WEBVTT - Checking In With The Booth... 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.840 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Ketty arm Strong and 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:17.280 Katty and He Armstrong and Jetty. 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:24.880 We've been doing live running commentary on the Carter funeral 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:28.720 throughout the show today, with to me, the standout thing 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:33.080 being the way Trump and Barack Obama were yucking up 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:35.880 in the pool in the pew, waiting for the thing 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:40.240 to start, laughing, talking, looking really interested in what each 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:41.200 other had to say. 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:44.239 I would freaking be fascinated to know what they were 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:51.760 talking about. Oh yeah, yeah, Well, what do you honestly guess? 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:55.800 Something mundane? You think it's mundane? Okay? Well, or or 0:00:56.040 --> 0:01:01.000 mundane for a president, stuff about the motor caid or 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:05.520 or I don't know, I don't know. You don't think 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:09.160 of any significance though, No, unless they were discussing boys 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:12.280 Biden and idiot when's he supposed to get here? I 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:14.680 don't know, because they both really dislike him. 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:19.920 It could be like I could see any two presidents 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:25.520 complaining about press, the media or something I know, and 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:26.120 it's something the. 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:27.840 Way they blah blah blah or something like that. I 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:31.279 don't know. You think mundane. They talked for a long time. 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:35.000 One thing we do in this country now, And I'm 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:36.880 a big Garth Brooks fan, so I don't mind is 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:41.679 he is our national treasure musical act for inaugurations, funerals 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:43.800 and that sort of thing when they when they happen 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:46.840 at the level of the entire country. And he and 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:47.800 his wife Christian. 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:49.560 James Taylor retire from that gigger on. 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:54.160 Garth and Trisha Yearwood singing a little bit of a 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:57.480 stupid song. Although I loved it as I still like 0:01:57.520 --> 0:01:59.280 it musically, the words are dumb. 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:05.360 From John Lennon, here's a little bit of it. You 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:17.280 miss it. I'm a team I'm not. And so I 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:21.880 was watching this John as it was happening live. 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:24.280 Joe Biden his eyes closed and was nodding along to 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:29.880 the lyrics, honest to God. Over his shoulder. You could 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:33.480 see w looking at By. W was looking at Biden, 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:34.000 was kind. 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:36.320 Of a squint on his face, like what are you doing, dude, 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:38.240 or are you falling asleep? 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.560 Or or he was thinking this song is dumb. The 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:45.400 whole imagine there's no country. Thing is great if you're 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:49.120 a sophomore girl, but kind of dumb for world leaders 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:50.959 of the most powerful country in the world. 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:51.840 Thank God. 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:55.919 How about the imagine no religion too in the biggest 0:02:56.040 --> 0:03:01.760 church in Washington, d C. After fifty different pledges to Jesus, 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:03.239 Right is that? 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:07.840 Yeah? I know, I don't get it. It's so dopey. 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:10.880 And again I'm a Beatles fan shown Lennon Fenn. It's 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:14.280 a beautiful melody. Its fantastic. It's just and the world 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:18.520 needs soft headed, dreamy poets. We just don't want them 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:22.760 in charge of foreign policy, particularly the religion thing. 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:24.280 I hadn't thought of that until I saw so many 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:27.680 on one of your big Twitter people point that out. 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:31.880 There was just a long speech imploring Jesus to do something, and. 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:35.760 Then they sang the song. Right, it's weird. 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:38.000 I guess we all ignore the lyrics and kind of 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:40.040 just go with a well, it's you know, wishing for 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:42.840 a better, safer, more peaceful time, which I'm in favor of. 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:44.160 That's sweet. 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:49.360 It's just the remedy in the song is stupid. Also, 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:51.080 on the subject of all the prayers, and I heard 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:52.320 some of them when I went and got coffee. 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:54.120 I mean, there, it's in a big church. 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:58.840 Jimmy Carter was very religious he might be our most 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:00.400 religious president ever. 