Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Getty Armstrong and Yetty And how about
Speaker 2: you pay for the repairs.
Speaker 3: I can wipe it off. No, no, it's not. It
Speaker 3: is a heat crime. Did you write a swanstick on?
Speaker 3: I'm sorry you're upset? Did you write aw it didn't
Speaker 3: even work? Have you looked at your visit?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 4: I said, I'm sorry for what and I apologize.
Speaker 3: I have nothing against her war and I have nothing
Speaker 3: against you. So why did you write a swanstika?
Speaker 2: Obviously I have something against Elon Musk, but that's not
Speaker 2: because it was so it was bought and paid for
Speaker 2: a long time. That's why it's misguided. And I I
Speaker 2: did not intend this. So what is that, Katie?
Speaker 5: So that that guy drew something on a tesla, a swastika,
Speaker 5: and the guy saw the owner of the tesla saw
Speaker 5: it on camera and.
Speaker 2: Put it up on Facebook.
Speaker 5: And Facebook was able to track this guy down, so
Speaker 5: he went and confronted him. The guy that did the swastika,
Speaker 5: late fifties, early sixties, white guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the that's the crowd.
Speaker 4: You know that. It's so funny. I watched some news
Speaker 4: yesterday and I came to the conclusion, it's amazing that
Speaker 4: all of these people look like retired government workers.
Speaker 2: As we were chatting about, and.
Speaker 4: Then I heard a couple of other people make the point,
Speaker 4: it's it's like it's it's like your your contemporaries of
Speaker 4: Bernie Sanders have all come out on the streets and
Speaker 4: are screeching and line dancing at one point about how
Speaker 4: Elon's a Nazi. I mean, what, seriously, we used to
Speaker 4: be a serious country.
Speaker 5: I'm putting together a new Katie's Corner, and I have
Speaker 5: the video of this guy on there so you can
Speaker 5: see it at Armstrong and Getty dot com. He's very
Speaker 5: sincere as his hand over his heart, I didn't not
Speaker 5: my intention.
Speaker 6: I'm I like his apology. I'm sorry you're offended. Always
Speaker 6: a good a good apology. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: I didn't you feel that way. I mean it, I'm
Speaker 4: sorry you feel that way. To play a passive, aggressive
Speaker 4: vandal activist, he is.
Speaker 6: Well, first of all, just that whole over the top
Speaker 6: reaction to things mindset. We've run into that ourselves many times.
Speaker 6: If you threaten us online and people do now and
Speaker 6: then email, text or whatever, we pass it off the
Speaker 6: police and they track you down. We've done this multiple
Speaker 6: times anyway. Whenever that happens, the response is, oh, I
Speaker 6: didn't mean that. I'm sorry, I didn't. It's just off
Speaker 6: to handle guys. I love the show. I don't know,
Speaker 6: blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's always just sounds just like this guy here.
Speaker 4: So what is that personality trait of the other A
Speaker 4: swastick on your car and then you get push I
Speaker 4: just I was just expressing that I don't like the
Speaker 4: direction Elon's taking things. I think the technical term is
Speaker 4: you're a weak effing act or there's something or you're unhint.
Speaker 4: I think it's the the coin of the realm of.
Speaker 2: The Internet.
Speaker 4: You just have to do everything so over the top
Speaker 4: when your actual emotion is I'm just expressing, uh, I
Speaker 4: don't agree with you on this topic, right, but you
Speaker 4: feel like the only way you can cut through is
Speaker 4: a swastika or a death threat. Right, And then when
Speaker 4: somebody drags it back into irl in real life, like
Speaker 4: this guy did, all of a sudden, the guy, it
Speaker 4: was like he was a stranger to his own actions. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: he's like, yeah, I just I don't like Elon Moskin.
Speaker 2: So I look, it didn't even leave a mark. You're
Speaker 2: you did it? Why why are you a stick on
Speaker 2: my car?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 4: Exactly? Why are you now like arguing against you? What's
Speaker 4: happening here? Yeah, you're right, you're right. It's it's a
Speaker 4: combination of a certain personality type in the whole internet,
Speaker 4: anonymous behind a keyboard, uh huh thing, and this guy
Speaker 4: felt like he was behind a keyboard because he didn't
Speaker 4: expect to be called on it.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 6: A guy I know in the Secret Service used to
Speaker 6: respond to most of the people that make threats when
Speaker 6: they got to fly to you know, Idaho and meet
Speaker 6: some guy in a shack is what they call keyboard
Speaker 6: warriors in the secret service business. You meet him and
Speaker 6: you realize right away they're like that, Oh no, no,
Speaker 6: I would never hurt a fly.
Speaker 2: It's just a it's just match. Yeah right, it's weird.
