WEBVTT - Tiny Organism, Profound Impact 0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:06.400 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:10.960 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Show, Ketty arm Strong 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:17.480 and Gatty, and he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:26.520 The President has attended major sporting events before as commander 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:28.840 in chief, and he was a courtside regular as a 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:32.200 New York businessman, but his presidence here tonight and all 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:36.479 the security of rings as any fans crying foul. 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:39.159 Yeah, they already hate Trump. But I got admit, if 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:42.760 it was anybody take politics out of it completely, as 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:46.040 a fan, I would be thinking, do you really need 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:49.720 to come? Given what this does to well? Let Edokeef 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:51.559 of CBS News lay out what it was like for 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:52.680 people getting into the game. 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:56.760 Well, the real actions on the court tonight. Hundreds of 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:59.840 Secret Service and a thousand NYPD are also suiting up 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:02.880 part of a massive security plan to protect the president. 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:04.880 A long time New York Knicks. 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:07.240 Fan, if you are not going to the game, we're 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:11.320 asking you to avoid the area around Madison Square Garden tonight. 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:14.880 A five block perimeter around Madison Square Garden is shut down. 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:17.000 Ticket Holders are being asked to show up at least 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:19.759 two hours early. The game comes a day after Five 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:22.679 people were stabbed in Penn Station just below the Garden, 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:24.559 one seriously injured. 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:26.759 That's its own story. We need to talk about that later. 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:29.560 Guy that had stabbed people years ago, loose on the 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:34.160 street stabbing more people. Anyway, Well, what's your thoughts on 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:37.520 that you got a grudge against a president showing up 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:39.000 to an event you want to go to. I mean, 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:42.080 because they don't need to be there. Now, I'm gonna 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:44.319 put my fairness hat on. Think about if I was, 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:47.520 if I had to deal with all that crap because 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:51.280 Biden wanted to make a briefish appearance, say you're Obama. 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:56.320 I don't think it's politics. So there's no political advantage 0:01:56.360 --> 0:02:00.440 for Trump being there? Is there? I wanted to go. 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:02.320 He flung New York, and he grew up in New York, 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:03.840 and he's a knicks man. I think that's what it 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:06.800 was about. Yeah, yeah, I'd probably bitch about it, but 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:09.680 I wouldn't worry about it that much. Now, if I 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:13.560 was going to the three hour line three hour line 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.120 to get into the game, I'm an older man. I 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:18.400 might need to have like an empty milk jog. Yeah, 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:23.320 a point on it. But yeah, yeah, if you were 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:25.720 used to going to those viewing parties right outside the garden, 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:29.720 which sound like just a great time. Yeah, yeah, I 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:32.440 would resent that some that those were closed down. So 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:37.280 the booing might have been It's a democratic city in 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:39.640 the same way that La no matter what happens, as 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:41.519 we just saw, is going to vote for a Democrat. 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:45.880 New York's kind of that way. And so then i't 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:47.760 like Trump anyway. And then you waited in line for 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:51.040 three hours. That does not exactly set up the mood 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:53.120 of the crowd to cheer you when they were in 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:55.720 line for three hours to get in to sit in 0:02:55.760 --> 0:03:02.000 there somewhere between seven thousand and a million dollars seat jikes. Anyways, 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.080 during the national anthem that they put Trump up on 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:18.880 the screen, and is there some cheering? Yeah, there's some. 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:21.400 I would have called it because I was watching it live. 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:26.520 Sixty five thirty five two thirds a third who cares? Oh, 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.560 it doesn't matter. That's a meaningless thing, far from the 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:33.120 greatest challenge the Republic is facing. I at the present moment, 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:36.240 I couldn't stop just trying to recognize people in the 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.360 front row every time there was a player, a timeout 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:42.320 or whatever. And I was wondering do do those people like, 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:44.960 had they ever met before? Do they know each other? 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:49.760 Or do you become friends? Or like now that Chalomey 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:53.240 and Spike Lee are high fiven or had they ever 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:57.680 met before the Knicks thing got out of got on hand? 