WEBVTT - A Little More Potpourri 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.200 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.240 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty. 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:16.440 Arm Strong and Jetty and now he arm Strong and. 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:25.840 Jetty Lifelong friends of the man police say carried out 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:28.680 the deadly attack on a Mormon church in Michigan say 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:32.040 he dated a Mormon woman and descended into heavy methamphetamine 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:35.480 youse while living in Utah. Peter and Francis Tercini say 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:39.080 after alleged gunman Thomas Jacob Sandford's relationship ended with the 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:42.560 woman and he returned to Michigan he had changed. Peter 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:46.839 Tercini says Sandford went on rants about Mormon's Francis Tercini 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:49.319 writing in a Facebook post that man that came back 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:50.680 from Utah wasn't the same. 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:54.160 He was a puppet and the puppeteer was Satan. So 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:58.320 he gets dumped by a woman who's Mormon, which makes 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:02.520 him angry, and he's a heavy matthewser, what are you 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:05.479 supposed to take from that in terms of some sort 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:08.840 of societal meaning anything. 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:13.840 Angry guy committing suicide and taking people with him, right horrible. 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:18.560 I'd say a couple of different things. Want to get 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:20.640 to here. First of all, there's a new book out 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:24.520 about Senator Bob Menendez. If you remember him, he was 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:27.679 a prominent senator. I mean he was a chair of 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:29.440 some of your big committees and all that sort of thing. 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:32.920 Gold bar Menindez. You remember when he got busted with 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:36.080 him and his wife. They were taking gold bars from Egypt, 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:39.960 among other things. He'd been a crook forever and gotten 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:42.080 away with it, got in trouble a couple of times, 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:45.160 he got away, but finally gold bars with direct connections 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:46.559 to Egypt were just too much. 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:54.720 But his wife, Mercedes Boobooman, she was something else. 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:59.120 Yeah, Ni Nidine Menndez. She's doing four and a half 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:03.080 years in prison for bribery in corruption also, And this 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:07.040 segment of the book that I was reading about was 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:10.320 all about when he met her. And it's just what's 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.280 interesting to me is that kind of woman. And maybe y' 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:16.000 all know some or maybe some of you are that, uh, 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:19.799 you're I was gonna say, a hot woman, but it's 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:24.080 often not like the hottest of the hot it's just 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:29.600 you're you're pretty attractive, and you decide to make your 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:34.240 way through the world on that by attaching yourselves to 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:39.960 politicians or rock stars or successful businessmen or whatever in 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:46.360 the most like transparent way. But you you attach yourselves 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:48.959 to the kind of guys that don't care that it's transparent, 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:51.240 that they're only with you for the fact that you're 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:54.200 a rock star or a senator or have a lot 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:56.560 of money. Both both of you know what you're doing, 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:59.600 and I find that just so disgusting all the way 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:02.560 around the fact that you both know exactly what you're 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:04.480 doing and are okay with it. It's one thing to 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:07.919 be fooled like you're you're you're a US senator and 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:10.080 an attractive woman and you think she loves you and 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:12.880 everything like that. But it's clear from this relationship and 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:16.600 all the people she'd gone through. The excerpt was so interesting. 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:21.600 She'd been with so many different rich or powerful people, 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.079 and it seems like everybody knew exactly what was going 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:28.280 there all the time. Nobody's pretending anything else. It's just 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:31.359 it's also slimy. Her and her friends were all that 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:32.160 kind of woman. 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:39.000 Yeah. I have a friend who has an ex who 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:42.480 turned out to be that sort of person, and he 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:46.640 told me, uh, her her mom was too, and that 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:49.720 was just the model. See, there's nothing in my background 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:53.280 that would make me think, hey, I've got an idea. Right, 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:57.600 we have this nakedly transactional you're hot, I'm rich thing. 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:00.640 But if you grew up with I didn't have a 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:03.840 cynical view of marriage, I guess you'd have to have that. 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.000 But there are a lot of you women who are 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:11.640 very attractive, who who just like go through life like normal, 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:15.440 and our attraction churche is aside part of your life 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:19.000 or personality or whatever, but you don't make that your 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:21.800 This is how I'm going to end up being with 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:26.080 a senator. And if this thing with the senator, if 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.160 he gets tired of me, I'll go to a rock star. 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.960 Just just sounds like such an exhausting life for a 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:35.559 CEO or something. Yeah, yeah, And that's exactly what she does. 