Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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Speaker 2: But when I see CNN all night longer trying to say, well,
Speaker 2: maybe it wasn't really as demolished as we thought, I
Speaker 2: think CNN or to apologize to the pilots of the
Speaker 2: v twos. I think that msdnco to apologize. I think
Speaker 2: these guys really, these networks are these cable networks are
Speaker 2: real losers? You really are? You're you're gut list news
Speaker 2: is I say that to CNN because I watch it.
Speaker 2: I have no choice. I gotta watch that garbage. It's
Speaker 2: all garbage. It's all fake news. But I think CNN
Speaker 2: is a gutless group of people and the people that
Speaker 2: run it nobody even knows. They's been sold so many times.
Speaker 2: But the people that run it out to be a shame.
Speaker 2: MSD is a guy named Brian Roberts.
Speaker 1: He heads it.
Speaker 2: He's a disgrace, he's a weak, pathetic discroll.
Speaker 3: In earlier he said CNN is scum, which is my
Speaker 3: favorite comment.
Speaker 1: That he made today. See that ritable bum.
Speaker 3: AnyWho, some reporting from some of these scumbags he doesn't like.
Speaker 3: Here's a little of the news around what's been going on.
Speaker 4: Questions remain about the fate of Iran's enriched uranium processed
Speaker 4: at Fourdoh after the Iranians claimed they moved it before
Speaker 4: the US attack. Satellite images from the day before the
Speaker 4: US strike show unusual activity a line of trucks seen
Speaker 4: on a service road. The International Atomic Energy Agency now
Speaker 4: warning nearly nine hundred pounds of iranium uranium enriched to
Speaker 4: sixty percent near weapons grade is unaccounted for.
Speaker 5: Ashola Ali Hammoni has not been seen for almost two
Speaker 5: weeks in public. Now speculation about ways hiding Israel in
Speaker 5: the US, as you know, say, they're not trying to
Speaker 5: change the regime there. They're raising questions where is he
Speaker 5: to nys and what would happen if you were killed
Speaker 5: in one of these attacks.
Speaker 3: So those are two pretty interesting ongoing threads of this
Speaker 3: whole story, the missing nine hundred pounds of enriched uranium
Speaker 3: and the missing Ayatola.
Speaker 6: Right, what I'm feeling is just as far underground as
Speaker 6: he can get. You think he's sitting on the uranium somewhere.
Speaker 6: That's possible, I suppose, but he's I think he's just
Speaker 6: in deep cover.
Speaker 3: What about so some journalists bad ones are using the
Speaker 3: whole The uranium was moved before the attack as a
Speaker 3: sea We didn't need to do that, or it was
Speaker 3: a bad idea, or it was.
Speaker 1: A failure or whatever.
Speaker 3: You had to be scum that that is scummy because
Speaker 3: those places needed to be destroyed, so that can't continue
Speaker 3: to enrich uranium obviously. But yeah, we ain't got to
Speaker 3: figure out where that is now, was it, Marco Rubio?
Speaker 3: Something might have been? Mark Rubio said, Israel's got to
Speaker 3: know where it is. I mean, they've got people on
Speaker 3: the ground. They they they're monitoring where trucks are going
Speaker 3: and all that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: So I don't know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I've been completely mystified today. If you're just tuning
Speaker 6: in by Trump's reaction to Israel continuing their attacks to
Speaker 6: the very last possible moment before the alleged cease fire.
Speaker 6: In fact, as long as we're discussing it, Michael, let's
Speaker 6: hit Sorry I scrolled past it, Uh, just hit forty
Speaker 6: one b.
Speaker 2: Have We basically have two countries that have been fighting
Speaker 2: so long and so hard that they don't know what
Speaker 2: the fuck they're doing. Do you understand that.
Speaker 6: I don't get how Trump doesn't understand. No, is It's real,
Speaker 6: has a mission to accomplish, and they haven't yet accomplished it.
Speaker 1: So they've got a little more to do.
Speaker 6: And imposing a ceasefire now because we've knocked out foordoh
Speaker 6: or whatever. It just they haven't finished the job. I
Speaker 6: just I think you mentioned earlier that Trump is just
Speaker 6: so much about doing business and making money and hey,
Speaker 6: let's all get along and your people can be prosperous.
Speaker 6: And why would you have him live like this when
Speaker 6: we are offering that he doesn't get Islamic fundamentalism and
Speaker 6: he doesn't get the need to finally end Islamic fundamentalism
Speaker 6: or at least its capacity to do harm and Iran
Speaker 6: by Israel.
