Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jack Katie and He Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: A group of firefighters in England were able to rescue
Speaker 3: a horse from a five foot ditch using a system
Speaker 3: of ropes and pulleys. It's the same technology they use
Speaker 3: every morning to get Joy Behar out of her uber.
Speaker 2: Funny because it's true. Funny because it's true.
Speaker 4: I like Greg Guphield Felt and my parents watch him
Speaker 4: every single night, But like a lot of his jokes
Speaker 4: are just pick somebody people on the right hate, and
Speaker 4: then just like I don't know, say something really meant,
Speaker 4: call him fat or ugly.
Speaker 2: Yes, that seems to be a recurring theme.
Speaker 4: Pick somebody they hate on the right and call them fat,
Speaker 4: ugly or stupid. Then we laugh and we move on
Speaker 4: to the next victim. How many days in a row?
Speaker 4: It's been four now, is that right? How many days
Speaker 4: in a row? Will the Pope dying be the lead
Speaker 4: story on the evening newscasts?
Speaker 2: I wonder?
Speaker 4: It's extraordinary to me. But more on that coming up
Speaker 4: in a little bit. I want to talk about that. Oh,
Speaker 4: I just came across the term. This is this might
Speaker 4: be the most important thing you learned today. Health Span
Speaker 4: is going to be a term you hear a lot
Speaker 4: instead of life span, instead of life span all the time.
Speaker 4: The average lifespan is a male men live to be
Speaker 4: eighty two, women live to be blah blah blah. Health
Speaker 4: span like the span of your life where you're like
Speaker 4: able to do stuff and enjoy your life. Who cares
Speaker 4: if you live another five years of lane in bed
Speaker 4: and pain. What's the period of time I get to
Speaker 4: where I'm like actually enjoying life health span?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: Well, I care, But I see your point. That's not
Speaker 2: what we're shooting for.
Speaker 4: Right right, And I think it's a good idea to
Speaker 4: change our focus on that.
Speaker 2: I've said this many times.
Speaker 4: My doctor said to me actually sometime last year, he said,
Speaker 4: sometimes I wonder what's the goal here, because there's just
Speaker 4: a lot of extending life in pain and misery and
Speaker 4: can't do anything. Yes, health span, that's what we need
Speaker 4: to work on it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I you know this is a heavy and complicated topic,
Speaker 2: but yeah, the stringing along at any expense and pain
Speaker 2: and whatever treatment is available and just it seems not right.
Speaker 2: It does not seem to fit with the reality of
Speaker 2: being a biological being. It just it seems like an
Speaker 2: experiment as opposed to automatically a good idea. We're gonna
Speaker 2: use machines and drugs and procedures to keep this body
Speaker 2: functioning at a minimal level so we can say it's alive.
Speaker 2: Let's see what happens. Meanwhile, I A is the owner
Speaker 2: of the body or thinking, I don't want to do
Speaker 2: that experiment. No, I'm not.
Speaker 4: It's easy to saying that we don't last forever. I
Speaker 4: don't know what it feels like to be ninety and
Speaker 4: laying in bed, and I know I'm never gonna do
Speaker 4: a lot of different.
Speaker 2: Stuff, right a matter of degree of course, sure, and
Speaker 2: various by the individual. On a much lighter note, because
Speaker 2: everything's a lighter note, Michaels, Do we have any transitions
Speaker 2: before the transition life and death? Little more life and
Speaker 2: death before the fun stuff? Folks. I think about this
Speaker 2: a lot, because I should read more about it. William F.
Speaker 4: Buckley, who I'm a big admirer of, guy who started
Speaker 4: a National review and writer commentator.
Speaker 2: The father of modern conservatism.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely more or less, he reached a point where
Speaker 4: he just flat out he said in and you can
Speaker 4: watch an interview on YouTube me He's sitting there in
Speaker 4: a suit, and he said, no, I'm ready to be done.
Speaker 4: I'm ready to exit this world. I just none of
Speaker 4: the things I enjoy in life can I do anymore?
Speaker 4: Is like really into sailing and exercise and all these
Speaker 4: different things. And I'm just I'm just ready to be done.
Speaker 4: And I thought, that's really interesting. How come more people
Speaker 4: don't come to that conclusion?
Speaker 2: Or do they just lack the haft of a William F.
Speaker 2: Buckley and the support of family members to respect their wishes?
