WEBVTT - I Believe Science 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:15.000 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:19.720 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:26.200 Jetty and Gee arms Wrong Get. 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:38.000 It live from the studio Sea signor Teep within the 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:40.800 bowels of the Armstrong and Giddy Information Complex. 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:46.199 This is the Armstrong in Getty Show Live, Tuesday, October 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:48.400 twenty second, the Year of Our Lord twenty twenty four. 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:52.199 This morning, laboring under the tutelage of Honorary General Manager, 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:55.120 the Poles is in. I don't want to hear another 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:58.280 stinking word about the polls. I can wait till the 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:08.039 two weeks from Tuesday. Whatever it is enough analysis. I 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:12.280 believe mister Armstrong is approaching the studio rapidly. I saw 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:15.080 the the text, Michael, could you interpret that for me? 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:18.679 Is on as well? Yeah, he should be on his way. Great, Well, 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:21.399 I hate to get a head of steam going have 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:26.279 him walk in interrupt with this gibberish as often happens. Katie, 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:27.760 I'm not wrong, but am I wrong? 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:31.160 No'm not gonna argue with you on that one. 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:38.679 Yeah oh there, right, yeah, yeah, anyway, yeah, okay, oh 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:42.920 hey there's Jack play the door. My hey, it is Hey, 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:47.280 look it's Jack. What's the giggling about. You're walking around 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:49.320 you break giggling and everybody looks at you. I've had 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:53.280 that happen before. You're talking about the World Series coming up? 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:56.920 Love that Yankees? Uh, what you do? I'm going to 0:01:56.960 --> 0:01:59.320 get the Dodgers had today. That's my goal is go 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:01.960 to the mall and get a today. Wow. Well that 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:05.080 heavily on the Yankees, folks. That's right, that's right. I 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:08.360 do have that effect. Superhuman, your your Greek godlike ability 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:13.200 to alter the outcome of events. You are the god 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:18.880 of screwing things. What would it be your superpower as what? Well, 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:24.760 you're the cooler. It's an odd gift. Yeah, Jack's a cooler. 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:25.800 Yeah. 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:29.680 I have rooted for many very hot teams throughout the 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:33.440 many years we've been on the air that then lost. Yeah, 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:35.280 like I bought a forty nine Ers hat when they 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:37.359 were undefeated last year and then they lost like four 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:38.920 games in a row until I burnt my hat in 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:42.440 the grill, and then they started winning again the super Bowl. Yeah, 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:45.480 that's cause and effect, folks. Yeah, yeah, it's exactly. It's science. 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:51.120 Believe the science. I believe science. That phrase, Oh that 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:54.720 makes my skin get up. No kidding, no kidding. We 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:57.600 are two weeks today from the presidential election. That's pretty exciting, 0:02:57.800 --> 0:02:59.480 and it looks like the closing arguments are going to 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:00.000 be stupid. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:01.160 We can talk about that later. 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:04.080 Our general manager, for what it's worth, was the polls 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:06.080 is then I don't want to hear another stinking word 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:06.560 about them. 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:11.280 Well, yeah, all of them. Okay, if anybody's going to 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:12.400 bring them up, it just should be. 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:14.320 They're tied and doesn't look like they're going to be 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:16.840 anything butt tied on election day, So there you go. 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:21.280 I do have what I think will be some interesting 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:25.720 information about polling that I think most people don't understand. 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:28.880 If you would like to be more knowledgeable, stay with us. 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:32.560 The closing arguments, among other things, seem to be the 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:35.200 last twenty four hour news cycle was minimum wage, which 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:37.840 makes me insane. I like it being front and center 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:40.920 is an issue because it's a good basic economics issue, 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:44.440 but the fact that the sitting vice president and decent 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:48.200 chance of being president's going around making that moronic, freaking 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:52.360 you couldn't be more pandering argument that people can't live 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:57.360 on fifteen thousand dollars a year that's that's starvation wages. 0:03:58.480 --> 0:03:59.960 Minimum wage needs to be racent. 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:04.640 It's just it makes me so crazy, But that works 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:06.720 for a big chunk of America, which of course is 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:08.040 you know, is the problem. 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:10.120 You got leaders going around, tell them then, the minimum 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:11.360 wage is designed. 