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:02.800 I don't know if you read any of his books, 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:07.320 I'm not sure how you measure that exactly. But he 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:08.480 was a very religious man. 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:13.000 Yes, outwardly believe in christian I don't know who would 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:16.960 top him. Maybe Joe Biden, but so lots of prayers, 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:19.720 specifically talking about Jesus our Savior. 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.479 How many of those presidents are into that? Do you think? 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:29.400 Do you guess? Sincerely? Yeah, Biden is, Carter was w 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:34.599 definitely is yeah, huh. Clinton just good for getting elected 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:38.520 in the South or real. I don't know. He's very old. 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:42.280 Often people start to consider their relationship with God more 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:44.600 acutely at his age. I don't know. Remember he went 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:44.880 to the. 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:48.680 Prayer breakfast during the Monica Lewinsky thing asking for forgiveness 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:51.520 that real or completely politically contrived. 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:57.200 Obama worships himself. So Obama claims to be a Christian, 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:06.640 yes or no? On his authenticity? This is inappropriate? Yep, 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:16.200 this is completely absolutely okay? Uh No, I don't. I 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:19.720 don't think he's a sincere believer in the divinity of 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:24.520 Jesus of Nazareth. He might be at this point in 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:26.760 his life, I doubt it, but I don't think there's 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:30.600 a chance he was when he was younger, young socialist, 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:36.279 super lefty, progressive running around No way, no, no, I don't. 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:38.719 Why are we even discussing this, just thinking. 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:43.200 I think it's interesting that we do the charade in 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:46.160 other countries, and I don't. I don't want to become 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:50.880 more secular or less religious myself, but it's okay in 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:52.760 a lot of countries to be No, I don't. I 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:55.320 don't believe in God at all. I don't think it's ridiculous. 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:57.920 I think it's a bunch of made up mids fairy tales, 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:00.400 as our friend Tim Sanderfer would say. And you can 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:02.560 still be, you know, run for office, but you can't 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:04.480 in the United States. You gotta at least pretend. 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.600 Yeah, if you can pause, just for a second, checking 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:11.400 with the control room, m hm, still one, okay, checking 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.240 on the number of deceased presidents in the cathedral. Let's 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:16.400 face it, Biden's a little touch and go right now, 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:16.840 come on. 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:22.000 Wow, okay, and they're they're leaving now. Joe Biden is 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:25.799 the oldest of the five current former presidents. He looks 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:28.240 the oldest, he sounds the oldest. Tea is the far 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:31.240 and he's walking out with Hunter right behind him. Hunter 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:33.400 looks like a former crack addict, because his mouth is 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:35.920 all mushed up and his jaws crooking, like a guy 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:36.880 who did too much math. 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:40.880 Yeah, he's got the meth mouth for sure. Speaking of 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:44.840 unpopular world leaders, I know a handful of Canadians who 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:48.320 despise Justin Trudeau, who's on his way out the door. 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:53.440 And I'd been aware that he was a progressive and 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.640 spouted a lot of the same nonsense our progressives do. 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:01.560 I hadn't remembered or had never heard. Oh he's he's 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:06.080 got eighty one. Eighty one percent of Canadians approved of 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:11.200 his resignation. Eighty one percent. Wow, I don't know which 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:15.280 should Was it that high for Nixon? Gosh? I don't know, 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:20.720 you know, it's probably close, But yeah, that's Nixonian unpopular unpopularity. 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:24.200 He told The New York Times after being elected in 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:29.440 twenty fifteen, there is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada, 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:35.960 claiming that Canada was the first post national state, meaning 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.520 and he doubled down on this, It's all about identity. 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:43.120 You can't claim to be Canadian as a particular culture 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:46.160 or set of beliefs. How dare we say we have 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:48.280 a culture, so you're either a you're you're a. 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:55.040 Black woman or a gay something or whatever, those are 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:57.320 your identities, but not Canadian. 