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Speaker 6: You've got so much to talk about tonight. The presidential
Speaker 6: race might come down to Nebraska. Donald Trump teaches elementary school.
Speaker 6: And here's an exciting one.
Speaker 5: The moon is.
Speaker 6: Going to eat the sun. So let's get into the headlines.
Speaker 6: Before we get into the major news. Let's start some
Speaker 6: news right here in New York City. The New York
Speaker 6: City Marathon the best excuse for soiling yourself in public.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 6: Unfortunately, the costs of running the marathon are overwhelming, from
Speaker 6: registration fees to travel to chronic bloody nips, and now
Speaker 6: the price might go up even higher.
Speaker 7: It's a battle briolling over the New York City Marathon
Speaker 7: now because the MTA wants the New York City Roadrunners
Speaker 7: to cover the cost of lost tolls on that day.
Speaker 7: It's hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth because they have
Speaker 7: to shut down the Arizona Bridge. In a statement, the
Speaker 7: MTA says taxpayers cannot be expected to subsidize a wealthy,
Speaker 7: non government organization like the Roadrunners. So that could mean
Speaker 7: super fees for those runners to enter the marathon.
Speaker 8: If that's what it's going to take to run the marathon,
Speaker 8: I think.
Speaker 5: A lot of runners are going to just suck it
Speaker 5: up and do it. Oh, that's kind of frustrating.
Speaker 3: It's already think super high. Yeah, because New York's one
Speaker 3: of the most popular marathons are run.
Speaker 6: Come on, you couldn't and wait for her to cool down, dude,
Speaker 6: you know that run is the twenty minutes of peace
Speaker 6: that woman had all day. Now, the marathon does generate
Speaker 6: a lot of money from New York City, so you
Speaker 6: might be asking is it fair to charge runners even
Speaker 6: more money? That is, Yeah, if you're going to take
Speaker 6: over the city and shove it in our face.
Speaker 5: How fit you are that you.
Speaker 4: Have goals that you achieve, then yeah, you should have
Speaker 4: to pay for it. In fact, they should pay every
Speaker 4: time they tell us they ran the marathon.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, we know it was three days ago.
Speaker 5: You can take off the silver blanket.
Speaker 6: And for anyone who thinks this will make the marathon
Speaker 6: too expensive, might I interest you in a much cheaper alternative.
Speaker 6: It's called love Island and three pints of Hagandags. I
Speaker 6: win every time. Let's move on to the presidential race.
Speaker 6: It's the reason your therapist drives a Porsche mind does.
Speaker 6: As you know, the president is decided by the Electoral College,
Speaker 6: the incredibly over complicated system that our founders came up
Speaker 6: with as a prank on future generations.
Speaker 5: Now, most states award.
Speaker 6: All their electoral votes to whoever wins the state, but
Speaker 6: Nebraska splits theirs up by district, and in twenty twenty,
Speaker 6: that meant Joe Biden received an electoral vote from liberal
Speaker 6: Omaha because, as it turns out, every state has a Brooklyn.
Speaker 6: But now Donald Trump has realized that he wants that vote,
Speaker 6: and that.
Speaker 5: Could make all the difference.
Speaker 2: Could the election all come down to Nebraska? Donald Trump
Speaker 2: thinks so, he and his allies convincing Nebraska's Republican governor
Speaker 2: to support a major change in the way the state
Speaker 2: has been doling out its electoral college votes for the
Speaker 2: past thirty two years.
Speaker 9: Governor Jim Pillen says it's time for Nebraska to speak
Speaker 9: with one unified voice by making the popular vote be
Speaker 9: the one that counts for all five delegates. Former President
Speaker 9: Trump applauds that effort, but Democrats pushed back.
Speaker 5: Pathetic worm.
Speaker 8: Donald Trump thinks that he knows what's best for Nebraska
Speaker 8: and what Nebraskan's want.
Speaker 6: But this man obviously wants this s electoral vote because
Speaker 6: he's so scared he can't win the presidency without it.
Speaker 6: Excuse me, ma'am, but whatever happened to decorum? That's former
Speaker 6: president pathetic worm. Yeah, but the implications here are huge.
Speaker 6: Biden's easiest paths to the White House is to win Pennsylvania, Wisconsin,
Speaker 6: and Michigan plus that one Nebraska vote. If he gets that,
Speaker 6: he can lose every other swing state and still win
Speaker 6: the election. But if Nebraska makes this change, the election
Speaker 6: could end up in a tie. And you might be
Speaker 6: wondering what happens in that case, Well, it's simple. Really,
Speaker 6: have you ever seen the purge movies.
Speaker 5: Like that?