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:13.960 To live on, right, it will support a family of 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:19.440 four on obviously, anybody who does anything whatsoever. You go 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:22.360 down to the mirror fogging plant and you just haugh 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:23.760 on a mirror and fog it. 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:26.840 The mirror ought to be able to that ought to. 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:28.880 Be able to feed a family of four because you 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:33.320 have shown up and done something literally anything that should 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:37.920 be a family supporting wage. Says, well, it's not. It's 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:40.680 the flip side of that argument that really convinced me 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:44.080 when I was much younger, of the whole minimum wage thing, 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:49.599 not the because while that makes sense, it sounds like 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:52.240 you know, there there there are skills that aren't worth 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:56.400 blah blah blah. The reverse of it is what's always 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:58.520 made the best argument to me. You've got to be 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:02.200 able to have jobs that don't require much, but you 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:05.120 need a human to do that that you can have 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:09.560 as a I don't know, a restaurant, a bookstore, a 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:10.400 radio station. 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:12.880 A whatever you are, you need to have. 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:15.680 Some positions are really low skilled, but you need a 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:18.840 human being, and you can't be forced by the government 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:20.960 to pay them a living. 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:23.039 Wage to do that stupid job. 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:25.160 You give it to a college kid or a high 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:27.040 school kid, or an old person or somebody who wants 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:30.680 a second job or whatever. But yeah, you have to 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:34.320 be a You can't have the government outlaw entry level jobs. 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:36.520 That are side of the argument's always made the best 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:38.719 sense to me. Yeah, I would agree. We need to 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:42.039 recapture the concept of the entry level or starter job 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:44.080 and refer to these jobs in that way. It's not 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:48.960 an insult. It's a wonderful thing. It's a springboard. It's 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:53.279 you'd not be littling little league by calling it little 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:56.559 league and implying it somehow hurtful to say those twelve 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:59.960 year olds couldn't play in the majors. They can't. They're chill, 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:05.039 they don't have the skills. Starter jobs are a wonderful thing. 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:08.720 They're a stepping stone. What do you, stowe, I almost 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:12.080 used a disparaging term. That would have been unfortunate. What 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:14.640 do you Poor people who haven't fully thought this through 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:16.719 need to hear to understand. 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:20.440 So you got, uh, I don't know. 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:23.599 You need somebody to answer your phones at your business, 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:25.039 and you got the kind of business where it's like 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:26.800 the phone rings four times a day, so it's not 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:28.960 much to the job. You need somebody to answer your 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:32.039 phones in case somebody calls. So you can either hire 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:34.640 somebody for minimum wage that's willing to do that and 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:37.200 they could study in their free time or do whatever, 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:41.040 or the government mandates that that has to be a 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:43.560 living wage, and you can't have somebody answer your phones 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:45.600 because it just doesn't make sense to pay somebody that 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.159 much to answer the phones. You really don't need a 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:52.960 PhD in economics to understand this stuff. But it just oh, 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:55.800 all right, this is our job. This is our job 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.000 to help people understand. And I'm not talking about you 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:01.839 and me and just the world conserve. This is our task. 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.080 It's our challenge. The reason I bring it up is, uh. 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:06.520 Trump was asked about it in the French fry window 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:08.839 the other day and he did kind of a dodge 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:11.160 answer because he didn't want to commit to raising the 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:13.800 minimum wage because he understands the economics of it as 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:16.280 a businessman. Kamala Harris was asked about it and said, 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:18.280 as you see, Donald Trump does not care about the 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:20.520 working place, the working person in this country. 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:23.280 Minimum wage is starvation wages. Blah blah blah blah blah. 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:25.720 It was the lead story on a couple of the 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:27.080 national newscasts last night. 