WEBVTT - I Can't Even 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.240 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:17.239 Armstrong and Getty and no he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:27.080 Elon Muss sent an email to federal employees telling you 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:29.760 to list five things they did last week or they 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:32.479 would be fired, which was easier for Elon to do 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:35.880 because all five of his were got a lady pregnant. 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:40.560 And yet another Elon baby over the weekend. 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:45.800 Number fourteen announced Jetty's insane. 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:49.559 Yeah it is, it is something. It's I don't know. 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:54.360 That's the most underdiscussed part of his personality. 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:56.760 Whatever's going on there. 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:00.360 I think I may know what's going on there. Don't 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:02.440 know that. We want to get off on the tangent. Okay, 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:06.080 I do want to talk about Saturday Live a little 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:09.600 bit later. So the sketches were hilarious with Shane Gillis, 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:13.399 but man, it was edgy, edgy stuff, oh racially sexually, 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:15.800 so much further out there than they normally are. He 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:18.280 must have had a big role in the deciding of 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:22.920 the writing or whatever. M watch some of the oscars 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:23.360 last night. 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:26.840 I know you didn't. Nobody did. I don't know. 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.160 Why I never hear anybody bring up what I think 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:31.760 is what killed the Oscars more than anything, even as 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:35.280 much as the lectures was when they went from five 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:38.320 pictures to like ten or twelve or whatever. You just 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:40.360 can't wrap your head around. I think that's the biggest 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:43.399 change that happened. So instead of I've seen two or 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:46.000 three of the five and I know what you're talking about, 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:48.960 most of the time, it's gone to maybe I've seen 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:50.559 one of two of twelve. 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:52.240 Or whatever, and I have no idea. 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:53.800 Who any of these people are, what you're talking about, 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:58.920 are in your jokes or anything, And it's just so irrelevant, 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.120 you know, not to mention the lecturing in Hollywood and 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:03.560 just everybody got sick all that sort of stuff. Conan 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:06.520 hosting I thought was so great. His musical number, I'm 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:08.840 Not Going to Waste Your Time was really really funny 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:12.720 with his various time wasting things that he jammed into 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:15.560 I'm not gonna waste your time song like the worm 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:18.639 from Dune playing the piano and a variety of other things. 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:21.079 But the funniest thing he did if you didn't see it, 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:22.720 because I know you didn't. It was a four hour 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:25.240 telecast in the middle of it, he had the the 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:29.360 LA FD, the LA Fire Department come out and tell 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:31.480 jokes that he didn't think he could get away with 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:34.240 because they're wrote so respected for fighting the fires. So 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:37.480 has this firefighters come out and ask them tell some jokes, 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:40.680 which was really like uncomfortable and funny and in the 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:44.360 way that Conan always is really like that from the 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.720 actual Oscar broadcast though, And I'll just just give you 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:49.960 two little things that happened that I really really really 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:53.799 couldn't possibly stand any anymore. First of all, they they 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:56.240 no longer show snippets, so when they when they when 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:58.800 you even get to the best categories, I waited to 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:02.800 the final four right Actress, Director, motion Picture. I just 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:04.800 wanted to see that last fifteen minutes to see if 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.520 my Bob Dylan movie one, which it didn't. They don't 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:09.720 play little clips anymore from any of these, so if 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:11.440 you didn't see me, you don't have any idea what's 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:13.680 going on. Then they announced the winner. The winner goes 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.680 up there and they don't have on the screen who 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:18.760 they are, what they were in, So I mean, you 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:22.560 couldn't possibly be less interested. Wow, And I don't know 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:26.839 why they decided to do that. Also, hooray for Hollywood 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:30.440 and yea for you girl power that they moved so 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:35.720 now they now do actor, director, then actress, then picture. 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:39.600 They moved actress to write before best Picture to empower 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:43.960 women or something. Yay for you, I mean so transparently, Hollywood. 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:46.680 I mean, just like a nice little reminder in there 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:51.240 of why we hate everything you do that you may change. 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:55.040 Whoop the s or fine or flip a coin. Nobody cares. 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:59.240 And then one more thing I've always hated in awards 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:02.160 shows when they play people off when they're in the 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:05.000 middle of something interesting in their speech. Then along comes 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:08.240 Adrian Brody last night, who I used to like, and 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:10.320 he wins Best Actor and he gets up there and 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:14.480 he rambles on about nothing. I had no idea what 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:16.760 he was talking about, and nobody else seems to understand, 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:19.400 either something about art and place in the world or 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:20.880 something like that, and they start to play him off. 