WEBVTT - Jack Is Going To Transition 0:00:01.930 --> 0:00:05.810 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the 0:00:05.830 --> 0:00:07.830 George Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:07.880 --> 0:00:10.070 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:18.540 Armstrong and Getty. And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:27.360 Families complained about Nevada's behavior on the field and his 0:00:27.460 --> 0:00:30.540 mom's behavior on the sidelines. So what did the youth 0:00:30.620 --> 0:00:33.629 soccer director do? He called 911. 0:00:33.630 --> 0:00:37.589 There's a parent here that's really, really disruptive. Nevada's mom 0:00:37.650 --> 0:00:38.810 tells a different story. 0:00:38.909 --> 0:00:42.099 They're literally kicking him out of this way because he's. 0:00:42.020 --> 0:00:42.900 Good at soccer. 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:46.620 Nevada's mom told CBS News the coach told Nevada he 0:00:46.659 --> 0:00:49.240 could stay in if he passed the ball. But about 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:52.600 halfway through the game, he got the cops involved. 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:56.000 So the cops got called on the three-year-old who was 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:58.680 not passing the ball in soccer, who was really good 0:00:58.700 --> 0:00:59.520 and kept scoring goals. 0:00:59.970 --> 0:01:04.330 And his mom, his disruptive mom. Look, before you get 0:01:04.370 --> 0:01:06.330 into people are angry at us, and no, I didn't 0:01:06.350 --> 0:01:09.270 spend a lot of time doing your research, researching this 0:01:09.370 --> 0:01:10.090 stupid story. 0:01:10.130 --> 0:01:13.320 I did no research other than these texts I got. Exactly. 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:17.619 There was an enormous leap there. How did we go 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:21.720 from A to B? Why were the, specifically, the cops 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:25.370 were called for what reason? What did the people say online? 0:01:25.590 --> 0:01:27.850 Why did the police show up? All that's left out 0:01:27.870 --> 0:01:28.530 of the story. 0:01:28.810 --> 0:01:29.150 True. 0:01:29.190 --> 0:01:31.850 The news coverage is horrible there. Well, you know why 0:01:31.890 --> 0:01:33.810 they did it that way. They wanted people to click 0:01:33.890 --> 0:01:35.730 on a story of outrage. If you put in all 0:01:35.750 --> 0:01:39.500 the details, sometimes the outrage gets less, which might be 0:01:39.660 --> 0:01:42.780 after I read the text. But here's a little audio 0:01:42.860 --> 0:01:44.300 of the actual mom and cop, I guess. 0:01:45.270 --> 0:01:47.570 I guess one of the coaches advised that they don't 0:01:48.030 --> 0:01:49.650 want you guys here anymore, okay? 0:01:50.350 --> 0:01:52.500 If you guys don't mind leaving. What is the real 0:01:52.540 --> 0:01:54.340 reason that he called the police? 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:56.460 So I guess he's just calling because I guess he 0:01:56.500 --> 0:01:58.780 believes that you guys are causing a disturbance that was 0:01:58.820 --> 0:01:59.960 interfering with the game play. 0:01:59.980 --> 0:02:02.840 They're mad at my son because he actually plays soccer. 0:02:03.470 --> 0:02:06.630 So I'm a little confused and I'm a little, like, 0:02:06.690 --> 0:02:09.290 baffled because I signed my kid up for soccer. So 0:02:09.350 --> 0:02:12.530 they're literally kicking him out of this place because he's. 0:02:12.430 --> 0:02:13.230 Good at soccer. 0:02:13.930 --> 0:02:16.550 So her three-year-old must be a really good soccer player 0:02:16.570 --> 0:02:20.250 because he's playing in the five-year-old league and dominating. 0:02:21.010 --> 0:02:22.570 Three is really young. 