WEBVTT - Crooked or Stupid 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:06.760 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:11.960 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty Armstrong and Jackie 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:22.520 and Pee Armstrong and Yetty. Was it an old man 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:25.720 losing his temper? Or was it three dimensional chess? We'll 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:27.760 get to Trump storming out of meet the Press in 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:30.600 just a little bit. All chess is three dimensional, dammit. 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:33.440 A couple of things for you. We got to get 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:36.080 to his pea hustle going to become a US Senator 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:39.280 John Fetterman deciding to call him pea hustle all the 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:43.040 time is pretty hilarious. That's a platinum up in Maine. 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:46.200 Oh that's what he called himself on kick. I guess 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:48.560 when he was trying to meet chicks or dudes or 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:52.640 whatever he was doing, pea hustle, probably Nazi chicks. So 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:56.720 in Senator Fetterman, who's a Democrat running against pea Hustle 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:04.440 becoming a nominee. Every interview he calls him p Hustle. Well, 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:07.040 the problem with p hustle is and then but anyway, 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:10.720 we'll play some of that a little bit later. Yuh. 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:14.680 Travis Kelcey and Taylor Swift have announced they're getting married 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:17.080 at Madison Square Garden. Boy, I didn't think that was 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:21.000 what I assumed we'd find out they got married over 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:23.840 the weekend in some obscure Italian village and they would 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:27.080 do a private. No, it's gonna go completely the other 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:30.160 direction Madison Square Garden. At least, that's what the rumor is. 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:33.520 So well, that's that's some good marital advice. Turn your 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:36.520 wedding into a spectacle. And I don't mean just an 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:40.640 average spectacle. I mean like a global spectacle. And then 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:42.600 one more thing I can't wait to talk about. Have 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:46.000 you seen that? At least in Los Angeles, Applebee's and 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:48.400 I Hops have joined forces in a store that has 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:54.120 both Applebee's and I Hop one location. Wow, huh? How 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:56.680 good is that? I'm just gonna park a camper in 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:58.920 the parking lot. I got everything I needed there, get 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:01.760 it exactly, Get stack pancakes and an Union ring tower 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:05.840 in one spot. Come on, plase bracfast launch and dinner snacks. 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:09.919 That's all there. Fabulous. So Donald Trump, for some reason 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:12.480 sat down with an interview of Kristen Welker with Pressed. 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:15.600 The meat as I prefer to call it, some some 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:19.720 call it meat. The press about just everything that's going on. 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:23.720 The most transparent president in history. Wall you get two week, 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:25.919 which I appreciate. We also need to make it clear 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:28.080 because you probably hear it in the clips. They're like 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:32.480 an intent outside in a pouring rainstorm. Yeah, before he 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:35.760 and this was this was recorded on Friday, which to 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:39.400 me shows you what a national crisis it is. It 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:43.000 didn't air for like three days, made it finally airs, 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.040 and then it's the talk of the town, right because 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:49.919 he because he storms out but everywhere a real national alert. 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:52.079 Do you think would have held onto it for three 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:54.400 days anyway? Yeah, I know, I know, but it is 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:56.760 some of the things that he said was interesting. Then 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:59.080 it ends in combative fashion, which I've got to admit 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:02.200 a kind of enjoyed. Let's just let's start to hit 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:04.120 the top work our way, Welker and Trump. 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:06.320 I don't know what's going to happen with the representation 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:10.959 in front. I love the idea because people like you, 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:16.880 the fake, dirty press, the crooked press, people start stupid Biben, 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:18.800 He's not smart enough to know what's going on. But 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:23.840 people that surrounded him, surrounded his beautiful, resolute test in 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:27.320 the Oval office. What they did to the lives of people. 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:31.359 They destroyed people, They sent people to jail who did 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:32.200 nothing wrong. 