WEBVTT - Too Much Fact Checking! 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:06.240 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:10.840 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arms Strong 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:17.320 and Jettietie and he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:26.560 The FBI and Department of Homeland Security has issued a 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:30.200 warning saying October seventh, quote maybe a motivating factor for 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:33.040 violent extrements and hate crime perpetrators who are trying to 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:37.160 threaten public safety. The agency advising potential targets include synagogue, moss, 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:40.919 Islamic and community centers, and large gatherings. Authorities are concerned 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:43.879 over the possibility of lone wolf attacks, but authorities at 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:47.159 this time say there's no credible threat but remain on 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:47.760 high alerts. 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:50.680 And it's a one year anniversary of the massacre in 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:55.240 Israel by Hamas, and they always do this around anniversaries. 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:57.720 I don't know if I remember a single example of 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:01.560 an anniversary leading to something, but it's not roy terrorists 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:04.920 generally work actually, But anyway, that's a separate story. Let's 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:06.120 hear one more report. 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:07.280 On this before we start commenting. 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:10.480 This is already now a much wider war. What started 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:13.600 in and around Gaza on October the seventh, that singular 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:17.880 terrifying attack inside Israel is now morphed into a conflict 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:21.839 that has drawn in Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Yeminence. 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:24.240 We've now had fourteen straight days of. 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:25.640 Day and night bombing. 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:27.880 I think a lot now depends on how Israel response 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:31.119 to that Uranian missile stripe does. Nettanna, who now decide 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:33.520 to settle all scores for all the enemies he has 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:37.120 around him. Iran is enemy number one certainly for Netanya? 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:40.080 Who or can the US persuade Natannaho to try and 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:43.600 calibrate his response to reduce the risk of even further escalation. 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:46.240 By the way, Trump over the weekend, in an interview, 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:51.360 said Israel absolutely should take out those nuclear facilities, Joe 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:55.280 Biden having said specifically no, Israel should not. 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:57.480 Do you escalate? 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:01.880 Right, have that on the list. Which that's a pretty 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:03.720 big difference right there. I mean, if you're looking for 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:08.320 policy differences between the two White Houses, that's a pretty 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:12.280 big one. Trump's encouraging them to take out the nuclear facilities, 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:14.560 which I think they should also, Right. 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:17.720 If you're looking for a reason to hold your nose 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:21.080 and go ahead and cast a vote despite your ill 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:24.560 ease with one candidate or the other. I would say, 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:27.919 the one who's standing up against the axis of Islamist 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:32.240 nut jobbery and viciousness is you know, perhaps a better choice. 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:33.320 But that's up to you. Of course. 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:36.840 I've been reading a great deal about let's about October 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:39.520 seventh itself, because I fully absorbed that horror on that 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:41.440 day and have been reminded of it plenty of times. 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:44.400 Although it's just unspeakable. 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:46.400 Yeah, I was just I was just looking at they 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:50.359 have a like a moment of silence going on right 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:53.640 now at the grounds of the Nova Music Festival. I 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:58.960 have stood on some like battlefields. I've been to ground zero, 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:01.840 you know, places where people died and everything like that. Man, 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:05.480 I don't know if I could handle that music festival 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:08.720 ground one year later with some of the stories that 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:12.000 have come out of there, all those people chopped up 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:13.720 and raped to death and everything like that. 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.440 Oh my god, that is unbelievable. 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:19.600 Yeah, never mind the kibbutzas, the homes where families were 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:23.720 burned alive, children executed, mothers raped in front of their children, 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:24.280 then murdered. 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:24.800 I mean, it's. 