Speaker 2: In some cases, you know, the whole everybody wants to
Speaker 2: die at home, and nobody does because the nurses and
Speaker 2: doctor say, oh no, no, no, no, you can't check out? Now,
Speaker 2: what the hell I can't? But if I'm not dying
Speaker 2: of something, what do I just tell my kids? Hey,
Speaker 2: sneak up behind me. At some point, I mean, what
Speaker 2: do you I don't understand how you exit? You wander
Speaker 2: off like an old elephant into the wilderness or the
Speaker 2: outskirts of town or wherever old elephants go. Nobody's sure
Speaker 2: you want me to sneak up behind you. I don't know,
Speaker 2: all right, Michael Transition music. It really is. It's one
Speaker 2: of the best. I feel sufficiently classed death. So entrepreneurs
Speaker 2: are flocking to Greenland, still not America yet Jack to
Speaker 2: harvest its most abundant resource and hopes that there are
Speaker 2: enough people willing to pay a premium for vodka made
Speaker 2: with glacial melt water or a cocktail chilled with ultra
Speaker 2: pure Greenland ice. The ice is allegedly cleaner and denser
Speaker 2: than almost any ice on Earth because it has been
Speaker 2: compressed in a glacier for one hundred thousand years before
Speaker 2: falling into the Fiord. My parents did this.
Speaker 4: I sent them on a cruise up in Alaska and
Speaker 4: they had drinks on a big boat where it was
Speaker 4: this chunks of the glacier where you can count on
Speaker 4: it being, you know, sixty thousand year old pure, the
Speaker 4: purest water that exists on Earth. Something it's mammoth pe
Speaker 4: in it. You're not fooling me, right, It's a gimmick
Speaker 4: more than anything else. I mean, you can only water
Speaker 4: can only get so pure that you wouldn't be able to.
Speaker 2: Tell, right, And whether science backs up the sales pitch
Speaker 2: is a subject of debate, as you indicate, as are
Speaker 2: the environmental trade offs of hauling ice chunks from the
Speaker 2: Arctic to a nightclub in Dubai. Whatever. Anyway, so this
Speaker 2: guy who's a green plant mammoth p in it, get
Speaker 2: a bartender. So this guy's CEO of this greenland company
Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty million dollar business development fund. In
Speaker 2: the past five years, the territory's government has approved thirteen
Speaker 2: licenses to six companies that are currently are planning to
Speaker 2: harvest glacial meltwater and ice. And they go into some
Speaker 2: of the details, but oh, I'm sorry. Once the container
Speaker 2: arrives in Dubai, as we're discussing, Arctic ice workers carve
Speaker 2: the chunks into spheres and place them into triangular gift
Speaker 2: boxes that come with little a little pair of tongs.
Speaker 2: The Arctic ice boxes cost one hundred dollars for six cubes,
Speaker 2: one hundred dollars for six ice balls. This is like
Speaker 2: steel cut oats.
Speaker 4: And a number of other things that are just there
Speaker 4: more marketing than.
Speaker 2: Real And then diners at this Dubai restaurant to nightclub
Speaker 2: in Dubai's financial district can indulge in the gin infused
Speaker 2: desert whisper cocktail that costs about forty eight box chilled
Speaker 2: with Greenland ice cubes. Wow, that's a pretty good cocktail
Speaker 2: price for a high end joint anyway. Yeah, is there
Speaker 2: a spot on Earth more decadent than Dubai. Perhaps not,
Speaker 2: probably wherever Vladimir Putin is hanging out right now. So
Speaker 2: here's a French entrepreneur living in Dubai, twenty eight years old.
Speaker 2: He takes his eighteen year old single malt Scotch over
Speaker 2: Greenland ice, Thank you very much? What runs him about
Speaker 2: two hundred and eighteen dollars. He said he likes that
Speaker 2: the ice cubes are free of dirt and bacterial contaminants
Speaker 2: and melt slowly. Wow. But I couldn't hate that guy enough.
Speaker 2: Oh please, Therefore you're spending two hundred and eighteen bucks
Speaker 2: for a drink, trust me, regularized, It doesn't melt that fast.
Speaker 2: It's fine, You'll be good.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: The storytelling is very important for the customers, says the
Speaker 2: marketing director. When you tell them they contain elements which
Speaker 2: are one hundred thousand years old, it's impressive. In other words,
Speaker 2: it's all a stupid pretension for rich people to show off. Yeah,
Speaker 2: lots of things are yeah, no kidding, So never mind
Speaker 2: the vital rare earths and minerals and stuff on Greenland.
Speaker 2: Everybody's making a fortune on the damn ice selling it
Speaker 2: to rich people, which is crazy. Speaking of lifestyle, these
Speaker 2: stories jack the rise of looks maxing in influencers, toxic
Speaker 2: beauty for men hankering for a chisel jawline. A male
Speaker 2: TikTok influencer strikes his cheekbones with a hammer, highlighting the wrists,
Speaker 2: the rise of looks, masking, maximum usering, mewing. Are you familiar, Yes,
Speaker 2: we've talked about this before. Yeah, my kids mentioned this
Speaker 2: couple of years ago. Is big on the playground.
Speaker 4: Kids on the playground talking about their jawlines.