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:40.200 She would go to parties. Well, well, this happens all 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:44.200 the time when the somebody becomes aware in the news 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:47.080 and you find out that she dated you know, five 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.479 different people you've heard of because they just they hang 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:50.680 out at those kind of parties. 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:53.480 I guess, yeah, yeah, Well, you know, if you were 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:55.520 going to make a counter argument, and it's not like 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:58.200 I'm doing this personally, but the accounter. Argument would be, 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:02.680 and you certainly know this, that getting together marrying for 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:06.040 love and having it not go well is crushing. It's 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:10.039 it's horrible, true to ask. So how about I just 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:12.440 get into a relationship. We're both happy, we both know 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:15.159 what to expect, and yeah, I mean, we're not crazy 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:17.840 in love. But what the hell, it's a nice lifestyle. 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:22.120 Oh man, I don't know, Like, I can't arguing. 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:23.400 In favor of that. I just think that's probably the 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:23.960 point of view. 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:28.440 I get the guy who thinks it's love, but the 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:32.120 guy who knows I'm a troll. She's only with me 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:36.560 because I'm a senator. Ah, that just seems like a 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:38.720 heck of a thing to wake up and think every day. 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:42.640 No friends with benefits? What are the benefits? Let's talk. 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:44.920 We got the gold bars coming in from Egypt. Don 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:46.240 That's that's the cool thing. 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:48.400 Yeah. 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:51.039 Yeah, they're just explaining in that book how she and 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:52.760 her friends would go to parties and they would know 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:54.680 who is going to be there, and they would spot 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:57.800 them have a discussion amongst themselves. So who is going 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:02.200 to approach whom? You know, kind of split him up. Okay, 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:04.480 you go, you go with the CEO. I'm going to 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:08.159 go talk to the Senator horrible. 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:13.120 My daughter, who interned with a couple of different organizations 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:15.720 that included the very powerful in Washington. 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:15.600 D C. 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:19.680 At one point she said to me, it's all really 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:23.000 interesting and exciting, but you can feel your soul dying. 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:27.120 I'm sure. And then somebody like sender Menindez, because I 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:29.240 assume he didn't start a crook in his life, is 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:33.120 sold deadened throughout the whole many many many years of 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:36.440 being around government, and probably got cynical enough where he thought, hey, 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:40.440 everybody's getting rich. I' might just rich who cares sure. 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:42.599 Being a powerful man in New Jersey. Forget about it. 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:46.400 It's all a game. Yeah, something more uplifting. I want 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:48.480 to read a little bit of this. Richard Lowry writing 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.000 in the New York Post about the Mississippi Miracle, and 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:54.760 he's very annoyed by that term that people have attached 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:58.680 to it, as he writes, there's nothing miraculous. We're talking 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:01.120 about the education thing. We've talked about a lot. The 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:04.880 Mississippi went from last in the country to like top 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:06.800 five first in some categories. 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:08.159 A couple other states too. 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:11.720 The Mississippi Miracle and he said, there's nothing miraculous about 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:14.760 a state that adopts phonics and sets high standards for 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:18.280 its kids getting better results in reading instruction. This to 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:23.440 the country is a predictable outcome, not a miracle. It's 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:27.000 exactly what you would expect to happen, and a replicable one, 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:29.520 as other Southern states have taken up similar policies and 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:33.680 are getting the same results. I think that's a very 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:35.440 good point to make. 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:40.120 Oh it's frustrating, though, isn't it. I mean, it's a 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:44.239 good story, but that you have to explain to people 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.840 how they did it and how successful it is, and 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:52.320 then talk them out of continuing to pursue exactly the 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:53.520 wrong policies. 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:56.520 Yeah, I like the idea quick call it a miracle. 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:58.640 I don't know what would be a good name the 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:01.840 Mississippi going back to what has always worked towards the 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:07.360 little cumbers obvious. I don't know, but that's a much 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:10.520 better point to make. We started doing what has always 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:12.480 worked for like two thousand years. 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:14.800 Yeah, went back to it. 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:15.840 It's not a miracle. 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:19.000 It's a good point and a solid point. I just 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:22.280 I think calling it to Mississippi miracle gets people's attention. 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:24.760 I suppose it all this shiny object. 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:27.200 It all came out of a piece written in two 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:31.720 thousand and two called illiteracy is a policy choice that 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:36.480 actually came out of Florida, and that's where it all started. 