This is an I Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. I'm strong and getty. And now here's our strong and getty. I just saw it right now and I couldn't believe it. It's not something I'm used to. I'm a tourist, but for me that's too high, too expensive. There in LA we're about like six dollars max, which is something that, you know, it hits everyone like crazy, but here it's ten dollars. Never seen that. Probably could turn to twenty dollars a gallon. And if you have to get gas, you have to get gas. Where's it ten dollars a gallon for gas? Big sir, California. Oh, OK. And you're on that remote coastal parts of California. It's hitting ten bucks a gallon. Oof. Yeah, that'll surely be a drag on the economy. Jack is reflected in the miserable job numbers. Job numbers, as we've already mentioned, came out and they were huge defying expectations. The New York Times says U.S. Job growth blew past expectations last month. A resilient rebound that defied concerns about a pending downturn. That's pretty positive language coming out of the New York Times, who wants the economy to be bad, of course, so they can be mad at Trump. Yeah, I'll issue the usual annoying caveat that these numbers are going to get revised and sometimes substantially. So take it with a grain of salt. But I mean, it's not bad news. No. Um. The job gains were driven by a big rebound for the health care and social assistance sector. The pillar that has held up the labor market for much of the past year, it added about 90,000 jobs in March, a reversal from February. When a West Coast strike had sent us the other direction. Anyway, I'm sorry. What would the what in social assistance sector? The health care and social assistance sector. It's a health care sector that really drove these numbers. Total number 108,000, 78,000 new jobs, 178,000 new jobs. I can't be the only one asking, what does social assistance mean? I don't know. No idea. Huh. It's just the official, uh, and I never, I never understand how did the health care add, uh, tens of thousands of jobs? Just all of a sudden. Last month. Yeah, I know. Well, it's a big country. It's a very big country. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we're aging too. Um, boy, that's a hell of a lot of jobs. No. Yeah, I know. I know. I sure you're sick skepticism, obviously. Uh, interestingly enough, uh, and, and I've been teasing this a bit. Let's pay it off now. Uh, Wall Street Journal identified a particular field as the quote, surefire new path to American prosperity, plentiful jobs, potential six figure incomes, draw young people as other industries falter. It's the modern middle class jobs engine. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you dog walker. No, I'm kidding. Nursing. Nursing. Nursing. So that's the health care. Yeah. Yeah. And they, they, uh, first of all, you've got to start a story with a specific human being and tell their story for some reason these days. And, uh, it's a 33 year old gal who, uh, became a licensed practical nurse after earning a community college diploma. Later, she went back to school. Nurse, you go with your ankle. It's, and they say you're fine. Walk it off. That's a practical nurse. Right. Right. It's not going to kill you. A little ice and you'll be fine. Uh, later she went back to school for bachelors in nursing and worked in an emergency room during the pandemic. Four years ago, she got her doctorate and became a nurse practitioner. Wow. That's, that's an advanced thing. Uh, but these days she's working at a primary care clinic in Lincoln, Nebraska earning about 120 K a year, which is really good money in Lincoln. Uh, a factory worker used to be America's, or factory work used to be America's most reliable ticket to the middle class. Uh, but his automation, globalized manufacturing, now artificial intelligence threaten a lot of these past healthcare jobs and become the surest bet at the time of uncertainty in the labor market. Nursing offers not only stability, but for some a pathway to real prosperity. The median annual wage for registered nurses in the U S is 93 six compared with 49 five for all occupations, according to the labor department for nurse practitioners and others with advanced degrees. It's around 132. Correct. Okay. I got a friend who mentioned their daughter's interest in and going into nursing for quite a few years now, you go into nursing, you could get a job anywhere in the country, which would be one of the really cool things. He could work anywhere. Yeah. One of those traveling fill in nurse jobs. It's obviously got its own challenges and stresses, but man, you can make really good money for a while. If your foot loose, I went to an impractical nurse at XMOS. And she said, sleep hanging from your feet. And I thought, no, no, this is not for me. Not practical. Healthcare in general has generated some of the most consistent job growth of any U S proficient profession since the 80s. Yeah. I gotta say, I mean, you know, this is all interesting, but I like how monthly they, they, you're right about these big changes that are happening. Changes don't happen monthly, but every month we act like a new giant. So, you know, seismic shifts is occurred of some sort. I guess you have to write that you're going to need, you're an economics reporter, that's your job. Everything is what, folks, fill in the blank test is click bait, that's right. If this is not, though, so health care, uh, searing health care