Speaker 2: That's healthy for a society. Oh my lord, ed what
Speaker 2: ah oh oh fourth grade? Oh ever, ever, this is
Speaker 2: why William F. Buckley embraced death. Seems like I've had
Speaker 2: enough anyway. It's a nonline trend of pushing unproven, sometimes
Speaker 2: dangerous techniques to boost sexual appeal. Look looks maxing influencers
Speaker 2: part of an online ecosphere dubbed manosphere. I've sarched popularity blah,
Speaker 2: blah blah. Capitalizing on the insecurities you have young men
Speaker 2: to boost their physical attractiveness to women. Well, these people
Speaker 2: are hooking up or have an interest in it. In
Speaker 2: posts across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, they promote pseudo scientific
Speaker 2: methods to achieve everything from poudy lips to chin extensions
Speaker 2: and almond shaped hunter eyes as they're called h okay,
Speaker 2: I kind of are you sure you're hooking up with women?
Speaker 2: I get what a chin extension could be, or a
Speaker 2: variety of things. How do you change your eye shape? Well,
Speaker 2: that's that's the thing, A lot of stuff at all.
Speaker 4: How are you changing your eye shape? I have beaty,
Speaker 4: beaty little criminalize it, nobody trusts. I would love it
Speaker 4: if I had big Disney eyes, but I don't.
Speaker 2: And I have made my lips poudy by pouting a lot.
Speaker 2: And of course, these guys monetize their popularity by endorsing
Speaker 2: a range of consumer products and at money, giving young
Speaker 2: men terrible, terrible advice. For some case, it doesn't matter anyway.
Speaker 2: These influencers advocate taking steroids, undergoing plastic surgery, and even
Speaker 2: leg lengthening procedures to become more attractive.
Speaker 4: Okay, here's a little hint for me, just because I
Speaker 4: know people in I'm single. I know people in the
Speaker 4: single world talking about what it's like to be single.
Speaker 2: The modern world.
Speaker 4: Here's women aren't worried about your shin length, or the
Speaker 4: mewing of your jawline, or your poudiness of your lips,
Speaker 4: or a number of other things. They want a guy
Speaker 4: who doesn't play video games all the time and can
Speaker 4: keep an erection, has a job.
Speaker 2: Do those you can make a living? Yes? Have those
Speaker 2: three things? You don't need to worry about your jawline. Yes,
Speaker 2: job in erections, right, that's all you need, son Jack,
Speaker 2: Why don't you become one of these what do they
Speaker 2: call them, Kenny looks maxing influencers. Wow, except you'll be
Speaker 2: a job in erection maxing influencer. And yes, they get
Speaker 2: into mewing, an unproven technique involving pressing the tongue into
Speaker 2: the roof of the mouth for improving john facial structure.
Speaker 2: It doesn't work. And bone smashing, known as the hammer technique,
Speaker 2: where you hit your cheeks with the sharp edge of
Speaker 2: a hammer to try to grow out your bones. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you can end up with if it works. If it
Speaker 2: does anything, you're gonna have a lumpy face. You're not
Speaker 2: gonna look like, you know, Chris Hemsworth, You're gonna look
Speaker 2: like you got hit in the head with a hammer
Speaker 2: because you did. You know.
Speaker 4: I kind of feel like if you do this, man,
Speaker 4: there's a little Darwin thing going on there. Even for
Speaker 4: a young person.
Speaker 2: I get, Well, you yourself in the head with a hammer.
Speaker 2: I mean, wow, this kids right back. Well, yeah, you're right,
Speaker 2: you're I mean, it's not like you knock yourself unconscious.
Speaker 2: But what's tough for us is that in our pre
Speaker 2: adolescence and a lessons, we didn't have the most ridiculous, corrosive,
Speaker 2: poisonous ideas in the world at the touch of our fingers, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, like all the time my son and other
Speaker 2: lunatics who say, yes, what he said is an excellent
Speaker 2: idea in a way you would never run into in
Speaker 2: real life. I don't know.
Speaker 4: Exactly what my high schooler was doing, but he was
Speaker 4: in the backyard the other day with his friends. They
Speaker 4: were shirtless with big buckets of water doing something that
Speaker 4: was a TikTok challenge.
Speaker 2: I don't even know what it was. Well, but yeah,
Speaker 2: it happens. At least they weren't hitting themselves in the
Speaker 2: face with hammers. Stop the hammering. Final note, then we
Speaker 2: really need to take a break. Is that a lot
Speaker 2: of the in cell communities, the involuntarily celibate, are turning
Speaker 2: into looks maxing because they're thinking, Okay, I can't get laid.
