1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,000 Speaker 1: President now claiming quote some progress in the effort to 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:05,400 Speaker 1: end the war in Ukraine, saying he thinks Putin quote 3 00:00:05,519 --> 00:00:08,440 Speaker 1: has had enough, but Putin giving no indications Russia is 4 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 1: any closer to a ceasefire. President Trump now saying he 5 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 1: will leave it up to Ukraine and Russia to negotiate 6 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 1: for now. 7 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:16,639 Speaker 2: What about the Putin call? 8 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:18,920 Speaker 3: Remember we had a clip of that. What was that about? 9 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 2: Show years ago? 10 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:21,959 Speaker 3: About the Putin call? 11 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 2: That's from like eight years ago, So I don't know. 12 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 2: At the very beginning of Trump one. Yeah, any who, 13 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 2: Trump was on the phone with Vladimir Putin for about 14 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 2: two hours yesterday, and the takeaway seems to be I'm 15 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 2: gonna let them work it out, which pooh, where does 16 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:40,519 Speaker 2: that leave things? It leaves it as a win for Putin? 17 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 2: I think, yes, although the ball is in Trump's court 18 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 2: because he has not said, at least as of yet, Okay, 19 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:51,479 Speaker 2: if you're going to let them work that out, does 20 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 2: that mean them working it out while we continue to 21 00:00:55,400 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 2: give a tremendous amount of aid and telling maybe being 22 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 2: the most important to Ukraine or not, Because if it's 23 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:05,839 Speaker 2: or not, it's a big deal. 24 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 3: Yeah. 25 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 2: I feel like those of us who would like to 26 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:14,479 Speaker 2: see the US backing Ukraine. Are digging through about our 27 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:19,400 Speaker 2: fifteenth pile of manure looking for the pony in Trump's negotiations, 28 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 2: just this, maybe he's got this up his sleeve, you know, 29 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:28,399 Speaker 2: feeling or hope. It's just it's been dashed over and 30 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:28,960 Speaker 2: over again. 31 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 3: Well, he does have to go one way or the other. 32 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 2: We are either going to continue to back Ukraine the 33 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 2: way we have for three years or not. And if 34 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:41,280 Speaker 2: we're not, that's a major change. I think it's more 35 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 2: likely that one happens. Will he announce it or will 36 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 2: it will it just become evident at some point, I 37 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 2: don't know, after this period of Zelensky in Ukraine and 38 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 2: Europe doing everything conceivable conceivable to make it clear we 39 00:01:57,520 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 2: want peace too. We're with you on this, and put 40 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 2: never giving a single sign that he has any interest 41 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 2: in Trump's piece to you. 42 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 4: No, if the US policy becomes well, then y'all are 43 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 4: on your own. 44 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 2: We're not going to support a Ukraine. Well then we've 45 00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:17,360 Speaker 2: but it's not a nothing. We've sided with Ruia. In 46 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 2: my opinion, I know one hundred that's exactly my point. 47 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 4: Yeah, And what seemed to be the lean is indeed 48 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:24,639 Speaker 4: coming true. 49 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 2: It was less than Putin showing you wasn't interested in 50 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 2: peace right now. He gave Trump a long lecture about 51 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 2: why Ukraine belongs to Russia and all the He said, 52 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 2: this will not end until the underlying problems are solved. Well, 53 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:41,639 Speaker 2: the underlying problems will not be solved until he has 54 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:45,600 Speaker 2: Ukraine correct. Yeah. Yeah, As Rich Lowry writes in The 55 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 2: National Review, the play for the Kremlin is obvious here. 56 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:49,960 Speaker 2: It wants to keep pinching ahead with territorial gains, and 57 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,960 Speaker 2: if it continues to string along the negotiations, has to 58 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 2: hope that Trump tires of the whole thing and cuts 59 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 2: off USA to Ukraine. That would reward Putin's intransigent with 60 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 2: an important diplomatic victory split between the US and Europe, 61 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 2: and a chance to make major advances against an increasingly 62 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:10,079 Speaker 2: hard pressed Ukraine. And the only reference really to Trump 63 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 2: being tired of Putin and understanding that he's being played 64 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 2: was that reference to Putin's tapping me along. But I 65 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 2: mean to come out of the call yesterday and say, yeah, 66 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 2: I think we made progress. I don't know who that is. 67 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 3: Well. 68 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 2: Jd Vance presented it as as well. If you guys 69 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 2: aren't interested, then. 70 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 3: Hey, we're out. 71 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:34,360 Speaker 2: As if that is actually a neutral position. That is 72 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 2: not a neutral position, that's a taking the side of 73 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 2: Russian position. So I don't know if they're just trying, 74 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 2: if they're trying to fool people by presenting it is 75 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 2: like we're staying neutral on this or what. 76 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 3: So the ball is. 77 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 2: First off, I think, in Trump's court, but then absolutely 78 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 2: in Europe's court as they got to figure out what 79 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 2: to do. So they had a big meeting over the 80 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 2: weekend of European leaders with a couple of interesting things 81 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 2: that came out of it. A big defense meeting of 82 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 2: the Germany, the big people Germany, Britain, France, poland a 83 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 2: couple of things. They announced Germany is gonna lift their 84 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 2: prohibition on nuclear energy that they've had since World War Two, 85 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:17,719 Speaker 2: so they are going to, like France, start using nuclear 86 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 2: energy so that they don't have to buy energy from Russia. 87 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 3: So that's a pretty big deal economically for Russia. 