WEBVTT - Bratz Dolls Look Like Whores 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.880 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty Armstrong and 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:26.400 Getty and he Armstrong and Getty. I'm at home, not 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:27.680 at the studio because I'm sick. 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:29.480 And I just went and said to Henry, I said, 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:32.199 we're gonna go to Thunderbolts tonight, the movie. And he 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:35.240 said we would be like people on Wheatie's Box, which 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:37.239 is one of the funny lines from one of the trailers. 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:39.480 But Hansen, how did you go out of your way 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:41.840 to pick a trailer that didn't have a joke in it, 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:43.760 since that's the whole thing is it's a comedy. 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:47.120 Oh and he's not shot gunning snakes. He's yelling at 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:49.680 the staff over perfectly understandable. 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:54.960 We will be like people on Wheatie's Box. I wanted 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:56.320 this thing you said you're gonna do later. 0:00:56.320 --> 0:01:02.280 I'm fascinated by this. Yes, the question of cheap Chinese 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:07.880 crap is not great, and we've given away our manufacturing jobs, 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:09.760 et cetera, et cetera. What the President has been talking 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:13.720 about versus the fact that we have an incredibly high 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:16.800 standard of living because of a lot of those things, 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:20.959 and I will illustrate through statistics, not arguing one side 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:25.480 or the other. But if we were to sacrifice a 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:28.720 significant chunk of that standard of living to create a 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:32.319 few manufacturing jobs, is that a good idea? 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:34.679 And again, my favorite stat is there are one hundred 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:38.000 and forty thousand plus manufacturing jobs available right now that 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:41.920 they can't fill. There is a bit of a that's 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:46.080 like pretending like that's the magic job that everybody's really 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:50.320 wanting if only they could get it, which may be way, 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:52.560 way untrue. 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:55.840 And I think some of this nostalgia is a little 0:01:55.880 --> 0:02:00.400 twisted as well. You could have a good, well paying 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:03.200 job right out of high school and realize the American dream, 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:08.120 which was a nine and fifty square foot house and 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:12.679 one car maybe one car, and your vacation was down 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:14.800 at the lake that was a two hour drive. You 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:19.920 never flew anywhere, right, So I just I would like 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:24.760 to deal with reality and not slogans and hazy uh 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:27.079 you know, versions of yesterday. 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:28.400 Right? 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:32.360 Excuse me, let me do I cough button? Yes please? 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:36.320 Oh boy, bring the cough butt into the theater with 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:37.840 you tonight. Yeah. 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:39.320 I might be in the lobby, but I saw a 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:42.480 stat the other day that I thought was interesting. 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:44.760 So, I I hate the. 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:50.800 Point of view that some pundits have around this that, oh, 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:56.360 we're going to bring back sewing up sneakers, like Americans 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:57.840 are too good to do those kind of jobs. 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:02.480 I hate that point of view. Yeah, but if there are. 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:06.040 Manufacturing jobs available out there that Americans aren't doing now, 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:09.880 the idea that bringing more is going to fix that 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:13.800 seems weird. And then you've got the adjusted for inflation 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:17.120 service what do you call it? 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:19.639 Service? Extra jobs are. 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:22.880 Paying more than manufacturing jobs, So it's not like manufacturing 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:27.119 jobs are some ticket to wealth compared to what we've 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:27.600 got now. 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:32.120 Yeah, yeah, true. And we didn't even touch on the 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:37.320 idea of we also need radical welfare reform to beat 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:40.200 the bushes and get all of those hundreds of millions 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:43.480 of workers who are sitting on their asses out to 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:45.960 a job. Is it because. 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:51.040 Politicians have kind of led us to believe that when 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:54.720 you talk manufacturing jobs, it's all going to be like 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:58.120 you're a worker at General Motors in the fifties. 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:04.520 Yeah, there's at patina around it, that kind of halo 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:06.240 around it when people talk about it. 