WEBVTT - Bravely Self Reliant 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:06.880 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:11.000 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:23.120 Arm Strong and Getty and Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:27.960 I just saw a Jersey Mike's. The Sandwich Shop is 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:31.600 going to go public value at about eight billion dollars. 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:33.280 Remember we had a thing a week or so ago 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:36.199 about how people like Jersey Mike's the best out of 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:38.479 all your chain sandwich I've never had one. I got 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:41.159 to seek one out and have one that sounds delicious 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:42.959 right now? A good A good sandwich. 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:44.920 I love a good sandwich. They're very good. 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:50.920 Since I've never had pastrami before the first one I 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:53.920 ever have, I want it to be good. Should I 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:55.600 do a chain like Jersey Mikes or should I make 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:58.920 sure I get to like a real deli, mom and 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:01.279 pop sort of deli for kastrami or something? 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:02.600 Because I want to. I want to. I want to 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:05.000 not be disappointed since you don't high. 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:07.280 End sando shop and give you a really good, uh 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:08.440 pastrami sandwich. 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:09.039 Yeah. 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:11.800 Yeah, although you know, if you've got a local deli 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:15.480 that does sandwiches, you do, you be all right either way? 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.160 Does Cordy brothers do that. Michael, do you know local places? No, 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:20.680 I don't know. I'll have to look into it, and 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:21.720 I'll bet they'd be good. 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:23.480 I'm told there is a place in Rockland that is 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:25.240 Pastrami specific though. 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:28.399 Oh really, yeah, is that the name of it? Pastrami 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:33.360 specific be a good name for us store? So uh 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:38.360 mentioned earlier. I watched Mark Halprin's newscast in the afternoon. 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:45.559 Sometimes he's always ranking democrats run it that are likely 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:48.120 to run for president and where they are in their list. 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:50.840 He currently has Kamala Harris at the top because Bernie 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:54.040 Sanders are like number two, but he has had aoc 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:56.120 fairly high up for a long time because he just 0:01:56.160 --> 0:02:01.920 sinks in this moment, she could get the nomination catch 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:05.000 fire with this whole populous moment, just like I could 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:05.680 picture that. 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:09.519 I will play for the next World Cup winner before 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:11.800 Kamala Harris is the nominee for president. 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:15.440 That's ridiculous. Well, I feel like I'd go at you 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:19.440 regularly as a coach. I'd say, Joe, if you didn't, 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:26.600 you'd be a fool target. Joe, is he paralyzed. I've 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:30.000 never seen a man move so slowly over on that 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:30.920 side of the field. 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:34.160 Go over target, keep going at him. 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:36.640 He paralla Kamala Harris. 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:40.760 She couldn't raise thirty dollars for her presidential run. Right now, 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:43.600 She'll go to her husband. He'll be like, yeah, I'm 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:44.760 a little tight right now. 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:52.760 Anyway, AOC was making the rounds and she was in 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:57.160 a southern state and she adopted a little bit of 0:02:57.160 --> 0:03:00.120 a Southern accent. Keep in mind she calls herself a 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:00.919 Bronx girl. 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:10.079 We cannot afford to leave Tennessee behind. We cannot afford 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:16.120 to leave Kentucky behind, Alabama behind, Mississippi behind, Georgia, behind 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:22.280 South Carolina behind. Hey, there is no country. When we 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:25.880 are split apart. We will not be chased out of 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:27.280 places anymore. 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:33.200 Brothers and sisters, Brother lord, oh my god, what are 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:35.480 politicians to do that? And what's amazing to me about 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:39.520 that is that, uh, like Trump, Trump went around. 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:41.680 It just was Trump and people loved it. 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:45.400 Always use the example of he's at the motorcycle rally 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:48.680 instead of like every other politician that's ever done the 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:49.840 big motorcycle rally. 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.320 He didn't ride in on a motorcycle leather ticket. He 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:54.119 showed up. But he's playing in a suit and said 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:59.000 I don't like motorcycles, no cause playing for Trump? Right? 