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:35.280 Just be very clear, there's no evidence of what you're saying. 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:36.800 But there's a lot about Todd. 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.360 Listen to me, let's talk. This is tremendous. Evidence is 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:42.480 nothing but evidence. 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:45.720 The election was ing. It was a dirty election. 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:48.200 Okay. So that was on the topic of that. Some 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:50.880 people called a slush fund. That's not what Trump calls it. 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:56.640 Obviously weaponization fund. But that one point seven billion, seventeen 0:03:56.720 --> 0:04:02.280 seventy six fund going to January sixth rioters who attacked cops, 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:06.880 they they She asked him specifically about that, and he said, well, 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:10.760 they were. They were screwed by dirty cops. That's what 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:12.920 happened there, and they deserve to be paid. And she 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:14.680 said there's no evidence of that. That's what he was 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:17.599 mad about and called her what a dirty lion something 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:22.400 or other. Yes, we got the effect right, right, and 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:25.640 you know, the context matters, But it sounded to me 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:28.720 like she was denying that there was lawfair or selective prosecution, 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:31.120 when of course there was, even the New York Times 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:34.279 has admitted that. But moving along, Trump wanted to talk 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:40.880 about the the fraud slow moving election in California is happening. 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:46.760 Again right now in California, right now in California, right now, 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:48.720 it's looking look at what's happened in California. 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:52.400 That it's in California. 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:55.360 It's now they're not there. They're dropping fast because it's 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:58.560 a rigged election. Let me tell you, it's four days 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:02.120 and they aren't even close to how you know why 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:04.000 they're doing that, because they're cheating. 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:06.839 On the election. What do you have evidence? I have 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:08.560 to do is look, well, I have to do it. 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:12.599 And I listen to people, and let's see what happens. 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:13.760 Sir, that's not evidence. 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:14.599 You think it's appropriate. 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:16.239 That's how they the votes. 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:18.960 Do you think it's appropriate that they have an election? 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:21.800 And five days later they're nowhere close to. 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:25.480 Saying local officials acknowledge they are slow. They're urging. 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:26.159 Oh they're crooked. 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:28.160 They're urging the votes to be counted quickly. 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:31.359 Oh my god. That noise, just the noise of those 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:34.840 two is just making me unhappy. Yeah, I know. It's 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:38.240 raising my unhappiness level in my body hearing that. Look, 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:39.960 I don't care if you love Trump, he is a 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:43.960 terrible spokesman for himself. Look, at it. Just look at it. 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:47.000 I hear people talking, no, you got to bring the 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:52.400 goods better than that, because California is you know, the 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:55.400 slow vote counting is not proof of corruption, but it 0:05:55.600 --> 0:06:00.000 sure is a nice dear blind where a corruption could 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.719 take place behind it. You'd never know, sure, But he 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:07.520 is making the argument that it's proof that something crazy 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:09.200 is going on, same as he did in twenty twenty. 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.240 If you have somebody in the lead on election night 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:14.120 and then the lead disappears over time, which is just 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:18.200 trading us all like idiots. I mean that we don't understand. Yeah, 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:20.839 the in person vote they get immediately, and then that 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:23.080 person's in the lead, and then they start opening up 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.279 the mailed invalids and those often for a different party, 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:30.200 and then you know, the numbers change. That's not proof 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:33.960 of anything more exciting highlights from the interview. 