Speaker 4: I didn't like the guy feeling like you needed to
Speaker 4: say this was bought and paid for a long time ago,
Speaker 4: Like I bought the Tesla before Elon became a Nazi.
Speaker 4: You should irrelevant, You should be able to buy whatever
Speaker 4: car you want driving around with up people, peyton swastika
Speaker 4: is on it, whether you bought it yesterday or two
Speaker 4: years ago.
Speaker 2: I think there's a decent chance your car gets vandalized. God,
Speaker 2: I hope not. I hope not too. I'm certainly not
Speaker 2: rooting for it.
Speaker 4: I'm just I'm thinking about the rather blue area that
Speaker 4: you live and the heated rhetoric in actions. Right now,
Speaker 4: I watch some of the lunatics screaming and again line
Speaker 4: dancing while waving swastikas. Is that the first incident of
Speaker 4: line dancing with swastikas in world history. We've set our
Speaker 4: historical research staff on answering that question.
Speaker 2: But you look at those people. They cannot be reasoned with.
Speaker 6: I've been checking the cameras, my live camera right there,
Speaker 6: looking from all different angles, and it's recording.
Speaker 2: So but we gotta have some crowbars around here in
Speaker 2: the studio just ready to go.
Speaker 4: Let's get uh, let's get this on because it makes
Speaker 4: a point.
Speaker 2: Where's the pam Bondie. I can't keep track of my
Speaker 2: lists today. The pambondy Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 1: I've made it clear if you take part in the
Speaker 1: wave of domestic terrorism against Tesla properties. We will find you,
Speaker 1: arrest you, and put you behind bars.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna be interested to see when what courts decide
Speaker 6: counts as domestic terrorism or not.
Speaker 2: As everybody I talked to about.
Speaker 6: Buying my most recent vehicle warned me, oh boy, I
Speaker 6: don't know if that's a good idea, Like I should
Speaker 6: not buy it out of fear. So not making the
Speaker 6: second biggest purchase you ever made in your life out
Speaker 6: of fear.
Speaker 4: Because of political affiliation. Yeah, how is that not domestic terrorism?
Speaker 4: My son doesn't want to ride in it. He didn't
Speaker 4: want to ride into the baseball game last night at
Speaker 4: it because he's afraid something's going to happen to him.
Speaker 4: Oh my lord, that sucks. Yeah, it sucks. They it'll
Speaker 4: vary judge to judge. As we know, there are very
Speaker 4: reasonable judges in America and just absolute ideological pieces of crap.
Speaker 4: Pardon me, that was uncharitable. I sounded like a keyboard
Speaker 4: worrior myself.
Speaker 2: There. They're pieces of crap anyway.
Speaker 4: So you're gonna see a lot of different outcomes because
Speaker 4: I could easily see some lefty judge saying this is
Speaker 4: not political terrorism, this is a consumer activist who's unhappy
Speaker 4: about a product. It's a simple case of vandalism, Class
Speaker 4: CE misdemeanor, fine a five hundred dollars in restitution.
Speaker 2: Bang, get out of here.
Speaker 6: Even though the goal was entirely political and to frighten
Speaker 6: people out of buying a certain product.
Speaker 4: Mm yeah, yeah, to damage at the very least, to
Speaker 4: damage the proprietor of said company for political reasons, and
Speaker 4: therefore to discourage anyone with any sort of high profile
Speaker 4: from affiliating with that political party. You're right, because that'll
Speaker 4: keep any other big company from ever wanting to have
Speaker 4: anything to say about politics right out of fear, which
Speaker 4: is not good.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: If the guy from Ticketmasters say comes out and says,
Speaker 4: you know what, I think Trump's right, I think is right.
Speaker 4: They're wasting a lot of tax payer money. If consumers
Speaker 4: have lower taxes, they'll buy more concert tickets.
Speaker 2: So I'm down with Doge two.
Speaker 4: Then all of a sudden, people start, you know, bear
Speaker 4: spraying people who go to Ticketmaster events or something like that. Well,
Speaker 4: so I'm vandalizing more to make it more comparable, vandalizing
Speaker 4: their cars while they're at the event.
Speaker 6: I don't believe this, but to throw out a different
Speaker 6: argument from the other side. So this is different than
Speaker 6: kid lining up bud light cans and shooting them with
Speaker 6: the rifle and videotaping it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, those were his beers. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Second Amendment the right to bear arms and
Speaker 4: bare arms against beers. People usually don't read that last sent.
Speaker 2: Water very watery domestic light beers.
Speaker 4: Okay, wow, that's an intriguing question. No, if you were
Speaker 4: like vandalizing people's beer, not your own, I mean, because
Speaker 4: if I torched my own tesla, people would just think
Speaker 4: you're an effing moron.