Speaker 6: Nebraska should really truly keep this system, though, because it's
Speaker 6: certainly a more fair way to divide up electoral votes
Speaker 6: than winner take all. In fact, what if every state
Speaker 6: split up their votes like Nebraska by district or maybe
Speaker 6: even by person, you know, then whoever wins the most
Speaker 6: persons would be president.
Speaker 5: That would be pretty popular. Oh we could call it
Speaker 5: the popular vote. I don't know, I'm just pitfalling.
Speaker 6: But let's move on to some exciting science news. Next Monday,
Speaker 6: a solar eclipse will totally block out the sun over
Speaker 6: parts of America, and we're all looking forward to having
Speaker 6: one brief moment when you can look up into the
Speaker 6: sky and see something besides the door of a Boeing
Speaker 6: airplane plummeting towards the room. That's not just a moment
Speaker 6: for humans, and eclipse offers a once in a lifetime
Speaker 6: opportunity for Rudy Giuliani to come out and feed during
Speaker 6: the day.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's good for him. It's good for him. Now.
Speaker 6: In the old days, a total clips would be a
Speaker 6: time when people would gather together as a community and
Speaker 6: burn the witches responsible for it. But these days we
Speaker 6: commemorate it in the modern, enlightened way by trying to
Speaker 6: make that money.
Speaker 10: This eclipse is causing a travel boom for small towns
Speaker 10: in its path.
Speaker 8: Hotels here up about five hundred and fifty percent in
Speaker 8: cities like Jackson, Missouri, where it'll cost on average more
Speaker 8: than six hundred dollars a night.
Speaker 5: In Erie, Pennsylvania. It's almost eight hundred.
Speaker 10: Companies so rushing to cash in some of the strangest,
Speaker 10: some inspired foods, including chips you can only get during
Speaker 10: the eclipse. Krispy Kreme is even teaming up with Oreos
Speaker 10: for a donut featuring cookie pieces to catch.
Speaker 5: The eclipse from the sky.
Speaker 11: Delta offering a flight from Austin to Detroit to give
Speaker 11: onlookers and out of this worldview.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 6: Talk about a flight where you do not want to
Speaker 6: be in the middle seat. Imagine you end up sitting
Speaker 6: next to that guy.
Speaker 5: Who insists on keeping his window shade down.
Speaker 6: Although how cool to celebrate the once in a lifetime
Speaker 6: event of a Delta flight taking off on time. I
Speaker 6: love how every civilization honors the heavens in their own way.
Speaker 6: The ancient Incas built Machu Picchu America put an oreo
Speaker 6: on a doughnut. You're really milk in this event for
Speaker 6: everything it's worth. But look, we can't deny that the
Speaker 6: eclipse truly is a rare, magical moment. I mean, for
Speaker 6: those lucky enough to be in its path, you'll never
Speaker 6: forget that you saw that, and nothing, nothing can take
Speaker 6: that away from you.
Speaker 4: Weather and clouds might get in the way of perfect eclipse.
Speaker 5: Viewing in many parts of the country.
Speaker 6: For more on how towns across America are celebrating the eclipse,
Speaker 6: we have our news team live in the path of totality.
Speaker 6: Ronnie chan in Kerville, Texas. Guys, what's the moon.
Speaker 5: Like where where you are?
Speaker 12: Oh?
Speaker 8: It's amazing, Daisi. I thought this small town would be
Speaker 8: full of dumb rubes, but it's actually full of the
Speaker 8: friendliest and most welcoming roobs I've ever met. So nice
Speaker 8: to see America stop fighting for one day and watch
Speaker 8: the Sun put on a show.
Speaker 11: Save here, DESI, knowing how small we are in the
Speaker 11: vastness of space, has brought everyone together in love and
Speaker 11: friendship to wear repurposed Avatar three D glasses. So I
Speaker 11: agree with everything Ronnie said, except for the part about
Speaker 11: the sun. Everyone knows the moon is the real star here.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry, Jordan, Well, the moon is supporting, but the
Speaker 8: sun is the real star here. I mean it's literally
Speaker 8: a star. I'm sorry they didn't teach you that in
Speaker 8: American kindergarten.
Speaker 11: Obviously, I mean star metaphorically. They must not teach metaphors
Speaker 11: wherever you went to community College. The sun is not
Speaker 11: why people are putting aside their differences and coming together. Dipshit.
Speaker 11: They're watching the moon cross over the sun. Unlike you,
Speaker 11: most people don't stare at the sun all day.
Speaker 6: Okay, guys, guys, let's not fall apart over this. The
Speaker 6: sun and the moon are equally important here.
