WEBVTT - A New Level Of Soft 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:06.200 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.800 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. I'm strong 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:17.279 and Getty and he armstrong and yetty. 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:29.440 Trump now facing widespread backlash American Catholic leaders condemning his comments. 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:32.919 Bishop Robert Barron, who sits on the president's own Religious 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:38.080 Liberty Commission, calling them entirely inappropriate and disrespectful, and he 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:40.040 says Trump should apologize. 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:44.720 Well, is that apologizing to the pope about saying he's 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:46.479 a bad pope or whatever? Or is this about the 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:47.400 picture that he put out. 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:50.800 I think it's all about the Trump as Jesus picture. 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:55.400 So what percentage of y'all out there listening have seen that? 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:57.240 I was just wondering, did Fox do this story at 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:01.280 all yesterday? Yeah? Yeah, I think so, because you know 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:04.360 how we're also bubbled if you watch Fox mostly maybe 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:06.040 you didn't see the story. I don't know, has everybody 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:10.440 seen the picture of Trump dressed as Jesus putting his 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:13.360 hand on a sick man. I don't know if you 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:15.680 know anything about the Bible stories, but it's kind of 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:16.639 a Jesus thing. 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:21.399 Wearing robes that are like every single picture of Jesus 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:27.520 and you know, soldier angels with wings looking on from above, approvingly. 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:32.720 With light radiating from his hands, with the statue of 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:35.720 Liberty behind him. Bald Eagan's flying. 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:36.560 Over a bald eagle. 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:37.280 That's genius. 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:39.520 At least one bald eagle. 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:46.560 I mean over the top is not a strong enough face. 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.920 So is your sense from following the because it's tough, 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:54.680 because the mainstream media which does not care about offending Christians. 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:56.840 Oh my god, I love how you all of a 0:01:56.880 --> 0:02:00.360 sudden you're really concerned Christians are offended. Give me a break. 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:03.920 A bunch of New York atheists plays, but they love 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:06.639 driving a wedge between you know, Trump supporters and Trump. 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:10.399 But is your sense that some people that are normally 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:14.960 willing to forgive most things with Trump didn't dig this? 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:19.720 Yeah, one hundred percent. There are a bunch of folks 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:22.919 on the religious right who are out. Here's John Yepp, 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:26.600 CEO of Catholics for Catholics, a nonprofit that's hosted faith 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:30.639 events at mar A Lago maintains close ties to the administration. 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:36.360 We are a little bit beside ourselves, he said around 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:38.280 the table he was at when it came out It 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:40.840 was one of sadness because we were truly confused by 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:43.880 this president after Catholics gave him such a resounding vote, 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:46.959 yet he's treating our faith with such disrespect. At this moment, 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:51.200 we are all feeling sadness in frustration. Rod Dreyer, conservative 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:54.359 writer who attended the Catholic baptism of JD. Vance before 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:57.920 he entered politics, said not saying Trump is the Antichrist, 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:01.239 but he's radiating the spirit of the ante Christ, no question. 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:05.480 The leader of the co founder of the Calvinist denomination 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:10.400 that Pete Hexeth belongs to called the image blasphemous. 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:16.320 And that's a sampling, so I don't get into the 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:17.440 anti Christ part of it. 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:17.920 By and. 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:30.200 Blasphemy, it's it's certainly uh offence, I mean, or it's ridiculous. 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:34.280 But and I think for what I want to say, 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:36.160 it would be helpful to play Trump first. 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:38.640 Okay, totally up to you if we do or don't care. 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:44.400 Trump must have felt like it bothered some of the 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:47.800 people he normally, you know, can count on. Anyway. This 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.040 was his explanation for the photo yesterday. 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:52.080 I did first it and I thought it was me 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:55.040 as a doctor and had to do with Red Cross 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:58.000 as a Red Cross worker there, which we support, and 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:01.080 only the fake news could come up with that one. 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:01.440 So I. 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:06.240 Just heard about it and I said, how did they 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:08.680 come up with that? It's supposed to be me as 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:10.320 a doctor making. 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:12.240 People better, and I do make people better. I make 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:15.640 people a lot better. I believe your take on this. 