88 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, they also announced in that meeting that Russia will 89 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 2: does not present NATO a dilemma in five years, had 90 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 2: previously been thought if the war were to end soon, 91 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:40,040 Speaker 2: but could within a year, like they could be back 92 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 2: up to speed enough within a year to present NATO 93 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 2: a real dilemma of what do we do now? If 94 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:47,240 Speaker 2: they move on Estonia, they would be strong enough. That's 95 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 2: what the European countries announced over the weekend. And then 96 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 2: I really liked this quote that came out of it. 97 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:56,200 Speaker 2: I think from the leader of Poland. Russia has been 98 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:58,560 Speaker 2: playing hockey for years. We are not going to figure 99 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 2: skate our way out of this. Oh that's some good 100 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 2: ice sport metaphor slinging there, Sir Adam. 101 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 3: Well done. 102 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 2: That went with also one of the leaders saying the 103 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:13,200 Speaker 2: years of two percent funding of our military are over. 104 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:16,479 Speaker 2: It's going to have to be more like five percent. Yeah, 105 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 2: if there were days. I wish we had unlimited time 106 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 2: for this sort of thing because it's so interesting. I 107 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 2: have all sorts of interesting. Uh well, I suppose you 108 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 2: all will be the judge of that when I delivered it. 109 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 2: But I found it really really intriguing analysis of Europe 110 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 2: and everything that's wrong with it. I think the Russia 111 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 2: attack on Ukraine following the annexation of Crimea and the 112 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 2: attack on Georgia and everything else has has and Germany 113 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:49,279 Speaker 2: continuing to buy oil from Russia after that happened and 114 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:50,239 Speaker 2: all those kinds of things. 115 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:52,680 Speaker 4: Well, right, I think it's finally gotten to the point 116 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 4: that it's shaken the dopey, dopey Euros out of their 117 00:05:56,960 --> 00:06:01,599 Speaker 4: torpoor there, their sleepiness. They're fantom sea land that they've 118 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 4: been living in for the past a bunch of years. 119 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 4: After you know, the US security umbrella enabled them to 120 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:11,919 Speaker 4: invest vast sums of money into welfare states and socialism 121 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:12,479 Speaker 4: and the rest of it. 122 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 3: And I would like. 123 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 4: To issue a hammering indictment against them for all of 124 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 4: that crap. But I think they're right about Russian and Ukraine. 125 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:24,560 Speaker 4: We're not going to figure skate our way out of this. 126 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:28,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that. Here's the takeaway. 127 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 4: And this was going to be the takeaway after I 128 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 4: built a case over many, many minutes. 129 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 2: But I'll give you the takeaway. We need to work 130 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:41,000 Speaker 2: every day as a country to not become Europe. And 131 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:43,279 Speaker 2: there are a couple of examples of a great piece 132 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 2: by Walter Russell Meade about why democracy is in retreat, 133 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 2: and he cites several cases in Europe about anybody who 134 00:06:56,680 --> 00:06:59,840 Speaker 2: does not go along with the very very main s 135 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:04,159 Speaker 2: dream view of who ought to get elected, and what 136 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 2: policies ought to be passed is decried as undemocratic and dangerous, 137 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 2: like the AfD party in Germany. And I could go 138 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 2: into detail on that. The more I learned, the more 139 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 2: interested I get. But their definition of democracy is the 140 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:23,640 Speaker 2: results I want, and anything that challenges that is swept aside. 141 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 4: Like the AfD ought to be in an alliance with 142 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:31,120 Speaker 4: the party that won the most seats. It's obvious the 143 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 4: efforts to keep them out because of a few crack 144 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 4: pots and being a little soft on Russia or whatever 145 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 4: is just it's twisting the German political system into knots 146 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:43,520 Speaker 4: obsessed with it. 147 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 3: The men declared a terrorist organization or whatever so people 148 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 3: can listen to their phone calls and read their emails. 149 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 4: Well, yes, but actually, as long as we're talking about 150 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:53,440 Speaker 4: this is let me click over. 151 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 2: I think it's right there. Yeah. 152 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 4: So last week the German government officially designated the opposition 153 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:05,240 Speaker 4: party AfD as a confirmed extremist organization. The announcement came 154 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:07,440 Speaker 4: from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, 155 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:11,160 Speaker 4: their domestic intelligence agency blah blah blah been On Wednesday, 156 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 4: they abruptly withdrew the extremist label they will now monitor 157 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:20,960 Speaker 4: the party only as a suspected case, which still allows 158 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 4: some surveillance in a way Americans would find repugnant, but 159 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 4: under much stricter judicial oversight. And somebody leaked the report 160 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:34,439 Speaker 4: and it reveals that the evidence against the AfD consisted 161 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 4: not of plans for violence or insurrection, but just controversial 162 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 4: rhetoric and deeply nationalist views, none of which should have 163 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:49,679 Speaker 4: triggered that designation. So it was the quote unquote mainstream 164 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:54,280 Speaker 4: powers that be trying to label as extremist anybody who 165 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 4: dared shake their hold on power, which is exactly what 166 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 4: I was driving at. Their definition of democracies democracy with 167 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:02,959 Speaker 4: the right results. 168 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:07,280 Speaker 2: And that's terrible. The other thing I really wanted to 169 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:10,240 Speaker 2: talk about is the Wall Street Journal had a great 170 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:16,720 Speaker 2: piece about how huge tech is in the world economy 171 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:21,559 Speaker 2: right now, technology in general, and how tiny Europe's share 172 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 2: of it is the EU rivals. I mean, it's in 173 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:28,040 Speaker 2: the same weight class more or less. 174 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 4: If you take it as a whole, the US economy 175 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:33,720 Speaker 4: and the Chinese economy. It's a juggernaut. But you want 176 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:38,839 Speaker 4: to talk tech, Oh, it's sad, it's pathetic. Apple's market 177 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:42,200 Speaker 4: value is bigger than the entire German stock market, for instance, 178 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:45,439 Speaker 4: There's no Google, there's no Amazon, there's no Meta. In Europe, 179 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 4: there's nothing even slightly close. And this journal article goes 180 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:53,040 Speaker 4: into depth and has a bunch of different examples of 181 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:56,600 Speaker 4: native born tech people, German tech people who brought what 182 00:09:56,679 --> 00:09:59,080 Speaker 4: they learned back from Silicon. 