What amazing things are we going to do this hour of the Armstrong and Gettyshow?

A stuute email, a really fabulous email from a listener describing the appearance and growth of the shadow economy during the COVID thing.

I thought it was very good. We'll touch on some of those points. I've seen it myself.

Something like the speak easy. Well, I'm not allowed to be open. Well, I got news. I'm seeing my customers.

They're going to give me money. I'm going to perform the service. I'm not talking about hookers here. I'm talking about legitimate businesses.

There is a shadow economy now growing instead of booze or hookers. It's getting your haircuts exactly getting your nails done.

Psst. Janine sent me. All right. Come in quick, quick.

And they filed your nails. I saw a tweet about that recently and it was California specific, but it's this way in a lot of places.

I guess it was about how if you to told me when I was younger that I could walk into a place right now and buy pot.

Mm hmm. But I got to sneak around and know somebody to get my haircut. Right. I wonder what happened.

Well, in many jurisdictions in blue states, you could absolutely secure the services of a sex worker while you spoke to your legal pot, but you can't get a haircut.

Mm hmm. Uh, so speaking of a stupe, the Wall Street Journal picked up on this and we discussed it a little bit last week.

Uh, the editorial board with a column out today, Obama's filibuster swipe.

He frames it as racist that will end debate among Democrats. It was not a throwaway line or not well thought out according to Wall Street Journal.

And I'm sure they're right. When Barack Obama last week at the John Lewis Memorial Service talked about the filibuster in the Senate being the legacy of Jim Crow.

I caught a lot of people by surprise. I was like, what? Really? I mean, I realized Jim Crow relic or something. Yeah, Jim Crow relic that was a relic.

The filibuster, the filibuster is what?

Uh, the current way we do it, you generally need to have 60 votes to get anything through. So just having a majority doesn't mean you get to do whatever you want in the Senate.

Mm hmm. You have to get 60 votes and that allows the minority to have some say. And usually for anything big to happen, you need some buy in from the other party because there are tens of millions of people in the United States represented by those people.

And their interests should be reflected. And there have been talks of ending the filibuster so that the majority could do whatever they wanted as long as they got 50 votes.

For quite some time, but nobody's ever done it. And most people, practically everybody when they're being serious realizes it's a terrible idea. How about this in 2017?

That's just a couple years ago. Most Senate Democrats signed a letter supporting the filibuster because we are steadfastly committed to ensuring that this great American institution

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