WEBVTT - Here's Some Absinthe. Have A Good Time. 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:07.640 Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:11.360 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, I'm strong and get kid 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:17.640 and he armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:28.200 With regards to the situation in Gaza, the President, echoing 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:31.440 what US officials have been saying, both in private and 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:34.400 in public over the last twenty four hours, suggesting that 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:37.760 a deal could be reached sometime soon, that it could 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.239 be on the cusp of being announced. You know, it's 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:42.239 been a really long time since we have heard this 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:47.080 kind of optimism, at least coming from inside the Biden administration. 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:49.400 But sources have been telling us over the last day 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:52.120 or so that they do believe a deal could be 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:55.200 announced for a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:58.840 hostages from Gaza in the next coming days, in. 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:00.840 The next couple of days. Yeah, and those two things 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.160 go together. They're going to give back the hostages and 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:06.080 Israel is going to agree to pull their troops out 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:08.840 of Gaza. And even the New York Times says this 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:14.520 is all being instigated, pushed by the looming deadline of 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:17.760 Biden not being president and Trump being president, And even 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:21.959 the New York Times includes Trump warning quote, all hell 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:24.960 to pay unless the hostages are freed by the day 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:29.399 he becomes president. And apparently Hamas believes that's true. 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:34.839 Right, Well, I would suggest a huge dose of trust, 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:40.520 yet verify even in thinking about this alleged agreement. First 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:43.280 of all, it has to actually be agreed to. Frameworks 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:46.880 have a history of falling apart in this region. But secondly, 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:50.360 because I do believe Trump's threats are a legitimate and 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:52.440 be motivating the hell out of the scumbags and a 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:54.880 mass to make a deal. But then there's the question 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:57.600 of implementing it and having everybody live up to their 0:01:57.640 --> 0:01:58.360 side of the agreement. 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:00.160 I'm sure extremely skeptical. 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:03.200 Being mediated by Katar, Egypt and the United States, and 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:06.840 obviously Israel and Hamas are involved with their own particular 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.280 needs and everything like that. I gotta believe Katar and 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:15.480 Egypt are saying to Hamas, look, the jig is up, right, 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:18.399 do you want to be pumpled into dust? Or? 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:21.840 I mean, what are you going to gain out of that? Right? Yeah, 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:23.120 I would certainly hope. 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:27.480 So I'm more optimistic than you for no reason other 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.320 than it just has echoes of nineteen seventy nine nineteen 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:33.280 eighty when Reagan came in and the hostages came back 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:36.359 from Iran and a brand new administration that looks like 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:39.120 a hard ass. Everybody thinks, Okay, there's a new sheriff 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:39.480 in down. 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:44.359 Yeah, I'm I am really interested to hear what the 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:47.960 provisions are for a ceasefire from Israel's point of view, 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:52.040 because they still and they no longer suffer under any 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:55.640 delusions about this, they are still facing an enemy that 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:57.520 has sworn to wipe them off the face of the 0:02:57.560 --> 0:02:59.000 earth in their founding charter. 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:01.960 So it's difficult to strike up a. 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:07.000 Deal for long term harmony with somebody who answers that description. 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:10.000 They are not near as tough as they were before, 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.440 and they don't have the backing of their really only supporter, 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:17.079 Iran anymore because Iran is barely functioning themselves as a military. 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:21.760 And to me, the big story is do Israel and 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:26.320 the United States together either take out that nuclear program 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:28.560 in Iran or go full regime change. I think both 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:31.760 of them are on the table, and who knows what Trump. 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:35.280 I would agree, I would agree, And this is the 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:39.520 contrast between Trump, for better or worse and Biden is 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:42.920 I think Trump and his people get that doing nothing 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:45.040 is to do something absolutely. 