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Cyber truck had pulled up 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:05.280 on the street and there was a tremendous amount of 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:07.360 booing going on, and I just thought that was interesting 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:09.920 that that is like seen as an I was going 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:11.920 to say a vehicle, but it's actually a vehicle, so 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:14.240 using it as a here's. 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:22.560 The sound doing a cyber truck pulling troup. Oh, the 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:24.240 music play Saints in the background. 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:30.920 Any women are showing their boobs for needs yet it's 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:34.160 still time to do the leader of doge because you 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:35.920 hate cutbacks and spending. 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:37.680 I just don't get it. 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:43.600 Wasteful spending, idiotic spending, that's just tribal signaling. 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:45.160 Ouga boga. 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:51.120 Okay, yeah, speaking of that sort of thing. Oh Michael, 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:55.240 are you giving up playing chest for lint? I am, yes, 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:59.640 no more shadless. So one of the themes that the 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:03.600 President struck in his speech last night was getting rid 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.520 of a bunch of woke crap and transgender this and that, 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:09.480 which I thought was terrific. And we'll play some highlights 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:11.639 in I don't know, twenty minutes, half an hour or 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:14.720 something like that, but I thought a couple of things 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:18.800 were very interesting, one more newsy and one more philosophical. 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:23.280 But first of all, the newsy thing. For the last decade, 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:29.440 the establishment media have touted advocates claims as fact that 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:33.519 we have roughly fifteen thousand transgender people serving in the 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:36.440 US military. If you're not familiar with the term, it 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:38.760 means a person of one sex pretending to be the 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:42.560 other sex. Wow, and over and over again, I've heard 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:45.160 the fifteen thousand numbers and thought, damn, that's a lot. 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:49.000 I know, believe, Yeah, I was. I didn't either, but 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:50.839 I had no idea what to think. But this week 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:55.239 President Donald Trump's Pentagon revealed that the number is about 0:02:55.280 --> 0:03:00.280 forty two hundred service members, which is still a hell 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:03.400 of a lot, but it's just over one quarter of 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:06.560 what they were claiming. This adds up to one transgender 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:10.480 person for every five hundred service members in a military 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:12.720 of two point one million active in reserve members. I 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:15.560 am surprised that it is that many, and I'd be 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:22.640 curious as to what is going on psychosocially that would. 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:29.600 That would cause that. I mean, you talk about ridiculous tribalism. 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:32.880 I came across Bill Crystal's tweet last night. Most of 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:35.280 you don't know who he is. He used to be 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:39.600 one of my favorite pundits. He is a hardcore conservative, 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:43.040 like in the classic style. His dad, Irving Crystal founded 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:46.520 I think the Weekly Standard, one of the great writers 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:50.240 of conservatism, and Bill Crystal carried that on and then 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:51.400 Bill Crystal hated. 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.160 It, called Barry Goldwater a moderate. 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:56.000 Bill Crystal who used to be on you know, like 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.000 meet the Press and face a nation and arguing for 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:01.160 conservatives all these years. He hated Trump so much he 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:04.360 went over with the people that formed the Bulwark, and 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:07.160 they have become a grift machine. And they've just figured 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:10.280 out that if they say bad things about Republicans that 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:11.920 they can make a lot of money. And this is 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:16.600 what Bill Crystal tweeted out last night. Stand with trans Americans. 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:19.920 You don't have to understand everything about the transgender experience 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:23.520 to know that Trump's act of humiliation and dehumanization are 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:24.799 unjust and dangerous. 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:26.720 You've lost your mind. 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:30.640 Just because he hasn't lost his mind, he's become so cynical. 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:33.599 He just thinks, you know what, it's all a game. Anyway, 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:34.320 screw it. 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:36.400 There are enough of these people out there if I 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:40.320 take this angle, they'll continue to you know, donate money 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:42.200 to us and read our stuff and give us clicks, 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:43.719 and I'll make a look whatever. 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:46.880 Yeah, give them the converts. Everybody wants to celebrate the converts. 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:49.680 Yeah yeah, yeah, Wow. That is some cynical crad. 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:52.680 So, speaking of which, those of us who aren't cynical 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:57.520 have looked at the world around us, and and I 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:00.440 think a lot of you probably understand that the hardcore 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:04.320 activists in the woke thing are neo Marxists, and the 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:07.479 woke thing is just an excuse to say, you're in 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:10.320 charge of this institution, but you're a racist, and I 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:13.720 can prove it with my anti racist theories, and obviously 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:15.760 we can't have a racist in charge, so now I'm 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:19.080 in charge. It's a method of conquest. It takes over institutions, 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:21.599 be they you know, schools or government departments or whatever. 