WEBVTT - Chirpin' & Hackin' 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.200 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.320 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:17.280 Arms Strong and Gatti and he Armstrong and Hetty. 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:26.239 The talks between Iran and the United States continue to 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:29.720 go back and forth. At the latest juncture here, it's 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:33.480 our understanding that the US side has sent the proposal 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:36.040 between the two countries back to Iran for a couple 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:39.320 of adjustments that are presently waiting for a response. 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:41.960 Yeah, that's where we are on the negotiations of just 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:44.600 I've got a little analysis on that coming up, which 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:46.960 is interesting. Let's let Robert Sherman bring us up to 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:49.000 speed what happened over the weekend of News Nation. 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:51.440 Well, this is now the third time in the last 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:54.080 week that we have seen American forces carried out what 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:58.600 they described as self defense strikes on Iran, hitting launch facilities, 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:02.080 radar facilities in side of Iran itself. You may mention 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:04.400 of the fact that an American drone was shot down 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:08.399 over international waters. That is what partially sparked all of 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:10.319 this back and forth that you've seen between Iran and 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:11.200 the United States. 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:13.319 Just moments ago, Central Command. 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:16.160 Clarified Iran went so far as to fire two ballistic 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:21.200 missiles at Kuwait, allegedly towards some of the American bases 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:24.679 that are in that country. There that has received widespread 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:27.920 condemnation from Gulf states around the region here as well. 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:31.959 Whooped to do condemnation. It's amazing how much Iran counts 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:38.039 on people shooting down their missiles. Interesting thought, I. 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:41.200 Think, because they don't actually want to hit Tel Aviv, 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:42.959 I assume, or one of our. 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:48.120 Bases, because do you think they do well? They hurt 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:51.559 and killed quite a number of our folks already, number 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:55.560 being like seven, not seventy or seven. 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:58.920 Isn't it okay? Fine? But it's not hundreds like it 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:01.600 could be if a ballistic missile hits one of these 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:04.800 big bases or hits Tel Aviv. Whenever they shoot missiles that. 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:07.120 I just I don't know. 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:09.560 I would love to know if they, like, do they 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:12.000 hope they get through in it? Tovie, Israel would just 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:15.120 completely obliterate Terran I think if that happened. 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:17.680 Yeah, I don't know if I agree with you. I 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:19.560 think they do as much damage as they can. They're 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:23.520 just not terribly good at it. We've seen their defensive capabilities, 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:27.800 their defense are just woeful. The Russian and Chinese systems 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.440 are just terrible. It would make sense that their offensive 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:34.280 capabilities aren't great either. But yeah, they've inflicted enormous damage. 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:36.720 They've killed again a modest number of our people, but 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:40.960 too many. And their leadership is waiting for the apocalypse 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:41.959 where uh, oh. 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.840 Well, we'll take the throner over the heck that work. 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:49.160 So I don't know. So. John Bolton was Trump's National 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:52.440 Security advisor. He's the hawkeyest Iran hawk that exists on 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:56.519 planet Earth. Perhaps him, here's him talking about that whole situation. 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:58.720 Well, it's a very important base that We've got a 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:01.320 lot of important bases in the region. And I think 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:05.880 this is an indication that Iran is trying to intimidate 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.520 the US. They're trying to press what they see as 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:12.040 their advantage with Trump desperately wanting to cease fire, to 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.400 open the straight or four moves and hopefully bring the 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:17.320 price of gasoline at the pump in the US down. 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:21.119 I think that shortsighted strategically, but I think that's really 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:23.920 what's uppermost on Trump's mind, and I think that's what 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:25.320 the Iranians are pushing on. 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:27.959 That's after John Bolton said he thinks the ceasefire was 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:32.000 a horrible mistake, which I would agree. But so here's 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:36.640 one of the most respected international journalists in the world, 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:39.520 David Sanger of the New York Times, well sourced saying 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:42.200 the same thing Joe has been saying four weeks. And 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:45.920 Joe is not well sourced. David Sanger, are sucking to 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.040 all the experts in Iran and in the United States 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:49.440 and all the think tanks, and he came up with 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:51.280 the same thing you thought came up with off the 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:53.160 top of his head, off the top. 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:57.200 Well endowed, but not well sourced. That's my reputation. 