0:03:59.120 --> 0:03:59.320 Yeah? 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:05.320 Behind behind? Why you saying behind? You're from Boston, right 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:07.080 or wherever? 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:07.520 Yeah? 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:11.760 Uh yeah, that's ridiculous and funny. All right, So here's 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:14.040 a little guessing game, Michael, I'm gonna want to clip 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:18.840 number thirty four. What sort of gathering is this? 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:23.479 To fight back against this fascist regime, we need to 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:27.279 be in the streets, wisely using our wallets, battling in 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:30.800 the courts, and winning at the ballot box, the center 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:31.719 of our democracy. 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:35.680 Okay, I'll bet you're forming up a guest. Let's do 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:38.520 thirty three now, sing gathering. 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:41.920 Approaches together, to vote together, to act. 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:43.600 Together, to bring about. 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:48.000 Change, real, lasting, life improving change. 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:51.520 That is the power and potential of. 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:55.800 Our movement, and all the a f day ah. She 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:57.040 gave it away at the end. 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:59.599 If you guessed, yeah, that's just the annual conference of 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:06.719 a teacher union, you'd be right, right, radical politics, revolution 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.680 against quote unquote fascist regimes. 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:12.560 That's the state of our our teachers. 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:14.960 Well, i'd like change in our public schools too, like 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:17.680 emphasize reading and writing in mathematics. 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:20.200 I'll bet that didn't come up even once. 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:25.080 So it's so depressed about the state of public education 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:27.159 because my kids are still in school. I mean it, 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:31.000 like it it like literally, I'm not just using that 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.560 word the way people use it all the time. It 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:38.279 makes me, if I think about it much depressed, like 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:44.400 barely confunction hopeless depressed. 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:49.280 It's bad. It's really really bad. Yeah, I know, I know. 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:51.479 That's why I'm always hobbling about it, just trying to 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:54.839 do whatever I can we can to at least alert 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:58.680 people so they vote in school board elections and pay 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:04.280 attention's to what's being taught in their schools. Yeah, it's 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:08.560 troubling for sure. On the more general topic of socialism, though, 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:11.520 I thought this was so interesting. I read constantly, not 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:17.839 deep reading jack newspaper articles, generally website articles, and it 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:20.560 struck me that whether you're talking about the part of 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:24.360 southern California that was devastated by the wildfire, and if 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.719 it were not so bitterly angering, it would be hilarious, 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:31.719 how few permits have been granted to rebuild people's homes 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:37.359 in their lives. Likewise, Maui, Maui has rebuilt virtually no 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:42.360 homes since the Great Wildfire There not terribly long ago. 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:44.000 Quite a few years ago. At this point they still 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:46.680 haven't done right, Oh my god, practically none. 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:50.279 And also I can't remember if it was the journal 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:52.360 New York Times, doesn't really matter with a big article 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:57.920 about how London has a terrible, terrible housing shortage right now, 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:05.080 and it's all the same thing. They have such thick, complex, 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:10.960 contradictory regulations about housing in all three of those places, 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:15.040 so much government red tape they can't build, and the 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:19.200 particulars you think it's made up just the efforts to 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:22.000 you know, this one apartment they've been trying to build, 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:25.239 like eighty apartments in London in some crappy old building, 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:29.280 and they've submitted eleven thousand pages of documents to the 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:33.120 government so far. They're five years into the please can 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:37.920 we just build some apartments process, and they've been sent 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:41.000 back to the drawing board again by the bureaucrats who 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:43.840 run this stuff. And at the risk of going off 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:46.280 on this tangent too long, I came across this great 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:48.480 