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:25.960 We get the hardcore doing that, the people who want 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.880 to be nice people and they go along with it. 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:34.560 This is the useful idiots, and they are legion in 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:37.560 their numbers, and often it's young people because young people 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:39.760 are easy to indoctrinate. 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:43.719 The problem with that term is that Lenin's term, I 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:44.160 think it is. 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:49.760 Yeah, John Lennon, no v I Lenin. The problem with 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:52.000 that term is that it's obviously quite insulting. It's not 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:54.679 a good way to explain to someone that they maybe 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:57.440 are being used for a purpose that they do not 0:05:57.520 --> 0:05:57.919 agree with. 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:00.520 If you call them an idiot, right, you make a 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:00.880 good point. 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:05.400 Let's go with useful morons instead useful halfways. Now, it's 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:08.560 actually one of the better impulses in humankind, which is 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:16.680 what I'm leading toward. It's long been known that all 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:20.800 the intelligence agencies and governments of the world are interested 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:25.800 in influencing people to believe certain things to support certain 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:29.400 programs or certain governments. I mean that's obvious, right, Propaganda, 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:32.520 the Hitler Youth to the malt Se tongue and his 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:36.000 Red Guard, just all sorts of programs like that. And 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:38.960 a guy who's been studying this his whole life, his 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:44.479 name is a Jason Christoff, and he did a presentation 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:47.599 recently that was hosted by Senator Ron Johnson speaking of 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:53.479 rock ribbed Conservatives, and he explained how mind control is 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:57.599 easy to execute because human beings are essentially walking psyops. 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:01.919 He said, he quote, he said, Mimetic programming, which is 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:05.640 the process of having someone learned to imitate patterns and behaviors, 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:09.600 is routinely used in Hollywood films and by powerful corporations 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:10.200 and governments. 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:11.000 Quote. 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:14.400 Mind control works on the subconscious, and the subconscious is 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:15.960 something that loves us and wants. 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:16.960 To protect us. 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:19.400 And it's in the realm of activity, similar to your 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:21.920 heart beating. So there are things you understand as a 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:24.080 human being that you're not in control of. 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:24.920 They're instinctive. 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:29.040 Your subconscious mind is always looking to establish what the 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.920 bigger group of humans is doing, and so it is 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:36.320 responsive to repetitive content. Simply put, people are always looking 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:38.760 to learn what a larger group is doing and fit in, 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:43.400 meaning that repeated messages can be enormously powerful. You know, 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:47.640 obviously we're just talking about conformity here, but all sales 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:52.440 organizations know this sure. Quoting again from mister Christoff. The 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:54.800 reason the subconscious does this is because it knows that 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:57.080 most humans like other humans who act, talk and think 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:00.520 like they do, and all the subconscious nuh, All your 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:04.080 subconscious know that it's safer to bond with a bigger group. 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:08.200 To break this mind control technique down further, your subconscious 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:13.280 automatically absorbs repetitive content and forces people to adopt ideas 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:14.280 as their own. 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:19.680 Your reptile brain is telling. 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:24.440 You you decided this on your own, to go along 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:28.360 with the crowd, because, for whatever reason, that works better 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:30.920 with humans. It's more adaptive. As they say in anthropology, 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:34.240 that's why, for example, do any of my beliefs come 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:38.200 from my own thinking? Or is this all just because 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.840 I was surrounded by it? I think sometimes the best 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:45.000 you can do is be intellectually honest and examine your 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.800 beliefs and test them. Now, and again and try the 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:51.480 other ideas. But anyway, that's a great other topic. 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.319 What time is it? Yeah, we're good, blah blah blah. 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:56.040 This is why, for example, at a party where there's 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:58.520 a lot of alcohol being served and consumed, people can 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:01.760 feel nervous saying no when offered a drink. Quote, if 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:05.120 you dare say no in opposition of the most repetitive content, 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:09.959 your nervous system will make you feel extremely uneasy and 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:13.240 full of anxiety, and it will also reward you for 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:16.800 going along with it, putting your neurology at peace and calm. 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:21.480 In the feeling of calmness, that's wow. So there's more 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:22.640 to peer pressure than. 