WEBVTT - A Job & Erections -- That's All You Need, Son! 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:06.240 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:10.280 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty. 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:17.320 Arm Strong and Jack Katie and He Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:27.280 A group of firefighters in England were able to rescue 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:30.360 a horse from a five foot ditch using a system 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:34.319 of ropes and pulleys. It's the same technology they use 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:37.040 every morning to get Joy Behar out of her uber. 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:43.959 Funny because it's true. Funny because it's true. 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:47.400 I like Greg Guphield Felt and my parents watch him 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:49.520 every single night, But like a lot of his jokes 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:55.320 are just pick somebody people on the right hate, and 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:58.200 then just like I don't know, say something really meant, 0:00:58.240 --> 0:00:59.200 call him fat or ugly. 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:03.240 Yes, that seems to be a recurring theme. 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:06.080 Pick somebody they hate on the right and call them fat, 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:08.280 ugly or stupid. Then we laugh and we move on 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:13.320 to the next victim. How many days in a row? 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:16.480 It's been four now, is that right? How many days 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:19.680 in a row? Will the Pope dying be the lead 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:21.880 story on the evening newscasts? 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:22.880 I wonder? 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:26.680 It's extraordinary to me. But more on that coming up 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:28.280 in a little bit. I want to talk about that. Oh, 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:30.360 I just came across the term. This is this might 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:32.880 be the most important thing you learned today. Health Span 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:35.119 is going to be a term you hear a lot 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:40.200 instead of life span, instead of life span all the time. 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.280 The average lifespan is a male men live to be 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:45.000 eighty two, women live to be blah blah blah. Health 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:48.520 span like the span of your life where you're like 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:50.920 able to do stuff and enjoy your life. Who cares 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:52.800 if you live another five years of lane in bed 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:55.960 and pain. What's the period of time I get to 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:58.080 where I'm like actually enjoying life health span? 0:01:58.680 --> 0:01:58.840 Right? 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:02.000 Well, I care, But I see your point. That's not 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:03.440 what we're shooting for. 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:06.040 Right right, And I think it's a good idea to 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:07.480 change our focus on that. 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:08.960 I've said this many times. 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:12.120 My doctor said to me actually sometime last year, he said, 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:15.520 sometimes I wonder what's the goal here, because there's just 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:20.280 a lot of extending life in pain and misery and 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:23.840 can't do anything. Yes, health span, that's what we need 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:24.400 to work on it. 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:28.440 Yeah, I you know this is a heavy and complicated topic, 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:33.720 but yeah, the stringing along at any expense and pain 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:41.280 and whatever treatment is available and just it seems not right. 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:45.960 It does not seem to fit with the reality of 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:49.160 being a biological being. It just it seems like an 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:55.280 experiment as opposed to automatically a good idea. We're gonna 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:59.680 use machines and drugs and procedures to keep this body 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:03.800 functioning at a minimal level so we can say it's alive. 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:06.840 Let's see what happens. Meanwhile, I A is the owner 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:08.640 of the body or thinking, I don't want to do 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:10.080 that experiment. No, I'm not. 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:13.440 It's easy to saying that we don't last forever. I 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:16.760 don't know what it feels like to be ninety and 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:20.600 laying in bed, and I know I'm never gonna do 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:21.600 a lot of different. 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:25.520 Stuff, right a matter of degree of course, sure, and 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:28.959 various by the individual. On a much lighter note, because 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:31.800 everything's a lighter note, Michaels, Do we have any transitions 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:35.040 before the transition life and death? Little more life and 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.560 death before the fun stuff? Folks. I think about this 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:40.280 a lot, because I should read more about it. William F. 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.200 Buckley, who I'm a big admirer of, guy who started 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:45.960 a National review and writer commentator. 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:50.080 The father of modern conservatism. 