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:21.840 Yeah, Trump doesn't know it's blasphemous because he's an atheist lifelong, 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:28.640 has no idea of Christianity or Christian iconography or images. 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:30.920 He has no idea that's portraying Jesus because he's never 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:33.240 given it a second thought in his entire life, and 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:37.000 he's been pandering to the religious right for their votes. 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:39.640 The Bible. He looked at that thing for like a 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:41.919 half a second thought, Oh, here's me healing somebody. 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:45.000 That's a good thing to post. He's totally unfamiliar with it. 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:47.960 It's like I had a friend who was Indian in 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:52.080 high school. His family was from India, and I visited 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:54.719 his home on a few occasions, and some of the 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:59.360 religious psiconography there was completely foreign to me, and I 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:02.920 could easy have made some sort of joke or whatever 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:06.000 about the multi armed blue lady or whatever. I can't 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:09.359 remember precisely what it was. Wow, And they'd have been like, dude, 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:11.719 that is our holiest symbol. 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:13.279 That's not cool. 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:15.760 And I would have been, well, unlike Trump, I would 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:17.200 have said, oh my god, I'm so sorry. 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:18.160 I had no idea. 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:20.919 Trump, of course, never admits to a mistake, so he 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:23.520 handled it the way he did. I will say, nobody's 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:25.359 going to be talking about this in a week. We 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:28.039 have a history making transitional war in the Middle East 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:32.320 going on. I've said my piece, that's the way I 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:34.640 see it. No, and I've never believed for a single 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:38.520 second Trump gave a damn about Christianity or the Bible. 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:41.799 The Bible. No, I don't think he does either. That 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:45.360 That has been my belief from the beginning. I don't 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.120 remember if I've ever said this on the air before 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:53.760 or not, but I think Trump, as a lifelong New 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:58.160 York Liberal, thought there are a whole bunch of religious, 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.600 dumb people out there that if I could harness those 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:07.599 millions of people, that would be a very powerful political block. 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:13.000 Throwing a little bit of racist he believes I'm small town, 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:18.800 rural religious. He thinks people like me and my family 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:23.560 are dumb people that he can manipulate into following him. 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:27.320 That's what I think his political idea was. Do I 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:31.320 prefer him to everybody he's run against, Yes, by far, 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:36.560 not even close. Thank god, I mean, thank god he 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:40.120 beat Kamala Harris, right, I mean, so, you know, in 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:42.400 terms of choosing one or the other. But I think 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:45.960 he has misled lots and lots and lots of people 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:48.400 to think he cares about what they care about. No, 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:50.440 I don't think he's in the least bit religious. I 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:56.120 believe the thing from which book was it? Was it 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:59.599 a Bob Woodward book where he introduced me? Was it 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.120 a Bob Forward book where he had interviewed Mike Pence 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:08.120 or Mike Pence's book whatever? But after Trump lost that 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:12.200 second election and Mike Pence went in there, and is 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:14.400 after the January sixth and all, this was Trump's last 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:19.080 day before he left, before Biden came in, and Pence said, 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:21.280 I'll pray for you, sir, and Trump said, don't bother 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:24.240 because that's the way he is. He doesn't believe in 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:26.240 that sort of stuff. That's my opinion. 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:30.360 I am going to seed the floor to Steve, who writes, 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.880 here's a Christian perspective I'm a Christian inerant, word, six 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:37.000 Day Creation, etc. And voted for Trump three times. My 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:40.200 perspective is the same as the brilliant theologian Francis Schaeffer, 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:42.480 who wrote back in the late nineteen seventies about the 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:45.440 United States, quote often, we must not vote for a man, 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:48.040 but against a man. In a post Christian world. You 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:49.920 have to vote against a man or woman who is 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:51.960 going to take you the fastest towards the loss of 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:54.840 economic freedoms. His final point was that the loss of 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:57.200 these freedoms would then also include the loss. 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:58.440 Of sharing the Gospel to the world. 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:01.360 Steve Wright not once did I believe Trump was a 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:04.080 Christian or that he would save Christianity. Trump is part 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:08.560 nineties Democrat, part showman park buffoon, more than conservative most. 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:08.760 Of the time. 