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:27.040 Meets the eye, right exactly, It's not weakness, it's it's 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:33.920 anthropologically adaptive. The problem is, you know, unless you're an alcoholic, 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:36.120 you're gonna be fine having a drink, or unless somebody 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:37.880 is trying to feed your roofy and rape you or 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:39.640 something like that, you sally fine. 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:44.400 Bill Cosby's house, Oh right, exactly. In short, but if 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:45.120 there is. 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:54.440 An insidious group bent on evil utilizing these truths intentionally 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:59.040 and aggressively, you get an entire generation of young people 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:02.600 walking around saying It's not wrong to have a man 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.040 in a woman's sport, even though he whoops the hell 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:07.120 out of the women and takes all the titles. It's 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:09.000 not wrong to have a man in a women's prison 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:12.120 because that man says he's a woman. They come up 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:15.319 with an idea as ludicrous is that a man who 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:17.160 says he's a woman is actually a woman. 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:22.160 And then certainly things that are easier to go for. 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:27.040 I won't say fall four like hearing about climate change 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:29.880 every class you're ever in your whole life right. 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:34.680 Christoph actually touched on the COVID nineteen pandemic in the response, said, 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:38.520 media let's push highly similar similar narratives to quote unquote 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:42.520 control people, influencing them to stay at home. Mind control 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:45.000 is the basis of all advertising, and the governments have 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.480 been proven to be using the same group dynamic application 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:50.560 against the public. He pointed to examples such as the 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:55.480 UK's Behavioral Insights Team, informally known as the Nudge Unit. 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:58.160 Have you ever heard of this? No, It's a former 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:01.480 government organization now run by a charity, which uses behavioral 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.880 insights to change people's behavior, for example, by changing messaging 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:07.160 to make people more likely to pay their. 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:09.280 Taxes on time Wow. 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:13.040 Christoff believes such tactics have been used to drive social 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:16.200 changes for decades, with depictions of large nuclear families on 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:19.440 screen diminishing since the nineteen fifties in favor of less 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:23.760 conventional families with fewer children, among other things. And corporations 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:26.360 use similar strategies. 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:29.719 But we're running out of time. But you get the idea. 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:34.439 And I've often said, you don't need to do what 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:37.960 the culture is doing because a lot of that is 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:41.439 designed by people who do not have your best interests 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:44.520 in mind. So maybe the only great takeaway from this 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:50.480 is if you find yourself wanting to conform, understand that 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:54.800 that is your animal brain being used, often by evil 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:57.400 people to try to get you to behave in a 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:58.120 certain way. 0:11:58.600 --> 0:11:59.960 That's really interesting stuff. 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:05.440 Jack Armstrong and Joe Gerty The Armstrong and Getty Show, 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:12.800 The arm Strong and Getty Show. 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:16.520 So my thirteen year old, and it matters what his 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:20.839 age is. Apparently wanted to open a checking account at 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:22.680 the bank or an account at the bank because he's 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:27.479 got enough money built up from allowances and birthdays and Christmases, 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:29.839 and he doesn't spend his money like his brother does. 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:32.240 He saves it because he wants to be able to 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:34.520 put it toward a car someday and that sort of thing. 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:36.480 So he's got a decent sized chunk. 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:39.240 Of money added up over the years and he'd been 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.559 keeping it in his shoe box. And so he's going 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:43.080 to oput an account. And I remember when I opened 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:45.360 an account when I was probably about his age. I 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:48.679 started mowing lawns when I was twelve thirteen and accumulating 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:50.840 money and opening a bank account on. 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:52.760 The right passage. I remember it myself. 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:54.600 On the way to the bank, I did say to him, 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.240 I said, you know, I haven't I haven't been around 0:12:57.360 --> 0:12:59.600 the idea of opening an account for a bank in. 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:01.960 Forty years something like that. 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:04.040 So I don't know if the rules have changed, but 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:06.040 so in case something happens, but anyway, we should we 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:09.319 get it there sure enough. And so we're trying to 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:12.000 open this account and everything like that. And first of all, 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:14.840 many banks everything is I don't know if it's because 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:16.880 the government comes down on them so hard or something 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:19.720 like that. They treat everybody like you're a want to 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:20.360 be terrorist. 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.600 Like everything you do, it's like, jeez, lighten up. 