0:02:23.669 --> 0:02:26.470 You're practically a prodigy just for your ability to run 0:02:26.510 --> 0:02:29.799 up and down the field. Well, or like be able 0:02:29.820 --> 0:02:31.440 to tell a three-year-old, I want you to run to 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:32.820 the end of the field and back and have them 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:34.800 do it and not go like 10 feet and get 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:36.320 distracted and walk off. 0:02:36.740 --> 0:02:37.500 Start picking flowers. 0:02:37.910 --> 0:02:40.290 So am I allowed to guess at what I think 0:02:40.370 --> 0:02:42.989 happened or would you rather do what you have first? 0:02:43.169 --> 0:02:43.790 Go ahead and guess. 0:02:43.830 --> 0:02:44.870 And then I'm going to read this text so that 0:02:44.889 --> 0:02:46.130 I don't know if it's accurate or not, because I've 0:02:46.150 --> 0:02:48.410 spent zero time looking into this and I'm not going to. 0:02:48.930 --> 0:02:52.619 So I'm guessing this is a three-year-old who, again, miraculously 0:02:52.660 --> 0:02:54.560 was just dominating the game. I mean, he was just 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:56.100 running up and down the field with the ball and 0:02:56.139 --> 0:02:58.740 kicking it in the goal over and over again. The 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:00.660 coach was like, all right, we got to take him 0:03:00.700 --> 0:03:03.359 out because nobody else is playing. Nothing else is happening. 0:03:03.820 --> 0:03:06.740 And the mom was pissed off because her son was benched, 0:03:06.820 --> 0:03:11.990 quote unquote, for being better than everybody else at soccer. 0:03:12.570 --> 0:03:15.149 And she and the coach had what I suspected was 0:03:15.210 --> 0:03:20.240 a loud and animated disagreement during the game. And the 0:03:20.260 --> 0:03:21.820 coach said, you got to go. And she said, I 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:25.260 won't go. I would guess having coached many, many games 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:27.079 and dealt with many, many parents. 0:03:27.100 --> 0:03:31.760 It was something like that. Probably. But here's a text 0:03:31.780 --> 0:03:32.079 we got. 0:03:33.500 --> 0:03:35.140 I know I'm not the first person to respond to 0:03:35.180 --> 0:03:37.380 this because a number of people said our coverage was 0:03:37.430 --> 0:03:42.180 horrible yesterday. Regarding the three-year-old soccer prodigy, the kid was 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:44.340 pushing other players in the league to ask him and 0:03:44.380 --> 0:03:46.760 his family to get him to stop. The kid's parents 0:03:46.780 --> 0:03:49.030 got upset and started making a scene, arguing with the 0:03:49.060 --> 0:03:51.470 league representatives and other parents. Because of that, they were 0:03:51.550 --> 0:03:53.130 asked to leave. They refused. 0:03:53.230 --> 0:03:54.250 Then the cops were called. 0:03:54.770 --> 0:03:58.630 Now the parents and the kid have a GoFundMe for 0:03:58.670 --> 0:04:02.150 their experience. Oh, my. Somehow strangers are giving this family 0:04:02.170 --> 0:04:07.410 money to make things all the better. Wow, because I 0:04:07.790 --> 0:04:11.790 am on your side in this now public online spat, 0:04:11.810 --> 0:04:13.350 so I'm going to give you money. 0:04:13.810 --> 0:04:15.850 Here's $ 20. 0:04:15.170 --> 0:04:17.810 That'll show the other side, which I'm against in this 0:04:17.950 --> 0:04:18.789 online spat. 0:04:18.870 --> 0:04:21.130 I know barely anything about this story other than a 0:04:21.150 --> 0:04:22.390 couple of things I saw on Twitter. 0:04:22.410 --> 0:04:23.550 Here's $ 20. The whole. 0:04:24.870 --> 0:04:27.620 GoFundMe thing around these stories is just, I don't know 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:28.140 what that is. 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:31.360 I can't remember, was it the New York Post that 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.360 had that story? I mean, hell, they left everything out 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:34.630 of it. 