WEBVTT - What The Frig Is Wrong With You, Dude?? 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.720 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:17.800 and Jetty and now he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:27.680 So you, Penn has stripped Leah Thomas of his titles 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:31.880 in women's swimming and apologized to the ladies he defeated. 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:37.760 Thomas hasn't complained further, proving he's not a woman. 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:48.280 I didn't see that joke coming. So Penn State took 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:49.800 the menpen. 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:52.000 University of Pennsylvanca. 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:53.360 That's how I thought it was. It's just Penn State 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:56.480 on our clip, so I got confused. But iron bastards. 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:59.080 Uh sorry, that was harsh. 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:01.120 You folks. That he's my friends and look at it. 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:07.119 I can't. I'm so sorry, Michael Vanston, I'm kids. 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:09.280 These are my friends. And I turned on the like 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:11.880 some sort of crazed in a wolverine. It hurt. 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:16.200 But the But the same university who allowed this for 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:21.280 several years in the face of criticism, has now taken 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:26.200 and and and brow beat and threatened any of the 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:30.280 women who spoke out against it. Yes, well, I guess 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:36.480 I should be happy that it ended up where it should. 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:37.039 Have should be. 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:42.000 But how cowardly are you? I mean, do you have 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:46.040 any principles at all? So when the wind was blowing 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:50.320 your direction, you let this nonsense occur, and then when 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:53.360 the wind shifted, you go one hundred. 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:57.200 And eighty full degrees. Yeah, wow, that's weak. 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:01.960 Well, they were under serious Title line threat from the 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:05.800 Trump administration, which is good. It's absolutely one hundred percent 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:10.519 ironclad correct. If you let dudes into women's sports, whoop 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.800 up on them, you're not protecting women's rights. Oh and 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:16.799 letting the dudes into their private spaces too. It's an 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:18.360 outrage against Title nine. 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:20.720 A couple of things. 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:22.880 I'm going through my notes from being on vacation for 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:24.560 a week, and just a lot of different things I 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:26.760 took notes on. I didn't follow the news that closely 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:30.320 in New York, though, I kept coming across a little 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:37.000 stuff about Mamdani, who had been the socialist Jew hating 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:40.760 most likely to be mayor of New York. Guy, I 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:45.080 remember that story. The op ed stuff, the oppo research 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:48.120 stuff is starting to come out. Remember I mentioned this 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:50.959 before we went on vacation, that Mark Alpern was shocked 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:53.880 that the mainstream media did not do a better job 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:56.400 of getting into the apple research of this guy, and 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:59.000 now some of it's starting to come out, things that 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:02.840 they'd tweeted and said and videos he participated in this 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:04.680 sort of stuff. But one of the things over the 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:10.080 weekend was he had checked. He was accurate. He wasn't lying, 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:13.160 but it's he knew what he was doing. He had 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:16.440 checked the box African American when he applied for college 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:22.280 his Ivy League application. He's from Uganda. But you know, 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:26.120 the whole getting a leg up for being African American 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:30.359 was not for white Ugandans was not the regional point. 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:33.520 So there's a fair amount of blowback I guess in 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:37.840 the African American community that he tried to get various 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.280 breaks for being African American. 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:45.320 You see, So what is his deal? Was his dad? 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:49.000 His dad was a white Ugandan and his mom was 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:52.880 what from he was born in Syria. 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:55.960 I can't even something like that. Yeah he comes from 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:56.680 you know, like. 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:01.920 Humanities professors and artist parents that sort of thing. 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:03.480 Yeah, yeah, But. 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:06.560 Anyway, so I don't know if there's gonna be enough, Damagy, 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:09.800 you gotta have another candidate to beat him. So that 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:13.320 seems like the main problem. Although does Eric Adams end 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:15.000 up being the guy, and they. 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:19.240 There are fever pitch meetings going on as we speak 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:22.320 trying to figure out who is the one candidate, Probably 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:26.600 not old Gropie, probably not the half wit incumbent. 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:29.000 They got to find somebody else, not my circus, not 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:31.640 my monkeys. So I'm not that concerned about it. I 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:36.719 don't live in New York, but I think most people 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:38.640 on the right think having this guy around as a 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:40.560 punching bag would be awesome. 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:45.120 For questions further my goal of enacting progressive policies so 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:48.479 people see what miserable failures they are. You got Daniel Lurie, 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:53.239 the mayor of San Francisco, who's is saying great stuff 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:56.440 and doing great things. And you know, as he said, 0:04:56.600 --> 0:05:01.719 I'm paraphrasing, but enough of the fees and the wannabe 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.440 do gooders that we didn't need to go with things 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:05.200 that work. 