Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jetty and no He Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: Hoy, y'all doing.
Speaker 2: I want to talk about The Odyssey.
Speaker 1: It's just some stuff I've come across a reading reviews
Speaker 1: and like from actual critics and then people who went
Speaker 1: to the movie. Most people have blown away visually, but
Speaker 1: it's the first major film film that all imax. I'm
Speaker 1: going this week. I can't wait to see wait to
Speaker 1: see it.
Speaker 3: Have you heard how it translates to non IMAX screens? No?
Speaker 2: I have not.
Speaker 3: I'm sure it's still fantastic visually. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, he definitely filmed it with the idea that
Speaker 1: you should see it in on the IMAX format. That's
Speaker 1: the point of the way he made it and spend
Speaker 1: a lot of money on it being that way.
Speaker 3: I don't know how I'm gonna watch it on my
Speaker 3: phone then criticize it bitterly.
Speaker 1: I've watched a lot of movies on my phone, which
Speaker 1: is really cruel to do to the director.
Speaker 3: I don't care. I just I don't think about the
Speaker 3: politics of movies. I just don't.
Speaker 1: It's not something that crosses my mind, but if it does,
Speaker 1: David Frenchen and other conservative pundits have made the argument
Speaker 1: that it's one of the most conservative movies made in
Speaker 1: years in terms of a message if you care about
Speaker 1: that sort of thing. I don't really think about those things.
Speaker 1: So somebody would have to ask me, and then I
Speaker 1: would have to think about it to come up with
Speaker 1: a was the message from this movie this or that?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I guess I just don't go to the movies for
Speaker 1: those reasons or something. But we'll talk more about that later.
Speaker 1: And then I'm going this week and I can't wait.
Speaker 1: Tickets are kind of expensive. I and then you got
Speaker 1: the giant popcorn thing that's like one hundred and fifty bucks.
Speaker 1: So yeah, the souvenir popcorn.
Speaker 3: A bold, the giant Paragian horse popcorn thing sounds kind
Speaker 3: of cool. When you say pretty expensive, what are we
Speaker 3: talking about? Twenty five apiece? So fifty bucks? I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, regular movies are like fifteen apiece, I think. So,
Speaker 3: here's a dumb guy.
Speaker 1: Standing on a street corner, college kid being asked to
Speaker 1: do a first first a dumb guy than a smart guy.
Speaker 1: Both of them are fans of socialism. One of them, Well,
Speaker 1: they're both dangerous. I guess depending on how you look
Speaker 1: at it. Here is like a college kid on the
Speaker 1: street pitching you on socialism.
Speaker 4: I know, I saw statistic amazing for you, guys, more
Speaker 4: than half of young Americans now prefer socialism over capitalism.
Speaker 4: So if you can look into the camera and give
Speaker 4: a thirty second elevator pitch on why socialism is better
Speaker 4: than capitalism.
Speaker 2: Community.
Speaker 5: Are you tired of sitting alone, being by yourself and
Speaker 5: having no one to talk to you. It's all about community.
Speaker 5: It's about laras sitting down and having coffee of random
Speaker 5: stranger and talking to them, talking about the game. Hell,
Speaker 5: I have hugged more strangers than this past summer because
Speaker 5: of the next game, because of the World Cup. Because
Speaker 5: socialism works is the watch parties at a zorround hosts.
Speaker 3: It's about the parties that we allow.
Speaker 5: You don't have cops hoogging every single site and saying, oh,
Speaker 5: you can't be here because there's too many people, instead
Speaker 5: of allowing people just being in their nature a natural
Speaker 5: element of talking each other to bond over things we
Speaker 5: love and share. So that what socialism is it ain't
Speaker 5: scary word.
Speaker 3: It ain't me.
Speaker 5: Taking your house is about me making sure your house
Speaker 5: remains in your hands and some million doesn't take it
Speaker 5: from you.
Speaker 3: That's it. How do you argue with that? Hmm, that's
Speaker 3: a child?
Speaker 2: How do you argue with that?
Speaker 1: So if he hears the candidate is a DSA candidate
Speaker 1: Democratic Socialist of America, he's going to vote yes because
Speaker 1: of all the things he just said.
Speaker 2: How do you how do you argue out of that position? Boy?
Speaker 3: That rings so beautifully though, with that piece I brought
Speaker 3: you last week about the young woman from the Wall
Speaker 3: Street Journal who went to all sorts of DSA events
Speaker 3: and said, it's all about community and contact and having
Speaker 3: fun together because all the youngsters are so lonely. But
Speaker 3: they're using that loneliness to sell them on a totalitarian
Speaker 3: form of government, which is clever and insidious. I mean
Speaker 3: to have the two thirds of what he talked about
Speaker 3: has nothing whatsoever.