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:29.880 Unspeakable horror by subhuman animals. In my opinion, Israel says 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:32.880 nearly twelve hundred people died that day. That's how they 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:36.960 said it on NPR, Israel says as opposed to just 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:41.720 reporting the number. And then they went Hamas says forty 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:43.440 thousand people have died, blah blah blah. 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:46.240 So they're putting them you know, yeah, they're both saying this. 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:51.840 Who knows what's true and what's not? Really wow, As. 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.000 Usual, my focus is more on what to do about it, 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:58.480 as opposed to, you know, the mourning part of it. 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:00.000 And that's fine. I'm not saying it's in appropate. 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:02.440 But I'm especially curious about the way things are going 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:04.680 to go in the Middle East and with Israel specifically. 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:08.560 And I was intrigued by some writing by Shandy Race 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.360 in the Wall Street Journal one year after October seventh, 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:15.680 Israel sees a future at war, And I was. 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:17.440 Just scanning the article. It takes a long time to 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:17.880 get to it. 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:21.520 I thought the key sentence from it, and I'm going 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:24.520 to counter, I'm sorry, I'm going to paraphrase is that 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:28.640 Israel's new peace plan is to defeat its enemies. And 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:30.800 when you look at it like that and phrase it 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:34.040 like that, I think it gives you the clarity you need. 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:37.640 One year, I'm going to quote from the article. 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:39.960 Now, one year after the brutal Hamas attack that ended 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:44.160 Israel's two decade golden age of relative peace, expanding wealth, 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:46.640 and growing diplomatic ties, the country is now firmly on 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:47.640 the counter attack. 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:50.640 And preparing to be at war. For years. 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:54.800 Lost a series of stunning attacks, they go into the list. 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.800 The campaign marks an aggressive shift in Israel's security posture. 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.880 For years, the military aim to provide long stretches of 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:04.440 piece that were only momentarily punctured by short conflicts with 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:09.560 Palestinian militants. There were occasional military maneuvers aimed at downgrading 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:12.320 the axis, but they were never severe enough to draw retaliation. 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:17.240 Then they mentioned that Israel saw its GDP sore. It's 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:22.720 bustling capital, Tel Aviv, became a beautiful, affluent Mediterranean city. 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:25.919 But after October seventh. 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.400 Israel can no longer allow its enemies the time and 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:31.839 space to build up arsenals that can pose an existential threat. 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:35.520 Many have come to believe quote preemptive wars will be 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:37.719 in the future of the Israeli part of the Israeli 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:41.720 Toolkit Kit said in National Security advisor. That's clearly true, 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:47.080 absolutely true, and it's not a choice, it's an existential reality. 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:48.560 Yeah. 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:51.480 I don't know what point it would be okay to 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.680 say preemptive because it, like I said last week, it 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:57.880 really bothered me that they use that term in the debate. 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:03.359 Would you support or oppose Israel launching a preemptive strike 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:06.760 on Iran? Preemptive after they just had two hundred ballistic 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:08.000 missiles fired up them? 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:10.320 That would be a preemptive strike to hit them back? 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:13.880 What, Yeah, and something like five hundred if you go 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:16.359 back to April and totally Yeah, good point. 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.320 Yeah. I like Dn Panels report on CBS because it 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:22.240 did put the focus on what you're talking about. 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:27.960 We're a year out and it's as hot as ever. 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:32.880 There's a chance Israel and Iran are at full blown 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:35.920 war today. You could make the argument that they already are, 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:39.640 with the United States involved. So, yeah, this thing is 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:43.760 far from decided from what happened a year ago. 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:49.200 How about this sentence, different piece. Hamasa's massacre last October 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:51.960 seventh was a catastrophe for Israelis, but a year later, 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:55.480 it has also taught the West forgotten lessons about deterrence 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:59.080 political will and the illusions of a liberal, peaceful world. 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:05.960 Yep, that's pretty good, I am. Those kind of statements 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:10.280 make me sad because I don't feel like we're I know, 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:13.480 we don't fully understand that as a country. 