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:01.080 Right exactly. And and and he was in embarrassed or 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:06.040 condemning of even saying we have a culture and it's 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:07.760 cool and we're gonna defend it. 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:10.000 That is the that's interesting you bring that up or 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:14.320 that he said that. That's the core Western civilization debate 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:19.920 that's going on right now. It's never spelled out that. Uh, clearly, 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.240 I don't think. But that's the whole thing. Do you 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:23.080 buy that or not? 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:26.520 And as the crowd that buys that gonna win or not? 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:32.240 H the idea that the United States of America has 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:37.240 a culture or Western civilization in general, that's the best 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:41.560 for all of its flaws, of course, but great and 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:44.880 worth defending. Is a hill I will die on, then 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.120 rise from the dead and haunt you, and then die 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:51.600 on again as often as possible. And the fact that 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:55.040 our schools and colleges are teaching against it. If I 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:58.400 could figure out how to be more militant and effectively 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:01.120 militant against that, will do it immediately. 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:06.280 I had completely forgotten the Trudeau blackface thing. 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:09.559 Remember what that emerged? He had apologize far because he 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:12.080 dressed in black he was a Michael Jackson fan. What 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:15.120 was his story? He had some excuse like he was 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:19.839 a big Jackson fan. I think I don't remember was 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:23.440 one of those. You know what strikes me though, is 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:28.600 that our favorite Justin Trudeau clip is an absolutely perfect 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:34.680 description and indictment of his whole modus operanda. You have that, Michael, 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:39.600 I have to grab it. Okay, Yeah, no worries. It 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:46.040 is everything Trudeau is. Is this floundering pretty boy effort 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:51.440 to be some sort of post national, post modern identity politics. Jesus, 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:52.520 it's disgusting. 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:59.679 LGDP lgt LBG LGBTQ two plush. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:03.680 He was not able to capably ride the monster of 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:07.880 the alphabet super ridiculousness he and IS people had created. 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:09.959 Okay, I dug it up. I looked at the picture 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:11.599 of him in black face. The story broke with the 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:14.360 publication by Time magazine of a photo from two thousand 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:17.720 and one a year book at a Vancouver private high school. 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.400 He went to some fancy pants because his dad was 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:26.840 Prime Minister. Right, The school staged an Arabian Nights themed gala, 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:29.560 and he dressed as a Laddin and black face and 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:33.360 a turban. I don't know what made him decide he 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:35.800 needed to be blackface to be Aladdin. I would feel 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:37.280 like I could go to a as a Laddin with 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:40.600 a turbanon, not be blackfaceman. I also don't think it's 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:43.000 a crime against humanity to put on black makeup. 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:45.720 I hate Justin Trudeau and everything he stands for, but 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:48.640 anything you do in high school, short of murder plays 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:51.520 here in high school. Stop it. Checking with the booth again. 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:56.080 Total number of deceased presidents in the cathedral still one. 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:59.840 Okay, holding it one, We're holding it one. We've gotten 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:01.040 more on the way State. 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:07.199 Sarah was on with her eight year old Lease last night. 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:12.240 She came out, I'm sorry, just you know, one day 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.680 you're swimming at the pool and the next day it's 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:18.040 all gone. But she came out with her little Eddie 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:21.440 piggybank for us to rebuild our house. 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:25.400 That's the actor James Wood talking about his house burning down. 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.880 As a lot of people's homes burnt down. It's kind 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:32.000 of interesting watching on social. 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:35.160 Media and just hearing on various shows. The conversation about that. 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:41.120 You know, there's a lot of dislike for California on 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:44.480 the right side of politics, and certainly a lot of 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:49.959 dislike for celebrities. And then you confine California celebrities with 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:52.280 some wealth, and you got a whole bunch of the 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:54.480 kind of people you don't like. I feel like, if 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:59.400 you take any joy in their home burning down, that 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:01.240 makes you a not very good person. 