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:01.520 Wow, Wow, what happened over the weekend that made you 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:02.360 need to slip that in. 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:08.240 I don't care anymore. I've become completely cynical. I'm a nihilist. 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:16.799 The Iranians sends mister Trump's deep reluctance, let me start again. 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:20.920 We're all tracking with you. The Iranians sends mister Trump's 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:24.920 deep reluctance to start combat operations that are deeply unpopular 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:28.640 in the United States, and most Iran experts say they 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:32.799 expect Terran to try to stretch the negotiations for months 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:38.000 or years, as they have with past administrations. Yeah. Yeah, 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.000 that's what you've been saying for weeks. They're just going 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.839 to drag this out. So all this back and forth 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:48.520 where they send something completely ridiculous US reparations and we 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:51.560 get to own the straight Obviously that's a non starter. 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:54.080 So Trump doodles on it. Then no to this, no 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.479 to this, how about this, sends it back. They wait 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:59.560 a week, they scribble something else. We get to keep 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:01.000 our nuclear weapons. That's sent it back. 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:04.040 I mean, you drag this out forever until Trump's out 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:05.640 of office, and then there's. 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:07.719 A Democrat and who lets you get a nuclear weapon? Probably, 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:10.520 and please everybody step acting surprise. 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:12.240 That's what they do. It's what they always do. 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:16.040 Ian Bremmer, for instance, expected outcome of US around agreement 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:19.880 one straight opens and blockade dropped immediately. Two ceasefire extended 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:23.720 for sixty days. Three Cutter transfer six billion of Iranian 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:26.800 assets to Iran. The United States says has nothing to 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:27.600 do with that transfer. 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:28.800 Well, it was a coincidence. 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:33.000 Four US and Iran continue to restart negotiating nuclear issues, 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:36.000 probably keep extending the deadline with little progress, and five 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:38.279 no meaningful expansion of Abraham records. 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:42.719 Yeah, yeah, I just yeah, do me a favor. 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.320 I want to hear if John Bolton's thinking squares with 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:47.159 my own, let's hear sixty five Michael. 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:50.960 I think the ceasefire itself has been a mistake. I 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:55.520 think it's a gift to Iran. How close the parties 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:59.680 actually are to some kind of extended ceasefire remains to 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.480 be saved. We've been hearing for day after day after 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:05.159 day that it's very close, and maybe it will be today, 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:09.120 who knows, But I think it's what's really questionable is 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:11.600 how much Iran and the US have actually agreed on. 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:15.599 You can write words down on a piece of paper, 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:17.880 but what really matters is do the parties have a 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:20.600 meeting of the minds? Do they understand what they've agreed on? 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:22.279 And that is a lot less clear. 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.400 So what I was going to say in that absolutely 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:30.279 supports that is the reason given for the ceasefire is 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:32.520 all right, we've pounded them enough, We're going to turn 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:36.839 down the heat now and come to a diplomatic solution. Well, 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:40.240 clearly you did not turn up the heat enough. If 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:43.000 they don't feel motivated to come to an agreement, and 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:46.560 they're clearly not This is just classic Iranian you know, 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:48.160 delay in obfuscation. 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:51.760 It's time to turn up the heat again. I think 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:54.080 they feel the opposite. I think they feel we took 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:59.520 your best shot and we're still standing, so bring it again. 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:02.359 This is a regime that is willing to machine gun 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:05.200 forty two thousand of their own citizens down, and some 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:09.920 of their youngest, best and brightest in the streets. They're 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:13.640 not going to blanch at doing terrible damage or killing 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:17.400 civilians obviously, or doing terrible damage to the infrastructure. They're like, 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:21.400 oh my god, these guys don't they're not fighters at all. 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:23.160 They waded in through. 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:25.480 A couple of punches and said, hey, everybody, calmed down, 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:29.760 we're freaking killers. Trump doesn't have it. He doesn't have 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:31.200 the guts, that's what they're thinking. 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:37.040 So Trump truthed out last night after midnight, Iran really 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:38.680 wants to make a deal, and it'll be a good 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:41.160 one for the USA and those that are with us. 