Speaker 8: Oh oh sure, yeah, equally important because if the sun disappears,
Speaker 8: I mean, all that happens is we all freeze to death,
Speaker 8: and God forbid, the moon goes away, and then will
Speaker 8: be what hot of the south, and Jordan won't gains
Speaker 8: period anymore.
Speaker 11: Okay, you put some respect on the moon, all right,
Speaker 11: It's our cultural touchstone. Good night, moon, moonlight sonata. When
Speaker 11: the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie,
Speaker 11: that's them all right, Tell me this, tell me this.
Speaker 5: Have you ever have you ever gotten a moon burn?
Speaker 12: No?
Speaker 11: The worst thing that happens under the moonlight is that
Speaker 11: you fall in love or turn into a werewolf. Either way,
Speaker 11: it's awesome.
Speaker 8: Oh sorry, you did you say moonlight? You mean the
Speaker 8: light that reflects from the sun.
Speaker 9: Yo.
Speaker 8: The moon is nothing. It's a rock, good thing. It
Speaker 8: has a weak gravitational pull, so people can leave it easier.
Speaker 11: Oh, I thought you'd like the week gravity because it's
Speaker 11: the one place in the universe where you could actually
Speaker 11: dunk a basketball. Smart ass.
Speaker 6: Okay, guys, guys, guys, stop this.
Speaker 5: I thought this eclipse would bring us together.
Speaker 11: Shut up, shut up, DENI you probably like Mars or
Speaker 11: some stupid shits.
Speaker 5: Yeah, mass All.
Speaker 8: Right, Look, the moon doesn't have shit on the Sun. Okay,
Speaker 8: you wouldn't even know the moon exists if it wasn't
Speaker 8: for the Sun. So don't act like the Sun isn't
Speaker 8: the most important part of the eclipse.
Speaker 12: All right?
Speaker 10: Oh wait, what are you doing? What are you doing?
Speaker 11: I pass what the powerful body can do?
Speaker 8: Get out of my.
Speaker 4: Ready, even Ronnie, Jane and Jordan's pot for everyone.
Speaker 2: Well the day show.
Speaker 6: The election is well underway and Donald Trump is back
Speaker 6: on the campaign trail this week, talking about the issue
Speaker 6: that's most important to Americans.
Speaker 13: I got indicted more than Alphonse Capone al Capone scar,
Speaker 13: you know how bad he was. You know these are
Speaker 13: I know somebody guys in the federal the tough guys.
Speaker 13: If you ever looked at Alphonse Capone, you wouldn't be
Speaker 13: tough at all. You'd be dead by the morning. Most
Speaker 13: likely I got indicted more than Alphonse. Alphonse was a
Speaker 13: tough man. They did a movie called Scarface. Check it out.
Speaker 6: Same way you will about Trump, But when he gives
Speaker 6: you a history lesson, you remember it. I learned that
Speaker 6: al Capone's name was Alphonse. I learned that if you
Speaker 6: look at him, you'd be dead by morning. Trump is
Speaker 6: like the world's worst teacher talking to the world's dumbest
Speaker 6: third graders.
Speaker 5: Anyway, I got us.
Speaker 6: Thinking, if this politics thing doesn't work out, maybe Trump
Speaker 6: has a future in education.
Speaker 5: It's the most prestigious.
Speaker 6: Educational institution of all time, Trump University. And now the
Speaker 6: children of those Trump you grads have a school all
Speaker 6: their own, Trump Elementary, the only school where every class
Speaker 6: is taught by the smartest man alive. It's a typical
Speaker 6: day at Trump Elementary, and it looks it's like us
Speaker 6: history class is about to begin.
Speaker 13: I don't know what it is. The Civil War was
Speaker 13: so fascinating, so horrible.
Speaker 12: If you got hit by a bullet in the leg,
Speaker 12: you were essentially going to die or lose the leg.
Speaker 13: That's why you had so many people no.
Speaker 14: Legs, no arms.
Speaker 5: Next class science, think of it, magnets Now all I
Speaker 5: know about magnets is this.
Speaker 13: Give me a glass of water, let me drop it
Speaker 13: on the magnets. That's the end of the magnus.
Speaker 5: Now let's switch to that.
Speaker 12: Multiply four thousand, seven hundred and thirty three. Multiply time
Speaker 12: steven divide without paper and pencil, by the way, divide
Speaker 12: it by four, add up another.
Speaker 10: Thirty seven and a half.
Speaker 13: I watch your number. How many people in this room
Speaker 13: could do it?
Speaker 11: Not too many.
Speaker 12: And geography, puert Rica was an island sitting in the
Speaker 12: middle of an ocean.