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:18.720 It's not that surprising that the most comfortable and affluent 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:21.480 countries would be the last to wake up to the 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:27.680 ugly reality that's never ever changed in all of human history, 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:31.520 but once every couple of decades, particularly post fall of 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:34.720 the Soviet Union. And this has made me insane watching 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:36.160 the politics of this play out. 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:38.280 Once in a while, we fall. 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:43.000 Into this belief that, oh, human nature's changed, we're all interconnected, 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:47.000 they're no more extremists and ugly people. Everything's great. Yeah, 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:50.160 we can disarm and we'll be fine. Israel fell into 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:52.360 that stupor yep, of all places. 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:55.720 Yeah yeah, that's a decent point if they can. You know, 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:58.440 it's not surprising that we do, because we don't have 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:02.240 enemies right on our border firing rockets at us every 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:06.840 day like Israel does. And they still were lulled into complacency. 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:10.000 How about this? This is new Today. French President Emmanuel 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:14.200 Macrone called for a halt on arms deliveries to Israel 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:18.480 for use in Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah, who said 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.600 blah blah blah, Western leaders don't understand the threat French president, 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:24.360 But how about that France is calling for a halt 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:28.640 for the use of their weapons against Hamas. 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:29.760 Why. 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:32.720 I don't know a lot about the current state of 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:36.000 French politics, just that Macrone's party is starting to flounder. 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:40.320 And if you think jee Biden and Kamala Harris have 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:45.720 a problem with Muslim voters in Michigan, France's entire you know, 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:49.840 the suburbs of Paris are huge enclaves of Muslim voters. 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:53.360 And I just wonder whether that's a domestic political reality 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:57.280 that you will never read about in your mainstream publications. 0:08:57.679 --> 0:08:58.840 They're not going to bring that up. 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:01.200 By the way, the reason Macrone asking Israel to lay 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:03.440 off isn't because it's not a moral judgment. It's an 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:07.439 electoral judgment. You have to dig to find that sort 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:09.400 of you know, perspective. 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:10.080 Interesting. 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:14.680 It's also been surprising to me for the past year that, 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:20.000 for whatever reason, American hostages being held by Hamas hasn't 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:23.640 turned into a story. There are still nearly a hundred hostages, 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:28.040 a lot of them may be dead. The ones that aren't, 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:30.240 who knows what the hell is they've been living in 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:30.920 for the last year. 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:32.280 A lot of women, but. 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:35.720 There are four Americans there that just basically never get 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.880 mentioned by either party really or any news outlet. 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:41.760 So getting back to the. 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:47.200 Hostagle, we'll say that again, what is that, Prime Minister 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:48.240 of England. 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.319 The return of thescal We need the. 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:54.959 Return of the sausages. It's still bizarre and hilarious. So 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:58.640 they're in context, it's a little less fun yeah, So. 0:09:58.640 --> 0:09:59.960 Getting back to what makes. 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:03.200 It so how funny though, it's a horrific context and 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:06.280 a very important line in front of the un And 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:08.920 this is the one thing that needs to happen, of 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.559 all things, God willing the. 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:13.400 Return of the sausages. 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:17.640 I mean hostages, yes, hostigle. 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:24.280 I am certain that we have crafted the word horrfarious, 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:28.839 something that is simultaneously horrifying and hilarious. That was horrfarious. 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:31.920 So getting back to the Wall Street Journal's editorial board. 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:33.560 In a separate piece, they talk about how the world 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:37.040 must never forget the videos of Hamas's atrocity, how they 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:41.720 slaughtered the defenseless deliberately and in close range. I won't 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:45.240 go on and on took the hostages. Hamas is proud 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:47.600 of this handy work and repeated it would repeat it 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:51.800 if it could. As Hamas Paulaburo member Gazi Ahmad put 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:52.640 it on Lebon's TV. 