WEBVTT - Dopes & Lunkheads 0:00:02.050 --> 0:00:05.890 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the 0:00:05.950 --> 0:00:10.950 George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong 0:00:11.030 --> 0:00:23.349 and Getty. And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. Joe really 0:00:23.370 --> 0:00:25.970 going heavy on the air guitar with that opening music. 0:00:26.670 --> 0:00:29.450 Even throw in a little Gene Simmons tongue. I hope 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:33.979 you dug that. Ah! Yeah. Got to have a guitar face. 0:00:35.020 --> 0:00:38.260 You got to be ready to rock. That's clearly true. 0:00:39.780 --> 0:00:45.870 Live from Studio C. C Senior. A dimly lit room 0:00:45.930 --> 0:00:50.010 deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty communications compound. 0:00:50.550 --> 0:00:53.530 Today we're toiling under the title of the show. Grim 0:00:53.670 --> 0:00:58.650 Anniversary's Approach. Yeah. Or on a cheerier note. I'd like 0:00:58.690 --> 0:01:03.090 the economic war with a side of missiles, please. Back 0:01:03.110 --> 0:01:06.770 to shooting at the Iranians in various islands nobody had 0:01:06.810 --> 0:01:10.330 heard of before this conflict. We'll see how hot that gets. Well, 0:01:10.370 --> 0:01:11.630 I don't know if we brought it up last week, 0:01:11.650 --> 0:01:14.630 but the Pentagon announced we had cleared all the mines 0:01:14.709 --> 0:01:18.810 out of the Strait of Hormuz. And then yesterday, Iran thought, 0:01:18.850 --> 0:01:20.810 let's put some more mines back in there. And we said, no, 0:01:20.850 --> 0:01:25.310 you didn't. No, you ain't. And we blasted their mine launchers. 0:01:25.370 --> 0:01:28.569 They launch mines on rockets. I guess that's how you 0:01:28.590 --> 0:01:30.330 put mines in the street. I didn't know that. But anyway, 0:01:30.350 --> 0:01:32.370 we blasted the hell out of them. These days, yeah. Yeah, 0:01:32.380 --> 0:01:33.940 I was surprised to hear that myself. I thought you 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:36.580 kind of just went out in a boat and lowered 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:38.459 them into the water or something. I assumed a boat 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:44.289 was involved. My knowledge of underwater mines, though, is minimal 0:01:44.350 --> 0:01:48.660 at best. But, yes, we blasted them, and then they 0:01:48.740 --> 0:01:53.060 started shooting back at a variety of things, including our bases, 0:01:53.140 --> 0:01:56.060 which in the past, they've done some pretty serious damage 0:01:56.100 --> 0:01:58.540 to and killed people. What they did yesterday, I don't know. 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.120 We're reporting we shot down all the rockets. We're not 0:02:01.140 --> 0:02:03.320 always honest about that, which is okay. We don't need 0:02:03.340 --> 0:02:06.900 to be honest about that. But just because we reported 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:08.980 that none of the rockets got through or whatever doesn't 0:02:09.020 --> 0:02:11.820 mean that that's true. Correct. Yeah, I guess they really 0:02:11.860 --> 0:02:14.940 went after our bases in Jordan in particular. And there 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:18.810 are a lot of thousands of our folks there. One 0:02:19.130 --> 0:02:21.670 of your other big stories, not important, but the nation 0:02:21.710 --> 0:02:25.810 is following. The Lindsay Clancy jury resumes deliberations today, so 0:02:25.850 --> 0:02:27.370 we'll have our eye on that if for some reason 0:02:27.389 --> 0:02:29.710 they come up with a... The fact that it's taking 0:02:29.750 --> 0:02:33.859 a long time. Does that mean anything to you? That 0:02:34.020 --> 0:02:36.019 lean push one direction or the other? I feel like 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:42.460 that pushes further away from clearly guilty of flat-out murder. Yeah, yeah, 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:45.459 I've tried to follow the conventional wisdom on that through 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:47.780 the years, especially after I served on a handful of juries, 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:51.220 and gosh, it's just hard to say. As we discussed 0:02:51.260 --> 0:02:54.359 last week, it's a case with a bunch