Speaker 3: So they're referring to a ceasefire in all the headlines.
Speaker 3: I'm looking up at the cable news channel, So there
Speaker 3: is a ceasfire currently going on.
Speaker 6: I wonder if that's just till BB can get Trump
Speaker 6: on the phone and explain himself.
Speaker 3: Now, you had the report earlier from somewhere that Trump
Speaker 3: actually told BB he turned some planes around that we're
Speaker 3: headed to do more bombing.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: There was the phase in of the ceasefire, and allegedly
Speaker 6: BB had some heavy stuff heading toward Iran and Trump
Speaker 6: said no, no, no, turn those planes around, which I
Speaker 6: just I am completely mystified by.
Speaker 3: Uh, well, it depends what. It depends on where Iran is.
Speaker 3: Maybe they're they're in full surrender mode. I mean they
Speaker 3: get they've I don't see how they've got any choice.
Speaker 1: What is your choice.
Speaker 3: You're completely defenseless, you have no air defense, you've got
Speaker 3: no air force, you've got you've got nothing.
Speaker 6: Well, I I returned to the singum that Iran's posturing
Speaker 6: can't be believed, it can't be trusted. So they are
Speaker 6: in surrender mode. You've disarmed your neighbor, your your murderous neighbor,
Speaker 6: from his machine gun and his shotgun. And he say, look,
Speaker 6: I don't want to fight anymore. I don't want to
Speaker 6: fight anymore. Just let me hold on to my buck knife.
Speaker 6: And you're saying no, no, I'm going to blast that
Speaker 6: buckknife out of your hand. I don't trust you for
Speaker 6: a minute. That's where Israel is, So no, I don't
Speaker 6: trust them being in.
Speaker 3: You're in Neo khon you and John Boltman, Lindsey Graham
Speaker 3: should just go fight every nation on earth.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, we had a meeting last night and drank
Speaker 6: the blood of the innocence.
Speaker 1: It was great. So I want to make that point.
Speaker 6: I have two other straight points I've been wanting to
Speaker 6: make then into some really great analysis. Number One, everybody's
Speaker 6: talking about the B two's and the thirty seven hour
Speaker 6: round trip and the rest of it, and it was
Speaker 6: masterful and fantastic. But I must stand up for the
Speaker 6: force that was, as they say, unseen and unseen America's
Speaker 6: Submarine Service, which unleashed Holy Hell from under the ocean,
Speaker 6: and they are wherever they need to be, lurking unseen
Speaker 6: around the world. And by God, you should sleep better
Speaker 6: at night knowing the submarine services doing what they're doing.
Speaker 6: Second thing, once in a while, you have a soft head,
Speaker 6: say you can't bomb an idea, you can't kill an idea.
Speaker 6: And I heard the point made, and I can't remember
Speaker 6: who said it exactly, but the idea that has animated
Speaker 6: the Mullahs in Iran and the Revolutionary Garden everybody else
Speaker 6: to a large extent, is the idea that the righteous
Speaker 6: victory of Islam over the Jews and the evil doers
Speaker 6: is within reach, and we are going to clean the
Speaker 6: earth of the scourge of the Jews from Israel. That's
Speaker 6: step number one, and then our righteous Islamic revolution will
Speaker 6: take over the whole world.
Speaker 1: But there have been other movements.
Speaker 6: Like that that have been bombed out of existence or ended.
Speaker 6: The commentator I'm thinking about cited the Pan Arab movement
Speaker 6: of the middle part of the twentieth century, mostly the
Speaker 6: second half. Naser was the great look him up, was
Speaker 6: the great leader of that. But when they all ganged
Speaker 6: up on Israel in the sixties and seventies and got
Speaker 6: their asses whooped, all those touch and go there for
Speaker 6: a while, that just went away.
Speaker 1: And one of the most important things mankind.
Speaker 6: Could do is nip that whole radical Islam is going
Speaker 6: to take over the globe idea. Nip that in the
Speaker 6: bud and put some round up on it. Anyway, and
Speaker 6: wanting to say that finally got it out. These people
Speaker 6: have know what does Trump say there? They know they
Speaker 6: don't know what the f they're doing.
Speaker 2: They don't know what the they're doing.
Speaker 6: See, I think they know precisely what the f they're doing.