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:04.480 Well, and I ran into somebody like that. I will 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:07.559 forgive it because I have much to be forgiven for. 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:12.560 But yeah, not only are a lot of the people 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:18.560 who've suffered terribly and are suffering m regular working class people. 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:22.720 I mean hundreds of homes of people who are just 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:26.439 getting by along with the wealthy people. What people forget 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:30.840 about California is that there are vast swathes of solid 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:36.600 Conservatism in California, including in the Blue counties. We're just outnumbered, 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.280 is the problem. So yeah, the idea of the good 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:41.520 I'm glad their house is burnt down. Good lord. 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:46.600 Although it is true that if you have money, it's 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:49.240 still a tragedy. You lost all your family, pictures and 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.960 everything in the home you loved, and the memories of 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:53.960 that's where your kid learn to walk and all that 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:54.600 sort of stuff. 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.320 But it's a lot easier to recover with money than 0:12:57.360 --> 0:12:58.000 without money. 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:00.760 Hell yeah, you lost your house in the idea of 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:03.360 going to a hotel is just how the hell am 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:06.840 I gonna do that? My credit card is already maxed out. 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.640 I mean, that's just a different world of stress, sure, 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:12.120 no doubt. Anyway, here's a little of a man on 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:14.000 the street with some people. They are talking to God. 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:16.199 I'm looking up at Fox right now. We am a 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:18.240 loogenous who we've had on this show many many times. 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:22.640 It's just it looks like gossip behind him is what 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.400 it looks like in a really nice neighborhood. Anyway, here's 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.080 a little more. I'm surprised all of us got out 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:29.880 of there, to tell the truth. We did take all 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:32.319 of our family pictures and a few valuable paintings out 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:36.520 last night, so you know, all the stuff that's heres replaceable. 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:43.480 People are not so very lucky, so happy. The family 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:45.120 is the most important thing. 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:48.480 If the word to describe what we're seeing here tonight 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.880 is just apocalyptics. Right behind us in these mountains, that 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.640 is where the Palisades fire is burning. 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:58.720 That is Pacific Palisades. We're talking about eleven thousand plus 0:13:58.760 --> 0:13:59.960 acres that have burned right now. 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:07.000 Eleven thousand just from that ache or that fire, or 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:08.640 was that all of them combined. Man, that's a lot, 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:11.960 that's a big area. Yeah, you know, I can't be 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:13.840 the only person who thought this. Watching some of the 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:16.160 news last night, some of it's getting kind of exploitive. 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:19.240 You know, how excited the news guys are to find 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.720 the best flaming home and to quick do the live shot. Well, 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:26.200 the flames are good and high, and I don't know, 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:31.800 it is so dramatic and amazing to see. 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.680 I just I know the news business, and I know newspeople, 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:37.240 and I can tell by the way they set up 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:39.600 shots what they're trying to do. And I just well, 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:41.720 we didn't we didn't get on that point. We didn't 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:45.160 get to this. We are in what's called Palisades Village 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:47.040 right here. This is the town center. Sort I need 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.600 to hear anymore of that. That's David Muir of ABC News. 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:53.840 He's standing there and he's got his yellow true raincoat 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.560 weather whatever you wear. When you're a newsman and you're 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:58.800 on the ground in a tragedy. For some reason, you 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:01.120 have to act like you're one of the firefighters. And 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:03.320 then he turns and you see that he's got these 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:06.520 clothespins on his jacket to sync it up so that 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:10.200 his buff, buff body still shows through his raincoat. 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:13.120 It's very important that he so it's couldn't form fitting 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:13.520 in men. 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:15.840 Yeah, you wouldn't want to just kind of draped hanging 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:17.440 on you and you look like every other shlub. 