of kind 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:59.170 of fuzzy concepts at play. It's not, was he the 0:02:59.210 --> 0:03:02.010 guy with the gun at the liquor store? It's very, 0:03:02.210 --> 0:03:07.350 very complicated in dealing with human psychology and that sort 0:03:07.370 --> 0:03:08.530 of thing in a way that's going to take a 0:03:08.530 --> 0:03:10.980 while to sort out. And it depends how many lunkheads 0:03:11.020 --> 0:03:13.060 are on the jury, too. You never hear this from 0:03:13.100 --> 0:03:19.440 legal analysts, but you will hear. It depends how many dopes, lunkheads, 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:23.100 prejudiced people there are on the jury and how hard 0:03:23.419 --> 0:03:25.760 their arms have got to be twisted. Dopes and lunkheads. 0:03:25.780 --> 0:03:30.890 Sometimes literally. D's and L's. Dopes and lunkheads. You got 0:03:30.910 --> 0:03:34.130 to deal with them. Right. Everybody does in life. In fact, 0:03:34.190 --> 0:03:36.910 I've been talking to my youngest kid about that with school. 0:03:37.290 --> 0:03:39.780 You got to deal with dopes and lunkheads. It's part 0:03:39.790 --> 0:03:43.480 of the whole life experience. Oh, my. Yeah. Yeah. I 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:47.440 remember giving the boss who's an idiot a speech to 0:03:47.900 --> 0:03:49.280 one of my kids. I think it was my youngest. 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:53.100 She was in a class. I won't say which at 0:03:53.150 --> 0:03:56.250 what level of school. It's unimportant because those people listen, 0:03:56.970 --> 0:04:00.160 and I don't want to make it personal, but She said, essentially, 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:02.840 this teacher's a dope, doesn't know what they're doing. Their 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:06.520 standards are weird. Nobody can quite figure out what's happening. 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:10.150 And my advice to her was do your level best 0:04:11.310 --> 0:04:14.810 and manage that person because that's the most important life 0:04:14.830 --> 0:04:16.990 skill you're going to pick up in this class by far. 0:04:17.089 --> 0:04:19.950 You will have an idiot professor. You will have an 0:04:19.990 --> 0:04:23.070 idiot boss, maybe more than one. And dealing with that, 0:04:23.170 --> 0:04:25.830 frustrating as it can be, man, that's a valuable life skill. 0:04:25.890 --> 0:04:28.430 So I know it's frustrating, but once in a while, 0:04:28.470 --> 0:04:32.100 remind yourself, I'm learning something very valuable here. You'll certainly 0:04:32.140 --> 0:04:36.400 have an idiot coworker. I mean, that's guaranteed. Please, look 0:04:36.420 --> 0:04:40.070 around the room. You guys are looking right at me. Well, 0:04:40.089 --> 0:04:46.890 you're looking at me. Speaking of school and lunkheads, Wall 0:04:46.910 --> 0:04:50.469 Street Journal, of all places, with a long article trying 0:04:50.510 --> 0:04:54.789 to throw cold water on the cell phone ban in schools. 0:04:54.910 --> 0:04:57.590 And it's not really doing that much, which I just 0:04:57.650 --> 0:05:00.240 thought was ridiculous. And the way it was written was... 0:05:01.540 --> 0:05:04.160 making conclusions that were just dumb to me and so 0:05:04.180 --> 0:05:05.900 i want to talk about that later because i i 0:05:06.020 --> 0:05:10.630 hate pushback against eliminating cell phones from school rooms which 0:05:10.690 --> 0:05:14.950 is obviously a good idea i'm astounded by that i 0:05:15.029 --> 0:05:16.670 missed that yeah i want to hear it i want 0:05:16.690 --> 0:05:18.930 to know who wrote it i want to go to 0:05:18.970 --> 0:05:20.760 their home i want to grab them and shake them 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:28.390 wow well part of it was um uh a Part 0:05:28.430 --> 0:05:31.830 of it was that initially a lot of people were upset. Now, 0:05:32.310 --> 0:05:34.940 since then, some people have calmed down. It's like, what? 0:05:35.630 --> 0:05:39.680 Who cares? And then secondly, that test scores haven't gone 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.820 up as much as people were hoping because that, again, 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:46.240 who cares? I mean, I'd like test scores to go up. 