Speaker 2: I've been blaming and hating women. What if I hit
Speaker 2: myself in the face with a hammer, then I'll look
Speaker 2: like Chris Hemsworth and I'll get lots of chicks. So,
Speaker 2: because the marketing wasn't working so much on the in
Speaker 2: cell stuff anymore, the money grubbing disgust that this actually
Speaker 2: is at its root is turned into this, wow a
Speaker 2: nice girl, treader. Well, fellas, get a job, maintain your erection.
Speaker 2: It'll go great. Trust me, I wouldn't lie to you.
Speaker 5: At the Philadelphia Zoo, it's their big debut. For the
Speaker 5: first time, the public able to see four critically endangered
Speaker 5: western Santa Cruz Galopagos tortoise hatchlings, little baby turtles less
Speaker 5: than fifty are known to exist in America. The zoo
Speaker 5: telling us they are proud to protect the endangered population
Speaker 5: and proud of that ninety seven year old mom appropriately
Speaker 5: named Mommy. She is our oldest and longest tenured resident, fascinated.
Speaker 2: Hatching in nineteen twenty eight and has been here since nineteen.
Speaker 5: Thirty two, The zoo telling us the babies are driving
Speaker 5: exploring their new habitat.
Speaker 2: You know, I could do basic mathematics, but it hadn't
Speaker 2: occurred to me that a ninety seven year old turtle
Speaker 2: came on the scene when Hoover was still doing the
Speaker 2: Charleston Great Scott.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but does that turtle realize she's gonna be one
Speaker 4: hundred and eighteen when they graduated high school?
Speaker 2: Hey, I tell you what if those tortoises are from
Speaker 2: turtles whatever they are from western Santa Cruz again, promise
Speaker 2: you this, they're stone.
Speaker 4: Did you know John Mulaney's got a new like talk
Speaker 4: show on Netflix. He's doing every week like with a
Speaker 4: crowd and a guest.
Speaker 2: It's like any of those late night talk shows. Anyway.
Speaker 4: I saw the beginning of the one from Sunday night,
Speaker 4: and he said, a tough week this week for the show.
Speaker 4: The it's kind of a Saturday Night Live type show,
Speaker 4: he said. The whole premise was, gosh, it's great. The
Speaker 4: Pope's still alive, and we had to rewrite the whole script.
Speaker 4: But the evening News keeps leading with the Pope's death.
Speaker 4: I don't know how many days that's gonna last. Here's
Speaker 4: a little from ABC News last night.
Speaker 2: I feel like someone for my family, and I don't
Speaker 2: know why, because I really don't know him alone, you
Speaker 2: understand it. I don't know. How did you feel when
Speaker 2: you in front of him? So blessed, really so blessed.
Speaker 2: I'm so happy, extremely moving, emotional, having stopped.
Speaker 4: Much some of the many people standing in line for
Speaker 4: hours to walk by the body of the dead Pope.
Speaker 2: I don't get it at all.
Speaker 4: I'm pro religion, I'm pro Catholic Church. I'm pro Christianity
Speaker 4: as you can get and all that. I don't understand
Speaker 4: the investing in the pope this. I just, you know, fine,
Speaker 4: I'm not I don't know.
Speaker 2: I guess I am bereing critical by bringing this up,
Speaker 2: but yeah, yeah, well, I don't have time to fully
Speaker 2: explain my position on this, So for once in my life,
Speaker 2: I'll show a little restraint and not even start. And
Speaker 2: then I'm shocked at.
Speaker 4: The evening News full of atheists and people that dislike
Speaker 4: religion more than they like it.
Speaker 2: Leading with that story every single night. I think they
Speaker 2: have a very old audience, so it's more likely to
Speaker 2: be a religious and be Catholic.
Speaker 4: Richard Ingele of NBC News in Iran before we bombed
Speaker 4: the Jesus out of it, talking about the current state
Speaker 4: of Iranian culture, which is kind of interesting, among other things.
Speaker 2: On the way stay.
Speaker 1: Here, Armstrong and Getty, I realized that I, for one,
Speaker 1: like geopolitics and Warren Peace more than the average bear,
Speaker 1: so I can spend a lot of time thinking and
Speaker 1: talking about it, as opposed to like, I don't know
Speaker 1: a lot of your domestic economic stuff.
Speaker 2: I have no.
Speaker 4: Interest in it the stuff that matters.
Speaker 2: You're a global elitist. Are you in the Bilderberg group?
Speaker 4: I might be, But everybody's going to be talking about
Speaker 4: Iran here soon when we bomb the crap out of it,
Speaker 4: which I think is going to happen. I think we
Speaker 4: and Israel I didn't read that whole New York Times
Speaker 4: story from last weekend till this weekend.
Speaker 2: That was the one where, either on purpose.