thing piece, but oh my god, it was so long 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:56.760 written about how well meaning regulations by smart, good people 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:02.520 accumulate in layers until they form this monster that present 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:08.600 prevents any any activity, any productivity, the problem being if 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:12.880 you look at any individual regulation, you say, well, I 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.440 get that, that that makes sense. We probably should be 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:18.400 careful about this that, but it tends to just become 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:22.960 this giant clog. Anyway, it's an interesting topic in the guys, 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:25.400 I just read and read it and read and read 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.680 waiting for this genius is prescription for fixing this problem. 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:30.800 And at the end it was kind of like, yeah, 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:32.320 I don't know, I guess we just got to do 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:34.520 our best to get rid of some of them. It's like, oh, 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:39.440 damn it. Anyway, that all leads to this. This is 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:43.960 so interesting to me. They got a new Prime Minister 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:48.000 in Great Britain. Andy Burnham's name kind of populous lefty guy. 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:51.840 Is it Bernie Sanders type of guy? Yeah, yeah, I'm 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.880 younger though, but quite a bit younger as stage. 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:58.880 He's the perfect example of and the housing market is 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:06.000 a great example this how bureaucracy and heavy handed government 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:12.240 slash socialism cause a problem. The bureaucrats managed to blame 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:18.040 free enterprise, and the voters, especially young voters, double down 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.880 on it and ask for more of the very thing 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:24.640 that's caused the problem. Like Nelly Bowles had a great, 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:30.240 great account of how rent control in New York City 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:35.320 is absolutely making it impossible for who young people and 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:40.160 minorities and recent immigrants to get housing. The older folks, 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:43.520 the rich folks who are in these rent controlled units, 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:47.560 they're great. But as the landlord, if I've got ten 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:51.040 units and you've made me keep five of them at 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:54.520 ridiculously low rates, I can't even come close to covering 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:55.200 my costs. 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:56.200 Here's your. 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:03.480 Microeconomics test, your one question final. I have ten units, 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:07.000 five of them are forced to be way below market 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:10.000 rates to break even. What do I have to do 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:15.160 with the other five units? Right? Jack up the price 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:18.600 so I'm I can at least cover my costs. And 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:23.640 it's just it's horrifically unproductive. It does the opposite. But 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:26.480 a Mamdani comes along and says, what we need is 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:30.360 more government interfere you know, involvement. So this is this 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:31.960 is all leading up to this. You know what I'm 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:34.160 gonna I'm gonna advocate for taking a break and come 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:37.199 back with believe it or not, The New York Times 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:44.559 account of the five main challenges facing Britain's new Prime minister. 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:47.800 And I want you to look at this through the 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:52.120 lens of socialism. Sucks and it never works. The five 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.840 challenges facing the new British Prime minister. 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:57.880 Get some tea, get some. 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:04.439 Crumpet eight crump some crump bets, get comfortable, and we'll 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:16.199 come back with that in seconds. Elizabeth Warren just endorsed 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:20.600 that democrat wackado socialist up in Michigan who's for medicare, 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:25.280 cradle to grave, seven percent wealth tax on billionaires every year, 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:26.640 et cetera, et cetera. 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:31.360 Got the endorsement of Elizabeth Warren. So socialism March. The 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:34.800 Islamist guy doctor what's his name, Yeah, yeah, who didn't 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:35.800 get a medical license. 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:39.439 Yeah, not actually a doctor, yep, yep, like doctor Jill 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:40.440 never forget anyway. 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:42.360 So I thought this was so interesting. 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:47.520 Britain is struggling badly, badly badly, I mean economically, socially, 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:53.080 immigration wise, and they've got a new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:55.920 who's a far left guy. As Jack described him, he's 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:57.000 like a Bernie Sanders guy. 0:11:57.280 --> 0:11:59.480 Got that a weird system they've got where he like 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:02.079 never want anything. He was a mayor of some town 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.160 and now he's Prime minister. The way that can happen 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:07.280 in their system is confusing to me. 