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:37.880 That's suck. Well, and then. 0:04:39.260 --> 0:04:44.260 Arguing with the coach and league representatives is a little 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:46.800 closer to nail down. But the whole the kid was 0:04:46.900 --> 0:04:51.520 pushing other players. Soccer is a pretty physical game. You know, 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:53.820 I don't know. You know, you had to have been there. 0:04:53.870 --> 0:04:54.200 Exactly. 0:04:54.230 --> 0:04:56.750 You'd absolutely have had to have been there to see 0:04:56.810 --> 0:04:59.670 if he's just a really good, aggressive soccer player or 0:04:59.710 --> 0:05:01.450 it was the sort of thing you'd think. Well, that 0:05:01.470 --> 0:05:05.159 ain't If he was pushing them enough that it affected play, 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:06.780 there's no way you would let that go in a 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:10.320 game at that age level, just having coached at that 0:05:10.380 --> 0:05:10.770 age level. 0:05:10.790 --> 0:05:12.010 Well, and there'd be a whole bunch of kids on 0:05:12.029 --> 0:05:13.190 the field be like, why are you pushing me? I 0:05:13.190 --> 0:05:15.920 don't even know what we're doing out here. Right, exactly. 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:18.930 I'm just standing here picking daisies. This ball rolls by 0:05:18.970 --> 0:05:20.869 me and you're pushing me all of a sudden. 0:05:20.930 --> 0:05:22.730 I'm just waiting for a bunch of people to say 0:05:22.950 --> 0:05:25.510 inexplicably we're done now because I have no idea of 0:05:26.089 --> 0:05:28.690 time or the fact that this is being timed or 0:05:28.730 --> 0:05:29.870 what a halftime is. 0:05:30.410 --> 0:05:31.429 I'm told there are. 0:05:31.330 --> 0:05:33.050 Juice boxes in like three minutes. 0:05:33.110 --> 0:05:35.580 So I'm just standing here. Right. 0:05:37.020 --> 0:05:39.859 Again, that was always the most amazing thing to me 0:05:39.900 --> 0:05:42.640 about the youth sports thing is the kids that knew 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:44.239 what they were supposed to be doing. 0:05:45.690 --> 0:05:47.770 And did it. And the ones who just have no 0:05:47.870 --> 0:05:50.170 idea what is even the point of this. 0:05:51.790 --> 0:05:53.810 You know, I've been sitting on this Wall Street Journal 0:05:53.850 --> 0:05:56.960 article about how baseball has changed so much. Now it's 0:05:57.000 --> 0:06:00.960 a rich person's sport. Because, for reasons we can get 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:04.340 into at another time, but it talks about these six-year-olds. 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:08.960 with their own bat and their uniform and paying hundreds 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:11.390 or a thousand dollars to play at an age they 0:06:11.450 --> 0:06:15.050 should not be playing organized baseball at all. And it's 0:06:15.270 --> 0:06:16.850 become this money grab. 0:06:17.110 --> 0:06:19.150 Yeah, our executive producer, whose kid is a really good 0:06:19.190 --> 0:06:21.390 baseball player, has talked about how, oh yeah, everybody's got 0:06:21.410 --> 0:06:23.430 to have their own bat, and the bats are really expensive, 0:06:23.470 --> 0:06:25.210 and then changes every year and all that sort of stuff, 0:06:25.230 --> 0:06:25.920 the new technology. 0:06:25.940 --> 0:06:29.820 You've got eight-year-olds with hitting coaches? Good lord. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:30.560 Ugh. 0:06:32.730 --> 0:06:35.100 Um, I was going to transition to another thing, but 0:06:35.130 --> 0:06:35.880 it feels awkward. 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:39.940 Jack's going to transition is the title for this segment 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:43.560 of the podcast. 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This has brought delight 0:08:28.620 --> 0:08:29.250 to my soul. 0:08:29.330 --> 0:08:31.680 And that's coming up next? That's coming up. Well, it 0:08:31.690 --> 0:08:32.360 could be, sure. 0:08:32.980 --> 0:08:34.640 Two quick texts I want to get on before we 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:36.940 take a break, and then Joe delights us. 