spending, ageing population, plus the billions and billions of dollars of fraud of all of the government health care problems there's a hell of a lot of profit and fraud if you missed yesterday's discussion of the soon-to-be breathtaking fraud that becomes clear in California holy crap there's a lot of money in it but just a couple more figures then we can either analyze or move on total jobs in the industry overtook those in manufacturing and retail in their early 2000s the gap has widened since then according to University of Chicago health care was the largest source of job creation in the u.s. last year as many other industries cooled or contracted that trend continued in january through employment in the sector oh though it dropped somewhat in february partly because nursing strikes in new york city and elsewhere but anyway as we age and and more and more money spent on health care it's it's a good gig you got to be of a certain level of intelligence ambition you have to like like to work hard and deal with human beings but it's good field i think the deal with human beings is the hardest part like first i had the other day when my son went to get his uh physical she was so fantastic i thought you have got the gift for this kind of job just personality wise that i i couldn't do it yeah all day long every day being nice to people but um uh new york times writing about unemployment rate and that sort of stuff brought up and this is kind of interesting this actually is a change from fairly recently the unemployment rate is where it is in part because the trump administration's immigration crackdown that has curtailed the supply of workers i mean that's absolutely happened people are not going back and forth across the border like nobody is we went from millions of people to nobody like overnight oh yeah that means that employers don't need to create as many jobs as they used to in order to keep the unemployment rate steady because there ain't a whole bunch of people uh in the country looking for jobs there you go times i don't know if you've noticed there's a lot of volatility these days seems like everything's changing all the time you think yeah has had lunch with a client yesterday who you're gonna hear more about on the air in uh coming weeks and months but uh he has kids uh similar age is mine we're like what are you supposed to be hoping your kid does both discussing how most of the stuff people been sending their kids to college for over the last couple of decades are almost completely useless because of ai um you know that's even without the uselessness of college because they've destroyed their you know their own thing by not teaching anything and blah blah blah but with ai coming what do you even hope for your kid nobody knows two choices number one nursing number two defrauding the government you want to talk about you know making a good living in it not being terribly difficult judging by all the stories coming out and everything i read about it defrauding the government is not difficult you gotta be willing to run a you know at least a slight risk of of doing time or getting fined but very slight very running in a Swiss bank do they still have those let's call it working the system as opposed to defrauding the government and where where is that most prevalent always your socialist countries and why is it more prevalent here because we become more and more socialist the more giant programs you have with money sloshing around the more people who figure out how to work the system and a lot of the people advocating for the growth of those systems intend to fully to what did you say exploit the system yeah that that's their intent when they promote it engage in a positive way the system as it is i did not get to hammer this as much as i wanted to but there was a big story i think it was the journal a while ago about the insurance companies how they they go to like all of their clients and they like send nurses to their homes and say hey look this person over and come up with a list of diseases they may or may not have and then they charge the government for the treatment of those diseases there's never any treatment there's never any definitive diagnosis it's a giant without scam that would be so easy i mean just look at we've all done this yeah google i have a headache and i've been really tired lately anything i might have an at least a thousand diseases you have oh he's clearly got blarney syndrome all right government you know it's a it's $10,000 for us to treat blarney syndrome then nobody ever checks whether any treatment happened and in many many many cases and with hibla you can't well right and in many cases the person who allegedly has the syndrome has no idea any of this has happened sure sure unblankin believable keep voting for bigger government though okay it's fine it'll work out great we gotta get into tiger woods uh i don't mind kicking him there was a piece in the i got a california post yesterday tiger has been a fraud from the beginning and people are just catching on you you you you were early on the tigers a jerk i've been an anti-tigerist since like the second year he was on the pgh because of his personality he's utterly ingratious yeah yeah and well wait till you hear how he acted when he got talked to by the cops having flipped his car again and another thing to look forward to more tape of gavin newson seeming like a drug addict or is coming out and also of