Speaker 2: Well, was anybody scared to drink bud light?
Speaker 4: Maybe at a social pressure you might have been scared
Speaker 4: to stand at a bar with a bud light in
Speaker 4: your hand.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but that's that was in response to a very
Speaker 4: specific ideology and.
Speaker 2: An issue.
Speaker 4: No, it's it's yeah, it's an effort to intimidate other
Speaker 4: people into either doing or not doing various political acts,
Speaker 4: whereas the bud light thing was not. I mean, nobody
Speaker 4: would like be holding a barbecue and somebody runs over
Speaker 4: and jabs their bud light cans full of holes and thinks,
Speaker 4: oh my god, I better vote Democrat, or something like
Speaker 4: that or that's an interesting comparison. I'd really like to
Speaker 4: think about that for a while.
Speaker 7: Uh. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I don't like the fact that my kids are scared
Speaker 6: to ride with me because they think somebody's going to
Speaker 6: do something to us.
Speaker 2: Right, and not completely without reason.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's not a crazy reaction based on the
Speaker 6: things I've seen.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Oh, one of our beloved listeners sent us a video
Speaker 4: of what's the rolling coal?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Is that what it's called.
Speaker 6: If you drive a diesel and you've got it tuned
Speaker 6: a certain way, you can gun the engine and black
Speaker 6: smoke will roll out of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. They call that rolling coal. And sometimes you do
Speaker 2: that to show off.
Speaker 6: Sometimes you do that, like to you're angry at somebody,
Speaker 6: you feel like they cut you off, so you get
Speaker 6: in front of them and roll coal on them.
Speaker 2: This guy did it to me. That's in a cyber
Speaker 2: truck the other day with the windows down.
Speaker 4: He pulled up next to me and rolled coal smoke,
Speaker 4: black thick black smoke with my And you think he
Speaker 4: thought you were a lefty. I think this was a
Speaker 4: big diesel truck guy doesn't like electric vehicles as opposed
Speaker 4: to the lefties who hate it for Yeah, really bringing
Speaker 4: a lot of hate upon myself, just trying to get.
Speaker 2: From A to B people.
Speaker 4: But anyway, so this beloved listener sent us the video
Speaker 4: of a friend of theirs who rode by an anti
Speaker 4: Tesla protest and did that to all the sixty five
Speaker 4: plus white radical think they're still hippies types who were
Speaker 4: protesting against Elon Musk with their swastikas signs, And he
Speaker 4: just absolutely blasted him with exhaust and he had his
Speaker 4: buddy in a car behind him videotaping it and giggling
Speaker 4: while he videotaped it.
Speaker 2: Wow. I certainly.
Speaker 4: Cry absolutely and condemn completely the expressing of exhaust at people.
Speaker 2: Damnationally, but I getgilled a little too appalled. Appalled.
Speaker 6: You know what I was also appalling to me before
Speaker 6: we take a break, is I remember people when I
Speaker 6: was younger who like, would drink cors light but not
Speaker 6: bud light or bud light but not corslight. Like, come
Speaker 6: to your house if you had corslight, couldn't drink because
Speaker 6: they only drank bud light.
Speaker 4: Well, and thank you for excluding my people, you colonialist settler.
Speaker 4: I was a miller like whichever, I don't care. I
Speaker 4: come to your House, you got any of those, I'm
Speaker 4: perfectly fun of course I care more about aneebriation than brand. Well,
Speaker 4: that's just common sense. You really you couldn't You couldn't
Speaker 4: stand the taste of bud light, but you drink corps
Speaker 4: light or vice versa.
Speaker 2: I mean, what the hell is that? What's wrong with you?
Speaker 4: Princess and the p please hit drink up. We got
Speaker 4: more of the ways here. So they're electing a justice
Speaker 4: for the Wisconsin Supreme Court today, and Elon Musk believes
Speaker 4: the Democrat winning which would keep their.
Speaker 2: Majority.
Speaker 6: Democrats having the majority in the Supreme Court there would
Speaker 6: allow them to draw the district lines in such a
Speaker 6: way that the Republicans could lose control of the House,
Speaker 6: which he believes would mean, uh, losing some of the
Speaker 6: doge recommendations that his group is going to make in
Speaker 6: cutting costs, which he believes will lead to the US
Speaker 6: going bankrupt, which will lead to the world falling apart.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 6: And that's why he thinks this election today in Wisconsin
Speaker 6: is such a big deal. Here he is in an
Speaker 6: interview yesterday.
Speaker 7: But we've got this issue with judges that are activists.
Speaker 7: They're not judges, they're they're just pretending to be judges.
Speaker 7: They're just politicians wearing judges robes, and that's that's a
Speaker 7: huge problem. In fact, I think that's just generally a problem.
