WEBVTT - We're Really Impressed With Your Profile 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:06.040 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:09.840 Washington Broadcast Center. Jack arms Strong and Joe Catty. 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:12.440 I'm strong and gatty, and he. 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:29.400 Armstrong and getty. 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:35.760 This is the cat Killer Clockburger to try. 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:37.600 I've never eaten cat food before. 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:42.159 I think he likes it. It's tasty, it's good. I 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:44.760 wouldn't expect this to beat cat food. It's a little mushine, 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:47.839 but flavor wise, actually not too bad. Exit all, it's 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:50.960 not too bad. It doesn't taste like cat food, taste 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:51.519 like a burger. 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:59.840 I don't like stunt food. I'm stupid. 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:06.160 I don't doubt that a Michelin starred chef could take 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:09.000 cat food and put enough stuff. 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:10.559 In it to make it taste delicious. I don't doubt 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:11.039 that a bit. 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:15.440 And or use the usual components of cat food, which 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:21.000 would be fish and chicken, and craft a burger and 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:23.080 then call it cat food burger. 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:25.800 To get attention. I don't doubt that could happen either. 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:28.960 You've made Joe angry Michael with your stupid, stupid clip. 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:34.400 All right, I don't appreciate having my intelligence insulted. Michael 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:38.399 on my very own radio show, Slash podcast. Thank you 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:38.920 for listening. 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:42.640 So I got this text I thought was kind of interesting. 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:46.240 This is around the whole Russia Ukraine thing, which again 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:48.960 won't belabor this point, but I think the missing element 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:52.640 of this old story is Putin has no interest in stopping, 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:53.920 so I. 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:55.800 Don't know what we're doing. I don't know what was doing. 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:57.680 I think it's all kind of gonna slam to a 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.600 clothesier like today because he there's no interesting. 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:01.840 Quitting one of the. 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:05.200 Parties preferring war will hurt the peace process. How about 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:09.840 the party that's winning currently. Yes, we got this text 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:12.080 during my forty year legal career. I actually as a 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:14.919 court appointed mediator dozens of times. 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:17.680 Those cases are a fascinating field. 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:21.120 Right anytime you want, I'll bet you have amazing insights 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:21.800 into humanity. 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:24.960 Those cases were obviously less complicated than mediating the end 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:27.720 of wars, but they do have some parallels. First and 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:32.200 importanceance is the neutrality of the mediator. This might speak 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:36.000 to the way Trump is handling things. Nobody has confidence 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:38.800 in the mediation process. If one party perceives a mediator 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:42.079 to be biased in favor of the other party, that never, 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:45.040 in all caps works unless one side is ready for 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:46.000 a complete surrender. 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:50.680 Hello, half of couples counseling two thirds, three quarters. 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:54.119 I don't know, but maybe that's the whole Trump thing. 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:56.239 He's done a lot of deals. Maybe he realizes if 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.880 Putin has to believe that, like, I'm just as interested 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:03.560 in him getting a good deal as Lenski getting a 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:05.639 good deal, or this will never even, we won't even 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:14.320 get started. Yeah, if not, they believing in the mediator 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:16.520 being unbiased, The parties go through this dance that the 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:19.280 mediator can only stand by till they get it out 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:22.840 of their systems. Almost universally, both sides say they are 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:25.760 happy to go to trial, ig go on fighting the 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:29.079 war in order to intimidate the other side to give 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:30.960 up its concept of total victory. 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:32.160 That's pretty interesting. 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:36.400 So both sides at least say out loud, fine with 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:39.720 me if we keep fighting, because the second you don't, 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:41.320 obviously I've lost all leverage. 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:44.840 Right, you're the person who wants the deal more so. 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:47.840 I think in this case Putin actually does want to 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:55.559 keep fighting, but he would claim that even if he wasn't. Yeah, 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:59.800 the mediator knows. This is usually bs that they want 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:02.720 to keep fighting, Otherwise there would be no agreement to 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:03.960 mediate in the first place. 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:04.839 How about that? 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:09.400 Why would Putin get together for these meetings at all 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:13.320 if he didn't have some interest in peace. The difference 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:17.640 between the war situation and these examples this court guy 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:21.160 has is in a divorce, there's no reason for you 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:23.239 to just drag it out longer. 