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:10.880 Where the United Auto Workers was able to get you 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:16.719 unbelievable salaries and benefits, and you retire early and et cetera, 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:18.400 et cetera, as opposed to you're going to be so 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:25.279 Nike's somewhere for very little money, which is more reality. 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:29.480 I think you're right, Yeah, more more drone jobs, if 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:31.400 you will. And I don't you know, I don't use 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:35.840 that in a pejorative way. I've had those jobs, but yeah, 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:38.400 you're You're pretty replaceable, and the work is not what 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:41.919 you would call mentally stimulating nor terribly satisfying, but it 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:44.760 puts food on the table. But again, man, we would 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:48.080 have to have a whole of society reordering of certain things, 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:50.320 which I would love to see, but it's it's fairly unlikely. 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:53.600 More on that topic to come later on the hour. 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:55.760 But first, it's the Friday tradition. Let's take a fond 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:58.240 look back at the week that was. It's cow clips 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:01.720 of the Week, America on st Land or water. I 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:02.520 need a lot of water. 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:04.480 Take that your stupid hosers. 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:07.039 Whips of the week? 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.200 Yutda die yutta die. 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:14.520 Dougie's here too. 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.440 I could code talk to white guys watching football fixing 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:20.000 their trucks. 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:25.400 Thank you, right here, man. Yeah, let's doesn't. But you're 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:26.560 gonna have to wait a little bit longer. 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:30.800 That Robert De Niro's twenty nine year old child, Aaron, 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:33.040 has come out as transgender. 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:35.120 When the press asked. 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:38.200 Her for comments, she said, you're talking to they them. 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:42.919 How did you guys meet? Not talking about this? No, 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:46.320 President Trump's call to the founder and executive chair of 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:47.560 Amazon peeved. 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:51.880 Maybe the children will have two dollars instead of thirty dollars. 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:55.599 You know, they have ships that are loaded up with stuff, 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:59.360 much of which said, but much of which we don't need. 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:04.320 Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan faces multiple charges for 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.000 allegedly obstructing ICE. 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:11.400 Agents while a state prosecutor and victims of domestic violence 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:13.520 are sitting in the courtroom. 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:16.080 It is a sad reflection on the state of our 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:21.400 media that you obsessively try to shill for this MS 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:22.279 thirteen terrorists. 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:24.039 Let's move on. 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:27.679 Wait a minute, Terry, he did not have to letter 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.760 MS one. It is MS one three and that was 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:34.039 a photoshop. Hey, they're giving you the big break of 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:36.200 a lifetime. You know you're doing the interview. I picked 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:39.080 you because, frankly, I never heard of you. But that's okay. 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:42.799 This is really stunning news that Mike Waltz, the National 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:44.920 Security Advisor, pushed. 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:49.280 Out but now in for the United Nations ambassador. 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:51.960 I think you can make a good argument that its promotion. 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:55.920 He likes Mike. President Trump, I know, really likes Mike. 0:06:56.880 --> 0:07:01.400 I read President Trump's move. They aren't the adjetle. 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:06.240 Pwton thinks that America has taken the bullet train to 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:07.080 jump down. 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:15.040 We are over the shock of the American betrayal, but 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:20.600 we should never forget the lessons. 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:24.600 Learn it well, behaved as their goodie two shoes brother Canada, 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:28.239 who by the way, has never hit a girlfriend. 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:28.800 Just say. 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:35.400 I love when Trump says to interviewers he's attacking the 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:36.000 free press. 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:37.920 I love when he says, that's a stupid. 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:42.720 Question, because they often are stupid questions. 