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:48.280 Barack Obama did not understand that at all. Don't do 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:53.920 stupid s was his motto. Well, not reacting to Bushar 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:58.480 al Asad's chemical weapons is stupid s. It led to 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:00.240 more bad things things. 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:04.280 Yeah, constant passivity is some of the stupidest ask you 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:10.120 can do. So a completely different topic, well, it's tangisially related. 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:12.080 I guess there are a handful of things that have 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:14.560 come together in my head. Pete Haggs, that's hearing is 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:17.320 going on right now in front of the Senate between 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:20.320 the idiot protesters and the tough questioning of him and 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:26.200 his force full advocacy of a more fighting, man oriented 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:29.320 military as opposed to a giant, bloated bureaucracy. That's a 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:33.000 jobs program. I'm loving that discussion. You have the LA 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:37.200 fire situation where Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom are trying 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:40.760 to blame it on climate change when their preparedness was 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.840 terrible over the years and over the previous months, and 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.000 Karen Bass going to Ghana for no good reason just 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:50.920 because she likes expensive junkets with the forecast being horrible 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:54.360 in LA. I didn't make any the firefighting program, a 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:57.159 jobs program for women because not enough women want to 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:59.560 be fire It's just ridiculous. I didn't realize till yesterday. 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:01.920 So hear, trip to Ghana. Okay, you're gonna go somewhere, 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:04.720 find whatever. That doesn't bother me. Politicians bank all kinds 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:05.760 of trips I hate and everything like that. 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:10.120 She got there, the fire started, and she stayed. She 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:13.360 didn't even leave early. Now that's. 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:15.000 Criminal. 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:17.960 I mean, well, that's not criminal, it's malpractice. Oh and 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:19.800 again it was just a celebrity junket. There was no 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:22.760 reason for her to be there whatsoever other than a vacation. 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.440 But I'm thinking about, you know, the LA firefighters, how 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:30.560 they have done this big DEI thing to get more 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.320 women firefighters can not that many women want to be firefighters? 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:36.239 And who cares? If who cares? 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:39.520 How many women? How many firefighters in LA County or 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:40.359 LA are women? 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:44.039 Who cares? Anybody? Only these activists do gooders. 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:47.040 It's possible not many women want to be And has 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:49.760 there been a fire victim in the history of fires, 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:54.200 or a medical emergency for that matter, maybe excepting giving 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:56.800 birth by the freeway? Has there ever been a person 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:00.359 as the firefighters are fighting to put out the fire 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:03.279 that's going to reduce your home Dash who said, Yeah, 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:05.760 it's cool that they're doing this, but man, I'd like 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:07.200 to see some more diversity. 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:10.360 Well, I think we've gone so far the wrong direction. 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:13.960 We should flip it around. Is there do you know 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:18.440 anybody that seems to be in favor of rejecting a 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:21.919 woman who's otherwise qualified physically to do the job? 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:22.919 I course not. 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:26.279 I don't know a single human being that, just from 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:30.279 a misogynistic sexist standpoint, wouldn't want a qualified woman to 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:34.760 be a firefighter, right, nobody. I've never heard anybody even 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:38.080 come close to that opinion. Yet we've gone so far 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:41.960 the other direction, as if that's the norm to bring 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:44.440 in people that aren't qualified in the military and firefighting 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:47.440 cops and all kinds of different examples, you know. 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:50.120 And this is such a good topic. 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:52.320 I was actually heading towards going to a more thirty 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.839 thousand foot view of it, but I liked it. I 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:59.680 have heard people say the sexual dynamics in like combat, sure, 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:03.600 a combat unit could could be difficult, or managing a 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:06.599 submarine for instance. So and that's a legitimate discussion because 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:09.120 as Pete Hegseath is forcibly trying to point out in 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:13.720 front of the Senate, it's about preparedness for war and 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:17.920 winning war. It's not a damn jobs program. What is 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:21.200 your first purpose to winning conflict? 