1 00:00:01,880 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Ketty Armstrong and Jetty 3 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:17,279 Speaker 1: and now he Armstrong and Yetty. 4 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 2: Are you prepared to defend this land? This land that 5 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 2: was built by slaves, a layan that was built by 6 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 2: indigenous people, a lan that's built by workers. 7 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 1: Are you prepared to defend this land? 8 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:45,599 Speaker 2: The people United will always prevail. I need you all 9 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 2: to stand firm, to stand strong. 10 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 3: That's the mayor of Chicago on news that Yeah, looks 11 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 3: like Trump is going to send National Guard troops to Chicago. 12 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 3: Now a federal judge has just ruled, like like in 13 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:05,040 Speaker 3: the last hour that Trump violated a law sending National 14 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:09,360 Speaker 3: Guard troops to Los Angeles. But we'll ignore that and 15 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:12,759 Speaker 3: focus on Chicago. So that's the mayor. Boy, that's if 16 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 3: there ends up being violence, that that clip ought to 17 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:16,200 Speaker 3: be replayed. 18 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 1: Are you prepared to defend your land? Land built by 19 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 1: slaves and indigenous people? 20 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 3: You know, I grew up in Chicago Land, and I 21 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:31,679 Speaker 3: don't think there was a great deal of slave labor 22 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:34,120 Speaker 3: that built Chicago. I'm pretty sure it was a bunch 23 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 3: of poor white people. Well not no offense to anybody. 24 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 3: What a moron, Brandon Johnson is well silly. So here's 25 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 3: one of the interesting things about going on vacation. It 26 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:46,679 Speaker 3: gives us a chance to take in the news the 27 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 3: way some of you do, or a lot of America does. 28 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 3: Where because I wasn't paying that close attention. So I 29 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 3: see a headline here and there, I hear a phrase 30 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 3: here and there, but I'm not doing a deep dive. 31 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 3: And all I heard over the weekend was fifty some 32 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 3: people shot in Chicago. Yeah, yeah, that was a pretty 33 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:09,079 Speaker 3: good Labor Day weekend. Actually it's down a some people 34 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 3: shot in Chicago. So I just think overall that, like 35 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:14,639 Speaker 3: the message coming out to people who are barely paying 36 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 3: attention is, jeez, did you hear fifty people were shot 37 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:19,760 Speaker 3: and seven people are dead in Chicago from one weekend? 38 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:23,400 Speaker 3: And did you hear Trump sending the National Guard? That's 39 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 3: all most people are ever gonna hear. How do you 40 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 3: think that's gonna poll? I think they're gonna poll pretty well, 41 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 3: absolutely think it will. It's absolutely horrific. 42 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 1: It was funny. 43 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 3: I was watching ABC or looking at ABC News's account 44 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 3: of this, and they, you know, they recounted the utterly 45 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 3: astounding numbers, and then took great pains to point out 46 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 3: that violence is actually down, and Trump is oline and 47 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:51,079 Speaker 3: it's terrible and he's a dictator, and it's like, how 48 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:53,800 Speaker 3: many dozens of people need to be gunned down in 49 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 3: the streets before you think this is an unpleasant way 50 00:02:56,800 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 3: to live. Well, you're looking at it from the rality 51 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 3: on the ground, which is one way to look at it. 52 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:03,520 Speaker 3: I'm looking at it just from the politics, just like 53 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:06,960 Speaker 3: the thirty thousand foot politics. How do you think that 54 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 3: is working for you? The whole DC is not dangerous, 55 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:14,680 Speaker 3: Chicago's not dangerous. LA's not dangerous screaming that to people? 56 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:17,680 Speaker 3: Do you think that that's what most people believe or 57 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:21,359 Speaker 3: are feeling? How are you so on the wrong side 58 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:24,240 Speaker 3: of this issue? So to that, I thought this was 59 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:26,640 Speaker 3: interesting on News Nation today where the host was asking, 60 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 3: I don't know some guests about how it's worked out 61 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 3: in the couple of weeks that there have been National 62 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 3: Guard troops on the ground in Washington, d C. 63 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:35,960 Speaker 1: Here's a little of that. 64 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 4: Is there any way that learns what we're seeing in DC? 65 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 4: But many leaders locals here, you know, we heard this 66 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 4: in the protests yesterday say that why not send federal 67 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 4: funding for things like youth outreach crime prevention programs instead. 68 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 4: Is there any way that both sides could meet in 69 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 4: the middle on something like this. 70 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 5: Absolutely, the community out each funds for the community. I mean, 71 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 5: those things help. The fact is that a lot of 72 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:08,360 Speaker 5: this violence is happening in poorer neighborhoods. But you know, 73 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 5: when you send the resources like I mean that. 74 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 1: One, I'm sorry, I don't think this is what I 75 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:13,640 Speaker 1: thought it was. 76 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 3: So this was they ask a guy on there about 77 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:20,039 Speaker 3: how things have gone in Washington, d C. In the 78 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 3: couple of weeks they've had National Guard troops there, and 79 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 3: he listed all the statistics on how break ins are 80 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 3: down one hundred and eighty percent, there wasn't a murder 81 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 3: for the first time. And I don't know how many 82 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 3: years in one week that the National Guard troops are 83 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 3: all the crime being down, down, down, And so the 84 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 3: various Democratic politicians can go around yelling about crime is 85 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:43,719 Speaker 3: down from last year. 86 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 1: We don't need the troops all you want, But I. 87 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:50,720 Speaker 3: Just don't think that's what is going to resonate with people, right. 