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:47.080 But don't the Democrats and various seemingly unpatriotic Republicans understand 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:49.640 that it is much tougher for me to properly do 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:53.240 my job and negotiate when political hacks keep negatively chirping 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:56.120 at levels never seen before, over and over again, that 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:58.160 I should move faster or move slower, or go to 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:00.240 war or not go to war or whatever. Just sit 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:02.640 back and relax and law work out well in the end. 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:05.880 It always does. Does it always work out well in 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:08.480 the end? No, No, it doesn't. 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:12.160 Yeah, so that's what you're doing. You're one of those 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.920 hacks chirping all the presidents trying to do his job. 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:20.000 That's right, that's right, hacking, chirp and chirping and hacking. Oh, 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:23.360 we'll see all right, well at home. 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:26.440 At some point, it's possible that behind the scenes, Marco 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:30.360 and Jared and whoever else are, you know, working on 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:31.600 a deal and all of a sudden, they're all going 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:33.440 to come forward to a microphone and say we have 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:35.640 a deal and it's gonna have all kinds of complexities 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:36.680 in it that we haven't heard. 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:38.240 About in the press and all that sort of stuff 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:41.680 because they were doing behind the scenes. It's possible. Sure, 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:46.480 it's also possible that, like Bolton said, and you've been 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.439 saying that, there's like nothing anybody's agreed on. None of 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.719 the major stuff is even close I. 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:55.040 Mean not even close agreed in principle to talk about 0:08:55.040 --> 0:09:00.440 it later, which is a win for a RAN. What 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:04.640 you said about it's possible behind the scenes, blah blah blah, 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:06.760 these things take go out. But I think you've said 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:10.000 that every day now for like five weeks. Yeah, and 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:13.080 it's been true every single day. But at some point 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:15.520 you start to think, Yeah, on the other hand, maybe 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:17.480 I'm not getting a pony for Christmas. I mean, it's 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:20.760 just and every day that goes by is better for 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:25.160 a RAN, right and worse for us. Don't think it, don't. 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:27.200 Doesn't our position get better and ours get worse day 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:31.600 by day by day? Yeah? 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There's no safe 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:46.520 like simply Safe. 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:49.480 Finally, briefly from me on the politics of this whole thing, 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:51.840 and this is this is cynical, and this is not 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.320 good news. But I think it's true. I don't think 0:10:54.320 --> 0:11:00.160 Trump will be that damaged by a bad deal, as 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:01.520 a lot of the pundits think. 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:04.480 I don't think people care enough. People should care more. 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:08.080 But I think the war ends and then gas starts 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:12.240 to drop back down, and historians and. 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.520 Some cable news shows paneled, why did we get out 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:16.560 of this? It was a mistake, blab bla. Most people aren't. 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:18.560 They didn't pay attention to the beginning, they haven't paid 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:20.679 attention to in the middle, and they are gonna pay attention. 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:20.839 To the end. 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:22.800 It's just it's over, and it went away, and it's 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:24.320 not a problem, and gas has gone back down. 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:26.120 I don't think it's going to damage him that much. 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:28.800 What's the opposite of something coming back to bite me 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.640 in the ass? Because I think the Trump administration did 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:34.040 a terrible The President himself did a terrible job of 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:39.120 explaining the critical need of stopping Around's nuclear program. Yeah, 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:41.640 he's brought it up plenty of times, but the messaging 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:45.679 just has not been effective. But having said that, if 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:47.840 you come to a deal that doesn't really deal with 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:50.480 that in the end, Again, what's the opposite of something 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:53.000 coming back to bite you in the ass. You just 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:54.800 you didn't turn loose a dog at all. 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:56.880 Oh, I see what you mean. You didn't really make 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.440 the case to the American people while it's why it's important. 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:05.960 So then when I fail at it, right, there's no repercussions. Yeah, 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:08.559 these are odd times. I actually think that's what's going 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:10.200 to happen. Okay, we got more on the white stay here. 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:20.520 Bill Maher on Friday and his show, asking the question 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:25.160 why is Mississippi beating California in public schools? Why is 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:29.080 Texas meeting California when it comes to solar saying that's 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.719 not the stereotype, but it's the truth. So we'll get 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:32.560 to that a little bit later. 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:36.239 You know, I was all excited to lead this discussion. 