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:47.120 Sure, yeah, yeah. By the way, I've never heard of 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:51.000 you before. There are some conventions that I think are 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:56.360 better left intact. But yeah, don't dignify a stupid question 0:07:56.440 --> 0:08:03.880 with a response. Yeah, I love that. So a couple 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:06.360 of notes from the world to campus. These days, from 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:11.400 college campuses, Princeton has not really been in the spotlight 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:14.800 of the campus madness and the controversies and the woke crap. 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:18.520 Should be amount of money from various places like Dubai. 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:23.160 Oh yeah yeah. But Chris Ruffo, who's doing fabulous work 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:26.720 in campus reform, has turned his gaze in that direction 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:30.000 and he has just come out with a report on 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:33.640 how the school tried to discourage hiring white men and 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:38.480 how Princeton faculty were hilariously open about it. Quote, you 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:40.880 can't shortlist this person. We can't hire a white guy, 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:45.000 just like that. No weird phrases like of minority experience 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:49.440 or preference to underrepresented racial groups. Just flat out we 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:54.200 can't hire a white guy, a man. 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:56.280 You got to twist yourself into knots to have that 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:57.119 makes sense. 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:01.440 Quoting Nelly Bowles, quoting Chris Rufo. Anotherrofessor told Rufo that 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:05.160 administrators tore down portraits of former faculty chairs because they 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.720 were white. Quote it's just a bunch of white faces. 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:10.199 So they removed all the photographs and no one objected. 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:14.600 That's that is just something. Where do you. 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:19.199 Think that will lead that out and out obvious, perfectly 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:20.640 comfortable with it, racism. 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.320 Where do you think that will lead? No, we will 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:25.280 do racism and we will do it in the right 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:27.240 way for the right reasons, but the rest of you 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:30.959 must refrain from it. Yah. Well, these people seriously, they 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:34.640 have no connection with reality. And meanwhile, at Harvard Law School, 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:40.280 the most prestigious law journal in law schools may DEI 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:44.640 the first priority. That's a quote of its article selection 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:50.440 process for editors. That's number one over Comperence in sight 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:56.240 significance to American society. DEI is the first prioritary. How 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:59.600 well written it was. Over four years worth of documents 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:03.079 show that submissions were routinely rejected because of their author's race. 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:06.280 The negative feedback on one submission reads quote. Lastly, this 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:09.319 author is not from an underrepresentative background. He is from 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:13.240 a non T fourteen school, but his resume includes many 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:16.400 articles in top tier journals. Blah blah blah. Wow, you 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:20.200 can't publish him because he's white. That is unbelievable. 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:23.400 How can you possibly, Like I said, you've got to 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:29.240 twist yourself in the knots to make this worldview make sense. 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:32.920 I feel like that. I guess you're just so. 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:36.679 Into the whole oppress or appressed thing you feel like 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:39.200 you're gonna balance it out somehow, but not go too far. 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:42.800 You'll never go too far to where it'll be, Hey, 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:47.880 what are you talking about? Racism? It's an academic theory 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:56.199 that's fueled by a religious energy, a religious devotion, and 0:10:56.240 --> 0:11:01.880 so you just you become a zealot. And if anything 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:05.719 around here, we're underestimating how screwed up our colleges in 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:09.760 the university and the awful effect that they've they've had already. 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:12.439 Apparently those are two amazing stories. 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:15.920 So you're not gonna try to put out the best 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:19.360 articles about law you can come up with at your 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:20.520 prestigious university. 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:22.199 You're more. 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:27.280 Into the idea of who wrote it based on skin color. 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:32.040 That's insane. Again, it is quote the first priority of 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:38.079 article selection. Yeah, I'm picturing a house or a building 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:43.080 that's got to mold in the walls in a lot 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:44.840 of it because it's been let go for a very 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:48.680 long time. And I think our colleges and universities are 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:54.280 I mean, they're near the point where you can't clean 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:57.840 it all out. It would take far too long. It's 0:11:57.880 --> 0:11:59.719 just that we're much better off tearing it down in 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:02.840 store ard. And again the problem being what does that 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:08.360 even mean? I just the infection is so awful. I 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:11.840 guess all we can do is our best, but it's 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.480 really disappointing that we the greatest country on earth let 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.440 this go as far down the road to crazy Villa 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:19.400 as we did. But here we are got to do 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:20.000 something about it. 