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:25.000 You're not getting anything out of that. 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:27.080 Whereas I was going to say, unless you were draining 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:30.440 one percent of their net worth per day and you 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:32.480 just wanted to delay for DeLay's sake. 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:34.599 No, that's where the metaphor breaks down. 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.120 Yeah, Putin does get some advantage out of just dragging 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:42.320 it out. While that dance goes on, The best thing 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.080 a mediator can do is remain patient. Behind closed doors, 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:48.320 the mediator meets with each side separately, trying to be 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:50.600 candid with them as to the strengths and weaknesses of 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:54.719 their case. As a neutral mediator sees it, those discussions 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:58.320 have to be this is interesting too, Those discussions have 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:01.719 to be confidential, or else one dude would seize on 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:04.960 the confidential discussions as a sign that the other is weakening, 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:09.160 which not surprisingly emboldens the other side when they think 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:11.440 they've got the upper hand and then adopt a more 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:14.560 firm's stance, And that gets to the whole Henry Kissinger 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:17.799 thing about when you've got carping coming in from both 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:23.560 sides all the time, you can't have a mediation because well, 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.039 for obvious reasons. I think he always uses the example 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:28.719 of a romantic couple. Imagine a romantic couple trying to 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.680 get together when you had about a bunch of outside voices, 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:35.240 you know, claiming things that aren't true, or shouting questions 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:37.719 or whatever. It would you never get anywhere? 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:40.600 All right? Does it bother you that he wants? Yeah? 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:44.359 Have you heard the rumor that she has slept with 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:46.159 you know, ten guys in the last week. 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:48.560 No, I haven't heard that. I'm not commenting on it. 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:50.960 No, and it can't possibly be true. I've been with her, 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.120 But still that over and over again. 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:54.720 Yeah, that's interesting. 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:56.679 Yeah. 0:05:56.760 --> 0:06:00.760 So the one of the narratives on the Sunday shows 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:03.720 was or I guess it was the week? Was it? 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:05.400 God, this has all happened so fast? 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:08.520 Was it just last Friday? Just this past. 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:12.280 Friday, a week from tomorrow, when the whole meeting in 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:13.560 Alaska thing happened? 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:15.400 Okay, yes, Anyway. 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:19.320 After that it was with walked away with no concrete agreement. Well, 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:21.960 you don't know what happened. You don't have the slightest 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:25.040 idea what happened. What are we even talking about? 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:28.000 Well, right, that was silly from the beginning. I mean 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:30.320 even Trump made clear, no, we're just going to see 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:32.120 if there's the basis for an agreement. 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:33.680 Anyway, there's not. 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:37.440 It's marriage counseling in which one of the partners is saying, 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:40.000 you know, I despise this person and want nothing more 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:41.520 than to be divorced from them. 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:44.920 So that's putin no matter what he may have claimed. 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:47.000 Anyway, Speaking of counseling and that sort of thing, we 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:49.200 were talking yesterday I think it was in this hour, 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.600 hour four of the show about Abigail Shreyer. 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:56.679 Yeah, that's that makes more sense with like marriage counseling 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:59.159 than the mediator of a divorce. That's the having the 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:02.359 marriage counseling when one person has already made up their mind. 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.640 That's what might be going on with this war situation. 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:08.359 One site has already made up with their mind they're 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:09.280 gonna keep fighting. 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:12.080 So again, speaking of mental health, we were talking about 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:14.800 Abigail Schreyer and her book Bad therapy and the fact 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:18.760 that her kid got a mandatory You've got to leave 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.760 the room, multiple questions about do you wish you were dead, 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:23.720 if you felt your family would be better off if 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:25.440 you were dead in the past week, if you had 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:28.160 thoughts about killing yourself, if you ever tried to kill yourself, 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:30.520 Are you thinking of killing yourself right now? And she 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:33.840 is talking about the incredible suggestibility of kids and how 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:38.920 the JB. Pritzker Illinois idea of mandatory grilling of kids 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:42.200 like this starting in the third grade is just a terrible, 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:45.360 terrible idea for a lot of different reasons. 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:48.880 We got a tremendous pushback from a health mental health 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.840 professional that I didn't agree with. Okay, it sounds like 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:53.960 a nice person fan of the show that maybe have 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:55.800 that handy. I do have that handy. Maybe we'll get 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:56.280 to that later. 