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:54.040 Yeah, definitely more or less, he reached a point where 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:55.880 he just flat out he said in and you can 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.040 watch an interview on YouTube me He's sitting there in 0:03:58.080 --> 0:03:59.720 a suit, and he said, no, I'm ready to be done. 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:03.800 I'm ready to exit this world. I just none of 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:05.520 the things I enjoy in life can I do anymore? 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:07.440 Is like really into sailing and exercise and all these 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:09.720 different things. And I'm just I'm just ready to be done. 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:12.560 And I thought, that's really interesting. How come more people 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:15.000 don't come to that conclusion? 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:19.400 Or do they just lack the haft of a William F. 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:22.400 Buckley and the support of family members to respect their wishes? 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:27.880 In some cases, you know, the whole everybody wants to 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:30.400 die at home, and nobody does because the nurses and 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:33.400 doctor say, oh no, no, no, no, you can't check out? Now, 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:37.039 what the hell I can't? But if I'm not dying 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:38.719 of something, what do I just tell my kids? Hey, 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:40.920 sneak up behind me. At some point, I mean, what 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.559 do you I don't understand how you exit? You wander 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:46.720 off like an old elephant into the wilderness or the 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:50.520 outskirts of town or wherever old elephants go. Nobody's sure 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.680 you want me to sneak up behind you. I don't know, 0:04:53.720 --> 0:05:12.000 all right, Michael Transition music. It really is. It's one 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:18.880 of the best. I feel sufficiently classed death. So entrepreneurs 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:24.160 are flocking to Greenland, still not America yet Jack to 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:26.880 harvest its most abundant resource and hopes that there are 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:30.120 enough people willing to pay a premium for vodka made 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:36.000 with glacial melt water or a cocktail chilled with ultra 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:43.560 pure Greenland ice. The ice is allegedly cleaner and denser 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.040 than almost any ice on Earth because it has been 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:49.880 compressed in a glacier for one hundred thousand years before 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:52.599 falling into the Fiord. My parents did this. 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.680 I sent them on a cruise up in Alaska and 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:58.599 they had drinks on a big boat where it was 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:01.880 this chunks of the glacier where you can count on 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:05.359 it being, you know, sixty thousand year old pure, the 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:08.840 purest water that exists on Earth. Something it's mammoth pe 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:12.920 in it. You're not fooling me, right, It's a gimmick 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:14.760 more than anything else. I mean, you can only water 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:16.760 can only get so pure that you wouldn't be able to. 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:20.520 Tell, right, And whether science backs up the sales pitch 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:25.120 is a subject of debate, as you indicate, as are 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:27.880 the environmental trade offs of hauling ice chunks from the 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:34.960 Arctic to a nightclub in Dubai. Whatever. Anyway, so this 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:38.839 guy who's a green plant mammoth p in it, get 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:44.279 a bartender. So this guy's CEO of this greenland company 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:47.280 one hundred and thirty million dollar business development fund. In 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:49.919 the past five years, the territory's government has approved thirteen 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:52.760 licenses to six companies that are currently are planning to 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:58.240 harvest glacial meltwater and ice. And they go into some 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:03.200 of the details, but oh, I'm sorry. Once the container 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:06.479 arrives in Dubai, as we're discussing, Arctic ice workers carve 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:09.479 the chunks into spheres and place them into triangular gift 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:12.000 boxes that come with little a little pair of tongs. 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:17.720 The Arctic ice boxes cost one hundred dollars for six cubes, 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:20.600 one hundred dollars for six ice balls. This is like 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:23.160 steel cut oats. 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:25.640 And a number of other things that are just there 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:26.880 more marketing than. 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:30.680 Real And then diners at this Dubai restaurant to nightclub 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:33.760 in Dubai's financial district can indulge in the gin infused 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:37.760 desert whisper cocktail that costs about forty eight box chilled 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:41.080 with Greenland ice cubes. Wow, that's a pretty good cocktail 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:44.520 price for a high end joint anyway. Yeah, is there 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:53.360 a spot on Earth more decadent than Dubai. Perhaps not, 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:58.440 probably wherever Vladimir Putin is hanging out right now. So 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:02.160 here's a French entrepreneur living in Dubai, twenty eight years old. 