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:27.600 But anyway, he needs to have two forms of ID. 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:30.600 Is where we ran into the roadblock. I said, what 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:32.840 is a form of ID for a thirteen year old? 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:37.520 He said, and they said, well, your Social Security card 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:42.120 is birth certificate? Okay, great, So I said, the fact 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:45.240 that I'm his dad isn't good enough. I can't vouch 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:47.320 for the fact that he's my son and I have 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:49.400 an account here and have had for twenty five years 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:51.280 and open an account for him. I can't do that, 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:53.520 and no, we need to. And I said, is that 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:56.920 a bank policy or the state law or what is that? 0:13:57.520 --> 0:13:59.160 Because I was thinking if it's a bank policy, I'll 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:02.079 go to a different bank. But uh, it's a federal law. 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:04.680 It's part of the Patriot Act. I said, oh, of course, 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:06.520 And he said, well, it's a federal I said, you 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:08.320 don't need to explain the federal government to me. 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.440 And I hate the federal government. 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:11.520 I said. 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.440 And then the guy looked at me like I was Oh. 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:16.760 He got wide eyed, like, oh, you're one of those people. 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:20.120 You're Timothy McVeigh, you're you're you're one of those people. 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:22.320 Yeah, clearly I've heard about them. 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:25.040 I said, I hate the federal government. The Patriot Act's ridiculous. 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:27.200 This is ridiculous. The fact that I can't open a 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:30.680 bank account for a thirteen year old, and as his parent, 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:33.640 I got I gotta prove who he is because you 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:37.000 can't take my word for the fact that he's my child. 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:41.680 Makes me child, say money laundering, little mule for your militia, 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:45.280 whatever you want to call him. The Patriot Act was 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:46.960 so much I was trying to explain it to en her. 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:50.240 He was so much crap that they jammed through. It's 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:52.240 all because of nine to eleven. So you're gonna stop 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.880 the next nine to eleven by making sure thirteen year 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:59.000 olds don't open illegal bank accounts. I guess whatever, even 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.480 though their parent, who you know, is sitting right there. 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.240 I hate stuff like that, and the and the but 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:06.880 they were there. Their eyes got so wide. When I 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:08.680 hate the said I hate the federal government. And I 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:11.320 was thinking if I was doing this same thing in 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:13.840 my and my where I went to college in Hayes, Kansas, 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.160 and I said I hate the federal government, the teller 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:17.760 would have said, yeah, me too, don't. 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:23.440 You high five Joe came into that brother, but that. 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:26.160 Just being oh, my god, you shouldn't she said, oh, 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:29.200 she gasped the woman gasped, and her. 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:30.800 Boss just looked at me white. I'd like, oh, were 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:37.320 we about to have a fight. Oh man, I have 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:41.400 to have two pieces of id even though he's my kid. 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:42.920 I just found that amazing. 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:46.560 All right, here's here's the guy who retweets my quotes. 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:48.840 Get ready to jot this one down and get it right? 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:49.200 Would you? 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:55.040 Anytime the government says there's an emergency, there are two emergencies. 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.920 Yeah, but actually exactly. And I actually told my son 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:01.640 because here's one, and he was really like, is that 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:03.960 something you can't say out loud? I said, I told him. 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:09.120 The most revered Republican president of the last maybe century, 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:12.720 Ronald Reagan, ran on the scariest words in the English 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:15.000 language are I'm here from the I'm from the government, 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.000 and I'm here to help you. I mean, he ran on, 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:20.200 I hate the government, or I just saw clip this morning. 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:23.480 The government isn't the solution. Government is the problem. 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:26.080 And the woman who was typing furiously after I said that, 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:28.560 because she was so horrified that anybody would say that, 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:30.760 I said, you know, all the money in my account 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:32.880 I made that by going on the radio every day 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:36.200 and saying I hate the government and I make my living. 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:41.720 By the way, if the Justice Department is listening, or 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:49.000 the FDIC or the CIA, the NSA, if I'm happy 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:50.840 to testify against this monster. 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:53.720 I'm sure I'm on some sort of terrorist watch list now, yes, Michael. 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:55.680 So wonder they didn't hit the silent alarm on you 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:57.440 and then you know, cops show up or something. 0:16:57.680 --> 0:16:59.200 I would have been I would have loved to talk 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:01.600 to people and exp why it's okay for me to 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:02.680 say I hate the government. 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:04.679 No, no, no, We've got to surveill him for a 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:07.400 while and go through his mail and monitor his phone calls. 