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:41.120 I Unfortunately for my kids, and thank god, my older son, 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:44.680 who really dealt with this is can read fine. But 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:48.760 he landed in kindergarten right at the time where they 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:52.480 did away with phonics and they no longer believed in 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:54.800 phonics and they went with sight words. And looking back 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:58.120 on it, I'm horribly embarrassed that I went along with it. 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:00.720 But as my first kid in first year school and Okay, 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:02.760 this is what we're doing now, and we would practice 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:05.480 the site words at home and it never really worked. 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:08.280 Of course it didn't. The idea that you just taken 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:11.600 the word as a whole as opposed to sound it 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:14.880 out with phonics, it's just a dumb idea on its face. 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:17.840 There are too many effing words for one thing. Yeah, 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:21.040 the creative spelling, the whole language approach, it was a 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:26.720 fad adopted by those layers of PhD administrators to justify 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:29.360 their existence. If you come to the school board and 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:32.000 say I've got an innovative, great new policy. It's to 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.360 do what we've always done because it works really, really well. 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:38.120 Then what the hell are you doing there? So education 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:40.000 has these fads every so often. 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:43.160 If you're unfamiliar with this, because I sat through the 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:48.679 lecture about it before we started teaching our kids this way. Uh, 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:52.319 there was this new theory that people don't actually learn 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:56.240 to read through sounds. You take in a word as 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:58.240 a whole. That's the way the brain works. And then 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:01.120 they would throw around some mumbo jump up and looking 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:02.800 back on it, and I should have thought at this time, 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:06.760 it doesn't make any sense. No, who has ever picked 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:09.880 up a word like that? I mean, when you come 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.200 across a word, you don't know, you're just taking it 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:14.800 all at once. No, of course you don't. 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:20.839 No, especially because writing is really just it's a it's 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:26.280 a way to record spoken language. And kids learn spoken 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:29.480 language way way way before they learn to read. Sure, 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:35.040 they know what see Jane run means long before they 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:37.720 can read those words. So you've just got to help 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:42.800 them learn how to identify in print sounds that they've 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.960 heard before. And you get older, you learn new words 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.560 through reading. But that's you know, a different phase in 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:51.080 your life. But to see again, the part that makes 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:53.560 me insane and wants to make me want to pummel 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:56.600 people with both my fists is that there was never 0:10:57.000 --> 0:11:00.880 any problem with the old approach. The phonics approame with 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:03.760 math worked great one hundred years ago, fifty years ago, 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:04.720 and twenty years ago. 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:06.800 Same with math, the same with the math. Math was fine, 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.839 there was there was nobody. Nobody was having any trouble 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:11.559 with the way we always learned math. You didn't need 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:13.079 to develop a new way to do it. 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:15.840 A cure in search of a disease, as the old 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:16.840 saying goes. 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:19.559 Has that gone away because my kids are out past 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:21.520 that age where they're learning math at that But that 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:22.320 was horrible? 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:25.960 Oh my good progressive places, they are still fighting tooth 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:29.760 and nail against reinstituting phonics, even as they fight to 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:34.679 have secretly guide your son into becoming a girl. 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:36.800 So I think phonics is just part of it. I 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:39.319 think maybe the most important part of what Mississippi is 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:42.080 doing in those other southern states is having standards and 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:44.680 holding people to them. They've done away with I forget 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:48.520 what the soft phrase they use when I was young, 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:51.679 Did you hear Jimmy flunked, he's gonna have to take 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:55.319 fourth grading over again. They went from flunked to hell 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:58.280 back to just did away with the policy completely. Wich 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:01.400 is terrible. We're gonna move on a kid who's not 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:04.199 ready for the next grade so he doesn't feel bad 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:07.440 about himself. Oh, he's gonna feel great being in that 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.680 fifth grade class and not understanding anything and being in 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:13.120 embarrassing himself every day. That's gonna be great for his 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:15.400 self esteem, and even better when he gets the sixth 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:17.840 grade and he's still behind because he couldn't pick up 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:18.880 the fifth grade stuff. 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:21.960 And if you're not quite at the point of wanting 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:24.439 to join me in beating on people, here's one more 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:27.319 for you. Keep in mind. At the same time, any 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:32.520 programs for exceptionally bright and capable kids were eliminated, all right, 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:36.520 because that's not equity. Both if anyone excels that, the 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:39.800 other kids feel bad. So let's take our best and brightest, 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:43.719 our future leaders and scientists and innovators and crush their spirits. 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:44.920 That's equity. 