Speaker 8: It's not just a challenge with with you know, tomorrow's
Speaker 8: election in Wisconsin, but with the with the federal judges,
Speaker 8: where it's like, hey, guys, you're really undermining faith, Like
Speaker 8: these judges are undermining faith in the legal system because
Speaker 8: they're supposed to be objective, but they're they're clearly not
Speaker 8: being objective. They're being just politicians, and this is not right.
Speaker 8: We should have an independent judicial system that where it's
Speaker 8: not a matter of politics.
Speaker 6: Well, the problem with that, of course being how do
Speaker 6: you know they're being political and they just don't see
Speaker 6: things differently than you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that is a problem, especially if you're trying to
Speaker 4: explain it to voters.
Speaker 2: But I was going to bring up one of the.
Speaker 4: Several like really clear memories I have of my college
Speaker 4: education where I first really got into the stuff and
Speaker 4: death was the description of the concept of the living constitution, right,
Speaker 4: and the idea that the constitution is a restraint and
Speaker 4: not a good one. It's a problem to be overcome
Speaker 4: and worked around because it really is unfair and dumb.
Speaker 2: Times change exactly.
Speaker 4: The old timey constitution is not fit for today's world
Speaker 4: in which a boy can decide to become a girl,
Speaker 4: for instance.
Speaker 2: And so you have judges or.
Speaker 4: The founding fathers didn't expect this level of income inequality,
Speaker 4: right exactly, So you have plenty of judges who just
Speaker 4: see the job differently. Conceptually, they see the jobs, how
Speaker 4: do we get to the outcome we want as opposed
Speaker 4: to we got to run through this through the filter
Speaker 4: of the Constitution and see whether it fits or not.
Speaker 4: And so it's different than just a couple of different
Speaker 4: outcomes being desired by the two sides. It's one side
Speaker 4: sees the job completely differently, and they're dangerous to my mind.
Speaker 4: I mean, you look at the originalist, constitutionalist judicial restraining
Speaker 4: Supreme Court. They've come out with several results that have
Speaker 4: really gladdened lefty hearts because they say, you know what
Speaker 4: the squares with the Constitution, and I don't love the result,
Speaker 4: but it's not my job to overturn it. Next you'll
Speaker 4: never see that out of a lefty judge.
Speaker 6: The Democrat judge is up by seven points in a
Speaker 6: public came out yesterday, although polling in these kind of
Speaker 6: things is not that good. I did to hear some
Speaker 6: political expert explaining why Democrats tend to win all of
Speaker 6: these special elections or more of them in Republicans because
Speaker 6: Democrats are they've got more of a an active base
Speaker 6: that's like super into this sort of stuff, and Republicans
Speaker 6: are more likely to just get out in the big elections,
Speaker 6: which just rings true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the whole.
Speaker 6: Activists controlled these little elections more than regular voters.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: In summary, right, Yeah, And if your argument is there
Speaker 4: evil Nazis who are going to eat out our souls,
Speaker 4: that tends to motivate activists more than this, redistricting will
Speaker 4: really have an undue influence in future elections.
Speaker 2: Right. There is also reporting MSNBC claims this.
Speaker 6: I don't know if it's true that there are Republicans
Speaker 6: in DC who would love to see the Democrat win
Speaker 6: in Wisconsin just because it would diminish Elon's power and
Speaker 6: they feel like Elon's doing harmed or the Republican brand.
Speaker 6: I don't know if that's true or not.
Speaker 4: I think there are plenty of Republicans who are part
Speaker 4: of the permanent DC beast for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 9: So that's Starbucks, just for without a line of limited
Speaker 9: edition Peanuts inspired merchandise that features all the characters like
Speaker 9: Charlie brown Snoopy and Woodstock. And asked to comment as
Speaker 9: Starbucks postman.
Speaker 6: Said, I thought Starbucks was going to pair back all
Speaker 6: their choices. They thought that was killing him and that's
Speaker 6: why they Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because they're a CEO. There's like nine thousand different
Speaker 2: coffee drinks she can order by that. It doesn't sound
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 4: Pairing back their food offerings and the rest of it.
Speaker 4: Oh oh, so this is the world's least surprising headline,
Speaker 4: but the details are pretty interesting. Even a fourteen thousand
Speaker 4: dollars government handout can't get South Korea's singles to marry.
Speaker 4: South Korea's fertility rate is now so low they have
Speaker 4: state sponsored apparently South Korea.
Speaker 2: Has states, regions whatever.
Speaker 4: State sponsored dating has become a phenomenon. And they actually
Speaker 4: quote this one gal who's thirty one years old in
Speaker 4: a barista. Apparently it's international, folks.
