WEBVTT - Jack Is Going To Transition 0:00:07.300 --> 0:00:11.140 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the 0:00:11.180 --> 0:00:13.160 George Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:13.220 --> 0:00:15.420 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:15.610 --> 0:00:23.989 Armstrong and Getty. And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:32.720 Families complained about Nevada's behavior on the field and his 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:35.900 mom's behavior on the sidelines. So what did the youth 0:00:35.979 --> 0:00:38.960 soccer director do? He called 911. 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:41.860 There's a parent here just really... really disruptive. 0:00:42.140 --> 0:00:44.140 Nevada's mom tells a different story. 0:00:44.260 --> 0:00:47.300 They literally kicking him out of this way because he's 0:00:47.380 --> 0:00:48.220 good at soccer. 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:51.960 Nevada's mom told CBS News that coach told Nevada he 0:00:51.979 --> 0:00:54.560 could stay in if he passed the ball. But about 0:00:54.660 --> 0:00:58.330 halfway through the game, he got the cops involved. So 0:00:58.380 --> 0:00:59.210 the cops got. 0:00:59.060 --> 0:01:02.650 Called on the three-year-old who was not passing the ball 0:01:02.790 --> 0:01:04.869 in soccer, who was really good and kept scoring goals. 0:01:05.310 --> 0:01:09.360 And his mom is disruptive mom or something. Look, before 0:01:09.380 --> 0:01:11.380 you get into people are angry at us, and no, 0:01:11.420 --> 0:01:13.540 I didn't spend a lot of time doing your research, 0:01:13.860 --> 0:01:15.440 researching this stupid story. 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:17.660 I did no research other than these texts I got. 0:01:18.220 --> 0:01:18.640 Exactly. 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:22.940 There was an enormous leap there. How did we go 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:27.060 from A to B? Why were the specifically the cops 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:30.699 were called for what reason? What did the people say online? 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:33.179 Why did the police show up? All that's left out 0:01:33.220 --> 0:01:33.860 of the story. 0:01:34.180 --> 0:01:34.480 True. 0:01:34.540 --> 0:01:37.200 The news coverage is horrible there. Well, you know why 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:39.170 they did it that way. They wanted people to click 0:01:39.250 --> 0:01:41.090 on a story of outrage. If you put in all 0:01:41.110 --> 0:01:42.870 the details, sometimes the outrage gets less. 0:01:43.370 --> 0:01:43.949 And race. 0:01:44.150 --> 0:01:47.309 Which might be after I read the text. But here's 0:01:47.470 --> 0:01:49.770 a little audio of the actual mom and cop, I guess. 0:01:50.650 --> 0:01:52.930 I guess one of the coaches advised that they don't 0:01:53.390 --> 0:01:55.010 want you guys here anymore, okay? 0:01:55.730 --> 0:01:57.870 If you guys don't mind leaving. What is the real 0:01:57.890 --> 0:01:59.230 reason that he called the police? 0:01:59.740 --> 0:02:01.810 So I guess he's just calling because I guess he 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:04.150 believes that you guys were causing a disturbance that was 0:02:04.170 --> 0:02:05.310 interfering with the game play. 0:02:05.330 --> 0:02:08.210 They're mad at my son because he actually plays soccer. 0:02:08.230 --> 0:02:11.230 So I'm a little confused and I'm a little, like, 0:02:12.030 --> 0:02:14.350 baffled because I signed my kid up for soccer. 0:02:14.370 --> 0:02:17.870 So they're literally kicking him out of this place because he's. 0:02:17.790 --> 0:02:18.669 Good at soccer. 0:02:19.270 --> 0:02:21.910 So her three-year-old must be a really good soccer player 0:02:21.930 --> 0:02:25.590 because he's playing in the five-year-old league and dominating. 0:02:26.370 --> 0:02:27.870 Three is really young. 0:02:29.020 --> 0:02:31.840 You're practically a prodigy just for your ability to run 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:35.160 up and down the field. Well, or like be able 0:02:35.180 --> 0:02:36.500 to tell a three year old, I want you to 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:37.820 run to the end of the field and back and 0:02:37.860 --> 0:02:39.920 have them do it and not go like 10 feet 0:02:39.940 --> 0:02:42.060 and get distracted and walk off. 