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:08.400 What an amazing philosophy that is. 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:10.360 Again, going through my notes from when I was gone, 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:13.240 I came across this quote which I really liked. The 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:16.800 big difference between me and Superman is Superman had supervision 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:18.440 and I need supervision. 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:20.279 That was funny. 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:24.039 At one of the airports, I think it was LaGuardia, 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:27.080 which man looked was at Newark, you know where they've 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:30.400 been having the troubles, and LaGuardia looked fantastic. I remember 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.360 when Trump was president and he was complaining about why 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:36.479 do our New York airports look so dingy and dirty? 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:38.400 And you go around the world and they're bright and 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:41.960 they're they're nice. Now it's like a really nice mall, 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:44.240 both of them if you haven't been there recently. So 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:46.880 I don't know how much taxpayer money from where went 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.680 into that, but that definitely got fixed. But one of 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:52.800 the airports had an AI barista and there was a 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:54.719 long line there. I didn't try it, but it must 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:57.640 have worked pretty well. It was just a little shack 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:00.799 thing with computer screens and you apparently typed in whatever 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:04.000 you wanted for all kinds of different complicated coffee drinks, 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:06.760 and it was made there for you by the computer. 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:09.400 I don't know how much AI was involved in it. 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:12.240 It's a good hooks just about to ask good hook 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:15.720 But that is definitely gonna be way way more common 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:18.960 as we go along. Of you get your coffee, you 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:21.960 get your bagel, you get your parking ticket. 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:25.599 Pass for parking or whatever. It is it's all. 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:29.279 Computerized, no human being involved, which is not good for 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:32.000 a lot of low level of employment. But as far 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:35.839 as AI chat GPT, I used it so much while 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:42.000 on vacation, I haven't Googled anything in weeks, and I've 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:46.800 read about how Google clicks are down and they're really 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:47.839 in a panic about that. 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.400 Because, oh, yeah, way down. Revenue is dying. 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:52.880 Well, how would it not be once you start using 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:55.960 chat GPT. Why would I ever google anything? 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:57.880 Ever? Again, it's just. 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:02.080 Whatever AI system you prefer. Yeah, I accidentally google something 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:03.440 out of habit on vacation. 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:05.160 I was like, what the hell am I doing? 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:10.080 Is? I sort through sponsored, sponsored, sponsored, totally irrelevant sponsored please. 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:12.840 Including the fact that chat GPT, as I've talked about, 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:17.200 keeps track of your conversations and like knows what you're doing, 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:24.720 so that makes things handy. So landed at Newark and 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.320 I asked chit GPT, what's the best way to get 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:31.000 to the Knickerbocker Hotel in Manhattan and it said, thinking 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:33.960 of this time of day with you landing now, Normally 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:35.960 I would say take a lift or an uber if 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:37.640 you're willing to pay, but I think this time of 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:40.960 day you're better off taking the ground transportation. So as 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.200 soon as you walk out of your gate, take a left. 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:46.440 But it just walked me through the whole process of 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:49.000 getting to the train or bus that took me to 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.000 the train that took me wherever I needed to go. 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:52.760 It was in a way that Google never could. 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:55.760 It was like having a really smart New Yorker explain 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:57.040 to me exactly what to do. 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:01.600 Yeah, that's amazing. Yeah, it's great. 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:04.280 I think, and later, I mean, it's it's so complex, 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:06.400 it's amazing. I think later I asked some sort of 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:09.880 question about something, and it said, since you've already walked by. 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:14.280 Penn Station, maybe go this route so you can see, 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:18.920 you know. I just it's amazing. Yeah, yeah, it's it's 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:21.760 scary too. In a way, it is very very very 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:22.080 much so. 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:25.000 But I I let me be the first to welcome 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:26.600 our new AI overlords. 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:27.960 Yeah. 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:29.560 I use it all the time now and I look 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:33.040 back at stuff I looked at before to refresh. 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:35.560 My memory, and it's it's it's terrific. Yeah. 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:38.080 Yeah, in the past, I would have Googled or tried 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:40.240 to figure it out. We're headed to the met what's 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:43.160 the best way subway station? Just to the left out 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:46.360 of your hotel door, take the one train and. 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:48.480 Then follow ups too. 