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:49.240 But Mississippi brought back holding kids back a year if 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:53.760 they aren't ready yet, which just you know, seems like 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:55.640 the obviously best thing to do for the kid. 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:57.199 Uh. 0:12:57.720 --> 0:12:59.719 Yeah, it's not a miracle. It's the obvious stuff we 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:01.880 always used to do. But yes, Michael, we. 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:10.679 Have politicians that aren't quite ready for hess. 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:16.839 She grew up in the software of Philadelphia. Any thoughts 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:19.880 on this text line four one five ftc. 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:27.880 Armstrong? Heety, we know about you. You get up. 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:33.080 How about you break out those moves for your two 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:34.400 biggest fans. 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:41.880 That's the charming Netflix show Coco Melon Lane. Think about 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:47.240 the visual? Is a little boy dancing with his two 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:48.600 gay dads in address. 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.000 He's in a dress, or the dad he's in a dress. 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:56.560 The little boys dance around in address with his gay fathers. 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:02.480 They're on Netflix. So listen of the show Coco Melon Lane. 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:08.839 Why is he in address because he's a little transgender boy. 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:10.959 I'm sure that's beautiful and that's good and he should 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:14.680 be transgender and everybody should. Uh anyway, then you've got 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:16.800 this everybody should. 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:18.640 Yo. 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:21.440 Hey, put Caro on him? Yo? 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:22.920 You see this person right here? 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:24.400 Is this him? 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:26.720 Would it be crazy if we actually found the guy 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:29.600 right now? Because we saw a person who was literally 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:34.760 fitting the description, who just walked down walk by her camera. 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:39.400 A man suspected of committing multiple robberies in Colorado was 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.240 caught by TV news crews while they were filming a 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:46.680 segment about him. This guy wandered into the live shot 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:50.000 and the uh. One of the anchors did a double 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:54.400 take after seeing this scumbag walk across the street behind him. 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:56.200 Can I hear it again now that I know what 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:56.560 it is? 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:00.760 Yo? Hey put caro on him? Yo? 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:01.840 You see this person? 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:04.880 My hair? Is this him? Would it be crazy if 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:07.840 we actually found the guy right now because we saw 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:11.200 a person who was literally fitting the description, who just 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:14.440 walked down walked by her camera. 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:15.520 Actually asked? 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:18.480 Crew quickly called nine one one, alerted the police to 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:22.840 is the guy's presence. Within ten minutes he'd been arrested. Yeah, 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:28.480 that's some good law enforcement. A little more what's that, Michael? Okay? 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:29.960 A little more. 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:34.560 Pot pourrie propos of nothing. Guitarist Ronnie Woods said the 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:38.000 Rolling Stones have a new album that's done in coming 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:42.840 out for some reason, for some reason, and he also 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:45.600 suggested they could be heading back out on tour soon. 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:48.960 Goudy's reading about the way they recorded the last one, 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:56.200 and like you know, Keith Richards is in the Bahamas 0:15:56.240 --> 0:16:00.320 and mixing Paris, and they don't. They they are never 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:03.440 in the same room together until the first time they 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:07.280 do a concert, and then they're briefly in the same 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:09.000 room wherever they're doing the concert, and then they get 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:11.280 into different limos and go to different hotels. It's a 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:12.800 very weird thing they got going on. 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:18.280 Yeah, and it's funny. It's easy to be cynical about this, obviously, 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:22.960 but they're all richer than God, especially Keith and Mick. 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:26.200 They must just really really love it. 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:31.240 You you'd have to. But so you've always said that. 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:33.200 I've always always said that. I always assumed that if 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:34.960 you love it so much, why wouldn't you take the 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:36.720 time to get together in a studio and like put 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:38.760 some effort into it if you like it so much, 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:41.560 Because they treat it like it's a task that somebody's 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:42.240 making them do. 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:46.920 Yeah, I mean, I guess Keith, at whatever age is, 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.760 is pushing Ady if he isn't there already, just has 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:54.080 some musical ideas that he really really wants to get down. 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:58.000 Really, dude, can't you jump on a private plane like 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:00.200 it's not a lot of work and we'll meet I'm 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:01.600 aware and do this stuff. 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:04.960 Together, right, Look, there's the drummer right here with us. 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:09.560 Isn't that fun? Yeah? I don't know. 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:12.760 How are you? How are you all weathering the government 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:14.560 shutdown so far? Are you okay? 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:16.919 Well? Leieve it or not. I have a couple of 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:18.440 interesting points about the shutdown. 