his marxist wife shooting off her mouth oh my lord the gift that just keeps giving the first partner soon to be if gavi gets his wish the first lady hmm we got to get to that this hour heard her talking about the way she raises their kids oof see if you agree all right stay here arm strong and get it i think it's become very clear over the years that tiger woods is not a good person right uh he is a highly flawed individual yes so i guess that makes it easier for me to do this i was complaining a couple of weeks ago with the justin timberlake stuff you commit a misdemeanor but because it's on video and it's entertaining for all of us you get to be embarrassed in front of the world for a misdemeanor i mean tiger woods is being charged with two misdemeanors i just looked it up and there's a decent chance that because he did not submit to a year analysis and all they've got to go on is refusing to you know take the test or whatever which is its own crime second degree misdemeanor is what he might be looking at in florida does that mean we all get to watch the video and then mock him well number one he still has to wait for the blood test to come back doesn't he or has that been assessed i don't know that but uh no i i get your your greater point though i'm i'm somewhat surprised having since he does this every other year it's still a misdemeanor i know i know it's horrifying that you can exhibit this level of recklessness of driving and uh and continue to drive and not even really pay much of a penalty the penalties are the cost that's what keeps more people most people in line the insurance costs and all that sort of stuff obviously that doesn't apply to a tiger woods but here's a first part of the tape that came out yesterday and well if you can't understand what it is we'll explain it the ending of this is rich this is tiger talking to the cops after he flipped his vehicle again down my phone and all of a sudden boom okay tell me what happened real quick yeah i was uh looking down at my phone you know look at uh changing stations and nice and out boom are you okay are you all right are you in any pain no back pain no neck pain no knee no unfortunately for the accident you are at fault yep and subsequently you are issued a citation for careless driving resulting in a crash okay so at this time i do believe your normal faculties are impaired okay and you're under that unknown substance okay so at this time you're under arrest for DUI yes sir yeah uh some oracle is an oracle yeah okay okay which clip was that michael somehow we got confused on this okay i wanted 25 but maybe i misrepresented uh okay that was so that was him interacting with the cops and everything like that this is this is the the rich one go with this mr woods mr woods did you hang out down here with us please thank you so much all right you got it all right thank you thank you i just keep you down here with us please yeah i was talking to the president i was talking to the president so he's over by the bushes you've probably seen the pictures and everything like that mr woods can you come over we need to talk yeah yeah i'm sorry i was just talking with the president i'll come over and talk with you now now that's a uh that's the all time do you know who i am i mean that makes do you know who i am seem like nothing but you wouldn't think tiger woods would have a higher gear of do you know who you're messing with right wow no kidding but you know i was talking to the president maybe if you can literally flex i was just on the phone with the president you do it yes katie i i want to hear trump's reaction to him dropping that has anybody nailed down if he actually was on the phone with the president because yeah he's got the president's number talks to me he was at that time trump trump said yeah that i talked to tiger he's doing fine he's uh is a tough time he has a lot of pain i talked about this the other day he has a lot of pain it's not good what he did right but i didn't know that that that happened at the scene okay so oh yeah i guess i didn't know that either but yeah yeah i i assumed he talked to him later because because tiger's dating trump's daughter x daughter and law x daughter in law yeah she was she was married to eric or trump jr whichever but um it's now she's with tiger woods so did so tiger has the president's number his phone flips his car and his thinking is i'm gonna call the president wonder what he asked him to do i don't know he's pilled up so maybe his thinking was a little blurry um that's a that's a great question what was he hoping for a pardon hey mr president could you get on the phone with these cops and tell them to leave me alone uh can i push on with the cops so the they do because they'll think you're an imitator so you gotta like prove your view what yeah i was talking to the president i was talking to the president that's the all-time flex man wow wow good on the cops for not he can't in the modern era of body cams and all that sort of stuff i suppose but man oh man oh man it'd be pretty easy to say he's on the phone with the president let's just let him go let's just drive him home put his car back on the wheels call it good i have more questions about the nature of the charges and all we're out of time but uh more on that to come stop stop trying to kill people tiger exclusive cnn reporting about the extent of damage to iran's military capability roughly half of iran's missile launchers are