Speaker 4: Or not, some source inside the Pentagon or the White
Speaker 4: House let the New York Times know the entire plan
Speaker 4: for attacking Iran, which included Israeli commandos going in and
Speaker 4: getting into the tunnels. And I mean, I mean that's
Speaker 4: been that was going to be a serious still might
Speaker 4: be a serious invasion of a major country in history,
Speaker 4: Israel sending commandos in and you know, fighting in the
Speaker 4: tunnels to try to get to the nuclear bomb making
Speaker 4: sights and US bombing and everything I got. Anyway, Iran
Speaker 4: is going to be top of mind when that happens.
Speaker 4: That's one of the reasons Richard Engel of NBC News
Speaker 4: is there. Here's what he had to say yesterday.
Speaker 6: The Iranians, both on the governmental level and on a
Speaker 6: popular level, are taking these talks extraordinarily seriously. In the US,
Speaker 6: they might not be getting a lot of attention. People
Speaker 6: are talking about Ukraine, the economy, the executive orders that
Speaker 6: trendsident Trump is giving. But here the only conversation that
Speaker 6: people are having is is focused on on these On
Speaker 6: these talks, people hope that they will be successful, People
Speaker 6: hope that they will end sanctions, and and a lot
Speaker 6: of people are worried that if they fail that there
Speaker 6: could be some sort of military action taken against Iran
Speaker 6: by Israel, by Israel and the United States together could be.
Speaker 4: There absolutely will be. And you know, I didn't finish
Speaker 4: my thoughts. So that story that was in the New
Speaker 4: York Times, some people are you know, you got to
Speaker 4: find the leaker and you know, have them shot for
Speaker 4: treason or whatever. It's quite possible that the Trump people
Speaker 4: gave that to the New York Times on purpose to
Speaker 4: let Iran know this is how serious we are. Israel's
Speaker 4: putting ground troops into Iran. That's how serious we are
Speaker 4: about this whole thing. That's what you're going to be
Speaker 4: dealing with. So you might want to get pretty serious.
Speaker 2: Scent a possibility, Yeah, yeah, man, that would be. That
Speaker 2: would be.
Speaker 4: I mean, Israel's been around since with forty nine or whatever,
Speaker 4: and there have been a number of major wars that
Speaker 4: movies have made. This would be right up there. I
Speaker 4: mean in terms of a big deal. They're putting ground
Speaker 4: troops in Iran. Holy crap. Anyway, And once again, isn't
Speaker 4: it nice to live in the United States where we're
Speaker 4: ignoring this story.
Speaker 2: Because nobody's gonna bomb you today.
Speaker 4: In Iran, it's all the talk, as Richard Dingle just said,
Speaker 4: because there's a chance the most sophisticated planes in the world,
Speaker 4: with the most sophisticated bombs on Earth start invading their.
Speaker 2: City any day now if it's some of the most
Speaker 2: fearsome sum bitches on Earth drop out of the sky
Speaker 2: at night in our ooching about in your cities and
Speaker 2: certainly your nuclear facilities. Yeah, we also have the luxury
Speaker 2: of not being directly threatened by Iran getting the bomb
Speaker 2: in a way that Israel are good Old Bud. Absolutely
Speaker 2: it a good point. Here's more, Richard Dingle.
Speaker 6: Just the fact that I am here is part of
Speaker 6: that initiative government is trying to open up. We've been
Speaker 6: given quite extraordinary access to government officials. I was at
Speaker 6: the Iranian parliament the other day talking to a ranking
Speaker 6: member of their National Security Committee. We've been able to
Speaker 6: walk around the streets without any kind of minders or escorts.
Speaker 2: A lot is happening here.
Speaker 6: There is a lot of change happening inside Iran that
Speaker 6: that doesn't get out.
Speaker 4: So they happily welcome Richard Engel into I assume he's
Speaker 4: in Tehran, so he can travel around with no minders
Speaker 4: or anything like that. New they want a very sympathetic
Speaker 4: face on the Iranian people.
Speaker 2: As you're about to hear here, a lot.
Speaker 6: Of these stereotypes people have about the Iranian people, they're not.
Speaker 2: What you what you you? What you what you see
Speaker 2: when you walk around on the streets here.
Speaker 6: Uh, there is a sophisticated culture that is very that
Speaker 6: that very much wants to engage with the world. You
Speaker 6: go to a coffee shop in Tehran, and not just
Speaker 6: in the wealthy areas, but anywhere in this city and
Speaker 6: in many places, it looks like you could be in
Speaker 6: a coffee shop in New York City or any part
Speaker 6: of Western Europe. The problem is because of the sanctions,
Speaker 6: because of the impositions imposed on Iran, they are almost
Speaker 6: cut off from the world.
Speaker 2: That's nice, really, that's an interesting way to describe how
Speaker 2: we got to the point that they're cut off from
Speaker 2: the world. Didn't have anything to do with the Madman
Speaker 2: Mullahs and the Islamic supremacists and the Revolutionary Guard. No,
Speaker 2: it was the West that did that.