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:19.720 I know it's a tough day for a lot of 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:22.080 us Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:26.679 Well, guys, Congress failed to reach an agreement on a 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:27.480 spending deal. 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:28.400 Yeah, you know. 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:30.879 That crazy feeling when your phone batter is at one percent? 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:32.439 That's our government right now. 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:35.280 That's where you're like, Yeah, this will be the first 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:39.840 government shutdown since twenty eighteen, not including Joe Biden. 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:40.200 At the debate. 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:45.959 I yeah, So that's one of my two things I'm 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:48.840 willing to say about the government shutdown. One do you 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:51.359 remember we had one that lasted over a month in 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:54.680 twenty eighteen? Do you remember it at all? I don't, 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:58.280 not at all, And it lasted over a month, And 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:00.680 this one probably won't. This one will probably in this 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:05.639 afternoon or Friday morning or Sunday, and it'll never be 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:10.200 bamba one right, first Trump term twenty eighteen? 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:14.320 Oh right, right, yeah, huh, I'll be damned. Yeah, the 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:16.440 memories the memories. 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:20.399 The government shut down for over a month, and like, 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:22.160 I have no memory of it at all. 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:26.359 The only really interesting part of this to me is 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:32.040 the Democrats strategy, because it's not over a specific policy 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:35.720 or bill or anything. It's just this really kind of 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:39.520 sad effort to be seen as fighting against Trump. And 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:43.880 they're making claims about medicare or is it medicare medicaid, 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:48.560 I can never remember which one we're talking about. But 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:51.960 what they're claiming about how it would cut the Affordable 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:56.679 Care Act isn't even close to true. And I've got 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:59.640 a bunch of statistics about how I mean, if you're 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:05.720 like not even close to poor, your cost for the 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:08.440 Obamacare is fifty two dollars a week. If you're two 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:11.440 hundred and fifty percent of the poverty line, two hundred 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:14.240 and fifty percent, taxpayers pick up more than two thirds 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:18.959 of year premium. Wow, people are anywhere close to poor 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:23.680 pay nothing, I mean almost nothing, and that will continue. 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:27.920 This is just a little trimming of the so called 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:34.879 Inflation Reduction Act super bonus extras that the Democrats themselves 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:39.639 set twenty twenty five expiration date on, and the Republicans 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:42.159 are saying, yeah, it's expiring, and it ought to expire, 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:44.520 so let's move on with our lives. And for that 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:49.480 they're trying to brand the Republicans is somehow gutting Obamacare 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:52.119 and kicking poor people out on the street. And the 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:54.639 other part, I'm sorry, did you have a comment on that. 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:54.840 No. 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:57.720 The other part that I find really really interesting and 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:04.199 what I wanted to get to is they're also trying 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:12.280 to eliminate the free plans where people have no skin 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:17.879 in the game. The Republicans are. And here's why. Making 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:21.240 these plans free has allowed insurers to get paid for 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:28.159 people who don't even know they're enrolled. Forty percent of 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:31.159 those in the fully subsidized plans that's the Freebee plans 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:35.080 had zero claims in twenty twenty four. And that number 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:39.960 cannot be explained by well, they're healthy, because you have 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:42.760 all sorts of statistical data on how often people go 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:44.439 to the doctor and make claims in that sort of thing. 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:46.000 And so. 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:51.160 These insurance companies that are part of the Obama Care 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:57.760 swirling ocean of cash that Craig Gottwaltz warned us about 0:20:57.800 --> 0:20:59.520 at the very beginning of it, and he's been right 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:03.600 about everything. Uh, the companies that are making such huge 0:21:03.600 --> 0:21:06.720 profits off these plans are just like enrolling people who 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:07.280 have no idea. 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:10.080 They're enrolled, that is why, and. 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:12.160 Getting paid for it. And the Republicans are just trying 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:16.280 to stop that. And for that, Hakeem Jefferies with his 0:21:16.400 --> 0:21:18.640 newly grown dark black mustache, really good look. 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:19.320 Uh. 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:23.040 And and Chuck, I have no soul, Shumer are trying 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:28.240 to pretend like you know, Mike Johnson is scissor kicking 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:31.359 pregnant poor ladies in the mouth if they try to 0:21:31.359 --> 0:21:34.760 go to the doctor. It's just horrible. So shut it down. 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:36.520 I'm sure to lend just great for you. 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:42.639 Chuck, Well, it's uh. They somehow believe that voters go 0:21:42.680 --> 0:21:45.000 to the polls for the next election and vote on 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:48.040 the shutdowns. They don't. We don't, we don't know. I 0:21:48.040 --> 0:21:49.120 don't think about it at all. 0:21:49.880 --> 0:21:54.080 No, not the moment it ends, and hardly during. 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:58.680 Right, and so now it's the until it ends, which 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:02.719 again it'll probably be in the next couple of days. 0:22:04.520 --> 0:22:07.640 Until it ends. It's the pr battle with the help 0:22:07.680 --> 0:22:09.639 of the mainstream media to try to spin it as 0:22:09.680 --> 0:22:12.520 a something awful. The Republicans did. 0:22:12.760 --> 0:22:16.600