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.480 What difference does it make? You can't teach a kid 0:05:49.940 --> 0:05:52.380 when they're staring at their phone and it's disruptive and 0:05:52.700 --> 0:05:55.240 I don't even know why we're having this conversation. It's 0:05:55.260 --> 0:05:57.440 like they're smoking pot in the classroom. And, you know, 0:05:57.500 --> 0:05:59.700 two weeks into the new, you can't smoke pot in 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:02.580 the classroom. You know, tests have only gone up by 8%. 0:06:02.580 --> 0:06:05.450 I'm not sure it's doing it. That's just idiotic. My God. 0:06:05.730 --> 0:06:08.250 I do want to go to their homes and shake them. 0:06:08.430 --> 0:06:11.750 We're keeping a live tiger in the studio. Live tiger's 0:06:11.770 --> 0:06:13.450 been in there for an hour and nobody's been bitten. 0:06:14.290 --> 0:06:18.089 It's not a good idea. Trust me. Oh, my God. 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:25.400 It's a television set, you morons. You older morons. You 0:06:25.460 --> 0:06:27.940 can't have kids have a TV set in the classroom. Well, 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:30.460 of course you can't have a TV set in the classroom. 0:06:30.740 --> 0:06:33.150 That's what it is. Except it's hooked up to the 0:06:33.190 --> 0:06:36.990 best entertainment ever devised by mankind. My God, people. I 0:06:37.010 --> 0:06:39.010 think they were focusing on the L.A. school district. I 0:06:39.029 --> 0:06:41.469 don't remember which is the second biggest school district in America. 0:06:41.510 --> 0:06:47.859 But one... Hart mentioned that you take away the phones, 0:06:47.900 --> 0:06:50.050 but in one class, a lot of kids were continuing 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:54.270 to watch YouTube videos on their computers. What? How in 0:06:54.350 --> 0:06:57.290 the world? If you know they're watching YouTube videos on 0:06:57.310 --> 0:06:59.210 your computer, how do we not have a world where 0:06:59.230 --> 0:07:01.530 the teacher can just close the computer and take it 0:07:01.630 --> 0:07:04.010 and say, you get it back after class or whatever? 0:07:04.350 --> 0:07:06.590 How is that not the world we live in? Well, 0:07:06.610 --> 0:07:08.930 we know why. Teachers unions and all kinds of crap 0:07:08.950 --> 0:07:15.940 around that. That's insane that they're sitting there watching YouTube videos. Therefore, 0:07:15.980 --> 0:07:19.280 the cell phone ban is just not that useful. Oh, 0:07:19.300 --> 0:07:21.600 my God. I was just going to say, if you're 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:25.120 conducting an experiment, we all learn the scientific method in school, 0:07:25.140 --> 0:07:26.710 or at least we should have. You can only have 0:07:26.790 --> 0:07:29.130 one variable to draw any sort of conclusions. I was 0:07:29.150 --> 0:07:31.290 just going to point out that the L.A. schools, I mean, 0:07:31.350 --> 0:07:34.270 my God, they've got, you know, a solid four to 0:07:34.390 --> 0:07:39.980 eight things terribly wrong with them. So just tweaking, fixing one, well, 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:41.680 it's not going to hurt, but no, that's not going 0:07:41.700 --> 0:07:44.940 to straighten things out overnight. Oh my gosh, people. People 0:07:44.980 --> 0:07:46.760 make me insane. So I want to talk about the 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:50.200 details of that article. And then one that's got tongues 0:07:50.290 --> 0:07:54.410 wagging on the Sunday talk shows and then still today was, 0:07:54.590 --> 0:07:56.910 was it the Washington Post or the New York Times? 0:07:56.990 --> 0:08:02.250 One of your big papers with an expose on how, 0:08:02.270 --> 0:08:04.510 I think it was the New York Times Sunday story 0:08:04.630 --> 0:08:09.500 on how we can't protect ourselves as a country in 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:12.040 a way that has never really been true because we've 0:08:12.100 --> 0:08:14.420 used so much of our good stuff. on this war 0:08:14.460 --> 0:08:17.550 in Iran and giving it to Ukraine and all kinds 0:08:17.590 --> 0:08:20.810 of different things. And we're really vulnerable right now. And 0:08:20.850 --> 0:08:24.110 that has got lots of people talking and, and Trump's 0:08:24.190 --> 0:08:29.190 threatening to, uh, to sue because that information shouldn't come out, 0:08:29.270 --> 