Speaker 6: Elliott Kaufman wrote a piece recently, Benjamin Nett and Yahoo
Speaker 6: versus Kasim Solamani. You may recall from the headlines and
Speaker 6: Trump's first term. Yeah it's got blue eyes. One blew
Speaker 6: over there, the other one blew over there, as the
Speaker 6: old wow, terrible tasteless joke goes. But just before he
Speaker 6: got snuffed a video made by one of his fellow
Speaker 6: commanders talking about his life's work, and Solomoni said, I
Speaker 6: have assembled for you six armies outside Iran, and I
Speaker 6: have created a corridor fifteen hundred kilometers long and one
Speaker 6: thousand kilometers wide, all the way to the shores of
Speaker 6: the Mediterranean. Any enemy that decides to fight against the
Speaker 6: Islamic Revolution and against the sacred regime of the Islamic
Speaker 6: Republic of Iran noticed those were two different things. The
Speaker 6: Islamic Revolution blah blah blah, will have to go through
Speaker 6: these six armies. It won't be able to do so.
Speaker 6: Yet Israel did, Rather than nip around the edges of
Speaker 6: solomoni strategy, Jerusalem has fought Tehran on its own terms.
Speaker 6: Of Solomoni's six armies, only the Huthis and Iraq's popular
Speaker 6: mobilization units have escaped. After the October seventh massacre, Israel
Speaker 6: fought through Hamas Islamic Jihad Hesbalah, wiping out their leadership
Speaker 6: and slicing up their mislarsenals, leaving the Asad regime and
Speaker 6: Sereal to crumble without support. Oh me, I want to
Speaker 6: get to the fact that Russia, which has sworn allegiance
Speaker 6: with Iran, is like, hey, yeah, yeah, I got to
Speaker 6: take a call, Well, I'll call you back, and is
Speaker 6: nowhere to be found. And suddenly Iran didn't look so menacing.
Speaker 6: Israel could focus on the state and nuclear programs, seeking
Speaker 6: its destruction without worrying about thousands of rockets a day
Speaker 6: from Iran's proxies. Then President Trump could enter to remove
Speaker 6: all doubt. And that's where we are. Let them finish,
Speaker 6: for the love of humanity, let them finish warmonger.
Speaker 1: Oh in some cases, yes.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And then I am a hardcore preserve the peace
Speaker 6: through strength so that everybody can live and prosper and
Speaker 6: raise their children in peace.
Speaker 3: You're one of those people Tucker Carlson was warning me about.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Tucker Carlson who said that if we attack Iran,
Speaker 6: I want to make sure, I get this right, and
Speaker 6: Iran has power allies. The first week of war, and
Speaker 6: Iran could easily kill thousands of Americans.
Speaker 1: It could collapse our economy.
Speaker 6: As oil prices surge to unmanageable inflation and trigger unmanageable inflation.
Speaker 1: Iran has powerful allies, said Tucker.
Speaker 6: It's now part of a global block called Bricks, which
Speaker 6: represents the majority of the world's land mass, population, economy,
Speaker 6: and military power. Iran has extensive military ties with Russia.
Speaker 6: It sells the overwhelming majority of its oil experts to China.
Speaker 6: Iran isn't alone. An attack on Iran could easily become
Speaker 6: a world war. We'd lose.
Speaker 3: Interesting, So if that were true, he thinks surrendering to
Speaker 3: it preemptively would mean that we didn't lose.
Speaker 1: It. Seems like that that would be announcing we've lost.
Speaker 6: I have no idea, or is it just all these
Speaker 6: guys despised Jews. I mean, because is Tucker's favorite fake
Speaker 6: historian Darryl Cooper put it, we should commence air strikes
Speaker 6: on Tel Aviv immediately. Wow Wow, he said that, And
Speaker 6: then he said, unlike Iran, Israel's primary strategic goals involved
Speaker 6: getting American servicemen killed.
Speaker 3: Wow, So was Tucker okay with h Iran getting a nuke?
Speaker 3: Kind of a why do we get to have them
Speaker 3: if they don't kind of got.
Speaker 6: He is big on moral equivalency these days.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I don't recall him saying anything specifically about that.
Speaker 1: He may have. Man, that's nuts. So, oh, what's that
Speaker 1: thing you leaders kill people? Right, Tucker? What's that thing
Speaker 1: you got coming up later that I'm so excited about?
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh. Yeah, it is so interesting. A gigantic
Speaker 6: new study. It's over sixty thousand respondents of mental health
Speaker 6: broken down in all sorts of different ways, age, income, education,
Speaker 6: sexual orientation, and political stances. And one side of the
Speaker 6: aisle is way more miserable than the other. Analysis on
Speaker 6: why that is so interest we'll have that for you
Speaker 6: at the bottom of the hour or in a little
Speaker 6: bit if you're listening to the podcast in the future.