88 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 1: I would agree completely. 89 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 3: It's one more example of where the messaging from the 90 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 3: professional or activist class is completely divorced from people's lives. 91 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 3: I mean, how many you know a fairly brave Democrat 92 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:04,640 Speaker 3: stood up and said, yeah, look the stats and all, 93 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:07,719 Speaker 3: I'm familiar with them, but it's unsafe and I'm scared 94 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 3: all the time, and I don't like living like that. 95 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:14,360 Speaker 1: Right, that's the way normal human beings look at it. Now. 96 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:17,760 Speaker 3: Is Trump allowed to send the National Guard? Could get 97 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:19,560 Speaker 3: a long term solution? 98 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:21,000 Speaker 1: You know, what are the league? 99 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 2: Gal? 100 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:24,360 Speaker 3: These are all fairly interesting questions, but the knee jerk 101 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 3: rejection of it is just well, it's Trump derangement syndrome, 102 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:33,400 Speaker 3: I think, plus just this delusional need to for Trump 103 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:36,120 Speaker 3: to be wrong about everything, and he's wrong about plenty, 104 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 3: but he's not wrong about this. 105 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 2: No. 106 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:40,840 Speaker 3: And then again politically at thirty thousand feet, I just 107 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:45,719 Speaker 3: I just think it's absolutely gonna be a net win 108 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 3: for law and order politically, over whether a federal judge 109 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:55,279 Speaker 3: says you violated these eighteen seventy five something or other 110 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:57,920 Speaker 3: act by sending National Guard troops, most people won't even 111 00:05:57,920 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 3: ever hear that headline. 112 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:04,159 Speaker 1: Uh, let alone care about it. If they do, people 113 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:05,920 Speaker 1: like law and order, well. 114 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, and The proof is what headlines have you seen 115 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 3: out of DC lately about you know, a rogue guardsmen 116 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:17,159 Speaker 3: running rough shot over the populace or brutality or them, 117 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:19,040 Speaker 3: but you know, eating in restaurants and not. 118 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 1: Paying or whatever. 119 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 3: Nothing, nothing, but yeah, there's there's no crime because you know, 120 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:25,920 Speaker 3: the bad guys look around and think, yeah, not here, 121 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:29,720 Speaker 3: not now. So an interesting angle to this, another thing 122 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 3: that happened while we were gone, and I don't I 123 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 3: don't like where our politics are right now, does anybody? 124 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:38,919 Speaker 3: This has been headed this way with many presidents in 125 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:42,359 Speaker 3: a row now. But for instance, Trump signed an executive 126 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 3: order about flag burning a week ago, which got headlines 127 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:50,600 Speaker 3: as you would expect outlaw. 128 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:52,000 Speaker 1: You know, you're they're gonna arrest. 129 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:55,480 Speaker 3: People for flag burning, Except for the actual executive order, 130 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:59,159 Speaker 3: I mean, if you read the details of it says specifically, 131 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 3: we will not violate First Amendment rights or any court 132 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 3: rulings around this. We'll only arrest you if you're committing 133 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 3: a different crime. So basically it says we aren't going 134 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:09,479 Speaker 3: to arrestu you for burning the flag. 135 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:11,559 Speaker 1: We can't and we won't. 136 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 3: But it got the overall veneer of we're going to 137 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 3: crack down on flag burning. People hate flag burning. The 138 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 3: pulling on that has been very consistent for very many years. 139 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:25,520 Speaker 3: People do not like flag burning. So Trump gets the 140 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 3: whole I'm against flag burning win while not actually violating 141 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 3: anybody's rights. There are going to be people, guaranteed Democrats, 142 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 3: burning flags to try to thumb in the eye. That 143 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 3: will be on TV at night. You'll see the evening 144 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 3: news of people burning flags. The evening newscast will think 145 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:47,200 Speaker 3: everybody's a progressive like them and are happy about it. 146 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 3: But that's not real. Most of America sees flag burning 147 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:53,280 Speaker 3: hippies and hates it. Eighty percent of America says flag 148 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 3: burnings ought to be met with nose flattenings, all right, 149 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:58,640 Speaker 3: but we put up with it because we cherish our freedom. Yeah, 150 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:03,160 Speaker 3: it's a complete mystery again of the professional ideologues on 151 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 3: left of where the American people really are. The problem 152 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 3: with where we're going though, of course, is all this 153 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 3: performative stuff like Trump pretending he's cracking down in flag 154 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 3: burning knowing he can't, is the same to me as 155 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 3: Joe Biden pretending he went around the Supreme Court to 156 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 3: wipe out student loans when he didn't, Right, But they 157 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 3: like our current presidents now like pretending they're sticking it 158 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:31,200 Speaker 3: to Congress or sticking it to. 159 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:33,600 Speaker 1: The law or whatever to stand up for you. 160 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:37,320 Speaker 3: And none of this performative stuff is well gonna take 161 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:40,560 Speaker 3: us in the right direction. It's all online heat it 162 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:43,599 Speaker 3: really any Do you have any interest in Joe Scarborough 163 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:46,959 Speaker 3: and Brandon Johnson? I just any opportunity to kick that 164 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:51,600 Speaker 3: jackass union horror. Sorry, this is a strong word, folks. 165 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:54,280 Speaker 3: I shouldn't have said horror. I should have said horror. 166 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 3: Brandon Johnson, He's a rotten human being to the core, 167 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 3: an awful mayor and a half wit to boat. Joe 168 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 3: Scarborough recent returney to sanity, it grilled him the other day. 169 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 6: We all want the dignity of people in Chicago protected. 