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:29.520 ABC Evening News led with the minimum wage story. 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:35.680 Yeah, and if you're buying it, put down your delicious paste, 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:39.240 wipe off the drool, and go vote for Kamala Harris. Well, 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:43.239 well you shouldn't, actually, because your minimum wage job will 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.320 go away. It's not like you're gonna make more money. 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:49.280 And we've tried it in California recently and the mask 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:53.040 in the biggest group of cases. The job is gonna 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:54.840 go away, or they'll replace it, the replace it with 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:57.520 the machine, or they'll consolidate hours or something. 0:07:57.680 --> 0:07:59.600 But it isn't going to help you in general. 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:03.040 Gavin Newsom just put tens of thousands of fast food 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:05.560 workers out of work in the state of California by 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:10.720 artificially pushing the minimum way tire. That is the simple truth. Yeah, 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:13.360 I wish that argument wasn't you know, didn't take three 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:16.720 sentences to make as they say, if you're explaining you're losing, 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.480 which is a pretty stupid system. So you're not allowed 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:23.040 to have anything so complicated that it requires explanation to 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:26.640 become elected. I'm going to say this, well, I'm going 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:30.760 to say it privately. Okay, this is just between us friends. 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:38.080 The greatest thinkers of the Enlightenment, which included our founding fathers, 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:43.160 understood that if you entrusted people who couldn't understand these 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:47.280 simple concepts to vote, that would kind of ruin everything. 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:51.559 So you can say landed white males if you want. 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:53.960 Race got nothing to do with it. Sex has nothing 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:55.640 to do with it as far as I'm concerned. But 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:58.679 if you don't get what we've been talking about, you 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:04.640 shouldn't vote. You're too dumb. Now back to the usual 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:07.560 tone of voice. Okay, let's start the show Officially. I'm 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:09.800 Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this it is How 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:12.560 did it already get to be? Tuesday, October twenty second, 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:15.160 the year twenty twenty four. We are Armstrong and getting 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:19.360 We approve of this program intelligent me that was not elitist, 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:23.760 because that would imply that, like the first the top 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:28.400 twenty percent of intellects or wealth or whatever are the 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.440 only people who matter. And that's not my point at all. 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:36.400 I'm an anti moronest. I just want that bottom twenty 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:40.520 percent to be eliminated from the electorate. I don't think 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:44.400 that makes me an elitist. All right, let's begin the 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:46.880 show officially then, according to FCC rules and rags leaping 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:47.400 into action. 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:51.080 At mark, it was announced that more than four hundred 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:53.679 and seven elevens in the US will be closing by 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:56.439 the end of the year. These seven elevens are closing 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:59.920 due to declining sales as consumers pull back due to 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:04.440 inflationary pressure. Coincidentally, inflationary pressure is also what you feel 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.720 after eating a tube of seven eleven hot roller meats. 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:16.679 Roller meats, that's a good term, roller meats pressure. Yeah, 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:19.680 we got a new seven eleven in my orbit that 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:25.000 is really nice, like brand new one, interesting, hundreds, really clean, 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:27.480 like just like it's the best convenience store around. It's 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:30.160 my main stop now if I'm going to stop at 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:33.640 a comedience store. So m I wonder if congratulations, I 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:37.280 wonder if they've changed their model. But a lot of 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:40.800 seven elevens, I've been saying for years. If you're seeing 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:43.319 seven eleven, you're in a bad area because that has 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:44.480 been true for a long time. 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.439 So I don't know, maybe they're changing their model AnyWho. 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:51.480 It's actually mildly interesting why they're closing hundreds of seven elevens. 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:55.000 It's uh, they say, inflationary pressures, which seems kind of 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:58.920 silly to me. Also, declining cigarette sales have really hurt 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:02.920 seventy wow wow yeah, yeah, because they made so much 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:06.040 other profits on SIG's. And also they don't talk about this, 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:10.480 but theft, absolutely theft. Another corporate giant makes a huge 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:14.520 adjustment to the way they conduct retail and is not 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:18.600 willing to say it's because everybody steals. Now, if you're 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:22.160 in line at a mid grade convenience store, nine out 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:25.000 of ten customers are getting cigarettes, an energy drink, and 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:27.320 a lottery ticket. Nine out of ten. Could I stand 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.480 in line with them all the time buying other things? 