WEBVTT - That Made The Big Dumb Cup Look Smart 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.200 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.920 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:17.640 Getty and he Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:27.880 Talk about the US military and how it really does 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:32.680 it stands this is this is not cheerleading on my part. 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:35.480 I think any any military person in the world would 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:39.240 say the same thing. The United States and its capabilities 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:43.040 and its power and in its discipline right now certainly 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:44.920 seems to be second to nine. 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:47.680 It is, Joe, It's awesome. 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.600 The power of the military, the power of the people 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:55.400 in the military is incredible. We can do anything we're 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:56.160 asked to do. 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:58.760 The US military can do anything. I love how on 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:01.959 MSNBC they have to qualify it, you know, I don't 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:03.440 want to be too much of a cheer leader here. 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:07.280 Same show on Morning Joe Today, they had David Ignatius 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:10.840 of the Washington Post and he had to qualify his statement. 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:12.440 I don't want to be you know, I don't want 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:14.679 to be giving Trump too much credit here. But the 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:17.080 point of his article was this sent a message to 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:20.240 China and Russia that is going to back them off. 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.920 A fair amount of the United States sometimes does what 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:26.440 it's threatening and can do it really, really well, So 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:27.360 keep that in mind. 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:31.280 Yeah, the whole narrative, well Trump always chickens out was 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:34.600 wildly overrated, the whole taco thing, But the question of 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:37.880 does he make blustery threats and doesn't really intend to 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:40.880 live up to him, that question was out there. I'd 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:44.080 say this changes the calculus significantly. 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:47.680 Well, and stopping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon is 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:51.280 a different topic than tariffs too, just completely different worlds. 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:55.080 A couple of things for you, Well, I do this first, 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:58.400 or this first before I get to the let's hear 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:01.080 from Mike Lions, and then we'll get to the breaking news. 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:02.760 It's not so breaking that I feel like I need 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:05.800 to get it on this second. We talked to Mike Lynes, 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:08.880 one of our favorite military analysts, this morning. He had 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:11.200 a couple of things to say. We thought we'd repeat. 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:15.680 Classic Iranian playbook. They sow fear within our country, saying 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:17.600 we're going to really sleeper cells. You know, they must 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:20.240 watch the same movies that made here in Hollywood, because 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:24.200 I just think that's completely overblown. They will likely try 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:27.320 to maybe target some American forces that are in the area, 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:29.360 that are close that are all that are all buttoned 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:31.480 up right now? Every one of those missiles they try 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:33.200 to fire at them has a return address, and I 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:35.360 guarantee it as soon as one of them leave the 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:38.040 tube on that side, there will be something in return 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:40.519 going in the other direction. This president is not going 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:42.760 to sit back and take and take it. 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:46.240 So that's to the what could Iran do or will 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:48.880 they do something back as a you know, a response. 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:54.400 Fox News alert sources to Fox imminent threat of Iranians 0:02:54.480 --> 0:03:01.120 Iranian strike on US You I'm going to learn to 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:03.400 install windows? How long would that take it this age? 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:08.520 Hey, you got an apprentice for a few years, really 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:10.200 get it down. But you don't need to be able 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:13.520 to talk to do that, right, So maybe the good 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:15.239 morning of your your clients and. 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:17.399 Maybe that'd be a better job choice for you. Your coworkers. 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:22.600 Sources to Fox imminent threat of Iranian strike on US 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:26.400 base in Qatar. So they have some info on that. 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:30.840 We'll see if that's true or not. I've been wondering 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.680 what the Mullahs think they would get out of an 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:36.280 attack and what's their endgame. Mike Lions spoke to that 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:36.840 a little bit. 