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:20.320 You still need to look buff, so kind of to 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.560 your point, I guess what a weasel. I'll never forgive 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:26.480 him for the debate that he quote unquote moderated David 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:29.240 muir Ough a talking weasel. 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:33.880 It's a weird thing of human nature. I am. This 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:36.160 has more effect on me than a lot of these 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:36.640 have had. 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:38.120 One. 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:41.320 We know someone who probably lost their house in that 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:45.120 Palisades fire, And I know the streets they're talking about 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.320 in Pasadena and Altadena. I've walked them and been to 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:49.920 those businesses have burned down, and just I don't know 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:52.640 why that would make it more impactful to me. And 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:57.120 I should be able to, you know, prescribe my emotions 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.240 onto towns I haven't been to when they catch on fire. 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:00.840 But I don't know if that's human nature or not. 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:03.600 I can Yes, it is. It absolutely is. I can 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:05.920 explain it to you with the help of C. S. 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.440 Lewis coming up in a moment. Okay, thank you for that. 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:10.960 Leave it or not? Yes, he will be our guest. 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:14.680 Really well, I should have been, We should have led 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:17.960 with that. Luckily he wrote many of his thoughts down 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:20.320 for us and will be sharing those. Among other things. 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:24.400 There are now one hundred and eighty thousand people in 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:27.440 the LA area under evacuation orders. The hotels have to 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:29.680 be full. I wonder how far you have to drive 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:32.120 out of LA before you can find a hotel that's 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:34.680 got a room. 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:37.720 To the border and probably the Sacramento I don't know. 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:42.040 I don't know. The nationwide homeowner's insurance crisis is going 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:44.560 to be one of the big stories of twenty twenty five, guaranteed. 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:49.000 I mean the well, the fires hit the houses, the 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:53.000 poop has hit the fan nationwide, it's gonna be one 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:54.640 of the great stories. Where it goes, I don't know, 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:56.560 but there's gonna be a huge change in the homeowner's 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:57.320 insurance industry. 0:16:57.920 --> 0:16:59.880 We're gonna hear more about that prop that got that 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:03.720 the law they passed in California, so insurance companies couldn't 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:05.880 stick it to you and gouge you when they were 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.560 raising their rates because inflation has caused it more to 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:10.760 be more expensive to fix the house, so they dumped 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:13.040 people they had no choice. 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:15.000 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:20.560 Mark Zuckerberg just said, anybody who quits Facebook over lack 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:21.880 of fact checking. 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:29.920 Is virtue signaling. It's interesting. Yeah, I kind of appreciate 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:33.960 them taking that attitude. I would you know, counter mark 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:37.520 that you know, you and everybody on your side of 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:39.639 the aisle, or at least the way the side of 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:42.199 the aisle you seem to be on, has been indoctrinating 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:48.399 people for years now, including on Facebook, to think that 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:51.800 A fact checking whatever the hell that means, is necessary, 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:55.960 and B that the fact checkers are actually checking facts 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:59.600 so you can't sell a live for years then kick 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:00.919 people would they believe it? 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:03.399 I also think maybe it might be some of the 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:05.560 crowd that and I know plenty of people like this 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:07.560 on the right. They don't want to ever hear a 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:12.359 story that disagrees with their viewpoint. It just they find 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:15.720 it too annoying or hurtful or I don't. 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:19.800 Know what, but yeah, yeah, I think part of it's 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:22.320 just if you're living in a political world where everybody's 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:27.159 always attacking, it's very difficult to be charitable and listen generously. 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:30.919 As they say, it's a fistfight. 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:35.400 My son wears the same size closes me. So he's 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:37.879 constantly borrowing my clothes, or I'm lending in my clothes 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:39.479 and I've got to stop because he never gives them back. 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:41.880 And I'm beltless today. My pants are falling down. 