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:11.520 Yes, it's different, for sure, but so I thought this 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:14.480 was the lefty New York Times has the five main 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:19.680 challenges he's going to be facing in your framework again, 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:24.960 is socialism caused this? Why are you electing a socialist? 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:29.959 Number one, an economy in the doldrums, years of stagnating 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:34.680 living standards back dating back to eight in the financial crisis, 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:37.240 and they say made worse by Brexit and the COVID 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:38.400 nineteen pandemic. 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:40.400 Well, yeah, bresit's a little unique. 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:43.320 We didn't have that here, but we had all those 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:46.240 things happened to us in the US too, and our 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:50.800 economy is actually doing pretty well these days. So mister 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:55.760 Burnham needs to introduce tangible improvements for Britons. He's vowed 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:58.400 to stick to his party's general election pledge in twenty 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:01.120 four not to increase the main tax is. However, we'll 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:04.240 face many of the same challenges as Keir starmer Lah. 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:09.000 Challenge Number two is conflicts abroad in the efraying special 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:12.200 relationship with the United States. I concede that that's mostly 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:15.000 a different question and has nothing to do with our theme. 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:22.600 But number three, finding more cash for military spending. Okay, 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:30.400 they have no money to defend themselves as the Armstrong doctrine, 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:33.640 because they've had the umbrella of American military. 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:36.040 Security for decades now generation well, right, and then you're 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:40.200 promising all these you know, gifts to everyone, which socialism does. 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:41.920 Where are you going to find extra money when you're 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:42.200 doing that. 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:47.480 A few weeks not too long ago, Starmer announced plans 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:50.920 to raise military spending by fifteen billion pounds about twenty 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.079 billion dollars over the next four years, but he left 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:55.640 out any details about where the money would come from. 0:13:56.400 --> 0:14:00.520 Number four. They need to navigate a Nazi immigration debate. 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:06.960 This one's interesting. It's somewhat a different theme, but huge, 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:12.200 huge majorities of Brits say we've had way too much immigration, 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:15.559 way too fast. Our country is changing much too quickly 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:19.240 and we hate it. Immigration has actually fallen a lot, 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.240 but only a minority of people are aware that net 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:23.520 migration has fallen. 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:29.000 Why. Well, because the folks that are already there, they can't. 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:32.080 Tell the rate of immigration. I'm not like checking people 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:34.160 off as they walk in the country. All they know 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:37.240 is that their country is off track. And then finally, 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:40.880 number five, this is the big challenge facing the new 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:46.080 even more socialisty socialist. The rising cost of welfare and pensions. 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:50.400 Britain's welfare bill is rising. One reason is the growing 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:54.320 number of claims from working age people with mental health conditions, 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:59.680 many of whom are young and unemployed, generally depression, anxiety, 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:03.920 whatever else. But the biggest chunk of Britain's social security spending, 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:05.920 more than half the total, goes to retired people through 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:08.880 state pensions and other supports. Spending has been pushed higher 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:11.800 by an aging population and the so called triple lock, 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:15.880 which guarantees pensions increased by the highest of three measures. 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.400 Wow're doomed. So all their problems are. 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:22.440 The sort of thing that could only be fixed if 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:25.400 you were about to if you elected today somebody who's 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.080 like a fiscal conservative is going to tell some hard 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:32.760 truths to people. But instead he elected somebody who's further 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.440 down that road of believing in that nonsense. 