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.120 Yeah, I would love to if you can dig that out. 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:00.960 Because again, I'm not trying trying to pitch a particular 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:02.360 point of view, I'm trying to get at the truth 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:09.320 as usual. But this she points out that there's no 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:11.760 proof that mental health screeners have ever been shown to 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:15.000 improve mental health outcomes. I believe I wonder if our 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:18.480 friend disagrees with that, unlike the alleged benefits of mental 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.200 health screeners, there is solid evidence on the harms produced 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:24.560 by receiving a mental diagnosis, harms that are pure tragedy. 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:28.400 In the case of misdiagnosis, she writes, the screeners are 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:31.320 nora a screeners capable of identifying who the next school 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:35.920 shooter will be. They are poor at identifying kids which 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.440 kids likely have depressions, since they are not sensitive enough 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.320 to distinguish it from normal periods of sadness. They do 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:44.400 not even real reliably indicate which kids are at risk 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:45.160 of suicide. 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:47.439 And she quotes Stephen J. 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:52.120 Morse's professor of law and psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:56.440 who says he's looking at the statistics for these screenings 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:58.839 and all he says, if you do the statistical calculation 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:03.319 you discuss, ever, that the false positive rate is about 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:05.360 ninety seven percent. 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:08.720 In screening for suicidal intention. 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:10.280 That doesn't surprise me a bit. 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:15.640 I see ninety seven percent of the yes this person 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:18.920 is thinking about it positives are false. 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:20.480 The kid is just a kid. 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:23.520 I know what the argument is from the other side, 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:25.839 because I've known enough mental health professionals, and I think 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:29.040 y'all look at it wrong in my opinion. Do you 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.319 want to hear this or yeah, here you. 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:33.600 Go, Sure, and then I'll get to the main point 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:35.320 and the reason I bring this up. But yeah, I 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:36.120 definitely want to This. 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:39.480 Will make my point. This is a common suicide scale. 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:42.960 They're explaining what the governor of Illinois wanting to do 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:45.440 and everything like that. The person has to be alone 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:47.880 for this rating. So I was complaining about I hate 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:50.600 the idea of you can't be in the room. 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:52.120 We're going to ask your kids some questions. 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:54.640 I hated the fact that they asked me to leave 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:57.079 the room when my wife's gonna have a baby or 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.600 just had a baby to talk. I hate all that 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:03.439 sort of I think it's awful, awful, awful. Anyway, I'll 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:06.240 explain what my theory is on that after we read this. 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:09.160 The person, the kid has to be alone for this rating. 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.040 Imagine a kid is possibly suicidal. How do you think 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:14.160 they would respond with the parent in the room. This 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:16.640 is an important scale, and it's crucial that answers aren't 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:19.200 compromised by the presence of others. It's not a big 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:21.319 deal like you're making it out to be Typically, when 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:23.559 a respondent says no to the first two questions, the 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:26.480 scale ends. You know, do they say no or not? 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:28.280 How often do they say yes? And how often when 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:31.400 they say yes? Anyway, we just discussed that if they 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:34.080 don't have thoughts of suicide, nothing more needs to be recorded. 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:36.040 I understand you not wanting to be kept in the 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:38.319 dark as a parent, but you have to understand how 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:41.040 common it is to lose young people to suicide because 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.280 their parents are unaware of or don't react. 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:43.600 Well. 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.640 These are not usually things a kid wants you to 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.120 know about. This is one very clear area where you 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:51.760 want to trust a doctor. I work in research at 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:54.839 a UC campus and federal facility for Mental Health. I 0:10:55.800 --> 0:11:02.080 am bothered by the crafting of a society around the tiny, tiny, 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:06.120 tiny percentage of people who beat their kids, rape their 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:08.839 wives into pregnancy, all that different sort of stuff. I 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:12.040 just think it's a weird way to craft society with 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:13.240 the assumption. 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:15.600 Going forward, you're all horrible lyying people. 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:17.360 That are oppressing your wives and children, and we're going 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:20.400 to treat you as such until otherwise we find out otherwise. 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:21.560 I just think that's wrong. 