0:08:32.510 which probably shouldn't announcing to China that, Hey man, we're 0:08:32.630 --> 0:08:35.290 really low. If you're ever thinking of attack now is 0:08:35.309 --> 0:08:37.790 the good time. Cause we are really, that's probably not 0:08:37.830 --> 0:08:39.990 good to be reporting that on the other hand, if, 0:08:41.250 --> 0:08:43.280 You know, similar to the Pentagon Papers and the war 0:08:44.020 --> 0:08:46.460 in Vietnam, if it's the only way you can let 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:48.340 the public know what's really going on, then maybe it's 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:53.400 a service. Trump also going after Kristen Welker and Kirsten, Kirsten, 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:58.150 Kristen Welker and ABC News for, because she said he's 0:08:58.170 --> 0:09:02.150 got a mixed record of his endorsements. And then he says, 0:09:02.230 --> 0:09:04.189 I win practically every one. So he's going to sick 0:09:04.230 --> 0:09:09.679 the FCC on her. Please, can we please just stop? Yeah. 0:09:11.210 --> 0:09:12.429 Put her on a boat and send her out in 0:09:12.490 --> 0:09:14.730 the middle of the Sea of America. That's what I say. 0:09:16.970 --> 0:09:20.850 The American Ocean or the U.S. Ocean. We'll rename both 0:09:20.870 --> 0:09:23.490 of them. Let's start the show officially. It's the last 0:09:23.530 --> 0:09:25.650 day of this month. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty. 0:09:25.710 --> 0:09:28.150 On this, it is Monday, August 31st. So is today 0:09:28.220 --> 0:09:30.540 our anniversary? Michael, you're the one who keeps track. Yes, 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:33.599 it is. So we've been doing this for 29 years, 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:36.800 the Armstrong and Getty Talk Show? We started in 98. 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:38.020 So 28. Sounds like 28 years to me. Yeah, it is. 0:09:38.020 --> 0:09:41.920 28 years we've been doing this. It seems like a 0:09:41.940 --> 0:09:43.780 long time. Is that long enough? Maybe it's long enough. 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:47.250 28th anniversary. I believe the traditional gift is pistachios, if 0:09:47.260 --> 0:09:49.429 you'd like to send some to the studio. We are 0:09:49.450 --> 0:09:51.770 Armstrong and Getty, and we approve of this program. Let's 0:09:51.790 --> 0:09:54.010 begin then, officially, according to FCC rules and regs. Here 0:09:54.030 --> 0:09:57.790 we go, leaping into action at mark. It is completely ridiculous. 0:09:58.170 --> 0:10:02.630 It's laughable to say, guys, like myself, guys like Abdul El-Sayed, 0:10:02.670 --> 0:10:06.500 we hate America. I say I hate America all the time. 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:08.600 A lot of motherfuckers want to kill me over that take, 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:10.420 but at least I say it with my fucking chest. 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:12.300 People will be like, Hasan, you hate America. I'm like, yeah, 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:18.960 I do. I do hate America. Marxists lie. They lie, 0:10:19.140 --> 0:10:22.420 and they lie, and they lie. That's Hasan Piker denying 0:10:22.490 --> 0:10:24.870 he's ever said he hates America. He says it all 0:10:24.910 --> 0:10:28.170 the time. Is his moment about over so I don't 0:10:28.190 --> 0:10:30.089 have to talk about him anymore? Is it about over? 0:10:30.150 --> 0:10:34.090 I hope so. You know, I certainly hope so, too. 0:10:34.110 --> 0:10:39.990 He is on stage campaigning with perhaps winning candidates for 0:10:40.010 --> 0:10:45.050 the United States Senate. I know he's a punk and 0:10:45.100 --> 0:10:48.199 a shock jock or whatever he is, and a self-promoter 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:52.520 and an a-hole and a rich socialist and an Islamist, 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:57.570 the rest of it. But by God, if Ken Paxton 0:10:57.790 --> 0:11:01.210 were campaigning with the grand imperial wizard of the local 0:11:01.350 --> 0:11:06.089 Klan chapter, we'd be hearing about it. Probably, yes. That'd 0:11:06.110 --> 0:11:08.660 be a bad move. If I was his campaign manager, 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:09.920 I'd say, I don't think this is