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.280 The terror group would like to repeat October seventh. 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:59.719 Again and again. Now this is the part that I 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:02.079 want to at least touch on. Another ugly surprise has 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:05.000 been the support for Hamas's argument in the West, especially 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:09.680 on elite college campuses. The intellectual case for murderous terror, 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:15.840 made by Franz Fannon and taught without hesitation for two generations, 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:20.200 has poisoned the young against their own civilization. Students for 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:24.680 Justice in Palestine on October seventh, these are Americans called 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:28.800 it a historic win for Palestinian resistance, and anti Semitism 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:34.439 was tolerated by university presidents as free speech. I don't 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:36.439 expect you to spend a lot of time and energy 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:38.280 getting up to speed on this. I hope you can 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:41.200 just trust me on this, and if you want, read 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:44.760 James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose's Cynical Theories. It's an absolutely 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:46.760 terrific book and helps you understand what's going on with 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:49.760 the neo Marxism, but I went ahead and dug back 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:50.559 into France. 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.280 Fannon who he was. He is an. 0:11:53.120 --> 0:12:00.679 Incredibly influential thinker on the campuses of America's quote unquote eliteies. 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:06.520 He was a French Afro Caribbean psychiatrist, political philosopher and 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:11.840 Marxist from Martinique, French colony at the time. His works 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.920 have become influential in the fields of post colonial studies, 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:19.520 critical theory, and Marxism. He was a political radical, a 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:23.760 Marxist humanist, and was concerned with the psychopathology of colonization. 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:30.080 Among his many theories is that anything, anything, anything is 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:36.800 justified in the name of decolonization. Any brutality is justified 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:42.760 to decolonialize. The kids are just spouting what their professors 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:46.000 have taught them. And by the way, Fannin also said 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:50.000 to achieve full decolonization, the post colonial society should reject 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:53.839 European capitalism as a path to economic and social development. 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:59.640 He is a full on violent Marxist and he you've 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:00.800 never heard heard his name before. 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:02.360 That's funny, because your. 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:04.440 Little kids are paying an arm of a leg in 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:07.680 a neck for their tuition, are being taught about Fannin 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:08.960 all day long. 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:13.040 I just downloaded the Cynical Theories audio book. I need 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:14.679 to listen to that because I haven't gotten around to 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:22.600 it yet. And mentioned that noble musical festival where they 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.320 Hamas went in and murdered all those lots of lots 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:29.520 of young girls. All it was a peace festival, all 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.160 filled with people who believe in, let's be friends with 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:34.120 the moss. Right here on the border, we can all 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:36.400 get along. They came in and raped you to death. 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.720 College kids, if you had been there at the peace 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:42.240 festival saying up with the Moss, they would have come. 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:44.680 Into a machine, gunned you yeah, and raped you yeah. 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:47.439 What the hell? How do you not get that? Anyway? 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:48.719 I got lots of other stuff on the way. I 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:52.040 have a Beethoven question for Joe. It's very important. Much 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:57.600 On the way, stay here, a woman in Italy has 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:01.080 set a new world record for having the world's thickest tongue. 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:07.560 Reach for comment. The woman said, thanks, how about that? 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:12.880 Too easy? Easy? But it still made me laugh out loud. 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:15.520 I think it because he took the easy joke was 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:16.080 just funny. 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:21.600 Sight coming up, we'll hear a little of Trump from 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:23.720 his big rally in Pennsylvania over the weekend at the 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:25.840 spot where he got shot at and Elon was there, 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:26.680 so that was a big deal. 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:31.520 And how politics are tearing apart. A California retirement community. 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:36.120 I listened to a tremendous amount of beeth often over 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:36.680 the weekend. 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:38.000 Oh wow. 