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:22.000 Anyway? 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:24.880 Having said that, I've been reading there's a great piece 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:28.320 by the editors of the National Review about the British 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:33.040 rape gang's scandal and how horrific it is and one 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:35.920 of the most horrific aspects, well, every aspect of it's horrific, 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:39.400 come to think of it. But they go fairly into depth, 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.080 and I wish we had time with how the local 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:47.560 and national governments covered up for all of this, the 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:52.360 rape of children, refrained from pursuing justice to avenge the 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:54.920 rape of children, to avoid endangering quote. And this is 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:59.680 one particular city, Rotherham's qualities of diversity and harmony, of 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:05.080 commit unity relationships because the rapists were primarily Muslims of 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:08.480 Pakistani heritage. Anyway, we'll go bigger on that at some point. 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:10.440 But the thing I really wanted to get to is 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:12.800 another great piece I read by a fellow by the 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:15.400 name of tal Fortgang, who's a hey, he's a thinker 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:18.120 and a writer, but he's talking about tan of Hissig 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:21.360 or Tana Hashi. How are your supposed to pronounce his 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:26.200 his adopted name, coats recent book The Message, and what 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:30.480 a load of crap it is because any time it 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:35.120 runs into a wait, what you just said is factually untrue, 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:36.439 he just. 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:39.280 Says, Look, don't get caught up in. 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:44.800 Facts, don't let complexity get in the way of just this, 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:49.000 And it lands him on network TV and gets some 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:52.880 glowing profiles in elite media despite openly aiming to tackle 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:57.200 questions way beyond his depth and and how he doesn't 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:59.679 operate on a level of rationality. 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:04.960 Zooming through the description of the preliminary part. 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:07.959 Of this, he says, I've heard that side of the. 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:11.160 Story, but he's not obligating to exp explain why the 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:13.480 other side of the story is wrong, because right and wrong, 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:16.120 true and untrue do not move him. This is what 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:18.680 I wanted to get to, because this is the umbrella 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:23.240 over every topic we've talked about this segment, from the 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:28.040 LA firefighters to soldiers, to illegal immigrants we were talking 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:33.160 about earlier, the sanctuary cities. You've got literal child rapists 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:36.480 and they won't tell the feds. Hey, we've got to 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:39.680 let this child rapist out. He's an illegal immigrant. Let's 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:42.920 get him out of the country to protect all Americans 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:46.920 or other immigrants. But they don't want to talk about 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:51.200 those facts. And here's where fort Gang gets to his 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:55.040 main point about Coats. And you're going to recognize this 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:58.760 among so many progressives. And this is the reason we 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.679 call California cal un cornea where realism. 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:02.840 Goes to die. 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:06.720 Fort Gang REGs his writings are romantic works. They fit 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:11.520 perfectly the Encyclopedia Britannica explanation of the late eighteenth century 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:18.280 rejection of Enlightenment rationalism. Romanticism quote emphasized the individual, the subjective, 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:23.080 the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:27.920 the visionary, and the transcendental. Coat's idea is to stir 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:31.040 feelings such that you could say, I don't care what 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:34.400 arguments you give, I feel the conclusions in my bones, 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:36.160 and nothing will move. 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:39.400 Me from it. Clearly true. How many times have you 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:40.520 run into people like that? 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:45.320 The very idea that the conflict he's talking about Israel 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:50.400 Hamas could be complicated, says Coates, is horse ass. He 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:54.160 repeatedly writes that nothing could justify the status quo in Israel. 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:59.600 Really nothing, not even wars of annihilation, genocidal terror groups. 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:02.640 You could that babies and murder entire families in their beds. 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:05.880 That doesn't justify the status quo. 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:10.880 A rationalist sees both sides and tries to propose a 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:16.439 proper balance between Israel's security concerns and Palestinian's dignity interests. 