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:05.200 He takes his eighteen year old single malt Scotch over 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:08.600 Greenland ice, Thank you very much? What runs him about 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.160 two hundred and eighteen dollars. He said he likes that 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:14.160 the ice cubes are free of dirt and bacterial contaminants 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:17.520 and melt slowly. Wow. But I couldn't hate that guy enough. 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.960 Oh please, Therefore you're spending two hundred and eighteen bucks 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:25.400 for a drink, trust me, regularized, It doesn't melt that fast. 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:26.600 It's fine, You'll be good. 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:27.880 Uh. 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:32.480 The storytelling is very important for the customers, says the 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.320 marketing director. When you tell them they contain elements which 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:38.440 are one hundred thousand years old, it's impressive. In other words, 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:42.280 it's all a stupid pretension for rich people to show off. Yeah, 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:46.920 lots of things are yeah, no kidding, So never mind 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:50.520 the vital rare earths and minerals and stuff on Greenland. 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.000 Everybody's making a fortune on the damn ice selling it 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:56.520 to rich people, which is crazy. Speaking of lifestyle, these 0:08:56.520 --> 0:09:02.040 stories jack the rise of looks maxing in influencers, toxic 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:06.880 beauty for men hankering for a chisel jawline. A male 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:12.360 TikTok influencer strikes his cheekbones with a hammer, highlighting the wrists, 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:18.400 the rise of looks, masking, maximum usering, mewing. Are you familiar, Yes, 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:22.679 we've talked about this before. Yeah, my kids mentioned this 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:24.520 couple of years ago. Is big on the playground. 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:28.559 Kids on the playground talking about their jawlines. 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:32.800 That's healthy for a society. Oh my lord, ed what 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:38.800 ah oh oh fourth grade? Oh ever, ever, this is 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:45.480 why William F. Buckley embraced death. Seems like I've had 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:49.840 enough anyway. It's a nonline trend of pushing unproven, sometimes 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:56.560 dangerous techniques to boost sexual appeal. Look looks maxing influencers 0:09:56.600 --> 0:10:01.160 part of an online ecosphere dubbed manosphere. I've sarched popularity blah, 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.840 blah blah. Capitalizing on the insecurities you have young men 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.760 to boost their physical attractiveness to women. Well, these people 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:10.840 are hooking up or have an interest in it. In 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:15.720 posts across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, they promote pseudo scientific 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:19.760 methods to achieve everything from poudy lips to chin extensions 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:24.240 and almond shaped hunter eyes as they're called h okay, 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:26.720 I kind of are you sure you're hooking up with women? 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:33.520 I get what a chin extension could be, or a 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:38.400 variety of things. How do you change your eye shape? Well, 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:40.959 that's that's the thing, A lot of stuff at all. 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.520 How are you changing your eye shape? I have beaty, 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:47.920 beaty little criminalize it, nobody trusts. I would love it 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:49.720 if I had big Disney eyes, but I don't. 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:53.120 And I have made my lips poudy by pouting a lot. 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:58.160 And of course, these guys monetize their popularity by endorsing 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:02.160 a range of consumer products and at money, giving young 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:07.720 men terrible, terrible advice. For some case, it doesn't matter anyway. 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:12.360 These influencers advocate taking steroids, undergoing plastic surgery, and even 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:15.079 leg lengthening procedures to become more attractive. 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:17.839 Okay, here's a little hint for me, just because I 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:21.280 know people in I'm single. I know people in the 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:23.439 single world talking about what it's like to be single. 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:24.280 The modern world. 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:30.439 Here's women aren't worried about your shin length, or the 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:34.880 mewing of your jawline, or your poudiness of your lips, 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:37.400 or a number of other things. They want a guy 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:39.240 who doesn't play video games all the time and can 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:41.520 keep an erection, has a job. 