183 00:09:58,720 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 3: Valley to Europe. 184 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:04,560 Speaker 2: We were immediately crushed by strict labor laws, a risk 185 00:10:04,679 --> 00:10:09,560 Speaker 2: averse business culture, suffocating regulations, smaller pool of venture capital, 186 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:13,000 Speaker 2: lackluster economic growth, no demographic growth. 187 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 4: And said no, and back to California they went, or 188 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:21,200 Speaker 4: other places. Yeah and so, and you know that list. 189 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:26,800 Speaker 4: I'm gonna hit it one more time and we free marketers, 190 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 4: sold all dragon fans. I know we're sad, and we 191 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 4: ought to have industrial planning in tariffs and the rest 192 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:37,840 Speaker 4: of it. But Europe is crushed by a timid and 193 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 4: risk averse business culture, strict labor laws, suffocating regulations, smaller 194 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:49,160 Speaker 4: pool of venture capital, and lackluster economic growth. Don't become Europe. 195 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:52,679 Speaker 4: That's what we as a country need to repeat to 196 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:55,160 Speaker 4: ourselves every morning. You gotta make your bed. It's a 197 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 4: small act of discipline and positive something or other. I 198 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:02,199 Speaker 4: believe in it very much and say, let's not become 199 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:03,080 Speaker 4: Europe today. 200 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:09,000 Speaker 2: So like when you get up in the morning, US, 201 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:11,320 Speaker 2: I'm going to be a good person today or or 202 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:14,960 Speaker 2: whatever your mantra is, right, I'm going to get kindness, whatever, 203 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:17,440 Speaker 2: do God's will today and stay positive. 204 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:18,960 Speaker 3: Let's not become Europe today. 205 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:26,400 Speaker 2: Yes, we're going to build a utopia through a million regulations. Yes. 206 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:32,199 Speaker 2: Hour two I'll get into a little of what I 207 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:34,800 Speaker 2: pulled out of the first part of Jake Tapper's book 208 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 2: that I started reading last night when I was in 209 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:42,080 Speaker 2: bed again unintentionally hilarious, along with some interesting nuggets about 210 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 2: what was going on there. It's the biggest failure of 211 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:49,920 Speaker 2: media in our nation's history, and it should not just 212 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:54,000 Speaker 2: disappear as a minor thing. Luckily it has not been 213 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:56,280 Speaker 2: for at least the last couple of weeks. 214 00:11:56,360 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 5: Jack Armstrong and Joe Armstrong sell. 215 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:07,520 Speaker 2: The answer I got on chat GBT about I just 216 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:11,560 Speaker 2: asked chat GPT was the Minecraft movie a financial success? 217 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:16,320 Speaker 2: Its answer so much better and thorough than googling it. 218 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:18,920 Speaker 2: I mean, not even clothes, So I gotta get out 219 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 2: of the habit of googling anyway. A Minecraft movie has 220 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:25,920 Speaker 2: made almost a billion dollars worldwide after a budget to 221 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 2: make it of only one hundred and fifty million dollars, 222 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:35,480 Speaker 2: which I gotta believe all of the filming of the 223 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:38,640 Speaker 2: acting of that movie could have been done in an 224 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:42,520 Speaker 2: afternoon probably. I mean, there wasn't much to it, and 225 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:44,480 Speaker 2: it was all so much was green screen. It was 226 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:47,079 Speaker 2: all CGI stuff and everything like that. And like I mentioned, 227 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 2: Jack Black, what an interesting dude. I don't know is 228 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:52,080 Speaker 2: he married or not. I've seen him in various interviews. 229 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 2: He's certainly not trying to impress chicks. He wears ill 230 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:58,600 Speaker 2: fitting clothes, he doesn't wash his face or coma's hair. 231 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 2: He rolls in, does his lines brilliantly because he's really good, 232 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 2: and then uh collects his money and goes home. What 233 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:09,520 Speaker 2: an interesting thing that is? What movie star has never 234 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:13,080 Speaker 2: wanted to care how they look like Jack Black? He 235 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 2: keeps getting fatter and greasier anyway. I mean, you aint 236 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:18,720 Speaker 2: gonna be fat if you want. Maybe you think that's 237 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:19,920 Speaker 2: part of your appeal. 238 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:24,640 Speaker 3: You can wash your face AnyWho. The Minecraft movie, first 239 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:26,640 Speaker 3: of all, way better than I expected it to be. 240 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:27,160 Speaker 3: I thought it was. 241 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 2: It was only an hour forty five, but I thought, uh, 242 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 2: I thought, this is gonna be kind of tough to 243 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:33,960 Speaker 2: sit through, and it was quite entertaining, pretty dang funny 244 00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:36,720 Speaker 2: by the end it had it reminded me of like 245 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 2: all your Lord of the Rings movies. Okay, another giant 246 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 2: fight sequence. I just I can't do fight sequences like 247 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:45,120 Speaker 2: a lot of people can, apparently endlessly. 248 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:46,080 Speaker 3: I get it. 249 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:50,760 Speaker 2: But my main takeaway was, and if I was rich, 250 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:53,760 Speaker 2: I would start like really like Elon Rich, I would 251 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 2: come up with this idea today. It was basically a 252 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:04,000 Speaker 2: series of of popular memes that young people get strung 253 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:07,920 Speaker 2: together so that everybody could laugh together about Hey, I 254 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:11,959 Speaker 2: get this meme and feel part of something. 