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:39.640 There's no negotiation that's going to take place. They're not 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:42.840 interested in talking, They're interested in just surviving and delaying. 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:45.840 But they're in such a bad point strategically right now. 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:48.080 I just I just think they're going to do it. 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:49.960 I wouldn't be surprised if they get on planes and left. 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.240 I think that's gonna the only survival that the switzerlander 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:54.320 gets some other place, and that's the only thing. Wow, 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:56.240 sure they're survival at this point. 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:58.280 I don't know that I want that. 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:03.680 I thought it was notable that after the devastating American attacks, 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:07.240 the Iyatola came out with a blistering statement against Israel, 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:11.640 didn't even mention the Great Satan. Now was that a 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:15.920 faint Does he or the Republican Guard actually intend Revolutionary 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:20.520 Guard intend to go after the US directly? Boy, that 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:22.800 seems like a suicide mission to both of us. But 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.120 they might feel like they have to to have any legitimacy. 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.800 Man, I hadn't heard anybody other than Mike Lyons bring 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:31.400 up the idea of them. Maybe they jump on a 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:35.240 plane and do the whole dictator living out the rest 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:38.160 of their life somewhere else routine. But then there's nobody 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:40.920 running Iran and it could fall into you know, full 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:43.200 on Iraqi chaos. 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:48.440 Right right, that's possible. The interesting question is who's a 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:53.800 greed head inside Iran and who's an actual religious fundamentalist 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:57.480 nut job, Because if you're the part of the latter group, 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:59.839 you're not going to take some sort of golden parachute 0:04:59.880 --> 0:05:01.800 to live the rest of your life out in Monaco 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:03.320 or the UAE or whatever. 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.400 No way, and we haven't mentioned this for a while, 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:10.240 just in case you don't know. So everybody supporting the 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.960 Trump administration went on all the talk shows yesterday and said, 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:15.320 this is not a war with Iran, and we're not 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:17.920 about regime change. We are not interested in regime change. 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:20.600 Regime change. No, if you say regime change again, I'm 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:23.280 gonna slap you because that's not our thing. And then Trump, 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:25.800 like after all those people went on the shows, tweet 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:29.039 it out it's not politically correct to use the term 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:32.000 regime change. But if the current Iranian regime is unable 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:35.560 to make Iran great again, why wouldn't there be a 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:39.559 regime change Mega Miga make Iran great again. 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:45.920 It's a great example of Trump not observing the rules 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:51.480 of diplomacy and standard presidential statements, and. 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:52.960 Sometimes I think that's a mistake. 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:59.440 Sometimes I think, who doesn't think everybody wants the iatola 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.240 to go? Everybody wants him to go. He just set 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:06.000 it out loud. It's not that crazy. Well, that empowers 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:09.120 forces within Iran to claim that it's a US directed 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:11.880 blah blah blah. I don't know how true all that's 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:15.880 I'm not worried about that statement. Yeah, so speaking of 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:20.159 the Revolutionary Guard, really interesting situation now. Israeli strikes have 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.280 taken out many of their senior personnel. 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:24.599 Yes, the latest MTG. I don't think you had this 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:26.719 in what you were reading earlier from Marjorie Taylor Green. 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.640 Only six months in and we're back into foreign wars. 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:31.960 It feels like a complete bait and switch to please 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:36.320 the neocons. Wow, from Marjorie Taylor Green and the Tucker crowd. 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:40.680 Open warfare with Trump seems like a bad idea. Yeah, 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:42.599 we can get back to that, man, if you will think, 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:45.960 if you won't, think you are maga and Trump is 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:47.799 just along for the ride. Well, I guess we're about 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:50.360 to find out. Yeah, we'll see how that goes. 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:55.320 But anyway, so the Revolutionary Guard battered Supreme leader Iatola 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:59.560 Kamaneeses role depends to a large extent of loyalty from 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:02.680 the Guard. Quoting from the Journal, he has empowered the 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:05.880 military force to the extent it's likely to outlive him. 