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:01.840 Or Ben Still or how about uh Ram Emmanuel and 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:04.160 Larry David. That was a good pairing right there. I 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:06.240 don't know if they'd ever met before, but man, they're 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:11.720 other and so I really full disclosure, I'm just not 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:13.440 an NBA fan at this point in my life, and 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:16.240 I didn't watch the game, but I was caught. I 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:19.120 was intrigued by the fact that what is her name? 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:22.159 The actress she was on one of the police procedures 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:26.160 for years market hagetary or what do you know the 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:28.440 woman I'm talking about, Michael right, what the hell's her name? 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:31.000 Is it Marisia? Or no, no, no, I know who 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:34.240 you're talking about. Assume it's to celebrity. It's a woman. Yeah, 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:36.839 Well I just said she was on a police procedural 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:38.559 that was a super big hit for a long time. 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:42.440 Market anyway, she was in the front row, and I'm like, 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:47.839 really really, yeah, she's starring in a new show I 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:52.640 think on Broadway. It's her rival or something. Riska that's it. Yeah, 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:58.960 Mriska hargitay. Uh, that's a billboard. They bought a billboard 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:03.360 for the show. Oh, they're at Courtside. That's a good airsporis. 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:06.880 Argidage's starring in the new revival of whatever the hell. 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:10.520 It's like buying an ad brigadoon. Yeah. Mostly it's super 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:15.080 rich people. So I'm assuming that Tracy Morgan who won 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:19.160 ninety million dollars because that Walmart truck hit him and 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:22.159 almost killed him. So he's among the super rich, and 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:23.960 he's at all the Knicks games. He was sitting in 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.280 the front row with Tina Feye next to him. I 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:28.640 wonder if he went ahead and comm you know, said out, 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:31.600 you come to the game with me. They started together 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:34.240 back on thirty Rock together, worked exactly in that live 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:39.680 truly funny show The Rama Manual Larry David Robert Kraft. 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:41.479 Three people in a row, like, I don't know if 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:43.240 they're friends or if they'd met for the first time 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:45.120 there at the gar Oh hey, you know, i'd be 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:47.839 just kind of a weird oh hey moment, just like 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:49.920 somebody you've seen on to Oh hey, you're the guy 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:52.000 that owns the Patriots. Oh you're the guy that might 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:55.000 be the next president, Nia shak hands. I would wait 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:57.719 three hours in line to overhear their conversation. No kidding, 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:01.200 that's an interesting grouping all the way around. It was 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:04.880 that way everywhere. Man. The coolest one though, was I'd 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:07.360 become I'm kind of a Jalen Brunson fanboy, even though 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:09.440 I'm rooting for the Spurs. Got into him last year. 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.640 He is some super stud performer. But anyway, he had 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:15.360 some amazing clutch plays last night with the crowd going 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:17.720 crazy and everything like that. And they go over to 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.960 also in the front row, Derek Jeter sitting with Eli 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:24.080 Manning high fiving. I thought, there is some guys that 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:25.760 understand what it's like to be in front of that 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:29.120 crowd and perform. Well, right, pressure, that was a cool 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:32.880 group right there. Coming up, your birth order affects your future, 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.960 but not for the reason you think, Jack, How do 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.880 I always respond to a headline like that? How do 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:44.320 you know what I think? But really interesting science about 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:48.719 birth order? Holy cat? You think? Okay, well I'll have 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.400 to hear this. Oh are you a scientist? Are you 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:56.200 answered the question? He's not answering, folks, I could be 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:59.760 in Congress and do one of those hearings. Yeah, I know, 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:03.839 exactly answer the question. I'm trying to you a question. 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:08.000 Every time I start dance, I reclaim my time, yes, 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:10.560 and then you yell I reclaimed my time, and nobody 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:15.080 knows what that means, so you stop talking. No way 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:17.760 to run a republic, folks. I had one other thing 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:20.320 I wanted to tease before we got going. Oh Apple, 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.880 The Apple Update seria is completely different. 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:24.080 Now. 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:26.480 I haven't tried it yet, but the new AI series. 