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:44.320 Do those you can make a living? Yes? Have those 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.600 three things? You don't need to worry about your jawline. Yes, 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:52.880 job in erections, right, that's all you need, son Jack, 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:56.120 Why don't you become one of these what do they 0:11:56.120 --> 0:12:00.800 call them, Kenny looks maxing influencers. Wow, except you'll be 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:05.240 a job in erection maxing influencer. And yes, they get 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:09.319 into mewing, an unproven technique involving pressing the tongue into 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:11.920 the roof of the mouth for improving john facial structure. 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:16.280 It doesn't work. And bone smashing, known as the hammer technique, 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:21.000 where you hit your cheeks with the sharp edge of 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:24.920 a hammer to try to grow out your bones. Yeah, 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:26.840 you can end up with if it works. If it 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:29.480 does anything, you're gonna have a lumpy face. You're not 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:33.240 gonna look like, you know, Chris Hemsworth, You're gonna look 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:34.840 like you got hit in the head with a hammer 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:36.720 because you did. You know. 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:41.520 I kind of feel like if you do this, man, 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:44.040 there's a little Darwin thing going on there. Even for 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:44.960 a young person. 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:48.000 I get, Well, you yourself in the head with a hammer. 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:52.280 I mean, wow, this kids right back. Well, yeah, you're right, 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:54.800 you're I mean, it's not like you knock yourself unconscious. 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:59.120 But what's tough for us is that in our pre 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:03.920 adolescence and a lessons, we didn't have the most ridiculous, corrosive, 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:08.720 poisonous ideas in the world at the touch of our fingers, right, 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:13.160 I mean, like all the time my son and other 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:16.240 lunatics who say, yes, what he said is an excellent 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:19.360 idea in a way you would never run into in 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:20.559 real life. I don't know. 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:22.680 Exactly what my high schooler was doing, but he was 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.400 in the backyard the other day with his friends. They 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.360 were shirtless with big buckets of water doing something that 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:29.520 was a TikTok challenge. 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:32.000 I don't even know what it was. Well, but yeah, 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:34.040 it happens. At least they weren't hitting themselves in the 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:38.200 face with hammers. Stop the hammering. Final note, then we 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:40.600 really need to take a break. Is that a lot 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:45.240 of the in cell communities, the involuntarily celibate, are turning 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:49.480 into looks maxing because they're thinking, Okay, I can't get laid. 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:51.920 I've been blaming and hating women. What if I hit 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:54.160 myself in the face with a hammer, then I'll look 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:56.560 like Chris Hemsworth and I'll get lots of chicks. So, 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:59.319 because the marketing wasn't working so much on the in 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:05.040 cell stuff anymore, the money grubbing disgust that this actually 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:09.800 is at its root is turned into this, wow a 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:14.319 nice girl, treader. Well, fellas, get a job, maintain your erection. 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:18.760 It'll go great. Trust me, I wouldn't lie to you. 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:23.400 At the Philadelphia Zoo, it's their big debut. For the 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:26.640 first time, the public able to see four critically endangered 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:31.480 western Santa Cruz Galopagos tortoise hatchlings, little baby turtles less 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:34.280 than fifty are known to exist in America. The zoo 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:36.840 telling us they are proud to protect the endangered population 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:40.400 and proud of that ninety seven year old mom appropriately 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:45.040 named Mommy. She is our oldest and longest tenured resident, fascinated. 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:47.560 Hatching in nineteen twenty eight and has been here since nineteen. 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:49.880 Thirty two, The zoo telling us the babies are driving 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:51.560 exploring their new habitat. 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:56.240 You know, I could do basic mathematics, but it hadn't 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:58.880 occurred to me that a ninety seven year old turtle 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.400 came on the scene when Hoover was still doing the 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:03.280 Charleston Great Scott. 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:07.200 Yeah, but does that turtle realize she's gonna be one 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:09.440 hundred and eighteen when they graduated high school? 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:14.080 Hey, I tell you what if those tortoises are from 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:17.160 turtles whatever they are from western Santa Cruz again, promise 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:19.320 you this, they're stone. 