah. 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:43.440 Now, I used to be a guy who would yell 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:48.800 on this very radio show before all this craziness started that, yeah, well, 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:52.760 the compromising has got us three trillion dollars in debt 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:57.600 and this is unsustainable. Well three yeah, well, dad, that's 0:20:57.600 --> 0:20:59.320 back when I was saying that. So that's why I 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:01.960 was for the well break it. Whatever's next has got 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:04.159 to be better than this. We're headed off a cliff 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:07.520 and nobody seems to care when they were compromising. Now 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:12.560