255 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:14,040 Speaker 3: That's what it seemed like to me. 256 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:17,880 Speaker 2: And I'll bet you could put one of those out 257 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:21,440 Speaker 2: once a month of just whatever the most recent hot 258 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 2: memes were, right, I make it like ninety minutes long. 259 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:28,440 Speaker 2: It's just a series of meme jokes that every teenager 260 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:31,680 Speaker 2: gets and things to the hilarious, and it would be 261 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:34,440 Speaker 2: super popular because that's basically what the Minecraft movie was, 262 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 2: So just a recognition slash belonging fest. Yeah, because other 263 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:44,280 Speaker 2: things aren't really working, but partially because this is a 264 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 2: reason to be together in the theater. It's fun to 265 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:50,480 Speaker 2: recognize the memes together. It was clear from my older 266 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 2: son when he went and saw it in the theater 267 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:54,480 Speaker 2: that that was a lot of the appeal. It was 268 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:57,120 Speaker 2: all these inside jokes that they get and laugh at, 269 00:14:57,160 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 2: and it's fun to see him in a group. 270 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:01,120 Speaker 3: I think this is a way to rescue it's it's 271 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:02,360 Speaker 3: gonna kill old time movies. 272 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:04,800 Speaker 2: But like just I don't know the most popular memes 273 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:07,080 Speaker 2: put together ninety minutes with a loose script. I think 274 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 2: that would make somebody steal that idea and make it work. Well. 275 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:13,360 Speaker 2: It's either like irony or a perpetual motion machine or 276 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:20,400 Speaker 2: something that online memes. The enjoyment of online memes together yeah, 277 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:23,960 Speaker 2: in a room might convince kids, hey this is really fun. 278 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 3: Wow, good point. Hello Mike. 279 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 2: Constantly, my son was saying, I know you don't get that, 280 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:33,600 Speaker 2: but to various things that were happening, characters and lines 281 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:36,120 Speaker 2: and stuff like that, because they're here today. I mean, 282 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 2: you could have had a movie where the Hawktua girl 283 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:41,520 Speaker 2: was you know, a co star there for a couple 284 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:44,680 Speaker 2: of coffee. Oh please don't. 285 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:46,760 Speaker 3: You and people would have go fought with laughter though 286 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:47,720 Speaker 3: you know they want. 287 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:51,320 Speaker 2: In the studios. Yes, oh yes, now you gotta start 288 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:54,080 Speaker 2: producing these. This is your ten million dollar idea. It's fine. 289 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:55,560 Speaker 2: I thought, I'll get another co host. 290 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 3: I thought of Friday Night. 291 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 2: I thought, this is actual brilliant idea. It would just 292 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 2: take a lot of money to get a going. You know, 293 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:02,560 Speaker 2: you'd have to pay for rights, but you'd have lawyers 294 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:03,560 Speaker 2: to do that. That'd be easy. 295 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 4: Uh yeah, wow, that's a great idea. Just your monthly 296 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:09,840 Speaker 4: meme cinema. 297 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and all the teenagers you get together and 298 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:14,560 Speaker 2: feel cooler and smarter than the rest of us because 299 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 2: they get. 300 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:15,400 Speaker 3: All the jokes. 301 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:16,440 Speaker 2: Right. 302 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:17,080 Speaker 3: Yeah. 303 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:21,320 Speaker 2: We bought it though, cost twenty bucks. So Minecraft's available 304 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:22,960 Speaker 2: at home now for streaming. But it was twenty bucks 305 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:25,040 Speaker 2: to in it. I think it's got about a six 306 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:25,920 Speaker 2: month run. 307 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:27,920 Speaker 3: Your idea, Oh really, don't like. 308 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:31,280 Speaker 2: Don't invest too heavily, thinking next year will be even bigger. 309 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:31,680 Speaker 2: Trust me. 310 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:35,080 Speaker 3: It's the arm Strong in Getty show. 311 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:50,160 Speaker 2: Armstrong in Getty, So. 312 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:54,520 Speaker 3: Armstrong listen to this. 313 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:56,920 Speaker 6: Tender just added a new feature that let's use this 314 00:16:57,040 --> 00:16:58,840 Speaker 6: coordinate double dates. 315 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:05,600 Speaker 3: Three people you don't like. That's interesting. 316 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 2: His negative joke about Tender and online dating app and 317 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:13,639 Speaker 2: then people laughing and everything like that. 318 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:16,280 Speaker 3: I don't know anything like I don't. 319 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:18,720 Speaker 2: Have I have no practical knowledge of online dating because 320 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:21,720 Speaker 2: I've never done it or seen a website or I mean, 321 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 2: I only know what I've heard people talk about. But 322 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:29,800 Speaker 2: I've I've heard almost entirely negative stuff, at least in 323 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:33,880 Speaker 2: the last couple of years, about how awful. 324 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:35,560 Speaker 3: It is and and and the. 325 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:37,800 Speaker 2: Number of people I've heard who deleted all their apps 326 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:39,160 Speaker 2: and have given up on it because. 327 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 3: It's it's a it's a. 328 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:43,280 Speaker 2: It's only you know a handful of guys trying to 329 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:45,160 Speaker 2: have sex and the end. 330 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 3: Yes, Katie uh drama makes the stories. 331 00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:51,639 Speaker 7: I have several friends that have met the loves of 332 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:53,720 Speaker 7: their lives and gotten married thanks. 333 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:56,199 Speaker 2: To quite a few listeners who've commented, you know what, 334 00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:59,359 Speaker 2: jacket's what you describe the big story, this is hot, 335 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:01,440 Speaker 2: this is hot. You see the story everywhere it's hot, 336 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:05,440 Speaker 2: and then backlash against what's hot. It's actually terrible, it's terrible, 337 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:07,480 Speaker 2: over and over tame. But I only know my own 338 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 2: personal experience with just people I know, and it's anecdotal, 339 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:13,560 Speaker 2: one hundred percent anecdotal, and the plural anecdote is not data, 340 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:18,680 Speaker 2: but anecdotally. I know lots of people who say, and 341 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:24,400 Speaker 2: it's all, it was good, what happened. Well, I can 342 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:26,640 Speaker 2: tell you one thing that did happen that you might 343 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:30,600 Speaker 2: not know of match dot com, but every single one 344 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:35,119 Speaker 2: of the other UH forums they own, like practically all 345 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:39,879 Speaker 2: of them now. Match dot Com owns Tender and I've 346 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:40,680 Speaker 2: heard of these. 