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:22.800 He said, no, no, I've been here before. This is 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:25.039 not my first rodeo. You're not gonna play me off. 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:26.960 And then they take the music away and he rambles 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:29.480 on for like another's two minutes. Everybody's like looking at 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:31.360 their watch or tapping their television. 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:33.960 Dude, get off the freaking stage, give him the hook. 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:34.840 What are you talking about? 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:37.360 So? Yeah, and that was the that might have been 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:40.240 the absolute death knell of acceptance speeches. 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:43.800 Somebody needs to invent the compelling meter. And if you're 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:45.279 not above a seven, we're. 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:45.800 Playing you off. 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:46.160 Right. 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:48.760 No, he's not our fault, it's yours. You're not compelling 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:49.160 right now? 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:51.080 How many times have I seen him play somebody off 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:53.599 when they're talking about my parents died and their last 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:55.159 wish was and then they start the music. 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:58.520 No, no, no, no, not now. 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:01.000 But if they're rambling about, go ahead and get him 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.039 the hell out of there. What's the name of the 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:08.240 movie that won and Cora something like that, Whatever it is, 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:13.000 it's a it's a dramedy about sex workers. But I 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:16.240 do like the fact that it was not giant stars 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:18.479 and made for six million dollars, which, as one critic 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:21.359 pointed out, that's probably about the worth of many of 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:26.160 these stars second Home. But the idea that you know, 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:28.440 you don't need a ton of money to make a 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:31.400 big blockbuster film. I went to or to make a 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:33.880 successful piece of art. If that's what you claim you're 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:35.880 into of course that's not what they're all really into. 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:38.520 They're into making money. I went to Captain America on 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:40.719 Saturday night. Couldn't have been a bigger piece of crap. 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:43.040 Oh my god, it was just horrible. And my kids 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:45.479 said that that the first thing when we walked out there. Geez, 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:49.760 that was awful. Too long, too convoluted, just just way 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:52.159 too much everything. But the thing that stuck out to 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:53.919 me the most, and maybe I've got this in my 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:57.200 head because of this new Tom Cotton book that's out 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:00.000 Seven Things you Can't Say about China, is this whole 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:05.480 United States versus Japan scenario that they dug up here 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:09.400 for Captain America. And China is never the bad guy 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:12.640 in any movie, which Tom Cotton writes about in his book. 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:17.280 And it happened once years ago in that seven Years 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:20.239 to Bet movie, and all the movie studios got punished 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.839 for it. And so now nobody dares have a Chinese 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:24.840 bad guy. When we were kids, because Joe and I 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:28.960 were old, the bad guy was always a Russian, maybe 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:32.440 in East German, but you know, a communist of some sort. 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:36.240 Now you can't have the number one foe of the 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:38.640 United States on Earth, who we're going to be battling 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:40.680 for all of the rest of our lives as a 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:42.000 bad guy in a motion picture. 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:45.479 What crazy is that? Culture? I get it one hundred percent. 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:50.600 In terms of the business, if Hollywood quote unquote has decided, well, no, 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:53.000 the Chinese market's too important and so we're not going 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:57.000 to antagonize them, that's fine. But you have chosen your 0:06:57.040 --> 0:07:00.560 business over any sort of claim to being a moral 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:05.520 force or you know, any sort of influence on society whatsoever. No, 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:08.200 you've you've made a choice. Or I mean, it's not 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:10.640 like they're letting the French off the hook for being 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:13.960 a pain in the ass. They're letting communists China, a 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:18.400 malevolent superpower that tortures and slaves and commits genocide, off 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:20.000 the hook for that stuff. 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:22.600 So yeah, no, well and one or the other. And 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:25.120 you're constant mentioning throughout the oscars. I don't about last 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:27.000 night because I only saw the last twenty minutes really, 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:30.040 but you know, over the years, all the we reflect 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:32.360 life back to you in a way that blah blah blah. 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.520 You're not reflecting life at all if you're leaving China 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:40.400 out of the entire conversation. How how did we get 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:44.440 so off track that at some point the Oscars mattered. 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:47.640 I was trying to remember that last night. Why that was? 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:50.200 Why was that the number two what most watched show 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:54.040 in America every year? Why do we think they were royalty? 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:58.560 It all seems so silly now, right, Well, anybody thought 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:01.840 they were royalties a soft head. But I think it's because, 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.440 you know, movies, when they're not annoying the crap out 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.840 of you, are an amazing art form and they can 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:11.400 be incredibly powerful or funny, memorable the rest of. 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:13.880 It and the people who make them we were. 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:18.280 We appreciate it, but the whole self importance thing just 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:19.160 just ruined it. 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:22.120 Yeah, I don't know, it seems I can't wait to 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:24.560 hear the ratings. I'll bet I'll bet they were quite low. 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:28.840 Marlon Brando, he screwed up when you sent that fake 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:29.880 Indian lady. 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:32.400 To go get his oscar back in the day. Was 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:33.880 that seventy one? I don't know. 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:36.920 I was the he was the George Washington of screwing 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:39.720 up the hospital. Of course, here's completely nuts. 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:43.319 God, watching that Marvel movie, I just thought, how how 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:46.160 dumb are we as a culture that like this is 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:51.000 our big expression of the motion picture industry, this sort 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:51.360 of thing. 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:55.320 When they're done designing a compelling O meter, they can 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:59.280 design a crappyometer. And I would like to see the 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:04.280 raid of two very different steaming piles of dung, that 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:08.840 Captain America movie and the transgender cartel Boss movie that 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:11.520 I watched taking one for the team, because that was 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:14.319 a tedious horror and they got shut out more or 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:17.520 less except for the one or nobody cares, but yeah, 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:21.319 which which one? Because they're they're they're horrifying in such 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:22.360 different ways. 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:27.240 I really wish that the lead of the trans movie 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:31.920 hadn't bad mouthed the whole Black Lives Matter George Floyd thing. 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.959 Oh I know, because otherwise they would have won all 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:36.840 the awards last night. You know, they would have, and 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:39.280 it would have been the absolute final nail in the 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.640 coffin of the whole thing would. 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:44.200 Have been hilarious, absolutely hilarious. 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:48.200 It's funny that the star wasn't fun I was trying 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:50.640 to explain this to my kids and they were having 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:54.840 trouble grasping. So she I can't remember is it he 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:57.040 or she? Or I don't I don't. I always get 0:09:57.040 --> 0:09:59.600 the trend just like the time change. I can't get 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:05.360 straight who changed to what? But the trans actor bad 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:08.440 mounting George Floyd and they couldn't understand. But but they're trends. 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:11.280 So don't people let don't they like me? No, no, no, 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:13.160 there's a pecking order on these things. And you have 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:15.360 to be all in on everything. And I said, you 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:17.240 got to be all in on climate change, you gotta'll 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:19.600 be all be in on anti Trump, you got to 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:22.320 be all in on the Black Lives Matter, you gotta 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:24.199 be all in on trans there's like one that I've 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.040 left out and. 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:27.360 The whole intersectionality. 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:29.320 Yeah, and if you if you leave one of them out, 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:31.720 you're out of the pack, and you're just you're out. 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:34.880 They kick you out. Did you mention Palestinians? That might 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:35.760 have been it? Uh? 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:38.160 But if you leave one of those out, you're kicked 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:40.040 out of the pack. And then this person was on 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:42.480 the wrong side of Black Lives Matter. So sorry, you 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:44.120 can be as trans as you want all day long. 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:46.360 You're out of the pack. You probably don't care about 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:48.199 climate change. You probably drive a diesel truck. 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:51.280 What do we call it? Was it the NATO of woke? 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:54.200 Yes or something like that. Yeah, an attack on one 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:57.000 is an attack on all, absolutely, and that is the 0:10:57.000 --> 0:10:57.600 way it works. 0:10:57.640 --> 0:10:59.880 That's too bad that happened, though the Oscars would have 0:10:59.880 --> 0:11:02.560 been so good last night. Oh god, I'm gonna watched 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:04.680 the whole four hours probably right. 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:09.000 My only question if that horrible and it's on Netflix, 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:14.520 the transgender Amelia, that Hernandez or whatever it's called, it's 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:17.960 on Netflix, I would encourage you to watch some of 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:21.680 it because it is definitely of the so bad it's 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:27.720 good genre for a while, It's incredibly long, and it 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:30.199 just would have been interesting to see if it had 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:34.360 won awards, and because nobody's seen the damn thing, if 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:37.040 people start flocking to it having heard that it's, you know, 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:40.200 God's gift, and it would have been interesting to see 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:42.920 how many people would come out of it saying, oh, 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:47.040 oh my goodness, it's just a cinematic achievement because they'd 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:48.160 been told to think that. 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:50.679 And how many would come out and say, honestly. 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:54.320 That was a tedious It was like being punished for something. 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:56.720 It was as idiotic as it was boring. 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:58.679 Would it anybody on the left had the guts to 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:00.600 come out and say, look, I'm up with tre but 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:04.760 that was crap right, probably not coming up, how the 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:08.880 government's spending, federal government has grown, and where the money's 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:12.320 actually going these days. And of course we got more 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:14.640 on the fallout from what happened in the Oval Office 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:17.240 on Friday, which really should never happen again. 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:19.400 There's got to be a way to work these things out. 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:20.120 I am. 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:23.720 I'm happy that I've now had a glimpse of the 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.920 sorts of things I've read about my whole life. I've 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:29.640 only read about them when they happened behind closed doors. 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.720 I'll hear about them years later, but now I know 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:38.239 what they look like. A lot on the way, stay here. 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:47.400 Lindsey Graham turned hard on Zelensky on Friday afternoon, as did. 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:53.680 Who OH speaker Mike Johnson. We'll get to some of 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:54.440 that stuff coming up. 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:56.120 And I think one of the more important questions I 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:59.000 want to hear Joe's opinion, suit or no suit? 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:00.960 How big a deal is this suit? Oh, for the 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:03.760 love of god, how big a deal is a suit? Yeah? 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:07.560 I think I accidentally just answered that, are you kidding? 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:09.600 Seems to be a really big I'd rather talk about 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:18.760 the oscars. Just the first thing Trump said to him, 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:22.439 I can't even well, you might not know the whole backstory, 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:24.280 so I'll bring that to you at the bottom of 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:29.480 the backstory coming up. Yeah, yeah, you know, I'm just 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:31.360 going to express this and then we can move on. 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:35.400 No matter which way you swing politically, unless you're a lunatic, 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:39.000 there are going to be parts of your coalition that 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:42.480 you're not real crazy about. It's just part of being 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:47.400 in a two party system anyway, how government spending has 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:51.360 grown and where the money is going really interesting analysis 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:53.400 that surprised me in a couple of different ways and 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:58.760 did not surprise me at all in others. The increase 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:00.920 in government spending over the last decade is not as 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:06.119 big as it appears because of population growth and inflation. 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:11.400 And so population growth I can't imagine. But inflation, yeah, 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:13.720 of course. Yeah, that makes when. 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:17.400 Your population grows, you get more revenue and you spend more. Anyway, 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:21.600 we have been running deficits for nearly twenty five years 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:24.200 now as a country. The deficit is what happens in 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:26.760 the budget every year. The debt is when you total 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:29.720 all that up, and they say it's partly due to 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:32.680 structural gaps between tax collections and federal spending. That's the 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:34.360 good old we want a bucket a quarter worth of 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:37.440 services for a buck and partly due to emergencies that 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.960 prompted significant tax cuts and spending, although that's always going 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:43.440 to happen now and again, it's like the Rainy Day Fund. 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:45.800 It's not an excuse, it's just an explanation. 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:53.600 So as so, adjusting for inflation population, it shows that 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:56.000 spending still climbed in the last ten years, but not 0:14:56.120 --> 0:15:00.680 as much as it might seem. And they get into 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:02.440 some of the complexities of it. We don't really have 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:04.320 the time, and it's complicated if you don't have the 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:05.200 numbers in front of you. 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:07.680 But I'm an important part in a moment. I hadn't 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:08.800 thought about the inflation part. 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:11.520 I mean, if I'm shocked at what everything costs all 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.760 the time, I should be shocked even if there wasn't 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:19.200 an increase in spending in how much debt you know, 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:21.880 or deficit we come up with every year, because it's 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:25.240 you know, it would increase. Also the same way my 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:28.840 son took a girl to lunch yesterday. He asked me 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:32.000 for some money. I gave him forty dollars. I expected 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:33.920 to get a good deal of change because he went 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:37.480 to Cane's Chicken, Caine's chickens fast food. He comes back 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:39.240 and he gives me like a quarter and three pennies. 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:41.600 I said, how many people did you feed? So it's 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:43.880 just me and Hercus forty dollars for the two you 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:44.880 eat a Cane's chicken. 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:48.320 Wow yeah it does. Wow. Yeah. 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:51.520 So anyway, they've got this weird graph. I've never seen 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:57.520 anything like it before. It's it's blobs representing the amount 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:04.800 that is well the are spending on Social Security, National Defense, Medicare, 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:08.359 other health, et cetera. And the size of the thickness 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:10.720 of the blob indicates how much of the budget is. 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:12.800 And then the blob kind of is like a bullet 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:15.080 constrictor with a pig in the middle, except that boel 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:18.000 constrictor's kind of starvin or got squeezed or something, and 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:20.640 we're twisting blobs of bowl constrictors. 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:22.720 Anyway, here's the takeaway. 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:27.440 Social Security is number one, and is still number one, 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:28.720 but even more so. 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:29.400 Oh wow. 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:34.280 National Defense, which as of you know, twenty fifteen, because 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:38.160 we're talking about the decade, was number two and briefly 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:44.520 number three below Medicare has now plunged, plunged to fifth place, 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:48.520 and net interest has gone from second to last of 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:52.640 the ten or so of factors here in a rather 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:58.880 skinny little bola constrictor up into third place above even medicare. 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:01.200 Well, that's what do you want keep talking about? And 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:04.679 he's right, Yeah, I got I'd say, okay, suit or 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:06.879 no suit? Why that's uh what Joe thinks of that? 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:08.560 Among other things on the way. 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.920 Armstrong and Getty, why. 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:17.400 Don't you wear a suit? Why don't you wear a suit? 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:20.480 You're the highest level in this country's off of this and. 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:22.480 You refuse to wear a suit. I just want to 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:25.240 see if you do own a suit. Yeah, yeah, problems. 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:27.639 A lot of Americans have problems with you. 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:28.720 I don't. 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:35.040 I will wear a costume after this war will finish. 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:38.200 I thought that question was incredibly out of line. Or where? 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:38.919 But where are you? 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:40.919 A lot of a lot of people that I really like, 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:43.439 some of my favorite pundits, they said he should have 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:43.960 war a suit. 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:50.240 I have no opinion really on it. Uh. It doesn't 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:51.680 bother me that he doesn't wear a suit. 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:56.280 But Axios reported yesterday that the Trump administration told him 0:17:56.800 --> 0:17:59.680 show up in a suit. Him not showing up in 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:02.280 a suit when the White House said, show up in 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:05.520 a suit is a bit of a I don't give 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:09.359 a crap what you think, no doubt, and it probably 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:11.520 didn't help things. I mean, if you if you saw 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:13.159 that when they first came together, and it was on 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:17.120 TV while we were on the air, they had audio 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:21.679 there when Zelensky gets out of the limo and Trump's 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:23.159 standing there in front of the White House and they 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:26.280 meet right there with the cars park and Zelensky walked 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:27.360 up and Trump said, Hey, I. 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:28.240 See you dressed up. 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:31.359 First words he said to him, Wow, So that's stuck 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:35.320 in his craw that Zelensky did not wear a suit. 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:38.520 Yeah, I've got to admit I'm not with the crowd 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:42.879 on this. I think it's a lame argument. Zelensky says, 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:47.720 like Churchill, did I wear this in solidarity with our 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:53.040 men fighting on the on the front. And if I 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:56.760 was the president, I'd say, oh, okay, I don't think 0:18:56.800 --> 0:18:59.000 insisting you wear a suit, and when he hasn't for 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:02.720 years since he got it invaded, that has no significance 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:03.080 to me. 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:05.960 It doesn't to me either, But you're not Donald Trump. 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:09.399 And Rich Lowry rights in a National Review. I was 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:10.800 going to read it later but one of the things 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:11.600 he mentions is. 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:12.840 You got to have people. 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:14.679 You got to realize who you're dealing with. I mean, 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:17.400 if you're trying to accomplish a deal. I mean, we've 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:19.480 been in this situation before. I've had to swallow my 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:22.399 pride a gazillion times on various things because of the 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:25.040 things that set other people off or that they want 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:28.840 to get what you ultimately want. And Rich Lowry rights 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:31.800 in the National Review. If your people are smart, they 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:34.560 would have told you, look, Trump really cares about the 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:37.720 suit thing. So wear a suit, and you just swallow it, 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:39.800 and you wear a suit even though you said you 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:43.679 wouldn't because it matters to Trump, because ultimately what you 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:44.560 want is the help. 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:45.240 Of the United States. 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:48.280 That's the only argument I'd make toward wearing a suit. 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:51.080 The fact that it actually matters is ridiculous. 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:54.320 Yeah, it could absolutely be described as a different sort 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:59.000 of self discipline, where you will, whether it swallow your 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:02.160 pride or what have you, do what is best for 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:05.720 your long term goals. I mean, you are essentially being 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:10.520 self serving by acquiescing in that moment, so you could 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:13.240 describe it as self discipline. On the other hand, there 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:17.480 is a line you cross where you are being obsequious 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:21.480