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:35.520 How does mailbag look very nice? Looking forward to it? Fantastic? 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:37.400 That's on the way. Our text line is four one, five, 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:45.680 two nine five KFDZ. The most interesting and terrifying thing 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:48.000 going on in the world is the Bricks conference that 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:50.480 is going on starting today in Russia. I wants to 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:53.480 talk about that a little bit later. Russia not quite 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:57.040 as isolated over Ukraine as you would like, or maybe 0:11:57.080 --> 0:12:01.520 you're led to believe right solutely true. And speaking of 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:05.240 foreign policy and foreign relations, the leak of the Israeli 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:09.440 attack plan is just an outrage. It's almost certainly from 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:13.959 the State Department, the US State Department. Oh Man, there 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:15.880 needs to be a hanging on a south lawn, but 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:20.360 it probably won't be anyway. Why I would assume not, well, 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:23.360 we call soft now would that would lead the news? 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:26.840 All right? Then they hungered the National Security Advisor today 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:27.720 on the south lawn. 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:29.439 It's horrified. Children watched on. 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:33.720 I'm not I'm not naming any names. A third grade 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:38.360 field trip had to avert their eyes. The tour group said, well, 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.920 I didn't expect this. Quote unquote, here's your freedom loving 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:46.199 quote of the day from Thomas Jefferson. This is a classic. 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.320 This reminds me the whole minimum wage thing. I wish 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:53.800 more people are aware of this dynamic. I would rather 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:58.000 be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:02.959 those attending too small a degree of it. People think 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:07.920 of safety and the government stepping in to straighten things 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:12.079 out as entirely a positive most people do, which is disturbing. 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:15.679 But again, as I said before, for whatever reason, I'm 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:19.880 feeling kind of plucky and optimistic today, which is odd. 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:24.960 I'm thinking, Okay, what's wrong with that? I know, I know, 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:27.960 I was so exhausted yesterday and just worn out and 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:31.360 sleep deprived, and I just feel great today. But anyway, 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:34.839 now my attitude today is all right, that's that's the job. Then, 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.920 that's my life's work is to help people understand that, 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:40.000 even if it's just a few people a little bit, 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:42.800 you know, as life's work goes, that's it's pretty good. 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:45.360 So on with the battle. Don't worry. I'll give up 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:50.240 within a half hour, folks, mail bag. The old me 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:53.200 that people have come to love will be back shortly, 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:57.760 so it's okay, please bear with us. Is the old 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:03.080 Joe is returning any more than optimistic? Let's see. I've 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:06.160 had to arrange mailback differently because of a technical issue. 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.560 But here we go, guys. I'm an undecided voter. I 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:11.040 don't like either candidate for my president, so I'm voting 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:13.760 for vice president. I'm choosing the one i'd prefer to 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:15.680 be in charge if at some point the next president's 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:18.520 unable to serve seems reasonable to me in better Nini 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:21.160 meaning miney moo loyal listener for I don't know how 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:23.800 many years. Thanks Dianne. Nice to hear from you. I 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:25.880 do want to talk about this we almost did yesterday. 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:28.640 Just the idea of what your vote means to you. 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:33.640 Different people have different thoughts on that. Definitely a lot 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:36.360 of you seem to cherish your vote a lot more 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:39.520 or it reflects your personality a lot more than I 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:45.000 feel mine does. Yeah, let's see on the topic of 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:49.120 men in women's volleyball, Emily as former cal Unicornian who 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:53.080 recently escaped to beautiful Red, Idaho. That's her words. Since 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:54.880 you've spent a lot of time discussing the dude playing 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:58.320 on the San Jose State University and women's volleyball team lately, 0:14:58.360 --> 0:14:59.960 I was wondering if you'd heard about the women's high 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:03.880 school volleyball player in North Carolina, Peyton McNabb. I have. Indeed, 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.880 in twenty two she was playing a conference game. There 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:08.680 was a dude playing on the other team. He spiked 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:11.520 the volleyball hit Peyton directly in the face seventy miles 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.560 per hour. She was immediately knocked unconscious, suffered a brain 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.680 bleed and concussion, and permanent whiplash in her neck. She 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:20.880 has since become an ambassador for Independent Women's Forum an 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:24.040 advocate for girls' sports, but will have lifelong injuries because 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.200 of this woke bull crap. And I wish I could 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.840 say the word and cowardice of those in charge who 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.640 would rather bow down to an ideology than protect young 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:35.920 girls and women. A men Emily Branch sister, And it's 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:40.760 amazing that that's not a everyone knows it household name 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:47.280 national story the way it might be if somebody outwardly misgendered, 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:50.560 someone like you refuse to call them by their new 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:55.240 trans name, that could blow up into a giant story. 0:15:55.360 --> 0:16:02.720 This Nah, nobody's interesting. It's amazing that women aren't driving this. Yes, absolutely, yeah, 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:04.760 it's shocking. And I could go into details why I 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:06.400 think that is, but we don't really have time right now. 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:09.600 But moving along temporarily and remind me of that topic. 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:12.840 I have more to say, Seawan writes, guys, new TikTok 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.400 trends is the topic. I've seen some dumb and problematic 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:18.200 TikTok challenges at the school I work at. How do 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:22.120 I start one. I'm thinking the prepared challenge, students taunting 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:25.280 me at the start of class with multiple sharpened pencils, 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:28.040 shaking their worksheets at me on the correct page before 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:30.480 I can even read the slide dunking on me with 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:34.320 homework completed early sean. 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:35.640 It's a beautiful fantasy. 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:40.160 That's pretty good. That is really funny. Total change of 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:44.880 topic from John the impending World War. Regardless of how 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:47.200 any of these countries aligned with each other, should we 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:49.640 not be drilling the absolute hell out of oil in 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.760 this country. We know we don't have the manufacturing capacity 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:54.760 we need, but we have no chance of ramping it 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:58.600 up without oil. Manufacturing capacity starts with energy, and I'm 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:02.760 not talking about a friggin win mill, well said Johnny Boy. 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:06.280 It's right, we'll build the tanks to take on Russia 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:11.119 and China with solar power. And didn't buy oil from Iran? 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:15.280 I guess I don't know. Wow, Iran's there in Russia too. 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:18.680 They're fitting in with the whole bricks conference. If you 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:22.800 hadn't heard about it, it's frightening Armstrong and Getty And. 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:25.159 The big question, of course, is are the Poles and 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:27.679 the and the poll inaccuracies. Are they going to mirror 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:30.600 what we saw in twenty twenty which would help Trump, 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:32.119 or are they going to mirror what we saw in 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:33.080 twenty twenty. 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:35.760 Two which would help Paris. We don't know, and these 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:38.920 numbers are unreliable. One hundred percent. Yeah, all the poles 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:40.560 are tied, as we said earlier, which is one of 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:41.720 the reasons we're not going to talk. 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:45.960 About poles much. But that is that is the question. 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:48.240 Really. If it is what it has been the last 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:53.080 two presidential cycles, Trump's gonna win because he overperforms the poles. 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:55.560 If it's like the twenty twenty two midterms where the 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:58.399 big giant red wave was coming according to the poles, 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:01.280 but never showed up, and Harris is probably going to win, 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:04.080 you have to wait. Coming up in a couple of minutes. 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:06.200 What most people don't understand about the polls and a 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:09.600 lot of misperceptions that people have about polling in general. 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:11.920 Who I think you may find at least mildly interesting. 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:15.680 Love that this should be more than mildly interesting. It's 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:18.359 the most important thing probably going on in the world today. 