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:52.480 Yeah, you know, is everybody a capable walker or do 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:54.960 you want a route that that helps people who are 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:55.640 older or whatever. 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:56.720 Yeah, it's just amazing. 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:00.760 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, And like you said, it's amazing 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:04.080 and cool and scary at the same time. I freaking 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:07.200 think New York is fantastic. It's hard for me to 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:10.280 not dislike New Yorkers and their pompous attitude. But the 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:13.280 reason they have that we're better than everybody else's attitude 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:15.200 is New York is better than everyone else. 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:18.240 It just is. It's just just it's the best. Everything. 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:20.720 Everything you'd ever want to do in the world is 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:23.520 right there within a couple of blocks. 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:24.880 It's just been fantastic. 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:26.559 I can see how if you lived there and got 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:28.840 to have that life, you would think that everybody else 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:31.000 is living a lesser life. I sure as heck would 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:32.960 want to raise kids there. I can't even imagine what 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:33.400 that's like. 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:36.840 Oh yeah, there's substantial downsides, but you know, if you know, 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:38.800 if if you want to get out and do things 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:42.600 like that, and you know, it's great, it's a great place, 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:43.240 no doubt. 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:45.720 I still hope to do one year of my life. 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:47.280 I'd like to live in New York for one year. 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:49.600 I still hope to do that at some point. Oh, really, 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:51.480 just to experience everything. 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:51.920 I would. 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:53.120 You know, it would have been better to do it 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:55.720 when I was like twenty three, probably, but I could 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:57.400 go to the museum every day, and it would take 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:00.199 you a lifetime to take a year longer to see 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:04.480 everything in the museums. I did have the museum experience 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.400 that I always have, where you've got about an hour 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:10.079 in you of being amazed by things, and then after 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:13.400 that there is nothing that could possibly amaze you in ouritanium. 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:14.520 After about an hour. 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:17.040 Well, and the other people at the museum start to 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:18.880 annoy the hell out of you too, or I will 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:20.520 speak for myself, the annoy the hell out of me, 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:23.840 especially you know, once you get past one pm, get 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:25.840 out the museum you're talking about. 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.480 Oh, we got there early and it was still crowded. 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:31.440 I went to the Whitney at nine o'clock at night 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:33.800 and it was practically empty, and it was absolutely fantastic. 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:37.120 I asked this question last time. I forget what the 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:39.520 museum is that the whole Whitney. 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:41.920 The Whitney is mostly American art, and I'm a big 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:44.280 Hopper fan, Edward Hopper fan, and that's where all your 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:47.360 Edward Hopper art is going to be. So that's what 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:50.560 I was there for. My point was I'd been to 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:52.920 a museums a while back and talked about this. What 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:56.040 percentage of people at a museum want to be there? 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:59.080 And I think we should work on getting out the 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:01.599 people who don't want to be there. I asked my 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:03.640 kids this when we were leaving. My son said maybe 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:06.120 fifty percent. I said, I think it's lower than that. 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:08.560 You take a couple. You look at the couple and 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:10.840 it looks like either the dude or the chicks into it, 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:13.120 and the other person is along to be nice. And 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:15.680 then any family, none of the kids want to be there. 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:17.960 So you got two parents and three kids, none of 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:20.040 them want to be there. So I think it's maybe 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:22.640 thirty percent of the people in the building want to 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:23.000 be there. 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:26.319 Why so, why do we. 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:29.920 Do your recommend like video games, c an arcade for 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:33.000 the kids, and I don't know, big screen TVs for 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:34.320 the fellows who don't want to be there. 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:36.360 Leave them in the hotel and let them watch TV 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:38.200 or something. And then go on your own I think 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:40.800 cells holding cells. 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:42.760 I don't know, I'm thinking out loud. I did see where? 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.680 Did I see some of those rooms that you can 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.640 like they're kiosks with beds in them. We've talked about 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:51.120 this before. I didn't use one. It seems so gross 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:53.360 to me. I don't know if they clean the shell out, 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:55.920 they clean the sheets, but it was like a little hut. 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:58.480 Yes, every time, every customer, and. 0:11:58.440 --> 0:11:59.839 You can pay money to go in there and take 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:03.120 a little snooze. I guess I love that idea so much. 