170 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 6: Fifty four people shot this weekend in Chicago, seven killed, 171 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:18,960 Speaker 6: I mean, and. 172 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 1: Those numbers just keep piling up, Okay, and then next 173 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 1: one JB. Prinsker should do something radical. 174 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:32,080 Speaker 6: I think you should pick up the phone, call the 175 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 6: president and say you know, and I know, you don't 176 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:38,319 Speaker 6: have the constitutional authority to deploy the National Guard here 177 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:41,320 Speaker 6: and to police. You can do that in DC, you 178 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:45,640 Speaker 6: can't do that in Chicago. But let's partner up. These 179 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:49,320 Speaker 6: are the most dangerous parts of my state. We would 180 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:53,320 Speaker 6: love to figure out how to have a partnership that's constitutional, 181 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:58,800 Speaker 6: that respects the sort of balance of federalism between the 182 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:02,680 Speaker 6: federal government and the state government. And let's work together 183 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 6: to save lives because right now, just hey, nothing to 184 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:10,840 Speaker 6: see here, moving along, no problem here, Hey, Donald Trump, 185 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 6: we don't need you. And you know the mayor talking 186 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:17,040 Speaker 6: about we're going to protect people's dignity in our city. 187 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:19,839 Speaker 1: We'll protect their lives. That's protecting their dignity. 188 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 3: You're laying there bleeding out your belly. You're not so 189 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:25,199 Speaker 3: worried about your dignity. But that would be if our 190 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 3: government kind of worked, if we would act that way. 191 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 3: But we don't act that way at any level anymore. 192 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:35,199 Speaker 3: At any level, right you play to the most online 193 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 3: part of your constituency that's going to raise the most 194 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:42,000 Speaker 3: money or send out the most tweets. 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And I just at some point, 234 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:32,840 Speaker 3: I mean it's like, you know, have you ever vacation 235 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 3: in Mexico and you step off the plane, you walk 236 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:37,920 Speaker 3: through the term a little bit, and you got a 237 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:41,120 Speaker 3: dozen different guys trying to sell you, you know, time 238 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 3: shares and boat rides and god knows whatever else. 239 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:46,280 Speaker 1: You just have to start looking at the media, like 240 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 1: you look at those guys. 241 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 3: Oh, why honey, here is an honest broker with an 242 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:54,319 Speaker 3: excellent offer on a time share opportunity. No nobody thinks that. 243 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 3: They think, all right, here's some scumbags come to take 244 00:12:56,880 --> 00:12:59,880 Speaker 3: my money. And I think we need to realize that 245 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:01,880 Speaker 3: that's where our media is to a large extent. I 246 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:06,720 Speaker 3: just can't believe Trump can can be puppetmaster to big 247 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:10,959 Speaker 3: name democrats so easily and have their voices out over 248 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:14,120 Speaker 3: the next twenty four hours talking about don't send help 249 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:18,600 Speaker 3: to Chicago with underneath the headline fifty shot seven dead. 250 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 1: Last year was sixty one. It's improving. That is crazy. 251 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:25,160 Speaker 3: You have any thoughts on that text line four one 252 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:35,720 Speaker 3: five five KFTC. He went to Iowa over the weekend. 253 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:37,000 Speaker 3: I want to tell the story later because it went 254 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 3: to the one room schoolhouse from my dad went to 255 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 3: school in the middle of nowhere, Iowa, and took my 256 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 3: son there and it was really cool. So more on 257 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:46,560 Speaker 3: that later. Wow, how many genders were there when he 258 00:13:46,679 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 3: was in that school? Just the two I Meanwhile, I 259 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 3: was in Great Britain in England, London mostly thanks to everybody, Hey, 260 00:13:57,240 --> 00:13:59,400 Speaker 3: thanks to everybody who made all sorts of great suggestions 261 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:02,920 Speaker 3: for what we got to do. You know, we ended 262 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:07,480 Speaker 3: up not doing like museums all the time, partly because 263 00:14:07,559 --> 00:14:12,000 Speaker 3: and they've got some incredible museums obviously, like every great 264 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,440 Speaker 3: city in the western world does. But I thought you know, 265 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 3: I'd been a lifelong Anglophile, fascinating by the music, literature, politics, comedy, 266 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:24,760 Speaker 3: just all of it, and I'd never been and I 267 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:26,880 Speaker 3: just thought that's crazy. So this was like a week 268 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:30,800 Speaker 3: long date with London in England to get to know 269 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:31,320 Speaker 3: each other. 270 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:33,280 Speaker 1: And so I thought, art museum. 271 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:37,040 Speaker 3: There's art museums everywhere, now this has a particularly great collection, 272 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:39,320 Speaker 3: blah blah blah. But no, let's not spend an afternoon 273 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:42,400 Speaker 3: in art museum. Let's walk the streets and blah blah blah. 274 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:46,560 Speaker 3: So it was great fun. Day one hopped on the 275 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 3: famous red double decker buses and rode around all day, 276 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 3: partly because we were exhausted from travel and jet lagged 277 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 3: and the rest of it. It's five hours ahead of 278 00:14:56,480 --> 00:14:59,360 Speaker 3: the East coast, eight hours ahead of the West coast, 279 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 3: and so day one and two especially exhausted, yet overcaffeinated. 280 00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:08,800 Speaker 3: Just a delightful feeling that just makes you want to 281 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:11,160 Speaker 3: wrap your arms around the world and good on your stomach. 282 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 3: Oh god, yeah, good point. So I at one point 283 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 3: I thought I'm never leaving home again. And then you know, 284 00:15:19,160 --> 00:15:22,000 Speaker 3: by day three, we're just plugged in and just love it. 285 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:23,840 Speaker 1: I'm never leaving home again. 286 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I had that weird paranoid, exhausted, hunted 287 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:32,720 Speaker 3: beast feeling going, you know, get. 288 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:35,960 Speaker 1: Me all of them where wolves in London? Yeah exactly. 