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.800 Yeah, that might overstate the case a little bit, but 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:32.839 because there are times when a kid will confide in 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:37.640 a teacher, coach, or doctor something something they'd be uncomfortable 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:38.600 talking about in front. 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:40.960 Of their parents. That exists. Of course it does, of 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:41.600 course it does. 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.520 Wouldn't I wouldn't ban a kid from wanting to talk 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:47.920 to somebody, go on their own to a teacher and say, 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:49.800 you know, in my home, life's horrible, something like that. 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.680 But they having every parent leave the room when you 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:55.280 ask my kid questions. I just I couldn't be more against. 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:57.040 That, right, Yeah, I hear that. 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.400 And I just for the record, I want to say 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:02.239 our correspondent sounds like a very good person with great intentions, 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.760 concerned about the kids killing themselves, which is one of 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:09.520 the saddest things that exists in human no existence. And 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:12.360 I credit you dedicating your life to that one hundred percent. 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.120 We don't have time to get to the main point 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:18.840 I had in bringing this up, but it relates directly 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:21.400 to what we were just talking about. We'll have that 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:22.480 on the other side of the break. 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:23.160 Cool. 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:24.360 That's good stuff. Stay here. 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:31.960 Exet the second death and is a family very upset 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:36.120 that the Washington Post printed sensitive details about the security 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:40.160 of him, his wife, and his kids in their newspaper. 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:41.199 More on that later. 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:42.559 That's despicable. 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:43.520 It is despicable. 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.840 Wow, I got one of the better scams I've ever 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:50.480 seen sent to me via text just a few minutes ago. 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:52.079 Talk about that if we can. 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:55.560 So, if you're just tuning in where you've been catch 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:57.679 up via podcast Armstrong you're getting on demand, you ought 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:01.280 to subscribe. We were talking about Elizabeth or I'm sorry, 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:08.840 what's her name, miss Schreier, that's right, and mandatory mental 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:12.280 health screening for kids and false positives and suggestibility of 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:14.680 kids and that sort of thing. And the final note 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:16.920 I want to throw in, And one of the reasons 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:20.320 I brought this up is a little spot quiz. What 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:25.880 was old Uncle Joe's first introduction to neo Marxism. I 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:30.840 was in college when I had a professor mentioned semi 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:35.960 casually that the nuclear family was a organ of oppression. 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:37.800 That's an insane thing to say. 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:41.080 And sitting there as a college freshman, I thought, you 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:45.120 are out of your mind and or have ideas that 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:48.400 are really sick. Well, and as it turns out, I 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:52.719 was right. One of the tenets of traditional Marxism and 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:56.240 neo Marxism as well, is that the state ought to 0:13:56.280 --> 0:14:02.080 be raising the children because confirming the state orthodoxy and 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:07.160 the party line as it's called, is absolutely critical to 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:11.000 Marxist systems, and so the state seeks to supplant the family. 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:12.720 And now. 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:16.839 Getting back to our discussion of animal farm and the 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:20.960 sheep who are taught to bleed four legs good, two 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:25.160 legs bad, and then we're later bleeding a completely different 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:27.560 version of it. They just say what they're told to say. 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:31.280 There are a lot of very good, well meaning people 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:35.880 who tend to be of the do good or variety, who. 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:39.960 Fall for the faux moral, faux. 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:44.120 Civil rights whatever arguments of say anti racism or whatever, 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:47.240 and they think they're doing good and they have no 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:53.640 idea they are serving hardcore radical neo Marxists. And I'm 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:56.600 not sure it's hard to tell who's who sometimes because 0:14:56.600 --> 0:15:00.600 they all use the language of morality. But anyway, that's 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:05.640 all lead up to what miss Schreier writes next. Illinois 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:09.720 State Senator Laura Fine, chair of JB. Pritzker's Mental Health Committee, 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.480 which is getting this mandatory mental health screening for little 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:15.680 kids going, indicated last week that the state may harbor 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:19.760 broader ambitions quote the screenings will be designed to catch 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:24.880 the early signs of anxiety, depression, or trauma, and Shreier 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.360 writes a slip of the mask if not the tongue. 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:31.680 Trauma is not a recognized mental health diagnosis, as I 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:34.640 encounter during my investigation in the hands of school counselors. 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:38.440 Trauma can and does mean any hurt suffered in childhood. 