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:18.360 Right, that's reasonable. 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:23.000 A romantic feels the whole situation is wrong and refuses 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.920 to entertain evidence that his feelings might not tell the 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:32.160 whole story, and proposes overhauling all of it. Categorical refusal 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:38.160 to even acknowledge facts or arguments that contradict ones intuitions 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:42.520 animates so much of our public discourse on race, gender, crime, 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:46.880 about just about anything that can arouse human passions, and it. 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:48.720 Marks our cultural trends. 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:54.040 The subjective has pride of place over empirical, the feelings 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:57.280 and the unverifiable over the logical. 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:00.319 He is the leader of It. Doesn't matter what your 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:00.880 facts are. 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:04.120 This is what I feel, which is no way to 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:05.600 run a society, man. 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:14.679 Right, My lived experience is more important than the fact. Right, Yeah, God, 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:19.280 you cannot govern with that. You really can't. No, it 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:21.760 was taken hold of a lot of places. Yeah, it 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:22.720 has because. 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:23.160 It feels good. 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:26.360 For one thing, it makes people feel really self righteous, 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:31.440 and if their peer group are also romantics, they get 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:36.080 loads and loads of ego gratification by spouting the nonsense 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:39.920 you're right, way to go, man, way to go. We 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:41.400 got to take a break. But I'm looking at the 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:46.880 TV and Richard Blumenthal, Senator, Democratic Senator, is questioning Pete Hegseth. 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:51.840 The fact that he everybody just ignores the fact that 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:54.679 he pretended he was some sort of Vietnam hero and 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:56.000 it was a complete lie. 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:56.760 Yeah. 0:12:56.840 --> 0:13:00.000 Now Dolan valor and now he gets to question incomings 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:04.120 deaths with some authority is just amazing, including one guy 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:08.920 who actually served and served honorably. Wow, that's some story anyway, 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:11.040 Any highlights from that, we'll have for you. Another stuff 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:17.280 come on up. This whole TikTok train and keeps getting 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:20.240 more complicated, and yet another app from the same company 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:22.920 doesn't doing a similar thing. Would it get around the 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:25.760 law anyway? Maybe we'll have to talk about that later. 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:29.680 Yeah, Yeah, there's a lot to be said, but we 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.560 will hang in there and get to it when we 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:36.040 can Pete Hegseeth is testifying in from the Senate right 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:40.200 now about his nomination to be Secretary of Defense, and 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:42.640 he said some really great things so far, and man, 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:44.840 he unleashed on the news media, let's hear it. 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:48.000 And time and time again, stories would come out and 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:51.120 people would reach out to me and say, you know, I've. 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:53.679 Spoken to this reporter about who you really. 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:55.680 Are, and I was willing to go on the record, 0:13:56.720 --> 0:14:02.439 but they didn't print my quote, print any of my quotes. 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:05.880 Or I've worked with you for ten years, or I 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:08.559 was your accountant, or I was your chief operating officer, 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:11.240 or I was your board member, or I was with 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:14.560 you on one hundred different tour stops for Concerned Veterans 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:19.200 for America. No one called me, no one asked about 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:22.960 your conduct on the record or off the record. Instead, 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:27.240 a small handful of anonymous sources were allowed to drive 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:30.680 a smear campaign an agenda about me because our left 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:34.480 wing media in America today sadly doesn't care about the truth. 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:38.520 All they were out to do, mister Chairman, was to 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:41.800 destroy me. And why do they want to destroy me? 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.520 Because I'm a change agent and a threat to them? 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:47.360 Because Donald Trump was willing to choose me, to empower 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:49.920 me to bring the Defense Department back to what it 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:50.800 really should be. 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:51.880 Which is war fighting. 