Speaker 3: I just came across an interesting thing, Chuck Todd said
Speaker 3: to Jake Tapper about the Biden family. That's still a story,
Speaker 3: I guess somewhere, but it's interesting. Among other things we
Speaker 3: got on the waistair here.
Speaker 6: Strong.
Speaker 2: Yet the only thing I do is I exercise faithfully.
Speaker 6: I don't eat red meat.
Speaker 1: I like the plank. It's fun.
Speaker 7: Everybody should just.
Speaker 8: Held the plank.
Speaker 6: I'm a lot younger than her. Red I chant you
Speaker 6: that be kind, be happy, be fearless.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a hundred year old woman can hold a five
Speaker 3: minute plank. Osteoporosis, your bones lock up. It's not hard,
Speaker 3: it's not what that is.
Speaker 1: You're fool. I was gonna go with you. You're going
Speaker 1: to be light. She's really light. You're stiff as a board.
Speaker 1: I've seen old people.
Speaker 6: That's a stupid thing to say. I'm just avow what
Speaker 6: he just said.
Speaker 1: I just avow. I think that's the advantage. She's got
Speaker 1: one hundred.
Speaker 6: Year old lady doing a five minute plank. Well, you
Speaker 6: already say, though, people who get really really old, you
Speaker 6: go one up two directions. You get here a fat
Speaker 6: old person, or you're a super skinny old person. I'm
Speaker 6: guessing she's one of the super skinny old people.
Speaker 1: See only two choices. Yeah, it's unfortunate.
Speaker 6: Speaking of the flower of American womanhood, this clip is
Speaker 6: something else. Mom is in bed, flipping through her phone,
Speaker 6: doing something on her phone. Her son is talking to
Speaker 6: her and recording it all on his phone.
Speaker 1: Listen to this not getting no job.
Speaker 7: If you go get a job, they're gonna take my
Speaker 7: section eight. Then you won't be able to get no
Speaker 7: Section eight. You're not going to get no job. They're
Speaker 7: gonna couch your income against my Section eight in my
Speaker 7: link car. You're not working, no, So I don't care
Speaker 7: what you gotta say. I don't care how you feel.
Speaker 7: You're not working, You're not going to get a job,
Speaker 7: You're not going to school, you're not doing.
Speaker 8: But man, I'm saying how I'm suposed to be successful
Speaker 8: in life, mam. So you're basically telling me, I gotta
Speaker 8: I gotta be broke to be successful. I gotta be
Speaker 8: broke so I can get Section eight.
Speaker 7: You gotta be government can help you.
Speaker 8: So the government can help me. So you're telling me
Speaker 8: I can't work on the job, bro Like that's like
Speaker 8: all my friends got jobs and live in nice houses.
Speaker 8: So you're telling me I got to I got to
Speaker 8: go through the same.
Speaker 1: Thing you went through.
Speaker 7: If you have a house, any of that, they're going
Speaker 7: to take.
Speaker 6: My section eight.
Speaker 7: What they be like, get yours even get up.
Speaker 8: They will know they will look at that and be
Speaker 8: like he's doing something, and give me a bigger house.
Speaker 1: Mam, that's what you told me.
Speaker 7: Where I'm gonna go.
Speaker 1: I don't have the job.
Speaker 8: I can get off your Section eight and apply for
Speaker 8: my own Section eight.
Speaker 7: Okay, but if you do that, you're gonna have to
Speaker 7: go the hard way. It's gonna take a long.
Speaker 1: So what that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: Get on section eight, find you a nice apartment, go,
Speaker 7: get you a link car. You will be fine. You
Speaker 7: don't have to sit up and work. You don't have
Speaker 7: to work no job or the government is here to
Speaker 7: help us.
Speaker 6: I'd be played for every high school kid in America
Speaker 6: that exchange. And lest anybody think for a second that
Speaker 6: since these are black folks, this is about race.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's a horror. He's a hero standing up to
Speaker 1: his mom like that.
Speaker 6: If I had a job to offer that young man, hell,
Speaker 6: I'd put him on management track and offer him a
Speaker 6: stake of ownership.
Speaker 1: To have the courage to call her out like that.
Speaker 1: I said, no, I don't want to live like that.
Speaker 1: We have created a culture dependency.
Speaker 3: And then you've got that whole welfare cliff situation where
Speaker 3: sometimes if you tried to get out of your situation.
Speaker 3: It would do you more harm than good, at least
Speaker 3: for quite a while. Right, it's obscene.
Speaker 1: It is obscene.
Speaker 6: There have been brilliant, brave black activists who've talked about
Speaker 6: your slaving away on the government's plantation.