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:29.720 Some people are saying it's really fantastic. But more important 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:31.680 than that, they announced a whole bunch of new parental 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:35.400 controls that I'm super into as a guy who's got 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:38.680 a couple of teen boys with iPhones that will We'll 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:42.560 update you on that whole thing too. And we got 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.240 to get into the Iran war at some point. Trump 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:48.000 making some pretty big claims today that it could be 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:50.280 over in a matter of days. I feel like I've 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:53.240 heard this a few times, not exactly sure what he's 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:57.520 trying to accomplish with those promises at this point and 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:02.720 who he's putting pressure on host again, Echoes of the 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:07.680 Ukraine Russia thing? Who's the roadblock to an agreement? Here? Again? 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:11.480 Donald J? Is it really is? Is it really is real? 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:13.520 We'll talk about it, all right. We got a lot 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:23.720 on the way. Stay here. Trump in New York City 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:27.400 Mayor Zorin Mamdani was also at the game. The guy 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:29.160 in charge of the kiss cam was like, should I 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:33.239 could be fun. 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:33.360 Out of it? 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.520 I didn't get that joke, right, We didn't get it either, Michael, Yeah, 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:39.920 what's the what's the joke there? Michael? Oh, you're running 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:40.400 kiss cam? 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:43.440 You're supposed to you put the kiss cam on Mandami 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:44.560 and who he's supposed to kiss? 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:48.600 The person next him or whatever? Man, I still don't 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:55.839 understand that. What It doesn't matter. But the communist came 0:08:55.960 --> 0:09:00.199 on him. Mndami spend one thousand dollars for standing room 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:03.559 only tickets to try to be a regular working class guy. 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:08.120 I guess, I guess all right, Jack, you are the 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:11.679 oldest sibling in your family, correct. I am I am 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:16.840 a three, I am a middle child, the middle of three. 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:19.120 And I must say I've never put much stock in 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:24.079 birth order. No, no, I you know, I don't want 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:27.240 to jump to the conclusion, but well, I'll hold up 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:30.520 so really interesting coverage in the Washington Post of some 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:36.040 new science about birth order. They mentioned that younger siblings 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:40.120 enjoy real advantages in life. Generally, the parents have more money, 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:46.839 more experiences. Parents. Older siblings can serve as role models, mentors, 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:50.560 productive rivals. You know, you play basketball against your older brother, 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:53.000 you're going to become a better basketball player. The ranks 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:56.120 of elite athletes are filled with many more younger siblings 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:58.839 than older brothers and sisters. There are a lot of 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:01.520 reasons why second born should do better, said this one 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:07.440 economics professor Brigham Young, but being born first is a 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:10.840 far better bet in life. The data shows. A landmark 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:13.920 study shows that younger siblings fare worse than first borns 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:17.880 on lifetime earnings, educational achievement, mental health, and for women 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:20.680 teen pregnancy. The later the birth order, the worst the 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:24.080 stats get. The youngest siblings get measurably less schooling than 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:28.680 the firstborn on average, but that only explained half of 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:36.040 the difference. The other half seems to be germs. They 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:39.720 followed one point two million Danish children born since nineteen 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:42.800 eighty into adulthood. The study found that the tiniest organisms 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:45.720 have a profound impact on a child's future. Exposure to 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:49.640 respiratory viruses before a baby's first birthday, when their immune 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:55.319 systems are immature, and before most childhood vaccinations consistently predicted 0:10:55.360 --> 0:11:00.960 reduced earnings, education, and health decades later. Whoa illness, serious 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:04.120 respiratory illness, and you're more likely to get them if 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:07.720 you're the third child, or not just not the first, 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:11.120 because the first one is off at school or daycare whatever. 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:18.320 Bringing bugs home that doesn't happen to the firstborn kid. Wow, 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.280 this is going to come up with Thanksgiving. My younger brother, 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:24.920 thanks for bringing all those germs home. Yeah, way to go, 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:25.840 jermy boy. 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:27.920 You know. 