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:39.360 Right, Wow, exactly, good luck. I was trying to dial 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:45.120 up the waiting times again, that's right. Keeping in mind 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:48.320 that the National Health Service, which is absolutely bleeding money, 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:52.640 ironically and going broke in Britain. If your doctor says, 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:56.200 oh my god, you've got cancer, it is urgent, you 0:15:56.240 --> 0:16:01.360 get treatment. Their goal, which they don't mean, is let's 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:05.200 get eighty five percent of people into treatment within two months. 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:08.760 Oh my god, within two months. 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:13.440 It's actually less than seventy percent who gets started within 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:16.680 two months if they get an urgent referral from the 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:17.600 general practitioner. 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.560 I would have been paralyzed, if not dead, if that 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:26.200 had happened when I had my cancer. Yeah wow, I 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:29.960 got my care started in like a week after I 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:30.640 was diagnosed. 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:33.040 Can you imagine you got a sore throat, you call 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:36.760 for an appointment. The average weight time is eighteen weeks. 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:40.800 I'm gonna have had three or four sore throats from 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:43.040 now and then, plus a dose of the clap of 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:44.080 a spring the ankle. 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:49.640 Eighteen weeks. What does that have to do? What's what 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:52.040 I got? Now you finally get in, how's your sore 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:55.800 throat coming along? Well, it's I don't remember it better 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:57.440 than my heart attack the other day. 0:16:57.480 --> 0:16:58.040 I'll tell you. 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:02.320 That I'm going to have to write this out for 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:05.159 you because my sore throat destroyed my vocal cords. I 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:07.840 can no longer speak because that was four months ago. 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:09.960 It's either going to go away on its own or 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:13.280 kill you in that amount of time. Right, Wow, that 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:16.160 is crazy, and that's held up as the gold standard 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:16.720 by a lot. 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:19.479 Of lefties Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:23.560 A growing debate over data centers as a number of 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:27.960 demonstrations play out across the country from Atlanta to Berkeley, California. 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:30.440 We want to slow it on data center development. 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:32.040 We want to slow it on AI in general, and 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:34.560 stop big tech from infringing on our local communities. 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:38.199 The explosion of data center construction projects the byproduct of 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:42.040 the AI in cloud computing boom. That skyrocketing growth also 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:45.920 prompting new scrutiny as communities housing these centers say they 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:49.080 are bearing new burdens of heightened water and power usage. 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:54.680 This whole data center's debate thing is really interesting. I 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:57.639 wish AI never happened. So it's not like I'm in 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:00.760 favor of AI, but it is happening. It's going to happen, 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:04.040 and I'd rather we get it than China. But then 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:07.320 just on the data center saying, I wish more people 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:10.359 knew that so much of the information out there the 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:13.280 Tanai data centers is coming from the Chinese who want 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:15.080 us to who want to win the AI. 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:18.480 Battle, Right, right, they held that big conference saying, Hey, 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:20.680 it ought to be open source and everybody should share, 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:23.840 says the person in second place, right right, Yeah, you 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:26.520 get to first place, then what's your attitude going to be? 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:27.560 Their shijinping? 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:30.719 So we know Russia and China are filling our social 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:36.399 media with sometimes very false things about these data centers. 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:41.159 A Quinnipiac Pennsylvania poll, would you support or oppose building 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:43.119 an AI data center in your community? 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:44.000 Support? 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:51.479 Sixteen percent, ap pose seventy four Wow. So if and 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:54.280 if that's representative of a lot of places in the country, 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:57.040 it might be even less support you get into some 0:18:57.080 --> 0:19:01.240 of your rural Midwest areas. They got a hell of 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:03.040 a hill to climb to try to convince people that 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:06.880 it's okay to have these data centers various places. That's 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:08.160 an interesting one. 