289 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:39,560 Speaker 3: But anyway, so we rode around on the big red 290 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:43,200 Speaker 3: bus for hours and hours and just to get the 291 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:46,640 Speaker 3: lay land. And here is my encapsulation of our quite 292 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:56,960 Speaker 3: a few hours on the bus. Kings and Queen's wars, churches, disease, pollution, crime, 293 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 3: more wars, floods and fires, another war, several more kings, 294 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:08,720 Speaker 3: and brothels, lots of brothels. 295 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:12,160 Speaker 1: That's pretty much your big city tour. 296 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:17,240 Speaker 3: There you go, war, death, disease and brothels and architecture too. 297 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 1: And then let's see another note of note. 298 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 3: The one museum we did spend a lot of time 299 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:26,960 Speaker 3: at was the British Museum, which is the actual name 300 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 3: of It. Wasn't exactly what I expected, but we had 301 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:33,320 Speaker 3: a guide, which was cool. It has the most incredible 302 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:40,200 Speaker 3: collection of antiquities, like prehistoric and like the dawn of 303 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:44,800 Speaker 3: history stuff. Literally the oldest writing ever found on earth. 304 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:47,760 Speaker 3: You can look at it with your beady eyes, the 305 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:52,200 Speaker 3: oldest book, the oldest scroll, the oldest everything from ancient 306 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 3: languages that either nobody can still translate or they just 307 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 3: learned to translate, you know a century ago with the 308 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:01,120 Speaker 3: Rosetta Stone and the actual Rosetta Stone right there. Yeah, Well, 309 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 3: it's one of the best museums in the world, partially 310 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:06,399 Speaker 3: because Britain was the most powerful country in the world 311 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 3: for a very very long time, back in the day 312 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:10,320 Speaker 3: where there are no rules around this sort of thing, 313 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:11,919 Speaker 3: and so they were able to grab up stuff from 314 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:15,840 Speaker 3: all around the world, right And the modern woke take 315 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:18,000 Speaker 3: on that is they grabbed up stuff from around the 316 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 3: world and took it and they ought to give it back. 317 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:25,359 Speaker 3: I There is some of that, absolutely, but there are many, 318 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:28,040 Speaker 3: many stories where some of the most incredible and important 319 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 3: of their discoveries nobody gave a crap right in that country, 320 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:34,879 Speaker 3: especially at the time it would have been destroyed or 321 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:38,240 Speaker 3: just lost. The British were like, this is really important. 322 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:42,959 Speaker 3: This needs to be preserved. We're going to painstakingly excavate it, 323 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:46,040 Speaker 3: take it back to Britain, study it, try to figure 324 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:49,000 Speaker 3: out its significance, connect it to other points in history. 325 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:51,800 Speaker 3: Because they were modern in a way that a lot 326 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:54,120 Speaker 3: of these countries weren't at all. They sold they Oh 327 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:56,880 Speaker 3: you want to you want our greatest antiquity. 328 00:17:56,920 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 1: I'm the king. 329 00:17:57,359 --> 00:17:59,720 Speaker 3: Give me a thousand bucks. They sold the stuff, they 330 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:02,200 Speaker 3: didn't give a crap. The Brits didn't steal a lot 331 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:06,240 Speaker 3: of it. They preserved it. Power Ball is at one 332 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:08,960 Speaker 3: point three billion dollars. Not much of a news story, 333 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:11,200 Speaker 3: but uh, that's a lot of money. Oh, we got 334 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:13,040 Speaker 3: other actual news stories on the way. If you missed 335 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:14,800 Speaker 3: a second, we get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on 336 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:17,760 Speaker 3: demand Armstrong and Getty. 337 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:22,400 Speaker 7: Desmond Watson, the four hundred and fifty pounds heaviest player 338 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:28,120 Speaker 7: in NFL history, has been cut by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. 339 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:30,280 Speaker 7: He will now go back to his old job as 340 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:32,040 Speaker 7: Stacy Abram's body double. 341 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:35,120 Speaker 1: Michael. 342 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:39,280 Speaker 3: Wow, Michael, that is out a line even bringing that 343 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:41,240 Speaker 3: joke to us, never mind airing it. 344 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:44,480 Speaker 1: That's full. It was a setup. That's why I chose it. 345 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:46,560 Speaker 1: Four hundred and fifty pound linemen. 346 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:49,919 Speaker 3: That's some biggest player ever in NFL history. But couldn't 347 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:53,200 Speaker 3: move fast enough. Maybe they couldn't afford to feed him, 348 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 3: that's it. Or they couldn't get him on the plane. 349 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:57,919 Speaker 3: Oh he couldn't go to away games? 350 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:03,880 Speaker 1: Wow? Wow, have to hire a flatbed. Right. 351 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:07,359 Speaker 3: Oh see, that's insensitive and I regret it. Michael, you 352 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:13,960 Speaker 3: started this, I'm sorry. So coming up a really interesting 353 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:17,680 Speaker 3: front page story in British newspapers while I was there 354 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:24,160 Speaker 3: about the left's desperation to give children the vote. We're 355 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:29,320 Speaker 3: talking sixteen and seventeen year olds, the absolute naked strategy there, 356 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:36,560 Speaker 3: and interestingly polls of British teenagers that might as well 357 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:39,960 Speaker 3: have been done in the US, including the unbelievable divide 358 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:43,160 Speaker 3: between boys and girls politically. 359 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:45,000 Speaker 1: So that coming up next hour. Stay with us. 360 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 3: Well, I'm just looking at the headline on CNN. President 361 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:50,639 Speaker 3: she of China to host Russia Iran in North Korea 362 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:54,920 Speaker 3: a military parade. This is like the thirties Germany stuff, 363 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,520 Speaker 3: not the usual Trump is Hitler thirty two. This is 364 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:01,879 Speaker 3: like the world's worst people getting together and talking about 365 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:06,840 Speaker 3: starting some s. Right, Russia Iran in North Korea in 366 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:09,919 Speaker 3: a military parade. Anyway, more on that later. We are 367 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:13,840 Speaker 3: the most pessimistic economically that we have ever been, according 368 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:17,639 Speaker 3: to those Wall Street Journal nork Pole that is out 369 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:19,720 Speaker 3: that found that the share of people who say they 370 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:22,560 Speaker 3: have a good chance of improving their standard of living, 371 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:25,640 Speaker 3: so that's a question, do you feel like you've got 372 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:28,560 Speaker 3: a good chance of improving your standard of living? It 373 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:33,440 Speaker 3: fell to twenty five percent. That's a record low dating 374 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 3: back to nineteen eighty seven. More than that is horrified. 