Speaker 1: Stop it become independent. Yeah, that's terrible. That was a
Speaker 1: disappointing thing to hear right there from that woman.
Speaker 6: You know what, I thought it was life affirming. I
Speaker 6: thought that the kids attitude is fantastic. He's got great
Speaker 6: mental health. You know who doesn't. Bisexual progressives, the happiest
Speaker 6: and most miserable people in America? Coming up, Negs, Armstrong
Speaker 6: and Getty.
Speaker 1: A couple of quick.
Speaker 3: Headlines before Joe tells us how crazy we all are
Speaker 3: based on a new study. And maybe we'll expand or
Speaker 3: expound either on these stories. Here in a little bit,
Speaker 3: Trump responding to democratic threats to impeach him, tweet it out,
Speaker 3: go ahead, make my day. Ice has just nabbed eleven
Speaker 3: uranium migrants, including suspected terrorists, as border patrol warns of
Speaker 3: possible sleeper cells.
Speaker 1: That's a big story. Where did we grab them? Do
Speaker 1: we know? Well, we'll stay tuned for details. By Golly
Speaker 1: doesn't say yeah, we'll get to that later.
Speaker 3: Trump has been officially nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
Speaker 3: over the Israel Iran ceasefire. And the Trump was just
Speaker 3: asked this on the plane he's on the way to
Speaker 3: the NATO summit right now, about the fact that Putin
Speaker 3: has volunteered to help with the Israel Iran conflict. He said,
Speaker 3: I don't need help with Iran. I need help with
Speaker 3: you about Putin.
Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, I like it.
Speaker 6: We learned not long ago how easy it is to
Speaker 6: nominate somebody for the Nobel Peace Price. I'm going to
Speaker 6: nominate my dog Baxter. Neemed to be more aggressive toward
Speaker 6: other dogs, and he's less aggressive now.
Speaker 3: I don't know why this isn't reported more often. Yet,
Speaker 3: anybody practically can nominate you from the Nobel Peace Prize.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 6: Really, we're still waiting for our nomination. By the way, folks, hello, anyway,
Speaker 6: we'll cover the cost. Do you do the paper. We'll
Speaker 6: pay the fe So this is so interesting. I came
Speaker 6: across this the other day. A couple of scientists writers
Speaker 6: commentaries who ran into each other after the one published
Speaker 6: a piece on why young men have turned against the
Speaker 6: Democratic Party, and this other guy, this other researcher said, hey,
Speaker 6: you know, I've actually been doing studies in that area.
Speaker 6: Let's get together and talk about it and compare notes.
Speaker 1: And they came.
Speaker 6: They've come out with a really, really interesting report. Young
Speaker 6: people in general report fairly miserable mental health, with high
Speaker 6: rates of anxiety and depression. But this is particularly true
Speaker 6: for young women. And they make the point that assumptions
Speaker 6: democrats make about how to attract younger voters may not
Speaker 6: appeal to men for various reasons.
Speaker 1: But they point out that this.
Speaker 6: That it the one report they looked at very the
Speaker 6: most interesting finding, which is that conservatives have much higher
Speaker 6: self reported mental health than liberals.
Speaker 1: Is this surprising to anyone?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 6: No, The really interesting part is still to come self
Speaker 6: reporting grain assault, but just a grain, not a shaker.
Speaker 1: Why. I don't know on self reporting on your mental health.
Speaker 6: It could be that in certain communities it is taboo
Speaker 6: to be honest about.
Speaker 1: Your mental health. I think it's more likely the other.
Speaker 3: Direction, but yeah, I'm just trying to be fair that
Speaker 3: in more communities it's the greatest prize of all to
Speaker 3: explain how I have anxiety and depression and OCD and
Speaker 3: all these other things.
Speaker 6: I agree with you completely, and I'm glad you pointed
Speaker 6: that out.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 6: It's a wide gap too between conservatives and liberals, according
Speaker 6: to this giant study with sixty thousand respondents that provides
Speaker 6: the opportunity for highly detailed democratic demographic analysis.
Speaker 1: Among people who report excellent.
Speaker 6: Mental health, conservatives outnumber liberals fifty one to twenty as
Speaker 6: a ratio, but liberals outnumber conservatives for twenty five to
Speaker 6: nineteen among those voters who say they have poor mental health.
Speaker 6: This isn't the least bit surprising to me. What's interesting?
Speaker 6: And they assigned points, so one hundred points scale zero
Speaker 6: is poor mental health, twenty five is fair, fifty is good,
Speaker 6: seventy five is very good, one hundred is excellent.