still intact despite the daily attacks by the us and israeli military thousands of one-way attack drones also remain in iran's arsenal one source says iran is quote still very much poised to wreak absolute havoc throughout the entire region a pentagon spokesperson calls cnn's reporting quote completely wrong right so this is really interesting and i don't know what to think so you've got the mainstream media who's taking his negative of you on the war as they possibly can in some cases practically actively rooting for our defeat on the other hand the history of all administrations in my lifetime going back to you know johnson and obama around about afghanistan administrations lie always and sometimes are lied to themselves and then they lie to the public not knowing it about the success of their military operations it's just it's just a thing so and and i fit that in with i was watching a news nation report today where they had somebody on the ground in israel where they got hit with lots and lots of uh rockets overnight by iran again and and this reporter saying a lot of people here on the ground are really confused and surprised by iran's continued ability to project power and shoot rockets so and i think a lot of us are like how is this still possible that every day you can blow up a tanker or hit this base or that base or keep firing it i don't know what the right answer is so cnn's reporting that like half the rocket launchers are still working the pentagon says that's completely not true right boy well there are a number of topics you brought up there one being that the uh the necessary right to deceive in warfare because sometimes you have to do that as a government it's the perfect example of a power granted that is always abused i mean i get the reasons you do that and they're absolutely valid but as you point out every administration abuses it and it goes way beyond any justifiable uh keeping the home front together not demoralizing the troops or fooling the enemy or whatever they all like um the second thing about the missile capability why do you think that happens why why did um why did the defense secretary and everybody beneath him mislead johnson in vietnam why did everybody lie to obama and he thought the war was going great in afghanistan and then the washington post blew that open with now it's going horrible and everybody know right up the chain everybody lied yeah yeah i i think because it's life and death and and people think since the stakes are so high their justification is is strong to um and they they wouldn't say mislead the president they'd say uh stay optimistic or not be overly negative or what have you that's a great question i'm sure there are books written about it i supposed to a certain extent it might be as simple as how often do you want to tell your boss you're not doing a good job or haven't been successful at the big project he gave you that's part of it yeah you're tasked to accomplish something and you don't want to be the one to say this can't be accomplished right because that sounds like yeah i can't accomplish it anyway there are a bunch of headlines to hit uh today uh live updates u.s fighter jet reportedly shot down over iran uh at least one american pilot was reportedly ejected from their aircraft today when it was shot down over southwestern iran according to multiple outlets um let's see uh a television channel in this province instructed iranians who find down u.s pilots to leave them alive and take them to security agents agencies for a precious prize rather than kill them as they had previously advised on the air well that's very civilized of you thank you iran another headline iran beefs up defenses and recruits children as it prepares for a ground war whoa yeah they've stepped up defenses of their biggest oil port uh while threatening to attack a wider array of targets around the gulf and launching a mass recruitment drive reminiscent of its 1980s war with iraq uh the tyrant is mobilizing its population ways that seek to harness the spirit of the 80s war with iraq that includes drives to recruit millions of iranians including children a fixture of the tribute to martyrs via street signs and posters that are still part of the iran's daily life iran is also hardening defenses on karg island among the other strategic islands steps include boosting guided missile systems laying mines along the coastline in booby trapping facilities according to an iranian official i feel like the trying to get the uranium out project has got historic disaster written all over it you know if they're still considering that or not trying to secure a giant area and the number of people in the amount of equipment we'd have to have in place i mean if rand has got any ability to fire rockets or launch attacks or anything when that's going on they will yeah they would go nuts trying to achieve that psychological and you know frankly the real victory uh speaking of which another headline a great article written by the musically named yaroslav trauma troughamov we forgot to do our great teas let me do our great teas oh okay sorry we interrupt this story to bring you this gavin newson's wife is going to be the gift that keeps on giving oh yeah as they dig up old interviews and probably once he was running current interviews well yeah because he's going to try like crazy to muzzle her and she ain't gonna have a shane muzzle muzzle muzzle right i don't think but we gotta