a good idea. 0:11:10.290 --> 0:11:15.620 That's what Al-Asai does every week. Campaigns with Islamist radicals 0:11:15.660 --> 0:11:18.420 and communists. So we got headlines on the way to 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:20.959 get into some more of the news stories today and 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.500 then a little more depth on what we've talked about 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:24.559 and a whole bunch of other stuff. It's going to 0:11:24.580 --> 0:11:27.420 be a big day. And then we got the bleak 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:31.370 anniversary to talk about, partially because Joe tweeted out this 0:11:31.470 --> 0:11:38.480 Wall Street Journal documentary. about the withdrawal from Afghanistan, specifically 0:11:38.540 --> 0:11:41.380 what happened at Abbey Gate. You know that story if 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:44.740 you're a news junkie. And it is gruesome. And the 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:49.030 fact that this is not more of a conversation is disturbing. Yeah, 0:11:49.090 --> 0:11:52.010 I have a lot to say about it. It was harrowing. 0:11:52.150 --> 0:11:56.329 It was gruesome. It was angering. It was sad. And 0:11:57.330 --> 0:12:01.470 it reminded me anew of how horrific a failure that 0:12:01.530 --> 0:12:06.130 was and how little accountability, practically no accountability. Practically none. 0:12:06.510 --> 0:12:09.520 Practically none. And yeah, we'll have a lot more on 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:17.620 that later. So Katie's Headlines next. Stay here. Armstrong and Getty. 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:19.709 I think I'm going to decide, like I'm going to 0:12:19.730 --> 0:12:22.370 make a, I haven't decided how many or what the 0:12:22.429 --> 0:12:23.709 list will be, but I'm going to have like a 0:12:24.130 --> 0:12:26.670 list or a number of things that I care about 0:12:26.710 --> 0:12:31.750 at any given time in my life. Wow. Any flexibility 0:12:31.790 --> 0:12:34.730 to that? I mean, if you've fulfilled your list of 0:12:34.809 --> 0:12:39.100 five and then your car breaks down, how's this going 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:43.679 to work? Well, I'm going to rank personal issues way 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:47.040 above 99% of the things that are in the news, 0:12:47.100 --> 0:12:51.000 I guarantee you. But yeah, I'm just going to have 0:12:51.020 --> 0:12:53.850 a very tight list of things I give a crap about. 0:12:54.450 --> 0:12:57.010 Just like perusing the Twitter and looking at all the TV. 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.460 Most of the stuff that gets reported, I just don't care. 0:12:59.580 --> 0:13:03.840 It's not important, and I don't care. Boy, if one 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:06.179 man is angry online, I want to know about it. 0:13:06.340 --> 0:13:11.160 I know. For real. Give me the tea. All right, 0:13:11.210 --> 0:13:12.870 let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story 0:13:12.890 --> 0:13:13.850 with Katie Green. Katie. 0:13:14.190 --> 0:13:17.770 All righty, the major networks. Nepal, Tibet, flood. Death toll 0:13:17.809 --> 0:13:24.429 surpasses 900. More than 4,700 still missing. This is from CNN. 0:13:24.690 --> 0:13:27.130 Race against time to find workers missing in the Nepal 0:13:27.210 --> 0:13:34.680 hydropower tunnels and CBS. Nepal's hesitance to accept foreign help 0:13:35.020 --> 0:13:36.760 for flood relief is under scrutiny. 0:13:37.100 --> 0:13:40.839 So I think everybody saw the initial videos that came 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:43.760 out from Nepal and we watched them and talked about them. 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:48.620 But since then, they've gotten more graphic because they've found 0:13:48.660 --> 0:13:50.470 more cameras. I don't want to see them. We're into 0:13:50.570 --> 0:13:55.650 snuff films now. They're just snuff films. I mean, why are... What's... 0:13:57.190 --> 0:13:59.960 Another video showing, and it's just like a close-up of 0:14:00.030 --> 0:14:05.280 somebody dying. What is that? What's the news value? So 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:07.040 many bodies. Right. 0:14:08.220 --> 0:14:08.480 NBC. 