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:37.620 Yes. 0:08:39.650 --> 0:08:42.540 Mentioned earlier that NPR was making a big deal out 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:46.319 of the fact that 15% of Americans are using AI 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:48.580 to search candidates for this election, and then they got 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:48.940 into hell. 0:08:49.530 --> 0:08:51.550 Awful that is or the information could be wrong or 0:08:51.590 --> 0:08:52.630 whatever when people. 0:08:52.410 --> 0:08:56.589 Have been googling oh my god for decades now and 0:08:56.630 --> 0:08:58.850 there's all kinds of crap out of there or you 0:08:58.870 --> 0:09:00.050 get your information from ads. 0:09:02.410 --> 0:09:05.569 Or maybe you get your information from npr in which 0:09:05.650 --> 0:09:09.830 case you're getting absolute crap or your union we got 0:09:09.870 --> 0:09:11.980 this text i never used ai but i used to 0:09:12.010 --> 0:09:14.630 work a union job in every voting season they would 0:09:14.650 --> 0:09:16.720 send a card telling you how to vote on every 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.940 issue i would do the opposite But so, hey, NPR, 0:09:20.460 --> 0:09:24.720 unions been telling people how to vote for decades. 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:27.500 Do you do a story about how awful that might be? 0:09:27.580 --> 0:09:30.010 Or just, you know, if anybody's doing independent research on 0:09:30.030 --> 0:09:33.709 their own, you know, whatever. And then one more about 0:09:33.730 --> 0:09:36.930 the whole election. Kind of about the election. Jack and 0:09:36.970 --> 0:09:38.470 Joe won't talk about Epstein. 0:09:39.870 --> 0:09:44.380 Oh, shut up. Oh, you know what? Unless you have 0:09:44.420 --> 0:09:45.480 more on that topic. 0:09:45.660 --> 0:09:45.730 No. 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:51.660 You remember yesterday we were posing the question, passing along 0:09:51.700 --> 0:09:55.230 the question posed by Eric Erickson on the right and 0:09:55.290 --> 0:10:01.020 a different bloke on the left for whether, a Republican, 0:10:01.070 --> 0:10:04.569 for instance, should vote for an awful candidate like a 0:10:04.690 --> 0:10:08.559 Ken Paxton, for instance. Or send the message that, no, 0:10:08.580 --> 0:10:10.650 we're not going to vote for awful candidates. Do better, 0:10:10.710 --> 0:10:13.790 Republican Party. We need a better primary system. And on 0:10:13.830 --> 0:10:18.250 the left, they cited Al-Sayed. What a miserable, abhorrent vote 0:10:18.330 --> 0:10:20.860 that would be for Democrats in Michigan. 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:22.300 Are you better off? 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.600 Rejecting your party's abhorrent candidate and letting the other party 0:10:27.620 --> 0:10:29.880 hold power for a while as a message. And we 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:32.979 asked for your thoughts, and we received quite a few 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.460 thoughtful and thought-provoking emails. 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:38.590 Yeah, I would like to get into that, because my 0:10:38.610 --> 0:10:43.330 philosophy has always been that the whole not voting is 0:10:43.390 --> 0:10:47.189 like being a pacifist. It just maybe makes you feel good, 0:10:47.230 --> 0:10:49.150 but there is going to be a result. Would you 0:10:49.190 --> 0:10:50.790 like to play a role in it or not? 0:10:51.770 --> 0:10:51.890 So. 0:10:53.210 --> 0:10:55.350 That's the way I've always felt about voting me. I 0:10:55.630 --> 0:10:57.689 just won't vote because I don't like my candidate. Okay, 0:10:57.730 --> 0:10:59.450 so you're going to let other people make the decision. 0:10:59.490 --> 0:11:01.370 A smaller number of people may be choosing. 0:11:01.390 --> 0:11:03.830 I don't know. I don't quite get that, but I'll 0:11:03.850 --> 0:11:04.589 be interested to hear. 0:11:04.610 --> 0:11:06.670 Okay, well, I'm not going to get into it now 0:11:06.700 --> 0:11:09.640 because we generally disagree about this somewhat. 