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:09.280 We've got the NSA working on it already. 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:13.680 What I hate is the manager guy acting like it 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:18.359 makes sense that we have a law I can't vouch 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.520 for my kid being my kid. That seems perfectly reasonable 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:25.639 to me. Two forms of ID for a child right 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:28.920 when their parents is there. I thought, he says his name, 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:30.120 then I say his name? 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:32.840 Is that two forms of ID? And if not, what 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:36.840 the hell has the world becalled? I know Armstrong and. 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:41.720 The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:45.720 The US Navy has dozens of nuclear powered submarines. Fourteen 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:50.400 are capable of carrying nuclear weapons. Each Ohio class sub 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:54.720 can carry twenty trident ballistic missiles with eight nuclear warheads each, 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:59.400 meaning one American Ohio class nuclear submarine could strike one 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:01.399 hundred and sixty cities at once. 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:03.960 I thought it would be good to play something current 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:07.040 before we get into a discussion about the anniversary. Eighty 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:11.280 years since we dropped the atomic bomb on Japan. We 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:15.600 still have wars going on. Nuclear weapons are still a conversation. 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:18.000 People are still willing to fight to the death over 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:20.800 a variety for a variety of reasons. Nothing has changed 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:24.040 on that front since World War Two. World War One 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:26.159 was the going to be the war to end all wars. 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:29.639 Then we had World War Two, which was significantly significantly bigger. 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:32.479 And since World War Two, we've now had more people 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:35.560 die in wars since World War Two that happened during 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:36.280 World War Two. 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:40.640 And I believe as we speak, we have the most 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:43.960 armed conflicts going on Earth that has been recorded. 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:47.280 Really just heard that yesterday. I didn't know that it's 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:49.160 like one hundred and forty or something like that. 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:54.199 Yeah, So I get discouraged sometimes with my love of 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:59.000 history and that I feel like it is wrongly portrayed 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:03.760 so often or narratives catch on and they just become 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:06.880 the truth forever in some cases, and they're not accurate, 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:07.639 and it's. 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:08.199 Just the way it is. 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:14.520 Like our friend, we like, Victor David Hanson's he wrote 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:16.800 a book a couple of years called The World Wars, 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:18.159 and he was trying to make the argument that it 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:22.240 was really separate wars that we call it World War Two, 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:24.359 but there were separate wars going on that really didn't 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:26.840 have much to do with each other. This other book 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:33.439 that I've been reading just recently, Operation Downfall by Richard B. 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:34.000 Frank. 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:37.320 It's the most recent book written about. Downfall was going 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:39.639 to be the was the campaign for US to end 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:42.960 the war with Japan. Japan bombs US December seventh, nineteen 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:47.440 forty one. They attacked US. Hitler had already been defeated 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:49.399 at this point, and we needed to figure out how 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:52.080 to finish off the Japanese who were still fighting like crazy. 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:57.400 But the whole fight in Japan and fighting Germany didn't 0:19:57.400 --> 0:19:59.359 really have much to do with each other. There are 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:02.200 a couple of instances and when Japan and Germany kind 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:04.960 of worked together, but if it ever came down to it, 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:09.080 I mean, think about it, these are two incredibly racist 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:12.240 regimes that believe the other side shouldn't exist un. 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:15.680 Planet Earth, so stay the hell away. 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:20.040 The Nazis would have killed every Japanese a person on 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:22.919 Earth if they had the opportunity, and vice versa. Japan 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:27.640 was an incredibly racist nation. They believe they were superior 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:31.720 to the Chinese, let alone the white mongrel United States. 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:34.720 And this Frank's guy is trying to make the argument 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:36.359 that a lot of historians have, but it just hasn't 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:41.959 worked yet, that World War Two started in nineteen thirty 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:47.240 seven when Japan invaded China and started taking over that 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:50.639 part of the globe. Because we're mostly from Europe, and 0:20:50.680 --> 0:20:53.440 we're so Europe focused, and most of our World War 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:56.639 two movies are about Europe and fighting the Nazis, we 0:20:56.720 --> 0:20:58.959 just we don't we think World War two started in 0:20:59.000 --> 0:21:05.359 September of thirty nine when Germany goes into Poland and 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:07.840 all those countries and starts doing their thing. But the 0:21:08.440 --> 0:21:11.960 Japanese invaded China in nineteen thirty seven and started one 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:16.639 hell of a war. Eight million Chinese had died at 0:21:16.640 --> 0:21:18.320 the hands of the Japanese. 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:22.800 Before Pearl Harbor. Eight million Chinese. 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:26.800 Yeah, Japan was one of the most ruthless regimes that's 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:30.280