Speaker 4: Well, right, And hey, Richard Engel, while you know, I
Speaker 4: feel bad for the average Iranian citizen who probably doesn't
Speaker 4: like the government anymore than I do, oh guaranteed, so
Speaker 4: the fact that they got modern New York style coffee shops.
Speaker 2: We should let them get a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 4: I mean, because at the end of the day, it's
Speaker 4: about them getting a nuclear weapon and weather obliterating the.
Speaker 2: Jews, yes, exactly, and after that the Christians. Yes, but
Speaker 2: they do have nice coffee shops. He makes a good point. No,
Speaker 2: it sucks.
Speaker 4: You live in Toronto and you're some nineteen year old
Speaker 4: woman who hates the fact that the government makes you
Speaker 4: wear a headscarf, and you'd kill the Mullas with your
Speaker 4: bare hands if you had the chance yourself right, it
Speaker 4: would suck for you to get caught in a you know,
Speaker 4: a bomb.
Speaker 2: I don't know. This is uh. You know, the Mullahs
Speaker 2: are nuts, but they're not stupid. Likewise the Revolutionary Guard.
Speaker 2: It's really interesting to me. I've been unaware of the
Speaker 2: whole Wait, we're open, we're western, we have coffee shops,
Speaker 2: Dick Engel. You walk around anywhere you want, ask anybody
Speaker 2: you want anything. What are you talking about? A giant
Speaker 2: attack with bombs and commandos. Please have a cup of
Speaker 2: our excellent coffee. They are extremely weak. Y'all have probably
Speaker 2: heard this before. I'm not trying to, you know, repeat
Speaker 2: what you've heard or insult your intelligence. But Israel having
Speaker 2: taken out Iran's air defenses fairly recently and expose them
Speaker 2: even at that moment as being much much weaker than
Speaker 2: anybody thought. And at this point they are an infant
Speaker 2: in a bassinette in terms of their self defense capabilities,
Speaker 2: certainly against more sophisticated attacks. So apparently they're going full
Speaker 2: on let's be buddies. I've heard it on the right
Speaker 2: that no Trump has trying to sign us up for
Speaker 2: like Obama's Ronnie An Agreement two point zero. But I
Speaker 2: you know, I don't worship Trump as a god, but
Speaker 2: I don't think he's that bad a deal maker either.
Speaker 2: He's got to understand how weak they are and what
Speaker 2: an opportune moment this is to strike, whether you know, physically,
Speaker 2: kinetically strike or strike is in. All right, here's the
Speaker 2: deal you're being offered.
Speaker 4: Those war plans, and these were war plans that were
Speaker 4: put out in the New York Times weekend before last.
Speaker 4: It included which kinds of planes are going to launch
Speaker 4: from which base, at which moment, and in which order.
Speaker 4: I mean, it was quite detailed.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. Yeah, that's what the planners do.
Speaker 4: But well, I understand why the planners have it, but
Speaker 4: who gave that to the New York Times for what reason?
Speaker 4: M M, somebody who doesn't want this attack to happen.
Speaker 4: I mean your theory better, Well, I hope it's I
Speaker 4: hope it's my original theory that it's it's the Trump
Speaker 4: administration letting rand know, Hey, this is how serious we are.
Speaker 4: This is these are the details of the plans we've
Speaker 4: got ready to go, and we do. If it's somebody
Speaker 4: who released that stuff to try to stop it, You're
Speaker 4: you're telling them exactly which planes where take off? When
Speaker 4: I mean that is treason US.
Speaker 2: I would agree those were Help me understand those were
Speaker 2: US plans, Israeli plans or a combination combination? Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: that is treason US. Although the start actually in the field,
Speaker 2: but it's still like them whisked off to a secret
Speaker 2: prison for a while. Is Dick Cheneys still in business?
Speaker 4: I mean the fact that that Iran can now plan
Speaker 4: for Israeli commandos, right, there's nothing they can do about
Speaker 4: the air attacks as we're discussing seconds ago.
Speaker 2: But yeah, the uh yeah, planning for the specifics of
Speaker 2: the attack. Yeah, that's that's a very bad leak on
Speaker 2: the other side of if it was an actual like
Speaker 2: hostile lea the other side of it for SMEA.
Speaker 4: And I don't know who leaked this to Tucker, but
Speaker 4: Tucker Carlson claims he's got the Pentagon's own numbers on uh,
Speaker 4: what the reaction could be in it and included thousands
Speaker 4: dead in attacks on our military basis around the Middle
Speaker 4: East and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is I keep saying this. I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't, I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't feel like people feel this way. This would
Speaker 4: be the biggest thing we've done militarily sent shock in
Speaker 4: aw March two thousand and three when we attacked Iraq
Speaker 4: with a full army, and it might not necessarily go
Speaker 4: as smoothly either. U.