let her talk about how should they raise their kids that i think you'll find uh pretty rich so stay tuned for that and you might take his wonderful parenting advice so stay with us anyway back to yaroslav troughamov control over straight of hormones will determine who wins the war iran is seeking permanent leverage over the middle east with new rules rules for the strategic waterway you gotta give them points for having cojones so they're they're getting the hell battered out of them trying to hold on to the regime and they say you know what uh not only are we uh gonna fire on the streets or moves to bring this to an end but we now own it and we're gonna charge enormous tolls to anybody who goes through it from now to the end of history so holy cow uh we either have to batter them to the point that they can't do that which it seems increasingly might not be achievable or make them not want to do it anymore well yesterday we blew up their brand new giant bridge that they've got between between terran and somewhere else that they apparently want to get in cars uh but we blew up that bridge and trump tweeted our truth out our military the greatest and most powerful by far anywhere in the world hasn't even started destroying what's left in iran bridge is next then electric power plants new regime leadership knows what has to be done and has to be done fast there's it's very possible that the the big overarching headline that will be written about this war someday is that uh trump was wrong about the iranian regime's willingness to die fighting um or just the resilience in general he thought and maybe reasonably so that they were like regular people you realize you're losing you make some sort of deal to make your life better you don't just go you don't just let everything around you get destroyed and you die who would do that and these and this might be the crowd that does that they let everything get destroyed and they die and they don't care because they're going to meet the virgins and haven't and or those who aren't religious cultist dead enders are saying hey i get 25 of the rebuilding cost so you know hell it's just the scam will change shape a little bit but the scam will continue uh so one final thought on the straight of hormuz valley nasser professor johns hopkins university former state department official blah blah blah involved in informal discussions quote now the only reason why oh to the iranians the straight of hormuz now matters more than the nuclear program the nuclear program was symbolic but didn't provide them with any deterrence not yet now the only reason why they're surviving the store war is because of the straight the iranian thinking is that at the end the straight must remain under their control because it is their only deterrence and only source of revenue so why did marco rubio the other day say he made the goal taken out their ability to fire off rockets they learned from north korea and i heard a smart person explain this why does north korea have a bomb they have a bomb because all the rockets they had and their ability to hit soul back in 1994 bill clinton was in the standoff that ended up leading to north korea getting a nuclear weapon uh with plans on the table to attack north korea and take out their nuclear weapon making capability but they're so worried about north korea attacking soul where we had 30 some thousand troops in its big city and lots of people dying that we couldn't and iran learned that lesson and knew it so as long as they got enough rockets to attack israel or their neighbors or whoever their belief was the world can't come take out our nuclear site so now we believe that the way to stop them from getting nukes is they don't have the rocket capability yeah interesting bill clinton i've been working on this should have paid less attention to thong and more attention to jong ill and because it rhymes it's more powerful or i don't know clearly that a couple more quick notes to shoehorn into this segment uh the fabulous victor davis hansen uh writing for the free press the war and the war on the war this is actually reminiscent of something we've been talking about the wall street journal uh editorialist uh phrase that is defeatists on the left polly anas on the right but vdh says militarily the war is going as well as could be envisioned yet democrats seek to turn it into another vietnam or afghanistan hoping to win control of congress at the expense of national security uh and and vdh is nothing if not a real list he's pointing out that it's gone absolutely fabulously well thus far but that doesn't mean the uncertainties have gone or the difficulties of war are no longer real but all you can hope is that a war is going fabulously well there is a unspoken or spoken comment or question in the media that well you say it's going well but there's still a great deal of uncertainty ahead so it's not going well but that's just to misunderstand war that yeah exactly that's worth pointing out and that's why trump the other night in his speech laid out how long iraq took afghanistan took world war one world war two took um because if we end up completely taken out their rockets getting back to that topic if we end up completely taken out their launchers on day 90 which would be three times as long as we've been at it so far roughly illy will look back on and think wow they took that united states took out a top 20 world military in less than 90 days would