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:10.720 But I felt I had to vote against Hillary Biden 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:13.000 or Harris to slow the decline of our country. Not 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:15.080 to get into what aboutism, but well, I hate the 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:18.880 blasphemy from Trump. I also hate Democrat politicians who regularly 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:22.040 walk into black churches and preach a false doctrine rapped 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:23.240 in Democratic. 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:25.360 Policies unconsolutely, rather than the Gospel. 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:27.840 I'll pray for Trump and his administration, but I will 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:30.480 never worship him or what they may or may not 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:34.120 do to help save Christianity. 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I'm a case by 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:52.880 case basis on all these things, and I just you know, 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:57.360 I prefer policies. I like to to policies I don't like, right, 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.120 pretty much the end of it. That's pretty much the 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:00.720 end of the discussion. I don't need to be in 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.320 love with them or whatever. Right. 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:05.920 It's like you're going into an alley fight and then 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.000 you see the guy you're gonna fight has got a big, 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:10.360 nasty bad guy with him, and you're like, holy crap, 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:12.920 I need a big nasty bad guy, so you hire 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.040 one for a little bit. That's what a politician is, 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:18.800 to win the policy fight, to make things less bad. 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:20.839 Sometimes you end up with a good person or an 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:24.080 admirable person. I can name a few, but yeah, the 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:26.640 whole But it's it's a tribal thing too. 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:27.720 It get back. 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:29.480 It gets back to what we've talked about many times, 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:32.600 the tribal signaling deal, where you've got to show your tribe, 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:35.680 I'm part of you, I'm with you, and if you 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:38.600 were to you know, recognize ambivalents about Trump like we 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:41.440 do every day. For instance, you're not a good tribal 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:43.840 member because the other tribe trying to attack you, so 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:47.199 be you gotta have you know, solidity, You've got to 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:49.360 have loyalty. Well, that's not what we do around here. 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:50.840 We just try to call him as we see him. 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:52.880 Well, like I said, thank god he beat Kamala Harris, 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:54.959 but oh my god, that would have been a national 0:11:55.000 --> 0:12:01.680 and perhaps global blanking nightmare. Any thoughts on me, any 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:03.560 thoughts on of this stuff? We just said text line 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:12.920 four one FTC very latest thinking on the negotiations between 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:14.839 the United States and Iran and the blockade and how 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:19.480 that's going, and there's it's still on the table. Uh 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:23.200 that you know, we just are right back at war 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:26.240 with fifty thousand troops in the area and everything else, 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:30.520 so that could happen any moment. We'll have the latest coming. 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:33.800 Up between now and then some miscellaneous, including this sent 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:37.880 along by alert listener Mike in Missouri. Chat GPT has 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:43.680 its blasphemy standards. Speaking of blasphemy, let's see he or 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:48.240 somebody he knows did something and then it said awesome. Now, 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:51.120 please create an image of Donald Trump as the prophet Mohammed. 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:52.880 Yeah, and a friend of mine just sent me that 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:56.320 same text. At least Christianity is a religion where you 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:58.880 have a discussion about this and condemn it, as opposed to. 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:02.600 Vow to kill the p and carve out their eyeball 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:06.160 thirty years later or whatever you have. And chat GPT says, 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:08.800 I can't create images depicting the prophet Muhammad, even in 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.040 the stylized or altered way. If you'd like it, can 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:13.680 still make something creative with Donald Trump, for example, placing 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:16.760 him in a historical setting, a biblical scene, or symbolic artwork. 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:18.360 Just tell me the direction you want. 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:21.800 Okay, Wow, So the religion that will kill you for 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:24.960 it gets protected on chat GPT, that which will forgive 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:26.880 you and pray for you, make all the fun of 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:27.480 them you want. 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:31.280 That's a weird catch twenty two in that whole thing. 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:35.360 Boy, I've got a ton on this topic. Just occurred 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:38.080 to me. Oh yeah, here you go here in similar fashion, 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:40.880 and God, I'm gonna get too fired up. It's calm down, Joe, 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:47.160 Calm down, Joe. In Finland, promoting biblical views against transgenderism 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:54.679 or for instance, or homosexuality is illegal because it insults 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:58.640 those people. And I'm not saying I necessarily agree with 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:00.960 anything or interpret the Bible in the same way as 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:03.480 anybody or don't is the same way in the same way. 