0:11:10.220 --> 0:11:12.500 Most of my favorite people disagree with me on this, 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:14.400 but I just, I don't know. 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:17.680 You're going to delight us coming up. That's what I'm 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.300 excited about. Well, specifically your soul. 0:11:21.270 --> 0:11:26.030 Not like momentary delight. This will make you happier than 0:11:26.070 --> 0:11:27.330 you were prior. 0:11:27.510 --> 0:11:30.410 Wow. It certainly did to me. Cool. At the risk 0:11:30.470 --> 0:11:33.900 of overselling it. Whoops, too late. My soul needs delighted. 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:34.420 That's next. 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:40.280 Armstrong and Getty. 0:11:40.300 --> 0:11:42.020 I have a lot of friends and family in the 0:11:42.059 --> 0:11:44.200 little Kansas town where Trump is going to be doing 0:11:44.220 --> 0:11:49.210 a rally on Saturday. And everybody, I was just texted 0:11:49.250 --> 0:11:51.930 by a friend of mine there, everybody's losing their mind. 0:11:51.950 --> 0:11:54.450 This is a pretty small town, and Trump's actually going 0:11:54.470 --> 0:11:55.050 to come to town. 0:11:55.429 --> 0:11:56.350 I'll bet, yeah. 0:11:56.370 --> 0:11:58.450 Land and traffic, and where are they going to park 0:11:58.490 --> 0:12:00.230 the plane at this tiny airport and all that sort 0:12:00.250 --> 0:12:00.489 of stuff. 0:12:01.170 --> 0:12:03.710 All right, so if this was tagged, some of the 0:12:03.809 --> 0:12:09.530 tags would be the horrifying lack of free speech in 0:12:09.550 --> 0:12:14.120 a lot of the Western world, including Britain, and the 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:15.260 Streisand effect. 0:12:16.070 --> 0:12:19.370 You familiar with the Streisand effect? Barbara Streisand became aware. 0:12:19.410 --> 0:12:22.240 Sang a duet with Neil Diamond in the Streisand effect. 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:24.700 It really has nothing to do with it. No, although 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:27.199 that was a good song. I mean, come on. It 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:28.760 makes me cry. I can't even think about it. 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:29.380 I know. 0:12:29.660 --> 0:12:32.920 So the Streisand effect, Barbara Streisand back in the day 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:36.190 became aware that a picture of her house had emerged online, 0:12:36.530 --> 0:12:38.689 and she sued to get it taken offline, even though 0:12:38.750 --> 0:12:40.469 it had only been viewed. 0:12:40.510 --> 0:12:45.110 Like six times. I remember. All right, stop it. 0:12:45.490 --> 0:12:49.170 So then that turned into a big deal, and it 0:12:49.230 --> 0:12:53.730 was downloaded hundreds of thousands of times because she'd drawn 0:12:53.770 --> 0:12:54.630 attention to it. 0:12:54.970 --> 0:12:58.730 Okay, so that's one of your tags. Your final tag 0:12:58.990 --> 0:13:03.580 is that a lot of my heroes, my intellectual heroes, 0:13:04.580 --> 0:13:08.439 are people who've tried to speak truth through humor. 0:13:09.059 --> 0:13:16.670 Not surprisingly. Mark Twain... Hunter Thompson, P.J. O'Rourke, H.L. Mencken, 0:13:16.890 --> 0:13:17.990 so many greats. 0:13:18.330 --> 0:13:20.370 Carrot Top, who tried to kill himself a couple weeks ago. 0:13:20.429 --> 0:13:23.710 All right, I just need you to stop. 0:13:24.290 --> 0:13:30.179 So, apparently, some politicians across the pond in Britain. 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:32.060 are not aware of this effect. 0:13:32.500 --> 0:13:36.990 Take Britain's Simon Bennett, a politician with a seat in Wolverhampton, 0:13:37.010 --> 0:13:39.610 which is a not very big city near Birmingham. But 0:13:39.929 --> 0:13:43.010 so this 15-year-old boy, and this is the state of 0:13:43.050 --> 0:13:47.699 affairs in our freaking papa country, this kid's name is Fraser. 