Speaker 2: And this is just for getting married, not just for
Speaker 2: having kid. Can you just get married?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, well they figured, hey, you know, you build
Speaker 4: a fence from the bottom up.
Speaker 2: First, we'll get them hitched.
Speaker 4: Interestingly, South Korea is a socially conservative country and fewer
Speaker 4: than five percent of births are outside of wedlock.
Speaker 2: Fewer than five percent? Good?
Speaker 4: What's it in the US? Sixty percent or something? I
Speaker 4: have a good question, Hey, Katie, do you have a
Speaker 4: second to grab that number? I should have looked for
Speaker 4: that up, but I didn't think of.
Speaker 6: A percentage of birds out of wedlock in the UNI
Speaker 6: bastards if you will, No, that you don't know what
Speaker 6: your dadd is.
Speaker 4: Oh that's a different thing. That's kind of the same,
Speaker 4: isn't it. I think bastard is just a child born
Speaker 4: out of wedlock, is it?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I thought a bastard was he didn't know who
Speaker 2: your dad was.
Speaker 4: I don't know anyway, So it's kind of actually amusing
Speaker 4: this thirty one year old barista.
Speaker 2: Gal. You came up with it, Katie, Okay?
Speaker 5: In the United States, approximately forty percent?
Speaker 4: Wow. Yeah, well, even though there are a lot of
Speaker 4: statistics attached to that. Oh yeah, that are not good. Yeah,
Speaker 4: kids gonna end up and jailed her on the pole.
Speaker 4: Not really, it's more likely there will be a bad outcome.
Speaker 4: But far from certain obviously, friends. So this thirty one
Speaker 4: year old barista is really worried her parents are going
Speaker 4: to find out about all the cash handouts and dating
Speaker 4: services the government is offering, because they'll make her apply.
Speaker 2: She says with a big sigh.
Speaker 4: State sponsored dating has become a phenomenon there. The fertility
Speaker 4: rate is now zero point seven five children per women,
Speaker 4: which is a third of the figure just to keep
Speaker 4: the population stable. They're not going to turn that around.
Speaker 4: I'm surprised they even try. You're not going to change yet.
Speaker 4: I would like to know what their divorce rate is
Speaker 4: in South Korea. I bet it's very low. I think
Speaker 4: it is.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, if you can come up with that, Katie,
Speaker 6: that might not exist. But divorce rate in South Korea,
Speaker 6: but I bet it's very low. Otherwise I would think
Speaker 6: people would be getting the piece of paper, as people
Speaker 6: often say in the United States, just for the money.
Speaker 6: I could see a fake marriage for the money. If
Speaker 6: you have a kid because somebody's giving you a check.
Speaker 6: That is a terrible idea.
Speaker 2: Yes, oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: And honestly, seriously, folks, I realize housing prices are out
Speaker 4: of control, and if you're living you know you live
Speaker 4: your life. You make your own decisions. But the whole
Speaker 4: we're gonna wait till we can afford a kid. You'll
Speaker 4: figure it out, you really will.
Speaker 6: Okay, Next, I'm going to have you get the average
Speaker 6: height for women in Ghana. But what did you come
Speaker 6: up with the divorce rate for South Korea?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 5: South Korea's divorce rate was one point eight divorces per
Speaker 5: one thousand people.
Speaker 4: Wow, that's that's quite low. That's the United States in
Speaker 4: the early nineteen hundreds.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So, city governments have launched matchmate making services and
Speaker 4: other incentives to boost the world's lowest.
Speaker 2: Birth rate.
Speaker 4: States a state sponsored dating has become a phenomenon in
Speaker 4: South Korea. For instance, Sahagu, a district in South Korea's
Speaker 4: second largest city of Busan, offers singles to match at
Speaker 4: its events around three hundred and forty bucks to spend
Speaker 4: on dates. And I'll tell you how the events work
Speaker 4: in a minute. But yeah, it's not even like they're
Speaker 4: not waiting to give you cash if you have a kid.
Speaker 4: They're like, hey, just go out to dinner just but
Speaker 4: who knows, maybe you hit it off. It's like an
Speaker 4: old Jewish mother or something.
Speaker 2: But she's a nice girl. Take her out. Maybe you
Speaker 2: hit it off, maybe you don't.
Speaker 4: But this is a very prosperous society. It isn't the
Speaker 4: lack of cash that's keeping a dude from asking to
Speaker 4: check out to dinner. It's I'm playing video games and
Speaker 4: perfectly happy the way.
Speaker 2: I am with my cat and looking at porn. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and looking at porn. Yeah. Let's see.