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:56.040 That's some of it. Trump could have named anybody and 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:57.720 they would have made up all kinds of crap to 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:00.960 try to bring him down just because it's Trump. That 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:03.280 includes today, By the way, New York Times, they're big, 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:08.120 splashy front page story today was how the FBI didn't 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:11.640 do a real background check. And MSNBC is walled wall 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:14.840 on this story and then interviewing every Democrat. Can you 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.120 believe the FBI didn't do a full background check? I 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:19.720 know it's outrageous. Since when does the FBI not do 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:23.520 full But it's all based on some unnamed sources who 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:26.000 claim the FBI didn't do a full background check. So 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:30.240 once again it's that same story. Yeah, I'm not sure what. 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:30.720 To think about. 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:34.480 Pete Heigsath is sect def I love your ideas, but 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:38.080 this is I think this is a bigger issue we've had. 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:45.680 This soco media change from an anonymous source, especially if 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:49.680 it's just like one or two, is very very thin 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:52.560 gruel to base a story on, particularly a story of 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:56.040 any importance, and it probably shouldn't be done, and somebody's 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:58.720 got to have a great reason to remain anonymous, and 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:00.280 I still publish the story. 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:01.800 We've gone from that too. 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:06.320 Absolutely any half wit, crack pot or mental illness case. 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:08.720 I'm thinking about Judge Kavanaugh's hearings. 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:11.680 Who is willing to trot anything out even if there's 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:15.280 contradictory evidence. That's more than good enough because it's exciting. 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:19.080 So it is a media failing, as Hegzeth was saying, 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:21.800 But we as a society have to understand that it's 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:22.760 not the way it used to be. 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:23.880 Now they'll trot out. 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:27.240 Absolute crap and we just have to say, no, you 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:29.440 name your sources, let's hear him talk on the record, 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:31.400 or I don't care what you just wrote. 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:35.520 New York Times article centers around one of the stories 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:39.720 floating around about Pete that he is accused of committing 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:42.840 some sort of sexual crime in which at the time 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:45.960 no charges were filed when the police were looking at it, 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:50.920 and Pete Heggsath wasn't sec def nominee. And this woman 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.200 claims that the FBI did not interview her. It's possible 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:56.560 they got all the information they needed without interviewing, or 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:58.000 and thought she's a nut. 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:00.680 I have no idea. Right could be the eye of 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:02.520 the beholder. No, I have no idea. 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:05.359 I don't think he can be cynical enough about a 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:06.840 couple anonymous sources. 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:11.080 Please, This thing about bringing back duels, the idea of 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.879 dueling is really interesting. Among other things we got on 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:18.399 the way, so stay tuned, Armstrong. 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:22.440 And Getty, And finally, Duncan has partnered with a personal 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:26.320 care brand offer a new collection of deodorant, shampoo, conditioner, 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:29.960 and body wash in a Boston cream scent. And in 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:32.439 a related story, ben Affleck has. 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:36.600 Been eaten by ants. Wow. 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:40.879 So Pete Hegxath is on the hill being grilled should 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:43.160 he be second deaf or not? The senators are trying 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:48.879 to advise and confirm or not. And we'll have a 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:50.240 clip of that coming up in a little bit where 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:52.800 they get into women in combat, which is clearly one 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:55.600 of the knocks the Democrats are going with this segment, 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:58.600 Joe is going to talk about young people not drinking 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:00.760 as much and whether that's good, and I'm going to 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:02.880 talk about bringing back duels. 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:04.359 How did I get it here? 