Speaker 1: To do with social I don't want to be a
Speaker 1: buzz soccer viewer parties. I don't want to be a buzzkill.
Speaker 1: But socialism is not getting together with your friends watching
Speaker 1: the Knicks game. That's not socialism.
Speaker 3: The word social is in there, But don't be confused, Jenny.
Speaker 2: They're not even close.
Speaker 1: Now here's a guy I don't know as much about this,
Speaker 1: Hassan piker dude.
Speaker 3: I keep hearing his name. What is he? He's an
Speaker 3: influencer podcaster, Yeah, podcaster, influencer, one of the star talking
Speaker 3: heads in the long left, the young left.
Speaker 1: Rather, maybe I should take in some of his stuff
Speaker 1: because his name keeps popping up and young people seem
Speaker 1: to listen to him a lot. Here's him talking up
Speaker 1: Chairman Mile.
Speaker 6: I got stopped by a cop who thought it was
Speaker 6: like making fun of mause Dong, which I never would
Speaker 6: and never will. Malse Dong is a is a one
Speaker 6: of the great leaders of this world. Okay, a man
Speaker 6: who changed the entire universe, the entire planet.
Speaker 3: All right, Wow, come for the evil, stay for the
Speaker 3: What the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 2: So he knows what he's doing though, right?
Speaker 1: That first numb nut we heard from who's talking about
Speaker 1: Nick's parties being socialism just is.
Speaker 3: A Yeah, he's a numbskull.
Speaker 1: He's a numbskull, although his vote count as much as yours.
Speaker 1: This a soundpiker guy knows exactly what he's doing. He
Speaker 1: just wants to upend the system.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a Marxist. But you can look at now,
Speaker 3: say dong though, and say that went well. I mean
Speaker 3: you've got to seriously, seriously be delusional.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know how you get there people starving
Speaker 1: to death because you're collectivized farming.
Speaker 3: Right. I think that the difference between a guy like
Speaker 3: me and a guy like him is I can tell
Speaker 3: you what Trump's done right and wrong, in my opinion,
Speaker 3: I can do the same for Ronald Reagan or you know,
Speaker 3: Margaret Thatcher or whatever else. I don't have a religious
Speaker 3: calling like these people do. That they will tell you
Speaker 3: in a candid moment. Yes, we will absolutely lie to
Speaker 3: promote Marxism because it's that important. We can't let your
Speaker 3: petty bourgeois notions of truth and honestly and dishonest he
Speaker 3: getting the way of bringing about the revolution. You think,
Speaker 3: you know, the founding, the founding oppressors of this country
Speaker 3: didn't lie occasionally. You're a fool, he would say.
Speaker 1: Probably. Well, none of the people you mentioned, you can
Speaker 1: point out their mistakes include seventy million people dying. Sure,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a heck of a mistake. Too big
Speaker 1: an admission to make.
Speaker 3: Huh wow.
Speaker 2: All right, So.
Speaker 1: Bill Maher is an old school Democrat. Nobody hated George W.
Speaker 1: Bush more than Bill Maher or Reagan or I've been
Speaker 1: following Bill Maher for many, many years, going back to
Speaker 1: the seventies. Actually he is a Democrat. He does not
Speaker 1: like conservatives, but he doesn't like the wackatoos that are
Speaker 1: taking over his party. Hears him doing an interview over
Speaker 1: the weekend.
Speaker 7: I mean, you get some Democrats marats are cowardly. Yeah,
Speaker 7: they're cowardly. Their party is being taken over now by
Speaker 7: you know, every day I hear about a new very
Speaker 7: radical I feel very good about like ten whenever years ago,
Speaker 7: like I did lose fans because you know, I wasn't
Speaker 7: going to go along with some of this crazy stuff
Speaker 7: on the left too. I didn't change really on what
Speaker 7: I thought about the right. But just I can't sit
Speaker 7: and just not notice stuff which people seem to want
Speaker 7: to do because it's all about my team or your team.
Speaker 7: But yeah, there's some crazy stuff, you know, when we're
Speaker 7: cheering for the Intavada, I got I'm out. The talking
Speaker 7: point is that it's not communism and socialism. Okay, I've
Speaker 7: read the quotes from the DSA platform from their own mouths.
Speaker 7: Don't tell me I'm not seeing what.