seem shockingly effective but right now at the 30 day mark people are acting like it's a disaster right right and throw in with admittedly tragic yet very very small scale losses of human life final note for vdh the left seeks to create abject chaos that it can only be eliminated alleviated by the political destruction of donald trump so the anti-war hysteria follows the pattern of the left's embrace of tesla vandalism violent demonstrations against ice the incoherent no kings protests and three government shutdowns such nihilism shares a common trait of offering no positive counter agenda yeah i would uh tend to agree with vdh and finally neil furgusson we don't really have time for this but uh love and elf how great powers lose wars they're winning nearly 70 years after the suez crisis the u.s. may have marched into a strikingly similar trap in the strait of hormuz um he's his main point maybe we spend a little more time on this later is stopping before the job is done because that last x percent is the toughest uh part of the battle well on that to come um isonhower dealing with suez didn't have to deal with a tick tock world where we expect everything to happen at 30 seconds at a time that's another pressure that's just completely modern the timetable yeah and then anneal also asks there's now a rising probability that trump's war backfires on him as much as edens did that was the uh british guy back in the day in the suez canal um economically politically and geopolitically which raises the question is this the american suez um it could be it could be so we gotta leave time to get to uh gavin newson's wife and child rearing and see if you agree with it or not as a lifestyle and it's next by the way history buffs if you're into the suez canal standoff or you've never gotten into it the book ike's bluff by evan thomas is a page turner fantastic book about that and uh and really gets into that's the moment where great britain's military dominance of the world really came to an end and we took over was right then um so gavin newson's running for uh president almost certainly and his wife is gonna end up being a we think a serious liability as she's got all kinds of woke craziness she has said over the years and nobody is paying attention she's a wife of a governor and whatever she goes to california's first partner sir she goes around to various things and talks here she is in front of a group of people sitting in big comfy chairs having a conversation about raising kids here's what she sounded like i've given our boys dolls um even if they tear that off i've given them dolls to learn that care and caregiving is not just an activity that's reserved for women but that it's also an activity that is um a responsibility of men what i've done with both my daughters and my sons is if i'm reading a book and the protagonist is a male i just changed the heat of a she and it just normalizes for my sons in particular not it's not even i don't even just do it for my girls i do it for my sons because i want them to see that women can be the center of a story that women matter that women are interesting and she is saying this in the year 1580 apparently where women get no respect and aren't seen as like the main character in any story or whatever what the hell are you talking about i've never understood why the left can't understand when they've won you won that argument all right there are more chicks in college and law school medical school and everything else you can think of than there are boys we've got a boy crisis you don't need to when you read a book change the protagonist if it's a boy to a girl to make sure girls think they can go out in the world and be something what are you talking about two points number one it's the it's the uh advocacy that's the point it's not the goal it's just look at me i'm a fighter for justice even if the goal doesn't make any sense and yeah your your point is an excellent one and let's let her finish and then we'll uh i'll continue to rent and rave at the end of the day we're all kind of like in this place in history maybe where we're recognizing what it is to ultimately deconstruct all these gender roles and ultimately be human and that's exciting to me so you know i'll just continue to kind of do my work and try and deconstruct all of these like limiting narratives about ultimately what it means to be human yeah if you know the code words she's a postmodernist neo marxist you're deconstructing everything and and and whatever the party tells you to do that's the new reality since you're about to be a mom and a woman katie will let you weigh in oh i was just thinking about no wonder he's doing drugs yeah that that's stuff about i give my boys dolls so they can understand that men too have energy oh thanks for insulting uh the entire male population and we don't just automatically understand the uh the need to be nurturing for our children or whatever blah blah blah unless you tell us she is so beyond out of touch oh yeah she is like 140 proof distillation of being desperate to find a problem and and pretending you've found it and be the leader of fixing it yeah right exactly what do you even talking about you change the male protagonist in a book to a girl so that your boys can understand your girls can understand sometimes the girls can be the center of a story what girls can even be a doctor or a lawyer i need to teach my boys that what the hell armstrong and katie