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:09.479 But if Kamanie were toppled or killed, the Revolutionary Guard 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.880 most likely to step in and dictate a new ruler 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:16.040 and run the show. I just think these organizations are really, 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:19.440 really interesting and Americans can't relate to them at all. 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:24.560 Since its formation during the Great Brave Revolution in nineteen 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:28.080 seventy nine, the IRGC has been the most powerful branch 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:31.480 of Iran's armed forces, and it's separate from and more 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:36.480 powerful than the National Army. It has its own ground forces, 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:40.840 its own navy, its own air force, its own intelligence 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:43.600 and special forces, totaling around one hundred and twenty five 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:48.000 thousand dollars. It is also deeply embedded in Iran's economic system, 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:56.760 political affairs, and social fabric. It has an expansive economic empire. 0:07:57.400 --> 0:07:59.880 The Guard dominates all major. 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:04.480 Infrastruate ructure sectors, including oil and gas, construction, and telecommunications. 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:09.600 The Revolutionary Guard is there Exxon, it's their what's a 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:13.840 giant construction company, and they're at and t it's also 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:18.000 damn near their Amazon dot Com and their Walmart, and 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:22.720 they're separate even nominate tourism, and they're separate from the army. Yes, 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:28.880 But so my question would be, since Israel has killed 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:30.960 the leaders of the army and the leaders of the 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:33.000 Revolutionary Guard, do. 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:38.440 We know how they would react the new leaders? No. 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:41.520 I mean, you can make educated guesses, but they did. 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:43.960 But they wouldn't have the cult of personality that you 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:47.760 usually have as a military leader when you're gonna take 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:50.880 over a country. No, that's absolutely correct. 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.480 Although again, my point in describing this, and there's a 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:55.960 little more to it, but is that this is a 0:08:56.280 --> 0:09:01.120 giant corporation. It is much more like than it is 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:03.880 the United States Army because it has its hands in 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:06.240 so many different industries and economic activities. 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:09.439 So is your belief that they're motivated by money as 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:13.360 opposed to bringing back the thirteenth Madi or whatever of 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:16.600 that all stuff is? Yeah, that's the super interesting part 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:16.840 of it. 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:20.920 It's difficult to say, I have a feeling you got 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:24.680 guys who are ninety ten greed heads versus religious fanatics 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:27.480 and guys who are ten ninety in the other direction. 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:32.080 But if they're mostly just businessmen. They're like you know, 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:36.040 Putin or the oligarchs in Russia. Then we might be 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:40.240 okay with that, right, It'd be like lcc run in Egypt, 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:41.240 right exactly. 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:42.839 Yeah, That's one of the reasons I was kind of 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:45.840 enthused about bringing this up is I think dealing with 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:50.600 the greed heads would be a great option for the 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:55.360 rest of the world because you can do business with them. 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:56.120 Now. 0:09:56.200 --> 0:10:01.840 Trump one of Trump's blind spots is I think this 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:03.520 less now, I guess than I used to. 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:05.840 But he always thinks. 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:08.680 The offer to make a lot of money and bring 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:12.280 prosperity to your people, whether it's Putin or the Ietola 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:14.959 or whatever, he thinks that's irresistible because that's how he 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:17.599 sees the world. And Putin's like, no, I'm going to 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:19.439 restore the Great Russian Empire and I'm going to be 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:22.840 Peter the Great, So thanks anyway. And the Mullas obviously 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.839 are like, no, it's all about Allah and and I 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:30.079 don't need money really. On the other hand, the Revolutionary 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:32.120 Guard guys, a lot of the higher ups, they're great heads, 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:36.320 they're mobsters, they're business people, and I think you probably 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:42.000 could deal with them, maybe. 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:45.440 Got a little tip for you, based on recent major 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.240 news events about how you should take in news. If 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:50.880 you're doing it the old way. If you hear something's 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:53.520 happening and you flip on CNN, man, you are way 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:57.240 behind and ain't the way to do it. Plus you 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:00.760 got to look at wolf Blitzer. I want to suspend 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:06.120 their Saturday evening looking at wolf Blitzer, not even missus Blitzer. 