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:10.199 Follow the drone. 0:14:10.620 --> 0:14:14.580 How Ukraine captures Russian prisoners with uncrewed vehicles. 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:19.280 Yeah, I'm happy about that. But Russia had their deadliest 0:14:19.340 --> 0:14:24.360 attack in several years on Ukraine over the weekend. So 0:14:24.380 --> 0:14:26.880 they're using drones to round up prisoners? Yeah, I'd like 0:14:26.900 --> 0:14:30.910 to know more about that. Crazy. From the New York Times. U.S. 0:14:30.930 --> 0:14:35.630 And Iran exchange strikes overnight after month-long calm. 0:14:38.070 --> 0:14:38.810 Talked about that earlier. 0:14:40.270 --> 0:14:44.910 New York Post, Lindsay Clancy verdict, live updates, jury deliberations 0:14:45.010 --> 0:14:49.270 hit day three. I don't know if you saw this, 0:14:49.310 --> 0:14:53.510 but one of the psychologists that they had as a 0:14:53.550 --> 0:14:56.070 witness ended up being, I don't know if he was 0:14:56.130 --> 0:14:58.910 fired or he resigned after he just got ripped for 0:14:59.010 --> 0:15:00.850 smiling while he was answering questions. 0:15:02.190 --> 0:15:04.980 Hmm. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. It was a big 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:07.520 deal over the weekend. Washington Post. 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.920 Trump says he will report NBC host to FCC for 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:12.460 rebuke or punishment. 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:20.260 Kristen Welker. Trump is the, like, test case opposite of 0:15:20.620 --> 0:15:24.070 choose your battles. Yeah. He's like the ground, you know, 0:15:24.090 --> 0:15:26.510 the starting point of choose your battles. Because he does 0:15:26.530 --> 0:15:30.770 not at all. He chooses every battle always. Right, right. 0:15:30.830 --> 0:15:33.480 In contrast to Churchill, stops and chucks rocks at every 0:15:33.510 --> 0:15:42.640 dog that barks. Yeah, nice. Plus, the free speech stuff, sorry, no, wrong, 100% wrong, ugly, un-American, 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:43.220 stop it. 0:15:44.940 --> 0:15:50.950 The Wall Street Journal, car sunroofs keep spontaneously exploding, and 0:15:50.970 --> 0:15:52.150 the problem is getting worse. 0:15:52.550 --> 0:15:53.590 How often does this happen? 0:15:54.890 --> 0:15:56.990 They are saying, well, I don't know how often it happens, 0:15:57.010 --> 0:16:01.070 but they're saying heat, debris and manufacturing defects, meaning that 0:16:01.130 --> 0:16:03.230 owners are experiencing this more often. 0:16:03.250 --> 0:16:05.270 Well, is it a particular model or is it happening 0:16:05.290 --> 0:16:05.790 to everyone? 0:16:06.470 --> 0:16:10.670 They're pointing out the Lexus SUV as a highlight in 0:16:10.700 --> 0:16:12.609 this article, but. 0:16:12.140 --> 0:16:15.540 It shatters, right? It doesn't explode per se. I read 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:17.400 the first paragraph or two. I don't want it to 0:16:17.460 --> 0:16:18.860 shatter either. Right. 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:24.560 And finally, from the Babylon Bee, Darlene Graham quietly Googles, quote, 0:16:24.830 --> 0:16:25.970 what does a senator do? 0:16:25.990 --> 0:16:27.900 Oh, that's unfair. 0:16:28.450 --> 0:16:28.830 I know. 0:16:28.990 --> 0:16:32.210 That's unkind. That was rude. Lady just lost her brother. 0:16:32.670 --> 0:16:37.950 I like this headline, which is real. Google Maps has 0:16:38.010 --> 0:16:43.870 changed the name of Lake Ontario. I give up. Maybe 0:16:43.970 --> 0:16:47.570 use Google Translate. Set it to English. Is it the Zepbound? 0:16:47.590 --> 0:16:49.390 Is that what's happening? Armstrong and Getty. 0:16:50.950 --> 0:16:54.090 Battle over the name of Lake Ontario after President Trump's 0:16:54.130 --> 0:16:57.860 executive order to rename it Lake America. That has set 0:16:57.900 --> 0:17:00.400 off a pitched social media battle with the White House 0:17:00.580 --> 0:17:04.340 celebrating the change on Google Maps, although other mapping services 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:06.360 are still using the historic name. 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:08.960 That's actually what I was attempting to say before the break, 0:17:09.030 --> 0:17:10.550 and I wasn't able to get it out of my mouth. 