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:07.760 So I've been mentioning that I'm reading this book called 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:12.000 Paris and Ruins, about the year eighteen seventy to eighteen 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:14.640 seventy one in Paris. I got started on that by 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:17.479 when I was in Washington, d C. I went to 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:20.679 the National Art Museum, one of the great museum's art 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:23.639 museums in the world. It's among the Big Seven or 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:26.439 whatever they call them, and they had a display just 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:31.880 coincidentally of Paris eighteen seventy there going on, and because 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:33.960 it was December, instead of standing in a long line, 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:35.879 I just walked up and looked at everything, and it 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:40.560 was all about the Impressionists in eighteen seventy and the 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:42.919 role they played in politics in that what they call 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:45.360 that horrible year in France where they went to war 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:49.199 with Russia and then had violence in the streets and 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:51.560 Napoleon the Third was driven from the country and they 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:54.560 had a revolution and it was really really rough time, 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:55.480 lots of. 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:57.160 Deaths, et cetera, et cetera. 0:18:57.240 --> 0:19:01.080 But at one point in the book it mentions, I believe, 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:05.520 not Monette but Manet, the father Impressionism, having a duel 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:07.520 with some other dude, and the way they described the 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:10.600 duel and how they all ended up laughing about it 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:12.879 and drinking afterwards and everything like that. And I thought, 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:16.840 how weird that dueling ever was a thing ever? And 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:19.040 you know, I mean it killed Alexander Hamilton. I mean, 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:21.120 it's just so crazy that dueling ever became a thing. 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:24.800 Then I come across this in the New York Times 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:29.440 the other day. I've never read a book by Randall Collins. 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:32.880 He is a sociologist who, according to this New York 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:36.920 Times review, is brilliant and has written many, many fantastic 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:39.000 books that I have got to get into. And his 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:43.480 latest book is called Violence, among his master works of sociology, 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:46.199 Listen to this. It is a work of lucid and 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:49.919 compelling theory that attempts to clarify when and why moments 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:53.679 of tension erupt into actual violence, as in, what are 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:56.000 the conditions that caused the first punch to be thrown 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:58.880 at a bar fight instead of the conflict dissolving into 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:01.840 slurred threats? Or what causes two children to come to 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:04.440 blows in the playground instead of shuffling to opposite sides 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:11.040 of the sandbox. He covers domestic abuse, boxing matches, pillow fights, 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:15.840 prison violence, excessive police force, soccer, hooligan's crowd violence, mosh pits, 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:19.440 the Nine to eleven cockpit fight and more, which sounds 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:20.760 just fascinating. 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:22.360 That's wide ranging. 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:25.480 And then this which I want to at least read 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:30.360 this portion of the book, Collins, the author sincerely unconvincingly 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:36.360 suggests that drug gangs organize pistol duels instead of resorting 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:40.439 to chaotic drive by shootings and street fights. And I 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:43.320 read a little more about that, and yes, it was 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:47.760 a way that developed over time to deal with the whole. 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:52.160 You've insulted my manhood. I can't put up with this, 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:56.600 and found a way to like really narrow it down 0:20:57.200 --> 0:21:00.640 to very little violence or no violence at all, as 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:02.359 opposed to you got to drive by some houts and 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:04.280 spray off a bunch of shots or set it on 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:06.119 fire back in the day or whatever you would do, 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:08.760 and every things get completely out of hand. It was 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:11.000 a way to manage the whole. 0:21:11.240 --> 0:21:11.439 You know. 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:13.440 He gave me a hard lick look in this kind 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:15.040 stand situation. 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:18.959 So you had one hat Field and one McCoy square 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:20.800 of bite, and everybody considers it. 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:23.960 Done right, considers it over. It has been dealt with, 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:26.679 so that doesn't have to go on for weeks or 0:21:26.720 --> 0:21:31.119 months or years. Now another it's another Chesterton's fence. To me, 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:35.800 we didn't understand how this arose in society. It clearly 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:38.400 serves a purpose. I don't think there's any bringing it back. 0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:41.080 But how much better would that be if the bloods 0:21:41.080 --> 0:21:43.840 and the crips are the the whatever Ms thirteen or 0:21:43.880 --> 0:21:47.360 whoever the heck had some sort of system of dueling 0:21:47.560 --> 0:21:50.200 where you settled these sorts of beefs one on one. 0:21:50.960 --> 0:21:53.160 Maybe you shoot over their head, maybe a guy dies, 0:21:53.200 --> 0:21:55.560 but it's, like you said, over and done with. 0:21:56.960 --> 0:21:59.919 Fascinating, go back to selling drugs to school children. 0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:06.680 Fascinating culturally though that Yes, somehow a rose a pressure 0:22:06.800 --> 0:22:10.600