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:11.120 You know, I think support might be higher in those 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:14.480 places you described, you think as opposed to the everybody 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:17.560 has got a degree in women's studies. 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:20.560 From vasser parts of the country. But I don't know. 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:25.439 I don't know. I'll have to ask my brother what 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:27.639 he thinks. But I don't know. 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:31.280 This guy who calls himself meet Dad, he's an influencer online. 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:34.280 Apparently he posts a lot of videos about meat. You 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:39.240 could be really anything. If your nickname is meat Dad, 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:41.040 you could be the most popular person on grinder. 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:42.440 I don't. You could be a lots of things. 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:45.960 Oohl Boy, for instance, This guy's all about meat. He 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:48.880 had his Welcome to California video that he pot over 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:52.520 the weekend. I saw he was in a San Jose Walmart. 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:58.639 It started when they are locking up your toothpaste. 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:02.160 Locking up my toothpaste, and. 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:07.080 Then it went to deodorant in hair brushes and everything else. 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:09.280 They're now locking up the meat at the Walmart. So 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:11.880 you've got this big thing of meat. They don't lock 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:14.400 it up because I guess that would be two incommune 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:18.159 or something. But it's in this metal wire casing so 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:19.280 that if you want to be able to get the 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:22.200 meat out of it, you have to have somebody in 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:23.040 lock it up front. 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:25.640 You stole the story, you wouldn't be able to get 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:30.439 into it. People want to beef a meat vault, Great, 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:34.359 that's just great, just give away civilization. 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:40.240 I don't get you people who don't recognize that something 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:44.240 fundamental has changed when we didn't have to lock things 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:48.399 up on store shelves for the last thousand years, but 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:51.320 now you do something changed. 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:51.920 Yeah. 0:20:51.960 --> 0:20:55.840 But what they'd say is, yeah, capitalism is forcing people 0:20:55.880 --> 0:20:56.840 into desperate message. 0:20:56.840 --> 0:20:57.000 I know. 0:20:57.080 --> 0:20:59.320 I have a friend who would say that everything income 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:00.960 inequality has never been this bad. 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:04.240 God, that's why people are stealing meat. Wear a helmet 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:09.240 everywhere you go because your head soft. Different story. 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:11.600 So I've mentioned on the air several times before that 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:16.640 I think because of one of my several bouts with COVID. 0:21:17.080 --> 0:21:19.239 I think I had COVID four times that I know of, 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:23.560 I lost my sense of taste. I know it affected 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:28.320 my sense of smell and taste and smell go together. 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:31.080 As we all know, I can't taste sweet. As I've 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:33.639 mentioned very many times, my son doesn't believe me. And 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:35.200 first I don't know why it doesn't believe Maybe it 0:21:35.200 --> 0:21:36.960 doesn't believe me that I can't taste sweet. 0:21:38.520 --> 0:21:40.560 And I thought, why haven't I had this checked? 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:42.320 So I just so I sent a message to my 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:44.080 doctor over the weekend and I just got back from 0:21:44.119 --> 0:21:45.720 me said, yeah, I can send you. I did a 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:48.200 little research on chat GPT about how they do that, 0:21:48.760 --> 0:21:51.200 and it's an e NT that usually does the test. 0:21:51.440 --> 0:21:53.199 And I wondered if there are any self tests you 0:21:53.200 --> 0:21:57.159 can do, but there are any really good ones. To 0:21:57.240 --> 0:22:01.880 really get it, you need to go to medical professionals. 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:04.119 But yeah, so I got I'm getting referred to my 0:22:04.200 --> 0:22:06.600 e INT and insurance covers it because it's considered a 0:22:07.240 --> 0:22:10.440 big enough problem, I guess, So I'm actually not gonna 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:12.399 get tested. I'm really looking forward to seeing in what 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:15.960 way my taste has been affected. My taste and smell, Yeah, 0:22:16.200 --> 0:22:19.239 and really nil it down. And so yesterday I'm at 0:22:19.240 --> 0:22:21.480 the gym and I started to get every once in 0:22:21.520 --> 0:22:25.280 a while, I get that uh uh thing where your 0:22:25.320 --> 0:22:28.479 sugar's off balance and I start to get sweaty and shaky. 0:22:28.560 --> 0:22:34.040 What's the actual name for then, low blood hype o glycemia. 0:22:34.440 --> 0:22:37.200 Yeah, I get that, ahile, not very often, and it's 0:22:37.200 --> 0:22:40.040 always just out of nowhere. I've never found any pattern 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:41.760 to it, but every once in a while I get it, 0:22:41.760 --> 0:22:44.520 and I get it bad, like I can't I can't function. 0:22:44.880 --> 0:22:46.600 That's an awful feeling. Just a couple of. 0:22:46.600 --> 0:22:48.800 Times a year, really. But I got to get some 0:22:49.040 --> 0:22:51.000 sort of food or sure, So I went and I 0:22:51.040 --> 0:22:52.520 was at the gym, and they don't have any food there. 0:22:52.520 --> 0:22:54.880