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:45.060 Start picking flowers. So am I allowed to guess at 0:02:45.100 --> 0:02:47.299 what I think happened or would you rather do what 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:48.340 you have first? 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:49.139 Go ahead and guess. 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:50.280 And then I'm going to read this text that I 0:02:50.300 --> 0:02:51.720 don't know if it's accurate or not, because I've spent 0:02:51.780 --> 0:02:53.760 zero time looking into this and I'm not going to. 0:02:54.260 --> 0:02:57.970 So I'm guessing the three year old who, again, miraculously 0:02:57.990 --> 0:02:59.889 was just dominating the game. I mean, he was just 0:02:59.950 --> 0:03:01.450 running up and down the field with the ball and 0:03:01.470 --> 0:03:04.110 kicking it in the goal over and over again. The 0:03:04.169 --> 0:03:06.030 coach was like, all right, we got to take him 0:03:06.070 --> 0:03:08.710 out because nobody else is playing. Nothing else is happening. 0:03:09.190 --> 0:03:12.110 And the mom was pissed off because her son was benched, 0:03:12.190 --> 0:03:17.390 quote unquote, for being better than everybody else at soccer. 0:03:17.930 --> 0:03:20.510 And she and the coach had what I suspected was 0:03:20.590 --> 0:03:25.600 a loud and animated disagreement during the game. And the 0:03:25.620 --> 0:03:27.179 coach said, you got to go. And she said, I 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:30.620 won't go. I would guess having coached many, many games 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:33.200 and dealt with many, many parents. It was something like that. 0:03:33.500 --> 0:03:37.400 Probably. But here's a text we got. 0:03:38.860 --> 0:03:40.490 I know I'm not the first person to respond to 0:03:40.530 --> 0:03:42.720 this because a number of people said our coverage was 0:03:42.780 --> 0:03:47.550 horrible yesterday. Regarding the three-year-old soccer prodigy, the kid was 0:03:47.650 --> 0:03:49.710 pushing other players in the league to ask him and 0:03:49.750 --> 0:03:52.130 his family to get him to stop. The kid's parents 0:03:52.150 --> 0:03:54.390 got upset and started making a scene, arguing with the 0:03:54.410 --> 0:03:55.970 league representatives and other parents. 0:03:56.050 --> 0:03:58.490 Because of that, they were asked to leave. They refused. 0:03:58.570 --> 0:03:59.570 Then the cops were called. 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.990 Now the parents and the kid have a GoFundMe for 0:04:04.010 --> 0:04:04.770 their experience. 0:04:05.430 --> 0:04:05.660 Oh, my. 0:04:05.670 --> 0:04:08.750 And somehow strangers are giving this family money to make 0:04:08.810 --> 0:04:13.730 things all the better. Wow, because I am on your 0:04:13.830 --> 0:04:17.150 side in this now public online spat. 0:04:17.170 --> 0:04:18.710 So I'm going to give you money. 0:04:19.190 --> 0:04:21.220 Here's $ 20. 0:04:20.540 --> 0:04:23.180 That'll show the other side, which I'm against in this 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:24.120 online spat. 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.500 I know barely anything about this story other than a 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:30.330 couple of things I saw on Twitter. Here's $ 20. The 0:04:30.370 --> 0:04:32.830 whole GoFundMe thing around these stories is just, I don't 0:04:32.850 --> 0:04:33.470 know what that is. 0:04:34.350 --> 0:04:36.710 I can't remember, was it the New York Post that 0:04:36.740 --> 0:04:39.500 had that story? I mean, hell, they left, like, everything 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:42.320 out of it. That's sucky. 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:48.440 Well, and then, arguing with the coach and league representatives is... 0:04:49.350 --> 0:04:51.630 A little closer to nail down. But the whole the 0:04:51.710 --> 0:04:55.890 kid was pushing other players. Soccer is a pretty physical game. 0:04:56.330 --> 0:04:59.190 You know, I don't know. You had to have been there. 