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:23.480 Did you know John Mulaney's got a new like talk 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:25.800 show on Netflix. He's doing every week like with a 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:26.640 crowd and a guest. 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:30.320 It's like any of those late night talk shows. Anyway. 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.920 I saw the beginning of the one from Sunday night, 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.680 and he said, a tough week this week for the show. 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.200 The it's kind of a Saturday Night Live type show, 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:40.840 he said. The whole premise was, gosh, it's great. The 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:43.480 Pope's still alive, and we had to rewrite the whole script. 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:48.560 But the evening News keeps leading with the Pope's death. 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:51.360 I don't know how many days that's gonna last. Here's 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:53.000 a little from ABC News last night. 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:56.880 I feel like someone for my family, and I don't 0:15:56.920 --> 0:16:00.240 know why, because I really don't know him alone, you 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:03.280 understand it. I don't know. How did you feel when 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:06.800 you in front of him? So blessed, really so blessed. 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:13.040 I'm so happy, extremely moving, emotional, having stopped. 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:16.920 Much some of the many people standing in line for 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:20.720 hours to walk by the body of the dead Pope. 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:23.360 I don't get it at all. 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:27.040 I'm pro religion, I'm pro Catholic Church. I'm pro Christianity 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:30.080 as you can get and all that. I don't understand 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:35.160 the investing in the pope this. I just, you know, fine, 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:36.280 I'm not I don't know. 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:38.240 I guess I am bereing critical by bringing this up, 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:43.680 but yeah, yeah, well, I don't have time to fully 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:45.880 explain my position on this, So for once in my life, 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:47.960 I'll show a little restraint and not even start. And 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:49.040 then I'm shocked at. 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:53.080 The evening News full of atheists and people that dislike 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:54.320 religion more than they like it. 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:57.440 Leading with that story every single night. I think they 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:00.560 have a very old audience, so it's more likely to 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:02.840 be a religious and be Catholic. 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:07.399 Richard Ingele of NBC News in Iran before we bombed 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:10.280 the Jesus out of it, talking about the current state 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:13.200 of Iranian culture, which is kind of interesting, among other things. 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:13.960 On the way stay. 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:21.080 Here, Armstrong and Getty, I realized that I, for one, 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:25.040 like geopolitics and Warren Peace more than the average bear, 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:27.959 so I can spend a lot of time thinking and 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:30.119 talking about it, as opposed to like, I don't know 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:32.720 a lot of your domestic economic stuff. 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:33.120 I have no. 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:36.840 Interest in it the stuff that matters. 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:40.119 You're a global elitist. Are you in the Bilderberg group? 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:43.360 I might be, But everybody's going to be talking about 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:45.600 Iran here soon when we bomb the crap out of it, 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:47.479 which I think is going to happen. I think we 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:50.200 and Israel I didn't read that whole New York Times 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:54.159 story from last weekend till this weekend. 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:58.240 That was the one where, either on purpose. 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:04.680 Or not, some source inside the Pentagon or the White 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:08.800 House let the New York Times know the entire plan 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:15.879 for attacking Iran, which included Israeli commandos going in and 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:18.440 getting into the tunnels. And I mean, I mean that's 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:21.880 been that was going to be a serious still might 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:26.760 be a serious invasion of a major country in history, 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:30.600 Israel sending commandos in and you know, fighting in the 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:34.119 tunnels to try to get to the nuclear bomb making 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:36.400 sights and US bombing and everything I got. Anyway, Iran 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:37.840 is going to be top of mind when that happens. 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:40.119 That's one of the reasons Richard Engel of NBC News 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:42.080 is there. Here's what he had to say yesterday. 