Speaker 3: I am seeing. He's in such a minority though his
Speaker 3: first point about the Democratic Party is cowardly. They're being
Speaker 3: taken over and they're not saying anything. I'm definitely getting
Speaker 3: hints that people are waking up and realizing, hey, we're
Speaker 3: we haven't infused our party with somewhat wacky but energetic,
Speaker 3: young lefty youngsters, and we'll bring them around now. They're
Speaker 3: serious and they're winning the game. Well, it has We'll
Speaker 3: see what the mainstream Democrats do in response.
Speaker 1: It hasn't made it to mainstream media either. The first
Speaker 1: time I see George Stephanopolis or what's your name and
Speaker 1: face the Nation, or Margaret Brennan. If I see them
Speaker 1: talk to one of these DSA candidates and say, so,
Speaker 1: your platform says you want to replace the constitution and
Speaker 1: do away with capitalism. Do you stand by that? First
Speaker 1: time I see him ask that question, I'll believe they've
Speaker 1: switched to Bill Maher's side, that we're not going to
Speaker 1: go along with this, We're going to call these people out.
Speaker 2: But so far, they're not calling them out at all.
Speaker 3: Now I'm talking about green shoots, as they say, I'm
Speaker 3: seeing green shoots, but whether that grows up in flowers
Speaker 3: into a all right, we got to hold on to
Speaker 3: our party in the face of these lunatics. Who knows
Speaker 3: these people just want power and if they think, you know,
Speaker 3: we could get power by harnessing that energy, Ellie use it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so crazy, Oh yeah, because those will be the first
Speaker 3: people up against the wall when the revolution comes. One
Speaker 3: hundred percent.
Speaker 2: I hope you're right. I hope this is growing.
Speaker 1: And by the time we get to election day in November,
Speaker 1: all these DSA candidates have been shocked to find out
Speaker 1: that they went on ABC, talk to the New York Times, whatever,
Speaker 1: and started getting asked hard questions about.
Speaker 3: You really believe capitalism is a bad idea.
Speaker 1: You really believe the Constitution needs to go, You need
Speaker 1: to You really believe we need to get away, get
Speaker 1: rid of the Senate, for instance, to release everybody from
Speaker 1: the prisons and not have course anymore. Why didn't I
Speaker 1: start there? That's the best wide open border. Don't even
Speaker 1: get to that other complicated stuff. You really believe we
Speaker 1: shouldn't have prisons or police make am answer that question. Yeah,
Speaker 1: hopefully that like takes off. I mean, we're in the
Speaker 1: doldrums of summer by the time that we get to
Speaker 1: November and voting. I hope they've all had to answer
Speaker 1: that question.
Speaker 3: Because that's a bit. We're not making this up.
Speaker 2: It's on their website, the DSA website.
Speaker 3: All these candidates that are winning these elections to.
Speaker 1: Hear about their website says that's their platform.
Speaker 3: My life's been one big doldrum since about twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3: So anyway, one never ending doldrum, boy, doldrum. My life
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Speaker 3: Now the rough side of Joe's tongue. So the thing
Speaker 3: about soccer, which is a game I love? Or do
Speaker 3: you call it football like Tom Cruise? That was interesting anyway?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Is that? And I've defended soccer from Charlattan's just jackasses.
Speaker 3: I've been mocking soccer forever, criticizing it for the lack
Speaker 3: of scoring. Correct, because every goal is so impactful getting
Speaker 3: closee goal in one hundred and twenty five minutes. I
Speaker 3: will get there. I will get there. Every goal is
Speaker 3: so impactful, getting close, setting it up, crossing a ball,
Speaker 3: having a chance is incredibly exciting. And each goal matters
Speaker 3: a lot. So when a goal is scored, it's just pandemonium. Right. Well,
Speaker 3: the problem is in the World Cup final, it's a
Speaker 3: one and done thing. Both play, both teams play, like
Speaker 3: I said before, like those bike races in the Olympics
Speaker 3: where everybody goes real slow and just are watching each other.
Speaker 3: Is anybody gonna start? They are real slow, just crazy, crazy,
Speaker 3: cautious until right again.
Speaker 2: They try real hard, but it makes for dull viewing.
Speaker 3: As an alternative, I give you playoff hockey, which is intense,
Speaker 3: end to end action from the moment the puck drops.
Speaker 2: It's feverish action.
Speaker 3: It's fantastic and often a little higher scoring than the
Speaker 3: regular season because they try so hard. That's my one
Speaker 3: criticism of soccer. They've got to play so conservatively. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I got into it this year. I actually enjoyed the yesterday.