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:06.599 But if you were to quote the Apostle Paul and 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:12.960 Romans one thirty two about sex with other men, you 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:17.200 will be breaking the law in Finland now in a 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.480 similar story that I'm jumping around now, and I would 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:22.880 love to do this in full and bring the full thunder, 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:28.840 but I won't. Australia just passed the law protecting Muslims. 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:32.880 Right now in Australia, like in Britain, like in Finland, 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:36.960 if you say anything insulting about Islam, you have broken 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:39.240 the law. You will be fined, you will be jailed, 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:40.800 you will have your social media taken down. 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:42.360 Blah blah blah. 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:46.200 But they're permitting Muslims to say horrible things about Jews 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:50.800 because that's in their religion, so that is protected. Yeah, 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:54.000 I know, wow, I know it makes me insane. 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:55.760 It motivates me to come in for work. But it 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:59.840 makes me wow sane to see the Western world doing 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.520 we're doing. You know, everything doesn't have to go back 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:04.560 to my Springsteen concert last night. But I was talking 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:06.720 to my kids about free speech and everything last night, 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:09.200 and how you know, it's pretty amazing. We live somewhere 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:11.160 where a guy can get up on stage in front 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:13.720 of twenty thousand people and say things about the president, 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:15.800 and it's fine because you can get up there and 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:17.440 say good things about the president or this or that 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:20.000 or whatever in the United States, and it works better 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:23.920 then the other way by a lot. 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:27.640 And in fact, if there are people in good conscience 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:33.200 there who hate what Bruce is saying, and somebody they 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:34.960 should shut him up in the government. 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.120 They would defend his right to speak. 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:41.200 His nonsense to the death, as they say, Yeah, let's 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:44.120 see what else do we have. Oh, here's some great 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:49.960 commentary from the Free Beacon about the New York Times 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:54.560 really enjoying an impressive hot streak lately. It's practically a 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:56.840 parody of itself at this point. Here are a few 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:58.960 examples that The New York Times has published lately. They 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:01.360 published an article about wide declining birth rates are a 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:05.240 good thing, then highlighted several letters from readers who enthusiastically agreed. 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:08.240 One gentleman from Montreal argued that having fewer kids or 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:10.880 none at all was a responsible choice amid the twin 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:17.040 crises of climate change and rapacious capitalism. Okay, they lamented 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:20.200 the downfall of the quiet restaurant worker who rammed his 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:23.160 truck into that Jewish preschool in Michigan after the would 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:26.880 be terrorist lost family members in an Israeli strike in Lebanon. 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:28.720 You remember that one the Times. 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:31.840 Eventually, when they were forced to confirm that one of 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:35.360 those family members at least was a commander of Hesbola, yes, 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.480 they issued a correction after referring to NATO as the 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:42.560 North American Treaty Organization. Indeed, they sarcastically observed, how do 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:46.360 you have the North American Treaty Organization without America not knowing? 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:51.080 It was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization which prompt many 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:55.080 to recall the twenty sixteen Times profile in which former 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:59.560 Obama guru Ben Rhoades, I remember this, bragged about manipulating 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:05.399 journal to quote literally know nothing, Ben Rhodes, Democrat. 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:06.359 There's more. 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:10.000 They interviewed university yes, oh that was Michael my Ears. 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.960 They interviewed university grads who fled abroad to avoid paying 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:16.719 their student loans, including a thirty seven year old who 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.440 borrowed sixty five thousand dollars to get a master's degree 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:24.000 in historic preservation before moving to Prague, in defaulting because 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:29.840 the sixty dollars per month repayment was, to quote, psychologically burdensime. 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:36.880 Oh my god, oh my, got a new level of soft. 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:37.600 Oh. 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:40.920 I didn't even get into the forty plus women throwing 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:44.800 wedding themed blowouts to celebrate turning forty and being single. 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:48.680 And then a new musical or something. Oh, a new 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:53.320 novel about women who have vegetables instead of men. 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:55.000 Nah, and is. 