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:10.600 Thats mean spirited. That and other stuff on the way. 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:16.360 Stay here. So a couple of different things for you. 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:18.880 Changing times. You gotta change your You gotta adjust your 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:22.920 sales for the changing times. Man, have you ever seriously 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:25.520 considered you're an iPhone guy? I'm an iPhone guy. Have 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:28.520 you ever seriously considered abandoning the iPhone for one of 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:32.440 the other smartphones? Not seriously. I looked into it once. 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:34.520 I've never seriously done it, just because it seems like 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:36.400 could be in a tremendous pain in the ass because 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:39.280 I got everything tied into Apple. Although our friend Craig 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:41.920 did it and he squears by it. He is he 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:46.560 a Samsung guy. Yes, yeah, but he likes the phone 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:48.960 better and says it wasn't that hard. And they've got 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:52.480 to wait yes, Katie opinion on this. Oh, I'm the 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:55.160 complete opposite. I switched for a year, and I'll that 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.920 was a huge mistake. Oh really, would you switch to 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:01.559 Samsung Note? Okay? And you didn't dig it and you 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:04.760 went back. And I just came across this, And this 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:08.000 is from a consultant person who doesn't seem to have 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:11.720 a dog in this fight. But they said, Samsung just 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.640 ended the iPhone era. The Galaxy S twenty five AI 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:18.120 is five years ahead of where Apple is currently and 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:20.320 they aren't gonna catch up in terms of their AI 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:22.480 abilities anyway. I was looking at some of the examples 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:24.400 of things you can do with pictures, video, and voice 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:27.320 on the phone with their AI, and it looks pretty 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:30.840 damned impressive. I'm not gonna switch. I just it just 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:32.559 seems like a pain in the ass and I'm perfectly 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:35.280 happy with what I got. But yeah, any examples that 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:37.880 leap out, Well, you know that thing that you hate 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:44.880 but I enjoy is the turning into everything into babies talking, Oh, well, 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.960 you can do that on your phone easily. And it 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:51.920 was just to demonstrate the being able to assign voices 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:55.640 to videos or edit audio inside of videos that you 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:57.800 take and then blah blah blah these different things that 0:12:57.840 --> 0:12:59.679 they said is super easy to do, you can't currently 0:12:59.720 --> 0:12:59.880 do it. 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:03.360 I could see if you're part of the hardcore, especially 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:05.840 young social media crowd, that'd be really attractive. 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:08.760 I don't have the time, but right, yeah, but that'll 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.920 be interesting to see if Samsung is way ahead in 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:15.920 the whole AI in the phone thing, as I've become 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:19.000 such a chat GPT guy as opposed to Google. Now 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:23.720 again to the changing times, we got a new robotaxi 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:28.200 ladies and germs. Tesla announced over the weekend. Robotaxis are here, 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:31.760 the Tesla robo taxi. They're launched them in Austin, where 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:36.079 Elon lives. This would be to compete with Waimo, completely 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:40.880 autonomous out there driving around on their own Tesla's and 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:43.800 their stock is up ten percent on that news today, 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:45.760 So we'll see how good they are or not. I 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:46.080 don't know. 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:49.840 So rioters can surround Tesla's and set them on fire. 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:52.000 Yeah, I don't know how often that's going to happen, 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:53.520 if that's a big deal or not. I don't have 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:58.240 any idea. And then I came across this. I was 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:03.160 going to mention today about how if you're not going 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:09.079 to Twitter, or maybe you have a different social media 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:10.840 thing you go to Instagram or something. I don't know, 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.320 for when news breaks, you're just you so far behind. 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:17.120 I was kind of monitoring cable news while I was 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:20.960 doing Twitter as news came out that we had bombed 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:24.240 around and cable news was so far behind. And I 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:27.120 don't mean just like sixty seconds or five minutes. It's 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:29.760 like you took like an hour later before they would 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:32.040 bring you the news. You were reading on Twitter from 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:35.280 a whole bunch of different sources. And if you care 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:37.120 about breaking news and big stories, that's the way to go. 