0:17:10.609 --> 0:17:12.750 I think because of that bond, my tongue has gotten 0:17:12.790 --> 0:17:15.270 too skinny, and it flaps around in there and doesn't 0:17:15.290 --> 0:17:19.750 work anymore. Yeah, Google Maps went ahead and changed Lake 0:17:20.130 --> 0:17:24.070 Ontario to Lake America. Apple Maps didn't, and some of 0:17:24.090 --> 0:17:27.770 your other whatever. This would be on my list of 0:17:27.850 --> 0:17:29.530 stories I don't care about, I'm not going to pay 0:17:29.550 --> 0:17:31.750 attention to in my life. Right, right. It doesn't make 0:17:31.770 --> 0:17:35.649 the narrow, I pay attention to this group. Yeah, Google 0:17:35.670 --> 0:17:38.290 Maps within the U.S. changed it. If you're across the 0:17:38.310 --> 0:17:40.850 border and you Google it, it has the traditional name, 0:17:40.950 --> 0:17:43.840 which is fine. I say change the Atlantic Ocean to 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:47.420 the American Ocean. I mean, what's Atlantic mean anyway? Nobody knows. 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:54.630 And the Pacific Ocean, Pacific implies peacefulness, right? The peaceful ocean. 0:17:55.109 --> 0:17:58.010 Have you ever seen the Pacific Ocean? It's not peaceful 0:17:58.050 --> 0:18:02.180 in the least. It's a violent, cold ocean. Call that 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:04.340 the U.S. Ocean. So we got the American Ocean and 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:08.740 the U.S. Ocean. Just change them all. Lake Winnebago. Well, 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:11.619 Winnebago's are American, right? Oh, why aren't we selling sponsorships? 0:18:12.290 --> 0:18:15.930 It's got to be like sports stadiums. It's Lake Toyota 0:18:16.010 --> 0:18:20.550 until its contract runs out, and then it's a different lake. Right, right. Yeah, 0:18:20.609 --> 0:18:23.470 I love that idea. And it's Lake Verizon Wireless. Trump's 0:18:23.510 --> 0:18:26.800 got a bizarre, unholy oil deal going in Venezuela that 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:28.440 we can talk about at some point. But yeah, why 0:18:28.460 --> 0:18:30.420 not sell naming rights to the lakes, and why not 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:30.960 the states? 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:31.379 Huh? 0:18:31.910 --> 0:18:35.690 I mean, Illinois. What is that, French or something? Come on. 0:18:36.810 --> 0:18:40.550 Name it, I don't know, General Motors Inouye. I love 0:18:40.590 --> 0:18:44.969 that idea. So speaking of machinery and progress and that 0:18:45.030 --> 0:18:48.669 sort of thing, place 21, would you, Michael? 154. You 0:18:48.790 --> 0:18:49.350 are good to go. 0:18:51.530 --> 0:18:55.770 NASA's Roman Space Telescope, barrel-shaped, about the size of a 0:18:55.850 --> 0:18:56.430 tour bus. 0:18:56.850 --> 0:18:58.649 Deep Space. 0:18:59.210 --> 0:19:02.550 From an orbit one million miles from Earth, Roman will 0:19:02.630 --> 0:19:06.210 map the cosmos inside the Milky Way and far beyond 0:19:06.630 --> 0:19:09.240 with jaw-dropping sweep and detail. 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:14.900 So we are continuing to explore the cosmos to press 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:19.540 further out into the universe with increasingly sophisticated equipment And 0:19:19.580 --> 0:19:22.540 I think that's incredibly important for human beings. And I'll 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:25.389 get to why in a moment. But I was weirded 0:19:25.450 --> 0:19:28.770 out the whole weekend because I kept hearing like, what's 0:19:28.810 --> 0:19:31.449 the audio equivalent of out of the corner of your eye? 0:19:31.730 --> 0:19:33.620 Out of the corner of my ear, I kept hearing 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:39.360 about the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. And I'm like, okay, 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:43.129 what's a Roman Space Telescope? And Why the hell did 0:19:43.230 --> 0:19:48.830 they name it after that cable news joke, Nancy Grace? What? 0:19:49.470 --> 0:19:51.350 And I kept... not digging into it, and then I 0:19:51.650 --> 0:19:55.650 finally learned that, indeed, the full name of a prominent 0:19:55.730 --> 0:19:59.240 female astronomer of your, I guess, I don't know much 0:19:59.300 --> 0:20:02.520 about her, is Nancy Grace Roman. But yeah, keep calling 0:20:02.580 --> 0:20:05.419 it the Roman Space Telescope, because calling it the Nancy 0:20:05.460 --> 0:20:09.530 Grace Roman Telescope It's just confusing. I'm sure that the 0:20:09.550 --> 0:20:13.620 husband did it. Anyone can see the husband did it. No, 0:20:13.650 --> 0:20:17.600 she has nothing to do. OJ Simpson's guilty, y'all. She 0:20:17.619 --> 0:20:20.440 has nothing to do with it. A quick space note 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:22.560 before we get into something I know you have is serious. 