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:52.780 He'd used Facebook to post an AI-altered photo of Bennett, 0:13:52.860 --> 0:13:57.440 the politician, as a bunny rabbit. With whiskers and bunny 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:02.720 ears and buck teeth. Like Bugs Bunny, okay? An appointed 0:14:02.780 --> 0:14:06.300 caption jabbing him for nibbling at his conservative party's last 0:14:06.370 --> 0:14:10.450 remaining shreds of credibility. The counselor didn't laugh it off. 0:14:10.790 --> 0:14:14.210 He called the police. What's up, doc? 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.160 And that one I will permit. 0:14:17.620 --> 0:14:21.670 The West Midlands police incredibly didn't just visit the young man, 0:14:21.730 --> 0:14:25.130 the teenager. They arrested him. They seized his devices and 0:14:25.190 --> 0:14:32.870 took him in for questioning. I could rant powerfully about 0:14:33.150 --> 0:14:36.510 our First Amendment and how incredibly powerful it is and 0:14:36.550 --> 0:14:39.410 how sickened I am by the state of British crackdowns 0:14:39.470 --> 0:14:42.090 on free speech, especially against government figures, but I won't. 0:14:44.380 --> 0:14:50.420 The Politico, what's his name, Bennett, apparently unaware of the 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:57.550 Streisand effect. So when, before the police action, the original 0:14:57.590 --> 0:15:00.270 Facebook post was only seen by a very few people 0:15:00.290 --> 0:15:03.770 that follow this kid on Facebook. Now that the picture 0:15:03.830 --> 0:15:08.350 of Bunny Rabbit Bennett has been, the kid got busted. 0:15:08.030 --> 0:15:11.450 For it, millions have seen the picture. 0:15:12.030 --> 0:15:12.690 Millions. Of course. 0:15:13.150 --> 0:15:15.760 The image has been produced in news coverage, has gone 0:15:15.860 --> 0:15:20.220 viral on social media. One post on Polymarket's X account 0:15:20.620 --> 0:15:23.600 has had more than 6.8 million views. 0:15:23.820 --> 0:15:24.100 Wow. 0:15:24.380 --> 0:15:27.120 Free speech advocates like David Atherton posted the pic in 0:15:27.140 --> 0:15:30.820 solidarity in Britain, adding, come and get me, West Midlands police. 0:15:31.330 --> 0:15:36.190 And a memefied, I'm sorry, memefied variations of Fraser's manipulated 0:15:36.250 --> 0:15:37.330 photo now abound. 0:15:37.650 --> 0:15:40.090 It's everywhere, everywhere, everywhere. 0:15:40.530 --> 0:15:44.770 And the damage to Bennett's reputation could be permanent. Any 0:15:44.810 --> 0:15:49.050 Google search for Simon Bennett counselor produces endless pages about 0:15:49.090 --> 0:15:51.200 the rabbit picture. Oh, I'll bet you're right. I'll bet 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:55.400 for the rest of his life, any search includes the rabbit. 0:15:56.020 --> 0:15:57.160 Right, right. 0:15:57.940 --> 0:16:02.740 Meanwhile, over in Germany, Chancellor Friedrich Merz has reportedly filed 0:16:02.940 --> 0:16:07.360 hundreds of police reports against online critics for calling him 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:12.540 Pinocchio and other petty insults. The German police apparently took 0:16:12.580 --> 0:16:17.260 his report seriously. But then they also launched a criminal 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:21.410 investigation against the citizen for calling another politician fat. 0:16:22.330 --> 0:16:23.230 Richard Lang. 0:16:23.890 --> 0:16:27.590 Lang complained, of course, which ensured that search engines will 0:16:27.650 --> 0:16:30.750 pair the words Richard Lang and fat for the rest 0:16:30.790 --> 0:16:35.700 of his life. Andy Grote, another German politician, sent police 0:16:35.780 --> 0:16:38.970 after a Twitter user who called him a a pimmel, 0:16:39.270 --> 0:16:43.360 which is street slang for a penis in Germany. The 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:46.420 charges were dropped after a public outcry, but the incident 0:16:46.500 --> 0:16:49.860 undoubtedly led to a lot more Germans thinking of Groot 0:16:49.900 --> 0:16:52.370 as a pimmel for making such a fuss about it. 0:16:52.780 --> 0:16:57.930 I'm going to start using the term pimmel. I love this. 0:16:58.030 --> 