Speaker 3: I found it very exciting, even though it was one nothing,
Speaker 3: so hey, you gotta have the you get fifteen seconds
Speaker 3: to bring it over to the center line role shot clock.
Speaker 3: Do it see? You can't just go four corners kicking
Speaker 3: it around. No, you can't play keep away for forty
Speaker 3: five minutes. It's Dullsville, Daddy.
Speaker 2: Okay more all the ways there.
Speaker 1: So the Odyssey made a lot of money over the weekend,
Speaker 1: almost three hundred million dollars worldwide. And it's a very
Speaker 1: famous director and it's got big stars in it, so
Speaker 1: it's got the whole I'm filmed that Imax than that
Speaker 1: is unique. So I don't know what's drawing people to it.
Speaker 1: The fact that it's a three thousand year old I
Speaker 1: like when people say thirty centuries. That makes it makes
Speaker 1: it under It's easy to throw out three thousand years,
Speaker 1: you're right, but you say thirty centuries and you really
Speaker 1: realize how long that is.
Speaker 3: I'm doing the math and it checks out.
Speaker 1: That's stunning, how long ago that is and why it's
Speaker 1: still the story. And I like the people that are
Speaker 1: making the point that it stands up for the Western
Speaker 1: canon to a certain extent, the fact that this is
Speaker 1: being redone as a movie since the Western canon has
Speaker 1: been under attack by the Marxist crowd in academics for
Speaker 1: so long they hate it's anything that's Western civilization. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is like core Western civilization stuff. David French tweeted
Speaker 1: out over the weekend. He said, I just watched The Odyssey. Glorious, incredible,
Speaker 1: so much to unpack. I'll be thinking about it for days.
Speaker 1: But if I had to sum up the native narrative
Speaker 1: arc in one sentence, it would be this, heedless people,
Speaker 1: you will pay.
Speaker 2: For what you've destroyed.
Speaker 1: Another a conservative commentator I like, said I haven't seen it,
Speaker 1: but my favorite comment should be is that the Golden
Speaker 1: Rule is real, and you better believe it. Seems to
Speaker 1: be the story of the whole movie. I've never read
Speaker 1: the Odyssey. I'm somewhat embarrassed by that.
Speaker 3: I don't think there are half a percent of the
Speaker 3: people gathered here at this moment who've read The Odyssey.
Speaker 2: Charles CD B.
Speaker 1: Cook said the anti Odyssey crusade by some no more
Speaker 1: constitutes movie criticisms criticism than last summer's freak out over
Speaker 1: Sidney Sweeney's denim commercial.
Speaker 2: And he really liked it.
Speaker 1: There is the whole It's not as good as the
Speaker 1: book crowd, which you've always railed against. Anybody who says that.
Speaker 1: I've said it many times in my life. And sometimes
Speaker 1: I see a movie and it's not as good as
Speaker 1: the book and it bothers me.
Speaker 2: But you can't.
Speaker 1: There are certain things you can't do in a movie
Speaker 1: that you can do in a book.
Speaker 2: It's just a fact.
Speaker 3: As reading.
Speaker 1: Our friend Tim Sanderfer really didn't like the stuff that
Speaker 1: was left out of the movie.
Speaker 3: But it sounds to me like stuff that you couldn't
Speaker 3: put in a movie. It'd be impossible. I can't remember
Speaker 3: whether it was Chris Columbus or I'm bet at Directors,
Speaker 3: one of the guys who directed some of the Harry
Speaker 3: Potter movies was responding, this is early on in that series,
Speaker 3: to the criticism that there's so much not in the book,
Speaker 3: and he said, if I were to dramatize the book
Speaker 3: on the screen, this movie would be thirty seven hours long,
Speaker 3: something to that effect, because there's just so much more
Speaker 3: volume in a.
Speaker 2: Right, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So from that standpoint, it's always an interesting criticism.
Speaker 1: If you haven't I think it's an eight hundred page
Speaker 1: book to read the Odyssey, Well, how long did it
Speaker 1: take you to read that? And then you expect that
Speaker 1: to be not leave anything out, even in a three
Speaker 1: hour movie. Well, right, if it took you forty hours
Speaker 1: to read it, obviously it doesn't quite make sense, right.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see it now. I we'll talk
Speaker 1: about it when I do. But if it's if it's
Speaker 1: the Golden Rule, come to the screen.
Speaker 3: I like the idea of that. Looking forward to that myself.
Speaker 3: Some more blows to land accounts against socialism, and it's
Speaker 3: time we all started doing it, because man, it is
Speaker 3: coming on like a freight train. Stay with us.
Speaker 8: And video circulating online appearing to show projectiles falling over
Speaker 8: the base, some intercepted, but others making a direct hit.