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I think, 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:43.240 of of the Sunday morning shows, that's the one I 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.680 least like tuning into at all, And if I leave 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:49.040 one out, it's always that one, cause I just I 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:51.840 just don't think she even gives it a chance of 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:56.480 a decent conversation with anybody. She's wildly biased. She's the 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:59.680 worst of all of them there. I wish Trump was 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:04.320 better deflecting, you know, questions about the January sixthond or 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:06.800 whatever it is, and turning it back toward you know, 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:09.360 we're at war right now, Chris, and let's talk about 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:12.240 oram getting a nuclear weapon or whatever as opposed to 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:16.880 engaging in the twenty twenty election was stolen. Oh my god. Yeah, 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:20.720 all right, next clip. When things turn even unclear, that's. 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:23.360 How they are crooked, just like your crooked. Your press 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:25.200 is cooked, and meet the present's crooked. 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:27.000 To be fair, I'm not crooked. 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:30.080 But well, you play right into the hands. You're either 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:33.160 crooked or you're stupid. You play right into the hands 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:33.680 with this step. 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:35.480 You know that. 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:40.160 These elections are rigged. Your network knows that they're rigged. 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:42.360 That's got to be on the list of clips of 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.000 the year, because that's quite a thing for a president 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:51.480 to say. You're crooked. You're either crooked, you're stupid. Clip 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:53.360 of the year. You say, we should probably hear it 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:56.280 again before we judge that handsome if you would. 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.000 That's how they bear crooked, just like your crooked, your 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.160 press is cooked, and meet the press crooked. 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:02.560 To be fair, I'm not crooked. 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:06.040 But when you play right into the hands, you're either 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:10.360 crooked or you're stupid, right clip you. 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:15.040 Know, Oh that's a hostile I'm gonna a little uncomfortable. 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.520 And that was the prelude to the end. 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:20.520 Let's I want to talk about Tom. 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:25.040 You have more evidence, there's more evidence than ever presented. 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.880 Let's talk to your elections in this country. We're like 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:31.480 a third world country if your elections are crooked, and 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:34.440 your crooked, and meet the precious crooked, and so is 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:40.200 ABC and CBS and CNN, your one sided crooked network. 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:42.280 So let's call it quits because I've had enough. 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:44.320 Thank you, darling, have a good time for president. 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:47.480 Let's please, I traveled all the way to Wisconsin. I've 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:49.600 got I know. 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:53.840 On and off in the ring, and I've given you 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.079 enough time you would to straighten. 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:57.079 Out your press because you know what. 0:09:57.160 --> 0:10:00.320 Mister, country can never be great travel with it. 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:02.640 Listen, we traveled all the way to Wisconsin. 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:08.040 I thought that was a weird response from her. We've 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:10.720 traveled all the way to Wisconsin. So you got on 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:13.240 a private flight or first class or whatever you did, 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:15.840 and you took an hour and a half flight from DC. 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:21.120 And because of that, it's not like the Amazon Jungle Baby, 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:31.480 it's Wisconsin. It's not Condistra and everything trail Wow Wow 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:38.160 traveled all the way to Wisconsin. Wisconsin nights on their 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:41.280 knees in gratitude. Thank you for gracing us with your 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:47.079 New York presence, Please symbolo Wisconsins well and people who 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:49.280 are watched these things. Who cares where the interview is 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:53.319 or even knows ever, Yeah, some rain was falling though, 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:55.800 that would be good for the farms. Yeah, Trump said, 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.120 I sat here with you in the rain for an hour. 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:02.040 I like that, Like they're out in the rain and 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:10.959 they're both just sopping. Lord. That January sixth conversation made 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:15.640 me really uncomfortable. I watched the whole bang thing. Trump 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:19.439 is unwilling to budge at all that there were any 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:24.920 bad actors there who did bad things at all. That's bad. 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:27.760 It's all the FBI let them in there. It was 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:33.040 a setup. Uh, And it's yeah, that's not good. The 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:37.040 fact that she's let that go move on, change the topic. 