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:31.960 I could get into the details of this, but they 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:35.680 said that data was absolutely clear. Earnings, education, mental health 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:40.400 outcomes all declined as community disease exposure rose. Now, these 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:44.880 are averages across populations. So the adult incomes fell by 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:48.120 nearly one percent, high school and college graduation dropped by 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:52.240 about half a percent. Psychiatric clinic visits arise by about 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:54.440 six percent above the baseline rate. Blah blah blah. And 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:56.880 they say those numbers might appear trivial, but their averages 0:11:56.880 --> 0:12:02.440 across the entire population. Blah, blah blah. So this is 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.520 interesting from a scientific perspective, but a couple of caveats. 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:08.520 Number one, you know, try to keep your kid reasonably healthy, 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:11.480 do what you want, but to get the vaccinations against 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:16.080 scary stuff. They've performed miracles, saved kids' lives. Second thing is, 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:18.600 and this is the part I didn't want to get 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:21.600 to prematurely. You get dealt the cards, you get dealt. 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:27.439 We've lost that bad rock belief as human beings because 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:31.440 a grievance culture and the narcissism of small distinctions. Nobody 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:35.040 cares that you got, you know, eighty eight percent of 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:38.480 the good luck when somebody else got ninety one percent. 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:40.960 It's what you do with it that matters. In the 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:44.240 game and play, that's the only thing that matters. Yeah, 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:47.280 the whole one thing I had never for whatever reason, 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:48.840 had never really occurred to me to the other day 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:51.920 till somebody brought it up is if you're the oldest, 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:55.160 you grew up in the household of the full number 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:58.880 of your family for your whole life till you left. 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:02.760 Where's the youngest In some cases, depending on how spread 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:05.720 out they are, was an only child through high school 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:09.400 or or longer. Like my younger brother, which would have 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:12.320 been a completely different sitting down to the family table 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:14.800 with nobody else there than when I was in high 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:16.880 school and it was five of us. I had never 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:20.679 really thought about that before, right, yeah, yeah, Oh, there 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:23.320 was one more thing that I just thought was interesting 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:25.920 because since Judy got pregnant with Kate many years ago, 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:34.920 I've been fascinated by prenatal development, specifically neural development. Serious 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:39.319 illness is in early childhood can derail grain bait. Obviously, 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:44.400 it's derailed mind, can derail brain growth and cast a 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:46.600 long shadow on later life. In the first months of life, 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:50.520 roughly eighty five percent of an infant's calorie intake goes 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:55.079 toward neural development. Isn't that amazing? So speed your child 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:58.720 as your recommendation that absolute, as non negotiable. A serious 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.439 infection can reduce how much baby eats and divert calories 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:04.840 away from building a brain. The thing you know the most, 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:07.080 and we've talked about this and less lay and everybody knows, well, 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:09.040 everybody who's a parent knows this. You don't know this 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:14.000 till your parent completely is how different they are. They're 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:20.160 so incredibly different, They have such a different tool set 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:22.360 to go out into the world with some of it 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:26.400 you know, better than their siblings, some of it worse, 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:28.880 and you go out there with what you got and 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:31.520 you know, make your way. But it just that's that's 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:35.240 what the blows your mind. And that's why you can't 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:37.840 react to studies like this with a wait a minute, 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:40.480 wait a minute, my little brother's a genius and highly 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:43.080 successful and blah blah blah. Yeah, it's these are averages 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:47.360 across populations. Your family could be completely the opposite of 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:52.160 everything that is indicated by the averages. So we did 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:55.520 have a helicopter crash near the Strait of or Moves. 