Speaker 8: Sources telling us one of those strikes hit a housing
Speaker 8: containment unit, raising questions among some military experts about Iran's capabilities,
Speaker 8: despite the administration saying the Iranian military was decimated.
Speaker 3: That's smart the rat it's reporting.
Speaker 1: Yesterday we struck around for the ninth night in a row,
Speaker 1: but they were striking back at all kinds of different stuff.
Speaker 1: Some of our military bases. We had three killed over
Speaker 1: the weekend, including they just released the name of one
Speaker 1: Private Isabella Gonzalez, nineteen year old girl from Carlton, Texas man.
Speaker 1: Small towns keep our military going. Yeah, I cannot sate them.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I came across some analysis that was talking
Speaker 3: about how Iran has actually uped its game missile wise,
Speaker 3: and their missiles seem more capable and sophisticated than they
Speaker 3: did even in recent memory.
Speaker 1: And where we're getting help from and their targeting is better,
Speaker 1: And yeah, that's why the reporting over the weekend was
Speaker 1: they it looks like they might be getting help from
Speaker 1: China and Russia. I don't know how we handle that.
Speaker 1: That's a pretty big deal for China and Russia to
Speaker 1: help Iran kill US soldiers.
Speaker 2: Martha Raddos goes on This.
Speaker 8: Nearly five month long war, which began with the US
Speaker 8: and Israel launching strikes on Iran, appears to have once
Speaker 8: again brought traffic through the critical Straight of Horror Moves
Speaker 8: to a crawl. Market data shows only eight vessels navigated
Speaker 8: the Straight on Friday, although Energy Secretary Chris Wright is
Speaker 8: disputing that almost all the public data I've seen is incorrect.
Speaker 3: There's flow through two routes through the Straight of horm Moves.
Speaker 8: The renewed finding spiking the cost of oil and gas
Speaker 8: a gallon of gas now four dollars.
Speaker 1: So Trump declared the Straight open. Remember that week and
Speaker 1: a half or so go. It ain't open. It's a
Speaker 1: long way from open. N Bremer made the point, and
Speaker 1: I think he's right.
Speaker 2: We can.
Speaker 1: We have the ability to blockade the Straight, which hurts.
Speaker 1: I ran, well, we don't have the ability to open
Speaker 1: the Straight, So we can blockade it and keep it closed,
Speaker 1: you know, basically blockading their blockade.
Speaker 2: But we can't open it.
Speaker 3: Not in the short term. No, it would take a
Speaker 3: war war effort to do that. It's not a task.
Speaker 3: It's part of the great task.
Speaker 1: We'll get to our capabilities. Eclient task we should do.
Speaker 3: I should say, we'll.
Speaker 1: Get to the capabilities we've got. According to the Washington Post,
Speaker 1: in just a minute. But like right at this moment,
Speaker 1: air raid sirens are going off Bahrain because Iran it's
Speaker 1: firing missiles into Bahrain. The speaking of navigation of the seas,
Speaker 1: this is new news too. The Iranian backed Houthy terrorist
Speaker 1: group in Yemen Remember Them, has announced a total ban
Speaker 1: on maritime navigation by Saudi Arabia under the principle of
Speaker 1: a blockade for a blockade, citing their full writ industries
Speaker 1: to respond to any reckless acts by the Kingdom of Saudi.
Speaker 1: So the Houthis are saying they're blockading that waterway over
Speaker 1: there because we're blockading the Straight of hor Moves, and
Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia is on our side. So there you go.
Speaker 1: In terms of whether or not it's going to turn
Speaker 1: to a greater war or not. The Saudi Arabia flex
Speaker 1: their muscles against the Houthis and say, no, we get
Speaker 1: to do what we want in our little area.
Speaker 3: I'd be shocked if it didn't expand given what we've
Speaker 3: heard today, I don't what's the off The New York
Speaker 3: Times with a hilarious headline that excuse me. The United
Speaker 3: States and Iran offered hints today that they were willing
Speaker 3: to restart talks.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I just saw that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's some talk of mediators trying to get some
Speaker 1: sort of ceasefire going so we can talk about this
Speaker 1: a ceasefire, which would only benefit.
Speaker 3: The Iranians, right an agreement.
Speaker 1: If they agree to a cease fire, it's because they're
Speaker 1: waiting to fix this or that or get a shipment
Speaker 1: of something from China or Russia. If they agree to
Speaker 1: a cease fire, it ain't because they have any interest in,
Speaker 1: you know, not getting a nuclear weapon, or no longer
Speaker 1: wanting Israel to go away, or any of those things.