0:20:22.700 --> 0:20:24.820 I heard this yesterday and it's kind of blown my mind. 0:20:28.340 --> 0:20:34.060 Scientists saying. We can send a spaceship out into space 0:20:34.460 --> 0:20:38.440 to visit the far reaches, but 100 years from now, 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:43.420 whatever we invent will go further, will pass that one. Like, 0:20:43.500 --> 0:20:46.920 so there's no point in it going out there. Because 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:49.790 in 100 years, we'll invent one that goes significantly further 0:20:49.930 --> 0:20:53.350 past that one. I mean, it'll be like, see you later. Well, 0:20:53.369 --> 0:20:56.429 the obvious problem that leaps to my mind is in 0:20:56.430 --> 0:20:58.650 100 years, they'll say, Yeah, what's the point? A hundred 0:20:58.670 --> 0:21:00.490 years from now, we'll have a far better one. We'll 0:21:00.510 --> 0:21:03.210 never learn anything. Because there's almost nothing in between, and 0:21:03.250 --> 0:21:07.840 even at the speed that they travel. So it's waiting 0:21:07.900 --> 0:21:10.420 to get somewhere to give us some new information. Chugging 0:21:10.460 --> 0:21:12.560 along out there, and then a century from now, we'll 0:21:12.580 --> 0:21:15.540 invent something that just goes right on by. Yeah, maybe. 0:21:15.780 --> 0:21:19.530 That's a funny notion. It's probably true. But it was 0:21:19.570 --> 0:21:23.550 a SpaceX rocket that took off a Falcon Heavy, I believe. 0:21:24.750 --> 0:21:26.490 And it went off flawlessly and was great fun to 0:21:26.530 --> 0:21:29.430 watch online, which I did. And we wish them well. 0:21:29.650 --> 0:21:33.440 It's going to send back just those mind-blowing pictures of 0:21:33.500 --> 0:21:38.360 various cosmic energies that I barely comprehend, including dark matter. 0:21:39.260 --> 0:21:42.100 So that'll be fun. I listened to an explanation of 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:44.550 what dark matter was. And again, you might as well 0:21:44.630 --> 0:21:49.389 try to explain the Julian calendar to a dog. It's 0:21:49.970 --> 0:21:53.590 kind of like gravity, but not. Anyway, I love that. Oh! 0:21:54.050 --> 0:21:56.750 Here's why it's important we keep exploring. And it's all 0:21:56.810 --> 0:22:01.250 of a package, I think, with free markets and free people, 0:22:02.150 --> 0:22:08.560 as opposed to just looking inward, navel-gazing, giving up, socialism. 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:14.960 It's like of a package. Free market people, a free 0:22:15.060 --> 0:22:20.500 people who practice free markets... It's practically, we have to explore. 0:22:20.820 --> 0:22:24.020 We have to learn more and see more and know more. 0:22:24.140 --> 0:22:27.379 It's all part of, you know, just the free market 0:22:27.420 --> 0:22:37.439 is just liberty in general. But that inward, just failing, British, sad, 0:22:37.950 --> 0:22:41.070 waiting for the end thing. That's the people who say, 0:22:41.670 --> 0:22:45.050 don't spend money on the space program. Use it for 0:22:45.270 --> 0:22:50.430 housing for the unfortunate. Yeah, we can do both. Well, 0:22:52.830 --> 0:22:54.909 kind of fitting in with my, I've decided I'm going 0:22:54.970 --> 0:22:58.300 to have like five things I pay attention to because 0:22:58.430 --> 0:23:01.419 most of it is crap. The attention economy, which is 0:23:01.480 --> 0:23:04.640 a term I really like, just everybody battling for your 0:23:04.680 --> 0:23:08.040 attention and they're winning, taking all of our attention all 0:23:08.060 --> 0:23:11.379 the time. I hope it becomes really cool at some point. 0:23:11.460 --> 0:23:16.590 Like your sophisticated artist thinker types are I can't be 0:23:16.630 --> 0:23:21.170