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:40.640 Generally I don't listen to any so any amount would 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:42.560 be a lot more, but a lot like constantly over 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:44.400 the weekend. It was really digging it. I got back 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:49.080 into this book I started reading years ago about Beethoven's 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:52.400 Ninth Symphony. There's a whole book about it. And the 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:57.360 anniversary is this year is the two one hundred year anniversary. 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:01.600 It was eighteen twenty four, two hundred year aniversary of 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:03.880 Beethoven's first playing of the ninth century, and there's a 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:04.680 whole book about it. 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:06.120 Night Symphony is a whole book about it. 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:10.880 But anyway, if you were recommending because you like classical 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:13.520 music and listen to it, if you were gonna like 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:15.600 if you were if somebody is saying, I really like 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:17.800 Bruce Springsteen, what should I listen to? You would have 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:19.400 a couple of songs to point him to that are 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:23.280 like the best examples of why people like Bruce Springsteen. 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:30.160 What would what would be your recommendations for Beethoven? Oh goodness, 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:33.000 if you're going to throw on well, that's not right, 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:37.280 because you might throw on stuff that's not the best introduction, 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:39.880 because you're tired of Stairway. 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:41.400 To Heaven or Born to Run or whatever. 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:45.000 I would like to think I'm unpretentious enough though, to say, oh, 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:46.880 you're just getting into this band, here's where it is. 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:48.120 In fact, I do do that. 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:51.800 So I just so, where do you start with Beethoven? 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:53.880 I can tell you what my favorite is, having gone 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:55.160 through it quite a bit over the weekend. 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:59.880 Well, obviously, you know, people know the fifth Symphony Boum, 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:04.120 and then they know enough of the first movement that 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:07.040 that can get them into it. I would recommend if 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:08.800 you want to do this, listen to the same symphony 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:12.040 three times in a row. Because there are so many 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:14.640 ideas and the complexity is so much different than a 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.160 pop song, it takes you a while to get it. 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:19.760 Once you get it, and you hear one idea flow 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:23.680 into another and then become a third idea that combines 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:25.880 the two, and then you hear a variation of the 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:28.320 first idea, and you just it's such a groove. It's 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:31.800 so cool, but it's it's it's like the difference between 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:36.400 learning your ABC's and and learning, you know, nuclear science. 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:40.040 Certainly a lot easier to listen to call me maybe 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:43.840 than it is the beef Oven as. 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:46.440 Somebody who's jamming the uh we're getting tipsy at the bar, 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:48.120 song on the golf course the other day. 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:50.760 I'm a big fan of the sixth Symphony, the Pastoral Symphony, 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:52.720 which is all about walking through a field. And as 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.040 a guy who's walked through many fields as a rube, 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:56.120 love that. 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:59.600 And then a giant thunderstorm breaks out and there's violence 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:03.320 and storm and drong. But then the sunshine emerges again, 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:05.000 the beasts come out, and the birds twitter. 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:05.680 I love the sex. 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:08.040 I have so much more to say about Beethoven, the 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:10.120 person that I wanted to get to, but maybe another time. 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:13.520 He was an He was an angry man, just kind 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:14.919 of funny because. 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:18.920 He hated poppies. 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:38.159 And massive crowd in Pennsylvania at the site where Trump 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:43.600 got shot in the first assassination at tenth and the 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:47.160 crowd goes wild from Lee Greenwood. They're singing God, Bussy, 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:48.440 you say, I'm listening to the crowd. 0:17:55.600 --> 0:18:00.280 That is something I'm struck. 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:02.160 By. 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:10.520 The oversimplification but powerful description. One of the candidates and 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:15.520 his voters clearly love the United States of America, and 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:23.160 one side seems ashamed of the country. It's an overstatement, oversimplification, 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:25.040 like I said, but I think it's mostly true. 