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:41.240 With the name of the contest, I think it's Operation 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:45.119 Drone Dominance or something like that. Speaking of the military 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:48.280 in Iran and all sorts of conflicts including Ukraine and 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:52.360 the coming you know era of drones in AirLand and 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:56.720 sea warfare. The Pentagon, to their credit, is holding a 0:12:56.840 --> 0:13:02.280 giant contest among drone design and makers. Yeah, drone Dominance, 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:05.280 that's what they're calling it. And it is And again 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:09.320 I think this is really cool. Some of The leading 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:13.400 players are like a twenty three year old former drone 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:18.000 racing world champion, a company that uses drones to analyze 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:21.280 golf course grass, another link to a firm that hosts 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:25.360 aera light shows, and the Pentagon has said we're gonna 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:29.800 do about a billion dollars worth of defense contracts on drones. 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:32.840 We're gonna buy hundreds of thousands of them. 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:38.160 Show us your best stuff, and it is really motivated 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:42.959 an intense, you know, contest, but just effort by all 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:46.000 of these innovative young companies to show what they can 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:49.920 do and to move us forward in the absolutely critical 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:52.040 game of figuring out. 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:55.160 How we're gonna use these things. Wow, that's really pretty cool, 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:57.160 you know. Pete Hegseeth. 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:00.839 He's an interesting character, and there's some aspects of his 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:03.920 act I don't love. But boy, in terms of standing 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:07.760 up for the actual war fighters and being willing to 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:10.280 adapt and break out of the old mold and the 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:11.800 old way of doing these things, I give them an 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:12.719 a plus on that. 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:15.360 Yeah, And I'm glad we're looking at the drone thing 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:18.320 now because from everything I read, China's way ahead of us. 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:23.360 Yeah, especially in terms of manufacturing capacity. I mean, they 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:27.840 can produce just exponentially more than we can at this point. 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:29.880 And boy, the more I talk to people who are 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:34.040 involved in this field, the more I understand how intense 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:37.280 and important the whole thing is. Anyway, I just wanted 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:41.080 to throw that in another very short story. 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:45.040 This is way way worse than it sounds. 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:52.200 The state of New York lawmakers are pushing for child 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:57.800 tax credits, but not child tax credits, dog and cat 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:04.960 tax credits, a non refundable tax credit for pet owners. Well, 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:08.120 they might do it refundable, which means you get it 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:13.960 even if you don't pay taxes, which is verbal trickery. 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:17.720 If you have a dog or a cat, you can 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:22.440 get a tax credit regardless of your wealth, and child's 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:27.520 tax credits are are capped by income. Taxpayers will give 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:30.680 you tax credits because you have a dog to help 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:31.840 take care of Fido. 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:37.800 So I, currently a non dog owner, am giving some 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:39.960 of my tax money to other people who decided to 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:45.880 have a dog. Explain that to me. Explain justify that 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:46.520 one to me. 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:51.000 Yeah, I can give you the defacto answer, but can 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.560 give me a bonehead I'm supposed to buy an answer 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:55.600 on why I should give some of my tax money 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:57.400 to somebody who decided they want a cat. 0:15:58.120 --> 0:15:58.400 Wow. 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:00.480 I'll have to work hard to adopt the verbiage of 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:03.200 the people who are in favor of this. But pets 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:07.880 are a part of our family. They've been demonstrated to 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:12.400 aid in health and longevity, and people really care about 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:17.040 their pets. And with affordability being as bad as it 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:21.880 is these days, people need help. They need help with 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:26.480 their expensive veterinary bills. So you know, that's the best 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:28.840 effort I can come up with the de facto answer. 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:32.240 The real answer is no, we're going to promise people 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:33.680 tax money so they vote for us. 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:37.760 It's a new excuse. Well three distribution. Yeah, I really 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:41.560 like riding a bike. Exercise is important. It leads to 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:44.360 longevity and better health, health outcomes. Pay for my bike 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:46.920 right right, absolutely. 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:50.440 But then once people are getting this, then you can 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:55.880 say the Republicans want to yank away the money you 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:59.520 need to care for your pets. Republicans don't care if 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:01.200 your pets live or die. 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:03.800 Wow, a teleocrat, this might be the thing that gets 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:06.720 me to move to a different country when I'm old. Yeah, 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:08.480 if I'm going to have to give tax money to 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:10.760 people who want to have a dog or a cat, 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:12.920 so they can have a dog or a cat. What 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:14.480 the frigg is going on here? 