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:41.240 Something can't he can't. That's a no win except for 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:44.480 a very small percentage of Americans. That's a no win topic. 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:49.640 Yeah yeah. Graham Platner update coming up, plus a major 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:55.240 many gender bending madness update. Fascinating little tidbit from the 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:59.120 world of sports emerging from a lawsuit against a certain 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.560 university that had a dude on the volleyball court whooping 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.360 up on the girls. So there's an update on P Hustle. 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:10.000 That vote is tomorrow right in Maine. So that's pretty exciting, correct, Yeah, cool, 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:13.720 all on the way, stay here, Armstrong, Hey, geddy. 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:23.720 Damning new report featured accounts from Platner's ex girlfriend's detailing 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:28.840 allegations of rape fantasies, heavy drinking, and violent behavior. Platner's 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:33.040 allies worry that these revelations will do irreparable damage to 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:34.960 the reputation of Nazis. 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:40.040 We'll talk more about P Hustle later. He's in the 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:43.920 runoff tomorrow in Maine to see if he gets the 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:47.560 shot at being the Democrats choice to run for the 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:52.600 US Senate. US Senate is a big job. That's just horrific. 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:56.400 More on him to come. A couple of stories from 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:59.160 the world to college sports, whatever that is at this point, 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:02.200 which I'll I bring on in a second. First of all, 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:07.560 do you remember when San Jose State University was dominating 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:10.920 their league in women's basketball because they had a dude 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:15.520 on their team. Some people bizarrely refer to the man 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:18.080 as a transgender woman, which is odd when he's not 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:21.880 a woman at all. He's a man. Anyway. There's a 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:25.439 Title nine lawsuit filed by a bunch of players against 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.079 the California State University System San Jose State, that sort 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:32.599 of thing. And part of the evidence that's been uncovered 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:37.520 is that the coach, who's just identified as Coach one 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:40.040 in the files, but it's got to be Trent Kurston, 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:45.080 who is the head coach, has a bunch of quotes 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:49.560 about how the dude is a good enough player to 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:53.720 make us better, several comments about we need to recruit him, 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:55.960 lure them away from where he's playing to play for 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:59.400 San Jose State. But he used the term him, no, 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:04.920 the player. It appears there was a little pronoun game 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:13.199 being played direct quotes. I don't see any actual pronouns 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:18.840 in his quotes. But here's the interesting part. Everybody, the 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:21.880 coach and the university were fully aware that dude was 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:25.840 a dude, and we're like, yeah, let's recruit a dude, 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.200 because we'll win a lot of games. You know why, 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:32.000 because he'll be playing against girls and men are bigger 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:35.120 and stronger, and I bet we'll win a bunch of games. 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:43.320 Just thing ridiculous, Great Scott. Anyway, more on that another time. 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:49.040 Perhaps this story caught my ear partly because I've I know, 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.120 I have a kid who's in grad school. I know 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:54.480 a lot of my peers have kids in college. Some 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:56.880 of them are athletes, and we talk about this stuff 0:14:56.920 --> 0:15:00.280 a fair amount, the whole name, image and likeness and yell. 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:04.760 Compensation packages which range from you know, McDonald's money if 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:08.880 you're on the lacrosse team maybe to just gigantic paychecks 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:11.160 for your football and basketball stars. Some of it because 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:14.680 you're a really good player, some of it because you're hot. Yeah, 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:18.120 oh absolutely, But the real money, the big money, is 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:20.960 going to the football stars. Now college athletes in your 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:25.040 top tier sports are now professional athletes. And this story 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:30.040 in the Fall Street Journal, it should be, says Jack, betraying, 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:34.960 just murdering the spirit of amateur athletics. Is that what 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:38.160 you're doing here? The coach makes twelve million dollars a year, 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:40.520 the university gets one hundred and fifty million for their 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:42.920 TV contract or whatever, and the player's supposed to