Speaker 2: No, No, well, yeah, having lived through a number of
Speaker 2: episodes from my childhood watching Vietnam through Iraq and Afghanistan, yeah,
Speaker 2: nothing goes as planned. On the other hand, the idea
Speaker 2: that thousands of our troops would die, I'm not buying that.
Speaker 4: No, I'm guessing that the it's a report that the
Speaker 4: Pentagon puts together with like the worst case scenario.
Speaker 2: Yeah, worst case sinaratistics. Yeah, yeah, boy, the charm offensive
Speaker 2: is interesting. I wonder what's next with this. This is
Speaker 2: easily a big enough topic that it ought to be
Speaker 2: dominating the national discussion. But it's one of like eleven, right.
Speaker 2: I was just funny.
Speaker 4: I was just reading Mark Halpern's newsletter for today, just
Speaker 4: the number of giant stories and which directions they could go, uh,
Speaker 4: this one being.
Speaker 2: One of them. But the tariff thing, and I've solved it.
Speaker 2: You permit Iran to have the bomb, but you put
Speaker 2: one hundred and forty five percent tariff on it, so
Speaker 2: they can't afford to send it to US bomb. If
Speaker 2: there's no DEI will give them the funding. I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's all very complicated. We'll finish strong next.
Speaker 4: I just saw this in the Times. The Department of
Speaker 4: Homeland Security accidentally sent out notices that said it's time
Speaker 4: for you to leave to US citizens, which would have.
Speaker 2: Been funny if I got that alert on my phone.
Speaker 2: This is the federal government. It's time for you to leave.
Speaker 2: You know what what? Okay, where am I going.
Speaker 6: For?
Speaker 1: Not?
Speaker 2: You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here, folks.
Speaker 2: It's time for you to leave. I've been told that before,
Speaker 2: as you all know. So, oh, I'm ready to self
Speaker 2: deport just to just name the time. Oh you know
Speaker 2: what I didn't get to today. We're actually talking about
Speaker 2: colleges and college funding and the Trump administration wrestling with Harvard. Who. Oh,
Speaker 2: by the way, I've forgotten. You know that Matt taye
Speaker 2: ebpiece we were talking about to yesterday that was so well written.
Speaker 2: I hadn't gotten to the end because it was pretty long.
Speaker 2: But he points out in one part that people have
Speaker 2: this idea of Harvard as being, you know, just packed
Speaker 2: with these super geniuses, the best of the best. He said, yeah,
Speaker 2: there are some real geniuses there. There are also lots
Speaker 2: and lots of morons, rich morons and legacy morons and whatever.
Speaker 1: Did go to Harvard?
Speaker 2: No, no, he did not.
Speaker 4: We asked somebody about that once and they told us that,
Speaker 4: and I remember it was was it Lanhi Chen he
Speaker 4: went to Harvard. It might have been II should put
Speaker 4: words in his mouth.
Speaker 2: He might not like that.
Speaker 4: But somebody we know who went to Harvard said, yeah,
Speaker 4: you'd be surprised. You're in classes with lots of people
Speaker 4: that are just.
Speaker 2: Very very average. Yeah, yeah, we have heard that, So
Speaker 2: here's the end of what he wrote. Were you about
Speaker 2: to jump into something I don't mean no hijack? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I was not because we had a loose plan. But
Speaker 2: for decades, the US has been transforming into a public
Speaker 2: private blob of intertwined bureaucratic unaccountability. The phenomenon is observable
Speaker 2: in every direction, from finance sector insulated by an implied bailout,
Speaker 2: to subsidized mass dysfunction and trade, healthcare, national security, and
Speaker 2: other sectors. The problem has been described by Corbett lobbyists
Speaker 2: fed up with big government, and by left leaning writers
Speaker 2: like Chris Hedges, whose Death of the Liberal Class chronicled
Speaker 2: the dangers of liberalizing NGOs. That's non governmental organizations losing
Speaker 2: independence as they're swallowed into the larger hole. Even democratic
Speaker 2: speech writers have conceded of late that it's become difficult
Speaker 2: to defe the Gordian knot that American society has become.
Speaker 2: Here's this conclusion about Harvard. Harvard is the ultimate example
Speaker 2: of an institution that's become more bureaucracy than university, where
Speaker 2: subsidies have reduced once mighty brains to a mush of
Speaker 2: arrogant entitlement. It could use some time in the wilderness.
Speaker 2: Other schools like Columbia could too if they find they
Speaker 2: can still thrive in the free market as censorious, imbecilic monocultures.
Speaker 2: Good for them. If not, maybe they'll rediscover the virtue
Speaker 2: as of academic inquiry. Trying to force that epiphany by
Speaker 2: presidential Fatwaw seems like a bad idea. Could we be
Speaker 2: lucky enough to see academia walk the plank voluntarily? Wow?