347 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:41,000 Speaker 3: In the news. 348 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:44,440 Speaker 2: Okay, cubid and and I think Hinge and a bunch 349 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:47,920 Speaker 2: of other stuff, maybe e harmony, But they own almost 350 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:52,520 Speaker 2: all of them now. And there's some belief that they 351 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:56,679 Speaker 2: have a reason to not have you match because if 352 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:59,399 Speaker 2: you match with somebody you stay with, you're done as 353 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:00,000 Speaker 2: a customer. 354 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:03,920 Speaker 8: Oh my gosh, costs purposes, So there is well, yeah, 355 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:07,560 Speaker 8: there is some reason to you know, just string you along, 356 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:10,600 Speaker 8: get you kind of close or not give you many 357 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:12,760 Speaker 8: and you stay desperate and you stay on the I mean, 358 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:14,320 Speaker 8: of course there's an incentive for that. 359 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:16,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's funny. 360 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:19,800 Speaker 4: I'm surprised the SEC hasn't stepped in and say, you've 361 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:21,280 Speaker 4: got a monopoly uncoupling. 362 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:25,280 Speaker 2: We can't have this. Wish you could just meet somebody 363 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:27,760 Speaker 2: at the library or something like that. So the library, 364 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:30,960 Speaker 2: it's likely to be a junkie. But anyway, depending where 365 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:34,679 Speaker 2: you live, you meet somebody at the library is a 366 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:37,320 Speaker 2: particularly bad choice in the modern world. 367 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:40,240 Speaker 3: Who's sleep upped in my head? Who's meeting someone at 368 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:41,119 Speaker 3: the library? 369 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 2: People who read books? Sir? The library is for washing 370 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:50,760 Speaker 2: your feet in the sink and we all know that. 371 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:54,800 Speaker 2: Or looking at porn on a taxpayer funded computer. I 372 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:59,159 Speaker 2: guess researching how do I hide a body? Not on 373 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:03,320 Speaker 2: your own computer? Right, But looking at the charts through 374 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:06,800 Speaker 2: the years, back in the nineteen thirties, nobody met online. 375 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:09,600 Speaker 2: I think that's an interesting piece of trivia, so revealing. 376 00:20:11,560 --> 00:20:12,440 Speaker 3: But for for. 377 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:15,919 Speaker 2: All of mankind time it was the ice cream social 378 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:17,399 Speaker 2: and friends and then church and that. 379 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:18,719 Speaker 3: So that was big enough to think look at. 380 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 2: But the way online has exploded, it dwarfs every other 381 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:25,600 Speaker 2: way of people meeting currently, at least according to all 382 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 2: these studies. So you know that contradicts my anecdotal evidence. 383 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:33,960 Speaker 2: Although it could have gotten a lot worse just in 384 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,520 Speaker 2: the last couple of years, and these charts would still 385 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:40,080 Speaker 2: be true, especially if match dot Com bought all the 386 00:20:40,119 --> 00:20:47,199 Speaker 2: companies and has some reason to you have zero reason 387 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:51,800 Speaker 2: to like perfect your algorithm, you know, like TikTok perfected 388 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:56,000 Speaker 2: the algorithm to keep you engaged. I don't know if 389 00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:58,960 Speaker 2: match dot com or well, they're all match dot com now, 390 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:02,560 Speaker 2: but if match dot com could do that, even if 391 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:04,280 Speaker 2: somebody came in boss, I've done it. 392 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 3: I've figured out. 393 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:08,480 Speaker 2: The algorithm that uh, nine times out of ten will 394 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:10,639 Speaker 2: put people together that they'll be happy the rest of 395 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:11,119 Speaker 2: their lives. 396 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:14,560 Speaker 3: Would you use that? I think you probably wouldn't. 397 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:17,840 Speaker 2: No, not only would you fire them, you'd shoot them 398 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:21,359 Speaker 2: so they and hide their corpse, having researched it at 399 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:24,640 Speaker 2: the library online, of course, to make sure that that 400 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:26,960 Speaker 2: did not get out. No, at the very least, change 401 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:28,640 Speaker 2: them in a radiator in the basement. There are many 402 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:31,400 Speaker 2: options to keep this from coming out, but we don't 403 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:34,320 Speaker 2: have to go through the various macab examples exactly. There 404 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:37,880 Speaker 2: are several hipop to mind. Ah right, wow, okay, well 405 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:40,919 Speaker 2: it makes intuitive sense. 406 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 3: Yeah. 407 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:42,919 Speaker 2: I saw the New York Times article a while back. 408 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:45,879 Speaker 2: I think I talked about this on their breakdown. Was 409 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:50,480 Speaker 2: it's it's like, I don't remember the exact numbers, but 410 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 2: this is close enough to write. 411 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:55,119 Speaker 3: It's like ten to one women to men, first of 412 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:56,560 Speaker 3: all on there and. 413 00:21:56,480 --> 00:22:00,920 Speaker 2: Secondly of the men, it's like the same ten best 414 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:04,520 Speaker 2: looking guys who get all the dates with like ninety 415 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:08,280 Speaker 2: percent of the women, and they're not interested in a 416 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:13,920 Speaker 2: in a relationship past like you know, a night or two, 417 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 2: and so, I mean, that's and that's what most of 418 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:19,399 Speaker 2: it is, at least according to that New York Times article. 419 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:21,760 Speaker 2: Maybe they have perfected the algorithm to. 420 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:24,920 Speaker 3: Do that right right, right, right right right, or. 421 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:27,760 Speaker 4: To you know, continually match you up with somebody who 422 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 4: you're never going to connect with full time but close. 423 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:34,640 Speaker 3: Boy, that would be a stroke of evil genius. 424 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:39,160 Speaker 2: Huh, that would be evil. Yeah, yeah, And then they varying, 425 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:41,960 Speaker 2: and then this article had a whole bunch of stuff 426 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:42,240 Speaker 2: in there. 427 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:44,919 Speaker 3: This all sounds horrible to me. I can't imagine it. 428 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:48,040 Speaker 2: Just it just sounds like setting yourself up for the 429 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:52,000 Speaker 2: worst rejection you can imagine in your life, to to like, 430 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:55,040 Speaker 2: you know, to put all this effort and everything like 431 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:57,640 Speaker 2: that and get like no results. In some of the websites, 432 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:02,000 Speaker 2: people can give you thumbs down and stuff like why 433 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:03,760 Speaker 2: am I going back to high school? Are you gonna 434 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:05,800 Speaker 2: make me go back to high school and live this again? 