Speaker 3: I think, I go, what would you say for yourself?
Speaker 3: I'm going I would say very good. Oh, there's quite
Speaker 3: disagree with me, you who know me, But I feel
Speaker 3: like I'm very good.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Can we have a round of rating where we
Speaker 1: rate each other too?
Speaker 3: I have in a town full of people who are crazy,
Speaker 3: so it helps me stand out.
Speaker 1: I feel like, are you graded on a curve? In
Speaker 1: this I don't know.
Speaker 6: So here's the first thing that popped into my mind
Speaker 6: is and part of the reason I leapt to this
Speaker 6: thought was because we came across an absolutely fantastic quote
Speaker 6: which I've misplaced, damn it, that women more than men,
Speaker 6: not all women, but women in general, and like effeminate men,
Speaker 6: filter information through a process not of is this true?
Speaker 6: But will believing this gain me social currency and acceptance?
Speaker 6: Will the group accept me for adopting this attitude? And
Speaker 6: so the first thing I thought was, Okay, maybe people
Speaker 6: of an unhappy or mentally fragile bent need more support,
Speaker 6: and so they tend toward liberalism. Well, it's funny I
Speaker 6: had that thought, and the guys immediately got to the question.
Speaker 6: They said, could this reflect a spurious correlation? In other words,
Speaker 6: that voters with characteristics associated with lower happiness tend to
Speaker 6: be attracted to liberalism, but that political attitudes themselves don't
Speaker 6: tell you much on their own.
Speaker 1: In short, no, they're right, or at least probably not.
Speaker 6: The difference between liberals and conservatives is remarkably persistent, even
Speaker 6: once you control for those factors.
Speaker 1: Then, they explain, going to.
Speaker 6: Give you a long chart with those point values that
Speaker 6: I talked about. The average American self reports at sixty
Speaker 6: on the scale, somewhere between good and.
Speaker 1: Very good mental health. But that's roughly where I would be.
Speaker 6: But liberals report an average score of fifty three and
Speaker 6: conservatives sixty eight. Moderates not shockingly right in the middle
Speaker 6: at fifty eight, anyway, they take advantage of that's a
Speaker 6: moderate for you, always moderating anyway, take advantage of the
Speaker 6: large sample size in this CEES study. Let's see how
Speaker 6: this difference holds up against a wide array of demographic
Speaker 6: and political characteristics. Let's see gender men tend to be
Speaker 6: conservative men at a sixty nine giggity liberal men of
Speaker 6: fifty six. Conservative women up there at sixty six liberal
Speaker 6: women way down at fifty one.
Speaker 1: Average mental health score.
Speaker 3: White folks, that's I realize what you just said about
Speaker 3: all these things. But man, because I'm surrounded by this world,
Speaker 3: you would really stand out as like you might be
Speaker 3: kicked out of the herd if you were to say,
Speaker 3: you know, I think I'm perfectly fine.
Speaker 6: Yeah, whereas I live in a world of hey, we're
Speaker 6: all here for you. Have a drink, you'll be fine,
Speaker 6: and most people are. Let's see black in his or
Speaker 6: I'm sorry. White, Black, and Hispanic and Asian conservatives are
Speaker 6: virtually tied at sixty eight sixty eight sixty five sixty five.
Speaker 6: Liberal white, Black, Hispanic and Asians is fifty two sixty
Speaker 6: fifty one fifty one, like a fairly consistent fourteen point gap.
Speaker 6: Young people age gen z that's ninety seven or later,
Speaker 6: it's fifty six to forty gen Zers. Liberal gen zers
Speaker 6: are among the most miserable people in America. The older
Speaker 6: you get, the highers, the scores get on both ends
Speaker 6: of the scale, and we could get into education that
Speaker 6: sort of gen zers report the most.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's tough to break all this stuff down. And
Speaker 3: I realized they tried to control for all these things.
Speaker 3: But I can't imagine being a twenty year old in
Speaker 3: a lot of your blue cities and telling your parents nothing,
Speaker 3: I'm fine. You wouldn't want to disappoint your parents like
Speaker 3: that by telling them you don't have anxiety or depression
Speaker 3: or any of those things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, your parents are horrified.
Speaker 6: I know several young people, some of whom I may
Speaker 6: be genetically related to, who are seem to be very bright,
Speaker 6: very well adjusted, happy with their lives, but have some
Speaker 6: of these modern emotional problems. And it makes me really curious,
Speaker 6: as we've discussed many times through the years, what environmental
Speaker 6: causes are going on? Is that the never ending barrage
Speaker 6: of inputs, that's my greatest suspicion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, we're never quiet, we're never alone, we're
Speaker 1: never bored.