Speaker 2: I was listening to asorious imbecilic monocultures. That's what they are.
Speaker 2: I'm always saying that.
Speaker 4: I was listened to a podcast the other day and
Speaker 4: they're having the conversation of would you want your kid
Speaker 4: to go to Harvard? And almost everybody was a yes.
Speaker 4: But the reason for a the yes was the networking,
Speaker 4: the contacts you make.
Speaker 2: None of it was the education. I'm in the along
Speaker 2: line network are huge. Yeah.
Speaker 4: If mostly you want your kid to go to an
Speaker 4: Ivy League school because of the kind of people you
Speaker 4: hang around, Eh, that's a little to England for me.
Speaker 4: I'm reading a lot about rereading stuff about the spy
Speaker 4: network and all that sort of stuff in England, But
Speaker 4: all of that was based on the fact that they
Speaker 4: have such a class system in England.
Speaker 2: We don't want that in the United States. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2: I've got to admit if I see somebody who's a
Speaker 2: fellow Illinois grad, I have this small bit of affection
Speaker 2: for them, which is doesn't make any sense whatsoever. We
Speaker 2: had some common experiences, but you body don't.
Speaker 4: I don't know, but I don't think you probably have
Speaker 4: any of the I think a lot of the Harvard people,
Speaker 4: it's not just what you described. It's a you're part
Speaker 4: of us, the better people, the higher class of this
Speaker 4: and that.
Speaker 2: That should run the world. Yes, and we will look
Speaker 2: out for each other, whether they you know that that's
Speaker 2: like one hundred percent of why they do it or
Speaker 2: twenty percent of it. There's absolutely that elitists were better
Speaker 2: than everybody thing. But they're also because they're so full
Speaker 2: of themselves. They see a fellow Harvard grad or whatever,
Speaker 2: they want to hire them and help them and do
Speaker 2: something for them, to reafform that tribal affiliation. My point
Speaker 2: is my tribal affiliation is it exists, but it's weak.
Speaker 2: I mean, I understand how silly is it it is,
Speaker 2: even as I feel it, But if you're like steeped
Speaker 2: in the whole Harvard Crimson thing, you've got a super
Speaker 2: powerful tribal affiliation impulse. And that's good if you're a
Speaker 2: kid trying to get a first gig. For instance, Well,
Speaker 2: there's Jack Gan, there's Joke Band. It's kind of La Boy,
Speaker 2: Kad Green and Michael Land Stabby the klines. They're like dad,
Speaker 2: they're not a radio so there they're final class people.
Speaker 4: They have to go, Yeah, you got a puppy in
Speaker 4: your van? I know, Oh, oh my god, frightening. Here's
Speaker 4: your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew.
Speaker 2: To wrap up the day. There is our technical director,
Speaker 2: Michael Angelo. Michael talked to us easy message today, Happy
Speaker 2: birthday to my wonderful wife. As she's listening, and uh,
Speaker 2: I think McDonald's has a new sandwich and so maybe
Speaker 2: you know you might be getting that you fuck wow,
Speaker 2: Michael disturbing. Yeah, rest in peace. Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman.
Speaker 7: As a final thought, Katie, well, I have a busy,
Speaker 7: very busy day ahead of me today. I was just
Speaker 7: notified that I owe Bridge toll and this notification came
Speaker 7: in from a hot mail email address, so I have
Speaker 7: to handle that.
Speaker 2: State of Oregon's using hotmail now or whatever. Jack a
Speaker 2: final thought for us.
Speaker 4: For some reason, I was thrown by Michael's birthday to
Speaker 4: his wife.
Speaker 2: She might be listening while you're thinking speaking of food.
Speaker 2: My final thought, I've been observing some of the construction
Speaker 2: crews working on our remodel project, and some of the
Speaker 2: fellas who are Mexican, Guatemala and whatever they are. Instead
Speaker 2: of like bringing packaged lunch or going out to McDonald's
Speaker 2: or whatever, they've set up with a pro pain like
Speaker 2: Camp Peter thing their own tacrea. They're eating fresh made,
Speaker 2: hot tortillaed tacos for lunch together in the shade. It
Speaker 2: looks fantastic. Why don't we gringos do that? And so
Speaker 2: bring the grill, you bring the burgers, not a bag
Speaker 2: of Doritos and the red Bull or yeah, some crap
Speaker 2: you got out of the freezer case of the seven
Speaker 2: to eleven, right, that's cool, to kill you.
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Speaker 2: God bless America. We've really tried to understand things from
Speaker 2: the perspective. I'm strong and getty. We're in fear territory
Speaker 2: right now. How in the hell are we sitting by
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Speaker 2: Ferris Bueller wants noted? Or you're not going to hear
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