435 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:09,879 Speaker 4: Or you could just approach a comely gal there in 436 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 4: the nonfiction section of the library. Say, I see you're 437 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:16,720 Speaker 4: looking at a book about fungus. I too, am interested 438 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:17,920 Speaker 4: in the fungus. 439 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:22,159 Speaker 2: For instance. You know, let me transition quickly to my 440 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:25,040 Speaker 2: favorite library story before we do something differently. I once 441 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:27,199 Speaker 2: was in the library, Gladys. This is my one of 442 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:28,840 Speaker 2: my favorite stories. I've told him many times, but we 443 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:31,080 Speaker 2: have a lot of new nisms. Katie's never heard this story. 444 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:35,480 Speaker 2: I'm sure I'm in the library. It matters, wasn't when 445 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:38,320 Speaker 2: you were in the stacks of the college library in 446 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:39,080 Speaker 2: the toilet. 447 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:42,520 Speaker 3: This is a different story, totally different. It's funny. 448 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:45,760 Speaker 2: I've got library library stories that I've told many times. 449 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:49,480 Speaker 2: The other one was somebody trying to have a male hookup. 450 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:52,000 Speaker 2: Is a very complicated I talked about it on the 451 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:54,600 Speaker 2: One More Thing podcast the other night. I'm telling all 452 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:55,800 Speaker 2: my library stories this. 453 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:56,720 Speaker 3: Week for some reason. 454 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:01,159 Speaker 2: This one, I'm in the live very dressed like me, 455 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:06,399 Speaker 2: but in me is shaved head, and I'm more in 456 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:08,919 Speaker 2: Doc Martin's, which is a very common look for me. 457 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:12,080 Speaker 2: I'm in the library and I'm in the World War 458 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,880 Speaker 2: two section, which is not uncommon either. I was talking 459 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:17,960 Speaker 2: about a book from World War two earlier in the show, 460 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:20,200 Speaker 2: I'm constantly reading books about World War Two. When I'm 461 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:23,640 Speaker 2: in the World War two section, shaved head black Doc Martins, 462 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:29,560 Speaker 2: and a guy walks by me and kind of gives 463 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:33,480 Speaker 2: me the look. Now, having had the previous library experience 464 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:35,360 Speaker 2: that I mentioned on one more thing, I think he's 465 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,040 Speaker 2: just interested in me, and I'm not interested in him 466 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:39,760 Speaker 2: because I'm heterosexual and I don't think. 467 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:42,280 Speaker 3: Much beyond it. I walk out of the library. 468 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:45,960 Speaker 2: He's waiting for me outside, sitting on the like the 469 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,879 Speaker 2: cement railing. He said, see, you like World War two. 470 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:52,320 Speaker 3: Books, huh, Like you like. 471 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:54,560 Speaker 2: Reading about hit Ler and stuff like that. We're having 472 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:55,720 Speaker 2: a meeting Tuesday night. 473 00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:57,639 Speaker 3: Just let you know. It's at seven o'clock and it's 474 00:24:57,680 --> 00:24:58,200 Speaker 3: at the whatever. 475 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:00,760 Speaker 2: He thought I was a neo Nazi. I got invited 476 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:03,560 Speaker 2: by a neo Nazi to a Nazi party. 477 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:10,919 Speaker 3: My god, I know, in retrospect, I told this on 478 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 3: the air like the next day. 479 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:16,159 Speaker 2: In retrospect, I kind of wish i'd ha gone, Yeah, 480 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:19,320 Speaker 2: I just could have investigated it out, but I was 481 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:23,480 Speaker 2: so weirded out. I was so weirded out, oh you know, 482 00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:26,439 Speaker 2: and then I get my picture taken and somebody recognized me. 483 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:27,520 Speaker 3: It's on the evening news, no. 484 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:34,119 Speaker 2: On butzi that's how they start the meeting. 485 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:35,800 Speaker 3: Uh. 486 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:39,440 Speaker 2: But yeah, guy actually invited me to a neo Nazi party. 487 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:41,439 Speaker 2: Just got a head, short hair and wore Doc Martins like, 488 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:43,400 Speaker 2: you know, like every lesbian in America. 489 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:45,120 Speaker 3: I mean, so what are they all Nazis? 490 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:45,240 Speaker 5: No? 491 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:49,600 Speaker 2: What did he look like? He looked like me. 492 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:53,600 Speaker 3: He was in a T shirt, doc short hair, except 493 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,200 Speaker 3: he's a Nazi. Did he have the white laces in 494 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:57,120 Speaker 3: his Doc Martins? 495 00:25:57,560 --> 00:25:57,679 Speaker 1: That? 496 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:01,800 Speaker 2: Now he wasn't the time. I think that's two. I mean, 497 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:05,480 Speaker 2: you're really outing yourself if you go there, aren't you. Yeah, okay, 498 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:09,080 Speaker 2: I'm unaware of this. Yeah that that's a full on 499 00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:12,120 Speaker 2: I'm racist Nazi if you have white lace supremacist. Yeah, 500 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:15,840 Speaker 2: but oh really I did not know that. Yeah, I've 501 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:17,840 Speaker 2: always I've always kind of wished I had to check 502 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:18,200 Speaker 2: it out. 503 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:20,080 Speaker 3: But you know, it might be one of those things 504 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:22,679 Speaker 3: you get in and you know some people and and 505 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:26,439 Speaker 3: and and it's it's harder to untangle yourself from that 506 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:27,160 Speaker 3: than you think. 507 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:30,119 Speaker 2: Yeah, I was. I can think of all sorts of 508 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:34,480 Speaker 2: things that would go wrong there. I mean, not like 509 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:37,800 Speaker 2: like deadly wrong, but just really really wrong. 510 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,920 Speaker 7: Walking your campus, all the Nazis are waving at you, 511 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:41,360 Speaker 7: you know. 512 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:42,720 Speaker 3: Hey Jack, hey, j. 513 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:48,520 Speaker 2: Well somebody recognizes here or whatever. I mean, that's they 514 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:49,200 Speaker 2: were doomed. 515 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:51,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, they're walking down through the park with their big 516 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:55,320 Speaker 3: swastika fleck. Hey Jack, Hey, that was fun the other night. 