0:17:00.290 I wonder if this is going to fix the free 0:17:00.330 --> 0:17:03.690 speech problem and that people will eventually figure out, you know, 0:17:03.710 --> 0:17:06.210 I hate that he calls me fat, but If I complain, 0:17:06.270 --> 0:17:07.870 it's going to make it worse, so I better just 0:17:07.930 --> 0:17:08.629 let him do it. 0:17:09.250 --> 0:17:10.730 Yeah, I wish I had the quotes in front of me. 0:17:10.770 --> 0:17:13.820 Both Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson said some really powerful 0:17:13.859 --> 0:17:18.840 things to the effect of the Constitution is nothing without 0:17:19.100 --> 0:17:19.820 the love. 0:17:19.619 --> 0:17:21.440 Of the people, the will of the people, the support 0:17:21.460 --> 0:17:23.200 of the people. It's just a piece of paper. 0:17:24.619 --> 0:17:27.220 And if the will of the people says something else, 0:17:27.290 --> 0:17:29.610 it doesn't really matter what the Constitution says. We have 0:17:29.630 --> 0:17:32.409 to love our system and understand why it's so good. 0:17:32.430 --> 0:17:38.149 The The trampling of the First Amendment in Great Britain 0:17:38.190 --> 0:17:41.050 and Germany, for instance, in the name of eliminating hate 0:17:41.090 --> 0:17:44.790 speech or insulting speech or offending Muslims or whatever the 0:17:44.830 --> 0:17:47.949 hell is the sacred cow at the particular time we're 0:17:47.970 --> 0:17:51.560 talking about. If the will of the people is we 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:55.020 will not accept that and we're going to mock it 0:17:55.140 --> 0:17:57.980 to death, I can die happy. 0:17:58.380 --> 0:17:59.260 I love this. 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:02.419 Imagine a world where you call the police if someone 0:18:02.460 --> 0:18:03.300 calls you fat. 0:18:04.940 --> 0:18:08.000 Wow. Or worse yet, a fat pimmel. 0:18:08.140 --> 0:18:08.480 Ooh. 0:18:09.100 --> 0:18:10.419 Fat rabbit looking pimmel. 0:18:10.690 --> 0:18:11.070 Ooh. 0:18:11.690 --> 0:18:16.109 It's the worst fate. Any thoughts on that? Text line 415295KFTC. 0:18:16.150 --> 0:18:18.869 Get the podcast. Armstrong and Getty. 0:18:20.550 --> 0:18:23.650 The Wall Street Journal reports that the United States has 0:18:23.710 --> 0:18:26.889 warned Gulf allies about a potential wave of strikes against 0:18:27.020 --> 0:18:30.960 Iran just after the midterm elections. Now, the report points 0:18:31.060 --> 0:18:34.360 to internal communications that are both military. 0:18:33.900 --> 0:18:35.280 And diplomatic in nature. 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:38.980 And indicate the United States and Israel are preparing a 0:18:39.060 --> 0:18:41.720 new round of heavy combat operations against Iran. 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:42.340 The U.S. 0:18:42.380 --> 0:18:45.389 Is also sending an additional Patriot missile defense battery to 0:18:45.530 --> 0:18:47.649 Israel to prepare for incoming. 0:18:47.330 --> 0:18:48.490 Iranian missile fire. 0:18:48.790 --> 0:18:51.470 This does come as the Qataris are proposing a seven-day 0:18:51.510 --> 0:18:54.449 timeline to address the negotiation concerns. 0:18:54.090 --> 0:18:54.570 Of the U.S. 0:18:54.630 --> 0:18:57.550 And Iran, a move that could avoid further escalation. Now, 0:18:57.570 --> 0:18:59.980 the Iranians are expected to respond by the end of 0:19:00.020 --> 0:19:00.340 the week. 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:05.600 This election is hugely consequential, and Prime Minister Netanyahu has 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:09.379 promised that if he is re-elected, he will ramp up 0:19:09.500 --> 0:19:13.540 the war with Iran and partner with President Trump to, quote, 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:18.270 finish the job, meaning more fighting and continued high gas 0:19:18.330 --> 0:19:19.430 prices in the U.S. 0:19:19.690 --> 0:19:21.470 So what are all these stories? 0:19:21.550 --> 0:19:24.670 Why are we hearing all these stories about the timing 0:19:24.890 --> 0:19:29.010 of attacking Iran? Since when is this the sort of 0:19:29.050 --> 0:19:33.090