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:23.359 So we've got an update on that guy who plunged 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.760 to the field at the Pittsburgh Pirates game, and then 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:29.240 another person that plunged to their death. 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:31.839 Did you hear this story? And a bunch of other 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:37.880 stuff on the way Stay here the terrifying moment a 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:41.760 man fell from his seat at Pittsburgh's PNC Park, landing 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:42.400 on the field. 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:44.800 When you look at it like in slow mo, he 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:47.600 just looked like he was like like jolting up because 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:48.679 it was a huge play. 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.800 Pittsburgh Public Safety says the incident is being treated as 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:57.120 accidental and the man remains in the hospital in critical condition. Wow, 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:02.400 so wasn't on purpose, although and you feel like perhaps 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:03.200 it was on purpose. 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:05.559 Some people have looked at the video, Katie. 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:11.400 It looked intentional. I've got something that will back that 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:12.160 up in a second. 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:16.200 But let me go on the record as saying that 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:20.360 assertion is ridiculous and in fact free. It's it's based 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:25.199 on nothing but sort of irresponsible speculation, which I condemn. Well, 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:27.160 it might be fact free, but I don't think it's ridiculous. 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:29.439 It's not ridiculous if somebody who had kill themselves that way, 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:33.320 is it? Yes, you think it's ridiculous. I'm gonna hurl 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:37.679 myself twenty feet to an outfield. Yes, I am ridiculing 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:43.640 it right now, which is the definition of ridiculous. It 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:48.800 is being ridiculed in my verbiage. If it turns out 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:51.800 that you and Katie are correct, I will sit and 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:55.760 be ridiculed and deserve it. Hands Here, Hanson says, you've 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:57.839 never seen the Pirates play. They're bad. 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:03.280 So I've got this story which might fit in with it. 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.839 Here's an experienced, well known skydiver. It's in Great Britain, 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.760 but doesn't make any difference. A thirty two year old 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.840 hottie who had, like some had some attention in the 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:15.360 world of sky diving, probably partially because she was hot 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:18.719 in the way that world works, apparently killed herself the 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:22.200 other day. She had done eleven jumps over the weekend, 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.320 and then on the next jump she just didn't pull 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:28.600 the shoot and crashed straight into the ground. And they've 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:31.800 determined it was not being treated as suspicious in any way. 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:40.240 They think she just decided to end it all. That's astonishing, right, 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:44.880 So she did eleven jumps trying to decide whether to 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.760 do it or think about how it would feel, or. 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:50.600 Or this is what I really enjoy. I think I'll 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:53.320 do it a few more times. But I want to kill. 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:55.240 Myself doing something I love. 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:59.400 But anyway, so some people commit suicide and not the 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:02.320 most normal. So you think it's impossible that the guy 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:05.000 at the Pirates game dove onto the field. 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:07.720 That is putting words in my mouth do not bes 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:09.520 a bs or I see what you did there? No, 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:15.000 I said it was ridiculous, not impossible. How about this 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:17.240 caveat that? 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:20.360 As we all know, if you commit suicide, we know 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:24.720 from watching late night TV dramas, if you commit suicide, 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:28.000 your family doesn't, you know, necessarily get your insurance payoff. 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:30.239 You're at a baseball game and you fall. 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:32.560 Over the stands, and your family gets the money, and 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:35.200 you know you're a decent guy that everybody misses, not 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:38.560 a somebody who abandoned their family and killed themselves. 