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:05.880 I wish I could like have one carted around behind 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:08.360 me on some sort of trailer. Just wherever I go, 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:12.120 wherever I am, there's a nap module ready to be used. 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:14.400 It just a little sleepy time, just a little twenty 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:14.880 minute cat. 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:17.320 Now, if it's my own private nap module, sure, but 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:20.000 if it's a public nap module where people like we're 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:21.360 shooting up and having sex in. 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:23.920 There, I find it. You're got to go to a 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:24.880 better module. 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:28.040 I have trouble getting to sleep laying in other people's fluids. 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:28.760 I'm just funny that. 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:34.400 Oh so you're disgusting, Michael, that's disgusting. Yes, Well, because 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:37.960 that's not how it works. Nobody does that. Nobody could 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.839 make any money doing that. That's an absurd and disgusting 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:45.120 distortion reality. And you need to stop nobody's in anybody 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:46.280 else's fluids. 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:48.920 Good lord, man, I don't know. I saw some of 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:51.440 the people coming in and out. Is that I don't 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:57.000 want to lay in there or whatever? Oh God, I disavow, 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:01.000 I disavow. We have some actual news. We need to 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:03.560 catch up. How much is the big beautiful bill going 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.839 to add to our national deficit or debt? 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:09.920 I keep getting those numbers mixed up. And Elon Musk's 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:12.600 new political party, we'll talk about that. I'm excited about this. 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:13.160 Stay tuned. 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:20.800 But the thing that disappoints me is that if I 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:22.679 put out a model and I say, hey, here's what's 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:24.240 going to happen. We're gonna get three percent growth, and 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:26.280 then it turns out it's one and a half percent growth, 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:29.240 then as an academic economist, as a scientist, then it's 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:31.280 my duty to say, what did I get wrong? 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:34.000 What did my model miss? These people aren't doing. 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:36.120 That, And that's the thing that I find disappointing because 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:39.680 we put you know, pure reviewed academic stuff on the table, 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:41.480 said we're going to get that three percent growth, and 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:43.000 then we got it right last time, and we. 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:44.240 Believe we're going to get it right this time. 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.160 I thought that was interesting. That's Kevin has it. Which 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:48.800 of the people is he around Trump? 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:54.080 What is his deal? He's a what that economic advisor guru? 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.920 I whatever he is? He was on face the nation 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:59.760 and he was in this. 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.000 You know, I'm not just trying to do a boosterism 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:05.959 for the big beautiful bill because I think it, based 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:08.640 on the punditary of most of my favorite pundits, is 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:11.920 in it's total bad for the country. But I do 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.640 think it is in keeping with the way we've been 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:18.679 doing things in the United States now for several presidencies. 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:21.240 So I don't think it's like an outlying horror either. 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:24.280 It's just the way we do things now. Unfortunately, But 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:27.520 I guys making the point that the CBO has been 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:30.160 wrong many times on some big things in recent years, 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:32.800 and nobody ever points that out. He used the example 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:35.480 of what the CBO predicted the Trump tax cuts we're 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:38.520 going to do initially in twenty seventeen, and they were 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:41.680 wrong by half in terms of economic growth, and that 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:42.440 they could be again. 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:44.320 He goes on to talk more about that. 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:46.880 But if you think that one point eight percent growth 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:48.920 is what's going to happen over the next ten years, 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.280 then you should agree with the CBO number. But there's 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:53.160 another part of the CBO number that you need to 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:55.400 worry about, and that is that if we don't pass 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:58.040 the bill, that it's the biggest tax hike in history, 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:00.040 and with that big tax hike, that of course we 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.040 would have a recession. The CEA says that we'd have 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:04.480 about a four percent drop in GDP and lose nine 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:06.720 million jobs. If we got a four percent drop in 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:08.840 GDP and we lost nye billion jobs, what would happen 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:10.880 to the deficit? And so I don't think that the 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:13.520 CBO has a very strong record. I don't think these 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:15.280 places have a very strong record. And what they need 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:17.880 to do is get back to the basics of looking 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:21.400 at macroeconomic models. There's a really famous macro economist and 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:23.600 Harvard Dave, Jimstock. They should go back and read everything 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:25.640 Jim Stock has written for the last fifteen years and 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:27.640 fold those into their models and then maybe we could talk. 