0:04:59.210 --> 0:04:59.560 Exactly. 0:04:59.570 --> 0:05:02.120 You'd absolutely have had to have been there to see 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:05.000 if he's just a really good, aggressive soccer player or 0:05:05.060 --> 0:05:06.560 it was the sort of thing you'd think. 0:05:06.580 --> 0:05:09.440 Well, that ain't cool. If he was pushing them enough 0:05:09.460 --> 0:05:11.550 that it affected play, there's no way you would let 0:05:11.589 --> 0:05:14.580 that go in a game at that age level. just 0:05:14.779 --> 0:05:16.100 having coached at that age level. 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:17.339 Well, and there'd be a whole bunch of kids on 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:18.520 the field be like, why are you pushing me? I 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:19.539 don't even know what we're doing out here. 0:05:20.100 --> 0:05:20.260 Right. 0:05:20.300 --> 0:05:24.110 Exactly. I'm just standing here picking daisies. This ball rolls 0:05:24.150 --> 0:05:25.610 by me and you're pushing me all of a sudden. 0:05:25.710 --> 0:05:27.610 I'm just, I'm just waiting for a bunch of people 0:05:27.650 --> 0:05:30.450 to say inexplicably we're done now. Cause I have no 0:05:30.529 --> 0:05:33.390 idea of time or the fact that this is being 0:05:33.450 --> 0:05:35.230 timed or what a halftime is. 0:05:35.770 --> 0:05:38.409 I'm told there are juice boxes in like three minutes. 0:05:38.470 --> 0:05:40.869 So I'm just standing here. Right. 0:05:42.370 --> 0:05:45.210 Again, that was always the most amazing thing to me 0:05:45.250 --> 0:05:47.990 about the youth sports thing is the kids that knew 0:05:48.029 --> 0:05:51.490 what they were supposed to be doing and did it. 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:53.859 And the ones who just have no idea what is 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:55.580 even the point of this. 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:59.160 You know, I've been sitting on this Wall Street Journal 0:05:59.220 --> 0:06:02.320 article about how baseball has changed so much. Now it's 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:06.330 a rich person's sport because for reasons we can get 0:06:06.370 --> 0:06:09.710 into it another time. But it talks about these six-year-olds. 0:06:10.529 --> 0:06:14.330 with their own bat and their uniform and paying hundreds 0:06:14.350 --> 0:06:16.750 or a thousand dollars to play at an age they 0:06:16.810 --> 0:06:20.390 should not be playing organized baseball at all. And it's just, 0:06:20.470 --> 0:06:22.190 it's become this money grab. 0:06:22.450 --> 0:06:24.510 Yeah, our executive producer, whose kid is a really good 0:06:24.529 --> 0:06:26.630 baseball player, has talked about how, yeah, oh yeah, everybody's 0:06:26.650 --> 0:06:27.990 got to have their own bat and the bats are 0:06:28.010 --> 0:06:30.130 really expensive and then changes every year and all that 0:06:30.180 --> 0:06:31.260 sort of stuff, the new technology. 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:33.520 You got eight-year-olds with hitting coaches? 0:06:33.660 --> 0:06:34.540 Good lord. 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:40.320 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was going to transition to another thing, 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:41.219 but it feels awkward. 0:06:41.940 --> 0:06:45.290 Jack's Going to Transition is the title for this segment 0:06:45.850 --> 0:06:48.930 of the podcast. 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I mean, generally, 0:08:28.210 --> 0:08:31.150 you follow the news, it brings vomit to your lips. 0:08:31.670 --> 0:08:34.610 This has brought delight to my soul. 0:08:34.670 --> 0:08:35.510 And that's coming up next? 0:08:35.950 --> 0:08:37.710 That's coming up. Well, it could be, sure. 0:08:38.330 --> 0:08:40.090 Two quick texts I want to get on before we 0:08:40.110 --> 0:08:42.290 take a break, and then Joe delights us. 0:08:42.790 --> 0:08:43.630 Yes. 0:08:45.010 --> 0:08:47.890 Mentioned earlier that NPR was making a big deal out 0:08:47.910 --> 0:08:51.679 of the fact that 15% of Americans are using AI 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:53.400 to search candidates for this election. 