Speaker 4: Those who get married received roughly fourteen thousand dollars up
Speaker 4: front and are fetted with housing subsidies and more cash
Speaker 4: to cover pregnancy related expenses in international travel. No participant
Speaker 4: has yet claimed the prize for marriage. I'm surprised that
Speaker 4: they're doing this because it's not there's no way some major.
Speaker 6: Cultural event could change this. Depression, World war, but no
Speaker 6: government program is going to change this.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's right. It reminds me.
Speaker 4: I was sitting in an airplane the other day, flying
Speaker 4: to cal Unicornia, and guy in front of me that
Speaker 4: I could see between the seats was doing bumble.
Speaker 2: Is that right at the name of the app? The
Speaker 2: dating one of them?
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was flipping, and the speed and casualness with
Speaker 4: which he was flipping.
Speaker 2: Like how quickly he determined yet no based on a picture.
Speaker 4: Yeah, wow, I've never online dated, but I just I've
Speaker 4: always been amazed by that. And a lot of the
Speaker 4: girls were really cute. I don't know if he was
Speaker 4: looking for something in particular, huh African American fellow. Maybe
Speaker 4: he preferred a black girl.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's too but there's too much pressure on the picture.
Speaker 4: I've got pictures where I look pretty good. I got
Speaker 4: pictures where I look pretty bad. I guess you got
Speaker 4: a picture, get the right picture on there, and occasionally
Speaker 4: pause and text and then go back to it. And
Speaker 4: what was interesting is he looked so bored. It looked
Speaker 4: like he had to finish a report for work, some
Speaker 4: idiotic requirement his boss had for him, and he was
Speaker 4: not engaged in the process at all.
Speaker 2: Anyway, back to this, I would like to know what
Speaker 2: the hell So it's not just the gument. Churches and
Speaker 2: companies are lending a hand.
Speaker 4: Boujong Group, a construction firm, and soul Hayze its employees
Speaker 4: roughly seventy five grand each time they have a baby.
Speaker 4: Yuido Full Gospel Church, one of the world's largest congregations
Speaker 4: in the world never heard of. It gives its members
Speaker 4: thirteen hundred and eighty bucks for each childbirth.
Speaker 2: Then the Korean.
Speaker 6: Christian community is huge around where I live. Those churches
Speaker 6: are packed every weekend when I go to the donut shop.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Protestantism is huge in Korea. We accidentally went to
Speaker 4: a or was it accident?
Speaker 2: Were accidentally went to a Korean church?
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, it was a Korean Presbyterian church years and
Speaker 4: years ago, so everybody was lovely, it was nice.
Speaker 2: Was it in English? As I recall it was? Yeah.
Speaker 4: A recent survey shows roughly three fifths of working South
Speaker 4: Koreans think it's okay not to marry.
Speaker 2: Many say they don't feel the need.
Speaker 4: Rising living costs are a big disincentive, as are the
Speaker 4: punishingly long hours in South Korea's office culture.
Speaker 6: Well, we've talked about this so many times. People not
Speaker 6: feeling the knee to date is not something you fix
Speaker 6: with the government program. There's something weird going on that's
Speaker 6: never happened before.
Speaker 2: Hormonal instinctive.
Speaker 4: I remember my favorite theory because we've talked about how
Speaker 4: if like a population of whatever animal it's gets overpopulated
Speaker 4: in a gene given geographic district, they'll stop reproducing because
Speaker 4: they have an instinctive reaction that okay, fewer babies now.
Speaker 2: And likewise, Craig the healthcare guru.
Speaker 4: Sent us a fascinating article a long time ago about
Speaker 4: how coyotes they're impossible to kill off because they have
Speaker 4: an incredibly sensitive trigger for that sort of thing, and
Speaker 4: if they sense a population decrease, they.
Speaker 2: Reproduce like crazy.
Speaker 6: That was the problem I had with bees, remember when
Speaker 6: I had to replace the roof of my house with
Speaker 6: the bees. If you kill a bunch of bees, they
Speaker 6: get the word repopulate and they just go into birthing
Speaker 6: mode like crazy.
Speaker 4: And I threw out one of my favorite alleged witticisms
Speaker 4: once about human beings. If you ever think were overpopulated,
Speaker 4: drive across Nevada someday, and I think it was a
Speaker 4: frequent correspondent, Paolo. It might have been said, Guys, the
Speaker 4: never ending stimulation of smartphones has replicated over population. It's
Speaker 4: like we're living in a grossly overpopulated dystopia where you
Speaker 4: can never get a moment's piece.