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:39.360 Right. 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:42.440 Yeah, generally it's just a couple of years after you 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:45.960 sign the policy. But no, I just find the idea 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:49.800 of hurling yourself twenty feet onto an outfield to be 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:54.080 such a ludicrous attempt. I just I don't believe it, Okay, 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:58.560 I mean, come on, he had like half a dozen 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:01.120 better choices on the way too, and well not from 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:03.760 the stadium. He's in the hospital. But how come there's 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:05.720 no reporting on how much he drank? 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:08.520 Because that's got to play a role, doesn't I have 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:12.120 never almost fallen over a railing or out of my 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:13.560 seat at a game. 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:20.800 Ever, not at a game. Certainly you've dealt with stumbling 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:22.920 drunks before, though, Well yeah, but I. 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:27.200 Mean completely sober. Have you ever almost fallen over a railing? 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:29.560 Just? Oh is this by completely sober? Has that been? 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:30.560 I'm gonna trying to. 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:32.720 Figure out how come nobody's talked about how much he 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:34.240 was drinking, because I think there's got to be a 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:35.080 part of the story. 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:37.720 Well a hundred percent, yeah, I agree with that. 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:38.960 I mean the idea. 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:40.880 I mean, if you're at a baseball stadium, you decided 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.000 to offer yourself go up to the top deck and 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:46.040 throw yourself into the parking lot if that's physically possible 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:48.560 or something like that. You don't go down to twenty 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:51.560 feet above the outfield which is grass and dirt and 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:55.880 hurled yourself onto the dirt. Just not buying it. 0:16:55.960 --> 0:17:00.800 No, okay, okay, well that's skydiver. She none not been investigating, 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:02.320 so oh yeah, she clearly killed herself. 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:07.040 So yeah, well, sometimes the authorities aren't forthcoming. So what 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:11.040 about the cheap Chinese crap versus hey, we have abundance 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:14.359 a great standard of living argument. We'll present both sides 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:19.119 next to Crown, Armstrong and Getty. One of the speaks 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:22.399 to President of China. Well we all have it. 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:24.920 We look right now, and I told you before they're 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:29.400 having tremendous difficulty because their factories that are not doing business. 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:33.920 They made a trillion dollars when good by a trillion 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:39.800 dollars even a trillion one good Biden selling us much 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:41.639 of a leader. I mean, you know, somebody said, oh, 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:44.040 the shelves are they're going to be open. Well, maybe 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:46.760 the children will have two dollars instead of thirty dollars, 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:49.399 you know, and maybe the two dolls will cost a 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:50.760 couple of bucks more than they would do. 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:54.199 Really but hmm, yeah, And the question is was he 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:57.400 talking about on the shelves or under the tree, because 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:00.119 if you're saying your kids get too many presents already, 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:01.480 that's not cool. 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:05.000 Yeah, he did make a resference reference to the shelves there, 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:08.760 but it's not clear. Rich Lowry, the National Review, who 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:11.920 will quote in a minute a little more, said dun 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:14.400 Trump must be the first president in history to say 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:20.440 that his policies will deprive American children of toys the president. 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:24.240 Let the President elaborate for just another second. 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:28.359 They have ships that are loaded up with stuff, much 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:30.320 of which not all of it, but much of which 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:33.960 we don't need, and we have to make a fair deal. 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:37.320 We've been ripped off by every country in the world, 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:40.480 but China, I would say, is to leading the leading one, 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:47.080 the leading candidate for the chief ripper offer. There has 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:50.919 never been There has never been a country that's been 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:53.480 ripped off more than the United States of America. 