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:54.340 And then they got into hell. 0:08:54.900 --> 0:08:56.920 Awful that is or the information could be wrong or 0:08:56.940 --> 0:09:00.880 whatever when people have been googling oh my god for 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:03.280 decades now and there's all kinds of crap out of 0:09:03.300 --> 0:09:05.380 there or you get your information from ads. 0:09:07.860 --> 0:09:10.900 Or maybe you get your information from npr in which 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:15.179 case you're getting absolute crap or your union we got 0:09:15.230 --> 0:09:17.309 this text i've never used ai but i used to 0:09:17.350 --> 0:09:19.970 work a union job in every voting season they would 0:09:20.010 --> 0:09:22.050 send a card telling you how to vote on every 0:09:22.130 --> 0:09:25.270 issue i would do the opposite But so, hey, NPR, 0:09:25.790 --> 0:09:30.970 unions been telling people how to vote for decades. Do 0:09:30.990 --> 0:09:32.840 you do a story about how awful that might be? 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:35.339 Or just, you know, if anybody's doing independent research on 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:39.040 their own, you know, whatever. And then one more about 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:42.260 the whole election. Kind of about the election. Jack and 0:09:42.300 --> 0:09:48.370 Joe won't talk about Epstein. Oh, shut up. Oh, you 0:09:48.390 --> 0:09:50.810 know what? Unless you have more on that topic. 0:09:50.910 --> 0:09:50.980 No. 0:09:51.809 --> 0:09:57.020 You remember yesterday we were posing the question, passing along 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:00.530 the question posed by Eric Erickson on the right. and 0:10:00.620 --> 0:10:05.839 a different bloke uh on the left for whether a 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:09.760 republican for instance should vote for an awful candidate like 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:13.890 a ken paxton for instance Or send the message that, no, 0:10:13.910 --> 0:10:15.990 we're not going to vote for awful candidates. Do better, 0:10:16.030 --> 0:10:19.120 Republican Party. We need a better primary system. And on 0:10:19.150 --> 0:10:23.580 the left, they cited Al-Sayed. What a miserable, abhorrent vote 0:10:23.660 --> 0:10:27.319 that would be for Democrats in Michigan. Are you better 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:32.660 off rejecting your party's abhorrent candidate and letting the other 0:10:32.700 --> 0:10:34.880 party hold power for a while as a message? And 0:10:35.100 --> 0:10:38.099 we asked for your thoughts, and we received quite a 0:10:38.140 --> 0:10:41.780 few thoughtful and thought-provoking emails. 0:10:41.830 --> 0:10:43.900 Yeah, I would like to get into that because my 0:10:43.950 --> 0:10:48.650 philosophy has always been that the whole not voting is 0:10:48.730 --> 0:10:52.510 like being a pacifist. It just maybe makes you feel good, 0:10:52.550 --> 0:10:54.490 but there is going to be a result. Would you 0:10:54.510 --> 0:10:56.110 like to play a role in it or not? 0:10:56.690 --> 0:10:56.990 Yeah. 0:10:58.530 --> 0:11:00.700 That's the way I've always felt about voting me. I 0:11:00.980 --> 0:11:02.960 just won't vote because I don't like my candidate. Okay, 0:11:02.980 --> 0:11:04.800 so you're going to let other people make the decision. 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:06.700 A smaller number of people may be choosing. 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:09.179 I don't know. I don't quite get that, but I'll 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:09.920 be interested to hear. 0:11:09.940 --> 0:11:12.000 Okay, well, I'm not going to get into it now 0:11:12.020 --> 0:11:14.990 because we generally disagree about this somewhat. 0:11:15.570 --> 0:11:17.829 Most of my favorite people disagree with me on this, 0:11:17.890 --> 0:11:22.050 but I just, I don't know. You're going to delight 0:11:22.110 --> 0:11:25.190 us coming up. That's what I'm excited about. Well, specifically 0:11:25.230 --> 0:11:25.650 your soul. 