Speaker 6: It's funny I forgot that because I remember when I
Speaker 6: heard it the first time. I thought the same thing
Speaker 6: i'm thinking now. That explains the whole thing, yes, the
Speaker 6: whole thing.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 4: So typically men are more eager to participate in the
Speaker 4: government hookup programs than women. Shock, smaller counties have had
Speaker 4: to cancel their matchmaking events matchmaking events when not enough
Speaker 4: women applied. In South Korea, around forty two districts launched
Speaker 4: these things between twenty twenty two and twenty four, and
Speaker 4: among the four thousand singles who participated, just twenty four
Speaker 4: couples got married.
Speaker 2: According to a lawmaker, like.
Speaker 6: You're you're going to start trying to get pregnant soon, Katie,
Speaker 6: Why are you doing it? Why do you want to
Speaker 6: have a kid for the tax benefit? That's the only
Speaker 6: reason why all have kids.
Speaker 4: Uh, that is so hilariously ridiculous.
Speaker 2: I know, yeah, I know.
Speaker 4: But you flip it on its head and say, all right,
Speaker 4: how will we induce people to reproduce more?
Speaker 6: I think they think they and probably soon us. We're
Speaker 6: doing it in a different way because we have a
Speaker 6: border with countries where we can let people in.
Speaker 2: That's what we're going to try to do.
Speaker 4: But outside of that, you just got to figure out
Speaker 4: how are you going to structure society to manage the
Speaker 4: decline of the population over time and make it the
Speaker 4: most comfortable for those of us who are still around
Speaker 4: right now. That's the only thing you can do, or
Speaker 4: suck in millions of foreigners. If you want racism, talk
Speaker 4: to Asian folks. Well, yeah, I'm the notion that white
Speaker 4: people can be right is so stupid.
Speaker 2: If my dog espoused that, I would kick him.
Speaker 6: That's the that's the Daniel Tosh thing. Always about the
Speaker 6: Chinese Olympic team. You know, look at them, they're all Chinese.
Speaker 6: Yeahsing Chinese, Yeah, every single one.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 4: So anyway, Korea, like Japan, like China, they don't want
Speaker 4: foreigners immigrant. No, they'll deal with the downturn population and
Speaker 4: or cook up all sorts of ridiculous schemes to get
Speaker 4: their people to to get it on.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 6: I had a texting exchange with our friend Tim Sander
Speaker 6: for about this not long ago. Kind of he enjoyed
Speaker 6: me saying something along the lines of I don't care
Speaker 6: about people that haven't been born and won't be or
Speaker 6: something like that, because he he is childless and has
Speaker 6: no plans to have children. Do you need to be
Speaker 6: concerned about things continuing if nobody's gonna be here? I
Speaker 6: mean it's a real kind of hurts my brain psychological problem.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, is the answer. I do worry about that
Speaker 4: sum because the insatiable need for economic growth to finance
Speaker 4: retirees in this country means the low birth rate means
Speaker 4: rampant immigration. Well about both parties. But if you don't
Speaker 4: have kids, right, you don't need to care unless unless
Speaker 4: you just care about humanity and think the humans that
Speaker 4: will be on the planet will have a better life,
Speaker 4: I guess. But like I have kids, you have kids,
Speaker 4: and they're gonna have kids probably, so you know, I
Speaker 4: don't want.
Speaker 2: Them to live in a dystopian hell.
Speaker 4: Well, right, and I could see you thinking that there's
Speaker 4: a serious risk of Western civilization, classical liberalism, the rights
Speaker 4: of man, free.
Speaker 2: Speech, et cetera.
Speaker 4: Will go away if people steeped in that culture go away,
Speaker 4: and that's terrible for you humanity. On the other hand,
Speaker 4: there are definitely moments I think, well, good luck, y'all right,
Speaker 4: that's interesting. South Korea is the number one test case, right, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I want to tell you about shin dong Wu. Can
Speaker 4: I tell you about shin dong Wu.
Speaker 2: Is that a person? It is a region that's a person. Yes,
Speaker 2: his story is instructive, and that's coming up next.
Speaker 4: That's coming up next, Jack Shin Dong woo, and you
Speaker 4: can take wow, stay with us?
Speaker 2: And does that come with a fortune cookie? That's oh,
Speaker 2: I will not come in all right, Uh, that's only
Speaker 2: way you stay here.
Speaker 10: The food delivery service door Dash has announced it's partnering
Speaker 10: with the finance firm Klarna to offer buy now, pay
Speaker 10: later plans for meals. Previously, the only way to pay
Speaker 10: later was by ordering chipotlet.
Speaker 2: Why now pay later?
Speaker 6: Every time I order food and door Dash would, which
Speaker 6: is pretty often, they offer the payment plan. Ye're setting
Speaker 6: yourself up for disaster if you're doing a payment plan
Speaker 6: on your Panda Express meal.