375 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:40,680 Speaker 3: It is horrifying. More than three quarters said they lack 376 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:43,440 Speaker 3: confidence that life for the next generation will be better 377 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 3: than their. 378 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:46,520 Speaker 1: Own, The Pole found. Let me think about that question 379 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:49,120 Speaker 1: for a a while. Do I think. 380 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:52,679 Speaker 3: Do I think that life for my kids will be 381 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:55,639 Speaker 3: better than mine? I don't know that I do, but 382 00:20:55,960 --> 00:21:00,000 Speaker 3: I wouldn't put it all around economics. Here's a question, 383 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:03,439 Speaker 3: in a preliminary question before you ask that question, is 384 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:08,120 Speaker 3: the American assumption that every generation will be better off 385 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 3: than the previous, which began, you know in the twentieth 386 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:16,200 Speaker 3: century when America was, you know, just stood. 387 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:17,679 Speaker 1: Alone as an economic superpower. 388 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:23,199 Speaker 3: Is that expectation realistic in the twenty first century, I 389 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:24,119 Speaker 3: would argue it's not. 390 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:27,560 Speaker 1: No. I think it was a blip in time and odd. 391 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:31,679 Speaker 3: Yeah, how could you craft any system where you can 392 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:35,680 Speaker 3: always expect your kids to do better than you? Well, 393 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 3: we could bomb Europe back to the Stone Age and 394 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:40,919 Speaker 3: do the same day age, I guess, because that's what 395 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:41,480 Speaker 3: it took. 396 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:42,040 Speaker 1: The first time. 397 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 3: I should ask my plus head start because we're an optimistic, 398 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:49,679 Speaker 3: freedom loving, entrepreneurial people, or at least I thought so 399 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:53,280 Speaker 3: until this poll came out. Back to the poland just 400 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:55,879 Speaker 3: a second minute, and I'll tell this story about visiting 401 00:21:56,040 --> 00:22:00,880 Speaker 3: Iowa and my dad's side of the family with my son. 402 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:03,960 Speaker 3: But we're talking to my dad and we're at his 403 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:07,280 Speaker 3: older sister's house, who's ninety four. She's still alive and 404 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:08,760 Speaker 3: as with it as can be, and we all went 405 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:10,880 Speaker 3: out eat and everything like that. But they're talking about 406 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:13,080 Speaker 3: when they were kids and they grew up with no electricity, 407 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:16,840 Speaker 3: no running water, going to school in a horse drawn wagon. 408 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:19,240 Speaker 1: I mean, like it was eighteen ten. 409 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:22,720 Speaker 3: But I doubt they ever even thought about will my 410 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:25,840 Speaker 3: economic situation be better than my parents? It's just what 411 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:27,879 Speaker 3: are we going to eat today? How do I get warm? 412 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:30,840 Speaker 3: I think I don't know where we came up with 413 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:32,840 Speaker 3: this standard. 414 00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:34,000 Speaker 1: Well, right, and. 415 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:38,600 Speaker 3: As baselines go, I mean, it's pretty easy for the 416 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:44,320 Speaker 3: next generation to do better, really right anyway, So it's 417 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:46,760 Speaker 3: only twenty five percent of people who say they have 418 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:50,080 Speaker 3: a good chance of improving their standard of living and 419 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:53,160 Speaker 3: seventy five percent lack confidence that life for the next 420 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:56,119 Speaker 3: generation would be better than our own. Nearly seventy percent 421 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:58,719 Speaker 3: of people said they believe the American dream that if 422 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:00,879 Speaker 3: you work hard, you will get ahead no longer holds 423 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:03,480 Speaker 3: true or never did. I don't agree with that the 424 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:06,040 Speaker 3: highest level of nearly fifteen years of surveys. I do 425 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:07,879 Speaker 3: believe that if you work hard, you will get ahead. 426 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:11,919 Speaker 3: I think that's clearly true. And you're using and if 427 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:13,600 Speaker 3: you don't believe it's true, you're using it as an 428 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:14,800 Speaker 3: excuse to not try hard. 429 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:15,879 Speaker 1: That's what I believe. 430 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:19,680 Speaker 3: Will it necessarily get you as far ahead as soon 431 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:20,800 Speaker 3: as you'd hoped? 432 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,880 Speaker 1: Probably not. Well, are you rich and famous? 433 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:26,840 Speaker 3: No? And I know that's the standard for a lot 434 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:28,840 Speaker 3: of people. If you're not rich and famous, then it 435 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:29,440 Speaker 3: was a failure. 436 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:31,200 Speaker 1: Boy. 437 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:35,119 Speaker 3: Optimism has powered this country since the beginning, since before 438 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:39,360 Speaker 3: it was a country, and belief in self anyway, more 439 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,480 Speaker 3: of the numbers, well, so that bothers me way more 440 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:43,679 Speaker 3: than those other numbers, though that they made the headline 441 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:46,480 Speaker 3: in the Wall Street Journal, the fact that you can't 442 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:47,879 Speaker 3: think you can get ahead, or your kid's going to 443 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:50,840 Speaker 3: be better off or whatever. Okay, you can pick around that, 444 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:55,720 Speaker 3: but the idea that if you work hard you'll get ahead. 445 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:01,280 Speaker 3: Very few people believe that. That is the most troubling 446 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:02,520 Speaker 3: statistic to me of all. 447 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:10,280 Speaker 1: It's defeatism. Where does that come from? I don't know. 448 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:12,679 Speaker 1: I find this so troubling. 