0:14:55.640 --> 0:15:00.000 The pilots are fine, thank goodness. But the fact that 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.640 we're this far into the war and haven't lost more 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:08.640 guys or women is partially miraculous, and partially to the 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:12.160 fact that we stopped the war fairly quickly and haven't 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:17.360 really engaged since for better or worse, and I'm leaning 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:20.840 toward worse. We got more on that coming up a 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:23.800 little a little later with some of the quotes that 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.840 Trump has put out today on this thing is going 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:28.800 to wrap up soon, which he has been saying now 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.480 for quite a while. Oh a little later on the hour, 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:33.640 I'd like to get to a really good analysis of 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:40.160 is California's election rigged? The answer is there's no proof 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:43.240 that it is, but boy, they leave open a lot 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:45.640 of area of doubt. I'm a pretty hard no on 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:49.440 is it rigged? But yeah, it certainly doesn't. You don't 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.520 do yourself any favors by dragging it out over a 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:55.440 month like we got. There's a I mentioned this last week. 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:58.400 There's a close vote on a measure in the burg 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:01.600 that I live in. There is it's a billion dollars 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:04.840 at stake, and they're still counting the votes and it's 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:08.040 like four hundred votes apart on whether or not a 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:12.680 billion dollars get spent or not on this big housing development. 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:17.000 How could you possibly expect that there isn't somebody somewhere 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:19.960 who's trying to influence that when you got that much 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:23.520 money on the line, that's defying human nature. I'm a 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:26.160 little surprised to hear you say hard no. I'm agnostic 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:30.480 on the question because I don't think it's knowable. I've 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:33.240 designed a stadium where we don't check the tickets, and 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:36.720 then you ask me how many people snuck in without tickets. 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:39.200 I don't know, there's no mechanism. There's not an adequate 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:42.520 mechanism to check it. Yeah, I just I'm not concerned 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:48.000 that our guy Spencer Pratt got screwed by cheating on 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:51.280 the voting. I think it's just LA is eighty four 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:55.800 percent of votes Democrat. This is the result you should get. Yes, 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:59.520 that is definitely part of the reality, which is damn 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:03.120 mad I'm not claiming it's not maddening. How bad would 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.840 it have to get before you'd want to try something different? 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:09.840 That's what's amazing, just for a few years, right, Wow, 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:12.600 all right, if you miss a segment of the podcast 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:18.520 Armstrong and Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:22.639 Where in the final throes of what will be a 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:25.960 very very good deal that will not allow in any way, 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:29.560 shape or form, nuclear weapons, etc. And then this straight 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:33.359 will open up right away. It'll open up immediately upon signing, 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:34.760 which could be in two or three days. 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:38.760 Well, I want that to be true. There is zero 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:42.679 I'm not the mainstream media who is Trump said without 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:45.840 evidence regularly on stuff all time. But I'm gonna say 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:49.440 it here. Trump said without any evidence that I can 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:54.600 see anywhere, and I mean anywhere that this is going 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:56.080 to be over a couple of days. They're not going 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:57.560 to get a nuke in the street, will be open. 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:01.320 Have you come across any evidence of that being true 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:05.399 in any journalism anywhere. I haven't, no other than the 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:08.639 occasional comment by like an Ian Bremer on Twitter or 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.520 something that he's hearing dot but I've heard that multiple 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:14.280 times now. I hardly even pay attention to that sort 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:16.399 of pronouncement by Trump at this point. But like in 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:18.720 the last twenty four hours, because this is a new 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:21.480 thing from Trump that it's very very close in just 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:25.040 a couple of days now, I haven't seen that reported 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:30.159 by anybody, like any opinion piece, even right right. I 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:32.639 was thinking about this earlier, and this thought occurred to 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:35.840 me with greater clarity than it has before. Iran is 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:39.920 absolutely hell bent and obsessed with killing all the Jews 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:43.480 and wiping Israel off of the map. So you can 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:47.680 either give them that in negotiations or any other agreement 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:51.560 they come to is just a head fake, because they 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:54.800 will continue doing their most sacred duty is that they 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:59.199 see it. Yeah, I hope Trump is right about that. 