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:25.480 Man. 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:28.679 That's a lot of energy outside of Barack Obama. In 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:32.119 my life, I don't remember anybody getting crowds to sound 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:39.920 like that. So Trump gets up there and they put 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:45.680 up the chart that he turned to look at last 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:48.199 time he was there, and if he hadn't turned to 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:50.879 look at the chart, he'd probably be dead, as we 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:54.640 all know. He turns, the bullet whizzes by, catches his ear, 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:58.480 and they put up the chart, and here's Trump. 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:02.959 Thank you, a very big thank you to Pennsylvania. 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:04.560 We love Pennsylvania. 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:21.439 And as I was saying, oh, I love that, I 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:22.720 love that chart. 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:26.560 I love that graph. Isn't it a beautiful thing? 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:29.240 But also beautiful because look at the number that's the 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:33.080 day I left office, it was the lowest border patrol, 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:34.320 the lowest it's ever been. 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:37.040 Actually gets into some of the policy stuff, which is, 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:39.280 you know, the stuff people care about the economy, and immigration. 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:41.360 Love when he sticks with that, hate when he doesn't. 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:45.800 Elon Musk was there and it got mentioned a little 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:50.520 in the news. If Beyonce or Bruce Springsteen were on 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:53.119 stage with Kamala Harris, it would get lots of attention, 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:57.000 as if that freaking matters. But the world's most successful man, 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:00.879 who you could actually make an arm argument you know 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:07.320 what he thinks matters, was there and whatever, He's just 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:09.320 a Trump or so who cares, It's just not really 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:14.719 worth mentioning in the evening news. Bruce Springsteen huge coverage 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:19.520 Elon support video on every news channel of please, oh yeah, why? 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:24.439 Why am I making a difficult comparison? What if Elon 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:27.199 Musk was doing the same thing for Kamala Harris and 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:29.600 on stage and talking about her and throwing his support 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:32.880 behind her, obviously they'd be talked up as a huge deal. Anyway, 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:33.800 here's a little Elon. 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:37.480 But the true test of someone's character is how they 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:44.000 behave under fire. And we had one president who couldn't 0:20:44.000 --> 0:20:48.760 climb a flat of stairs and another who was fist 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:50.159 pumping after getting shot. 0:20:53.000 --> 0:21:00.040 Fight fight, fight, So Elon on his Twitter feed, what 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:00.720 followers does he have? 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:02.399 Let me look that up real quick on Twitter. 0:21:03.600 --> 0:21:06.280 He his avatar used to be him in a weird 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:12.760 spaceman outfit for some, but now his avatar is him 0:21:12.800 --> 0:21:15.119 in a Maga hat make America Great Again hat. He 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:20.240 has two hundred million followers. That's that's a solid following 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:25.880 that could that could actually move some votes among especially 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:29.680 among like young men who look to really successful other men, 0:21:29.800 --> 0:21:31.879 as you know, for some guidance in the world. 0:21:32.119 --> 0:21:33.879 Yeah, I think so, given how close things are, I 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:37.800 think it's significant. Yeah, that's not like when the senator 0:21:37.840 --> 0:21:41.879 from Ohio is he's in der he's announced his endorsement. 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:48.600 Yeah, and I've been mocking endorsements in my entire talk 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:50.720 radio career. I generally think they don't matter at all. 0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:52.640 But I could see him Elon Musk walking out there 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:56.360 being a nudge direction or another. It is amazing that 0:21:56.720 --> 0:22:00.800 the world's richest man has thrown his support is solidly 0:22:00.920 --> 0:22:04.520 behind one candidate. I'm not even sure I think it's 0:22:04.520 --> 0:22:06.720 a good idea for him, but he thinks he is. 0:22:06.800 --> 0:22:08.960 Well, we'll let him say why would I say it? 0:22:09.600 --> 0:22:11.240 The next clip there, Michael fifty. 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:13.880 Six, thanks, the most important election of our lifetime. 0:22:15.640 --> 0:22:17.159 This is no ordinary election. 0:22:19.040 --> 0:22:21.520 The other side wants to take away your freedom of speech. 0:22:22.000 --> 0:22:25.240 You must have free speech in order to have democracy. 0:22:25.560 --> 0:22:30.400 That's why it's the first Amendment, and the second Amendment 0:22:31.240 --> 0:22:33.640 is there to ensure that we have the first Amendment. 0:22:37.880 --> 0:22:40.679 This last thirty days, I guess twenty eight days as 0:22:40.720 --> 0:22:44.440 of tomorrow. This last four week stretch is going to 0:22:44.480 --> 0:22:49.720 be wild. The intensity was ratcheted up so much yesterday. 0:22:49.960 --> 0:22:52.280 I noticed on the Sunday talk shows, which nobody watches 0:22:52.280 --> 0:22:55.040 and you shouldn't to waste your life, but the intensity 0:22:55.200 --> 0:23:00.480 and exaggerations, slash lies from everybody was ratcheted up quite 0:23:00.520 --> 0:23:03.120