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:39.160 And then I saw this from Barry Weiss, who we 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:42.960 really like, who's over at the Free Press, because somebody 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:47.240 had tweeted out with all the resources CBS, NBC, ABC, 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:52.000 CNN have to report in quote breaking news, I turned 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:55.120 to the FP live stream, the Free Press live stream 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:58.880 Saturday to night to get in depth analysis immediately, way 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.040 ahead of all those channels. Barry White said, thank you. 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:03.360 I'm so proud of the FP team. So I hadn't 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:06.880 even looked into that, But there are much better sources 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:09.640 for breaking news out there than the old cable news 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:12.680 if I was the old cable news, I don't know 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:16.640 why you don't just like, have somebody read from Twitter 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:20.120 on there better off if you had Anderson Cooper flipping 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:24.320 through Twitter and reading tweets, then whatever CNN reporting they. 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:27.200 Have, Yeah, that would that would kind of put a 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:29.960 fine point on it, though, I think that would illustrate. 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:33.920 You know, why would I have Anderson Cooper read it 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:34.200 to me? 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:36.480 I can read, so you learned when I was a 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:40.000 little kid. So you think MSNBC and CNN they're just 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:43.000 holding on to the fact that their old viewers haven't 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:44.720 caught on to the fact that they can get all 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:48.080 this an hour earlier and from better sources somewhere else. 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.000 Ding for what. 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:54.440 It's worth, the I heard that Free Press live stream 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:59.160 later and it was it was unbelievably good. 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.600 Really, I've got a JAP on that Next Time Experts 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:05.479 on Tehran and Italy, Italy. 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:12.160 Israel and warfare and stuff up at three o'clock in 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:16.200 the morning where they were talking about it in depth. 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:17.080 It was really really good. 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:19.720 I mean, you gotta be really into it to enjoy 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:21.560 it because it was in depth, but it was very, 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:22.160 very impressive. 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:24.240 There is a YouTube channel our boss turned us on 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:26.520 to where a guy basically does sit there and scroll 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:28.760 through Twitter and just give you all the latest stuff. 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:30.720 And he's pretty good at which Twitter sites to go to. 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:34.560 But that's where news breaks. If there's a shooting or 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:37.480 anything happens, a protests in La you go on Twitter, 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:40.040 you will get more news. You'll get videos that they 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:43.480 won't have till the next day on your cable news channels. 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:47.560 Yeah, la boo boos are everything that's wrong with America. 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:50.120 I'm not sure we'll have time to get to that today. 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:56.040 By tomorrow, la boo boos. So it's creepy looking freaky dolls. 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.760 The deep are all hot to trot for that made 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:01.640 the dumb cup looks smart. 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:04.440 Somehow I missed the labooboo trend. Okay, you'll have to 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:05.359 bring me up speed on that. 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:10.760 But Jack, you were hot to trot to discuss the uh. 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:11.920 Friends have morality? 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:12.159 No? 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:16.000 Can you have morality without faith? Discussion Strong and. 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:20.200 Getty, what was the celebration like when you guys got 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:22.120 to the locker room, Because we when we got there, 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:23.560 there wasn't threwn't. 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:25.040 Bottles being put up like you normally see. 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:26.119 Do we miss that? 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:28.280 And how much. I mean, first of all, none of 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:31.840 us knew how to do it, so so it was 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:34.320 more like, you know, like it was like YouTube tutorials 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:36.719 and so we were just asking Ac how to do it, 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:40.160 and so it was it was a kind of not 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:41.480 really instanc because no one know. 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:42.040 How to do it. 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:45.919 But yeah, shout out to AC for kind of teaching 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:48.400 us how to woo champagne. I guess. 