Speaker 13: And it's a big ocean.
Speaker 6: It's a very big ocean.
Speaker 5: Okay, time to work on your vocap.
Speaker 9: The N word.
Speaker 8: You know what the N word is.
Speaker 13: It's no, no, no, it's the nuclear word.
Speaker 5: How about s one Pueto Rico?
Speaker 6: We love Pueto Crica.
Speaker 4: And who was Untery?
Speaker 5: Good time for p E. Klad.
Speaker 6: It wouldn't be a well rounded education from Trump Elementary
Speaker 6: without a lesson.
Speaker 5: And the birds and the bees.
Speaker 13: Ah bad happening.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 6: The beastly lover of Ken Harby would be joining me
Speaker 6: on the show, so don't go away.
Speaker 5: Welcome day show.
Speaker 6: My guests tonight are executive producers and writers of the
Speaker 6: award winning documentary film Against All Enemies, which exposes the
Speaker 6: role of military veterans and extremist groups, Please welcome Sebastian
Speaker 6: Junger and Ken Harbaugh.
Speaker 5: Well, hello, thank you so much for being on the show.
Speaker 12: Pleasure.
Speaker 5: This movie scared the ship out of me.
Speaker 9: Was was that?
Speaker 5: Was that the goal?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a it's a it's a tough time in
Speaker 1: America right now, and I think we all have to
Speaker 1: pay attention to whether we stay in democracy or not.
Speaker 1: And that's what the point of this film was, is
Speaker 1: to get us to think about that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it really really does.
Speaker 6: Ken, you're a military veteran, a former Navy pilot. You
Speaker 6: can absolutely say that the vast majority of veterans have
Speaker 6: not joined these extremist groups. But but for those that have,
Speaker 6: what's so compelling to them to join the Oath Keepers,
Speaker 6: the Proud Boys three percenters.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you recognize that the vast majority of my buddies,
Speaker 3: my brothers and sisters in arms don't go join the
Speaker 3: Proud Boys or the Oath Keepers. But the ones that do,
Speaker 3: in many cases do it out of a sense of
Speaker 3: needing to recapture that camaraderie and that sense of belonging
Speaker 3: that they felt in uniform. When you take the uniform off,
Speaker 3: that goes away almost overnight. And one of the things
Speaker 3: these groups do really really well is recreate that by
Speaker 3: giving these veterans that sense of purpose and that sense
Speaker 3: of mission. The problem is that mission is undermining democracy.
Speaker 5: Sebastian.
Speaker 6: You explored you co directed in award winning documentary Ristreppo
Speaker 6: that explores the war in Afghanistan, and you've extensively talked
Speaker 6: about combat veterans reintegrating into civilian life in your book Tribe.
Speaker 6: What is it specifically about the wars in Afghanistan and
Speaker 6: Iraq that play a role in everything that we're seeing
Speaker 6: right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's complicated. The guys I was with in
Speaker 1: Afghanistan off and on for a year, you know, they
Speaker 1: they sort of trended conservative. But I can't imagine any
Speaker 1: one of those guys doing anything like what happened on
Speaker 1: January sixth. The real combat veterans usually don't have anything
Speaker 1: to prove, and I think one of the ways that
Speaker 1: the January sixth crowd is dangerous. They're dangerous in two
Speaker 1: different ways. One is that there are some real deal
Speaker 1: special forces guys who know what they're doing, who could
Speaker 1: organize a very serious, violent situation in this country, and
Speaker 1: we have to be very very careful of those guys.
Speaker 1: Most of the I would say most of the guys
Speaker 1: on January sixth, with the beards and the you know, camo,
Speaker 1: the tactical pants, et cetera, et cetera, might have been
Speaker 1: in the military but probably never saw combat. And I
Speaker 1: think that makes them extremely dangerous because they have this
Speaker 1: sort of fantasy of themselves as a hero, along with
Speaker 1: probably some psych disorders, and that creates that creates a
Speaker 1: very very dangerous mix.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you bring that, Would you say that?
Speaker 6: Is it fair to say that in this country we
Speaker 6: could have stronger support systems for those veterans who are
Speaker 6: coming back and reintegrating into society.
Speaker 13: Yes.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's the problem here with these guys.
Speaker 1: I think they're sort of willing dupes of a dishonest
Speaker 1: ex president and they were sort of they wanted to
Speaker 1: they wanted to believe something, and they wanted a war
Speaker 1: to fight, and they wanted to be act in her
Speaker 1: supposedly heroic way in a crucial moment in history and
Speaker 1: like save the nation except it's all nonsense, right, And
Speaker 1: but that aside just generally for vets. Absolutely, we live
Speaker 1: in an amazing but alienating modern society and vets come
Speaker 1: back and it's very hard to fit in, and frankly,
Speaker 1: it's very hard for all of us to fit in.