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:57.600 Oh my golly, I wish we had time for it. 0:17:57.280 --> 0:17:59.200 It's a treat. I do want to hear that later 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:02.000 I got home, Well, the term of rapacious capitalism, I 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:04.960 want to address that at some point, what as opposed 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:08.040 to what economic system that you think is better? I know, 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:15.520 Armstrong and Getty And as Joe was telling us, before 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:18.680 we get back to what's the latest going on with Iran. 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:21.679 Yeah, I wanted to wrap up the discussion of the 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:25.199 New York Times recent greatest hits, which include the Times 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:28.119 chief Film critic, A five time Pulitzer finalist with a 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:31.639 PhD in cinema studies, he gave a thumbs down review 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:34.800 to Project tail Mary, one of the most successful and 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:38.560 universally beloved films and recent memory. It was a bummer, 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:41.560 this expert wrote, not because the film was too sad, 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:45.760 but because it wasn't despairing enough about the human generated 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:52.159 environmental catastrophe we're facing. By the way, ninety four percent 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:55.560 on the tomato meter, ninety six percent on the popcorn 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:59.480 meter for that movie panned it because it wasn't angry 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:01.280 enough about climate change. 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:01.960 Wow. 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:05.200 That review pairs nicely with a book review The Times 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:09.000 published this week. I'm gonna have to tap dance. There's 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:11.200 some fancy words here which makes most of it readable. 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:16.399 But they published this week extolling the virtues of a 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:20.480 Polish novel about a sect of pagan tree huggers, to 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:24.600 put it mildly, who aim to topple the patriarchy by 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:31.880 indulging in horticultural debauchery of the penetrative variety. The reviewer 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:36.359 praised them. The reviewer praised the novel's literary translator for 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:41.920 devising quote an astonishing array of ways to describe a 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:47.159 vagene and quote, and commends the author for crafting a 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:51.639 worthwhile parable on the necessity of radicalism. 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:53.720 The old Great Lady. 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:56.639 Is wearing a thong in six inch heels and parading 0:19:56.680 --> 0:19:57.800 around Times Square. 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:00.240 Oh my lord, these are odd time. 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:08.760 So I was reading now Mark Alprin p Sir, I 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:10.640 guess watching in one of his videos the other day 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:14.479 complaining about people who are still on cable news channels 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:16.840 or Sunday morning shows that we were saying, we still 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:20.520 don't know why we went to war with Iran, as 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:25.560 being come on, let's be a little more intellectually honest here. 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:28.040 We went to war with the Ran to keep them 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:32.200 from getting a nuclear weapon. That's why Trump said this yesterday. 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:39.320 Iran will not have a nuclear weapon, and we agreed 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:41.280 to a lot of things, but they didn't agree to that. 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:43.919 And I think they will agree to it. I'm almost 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:46.000 sure of it. I'm intact, I am sure of it. 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:52.600 So a lot of critics of Trump believe it was 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:57.200 wrong for him to pull out of the JCPOA, which 0:20:57.240 --> 0:20:59.480 is a bunch of letters for an agreement we had 0:20:59.520 --> 0:21:03.160 with Iran under the Obama administration that I remember at 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:05.760 the time, my favorite pundits, even the ones that lead 0:21:05.800 --> 0:21:08.600 in Obama, said this could be great, but this could 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:14.040 be horrible. It depends on We gave Ran a whole 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:18.440 bunch of money, one hundred billion dollars, which might have 0:21:18.520 --> 0:21:21.800 been the money that financed October seventh in Hamas's attack 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:27.240 on Israel, for instance, to agree to not enrich uranium anymore. 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:32.520 They did not allow any time anywhere inspections though, and 0:21:32.560 --> 0:21:36.200 the Obama administration agreed to that. They did allow pretty 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:42.400 strict inspections on their two main facilities, but not anywhere 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:44.919 else in the country, And so you're just supposed to 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:48.720 believe that they weren't interesting uranium anywhere else. So I 0:21:48.720 --> 0:21:50.159 did kind of a deep dive on this the other 0:21:50.200 --> 0:21:53.679 day because I'd forgotten about all this. The controversy centers 0:21:53.680 --> 0:22:00.320 around the Turkazabad warehouse. In twenty eighteen, Israel shared intelligents 0:22:00.359 --> 0:22:06.000 with the IAEA indicating that the warehouse in Turan's one 0:22:06.000 --> 0:22:09.480 particular district, or Teuran, contained nuclear related equipment and material. 0:22:09.480 --> 0:22:13.720 And as we all know, Israel has unbelievable intelligence gathering abilities, 0:22:14.160 --> 0:22:18.040 and they said, hey, we know that Iran is refining 0:22:18.680 --> 0:22:22.040 uranium over there, and you need to do something about it. Iran, 0:22:22.240 --> 0:22:28.880 under the agreement that the JCPOA was could stall by 0:22:28.920 --> 0:22:32.520 as many as twenty four days before they let inspectors in. 0:22:32.840 --> 0:22:37.080 Twenty four days they had to move trucks around to 0:22:37.119 --> 0:22:39.119 clean things up, to do whatever they wanted to do 0:22:39.359 --> 0:22:45.000