Speaker 3: You're right in presenting this information, we're kind of or
Speaker 3: I was kind of presenting it like this is all
Speaker 3: somewhat imagined. But we have talked a lot about it,
Speaker 3: and I know, I got one kid who has for
Speaker 3: real anxiety depression OCD, all that sort of stuff, and
Speaker 3: it's been struggling with it his whole life and on medication,
Speaker 3: and I've seen a gazillion psychiatrist and doctors and blah
Speaker 3: blah blah. So yeah, there's something going on that is
Speaker 3: causing problems, right, Yeah, So separating out that the real
Speaker 3: from the just culturally, you live in a town where
Speaker 3: everybody's supposed to have some of this stuff because life
Speaker 3: is so.
Speaker 6: Hard and the world is so bad if you're keeping
Speaker 6: track at home. Just for the record, Jack came to judge,
Speaker 6: Joe came to.
Speaker 1: Understand damn right, I came to judge.
Speaker 6: And then brag about it. So let's be fair. I
Speaker 6: bragged about it anyway. Uh So this is as I.
Speaker 6: As I mentioned last segment, the most miserable pastards in
Speaker 6: America appear to be progressive bisexuals. If you are bisexual
Speaker 6: or other, and apparently there are some conservatives there at
Speaker 6: a fifty nine, which ain't great. But if you're a
Speaker 6: progressive bisexual you're at you selfrate yourself at thirty five,
Speaker 6: for which I mean, like, by far the most miserable
Speaker 6: people in America. I heard one prominent lesbian writer. I
Speaker 6: read her right, Well, what do you want? These people
Speaker 6: want everything from the world, both sexes. You know, everything
Speaker 6: goes with a How can the world not disappoint them?
Speaker 1: Hm?
Speaker 3: I feel like I know a lot of baristas that
Speaker 3: meet that description, and they look unhappy. I don't know
Speaker 3: that that's our facial expression anyway.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and their voice Uncle fry vies. Interestingly, people who
Speaker 6: have high interest in news and politics on both sides
Speaker 6: of the aisle tend to be more happy with their
Speaker 6: mental health. Really yeah, I'm somewhat surprised by that, because
Speaker 6: it's enough to make you insane. Trust me, I do
Speaker 6: it for a living huh, and it declines low news
Speaker 6: and political interest significantly lower on both sides.
Speaker 1: Wow hmm.
Speaker 3: So they just take in the information about the world
Speaker 3: just kind of the way they hear it from people
Speaker 3: and get despondent over it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, having more income does seem to make you more
Speaker 6: positive about your mental health. That could be the other
Speaker 6: coronation correlation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, reverse, Yeah, you're much more likely to make more
Speaker 3: money if you're mentally Okay.
Speaker 6: No meaningful difference in mental health between Catholics, Protestants, and
Speaker 6: adherents of other organized religions. The differences between liberalists and
Speaker 6: conservatives persist there, but religious adherence does soften them somewhat.
Speaker 3: I'm glad to see there's not a big breakdown between
Speaker 3: Protestants and Catholics.
Speaker 6: Married people and people and well, I know you want
Speaker 6: to start another Holy Warrior A big fan of Joan
Speaker 6: of Arc. But married people and people in domestic partnerships
Speaker 6: are happier than those who are separated, widow, divorced, or
Speaker 6: who have never been married.
Speaker 3: That has been true for as long as we've been
Speaker 3: doing radio and reading these studies that married people tend
Speaker 3: to report being happier more than single people, which is
Speaker 3: interesting given that so much of the single world looks
Speaker 3: at married people is like, I'm glad I'm not in
Speaker 3: that prison, when statistically that is not born out at all.
Speaker 1: Oh, not at all.
Speaker 6: It's interesting they phrased it as happier when it's self
Speaker 6: reported mental health. I'm not sure those are synonyms, but.
Speaker 1: I guess they're close. I make they're pretty close.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, those are the main takeaways. Why are young
Speaker 6: liberals so depressed? Matt iglas about.
Speaker 1: You'd be depressed to what part of it? The weird
Speaker 1: hair color and the thing through their nose, couple old
Speaker 1: white men.
Speaker 6: I can't stand it, And he points out, Jack, you'll
Speaker 6: be gratified by this that there may be a.
Speaker 1: Performative aspect to this.