do 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:45.680 it for nothing when they're the draw. Yeah, well they're 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:48.640 getting a college scholarship. Jack. I think the whole thing 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:51.120 should go I'm a fool dance. I think the whole 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:54.320 thing should go away. Why we've tied big time young 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:57.640 people's sports to education makes no sense to me at 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:01.280 this point. So here's a guy who didn't have the 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:05.920 money to go to his high school prom, but and 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:09.280 he's a freshman offensive lineman at the University of Colorado 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:13.200 now where he's incoming last month flush from a six 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:18.560 figure nil compensation package. Xavier Payne is the name returned 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:21.200 to Florida to attend the Jones High prom with his 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:24.600 old classmates. He arrived in one hundred and eighty thousand 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:28.200 dollars Mercedes bring, a twenty five hundred dollars custom suit, 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:31.560 eleven hundred dollars shoes, and a vintage Cardie watch he 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:34.800 said was worth about forty thousand dollars. A lot of 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:38.040 people said they didn't recognize me, he said. Welcome to 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:43.200 the nil era. Young superstars are making prom into a 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:46.000 cultural phenomenon all of their own part. Victory lap part 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:50.320 personal branding opportunity, and they mentioned that elite football programs 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:53.920 now expect recruits to graduate from high school in December. 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:57.800 You gotta graduate early so you can be on campus 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:01.520 in January to learn playbooks in train with teammates for 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:10.359 the following fall. Yeah, makes sense. Freshman athletes across all 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:14.119 sports this year, this year, next year will rake in 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:21.080 seven hundred and eighty million dollars. Wow in compensation. Let's 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:26.800 see ye from all these years. So essentially, yeah exploited. Sure, 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:31.280 the University of Oregon wide receiver Decorian Moore, you got 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:33.520 to eighty thousand dollars. There he is at prom with 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:37.560 a sweetheart. They're looking very very sharp. God, how many 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.639 great college athlete athletes through the years missed out on 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:43.960 this bonanza? Oh yeah, I know they got to be 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:47.919 looking back thinking, oh my god. Well, look, sometimes you know, 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:49.080 if you go on and you make a lot of 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:52.320 money in the NBA or whatever, the NFL, then you 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:54.440 know you end up all right. But some people are 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:57.200 just college stars. And then like Tim Tebow, how much 0:17:57.280 --> 0:17:59.720 money would he have made as a Heisman Trophy winner 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:02.160 as the dominant player in college football for a couple 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:04.200 of years flamed out in the NFL, but he would 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:09.480 have made crazy money in college. Absolutely, yeah, yeah, high 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:13.600 six figures in nil money. Yeah yeah. What is college 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:17.280 sports anymore? You got dudes playing against girls, they're pros. 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:20.520 What does even to mean? Scott Pelly embarrassed himself over 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:22.360 the weekend. We've got some of that for you, among. 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:25.199 Other things Armstrong and Getty. 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:28.600 A lot of celebrities are expected to be at the 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:31.720 Garden on Monday, including the biggest celebrity of all, a 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:35.320 guy who draws bigger crowds than Martin, Luther, King, and 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:39.520 Elvis without even playing the guitar combined. President Trump said 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:44.960 he is planning to jurn New York, the first time 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:47.400 Trump has appeared at a court in New York since 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:49.600 being convicted of thirty four felonies. 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:56.840 Wow, there's a lot of things to pick apart there. 0:18:56.880 --> 0:19:00.640 But the booze will be true. Jimmy Kimmel intioning Donald 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:03.959 Trump will be it Game three of the NBA Finals 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:07.720 tonight Madison Square Garden, and I assume it'll be announced 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:11.280 and there'll be a rain of booze. I assume. I 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:12.280 don't know. I could be wrong. 