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:41.160 Have your parents ever spanked you, yelled at you, forced 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:44.360 you to attend church? Do they offer enthusiastic affirmation of 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:45.880 your chosen gender identity? 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:47.000 Or are they skeptical? 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:51.280 All of these are routinely identified as sources of childhood trauma. 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:54.160 And because teachers in school mental health staff are all 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:57.640 mandatory reporters, anything they learn about a family's private life 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:00.640 that carries even a whiff of trauma may occasion a 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:06.520 child called a child services or at the very least, 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:12.840 the state, the school, the government stepping in and saying, well, 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:17.160 there has been trauma here there far. Therefore, we are 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:20.000 taking a twenty five to one hundred percent role in 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:23.880 raising your child. For you right, and the people I've 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:26.480 quoted and the people in schools are doing this, they 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:29.840 may not understand what god they are serving, but it 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.680 is one hundred percent the God of the state should 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.960 raise your children, not you, which is progressivism from the 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:39.680 early twentieth century. It's Marxism, it's you know, it's one 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:41.400 of the tenets of the hardcore left. 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:45.080 I'm a mandated reporter for the state of California now, 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:46.840 and when I was doing all that training stuff, I 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:50.000 thought it'd be so easy to abuse this think gods 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:52.400 in the hands mostly you know, normal people, I hope, 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:54.080 but it'd be really easy to abuse. 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.920 I'm a mandated traffic reporter. There's a slowdown on I 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:04.639 to five southbound anyway. Yeah, and required by law, so 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:05.639 so much more to come. 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:08.160 This out right now? Scammed? You say you almost got scammed? 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:11.320 Oh yeah, it's really good, skillful. 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:13.840 Hot Nigerian princess with it that sort of thing. How'd 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:17.879 you know armstrong and getdy. 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:22.200 Surena Williams used the weight loss drug to use all 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:25.840 her weight she gained from being a mom. She's kind 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:27.680 of interesting. She's making the rounds talking about that. I 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:29.679 don't know if she's pitching that drug or not. Anyway, 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:31.440 talk more about that later. 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:32.560 M okay. 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:36.399 A handful of random scraps of infotainment. 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:36.720 Here. 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:40.479 First of all, the final, final final thought from Abigail Schreier. 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:44.280 I love her concluding paragraph about screening for mental illness. 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:45.480 And kids and blah blah blah. 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:47.600 The vast majority of our kids and teens are not 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:51.040 mentally ill, but they are lonely, worried, scared, and bummed out. 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:54.040 Schools ought to supply them with reliable bolsters to the 0:17:54.119 --> 0:18:00.000 human spirit, high expectations, greater independence and responsibility, far far 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:05.240 less screen time, more recess exercise, art, music, involvement in 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:08.160 goal oriented activities that lure them out of their own 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:10.880 minds and force them to think about something anything other 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:11.639 than themselves. 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:12.080 Wow. 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:15.320 I was talking to my son's Scout leader tuesday night, 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:18.760 and some of the older kids had just gotten back 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:24.080 from a really difficult hike that they do once they 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:26.080 get to be like sixteen or something like that. That 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:30.600 included a burrow, having a donkey carry a bunch of 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:32.840 your gear as you hike up into the mountains for 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:35.399 nine days or something like that, and you take everything 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:36.440 with you and everything out. 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:36.879 Yeah. 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:39.360 Anyway, he was talking about how much difficulty they had 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:41.520 with the burrow and then trying to figure out how 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:43.560 to do it, and it ended up being more work 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:44.840 than it was worth and blah blah, blah blah. But 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:46.399 they figured it out all on our own, which is 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:49.560 the way Scouts works. And he said they all walked 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:52.000 taller when they got at the end of that thing. 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:56.560 He said, you could see in their physical manner the 0:18:56.600 --> 0:19:00.480 way they were stronger, more confident people after that. 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:03.160 I guarantee that's the. 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:06.840 Opposite of what they do in well schools and a 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:13.280 lot of other things. The opposite fields you from any difficulty, 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:18.399 decision making, worry, stress, shield you from all of that, 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:22.919 and you walk around smaller and scared as opposed to 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:23.920 taller and confident. 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:25.320 Yeah. 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:30.080 Yeah, that's so revealing. I'm reminded of. 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