Speaker 6: Yes, liberals may express negative sentiment as a sign of
Speaker 6: solidarity with the movement that thinks there is profound and
Speaker 6: justice in the world. How can I act happy with
Speaker 6: all this injustice?
Speaker 1: You shouldn't. Everybody will judge me.
Speaker 3: You think you could walk into your hipster coffee shop
Speaker 3: where you're a barista and there's like nine other employees
Speaker 3: and be a everything's fine. You know, life is what
Speaker 3: life is. I just I roll with the punches. You
Speaker 3: think you could be that person?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, good days, bad days.
Speaker 6: What are you gonna do. Let's make some coffee, right,
Speaker 6: you're gonna be drummed out. Let's just see what Trump did.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, it is so clearly a fascist dictatorship.
Speaker 1: Right to live. I've considered moving to Belgium. I couldn't
Speaker 1: find a parking spot because of the patriarchy.
Speaker 3: We got more on the way, all those new stories
Speaker 3: I mentioned among aple things on the ways to hear.
Speaker 10: Tonic Driving is announced it will offer a pickle rita
Speaker 10: slush made with a pickle juice flavored boba after asking
Speaker 10: themselves what is the absolute worst thing you could.
Speaker 1: Spill in your car?
Speaker 3: No kidding, so you asked the question, I brought you
Speaker 3: the headline. Ice grabs eleven Iranian migrants, including suspected terracets
Speaker 3: as border patrol warns of possible sleeper cells. So this
Speaker 3: happened over the weekend in eight states. So I don't know, Like,
Speaker 3: if they had their eyes on a bunch of people
Speaker 3: and decided with the bombings, now is the time to
Speaker 3: make sure these guys are rounded up, That's probably what happened.
Speaker 1: Could see it yeah, but lots of different places. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's probably it.
Speaker 3: I mean, they got the names of all these people,
Speaker 3: and you know, they're going through them one by one
Speaker 3: however you get to them. But somebody probably decided now
Speaker 3: might be a good time to grab any of the
Speaker 3: illegal Iranians, since we're gonna grab them at some point anyway.
Speaker 6: Especially if I don't know if they have a point
Speaker 6: scale or can auto a sort them or whatever by
Speaker 6: you know, crimes committed or final order of deportation in
Speaker 6: place or whatever. But they thought, yeah, who can we heave?
Speaker 6: How about these guys?
Speaker 3: Under the Biden administration, more than seven hundred Iranian migrants
Speaker 3: who crossed the border illegally were released into the United States,
Speaker 3: according to border records.
Speaker 1: So yeah, beautiful, that's a.
Speaker 3: Small number compared to the overall, but yeah, so who
Speaker 3: knows what those people are up to? Speaking of Joe Biden,
Speaker 3: Chuck Todd still talking to Jack Jake Tapper. Chuck Toddy
Speaker 3: used to be on Meet the Press. Jake Tappero wrote
Speaker 3: the book about Joe Biden. Nobody cares about that story anymore.
Speaker 3: It's gone and it's for historians to discuss now. But
Speaker 3: I thought this was kind of interesting. And they were
Speaker 3: having a conversation Todd and Tapper about the Biden family lore.
Speaker 9: Look, I mean, you know, you and I covered, you know,
Speaker 9: for most of our professional lives. The story of Joe
Speaker 9: Biden was this guy cared about his family so much
Speaker 9: he commuted home every night from Washington. Now here's by
Speaker 9: the way, here's the by the way. You know what
Speaker 9: else you could say? Is this man so ambitious? Right
Speaker 9: after his uh family went through that tragedy, he commuted
Speaker 9: every day to work right right, Like it's the same story.
Speaker 1: His sister help read. I don't I sit here.
Speaker 9: I look at this and the and and and I
Speaker 9: think where we sold a forty year bill of goods?
Speaker 1: Yes, but how about that?
Speaker 3: Finally getting to that conclusion, Chuck Todd and Jake Tapper,
Speaker 3: where we sold a forty year boat bill of goods?
Speaker 3: On the whole my word as a Biden or my
Speaker 3: family's the most important thing to me. Uh, you spent
Speaker 3: many hours on the train every day. Well, your sister
Speaker 3: raised your kids so you could claim you're a working
Speaker 3: man because that was part of your whole shtick. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you didn't have to do that. Yeah, Biden's just a phony.
Speaker 3: He was always a phony. Well I don't think people
Speaker 3: knew that. I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: No, No, it's become more and more clear.
Speaker 6: Uh. Speaking of presidents of the United States, Donald J.
Speaker 6: Trump is the current one. What the former ambassador of
Speaker 6: Israel said about Trump is notable. We'll have that for
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