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:17.840 I spoth boze. Chance hecals, cat calls, who knows, I'm 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:21.440 more interested in the game. Knicks are up to nothing, 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:25.440 winning the first two in San Antonio, so and Wemby 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:28.719 had a chance to be like Cement to the beginning 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:30.760 of his legend and threw the ball away at the 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:37.120 very end of the game. So anyway, Uh, only Fox 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:41.840 is reporting the Middle East the way they're reporting it. 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:44.520 Everybody else is kind of going with, you know, like 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:47.879 it's still tip for tat and ceasefire holds and stuff. 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:52.080 Fox Tree Ink's particular has announced with the back and 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:55.000 forth shooting over the weekend, the ceasefire is over. 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:59.080 The war is on. This is a major escalation. Trump 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:03.760 can't stop it, et cetera. There So, uh, it's interesting 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:05.760 that the other channels are still treating it like we 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:09.880 have treated that the last couple of weeks. Yeah, right right, Yeah, 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:12.880 the ceasefire is holding in spite of the occasional tippy Yeah. 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:15.679 I got this email from Tim. Then we'll move on 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:19.560 to other fair No, really, this time, we're very very 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:25.440 close to a deal. Yeah, yeah, I see your point, Tim, 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:27.800 More on that later. So interesting piece in the New 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:30.679 York Times Today opinion piece, A guest essay from a 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:35.960 couple of economists labor economists. Why liberals what liberals get 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:41.560 wrong about the middle class. It's basically that both parties 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:44.119 are out there Trump to a certain extent, Burnie to 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:46.159 a certain extent, going out there that the middle class 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:49.320 has been screwed and you know, we're the party that's 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:51.160 going to help you out, and everything like that, and 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:54.520 who was it that did this a couple of weeks ago, 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:58.159 got a lot of noise around. Look, the reason the 0:20:58.160 --> 0:21:02.080 middle class is scotten smaller is because so many people 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:04.640 in the middle class have moved into the upper middle class, 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:08.200 or the upper class is really the thing. Everybody's gotten 0:21:08.240 --> 0:21:11.159 richer at every level. Thinking about the middle class in 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:15.120 this way obscures progress because it mixes inequality with people's 0:21:15.200 --> 0:21:18.320 living standards, and those are two very different things. These 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:21.320 economists right of all places of the New York Times. 0:21:21.600 --> 0:21:25.080 In a recent report, we measured class using constant inflation 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:29.840 adjusted thresholds. The core middle class shrank, but so did 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:33.000 the classes below the middle the poorer, the near poor, 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:37.199 and the lower middle class. Some statistics for you. In 0:21:37.320 --> 0:21:40.840 nineteen seventy nine, thirty six percent of families were in 0:21:40.880 --> 0:21:42.800 the middle class that would have been me and Joe 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:47.199 and lots of people. At first, it looks ominous to 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:50.280 say that now it's just thirty one percent in the 0:21:50.280 --> 0:21:53.800 middle class. But it's only worrisome if you overlook the 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:56.560 fact that in the same period, the upper middle class 0:21:57.080 --> 0:22:02.119 grew from ten percent to thirty one percent. Upper middle 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:06.960 class tripled since nineteen seventy nine, which would explain why 0:22:08.040 --> 0:22:10.480 none of us flew on a plane or anything like 0:22:10.560 --> 0:22:13.520 that back in the day, and now lots of people do. 0:22:13.680 --> 0:22:17.800 For instance, Yeah, people in pajamas and not wearing shoes 0:22:17.840 --> 0:22:22.399 for instance that hell, or eating out or lots of 0:22:22.440 --> 0:22:24.720 other different things that people didn't used to do it 0:22:24.760 --> 0:22:27.879 and now they do. Yeah. How about going from once 0:22:27.960 --> 0:22:31.600 a month to twice a day eat eating out right? 0:22:31.640 --> 0:22:34.399 Oh yeah, no kidding, taking sack lunch to work because 0:22:34.560 --> 0:22:36.359 eating out, going out to eat for lunch would have 0:22:36.400 --> 0:22:40.440 been insane back in the day, too expensive. Yeah. Meanwhile, 0:22:40.440 --> 0:22:42.960 the number of Americans falling short of the middle class, 0:22:43.240 --> 0:22:46.240 which used to be more than half, is now thirty 0:22:46.280 --> 0:22:50.480 five percent of all families. Wow, the traditional middle class 0:22:50.520 --> 0:22:53.240 shrank because so many families became better off over time, 0:22:53.280 --> 0:22:59.159 not because more people fell short. Inequality rose, but you know, 0:22:59.720 --> 0:23:03.480 for statistical reasons, and not in a way that you 0:23:03.520 --> 0:23:05.320 know it sounds like if you're Bernie Sanders and you 0:23:05.359 --> 0:23:08.440 have to inequality is at a record high. The higher 0:23:08.520 --> 0:23:11.480 up the income ladder of family reached, the more disproportionate 0:23:11.480 --> 0:23:13.960 the improvement, Rather than the rich getting richer and the 0:23:13.960 --> 0:23:17.720 poor getting poor. Rich and poor alike grew richer, albeit 0:23:17.840 --> 0:23:20.199 at different rates. And a lot of that would have 0:23:20.240 --> 0:23:21.920 to do is as you get richer, you're more likely 0:23:21.920 --> 0:23:23.840 to be in the stock market and and so your 0:23:23.920 --> 0:23:27.640 overall wealth grows. Yeah, there's no arguing that the upper 0:23:27.720 --> 0:23:32.240