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:01.920 By the way, He's got some behind the scenes him 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:05.920 and Jared Kushner and whoever working in Marco Rubio, and 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:07.920 they're gonna announce something. I hope that's what happens, and 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:10.840 I'll be very happy about that. But like I said, 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:12.800 I haven't even seen an opinion piece where they say 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:15.359 it's going to happen, let alone any factual reporting about it. 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:18.080 But I had one other thing. Maybe I'll think of it. Well, 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:20.560 Tree Yankst of Fox. Lets us know where we are now. 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:24.000 After President Trump called on Israel and Iran to stop shooting, 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:27.120 both sides agreed. Since then, Israel has continued to operate 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:30.960 against Iran back Hesbelah in Lebanon, launching new strikes overnight 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:35.040 and issuing fresh evacuation orders this morning. Prime Minister Benjamint 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:38.679 Yahu addressed his country overnight with a message about Hesbola 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:39.640 by Mama. 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:42.600 In the past twenty four hours, Iron and Hesbela tried 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:45.280 to impose a new equation on us. This equation is 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:48.560 intolerable and unacceptable to me. They thought they could fire 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:51.960 from Lebanese and Iranian territory at Israel and that we 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:54.960 would not act. That did not happen, and that will 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:55.480 not happen. 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:59.680 If I'm BB Netan Yahoo, and I'm his age and 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:03.800 his point in everything in life. I just finish off 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:05.040 hesbelow once and for all. 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:05.240 Now. 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:10.360 The world be damned with their opinion, right, I would agree. 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:13.399 We can get more into that situation if you want. 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:17.520 The absolutely unholy situation in Lebanon. As I mentioned earlier, 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:21.399 the Lebanese Army is the third most powerful force in 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:24.960 that country after the Israelis and Hesbela. It's a shell 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:27.240 of a country. It's always on the brink of civil war. 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:31.280 Sectarian religious violence is just a way of life there 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:34.720 since you know, ages ago, the eighties, I guess as 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:37.200 to the Strait of Horror Moves, which is why your 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:40.320 gas is so expensive. The reporter goes on with. 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:43.439 Questions about if the seasfire could be broken again. International 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:45.520 attention remains on the Strait of Horne Moves, where the 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:48.080 US naval blockade if Iranian ports. 0:20:47.960 --> 0:20:49.280 Is expected to continue. 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:53.240 Sentcom says US forces disabled an unladened oil tanker in 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:55.679 the Gulf of Oman on Monday after it tried to 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:58.760 breach the blockade, and FA eighteen super Hornet from the 0:20:58.880 --> 0:21:02.480 USS Abraham Lincoln fired a precision munition into the ship's 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:06.400 engineering and steering rooms. Now, since the blockade went into effect, 0:21:06.560 --> 0:21:09.280 one hundred and thirty four vessels have been turned around, 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:10.679 with seven disabled. 0:21:14.280 --> 0:21:18.040 It doesn't sound a lot like progress. The headline one 0:21:18.040 --> 0:21:20.200 of the opinion pieces in the Wall Street Journal today, 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:23.680 Israel fights while Trump talks. The US demands more restraint 0:21:23.720 --> 0:21:27.560 from An ally than it does from Iran. More talk 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:31.639 about Israel needs to stop attacking than Iran needs to 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:37.439 stop attacking. Yeah, let me quote frequent correspondent JT who 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:40.560 dropped us a note. Trump keeps attacking the good side 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:42.480 quote unquote, in his belief that doing so will a 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:45.840 facilitated deal. The case of Russia, Trump kept accusing Zelensky 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:47.880 of being the stumbling block to the deal. You don't 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:50.560 have any cards. Do you even own a suit? While 0:21:50.560 --> 0:21:53.679 echoing Putin's talking points. Trump is now attacking Nettnyal who 0:21:53.720 --> 0:21:55.879 accusing him of scuttling a deal with Iran because of 0:21:55.920 --> 0:21:59.040 Israel's attacks on Hesbla, and Trump is echoing Iran's talking 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:00.960 points in the Iran deal is linked to Israel not 0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:04.959 attacking Hesbelah. Trump seems oblivious to the psychopathy of Putin 0:22:05.160 --> 0:22:08.800 and Putin's willingness to absorb massive losses. Likewise, Trump seems 0:22:08.800 --> 0:22:11.160 oblivious to the nature of the death cult, of Iran's 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:13.960 particular form of Islamism, and the willingness of Iran to 0:22:14.000 --> 0:22:17.520 absorb endless pain on the part of the civilian Iranian population. 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:21.639 I agree latly, we all have blind spots because of 0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:26.800 our life history, and I find that so interesting. And 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:30.440 Trump seems to be because his whole life he's dealt 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:35.200 with people where the goal was making the most money, 0:22:35.280 --> 0:22:37.920 whether it was you know, a guy who owned land 0:22:38.000 --> 0:22:41.960 or a hotel or a mobster or whoever it was. 0:22:42.400 --> 0:22:44.560 I need to make a certain amount of money, then 0:22:44.600 --> 0:22:47.240