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:45.119 The Iranians, both on the governmental level and on a 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:49.919 popular level, are taking these talks extraordinarily seriously. In the US, 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:51.800 they might not be getting a lot of attention. People 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:57.040 are talking about Ukraine, the economy, the executive orders that 0:18:57.200 --> 0:19:01.320 trendsident Trump is giving. But here the only conversation that 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:05.119 people are having is is focused on on these On 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:09.359 these talks, people hope that they will be successful, People 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:12.480 hope that they will end sanctions, and and a lot 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:15.119 of people are worried that if they fail that there 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:18.480 could be some sort of military action taken against Iran 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:22.840 by Israel, by Israel and the United States together could be. 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:26.600 There absolutely will be. And you know, I didn't finish 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:28.359 my thoughts. So that story that was in the New 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:30.240 York Times, some people are you know, you got to 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:32.040 find the leaker and you know, have them shot for 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:35.359 treason or whatever. It's quite possible that the Trump people 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:38.040 gave that to the New York Times on purpose to 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:41.800 let Iran know this is how serious we are. Israel's 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:45.879 putting ground troops into Iran. That's how serious we are 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:48.000 about this whole thing. That's what you're going to be 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:50.399 dealing with. So you might want to get pretty serious. 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:56.080 Scent a possibility, Yeah, yeah, man, that would be. That 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:56.520 would be. 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:01.320 I mean, Israel's been around since with forty nine or whatever, 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:04.119 and there have been a number of major wars that 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:07.080 movies have made. This would be right up there. I 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:09.359 mean in terms of a big deal. They're putting ground 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:16.880 troops in Iran. Holy crap. Anyway, And once again, isn't 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:19.200 it nice to live in the United States where we're 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:21.000 ignoring this story. 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:23.080 Because nobody's gonna bomb you today. 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:26.200 In Iran, it's all the talk, as Richard Dingle just said, 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:29.960 because there's a chance the most sophisticated planes in the world, 0:20:30.040 --> 0:20:34.159 with the most sophisticated bombs on Earth start invading their. 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:37.160 City any day now if it's some of the most 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:39.520 fearsome sum bitches on Earth drop out of the sky 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:41.760 at night in our ooching about in your cities and 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:45.280 certainly your nuclear facilities. Yeah, we also have the luxury 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:49.560 of not being directly threatened by Iran getting the bomb 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:53.840 in a way that Israel are good Old Bud. Absolutely 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:55.960 it a good point. Here's more, Richard Dingle. 0:20:56.480 --> 0:20:58.760 Just the fact that I am here is part of 0:20:58.800 --> 0:21:02.439 that initiative government is trying to open up. We've been 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:06.480 given quite extraordinary access to government officials. I was at 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:10.359 the Iranian parliament the other day talking to a ranking 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:13.600 member of their National Security Committee. We've been able to 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:17.680 walk around the streets without any kind of minders or escorts. 0:21:18.480 --> 0:21:19.800 A lot is happening here. 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:24.080 There is a lot of change happening inside Iran that 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:25.080 that doesn't get out. 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:29.320 So they happily welcome Richard Engel into I assume he's 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:33.000 in Tehran, so he can travel around with no minders 0:21:33.080 --> 0:21:35.680 or anything like that. New they want a very sympathetic 0:21:35.760 --> 0:21:38.480 face on the Iranian people. 0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:40.280 As you're about to hear here, a lot. 0:21:40.080 --> 0:21:45.680 Of these stereotypes people have about the Iranian people, they're not. 0:21:45.760 --> 0:21:48.159 What you what you you? What you what you see 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:50.200 when you walk around on the streets here. 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:55.320 Uh, there is a sophisticated culture that is very that 0:21:55.320 --> 0:21:58.639 that very much wants to engage with the world. You 0:21:58.720 --> 0:22:01.560 go to a coffee shop in Tehran, and not just 0:22:01.600 --> 0:22:04.159 in the wealthy areas, but anywhere in this city and 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:05.960 in many places, it looks like you could be in 0:22:05.960 --> 0:22:09.840 a coffee shop in New York City or any part 0:22:09.840 --> 0:22:13.680 of Western Europe. The problem is because of the sanctions, 0:22:13.720 --> 0:22:19.960 because of the impositions imposed on Iran, they are almost 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:21.600 cut off from the world. 0:22:22.320 --> 0:22:26.000 That's nice, really, that's an interesting way to describe how 0:22:26.040 --> 0:22:27.800 we got to the point that they're cut off from 0:22:27.840 --> 0:22:30.359 the world. Didn't have anything to do with the Madman 0:22:30.640 --> 0:22:34.639 Mullahs and the Islamic supremacists and the Revolutionary Guard. No, 0:22:34.680 --> 0:22:36.480 it was the West that did that. 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:40.399 Well, right, And hey, Richard Engel, while you know, I 0:22:40.440 --> 0:22:43.240 feel bad for the average Iranian citizen who probably doesn't 0:22:43.280 --> 0:22:47.760 like the government anymore than I do, oh guaranteed, so 0:22:47.840 --> 0:22:50.680 the fact that they got modern New York style coffee shops. 0:22:50.680 --> 0:22:52.080