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:23.119 And I have read this quote twenty times since it 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:27.000 happened on March twenty second, twenty twenty three, after Jijing 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:32.159 Ping visited Vladimir Putin and Moscow and he was leading 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:34.959 the Kremlin and I don't know if he knew this 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:38.840 was caught on mike or not, but somebody was standing 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:41.560 there and recorded right before he got in the limo 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:45.760 Gee turns to Putin and says, there are changes happening, 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:48.240 the likes of which we haven't seen for one hundred years. 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:51.840 Let's drive those changes together, and Putin said, I agree. 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:56.480 I think that will go down as a major moment 0:18:56.480 --> 0:19:00.760 in world's history and one of the most chilling gnostications 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:07.680 of things to come ever. Ever, Yeah, I agree completely, 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:09.760 and I'm glad the two of them are as old 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:12.840 as they are. Yeah, hope Spring's eternal lit what comes 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:16.400 next might be better, But yeah, they're absolutely in tentan 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:19.040 on doing harm to the current world order. 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:19.520 And to that. 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:22.680 The Brick Summit is going on right now in Russia. 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:26.400 So somebody came up the Brick acronym several years back 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:29.720 to represent this is before we saw Russia as evil 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:34.120 as they are now. But at the time it was Brazil, Russia, India, 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:38.600 China as emerging economies in like the growing big power Block. 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:41.120 And at the time it wasn't frightening. Now it's frightening, 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:44.200 and they've added an s to it to include South Africa, 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:47.000 and now actually they call it bricks plus, kind of 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:50.320 like LGBTQ plus, where you add in a whole bunch 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:50.880 of countries. 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:53.400 And the fact that they're meeting in Russia. 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:57.600 So Vladimir Putin, who we were going to isolate on 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:00.840 the world stage and he would be all alone and 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:04.080 a pariah, as our president said over and over again, 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:06.520 not a pariah is so much as he has world 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:11.240 leaders meeting in his country that represents well over half 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:14.080 of the world's population and are all happy to get 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:17.480 together with Vladimir Putin. So she got Brazil, Russia, India, China, 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:21.360 and South Africa there along with well, just the fact 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:24.000 that you got Putin and sheet together in Russia is enough. 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:29.600 But along with Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the UAE, who 0:20:30.000 --> 0:20:33.919 in theory is a friend of ours, all getting together 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:39.080 and talking about how they structure the world to their benefit. 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:45.600 And obviously we Great Britain, France, these old Western democracies 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:48.439 are not part of this whole thing. No, No, the 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:52.200 utopian idea that there's anything other than power and self 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:56.520 interest that motivates nations is just kind of silly. If 0:20:56.680 --> 0:21:01.560 your power is completely assured and your self interests are 0:21:01.560 --> 0:21:05.160 being well served well often for pr purposes, you will 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:09.159 act as if international harmony and moral goodness and the 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:11.720 rest of it are your highest priority. And it's easy 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:14.720 to do because you got the main two covered. It's like, yeah, 0:21:14.760 --> 0:21:17.560 I've got oxygen and food, so yeah, I'm going to 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:22.000 carry on about having the right colored dish towels. But 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:26.840 then when that order, when that power, that structure of 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:29.840 power stability is shaken up, then you go back to 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:32.439 the old stuff. And we were just we had that 0:21:32.480 --> 0:21:35.040 power and stability and self interest served for so long 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:38.160 we fell for the delusions I think as a country 0:21:38.640 --> 0:21:42.000 well that I've just described right, and this idea that 0:21:42.040 --> 0:21:44.879 we can just force the rest of the world to 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:49.480 treat us as the king forever that we bought into somehow. 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:55.960 And remember when Russia went into Ukraine under Obama's watch, 0:21:56.000 --> 0:21:58.639 and Secretary of State Carrie said that was an eighteenth 0:21:58.640 --> 0:22:01.280 century move in a twenty first world. As if those 0:22:01.320 --> 0:22:04.359 words mattered to Vladimir Putin and all, as if ye 0:22:04.359 --> 0:22:06.800 have Putin cried himself to sleep that night. I've made 0:22:06.800 --> 0:22:11.560 a fool of myself and Biden talking about isolating Putin 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:14.240 him and him becoming a pria. And now he's hosting 0:22:14.280 --> 0:22:18.240 this giant conference that includes the second biggest economy in 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:22.760 the world and an Indian you know, over half the population, 0:22:22.800 --> 0:22:26.959 as I said, and Vladimir Zelinsky's really unhappy about this. 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:30.679 The freaking Secretary General of the UN is going to 0:22:30.720 --> 0:22:35.439 be there. Wow, So Russia invades its neighbor just because 0:22:35.480 --> 0:22:38.840 it wants to slaughtering people left around. This is the 0:22:39.280 --> 0:22:43.119