517 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:58,679 Speaker 4: And you're saying, you know, as the news shows up 518 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:01,080 Speaker 4: at your front door, I just went out of curiosity. 519 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,240 Speaker 2: You were curious about near Nazism. 520 00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:06,760 Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I mean it's it's it's terrible, obviously, but 521 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:08,439 Speaker 4: I wanted to go to the meeting and meet some 522 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:09,160 Speaker 4: of the fellas. 523 00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:10,800 Speaker 3: I like the footwear. 524 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:14,360 Speaker 2: I don't know what to say, Oh I'm Nazi Germany fortunate. 525 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:15,480 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, but you're right. 526 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:18,040 Speaker 2: You get to the meeting and like, right off the bat, 527 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:20,160 Speaker 2: it's you got to put your arm in the air 528 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:22,720 Speaker 2: and say, we blame the Jews, we hate the Jews. 529 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:24,959 Speaker 2: Our goal is to have the Jews annihilated. And IM 530 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:27,600 Speaker 2: mean and me and I like, I can't be here. 531 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:30,600 Speaker 2: Uh and then what are you gonna just turn around 532 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:32,320 Speaker 2: and walk out the tour and where. 533 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:32,640 Speaker 3: Are you going? 534 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,600 Speaker 2: Yeah again, so I probably made the right decision and 535 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:39,160 Speaker 2: just getting wide eyed and uh, no, and walking away 536 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:42,359 Speaker 2: from the guy. So you like World War two books, 537 00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:44,960 Speaker 2: don't you? Yeah, me and every other male in America. 538 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,680 Speaker 2: What the hell is this? You're casting a pretty well 539 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:52,840 Speaker 2: in that garb. Please, I male pattern baldness. 540 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,240 Speaker 3: I keep my hair short. Michael Jordan made it popular. 541 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:58,359 Speaker 3: That's not make does make you a Nazi? You doubled 542 00:27:58,359 --> 00:27:59,400 Speaker 3: down with the Doc Martins. 543 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:02,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, I tell you what I'm you know, hanging around 544 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:03,240 Speaker 2: in Oregon. 545 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:05,399 Speaker 4: We're in a pink tutu and some guy assume as 546 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:07,440 Speaker 4: I swing his way, you can't fault him. 547 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:09,840 Speaker 2: It's more in the uniform, huh. 548 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,000 Speaker 3: More in heels in a short skirt, and they made 549 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 3: all kinds of assumptions. 550 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:25,520 Speaker 5: Right, Jack Armstrong and Joe the Armstrong and Getty Show. 551 00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:32,040 Speaker 2: That's pretty good. 552 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:34,359 Speaker 3: That's not bad for having not picked up the violin 553 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:35,399 Speaker 3: in a year. 554 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:39,440 Speaker 2: Blood and you're years of studying. I mean you like, 555 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:41,840 Speaker 2: never even taking a lesson, right, No. 556 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:44,880 Speaker 3: No, I've practiced a total of like an hour on 557 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:47,040 Speaker 3: the violin in my entire life presses. You know, it's 558 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 3: a friendless instrument. So I pulled off a scale there whatever. 559 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:51,280 Speaker 2: It's actually pretty good. 560 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:53,880 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean I wouldn't like put on my 561 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:55,840 Speaker 4: hard shoes to go see you in a concert hall. 562 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:59,000 Speaker 2: But what you might be if you just tuned in, 563 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:01,280 Speaker 2: you might be wondering why Jack, who can't play the 564 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:02,680 Speaker 2: violin practicing. 565 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:03,520 Speaker 3: A scale on a fiddle. 566 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:06,480 Speaker 2: Oh, it's a beloved, armstrong and getty tradition as we 567 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:09,400 Speaker 2: raise money for wonderful causes, in this case, scholarships for 568 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:11,840 Speaker 2: young lads and girls who'd want to be Scouts and 569 00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:14,200 Speaker 2: maybe don't have the money, and Scouting is such a 570 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 2: positive influence in their lives, who want to make sure 571 00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:19,480 Speaker 2: they have that experience. And we've offered plenty of carrot, 572 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:23,560 Speaker 2: nice interviews stories from Scouts and how it's changed their 573 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,360 Speaker 2: lives and inspired them to become the people they've become. 574 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:28,800 Speaker 2: But for some of you that hasn't been enough. The 575 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:35,320 Speaker 2: carrot has passed uneaten. So out comes the stick, right, 576 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,600 Speaker 2: and the stick is a fiddle and a trombone, right 577 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:43,480 Speaker 2: without music, playing beloved Christmas classics until we raise how 578 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 2: much did we decide? Uh? 579 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:47,040 Speaker 3: Probably three grand? 580 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:48,960 Speaker 2: All right, you need to get. 581 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:52,440 Speaker 4: Three thousand dollars together starting right now, Jack, I will 582 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:54,920 Speaker 4: call the first tune if you don't mind about the 583 00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:58,520 Speaker 4: And we have no music, and I've oh, I haven't 584 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,200 Speaker 4: even mentioned. I've got my beloved a trombone in hand, 585 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:03,200 Speaker 4: many many years ago. 586 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:06,560 Speaker 2: I could play this thing. Not now well, and you 587 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:08,480 Speaker 2: don't have any music? Yeah, like you said, so right, 588 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:12,600 Speaker 2: I suggest the Christmas Classic. It came upon a midnight? 589 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:16,640 Speaker 3: Do I even know how that goes? It came upon okay. 590 00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:17,120 Speaker 2: I mean night? 591 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:18,040 Speaker 3: Ready? 592 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:21,920 Speaker 2: Two three? All right? 593 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:34,080 Speaker 3: This isn't gonna until we get three. Let's see. 594 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:37,760 Speaker 7: We've got Jack's podcast audibleve mouth slurp. 595 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:40,960 Speaker 3: I'm sorry about that one. That was a mistake. 596 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:50,040 Speaker 7: All right, since this has begun a different song, Kathy, 597 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:51,400 Speaker 7: I think I need a different song? 598 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,200 Speaker 2: Can something? I know the melody better? I think i'd 599 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,080 Speaker 2: be much better there. How's the money coming in? And 600 00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,360 Speaker 2: go to Armstrong and getty dot com. It's easy to donate. 