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:31.360 Not like momentary delight. This will make you happier than 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:32.660 you were prior. 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:33.080 Wow. 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:35.859 It certainly did to me. Cool. At the risk of 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:37.760 overselling it. Whoops, too late. 0:11:38.070 --> 0:11:39.750 My soul needs delighted. That's next. 0:11:39.770 --> 0:11:46.250 Armstrong and Getty. 0:11:49.190 --> 0:11:50.929 The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:56.960 I have a lot of friends and family in the 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.140 little Kansas town where Trump is going to be doing 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:04.180 a rally on Saturday. And everybody, I was just texted 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:06.880 by a friend of mine there. Everybody's losing their mind. 0:12:06.900 --> 0:12:09.400 This is a pretty small town and Trump's actually going 0:12:09.420 --> 0:12:09.980 to come to town. 0:12:10.380 --> 0:12:10.780 I'll bet. 0:12:10.820 --> 0:12:10.980 Yeah. 0:12:11.059 --> 0:12:12.880 I want to hear about that traffic and where are 0:12:12.900 --> 0:12:14.660 they going to park the plane at this tiny airport 0:12:14.700 --> 0:12:15.460 and all that sort of stuff. 0:12:16.100 --> 0:12:18.660 All right. So if this was tagged, some of the 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:23.980 tags would be the horrifying, uh, Lack of free speech 0:12:24.300 --> 0:12:28.800 in a lot of the Western world, including Britain. And 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:33.080 the Streisand effect. You familiar with the Streisand effect? Barbara 0:12:33.100 --> 0:12:34.340 Streisand became aware. 0:12:34.380 --> 0:12:37.069 Sang a duet with Neil Diamond in the Streisand effect. 0:12:37.260 --> 0:12:38.680 It really has nothing to do with it. 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:38.969 No? 0:12:39.110 --> 0:12:41.770 No, although that was a good song. I mean, come on. 0:12:42.090 --> 0:12:42.849 It makes me cry. 0:12:42.870 --> 0:12:43.709 I can't even think about it. 0:12:44.100 --> 0:12:44.319 I know. 0:12:45.460 --> 0:12:47.880 So the Streisand effect, Barbara Streisand back in the day 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:51.120 became aware that a picture of her house had emerged online, 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:53.620 and she sued to get it taken offline, even though 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:58.460 it had only been viewed like six times. I remember. 0:12:59.220 --> 0:13:00.060 All right, stop it. 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:04.120 So then that turned into a big deal, and it 0:13:04.179 --> 0:13:08.670 was downloaded hundreds of thousands of times because she'd drawn 0:13:08.730 --> 0:13:09.580 attention to it. 0:13:09.910 --> 0:13:13.679 Okay, so that's one of your tags. Your final tag 0:13:13.940 --> 0:13:18.500 is that a lot of my heroes, my intellectual heroes, 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:24.589 are people who've tried to speak truth through humor. Not surprisingly. 0:13:25.370 --> 0:13:32.950 Mark Twain, Hunter Thompson, P.J. O'Rourke, H.L. Mencken. So many greats. 0:13:33.290 --> 0:13:35.340 Carrot Top, who tried to kill himself a couple weeks ago. 0:13:35.420 --> 0:13:42.460 All right. I just need you to stop. So, apparently... 0:13:42.330 --> 0:13:46.380 Some politicians across the pond in Britain are not aware 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:49.900 of this effect. Take Britain's Simon Bennett, a politician with 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:52.920 a seat in Wolverhampton, which is a not very big 0:13:52.940 --> 0:13:57.380 city near Birmingham. But so this 15-year-old boy, and this 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:00.280 is the state of affairs in our freaking papa country. 0:14:01.420 --> 0:14:02.640 This kid's name is Fraser. 