449 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:16,200 Speaker 3: What in your life experience are looking around you leads 450 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:20,400 Speaker 3: you to believe that? You know, I can picture people 451 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:24,280 Speaker 3: having done all the right things and then their industry 452 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:28,879 Speaker 3: changing very suddenly, being rattled by that and having a 453 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:31,480 Speaker 3: bad attitude about it. I did all the right things, 454 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,840 Speaker 3: and I still look at me, I'm screwed. That's a 455 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 3: discouraging thing. It absolutely is. But the fact that sometimes 456 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 3: it doesn't work out the way you had hoped doesn't mean. 457 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 1: That your premise wasn't accurate. 458 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:52,400 Speaker 3: In general, working hard, looking for opportunities, believing in yourself 459 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 3: is good. 460 00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:56,680 Speaker 1: It's not only good, it's necessary. 461 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,920 Speaker 3: Does it always pan out as quickly as a rich 462 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:01,000 Speaker 3: is blah blah blah? 463 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,920 Speaker 1: Or sometimes do you get screwed? Yeah? Certain percentage of 464 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:04,359 Speaker 1: the time. 465 00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:08,200 Speaker 3: Well maybe it's an expectations always been Well, that's yeah, 466 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:09,000 Speaker 3: that's what I'm driving it. 467 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:10,480 Speaker 1: You said it in far fewer words. 468 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:13,720 Speaker 3: It's all expectations then, because if you ever have the 469 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 3: idea that I've gotten into an industry and now I'm 470 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:22,240 Speaker 3: set for life. That was an unrealistic expectation. Now here's 471 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:26,880 Speaker 3: a stupid, stupid aspect of this poland that's that there's 472 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:29,080 Speaker 3: a long standing trend that the party holding the White 473 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:31,440 Speaker 3: House has a rosier view of the economy than. 474 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:32,399 Speaker 1: Whoever's out of power. 475 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:36,679 Speaker 3: Fifty five percent of Republicans had a negative view of 476 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:40,800 Speaker 3: the prospects for themselves and their children over half of Republicans, 477 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:47,080 Speaker 3: it was ninety percent of Democrats ninety percent. Because what 478 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,080 Speaker 3: kind of message do you think they're giving to those 479 00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:50,240 Speaker 3: aforementioned children? 480 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:52,760 Speaker 1: Right? Good lord boy? 481 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,160 Speaker 3: And that's what's that saying that I've never quite understood 482 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,200 Speaker 3: whether you think you can or think you can't. You're right, yes, 483 00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:04,360 Speaker 3: uh but yeah, if you're telling your kids every day 484 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:06,880 Speaker 3: or telling yourself every day, you can't get ahead, You 485 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:07,399 Speaker 3: just can't. 486 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,160 Speaker 1: Well let me guess how that's going to turn out. 487 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:14,119 Speaker 3: Yeah, working hard and looking for opportunities and trying to 488 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:15,040 Speaker 3: change the world. 489 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:16,600 Speaker 1: That won't do me any good anyway. So I'm not 490 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:19,280 Speaker 1: gonna Wow, what a depressing poll that is. 491 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:22,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, one of the guys behind it, this Stanford 492 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:25,840 Speaker 3: economics professor who is one of the good guys at Stanford. 493 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:28,440 Speaker 3: I'm going to shame Stanford with all of my might 494 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:31,000 Speaker 3: as soon as I can. They are just woke and 495 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:34,680 Speaker 3: sick anyway. But this guy, Neil Mahoney says it sort 496 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:37,439 Speaker 3: of saddens me. I think one of our superpowers as 497 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,320 Speaker 3: a country is our relentless optimism. It is the fuel 498 00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 3: for entrepreneurship and other exceptional achievements. 499 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:47,439 Speaker 1: But it's not just optimism. It's also true if you 500 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:48,800 Speaker 1: work hard, you will get ahead. 501 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:55,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, eventually, sure, as opposed to what, by the way, 502 00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:59,119 Speaker 3: getting ahead by not working hard or doing nothing? I 503 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,400 Speaker 3: mean what i'd I don't even understand. I barely understand 504 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:06,560 Speaker 3: the question. You know, one of the most interesting and 505 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,960 Speaker 3: powerful things I've read in the last several years. I 506 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:12,439 Speaker 3: can't remember who said this, I've got to look it up, 507 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:19,560 Speaker 3: but they said success is temporary because you. 508 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:21,280 Speaker 1: Want to go out and prove it again. 509 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,679 Speaker 3: You've got other hills to climb, more challenges to take on, 510 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:30,320 Speaker 3: or you know, just staying on top so that challenge 511 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:30,960 Speaker 3: never ends. 512 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:34,960 Speaker 1: If you quit, that's permanent. 513 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:40,480 Speaker 3: That's the warm, huggy blanket of I'm not even gonna 514 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:42,919 Speaker 3: try because there's no point in it, and everybody's against me. 515 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:44,359 Speaker 1: And that's why I have a bad life. 516 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:47,919 Speaker 3: That is like a drug that you take once and 517 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:51,879 Speaker 3: it numbs you forever. Hmmm, that's why it's so attractive 518 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,480 Speaker 3: to people. Does that sound ugly and judgmental? 519 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:55,119 Speaker 1: Good. 520 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:58,200 Speaker 3: I'm on a big Bruce Springsteen kick. But I remember 521 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:00,840 Speaker 3: something he said about working hard and getting ahead years ago. 522 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:03,399 Speaker 3: I'll tell you about that right after this. He is 523 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:09,040 Speaker 3: a liberal jack, he's a nut jum y. Cyber crime. 524 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:10,879 Speaker 3: We need to tell you about that real quick. We 525 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:13,520 Speaker 3: all know it's out there. It's moving fast. Every twenty 526 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:17,400 Speaker 3: two seconds someone becomes a victim of identity theft. And 527 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 3: we just got to know. 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But I remember 550 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:33,920 Speaker 3: seeing a video of him way back in the day 551 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:38,080 Speaker 3: and he said basically what this poll is saying. Unfortunately. 552 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:40,960 Speaker 3: He said, they've been selling that lie forever, and he 553 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,360 Speaker 3: was talking about working hard to get ahead. They've been 554 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:46,040 Speaker 3: selling that lie to people like us, our whole lives. 