Speaker 3: Right Right, Marco said that if that door opens, we'll
Speaker 3: be happy to see it open. But he added that
Speaker 3: Iran's behavior has to change in order for ours to change.
Speaker 3: In other words, what are we talking about? Right?
Speaker 1: Mentioned this earlier in the show, but the Washington Post,
Speaker 1: and you never know if it's true or not because
Speaker 1: the Washington Post hates Trump. And this is a an
Speaker 1: official speaking on the condition of anonymity, not authorized to
Speaker 1: speak to the media. The US is planning for a
Speaker 1: wider war, said this US official with internal administration discussions,
Speaker 1: He's got knowledge of that, adding that the Pentagon was
Speaker 1: increasing the number of military aircraft in the region that
Speaker 1: is known. This official, speaking in anonestment anonymously, cautioned that
Speaker 1: the expansion of US operations will be limited by dwindling
Speaker 1: stockpiles of air defense and long range munitions, and constraints
Speaker 1: on the ability to serge more troops and aircraft into
Speaker 1: the area because of battle damage. We do not have
Speaker 1: enough to safely sustain operations. And I don't think the
Speaker 1: White House is aware of that. This official said, I
Speaker 1: find that one hard to believe.
Speaker 3: That last part.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is somebody not telling the White House the true
Speaker 1: trouble we're in, or the reality or.
Speaker 3: Just the facts. I find that hard to believe. There
Speaker 3: have been plenty of examples of lying up the chain
Speaker 3: of command, but man, that's a big one. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: we have plenty of room for the troops here at
Speaker 3: recently bombed air base, I mean, mistroubling.
Speaker 1: Military experts have said that, in addition to the toll
Speaker 1: taken on US equipment and munition stocks, the US is
Speaker 1: unprepared for possible ground operations inside Iran that.
Speaker 2: Trump last week refused to rule out.
Speaker 1: The recent US troop deaths have revived questions about the
Speaker 1: safety of forces at our bases and a lot of
Speaker 1: talk about how some of them are living in tents
Speaker 1: or thin metal walled buildings that are.
Speaker 3: Very vulnerable to Ranian attacks. That statement that we're not
Speaker 3: prepared for a what did it call it an invasion
Speaker 3: or whatever? Uh huh, that's a little phrase that says
Speaker 3: a lot. No, we're not ready to for a land
Speaker 3: war in Iran, a large scale invasion of that country.
Speaker 3: Miles and miles and miles from being ready for it.
Speaker 1: Well, I'd say in that whole little couple paragraphs of
Speaker 1: bad news, the biggest one is if the White House
Speaker 1: is unaware of how unprepared the military is, that would
Speaker 1: be really, really bad.
Speaker 3: I hope that is not happening. Hard to imagine that
Speaker 3: knowledge would come via an anonymous source in the wells
Speaker 3: in the Washington Post.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's that hard to imagine. If
Speaker 1: it were going on and you really cared about the
Speaker 1: military and everything, you'd want to get the word out
Speaker 1: they aren't telling the president things are not good.
Speaker 3: That would be an enormous, horrific scandal. I'm not saying
Speaker 3: it's not happening because I don't know, but that would
Speaker 3: be terrible.
Speaker 1: Well, remember toward the end of the Afghan War when
Speaker 1: the Washington Post again and had that quite explosive story
Speaker 1: at the time that people have been misleading Barack Obama
Speaker 1: for years on how successful things were going in Afghanistan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's systemic in the Russian military. You'd hope it's
Speaker 3: not happening in ours. But you know, that's that's a bad,
Speaker 3: bad thought. So what is Pete keeping it a secret?
Speaker 3: It's nobody telling Pete hegseeth the situation. Don't know, but
Speaker 3: I just hope that's not true.
Speaker 1: No kidding, we're we're and and if China and Russia
Speaker 1: is either giving them better rockets and missiles or better
Speaker 1: targets so they're able to hit our bases, man, that's
Speaker 1: going to get the public's attention real fast.
Speaker 2: I mean, I was horrified that I.
Speaker 1: Watched two evening newscasts just to kind of get an
Speaker 1: idea of and I realize nobody watches the news anymore
Speaker 1: like this, but I just try to get an idea
Speaker 1: of what the biggest news outlets think are the important
Speaker 1: things going on on any given day. And uh, one
Speaker 1: of the news I watch, ABC and CBS. One of
Speaker 1: them led with the soccer then got to oh, by
Speaker 1: the way, three soldiers died over the weekend in our war.