0:14:02.980 --> 0:14:07.720 He'd used Facebook to post an AI-altered photo of Bennett, 0:14:07.780 --> 0:14:12.380 the politician, as a bunny rabbit. With whiskers and bunny 0:14:12.500 --> 0:14:15.900 ears and buck teeth. Like Bugs Bunny, okay? 0:14:17.070 --> 0:14:20.470 An appointed caption jabbing him for nibbling at his conservative 0:14:20.530 --> 0:14:25.030 party's last remaining shreds of credibility. The counselor didn't laugh 0:14:25.070 --> 0:14:30.990 it off. He called the police. What's up, doc? And 0:14:31.110 --> 0:14:34.869 that one I will permit. The West Midlands police incredibly 0:14:35.110 --> 0:14:38.220 didn't just visit the young man, the teenager. They arrested him. 0:14:38.580 --> 0:14:41.640 They seized his devices and took him in for questioning. 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:49.360 I could rant powerfully about our First Amendment and how 0:14:49.420 --> 0:14:52.620 incredibly powerful it is and how second I am by 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.910 the state of British crackdowns on free speech, especially against 0:14:55.950 --> 0:15:03.250 government figures, but I won't. The Politico, what's his name, Bennett, 0:15:03.670 --> 0:15:11.060 apparently unaware of the Streisand effect. So when, before the 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:13.920 police action, the original Facebook post was only seen by 0:15:13.940 --> 0:15:16.660 a very few people that follow this kid on Facebook. 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:21.020 Now that the picture of Bunny Rabbit Bennett has been, 0:15:21.970 --> 0:15:25.930 the kid got busted for it, millions have seen the 0:15:25.970 --> 0:15:29.350 picture again. Of course. The image has been produced in 0:15:29.450 --> 0:15:33.290 news coverage, has gone viral on social media. One post 0:15:33.650 --> 0:15:38.530 on Polymarket's X account has had more than 6.8 million views. 0:15:38.770 --> 0:15:39.070 Wow. 0:15:39.350 --> 0:15:42.050 Free speech advocates like David Atherton posted the pic in 0:15:42.090 --> 0:15:45.750 solidarity in Britain, adding, come and get me, West Midlands police. 0:15:46.270 --> 0:15:51.130 And a memefied, I'm sorry, memefied variations of Fraser's manipulated 0:15:51.190 --> 0:15:56.320 photo now abound. It's everywhere, everywhere, everywhere. And the damage 0:15:56.380 --> 0:16:00.540 to Bennett's reputation could be permanent. Any Google search for 0:16:00.620 --> 0:16:04.580 Simon Bennett counselor produces endless pages about the rabbit. 0:16:04.700 --> 0:16:07.400 Oh, you're right. I'll bet for the rest of his life. 0:16:08.220 --> 0:16:10.340 Any search includes the rabbit. 0:16:10.980 --> 0:16:11.240 Right. 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:17.300 Right. Meanwhile, over in Germany, Chancellor Friedrich Merz has reportedly 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:22.130 filed hundreds of police reports against online critics for calling 0:16:22.170 --> 0:16:27.310 him Pinocchio and other petty insults. The German police apparently 0:16:27.350 --> 0:16:31.430 took his report seriously. But then they also launched a 0:16:31.470 --> 0:16:36.350 criminal investigation against the citizen for calling another politician fat. 0:16:37.290 --> 0:16:41.930 Richard Lang. Lang complained, of course, which ensured that search 0:16:42.010 --> 0:16:45.250 engines will pair the words Richard Lang and fat for 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:50.080 the rest of his life. And Andy Grote, another German politician, 0:16:50.100 --> 0:16:53.860 sent police after a Twitter user who called him a pimmel. 0:16:54.220 --> 0:16:58.310 which is street slang for a penis in Germany. The 0:16:58.330 --> 0:17:01.370 charges were dropped after a public outcry, but the incident 0:17:01.450 --> 0:17:04.790 undoubtedly led to a lot more Germans thinking of Groot 0:17:04.850 --> 0:17:07.320 as a pimmel for making such a fuss about it. 0:17:07.750 --> 0:17:09.470 I'm going to start using the term pimmel. 0:17:11.730 --> 0:17:12.869 I love this. 0:17:12.970 --> 0:17:15.210 I wonder if this is going to fix the free 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:18.640 speech problem and that people will eventually figure out, you know, 0:17:18.660 --> 0:17:21.200 I hate that he calls me fat, but if I complain, 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:22.080 it's going to make it worse. 