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:16.840 Which is why I said this is even this is 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:20.080 worse than it sounds because it feels to me it's 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:24.000 crossing some sort of it is right, right, I mean, 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:30.040 it's utterly indefensible. It's just a naked saying we will 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:33.320 give you money for the reason doesn't really matter. We're 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:36.800 just gonna give you money if you keep voting for us. 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:42.000 The Turtle Coalition of America is going to say, wait 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:45.000 a minute, dogs and cats, what are you a shellist 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:46.440 or you know whatever? 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:48.800 Your your snake. 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:52.480 Guy's going to be like that is so unfair, right, 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:53.919 I demand my subsidy. 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:55.679 I've got a friend who's got a parrot. They live 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:59.680 like one hundred and fifty years. What who's going to 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:02.119 take care of this parrot when it's gone? Give you know, 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:03.720 vote now on measure. 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:08.640 P Yeah, exactly, Polly want a handout? Holly want a handout. 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:14.640 I'm Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty. 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:21.040 Graham and I have a great marriage. Being married is hard. 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:26.080 Being newly married is hard. Being newly married and going 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:30.560 through infertility is hard. Being newly married going through infertility 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:35.720 and a Senate campaign is is hard. 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:38.280 I don't even know if I have the right words 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:40.040 to describe. 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:41.480 We've been going through. 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:45.199 But our marriage counselor helps. 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:47.840 No marriage is perfect. 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:53.200 That is Amy Gertner, the wife of Graham Platner. Graham Plattner, 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:56.320 who's really been quite the topic of discussion in politics 0:18:56.400 --> 0:19:00.159 these days. He is the lobsterman, Yeah, running four or 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:04.840 the Senate in Maine. He's that rugged looking veteran fellow 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:10.000 calls himself an oyster farmer, although his only client is 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:12.159 his mom's restaurant, and he was a bit of a 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:16.199 expensive boarding school kid who claims he's a tough and 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:19.480 working class. He's ruggedly handsome, which I think is the 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:20.480 key to like everything. 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:25.119 Yeah, he is a another long line of seems to 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:32.640 be phony working class dudes trying to get that vote. Yeah. 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:37.160 He also sported a Totin Kulp tattoo, the death's head 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:40.280 tattoo frequently used by the SS and World War two Nazis. 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:41.280 Blah blah blah. 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:46.600 You know, young guy combat veteran gets an ill advised 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:49.879 tattoo because he thought it was just hard ass or 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:51.160 as opposed to Nazi imagery. 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:53.520 I give him a pass on that. Yeah, I'm not 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:54.280 that worried about that. 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:58.160 On the other hand, I think he's a phony and 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:02.920 he's half a Marxist. He's got quite the history of 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:07.280 bad decisions, including what we're talking about here while he 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:09.920 was married, and he's just been married to young Amy, 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:14.159 who we heard from since twenty twenty three, and evidently 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:18.359 he was a serial sexter in the last couple of 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:22.080 years while they've been married. And I don't want to 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:24.520 give way too much for the next from the next 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:28.000 couple of clips we're going to play, but so you've 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:31.320 got that problem. You got the fact that several years 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:35.359 ago he called rural maners racists and idiots and the 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:37.240 rest of it, and they got to vote for him. 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:42.600 He's made several incredibly nasty comments about Jewish folks, and 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:46.280 he's just he strikes me as a wackadoo candidate that 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:47.640 wasn't vetted well enough. 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:51.959 So anti Semitism is a problem. Being a socialist as 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:57.920 a problem unless I hear something specific, and I think 0:20:57.960 --> 0:21:01.199 the specifics are going to come out this week. On 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:05.000 the sexting thing that's between you and your wife, she's 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:06.000 okay with it. Whatever. 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:10.800 Yeah, but it's part of a pattern to see he 0:21:11.560 --> 0:21:14.080 you know, he tweeted all sorts of terrible things about 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:19.320 maners and women, you know how they auto avoid sexual assault, 0:21:19.359 --> 0:21:22.920 crude posts about sex workers, masturbation, trying to discredit fellow 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:25.760 combat veterans, blah blah blah. And he's explained to all 0:21:25.840 --> 0:21:31.040 of that that well, I had PTSD and that the 0:21:31.280 --> 0:21:34.360 all the sexting women was really bad decisions. But I've 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:37.840 undergone counseling, and he is doing counseling. She is doing 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:42.600 individual counseling. They're doing marital counseling together, as we're about 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:46.200 to hear. So when you describe all of that, does 0:21:46.200 --> 0:21:49.360