555 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:50,000 Speaker 3: And I thought, wow, what a depressing view of the 556 00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:55,200 Speaker 3: world that somebody is selling you. What advantage did they 557 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:58,240 Speaker 3: get out of that? What advantage is the somebody getting 558 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:00,920 Speaker 3: out of selling you the law that if you work 559 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:06,240 Speaker 3: hard you'll get ahead, And what is your alternative method? Again, 560 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,120 Speaker 3: I can barely wrap my head around the premise of this. Well, 561 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:12,800 Speaker 3: I think like half wit Marxist, like Bruce, and he's 562 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:15,480 Speaker 3: not a half wit in general. He's a very good writer, 563 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:18,480 Speaker 3: but he just he has practically a child's view of 564 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:20,480 Speaker 3: these things. He would say, Well, they convince you to 565 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,160 Speaker 3: go down to the factory and bust your ass and 566 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:25,440 Speaker 3: you wear out your back and then you're still poor, 567 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:29,760 Speaker 3: and that's the lie they're selling. Well, dude, you figured 568 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:32,800 Speaker 3: out what you were good at then worked like crazy 569 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:37,200 Speaker 3: to become successful at it. I know your story. Why 570 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:40,520 Speaker 3: is that true for you? But it's a fantasy for 571 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:44,240 Speaker 3: everybody else because you're the special man or you just 572 00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:45,280 Speaker 3: got lucky or what. 573 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:47,200 Speaker 1: I just I don't understand the reasoning. 574 00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:50,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what's weird about this pole is the 575 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:53,120 Speaker 3: number of people who rate the economy as excellent or 576 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:55,080 Speaker 3: good is up significantly. 577 00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:56,560 Speaker 1: Yeah. 578 00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:59,200 Speaker 3: There, well, last and it sucks. It was a different 579 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:01,120 Speaker 3: poll last week while you're gone. But there is a 580 00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,400 Speaker 3: certain amount of Oh, I'm fine, but it's bad for 581 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:05,880 Speaker 3: everybody else that's going on in polling right now, which 582 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:09,800 Speaker 3: is a strange phenomenon. I'm doing okay. I think we're 583 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:11,840 Speaker 3: going to be okay my family, but it's really rough 584 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,600 Speaker 3: out there for everybody else, which is its own weird negativity. 585 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:19,480 Speaker 3: Right right now, housing is really really difficult now for 586 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:23,800 Speaker 3: young people, it's brutally hard. So what are you going 587 00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:29,080 Speaker 3: to do? Quit because ninety percent of Democrats think there's 588 00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:33,200 Speaker 3: no point. I mean, that's that's a miserable philosophy of life. 589 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:38,080 Speaker 3: It really is, you know, I I don't know. I'm 590 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:43,200 Speaker 3: profoundly discouraged about humanity right now. We are not facing 591 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:48,120 Speaker 3: we you, your kids, your grandkids, your great grandparents. All 592 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:53,160 Speaker 3: of us face our own set of challenges in the 593 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:54,000 Speaker 3: times we live. 594 00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:59,640 Speaker 1: And sometimes it's world wars. Sometimes it's horrific pandemics. 595 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:04,160 Speaker 3: Sometimes it's just pretty bad pandemics that the government fs 596 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:07,560 Speaker 3: up the response so badly it makes everybody miserable. Anyway, 597 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,640 Speaker 3: everybody has their own list, every single generation that's ever lived. 598 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:14,080 Speaker 3: Just because guys could stumble out of high school in 599 00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,760 Speaker 3: nineteen fifty onto an assembly line and make a good 600 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:19,320 Speaker 3: living and raise a couple of kids, then retire with 601 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:21,840 Speaker 3: a pension for like a blip. 602 00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:25,560 Speaker 1: That's not where our expectations need to be said. It's 603 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,240 Speaker 1: just not a good way to be a human being. 604 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,080 Speaker 1: Try to be good at being a human being. 605 00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:36,920 Speaker 3: That's a good tea shirt. Try to be good at 606 00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:40,520 Speaker 3: being a human being. What was the thing you said 607 00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:42,880 Speaker 3: you got coming up? I want to something. Oh that 608 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:47,000 Speaker 3: is excited. British lefties are trying desperately to get children 609 00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:47,600 Speaker 3: to vote. 610 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:49,360 Speaker 1: Gee, why do you think that might be? 611 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:52,920 Speaker 3: We got a full hour dedicated to Travis and Taylor 612 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,000 Speaker 3: getting married, so of course we'll take a look at 613 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:56,120 Speaker 3: the ring and the proposal. 614 00:32:56,200 --> 00:33:02,120 Speaker 1: All of it kill me. It's there, armstrong, heyety. 615 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:10,320 Speaker 7: Taylor swift engagement post on Instagram has made history for 616 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:13,240 Speaker 7: having the most likes in one day. It beat the 617 00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:16,479 Speaker 7: previous record set by Rashida Taleb announcing she bought a razor. 618 00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:23,560 Speaker 1: So I mentioned Taylor Swift's ring. I did think it 619 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:25,880 Speaker 1: was kind of interesting. I came across she got. 620 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:31,280 Speaker 3: Heirloom style and apparently that's the trendy new style for 621 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:33,720 Speaker 3: jewelry is for stuff to look like it's like really 622 00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:36,440 Speaker 3: really old that your grandmother gave you. If your grandmother 623 00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:39,040 Speaker 3: happened to give you a sixty carr or whatever the. 624 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:40,800 Speaker 1: Hell was she was married to a Rockefeller. 625 00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:45,800 Speaker 3: Ye, but the heirloom style, it's not the big blingy fancy. 626 00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:49,120 Speaker 3: It's like flat and not as shiny anyway, So that's 627 00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:53,200 Speaker 3: what they did. I got to jump into one of 628 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:56,720 Speaker 3: the controversies of the last couple of weeks, the whole 629 00:33:56,720 --> 00:34:00,160 Speaker 3: cracker barrel thing as we went to cracker barrel. Well, 630 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:03,240 Speaker 3: I was so I flew to Kansas and then we 631 00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:05,320 Speaker 3: drove up to Iowa, and then during the trip we 632 00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:08,080 Speaker 3: ate a crackerber. Cracker Barrell got talked about a lot 633 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:10,279 Speaker 3: just because he was in the news so much, and like, 634 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:12,520 Speaker 3: so I'm talking to people that have all been to 635 00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,720 Speaker 3: cracker barrel lots, like I've been to our one hundred times. 