601 00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:00,040 Speaker 2: I know it gets jammed up a little bit, but 602 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:01,440 Speaker 2: but you can do it. Here we go, all right, 603 00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:02,640 Speaker 2: I'm sorry, what's the tune? 604 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:03,840 Speaker 3: Jingle bells? 605 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:04,680 Speaker 2: Oh? 606 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:08,200 Speaker 3: Okay, jingle bells? What what temple do we want? Jingle bells? 607 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:10,040 Speaker 3: Jingle bells? Two? Three? 608 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:10,440 Speaker 2: Four? 609 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:15,680 Speaker 3: Okay, Well, we just. 610 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,680 Speaker 7: Got Robert, who donated fifty dollars clearly wants this to 611 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:23,600 Speaker 7: come to an end. Blatness song blattice twenty six dollars 612 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,400 Speaker 7: even this night, I was ten coming in with twenty six, 613 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:29,120 Speaker 7: Nancy with fifty two. 614 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:38,720 Speaker 9: Say now the dashing through the snow part, we're on 615 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:51,200 Speaker 9: our way, ha ha ha, I'm through. 616 00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:56,480 Speaker 3: In the That was very important. Okay, what's more? 617 00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:58,840 Speaker 2: Even more painful than it says? Let's get one more 618 00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,200 Speaker 2: good song as we and if you donated Armstrong, you 619 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:01,880 Speaker 2: getty dot com. 620 00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:02,680 Speaker 3: This all can come to. 621 00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:05,520 Speaker 2: A store stop. Yeah, all right, do you have an idea? 622 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:07,760 Speaker 3: Oh? Come on, come. 623 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:08,840 Speaker 2: On, silent night? 624 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:09,640 Speaker 3: Here you go? 625 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:10,680 Speaker 2: All right, here we go. 626 00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:12,440 Speaker 3: It'ld be a silent for the mouth. 627 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:15,959 Speaker 2: And it's walls two three. 628 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:19,440 Speaker 3: Oh that was almost right. 629 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:20,360 Speaker 2: That was good. 630 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:37,600 Speaker 6: So what's the It was a silent night, Michaels find out. 631 00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:39,480 Speaker 3: All to make this a silent night? 632 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:44,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, Michael got a beautiful. 633 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:48,280 Speaker 4: The baby Jesus have got to throw the first punch 634 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:48,880 Speaker 4: of his life. 635 00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,160 Speaker 3: Where are we at for our total? Did you refresh? 636 00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:51,440 Speaker 2: Yeah? 637 00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:54,000 Speaker 3: I'm refreshing. Okay, I think that I think that might 638 00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:57,160 Speaker 3: be good. You're stupid? 639 00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:59,040 Speaker 7: Did hurt just contributed fifty bucks? 640 00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:02,480 Speaker 3: Oh? Thank you very much? Stupid? Did hurt? In for fifty. 641 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:05,760 Speaker 2: Now I could I could be talked into playing a 642 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:06,200 Speaker 2: little more. 643 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:10,000 Speaker 3: No, but no any requests of events I would like more. Yeah, 644 00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:12,720 Speaker 3: I could do more of this every year. 645 00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:15,120 Speaker 2: I think, you know what, I'm gonna start practicing a 646 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:16,880 Speaker 2: little bit and get a little then and I ever do. 647 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:21,320 Speaker 2: I literally had not opened the case since this day 648 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:22,360 Speaker 2: last year. 649 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:24,080 Speaker 3: When I put it away. 650 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,240 Speaker 4: You know, other than the people I love, music has 651 00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:29,560 Speaker 4: meant more to me than anything in my life. And 652 00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:32,000 Speaker 4: I have no idea how I got talked into playing 653 00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:32,760 Speaker 4: the trombone. 654 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:35,920 Speaker 2: It was a bad idea. It's a fine instrument in 655 00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:40,560 Speaker 2: this symphotic setting, sure, but unless you're James Pancow of Chicago, 656 00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:42,120 Speaker 2: it won't do you a damn bit of good of 657 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,480 Speaker 2: rock and roll? What do you wish you had played? 658 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:47,800 Speaker 2: And it spent as much time practicing if you could 659 00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:52,600 Speaker 2: start over, honestly, like a piano or like saxophone. I mean, 660 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,080 Speaker 2: I've played zillions hours of guitar and I still stink. 661 00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:58,880 Speaker 2: But yeah, something that was more useful in rock and roll, honestly. 662 00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,200 Speaker 2: But it's okay. Oh boy, A great twenty five dollars 663 00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:06,000 Speaker 2: donation from needed this when I was ten. That's a 664 00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:08,680 Speaker 2: great one, as in, I wish I'd had Scouts when 665 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:09,319 Speaker 2: I was a kid. 666 00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:12,319 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's a good one. 667 00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:15,760 Speaker 2: Raging tromboner in for twenty five dollars, appreciate everybody donating. 668 00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:18,239 Speaker 2: Really hoping to hit one hundred and fifty grand by 669 00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:19,880 Speaker 2: the end of the show. We do have a whale 670 00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:21,759 Speaker 2: we know that's coming in at some point, which is 671 00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:24,800 Speaker 2: gonna help. We're at about one twenty nine right now, 672 00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:27,560 Speaker 2: so we need a pretty decent chunk of money. I mean, 673 00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:30,399 Speaker 2: we need about twenty grand to get to our goal 674 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:32,400 Speaker 2: by the end of the hour. That's interesting about the 675 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:35,520 Speaker 2: musical instrument. I think a lot of people, if they 676 00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:38,400 Speaker 2: ever play at all, just kind of randomly end up 677 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:43,440 Speaker 2: on one. I wish I had taken it way more 678 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:45,960 Speaker 2: seriously when I'm younger, if I had to practice like 679 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,000 Speaker 2: I practice now, I would have loved to have seen, 680 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:49,840 Speaker 2: you know, what I could have done. Not that I 681 00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:51,600 Speaker 2: ever wanted to make money or be professional or anything 682 00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:52,960 Speaker 2: like that, just the enjoyment. 683 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:54,399 Speaker 3: It's more enjoyable to play better. 684 00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:57,719 Speaker 2: Uh yeah, absolutely, yeah. I was super motivated. Actually I 685 00:34:58,000 --> 00:34:59,400 Speaker 2: was a pretty good brass player, but 686 00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:02,520 Speaker 4: And it was funny, and I met a lot of 687 00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:06,080 Speaker 4: nice people, no regrets, Armstrong and Getty