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:24.470 So I better just let him do it. Yeah, I 0:17:24.510 --> 0:17:25.930 wish I had the quotes in front of me. Both 0:17:26.270 --> 0:17:29.010 Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson said some really powerful things 0:17:29.050 --> 0:17:34.159 to the effect of the Constitution is nothing without the 0:17:34.260 --> 0:17:36.119 love of the people, the will of the people, the 0:17:36.140 --> 0:17:38.140 support of the people. It's just a piece of paper. 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.160 And if the will of the people says something else, 0:17:42.220 --> 0:17:44.540 it doesn't really matter what the Constitution says. We have 0:17:44.580 --> 0:17:47.380 to love our system and understand why it's so good. 0:17:48.100 --> 0:17:53.109 The The trampling of the First Amendment in Great Britain 0:17:53.130 --> 0:17:56.000 and Germany, for instance, in the name of eliminating hate 0:17:56.060 --> 0:17:59.740 speech or insulting speech or offending Muslims or whatever the 0:17:59.780 --> 0:18:02.760 hell is that the sacred cow at the particular time 0:18:02.780 --> 0:18:06.060 we're talking about. If the will of the people is 0:18:06.380 --> 0:18:09.830 we will not accept that and we're going to mock 0:18:09.890 --> 0:18:14.210 it to death. I can die happy. I love this. 0:18:14.630 --> 0:18:17.369 Imagine a world where you call the police if someone 0:18:17.410 --> 0:18:18.270 calls you fat. 0:18:19.890 --> 0:18:20.370 Wow. 0:18:21.310 --> 0:18:22.950 Or worse yet, a fat pimmel. 0:18:23.090 --> 0:18:23.449 Ooh. 0:18:24.050 --> 0:18:27.670 Fat rabbit-looking pimmel. Ooh. It's the worst fate. 0:18:27.710 --> 0:18:28.340 Any thoughts on that? 0:18:28.380 --> 0:18:31.060 Text line 415-295-KFTC. 0:18:31.100 --> 0:18:31.820 Get the podcast. 0:18:32.700 --> 0:18:55.780 Armstrong and Getty. The Wall Street. 0:18:53.060 --> 0:18:56.740 Journal reports that the United States has warned Gulf allies 0:18:56.800 --> 0:19:00.240 about a potential wave of strikes against Iran just after 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:04.560 the midterm elections. Now, the report points to internal communications 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:06.300 that are both military. 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:07.220 And diplomatic in nature. 0:19:07.859 --> 0:19:10.930 And indicate the United States and Israel are preparing a 0:19:11.030 --> 0:19:13.689 new round of heavy combat operations against Iran. 0:19:13.990 --> 0:19:14.290 The U.S. 0:19:14.330 --> 0:19:17.350 Is also sending an additional Patriot missile defense battery to 0:19:17.490 --> 0:19:21.070 Israel to prepare for incoming Iranian missile fire. This does 0:19:21.090 --> 0:19:24.359 come as the Qataris are proposing a seven-day timeline to 0:19:24.390 --> 0:19:27.420 address the negotiation concerns of the U.S. and Iran, a 0:19:27.460 --> 0:19:30.119 move that could avoid further escalation. Now, the Iranians are 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:32.280 expected to respond by the end of the week. 0:19:32.780 --> 0:19:37.540 This election is hugely consequential, and Prime Minister Netanyahu has 0:19:37.619 --> 0:19:41.350 promised that if he is reelected, he will ramp up 0:19:41.450 --> 0:19:45.490 the war with Iran and partner with President Trump to, quote, 0:19:45.790 --> 0:19:49.930 finish the job, meaning more fighting and continued high-gainerism. 0:19:50.260 --> 0:19:53.400 Prices in the U.S. So what are all these stories? 0:19:53.500 --> 0:19:56.619 Why are we hearing all these stories about the timing 0:19:56.840 --> 0:20:00.940 of attacking Iran? Since when is this the sort of 0:20:00.980 --> 0:20:05.030 thing that It's announced like we now know who the 0:20:05.070 --> 0:20:07.610 Super Bowl halftime show is. We now know when we're 0:20:07.630 --> 0:20:08.760 going to attack a country. 0:20:08.820 --> 0:20:11.020 It's scheduled for. I also don't get why there's not 0:20:11.060 --> 0:20:15.619 more conversation around. Isn't the scheduling an attack for after 0:20:15.660 --> 0:20:18.179 the election just as bad as having one before the 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:21.530 election to influence? I mean, why the election shouldn't you 0:20:21.570 --> 0:20:27.490 announce it? Yeah, well, you shouldn't be timing attacks around elections, 0:20:27.590 --> 0:20:27.929