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:29.120 Yeah, so I wanted to play that stuff just so 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:34.960 you realize there are smart people that disagree with data 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.480 back it up on some of these CBO predictions that 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:42.200 the media is not telling you about it all. I remember, 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:45.920 at the dawn of Obamacare, our own Craig, the healthcare guru, 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:51.200 was saying the CBO estimates, everybody's estimates are wildly unrealistic. 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:53.560 They're just wrong. And he turned out to be one 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:54.640 hundred percent correct. 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:57.080 So yeah, and there are all sorts of not only 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:59.880 weird assumptions that they make, but the terminology they use 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:04.120 and the baselines that they use. Like, for instance, even 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:08.080 though this has been the policy for many years now, 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:11.840 the current tax rates, they consider it a tax cut 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:15.360 to keep them the same. Therefore, that's going to affect 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:19.480 the deficit by ex trillion dollars, Right, But that isn't 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:22.440 what you do with expenditures, just with taxes. It's just 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:26.960 it's madness. It makes it really difficult for even like 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:30.360 a person of goodwill and sure reasonable intellect to figure 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:31.560 out what the hell is going on. 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.840 Yeah, so you've got that what you just described, and 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:41.120 then both parties obviously really shade their predictions or explanations 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:42.440 in a direction that benefits them. 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:46.080 So yeah, it's really really tough to know. Yeah. 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:48.680 For what it's worth, Kevin hasse it is the director 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:53.600 of the National Economic Council. Good for him, important role, Jack, Yeah, 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:55.320 one he and his parents should be proud of. 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:55.560 Yeah. 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:59.200 For instance, he said that the CBO got Obamacare way wrong, 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:01.600 as you were just alluding to, and he actually had 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:04.400 the numbers in front of him how wrong they were. 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:07.760 Well, how with the Republicans and Democrats. Elon Musk has 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:10.639 started a new political party? Or has he? 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:15.720 It's not Claire. We'll talk about that next. Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:19.960 WNBA has a problem. 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:23.520 I don't think any sports league has ever had where 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:29.840 the players and the fans have such a disagreement about 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:33.359 what is good for their existence. Anyway, we'll talk more 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:35.439 about that next segment. I think it's interesting, even if 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:36.880 you know nothing about that of the NBA. 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:41.199 I saw the headline over the weekend that Elon Musk 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:45.320 is going to create a new political party, the America Party. 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:49.680 The current President of the United States. Good close friend. Wait, 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:53.320 I'm being told by the control room no longer a 0:17:53.359 --> 0:18:00.120 friend with Elon Musk is commented on it to mister president. 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:02.840 Starting a third party. I think it's ridiculous. To start 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:03.560 a third party. 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:08.320 We have a tremendous success with the Republican Party. 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:10.160 The Democrats have lost their way. 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:13.119 But it's always been a two party system, and I 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:15.840 think starting a third party just hands to confusion. 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:17.760 It really seems to have been. 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:20.919 Developed for two parties. Third parties have never worked, So 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:23.680 he can have fun with it, but I think it's ridiculous. 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:28.280 I'm not sure it's ridiculous, for the same reason that 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:31.120 I've never poo pooed third party candidates. The Wall Street 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:33.960 Journal points out that they never win, but they can 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:35.520 siphon voters away. 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:37.520 I've always said. 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:40.439 They can make it clear to the existing parties that 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:43.120 they're not doing the job, and if they don't come 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:46.240 over here closer to where we are, they're gonna lose. 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:48.800 Yeah, and that's happened a number of times in our 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:50.399 lifetime of just doing talk radio. 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:51.920 Elon put it to a poll. 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:54.600 It was after the Big Beautiful Bill passed over the weekend, 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:56.720 and he was so discouraged, as he had been saying 0:18:57.440 --> 0:18:58.320 for a while that. 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.239 What did he call it? Remember that? What was that 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:04.200 phrase he used for the Big Beautiful books? 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:06.000 I loved it, but I can never remember it, And 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:12.480 a big, unambiguous pilot crap or whatever it was. C Yeah, 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:14.280 because we are going to spend ourselves into ruin, and 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:16.520 that's absolutely clear, and this was a step that direction. 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:19.239 And why did you even attempt to have doge if 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:20.640 you're going to do this, I mean, it all makes 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:22.639 sense from elon standpoint. So he put it to a 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:25.560 poll on his Twitter, not surprisingly because if you follow 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:28.360 Elon you probably like him more than two to one. 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:31.040 People agreed we need a third party. So he said, Okay, 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:32.879 the American Party. You asked for it, we got it. 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:38.679 The question is how much of his political weight, and 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:41.240