Speaker 1: The other network led with the soldiers dying, which I
Speaker 1: think is the appropriate thing to lead with.
Speaker 3: That's a big deal.
Speaker 1: We could we could easily have a week where one
Speaker 1: hundred people are lost with these rockets hitting bases because
Speaker 1: they're fining them at us all the time, and either
Speaker 1: the technology the rockets is getting better or their ability
Speaker 1: to uh point them in the right direction. Is getting
Speaker 1: better thanks to Russia and China. But that's going to
Speaker 1: get America's attention. God dang it, it's not going the
Speaker 1: right way.
Speaker 3: No, it is not. Where where did I Where the
Speaker 3: heck did I put that? There's a great editorial in
Speaker 3: one of your more conservative places. I know I have. Oh,
Speaker 3: there it is. It's uh Alicia Finley, I think, yeah,
Speaker 3: sure enough, Alicia Finnley is talking about you're mentioned of
Speaker 3: the checking the big news outlets. The big news outlet
Speaker 3: is TikTok. Yeah, and Alicia Finley pointed out Chinese election
Speaker 3: appairance the interference that the president was talking about. What
Speaker 3: the hell about TikTok. It's the leading source of news
Speaker 3: for young people and it is expressly pro China, and
Speaker 3: we're allowing it in the country, and we're worried about
Speaker 3: Russia having some Facebook posts that forty three people looked at. Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Before we take a break, have you been following the
Speaker 1: story of Jimothy the Raccoon?
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, yes, it's a deformed raccoon. I know. I
Speaker 3: don't get the mode the world. I don't either. When
Speaker 3: I first saw they can't stop putting with a spinal condition,
Speaker 3: so it's weirdly shaped and it's become a meme or something.
Speaker 1: It's well, it's like you know some times that happens
Speaker 1: with human beings. You get all twisted up. You're born
Speaker 1: that way, or something happens to you. Are you supposed
Speaker 1: to stare and point at those people?
Speaker 5: Know?
Speaker 1: But for the grace of God, here with the raccoon.
Speaker 1: They keep putting it on the various news channels.
Speaker 3: Look, how cute this is a little raccoon that's got
Speaker 3: a deformity running our frost the yard. What the people
Speaker 3: who have given it a weird name online?
Speaker 5: Yay?
Speaker 3: Kind of a story? Is that? You're right? I don't
Speaker 3: know what to do with the modern world. Kids can't read,
Speaker 3: they can't write, They don't know history, but they know
Speaker 3: Jimothy the deformed raccoon.
Speaker 1: Even if you can't, not a bother ratoon deformed raccoon?
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: People can read, but they don't read. The Atlantic with
Speaker 1: a big piece on the death of reading that nobody
Speaker 1: read that stupid nice job writing a really long article
Speaker 1: about nobody reads.
Speaker 4: Good.
Speaker 3: Thank think about it for a second, dude.
Speaker 1: Freed Zakaria had the author of that article on she
Speaker 1: had a couple of things that were horrifying to me
Speaker 1: yesterday about reading and the young people. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: Oh my god. There's got to be a pony internet somewhere.
Speaker 1: Where's where's the good news? We need some good news?
Speaker 1: Oh boy, talk about the kind of interesting among other things.
Speaker 3: On the way stay here.
Speaker 9: Paul Pelosi has received at least eight driving citations in
Speaker 9: the last decade since his recent hit and run, including speeding,
Speaker 9: going through red lights, d u I, and driving down
Speaker 9: a one way street. His excuse, he says he was
Speaker 9: rushing to get in his stock trades under the wire.
Speaker 1: That's a pretty good joke. I hate to work this
Speaker 1: side of the street, but it's true. You're a young
Speaker 1: black man and young Hispanic dude. You get to run
Speaker 1: all those red light, speed, drive drunk, do all that
Speaker 1: stuff all those times and have no problems, like Paul Pelosi.
Speaker 3: That's a hell of a record. I mean, that's practically impossible.
Speaker 3: Do you think you don't see cops traffic cops anymore.
Speaker 3: You'd have to drive like a psycho to get that
Speaker 3: many citations. It seems that he does. Wow, getting over
Speaker 3: you old crackpot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one goal in an hour and twenty five minutes.
Speaker 1: Minutes longer than that. Uh, that's not enough goals.
Speaker 3: So here's a goal. Score some goals.
Speaker 2: Here's a goal.
Speaker 3: Entertain me. It's a goal goal. Get after a chaselawais.
Speaker 3: You can have a shot clock, get it, get that
Speaker 3: soccer ball over the mid line, or you lose a
Speaker 3: guy or something. Your goalie's got to put a blindfold something.