636 00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:17,080 Speaker 3: My parents have been there, and we all been there 637 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,839 Speaker 3: at the time, none of us. If you did ask 638 00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:23,400 Speaker 3: us three weeks ago, who's the guy on the sign, 639 00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:26,279 Speaker 3: we would have all responded with there's a guy on 640 00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:27,000 Speaker 3: the sign. 641 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:28,560 Speaker 1: Every single one of us. 642 00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:33,280 Speaker 3: It wasn't, well, that's beloved uncle Herschel the very important. 643 00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:35,839 Speaker 1: You know, I don't know a figure. 644 00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:38,120 Speaker 3: That represents Cracker Barrel and I couldn't eat there if 645 00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:40,399 Speaker 3: you weren't on the sign. I mean, none of us 646 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:42,760 Speaker 3: even knew there was a guy on the sign, which 647 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:47,200 Speaker 3: is funny. And then who decided that it was woke 648 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:49,280 Speaker 3: what Cracker Barrew was doing. 649 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:50,839 Speaker 1: I don't quite get that. 650 00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:56,200 Speaker 3: It seems to me they're just like updating their brand 651 00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:56,920 Speaker 3: a little. 652 00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,000 Speaker 1: And for whatever. 653 00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,960 Speaker 3: Reason I do, I didn't really follow it. The amount 654 00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:06,279 Speaker 3: of controversy he got was tremendous. And then and then 655 00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:09,360 Speaker 3: you know, and then they constant backpedaling and trying to 656 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:12,080 Speaker 3: clean it up of the CEO, which is, you know, 657 00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:15,440 Speaker 3: hilarious always when these people do that. Now, if it is, 658 00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:17,719 Speaker 3: as the rumors say, gonna go to some sort of 659 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,200 Speaker 3: like it looks like a Starbucks on the inside, like 660 00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:22,520 Speaker 3: the booths and the modern look, I can see where 661 00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:25,040 Speaker 3: that's gonna turn off a lot of the customers who 662 00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:27,239 Speaker 3: like the old time you look. But the main thing 663 00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:29,280 Speaker 3: that I do think is great if this is true, 664 00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:32,000 Speaker 3: the little triangle game. So you take the little pigs 665 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:33,400 Speaker 3: and you move them around and you try to end 666 00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:35,200 Speaker 3: up with one peg, which I've never been able to 667 00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:37,799 Speaker 3: do once in my life. It's an IQ test, Jack 668 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:41,919 Speaker 3: says right at the top. My brother regularly gets down 669 00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:44,120 Speaker 3: to one peg. Even as a little kid, I was 670 00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:46,000 Speaker 3: never able to do better than two. I did get 671 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,520 Speaker 3: two over the weekend while I was eating my chicken 672 00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:52,560 Speaker 3: fried chicken with hash browns and eggs over easy. I 673 00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:54,200 Speaker 3: got it down to two. But what it says on 674 00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:56,520 Speaker 3: the little triangle thing, I don't know. You probably don't 675 00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:59,200 Speaker 3: know this, Joe. If you get it down to one, 676 00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:01,080 Speaker 3: it says genius. If you get it down to it 677 00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:03,120 Speaker 3: says pretty smart. If you get it down to three, 678 00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:05,440 Speaker 3: it says I forget something. You need to try harder. 679 00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:10,320 Speaker 3: And if it's four, it says you're an ignoramus. Well, apparently, 680 00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:13,880 Speaker 3: the new triangle thing it's all positive stuff. It's like 681 00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:17,000 Speaker 3: the we all get a participation certificate for playing soccer 682 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,120 Speaker 3: as an eight year old even though we couldn't play. 683 00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:22,000 Speaker 3: It's all like that. It's like one, nice job, Two, 684 00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:25,560 Speaker 3: still a nice job. Three, try better number four, You're 685 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:27,120 Speaker 3: still we still love you? 686 00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:28,279 Speaker 1: You know that sort of thing. 687 00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:30,879 Speaker 3: Because I thought it was too mean to call people 688 00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:33,279 Speaker 3: then remis I guess. 689 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,320 Speaker 1: We've gone so soft as a country. 690 00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:38,600 Speaker 3: You know, I regularly failed at that little logic puzzle 691 00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,319 Speaker 3: as a youngster, and it didn't discourage me. I went 692 00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:44,360 Speaker 3: ahead and showed up to school as an ignoramus and 693 00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:47,680 Speaker 3: got less ignorant. No, that's not the way I did it. 694 00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:49,040 Speaker 3: The first time I got four and it said I 695 00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:50,680 Speaker 3: was an ignoramus. I put my head in my hands 696 00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:53,000 Speaker 3: and I thought, I am doomed. I'm doomed in life. 697 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,839 Speaker 3: I have taken this important test. I did not pass it. 698 00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:58,319 Speaker 3: I quit school, and that's why I live under a 699 00:36:58,320 --> 00:36:59,480 Speaker 3: bridge doing math right now. 700 00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:00,920 Speaker 1: I picked it up and. 701 00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:04,040 Speaker 3: I fired it right off the waitress' forehead, and a 702 00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:04,920 Speaker 3: she bled. 703 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:06,359 Speaker 1: I yelled, who you call? 704 00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:11,319 Speaker 3: By the way, the first cracker barrel we stopped at 705 00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:13,640 Speaker 3: had an hour wait, so we drove down the interstate 706 00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:15,480 Speaker 3: to the next one that had a forty five minute wait. 707 00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:18,960 Speaker 3: They got more free advertising for their business in the 708 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,320 Speaker 3: last couple of weeks. You couldn't buy it with billions 709 00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:25,239 Speaker 3: of dollars. Yeah, I have more to say on why 710 00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,840 Speaker 3: I think people were outraged, but we're out of time. 711 00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:29,160 Speaker 1: We do several more hours. 712 00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:30,960 Speaker 3: If you missed a segment gets the podcast Armstrong and 713 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,760 Speaker 3: Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty