WEBVTT - You're So Freaking Wrong It Drives Me Nuts! 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.200 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty. 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:12.480 Arm Strong and Getty, and he. 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:27.600 Armstrong and Yetty, the universal symbol of falling dictatorships, the 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:29.960 traditional toppling of the statues. 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:35.840 They pulled them down Hey top of the horse one 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:39.680 Hey knocked over the one where ads signal field goal. 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:43.199 They even paraded thesad's head through the streets like going 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:46.199 decapitated Charlie Brown in the Macy's Day parade. 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:50.920 And if I may a quick word. 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:53.920 To the many remaining despots in the Middle East, it 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:56.520 is my deepest hope that when you see this footage 0:00:56.600 --> 0:01:00.640 you realize once and for all that you are really 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:11.640 skimping on statue structural integrity. They're just going through these 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:13.360 statues like it's tissue paper. 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:17.880 I mean, this guy just pushes it over with one hand. 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:21.280 It's all day. There is one guy. 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:24.120 I actually saw one where they they're pounding on it 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:25.600 and pushing on it and trying to pull it over 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:28.920 with a motorcycle or something. They it had structural on ticket, 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:30.160 and they finally gave up and they just put a 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:31.039 trash can on its head. 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:32.840 And went on to the next statue. 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:38.319 I like the feel. Yeah, all, oh it's good to 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:40.520 have laugh at all. But man, when you you get 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:43.120 those stories about how the Syrian the yae reggyme are 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:44.520 actually operated. 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:46.360 About to get into that, oh yeah. 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:49.480 And my main point with getting into this is and 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:53.120 again I'm reading that book about a rack, exact same playbook. 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:59.600 It's why we need to appreciate Western sieve and what 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:02.920 we've and quit acting like we're they evildoers and the 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:06.160 world would be better off without us, because the whole 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:10.720 world could be like Iraq, Syria or China very easily 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:12.800 the entire planet, and it could be that way for 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:15.919 the next one thousand years before it as spent. 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:16.440 Mostly. 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:20.760 Yes, yes, it's more common to live the way Syrians 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:24.120 lived than to live the way you live throughout history. 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:29.120 Yeah, Western civilization has achieved a miracle, and we have 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:29.960 some flaws. 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:31.400 So let's work on the flaws. 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:33.480 And the people who say we ought to tear down 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:37.519 Western civilization in our universities, for instance, are dangerous lunatics. 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:39.640 God, your people are so crazy. You don't know how 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:40.400 good you've got it. 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:42.960 So I started reading the New York Times story about 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:47.000 the Sadanya Prison yesterday, one of the most horrific prisons 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:51.320 in the world that existed in Syria throughout this scumbag 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:54.480 and his dad's regime. Here's Clariss Reward on CNN talking 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:54.920 about that. 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:59.280 The prescue workers with Syria's white helmets break through the 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:00.639 concrete looking for. 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:01.120 A way in. 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:04.840 No one is certain where this red section is or 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:09.919 if it either exists inside the prison. Family members are 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:14.440 searching too. You could see people everywhere just combing through 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:18.160 all the papers and records they can find, looking for names, 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:21.360 seeing if maybe their loved ones are there where tens 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:25.200 of thousands of Syrians were forcibly disappeared and said maya 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.640 lost in the abyss of a prison that was known 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:34.679 as a slaughterhouse, industrial scale arbitrary detention and torture, all 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:36.440 to keep one man in power. 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.040 So at least as of yesterday, I don't know if 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:41.120 it's been taken care of since as of yesterday. In 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:44.000 the New York Times, there was a level like below 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:47.640 the bad prison where it was even worse, and there 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:50.360 were video cameras. They could see the people down there, 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:52.240 but they couldn't figure out how to get there where 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:54.640 the doors are or anything like that. And this was 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:58.400 a full like forty eight hours into the liberating the prison. 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:01.720 So they can see these poor sobs down there, which includes, 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:04.720 by the way, plenty of adult men, plenty of women, 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:11.440 plenty of teenagers, little freaking kids, right, little kids. And 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:17.920 then there's another red section that is like a story 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:21.360 you tell your kids at night, a horror story. Nobody's 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:23.240 sure if it even exists. They're trying to figure out 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:27.479 if there's like another beneath that layer of prison that 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.120 they don't even know if it's real or not, just 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:32.080 rumor throughout the years they might have used the slaughterhouse, 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:35.080 but just just horrifying. 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:38.800 And again, I'm reading a. 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:40.240 Book about Iraq, and one of the reasons there's a 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:43.080 new book about Iraq by Steve call is he got 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:48.160 access to twenty thousand hours of tapes of Sadam Hussein 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:54.240 talking that he had. Sadam Mussein had a recording setup 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:57.039 in his office kind of like Nixon had, and all 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:00.479 the discussions for many many years were recorded. He've calls 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:02.920 gone through all of them, and so we're learning all 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:05.320 kinds of stuff about what is thinking was when he 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:07.520 went into quit in the first place. Back in ninety 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:11.240 one and Weapons of Mass Destruction and his interactions with 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:13.159 the CIA, and what he thought of Bush, and what 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:15.760 he thought of Clinton, and what he thought of you know. 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:17.240 All this. It's really interesting. 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:23.640 But the book opens with the abduction and torture of 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:27.560 one of the nuclear scientists. Sadam Hussein's thugs went and 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:30.520 got this nuclear scientist who was trying to help Sadam 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:34.000 Hussein get a nuclear bomb, but he showed some sympathies 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:37.240 with Iran at some point, and so they grabbed him 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:39.640 and tortured him for twenty one days. That could be 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.040 the whole world living like that if we don't hang 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:46.720 on too law and order in Western civilization and human 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:48.080 rights and all that sort of stuff. 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:51.479 So, you, moron, That's why it makes me so angry. 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:55.640 The college kid or just running into, you know, a 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:58.640 regular person in my life, which happens now and then 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.040 who's who thinks he and I states, is the source 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:01.960 of evil in the world. 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:05.800 You are so freaking wrong. It drives me nuts. 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:13.080 Yeah, and dangerous too. And indoctrinating the young into believing 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:17.400 this and we let it happen, right frustrates me. Your 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:20.320 kids can come out of school with a view of yeah, 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:22.920 the United States is bad and and just kind of 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:26.320 you know, associated to that, that's you know, it can 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:29.479 be better off if we weren't here. If we weren't here, 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:35.920 everything would look like Syria or certainly could yeah likely, Yeah, 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:39.240 I agree completely, which is not to mask flaws or 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:40.760 say we don't need to work on them. But that's 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:42.560 the nature of being a human being in a human 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:44.680 society is of course you have problems, of course you 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:48.040 screw up. Of course you have excesses. But if it's 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:51.080 a constant process of self improvement. 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:52.400 There's got to be a way to get kids to 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:57.040 come out of high school or college with feeling number 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:00.359 one being what I've just been saying, thank God for 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:02.839 the United States and Western civilizations, or the whole world 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:06.080 would be like China or Syria, and we had slavery 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:08.919 and there has been racism, and women didn't get to 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:11.960 vote till nineteen twenty whatever. But number one at the 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:13.840 top of that pyramid of things you know about the 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:17.120 United States has got to be thank God for this, 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:19.480 or we'd be living like that. And that's not the 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.000 way people come out of high school or college. They 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:25.640 missed that whole chunk of the thank God part, and 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:29.440 only have the flaws of the United States. 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:32.920 Right, which is very frustrating, right when I'm saying we 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:36.080 need to burn our university system to the ground metaphorically 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:39.840 of course, and start again. Same thing with government schools. 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:43.960 I'm not kidding. This isn't hyperbole. We are churning out 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:48.560 in doctrination more than education. In fact, you know, there's 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:49.880 this is another. 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:50.240 Can of worms. 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:54.000 But the US is lagging far behind the rest of 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:57.000 the world in bouncing back from COVID because we're locked 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:01.520 down for so long, and because in these other societies, 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:05.720 the third graders are not learning about the genderbread person 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:10.240 and being sexualized and manipulated and indoctrinated like we are 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:10.880 in this country. 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:12.240 It's crazy. 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:16.320 I just think it's the sign of you know, decadence 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:20.320 and maturity and affluence or whatever that I don't know. 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:22.400 You've got a society that reaches a certain level of 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:24.320 success and it turns against itself. 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:27.760 Yeah, it's interesting. Is that just entropy at work. 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:32.320 It's just the tendency is toward disorder so much that 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:34.800 you get order and don matter. Unless you work really 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:37.520 hard to hang onto the order, You're going to head 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:38.199 toward disorder. 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:43.079 Yeah, I guess. Or what where does the energy come 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:47.960 from to defend and improve a society. It's from need 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:52.760 outside threats or the want of people for food and 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:56.040 medicine or whatever. And so you keep striving to get 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.040 better and better. Then at a certain point it's like 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:00.720 you know, you've reached all your goals in your career, 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:02.920 and then you've got plenty of money or whatever, and 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:05.920 you just need not driven anymore, and I don't know, 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:08.719 you drink too much, or you start thinking like the unibomber, 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:12.000 like this stupid rich kid or whatever. I don't know. 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:14.120 I wish I could diagnose it and suggest a cure 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:19.040 for it. But fight the idea that Western civilization is 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:22.839 a force for injustice with every breath you have. 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:27.600 Let's just start there. One more report on Syria. 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:31.680 Not quite as gruesome, but this is typical of all 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:33.520 your despots throughout history. 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:38.000 The extravagant car collection of the now deposed president Bashad 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:41.480 ascent a red Ferrari F fifty worth at least three 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:46.280 million dollars, a Lamborghini, a Rulls Royce, a Bentley, among 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:50.120 forty luxury vehicles stored in this warehouse in western Damascus 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:53.960 inside the presidential palace, a massive kitchen equipped with an 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:58.160 industrial freezer, a pizza oven, and piles of food. In 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:02.240 a country where most go hungry every day. Over joined 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:09.520 Syrians celebrated and ransacked the regime's residences and offices, taking chairs, plates, clothes, 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:11.000 whatever they could carry. 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:18.080 It's something that that has always existed to masure prehistory. 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:21.880 There were plenty of these people on through various Egyptian 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:26.520 pharaohs and Louis the sixteenth and you know, Bashar al Zad, 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:35.520 who you're a king and you just can't get enough sex, luxury, chariots, cars, food. 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:39.080 I mean, you're just continually trying to get more and 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:40.640 all to be satisfied. 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:41.880 I guess yeah. 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:43.720 I just happened to see a Twitter thread of the 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:47.840 most beautiful castles in Europe and it was spectacular. But 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:52.679 you'd look at these enormous, unthinkably enormous and complex structures 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:54.439 and you think, how much is enough? 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:58.040 There? King ding Don I mean, what the hell you 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:00.640 haven't seen? It would take you twenty five minutes to. 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:02.120 Walk from one end to the place to the other. 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.320 What's the point. Why are self aggrandizement? I guess why 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:05.720 are there. 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:09.000 Not more examples throughout history of people kind of like 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:10.920 the Jim Carrey thing I was talking about the other day, 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.200 the actor where he got rich and famous and everything 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:15.520 like that was not happy and realized, Oh, the meaning 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:16.240 of life is this? 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:19.240 And is how come that doesn't happen with dictators more often? 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:23.000 Because they would ride a bayonet because there's just a 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:24.960 street if they ever showed any weakness. 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:26.240 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:28.480 Sadam Hussein actually talks about that in one of his 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:31.200 recordings with some guy. So you realize there's no going 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:33.360 back at this point, You're all in. I'm all in, 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:36.280 We're all in. This is forever, because yeah, you can't. 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:38.559 You can't at that after you've tortured and killed a 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:41.080 bunch of people. I suppose there's no becoming enlightened in 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:41.520 any way. 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:45.000 Hey, final thought from me anyway on this, because in 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:49.360 the past criticism of other cultures and civilizations sometimes included 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:52.360 a tinge of racism. Well, get rid of the racism 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:56.280 and be rational in looking at other cultures and countries 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:58.520 and political systems and that sort of thing. And if 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.920 they happen to have darker skin or different shaped eyes 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:05.199 or whatever, that does not negate a serious and rational 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:07.240 analysis of who they are and what they're doing. 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:11.280 For instance, in Haiti. Right now, I saw this headline. 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:15.640 Haiti gangs kill more than one hundred and eighty elderly 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:16.800 people in the capitol. 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:19.199 Oh, mostly elderly people. 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:22.800 Killed one hundred and eighty old folks in the capital 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:27.320 the other day. Why did this warlord order the slaying 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:32.760 of these poor, beleaguered slum residents. He suspected them of 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:34.920 sickening his son through witchcraft. 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:42.000 Wow, but they have a beautiful culture. It should be celebrated. 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:46.080 And these foreign countries, the air world, the Muslim world, 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:47.480 how can we criticize them? 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:50.040 Yeah, we can criticize them. I'm going to criticize them. 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:58.000 Jay Z has broken in silence and defended himself around 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:02.679 the sex allegations we yesterday, among other things we have 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:03.080 coming up. 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:03.920 Hope you can stick. 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:09.520 Around farm straw. Hey Yetty Charlotte Hayer teaches at Richmond 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:13.680 Community High in Virginia, where the course is required for graduation. 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:15.720 How important is financial literacy? 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:19.560 I'm ashamedly tell my students that this is the most 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:21.080 important course they will take. 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:24.320 Are you teaching investing, budgeting, Bitcoin? 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:25.720 Anything that deals with money. 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:29.080 Eighty five percent of high schoolers nationwide say they want 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:33.400 to learn about financial topics. Only ten states require the course, 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:36.600 but by twenty thirty one that's expected to jump to 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:37.400 twenty six. 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:43.640 So this is a weirdly specific prediction. Within seven years 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:45.760 there should be another fourteen state. 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:47.440 How did you predict that? 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:49.720 I want to be mad about this, but I should 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:51.440 be happy. This is like your story of you know, 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:58.480 you don't hit your dog when they come to you. 0:13:58.520 --> 0:13:59.840 No freaking kidding. 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:04.160 Really, this is a revelation that you should teach financial 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:06.160 literacy in high school, and it might be the most 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:07.320 important thing they learn. 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:09.880 No no, no, no no no no. 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:13.000 Figuring out signs and co signs and geometry is the 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:18.079 most important. Memorizing the state capitals, no understanding compound interest 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:21.000 or how to invest or whatever. Of course that's what 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:24.000 they should be learning in high school. How is this news? 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:28.280 Well, you're leaving out the DEI stuff in the racial 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:30.880 justice situation and the gender bending matters. 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:34.600 Crap. You're right. I went with things that are actual. 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:41.400 Millennia, the old knowledge that is worth having but might 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:44.760 not be that relevant to your life compared to financial 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:45.400 stuff as. 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.120 Opposed to stuff. That's a complete waste of time. 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:50.320 I'll never forget that teacher in the Sacramento area. I 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:55.040 have eight months to turn them into little revolutionaries. So yes, 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.360 I should be happy that teacher is absolutely right. It 0:14:57.440 --> 0:14:59.560 is almost certainly the most important thing to learn in 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:01.440 high scho Well, it should be at every high school. 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:04.680 Only ten percent of schools require some sort of financial 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:08.000 literacy class. Well, it was ten states the ten require that, 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:12.640 but by twenty thirty one it's expected to be thirty 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:13.480 six states. 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:16.920 Again, wait a minute, I. 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:20.240 Want to know how you cooked up that number and 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:21.440 that time period. 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:22.920 What are you. 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:26.640 Doing hey, speaking of financial literacy, if you want to 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:28.480 get your bang for your buck on ordering at the 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:31.200 Armstrong in Getty store for Christmas, you gotta do it 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:33.200 probably today if you're going to get it shipped to 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:33.760 you on time. 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:37.200 Oh yeah, you picture your favorite A ANDNG fan opening 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:40.120 up that premium A DTASA and G sweatshirt under the 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:43.360 Christmas tree. Got to order it today, get on that 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:46.840 Woja Armstrong and Getty dot com. Oh, speaking of consumer news, 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:50.480 this will be of interest to you as a home 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:54.120 renter currently because of the insane housing market headline The 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:57.200 Journal Wall Street is betting billions on rental homes as 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:03.640 ownership slips out of reach. These are major companies building, well, 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:08.640 it's built to rent homes and town homes and entire communities, 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:15.360 really nice upscale amenities and such. But they're just planning 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:16.160 on people renting. 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:17.520 Yeah, it's interesting. 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:20.640 I think to call it out of reach leaves out 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:22.720 a big chunk of people who have just decided it's 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:24.840 not the best financial. 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:26.440 Move to have a own house. 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:29.000 Is supposed to rent a house, right, As I often say, 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:31.440 just because you can do something doesn't mean you should 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:35.720 do it. And maybe you've made the calculated decision that no, 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:36.600 I'm better off renting. 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:39.160 So I should have tattooed that in backwards on my 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:41.240 chest many many years ago so. 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:43.280 You could read it easily in the mirror. Yeah, as 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:49.720 I shave. Yeah, because you can do something doesn't mean 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:53.120 you should do something. Yeah. Anyway, it's uh, you know, 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:54.920 the world keeps changing. 0:16:56.160 --> 0:17:02.240 Yeah, i'd say the governor of New Jersey praising the McDonald's. 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:06.160 The McDonald's, I mean, I'm sorry in Pennsylvania, the McDonald's 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:10.480 in Pennsylvania coming under fire for catching the killer now 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:11.400 of the healthcare word. 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:16.240 Yes, so stay don time done, plug the internet, Armstrong 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:16.879 and getty. 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:23.120 In a civil society, we are all less safe when 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:30.439 ideologues engage in vigilante justice in some dark corners. This 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:34.840 killer is being hailed as a hero. Hear me on this. 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:39.720 He is no hero. The real hero in this story 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:42.680 is the person who called nine to one one a 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:46.720 McDonald's this morning. The real heroes every day in our 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:50.440 society are the women and men who put on uniforms 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:54.360 like these and go out in our communities to keep 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:58.080 us safe. This killer, who is not a hero, He 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:00.000 should not be hailed. 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.560 That's Governor Josh Sapiro of Pennsylvania. It's always so easy 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:05.920 for me to be cynical about politicians and think, Okay, 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:08.040 here's a big news story, and you found a way 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:10.600 to make yourself part of it and get some good press. 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:15.720 But he is a Democrat speaking out against a wing 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:20.320 of his party that Kamala Harris courted like the complete 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:22.800 nut job crowd, and so good for him for doing that. 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:27.639 I'm so glad Harris didn't choose Shapiro, No kidding, I. 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:28.959 Mean that would have gotten her a hell of a 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:31.520 lot closer to a win than that puts she chose. 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:33.720 But anyway, that's tang assuming you know the story. 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:36.800 Brief version is the killer, the guy who killed the 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:41.000 healthcare executive was eaten at McDonald's in the middle of 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:43.880 the day now to a Pennsylvania and somebody the McDonald said, 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:45.840 it looks like the guy that I've seen the pictures 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:49.480 of who was at the Starbucks the killer and alerts 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:51.960 an employee at the McDonalds, who then calls the police 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:53.640 please show up start questioning the guy. 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:55.400 It unravels quickly, but. 0:18:56.760 --> 0:19:00.560 The Mgoogle has come to the aid of that McDonald's 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:04.280 and erased all the negative reviews the McDonald's is getting 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:08.080 from people who are angry at McDonald's and threatening them 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:13.560 for having outed their folk hero who fought back against 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:18.560 the evil insurance agency. And also, unfortunately, it seems like 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:23.199 the name of the at least one McDonald's employee who 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:26.520 knows if it's the right one or not, has gotten 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:28.840 out and people are attempting to dos that person to 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:29.760 ruin their lives. 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:35.280 What a nightmare, What a nightmare These online lunatics. I know, 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:38.120 I don't know if there's anything can be done about them, but. 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:42.720 I don't know either. Oh, man. People are sick. They 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:43.200 really are. 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:48.120 Jim Garretty writes for the National Review, and he made 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:51.400 a couple of good points about this over educated, very 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:59.360 very wealthy, white diletantish, fake revolutionary ego maniac. And that's 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:02.199 the thing about all of this that strikes me is 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:05.800 the hubris of the attitude that my gripe is so 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:09.240 righteous and so important. The laws of God and man 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:12.080 don't apply to me. I'm super mad, so I get 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:14.960 to do whatever I want and kill people or become 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:18.640 a racist or whatever, or chant in favor of terrorists 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:22.280 because my cause is so righteous. Oh my god, it's 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:27.280 just so self important. But Garretty's writing about how this 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:33.560 guy really is really wealthy, really bright, well educated, and 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:37.440 if he perceived some sort of problem with healthcare in America, 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:41.320 he was beautifully equipped to do something about it, to 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:45.639 say something about it, to move minds and hearts, to 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:49.159 push for legislation. Actually, Garretty didn't get into some of 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:51.480 this stuff, isn't me. But then he points out, look, 0:20:51.520 --> 0:20:53.600 if you're really interested innating the uninsured, there are a 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:54.680 lot of great ways to help. 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:56.639 There are about fourteen hundred free and. 0:20:56.680 --> 0:20:59.640 Charitable clinics in this country. The National Association of Free 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:03.320 and Charity Doable clinics. They see millions of patients every year, 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:08.720 many of them elderly, uninsured veterans. Thirty nine percent of 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:12.119 the patients are veterans. Donate money and cothers, encourage others 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:16.480 to donate to defray operating costs, volunteer, donate supplies to 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:18.600 do it, help them with their it. There are a 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:22.160 million ways, but no, this guy guns down one poor 0:21:22.280 --> 0:21:24.919 son of a bitch. Well if you're replaced by another one. 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:28.040 He's one of several giant companies anyway. 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:31.320 Yeah, Barack Obama is on my mind because Governor Josh 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:33.840 Shapiro sounds so much like Barack Obama and uses his 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:35.720 phrases and really needs. 0:21:35.520 --> 0:21:36.000 To fight that. 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:40.560 But that should be used as an example more often. 0:21:41.880 --> 0:21:44.840 I remember when people used to attack Barack Obama, people 0:21:44.880 --> 0:21:49.000