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:42.480 Dad. 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:44.520 I need a dress, black dress belt. I don't have 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:47.360 a black dress belt for the Christmas thing. And all right, 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:50.080 here's one. Of course it's gone. Who knows where it is. 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:52.879 It's probably some friend to his house on the floor, 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:55.600 under the bed with some old socks, never to be 0:18:55.640 --> 0:19:01.000 seen against. Yeah, so the insurance crisis. In a minute 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:04.640 or two, I thought i'd hit this sent along by 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:07.000 alert listener and in Santa Cruz, I think this is 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:09.879 absolutely terrific and it's funny that it would come along today. 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:16.680 In answer to Jack's philosophical question last segment about well, 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:19.119 you've spent a great deal of time in Pasadena, Altadena, 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:24.159 and so it burning down is somehow much more impactful 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:27.240 than hearing about say, Greenwich, Connecticut, Burton. 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:31.240 That bothers me much more than the Hawaii story. Even 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:33.440 though I fully understood how awful it is and people 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:36.280 were dying and there they lost all their stuff, I 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:38.360 hadn't actually stood there and been in that business. 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:42.920 Yeah, by that house. The question is almost the answer. 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:45.600 It's undeniable that we're all that way. If we know 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:48.040 a neighborhood, we've seen the buildings, we've been in the buildings, 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:51.760 it's much more impactful and funny coincidence. And since this 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:55.440 along from C. S. Lewis, and this is caption C. S. 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:59.399 Lewis on the Internet before the Internet existed, it is 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:02.760 one of the e of rapid diffusion of news that 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:05.760 the sorrows of all the world come to us every morning. 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:08.679 I think each village was meant to feel pity for 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:12.080 its own sick and poor, whom it can help. And 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:14.280 I doubt if it is the duty of any private 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:17.359 person to fix his mind on ills which he cannot 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:21.440 help good one. This may even become an escape from 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:24.639 the works of charity we really can do to those 0:20:24.680 --> 0:20:28.440 we know. A great many people do now seem to 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:30.760 think that the mere state of being worried is in 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:37.440 itself meritorious. I don't think it is. Oh yeah, I mean, 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:41.359 we could stop every sentence he probably should hashtag activism 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:44.919 is what he's talking about there, Yeah, exactly, he says, 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:47.639 we must, if it so happens, give our lives for others. 0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:50.280 But even while we're doing it, I think we're meant 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:54.399 to enjoy our Lord and in him, our friends, our food, 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:59.080 our sleep, your jokes, the bird's song in the frosty Sunrise. 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:02.560 Boy, that is some really interesting stuff. As usual, there 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:04.720 are very few things written by C. S. Lewis that 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:08.399 aren't freaking fantastic and thought provoking. But yeah, okay, and 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:11.919 plus it gets me off the hook. But you're not 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:14.960 built to worry about that village so far away you 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:17.920 have nothing to do with and can't help, right. 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:20.280 And this gets back to my unified theory of modern 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:22.119 men and why we're all so screwed up. We just 0:21:22.240 --> 0:21:24.520 we have way too much input all the time, and 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:28.680 most of our experience is not direct personal experience. It's 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:33.560 electronic once removed floodwaters flowing at us all the time, 0:21:34.080 --> 0:21:38.639 and this is undeniable. It's reflected in you know, church attendance, 0:21:38.640 --> 0:21:41.760 which is tangentially related depends on what you believe, whether 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:47.040 it's tangential or not anyway giving to charity as taxes 0:21:47.160 --> 0:21:51.240 rise and government services rise. But a great many people 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:53.680 now seem to think that the mere state of being 0:21:53.680 --> 0:21:57.240 worried or acting worried or posting worried on Twitter is 0:21:57.280 --> 0:22:02.760 itself meritorious. Yes, an escape from doing actual works of 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:05.040 charity for people we can help. 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:07.560 Sure, that's the hashtag activism thing that I think with 0:22:07.640 --> 0:22:09.200 a lot of us caught on to at the beginning. 0:22:09.240 --> 0:22:13.639 It's either on purpose or by accident. It's a release 0:22:13.760 --> 0:22:17.600 valve of your caring and now you feel enough like 0:22:17.640 --> 0:22:18.960 you've done something. 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:21.119 That you're not actually going to do anything. Yeah. I 0:22:21.119 --> 0:22:23.600 think a release valve is the perfect metaphor because it 0:22:23.680 --> 0:22:26.680 releases the steam, if you will, that would have driven 0:22:26.720 --> 0:22:30.439