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:57.879 The key to this negotiation, and many negotiations, but the 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:00.560 key to the whole thing might be Trump has got 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:04.520 to convince she and everybody else is coming along for 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:07.000 the ride, that he's willing to take this thing clear 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.359 to the end, no matter what I mean. That's really 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:12.640 the only way it will work is if she's convinced, well, 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:15.919 this freaking lunatic. No matter what happens, no matter what 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:18.879 happens to his polls, no matter what the stock market does, 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:21.320 no matter what his party says, He's going. 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:26.919 To continue this. Yeah. So, on the topic of thirty 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:30.679 dollars instead of two in whatever context, Trump Mianute Rich 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:36.600 of the National Review, who I like personally, and also 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:38.760 he's a terrific writer, and he has a very armstrong 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:40.920 and gettyish approach to Trump. When Trump's right, he says 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:43.600 Trump's completely right, and when he thinks Trump's wrong, he 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:47.159 says Trump is wrong. And his article is tongue in 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:51.160 cheek entitled we need cheap stuff and lots of it, 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:55.920 But his article is actually really really interesting. He starts 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:59.440 it with the potential empty store shelves, that the president 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:01.960 played much of it. We don't need the child to 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:06.399 have two dollars instead of thirty, et cetera. At that moment, 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:08.560 Trump surely made history. He must be the first president 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:11.480 in the history. He says, policies will deprive American children 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:15.040 of toys, the American Girl, Disney Princess Cinderella doll Maybe 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:18.520 collateral damage in a trade war to reduce our strategic 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:21.640 dependence on China. But then he gets down to the 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:24.560 more serious and interesting stuff. I thought what Trump was 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:27.640 ultimately dismissing is abundance, which is one of the marvels 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:31.720 of our system. Fewer choices at a greater cost, whether 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:34.960 of dolls or other goods, simply means a lower standard 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:38.800 of living. And yeah, there are counter arguments to this. 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:45.480 In fact, we got a great email from Ryan who said, 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:48.000 you know, Trump is right. My wife and I have 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:51.879 four kids, and our kids do get way too many toys. 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:54.320 So much of our house is flooded with crapp equality 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:57.040 toys from China. But my parents and my wife's crap, 0:20:57.200 --> 0:21:00.800 it's crap, it's crap, and my wife's parents buy for them. 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:04.600 I'd love for there to be some significance to getting something. 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:08.240 Too much expectation and entitlement for something new immediately being 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:11.679 done with too quickly. He goes into some detail, But 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:13.320 my wife and I often wish it were easier to 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:16.280 find quality, more expensive products that would last longer and 0:21:16.400 --> 0:21:18.480 be more satisfying for a longer time, et cetera. 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:20.439 Yeah, as I've been saying for years, I wish they 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:24.159 would substitute or add into when you're talking about people 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:28.879 accepting fewer choices at higher prices, if it means higher quality, 0:21:29.480 --> 0:21:32.280 I'm fine with that. If there are gonna be fewer 0:21:32.480 --> 0:21:35.959 choices on the shelf at a higher price because it's 0:21:36.000 --> 0:21:37.840 higher quality, I think that'd be. 0:21:37.720 --> 0:21:41.159 Better for everybody in every way. But are you going 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:45.960 to engineer the free economy so that's the only choice. No, 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:47.879 I mean that's your preference, and good for you. 0:21:48.240 --> 0:21:52.080 But we had that when more things were manufactured here. 0:21:52.240 --> 0:21:55.440 I'm not exactly sure why, because we didn't have any 0:21:55.480 --> 0:21:59.760 other choice, But why was the quality high? Why were 0:21:59.760 --> 0:22:01.560 we when we were manufacturing stuff? 0:22:01.560 --> 0:22:04.359 Why were we not just cranking out the cheapest crap 0:22:04.400 --> 0:22:05.360 you could crank out? 0:22:06.560 --> 0:22:09.600 America commihu make a toaster that. 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:12.680 The handle, the little plastic, flimsy handle is gonna break 0:22:12.680 --> 0:22:14.480 off in two months, but it's really cheap. 0:22:14.480 --> 0:22:16.680 Why didn't we do that before? No, you're making an 0:22:16.680 --> 0:22:20.840 excellent point. The culture has changed absolutely toward more consumerist, 0:22:20.920 --> 0:22:25.640 immediate gratification, feel the endorphin rush of getting something new 0:22:25.720 --> 0:22:30.440 than chuck it two weeks later. Society. It's absolutely true. 0:22:31.160 --> 0:22:32.600 And Ryan goes on to say it may be more 0:22:32.640 --> 0:22:35.080 of an American consumerist mindset problem and less of a 0:22:35.160 --> 0:22:39.399 China chamming jamming, cheap crap down our throat problem. Right then, 0:22:39.440 --> 0:22:40.919 he says, I could go on and on about this, 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:42.639 but I won't because you're not my wife and you 0:22:42.680 --> 0:22:46.520 don't have to listen to anyway. I love the note, Ryan, 0:22:46.600 --> 0:22:49.320 thanks to so much for writing it. But getting back 0:22:49.359 --> 0:22:52.080