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:50.639 So that's one of the young players of the Oklahoma 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:54.240 City Thunder, very young team and uh, the younger generation 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:57.960 that doesn't drink much or doesn't drink that they had 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:00.440 all the champagne bottles in there for the big pop 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:03.080 in the court spray and celebration. None of the young 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:05.160 players knew how to open a bottle of champaigne. 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:07.800 So well, let's best they held off till somebody who 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:09.360 knew what they were doing was on hand. You can 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:12.640 lose an eye that way, Jack, Yeah, they're the youngest 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:13.000 team in. 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:16.840 The NBA, the champions. Maybe they needed a bunch of 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:22.479 eight pens or something. Yeah, no, kidding, marijuanas to smoke. 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:24.200 I think the kids do. 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:28.280 Brought this up briefly at the beginning of the show, 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:31.320 and Jack expressed interest in following up on it. Frequent 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:34.879 correspondent Pawlow talking about the question. 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:36.120 Of morality without faith. 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:39.720 That sort of thing I believe I quoted Tokeville maybe 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:41.560 was the freedom ofving quote of the day. In fact, 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:44.560 they probably should have dug it up that you can't 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:47.840 have liberty without morality and you can't have morality without faith. 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:52.040 The first one is true, the second one is an 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:57.679 open question. Yeah, and Poolo said, I think you absolutely can. 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:00.399 Morality is a set of beliefs about how we behave 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:03.160 that lead to the best possible outcome for humanity. Can 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:07.560 be a constitutional framework governing human behavior. For instance, faith 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:10.120 is a mode of belief that makes the belief immutable. 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:13.560 Faith can support morality, promote adherence to it. It can 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:17.920 also promote the dogma of Iranian theocrats, can mean the faithful. 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:21.280 It can make the faithful immune to logic and reason, 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:22.560 and that's scary. 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:25.960 Well, I've never particularly liked the argument against religion that 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:30.400 because sometimes it's used poorly, then it's all bad. I've 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:35.440 never bought that argument, and sometimes it is used very poorly. 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:41.439 As we all know, lots of quotes from the Founding 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:44.320 fathers about how this whole thing doesn't work unless we're 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:50.680 a moral people. Practically everybody was religious back in the day. 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:53.480 The question of do you need to be religious to 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:58.520 be moral, while it seems like it should be, you 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:01.480 wouldn't need to be ever been done before. I mean, 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:04.280 it's kind of kind of a new concept, fairly new, 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:10.280 like you know, last half century or something. Europe's trying it, but. 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:15.560 Right, well, and layer that experiment on top of the 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:20.719 layer of the experiment of multiculturalism and not like multi 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:25.440 ethnicity or multi you know, huge skins, just literally completely 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:31.040 different worldviews, cultural views. Trying to establish a secular morality 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:33.720 in that situation is really really hard. 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:39.840 Yeah what what well we won't find out for decades, 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:42.560 maybe a century or more. To find out is if 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:47.040 you have to have the underpinning of a culture that 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:51.200 had religion through and through forever, Yes, and then we've 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:55.040 got this morality hangover even as belief in God maybe 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:59.960 disappears or church going disappears. The cultural norm of you know, 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:05.800 not lying that stealing now whatever has hung around, will 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:08.879 that continue to hang around without the underpinning of religion. 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:11.640 Nobody knows that to claim you know that, I don't 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:12.600 know what you're basing that on. 0:21:13.040 --> 0:21:15.560 Wow, that's an interesting point, kind of a cultural half 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:20.720 life of Christian values. Yeah, well, and it is. And 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:27.600 I use the term Christian informedly or intentionally. You there 0:21:27.600 --> 0:21:33.000 are very very, very different moral precepts to each of 0:21:33.080 --> 0:21:37.680 the world's major religions, although Jadaism and Christianity are very 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:41.040 very close in a lot of ways. And I would 0:21:41.160 --> 0:21:45.760 argue that, you know, his citing the molahs in Ran 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:49.840 for instances, that's almost a different topic because the concept 0:21:49.880 --> 0:21:53.520 of what is morality in Islam is very very different 0:21:53.560 --> 0:21:56.760