Speaker 3: You can, you know, work out the particulars. I don't know.
Speaker 1: In ty one of his hands to his one foot
Speaker 1: the opposite foot. Wow, I really really, really really really
Speaker 1: enjoy reading. It's among my favorite things to do. But uh,
Speaker 1: those of us who like to read, we are a
Speaker 1: dying breed. Like they call it deep reading. Now you
Speaker 1: have to separate scrolling on your phone. You are technically reading,
Speaker 1: but that's not what we're talking about. Like deep reading.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you.
Speaker 1: Count long magazine articles, I suppose you would, but like
Speaker 1: books in general, it's just gone off a cliff. People reading.
Speaker 1: And there's an article in the Atlantic right now written
Speaker 1: by a woman named Rose Horowitch called the end of
Speaker 1: Reading is here, and she uses the example of the
Speaker 1: Library of Alexandria, which I did not know this the
Speaker 1: famous Library of Alexandria, which was Alexander the Great, uh
Speaker 1: put together the greatest repository of knowledge in the history
Speaker 1: of the world at that time, like everything that was
Speaker 1: known was in one amazing library. And then the story
Speaker 1: forever was that when Caesar conquered that area of the planet,
Speaker 1: they burned it down and so many things were lost,
Speaker 1: like they were on the fact that the planets went
Speaker 1: around the Sun and not the Earth, you know, thousands
Speaker 1: of years before it may but the dark ages, the
Speaker 1: old story was came upon us because all this knowledge
Speaker 1: was wiped out down the Library of Alexandria. They've discovered
Speaker 1: in recent decades. I guess that that is not what
Speaker 1: happened at all. People lost interest in reading, so nobody
Speaker 1: funded the library anymore, and all the books just disintegrated.
Speaker 1: Eventually it burnt down, but the books disintegrated just nobody
Speaker 1: cared about reading anymore. They lost interest in it. So
Speaker 1: nobody back then you had to rewrite stuff on a
Speaker 1: regular basis because the paper would disintegrate, and they just
Speaker 1: stopped funding scribes, and nobody cared that they weren't funding.
Speaker 2: Scribes and just know wrote it down anymore, and it
Speaker 2: all went away.
Speaker 1: And the point of this Atlantic article is that we're
Speaker 1: basically doing the same thing.
Speaker 2: The story that all the knowledge was wiped out.
Speaker 1: In a sudden, catastrophic, catastrophic fire is a myth. What
Speaker 1: happened was collective apathy, neglect, and a lack of interest
Speaker 1: in reading. And that is what we're doing now. It
Speaker 1: is not that the disappearance of a library led to
Speaker 1: a dark age, nor that its survival would have improved
Speaker 1: those ages. The fact that the library was allowed to
Speaker 1: die showed that the Dark Ages had already arrived. And
Speaker 1: she's making the article that we maybe you know, upon
Speaker 1: the dark age again, where people just have lost interest
Speaker 1: in deep knowledge of those things. We just want to
Speaker 1: be kind of entertained for a little while or outraged
Speaker 1: with stuff that may or may not be true.
Speaker 3: Partly because in public schools we don't study history in
Speaker 3: a serious way. Even when we were kids, I did
Speaker 3: not know until an embarrassingly advanced age that the Dark
Speaker 3: Ages came like post fairly enlightened periods. It hadn't occurred
Speaker 3: to me. I did not know that progress is a
Speaker 3: two way street that frequently civilizations go backward and badly. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's worth remembering when I don't know, lunatics with a
Speaker 3: lunatic political point of view start to take over.
Speaker 1: And then combine that with the fact that people don't read.
Speaker 1: Reading is collapsing across every single demographic, even among college graduates, retirees,
Speaker 1: and women who historically read the most. Doesn't matter what
Speaker 1: group you're talking about, people don't read. And then I've
Speaker 1: seen the stats about the average person hasn't read a
Speaker 1: book in however, how many years and blah blah blah
Speaker 1: compared to and I mean you compare it to a
Speaker 1: couple of decades ago. It's a off a cliff, which
Speaker 1: is disturbing. We're going to give away the Enlightenment to
Speaker 1: another era of illiterate.
Speaker 3: Like I said earlier, get good with firearms, develop a
Speaker 3: taste for human flesh, and raise your own hogs. You
Speaker 3: got three things on your to do list, all right,
Speaker 3: be ready for the coming AI socialist apocalypse.
Speaker 1: Two of them I can already kind of do that.
Speaker 1: Third one is going to be tough. If you missed
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