Speaker 1: I mean, the depression and suicide rate in this country
Speaker 1: is through the roof, Like why would that be?
Speaker 14: Right?
Speaker 10: Right?
Speaker 6: So, extremist groups have been in the US for a
Speaker 6: long time. But what makes this particular moment so is
Speaker 6: so impactful and so dangerous.
Speaker 3: We have dealt since our founding as a country with extremism,
Speaker 3: with extremist groups.
Speaker 5: But you have to go back a long ways to.
Speaker 3: Find a period in American history where a domestic terrorist movement.
Speaker 5: Has the cover of a political party.
Speaker 3: That is a new situation. When you have a former
Speaker 3: president name checking an organization the Proud Boys, deemed by
Speaker 3: Canada is a terrorist entity, name checking them from behind
Speaker 3: a presidential podium. That is incredibly invigorating for these organizations.
Speaker 3: And you probably have to go back to the rise
Speaker 3: of the KKK in the South to find an analog
Speaker 3: to a terrorist movement that had major political cover and
Speaker 3: used it to recavoc.
Speaker 5: You bring up the former president. He has certainly.
Speaker 6: Said some controversial things about veterans, somewhat disrespectful. Some might
Speaker 6: say he's asked wounded vets to not appear at his events.
Speaker 6: He's called American service members who have passed suckers and losers.
Speaker 6: Why is it that you find that your military brothers
Speaker 6: and sisters are coming to his side.
Speaker 3: We all know he has no respect for the military.
Speaker 3: He disdains the very idea of service. He didn't just
Speaker 3: call those who serve suckers. He calls those who died
Speaker 3: fighting for the country suckers. He called those who put
Speaker 3: on the uniform to serve their country losers. I think
Speaker 3: it's incumbent upon us to make sure that every single
Speaker 3: veteran knows between now and the election just how disdainful
Speaker 3: of the very idea of service the former president is.
Speaker 6: There's no real evidence so far that Trump and his
Speaker 6: followers will accept the election results upcoming.
Speaker 5: How do you see this playing out?
Speaker 3: It could go a number of ways. I mean, I
Speaker 3: certainly hope that the person who tried to end democracy
Speaker 3: doesn't win a second term. Even if he loses, though,
Speaker 3: I think we all know that he's not going to concede.
Speaker 3: He tried to overthrow the results of a free and
Speaker 3: fair election once. I assume he'll do it again. I
Speaker 3: know Sebastiana's thoughts on this, but I think we need
Speaker 3: to be prepared for the worst.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I can't think of a good reason
Speaker 1: why there wouldn't be violence if Trump loses. He hasn't.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's all in now right, Like, if he
Speaker 1: doesn't get re elected, he's wide open to criminal prosecution.
Speaker 1: He's the only thing protecting him, and it shouldn't even
Speaker 1: protect him, but it seems to be for the moment,
Speaker 1: so he's got nothing to lose.
Speaker 6: A lot of these far right extremists don't trust the government,
Speaker 6: they don't trust the media. They are untrusting of our
Speaker 6: intelligence agencies. Is there do you see any kind of
Speaker 6: hope full time in our future where we're all dealing
Speaker 6: with the same facts.
Speaker 5: I think a glimmer of hope, please.
Speaker 3: I think it starts with conversations like this, It starts
Speaker 3: with films like Against All Enemies. But at the end
Speaker 3: of the day, it's going to come down to one
Speaker 3: on one conversations. It's going to come down to a
Speaker 3: family member who cares about a veteran who is at
Speaker 3: that crossroads between doing something noble like joining Team Rubicon
Speaker 3: and helping disaster relief victims across the country, or joining
Speaker 3: the Proud Boys and Oathkeepers and undermining democracy. That decision
Speaker 3: often comes down to a conversation with someone who cares
Speaker 3: about that veteran.
Speaker 5: Well, thank you so much for being on.
Speaker 6: Thank you for making this incredible film and starting this
Speaker 6: conversation Against All Enemies is in select theaters and available
Speaker 6: on vod Ken Harbaugh and Sebastian Junger.
Speaker 8: Right back.
Speaker 14: For those of us who are lucky enough to be
Speaker 14: in the path of the eclipse, let's talk about what
Speaker 14: you should and should not do. And we do have
Speaker 14: a visual reference as to what you should not do.
Speaker 8: I know you have some people there. You should not
Speaker 8: do this.
Speaker 14: Apparently you should not look up at the eclipse.
Speaker 7: Don't do that.
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