Speaker 4: The single stupidest idea I've ever heard. Remember when like
Speaker 4: h car equity loans, Yeah, was kind of coming in. Yes,
Speaker 4: this makes that look like, you know, buy and hold
Speaker 4: the SMP index fund putting into your four to one
Speaker 4: k right. Oh wow, that is the ultimate and short
Speaker 4: term thinking. So how much time do we have, Michael?
Speaker 2: Is that about a minute?
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, So this this guy shouldn't do Wong
Speaker 4: he's a South Korean. We've been talking about their desperate
Speaker 4: attempts to have more kids in that country. So he's
Speaker 4: a pretty successful young attorney now, so he's ready because
Speaker 4: in that country, you've got to have stable employment in
Speaker 4: a career to even think about marrying somebody. He hesitated
Speaker 4: in signing it for one of these programs, but he
Speaker 4: filled out the paperwork to prove his identity, residence, employment,
Speaker 4: blah blah blah. So in a large room lined with
Speaker 4: painted canvasses, each attendee had to lock eyes with every
Speaker 4: one of the opposite sex for ten seconds, moving from
Speaker 4: person to person to test for chemistry.
Speaker 2: Interesting.
Speaker 4: Then came five minute chats with fifteen people and dinner
Speaker 4: over bingo before having to submit their top three choices.
Speaker 2: On nobody's choice.
Speaker 4: So he did that and Metagal and they got together,
Speaker 4: and two weeks later they lost touch and he's never
Speaker 4: seen her again.
Speaker 2: After going through all that.
Speaker 4: The lock and eyes is not a bad idea because
Speaker 4: there is something that goes on between humans that we
Speaker 4: don't understand, and it might be your locking smells. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so you think, yeah, something like that. Yeah, you see
Speaker 4: somebody who's your type, all of a sudden, it's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: there's something to that for sure.
Speaker 2: Jacky clocks. Time to stop.
Speaker 10: Jack and Joe Zika go if they don't give canenvilp bats.
Speaker 6: In my always picture that being sung by a cartoon
Speaker 6: bear and a straw hat.
Speaker 2: Here's your love host for final fox at Joe Getti.
Speaker 4: Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the
Speaker 4: crew to wrap up the show. There is Michael Angelo
Speaker 4: pressing the buttons in the control room.
Speaker 2: Michael, what's your final THO. I've been smiling all morning.
Speaker 4: I'm watching Kid Rock in the Ovo office with Trump,
Speaker 4: and it's just I can't believe it's actually happening. It's
Speaker 4: just it's so strange. H these are odd times. Yeah,
Speaker 4: no doubt, Katie Green are esteemed newswoman. As a final thought, Katie, Well,
Speaker 4: you can.
Speaker 2: See Kid Rock in the Oval office.
Speaker 5: You can see the guy talking about putting a swastika
Speaker 5: on the tesla all at Katie's corner at armstronge Getty
Speaker 5: dot com.
Speaker 2: Okay, Jack, a final thought for us?
Speaker 6: I wonder at what time at point car insurance companies
Speaker 6: say hey, We're not gonna cover your cyber trucks anymore,
Speaker 6: because I mean, we can't just.
Speaker 4: Keep you know, fixing the keyings or the slash tires
Speaker 4: or whatever.
Speaker 6: If you're gonna buy something like that and be provocative,
Speaker 6: won't that happen?
Speaker 4: You'd think you they'll have some sort of carve out. Yeah.
Speaker 4: My final thought related, If you paint a swastika on
Speaker 4: your own car, you're a Nazi. Yes, pain a swastik
Speaker 4: on somebody else's car, you're a brave protester or something.
Speaker 4: It's just so, so so stupid if I have if
Speaker 4: I have a flag with a Nazi symbol on it,
Speaker 4: a bad person, yes, run out of the neighbor. But
Speaker 4: if I plant a Nazi flag in your yard, yes.
Speaker 2: H Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 4: I'm wearing this clan robe is a protest against Klansman.
Speaker 2: No, that doesn't. It doesn't work that way. So many people,
Speaker 2: thanks so a little time.
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Speaker 2: That's fine.
Speaker 6: We're about to record the One More Thing podcast. If
Speaker 6: you haven't been checking that out on a daily basis.
Speaker 6: We'll see you tomorrow. God bless America.
Speaker 2: I'd be very nervous about I'm strong and getty. So
Speaker 2: what's different with you? Well, I would say this has
Speaker 2: a large two strip nude. Get the hell out of here.
Speaker 4: I think, unfortunately, that's probably too good to be true.
Speaker 4: It's illegal, it's it's it's criminal, in fact, in virtually
Speaker 4: all states, including Wisconsin.
Speaker 2: Oh, don't you think that's a little odd. It's one
Speaker 2: hundred on the crazy meter. Absolutely, I'm my lawyer, very
Speaker 2: much armstrong and getty.