WEBVTT - Cartoon Porcupines 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:06.800 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:10.920 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:18.119 Armstrong and Getty and He Armstrong and Eddy. 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:27.720 President Trumvin oounce in a post untruth Social Republican Center 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:30.520 Lindsay Graham had passed away and added quote details and 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:31.760 arrangements to follow. 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:35.920 Wait, why are you in charge of the arrangement? He 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:40.320 has a family, Lindsey would have wanted us to serve cheeseburgers. 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:48.640 So Lindsey's sister is gonna be the senator until November anyway. 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:51.080 Yeah, so it seems Yeah. 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:53.519 I saw where Mitch McConnell put out a picture of 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:55.640 himself in the hospital to prove he was still live 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:56.200 in the internet. 0:00:56.240 --> 0:01:00.520 Immediately said AI. Yeah, it's a problem with AI. Yeah. 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:06.800 I saw Lindsey Graham interviewed I don't know how many 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:09.759 years ago where he said his sister is his greatest achievement. 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:13.120 The fact that she's turned out good makes him happier 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:16.960 than anything in his life, because man, both their parents died. 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:19.640 He's nineteen, she's thirteen. He adopts her and takes care 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:20.480 of her. That's a lot. 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:24.160 Yeah, saw a bunch of interviews from his small town 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:26.560 that he grew up in and where he lived, and 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:28.880 he would just go home all the time from DC. 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:31.160 He was not one of those denizens of DC. He 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.480 was home in South Carolina all the time. He would 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:34.960 just go to the walmart and his ball cap and 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:37.000 people say hey, Lindsay, you'd say, hey, how you doing, 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.360 just acted like a regular guy when he's home. Really, 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:42.000 it's really an interesting character. 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:45.880 So socialism is in the news, and I hope that 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:47.880 didn't make you roll your eyes or dive for the 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:50.400 dial to turn it off to hear more talk about socialism. 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:54.480 It's interesting that it's comeback. 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:54.919 It's funny. 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:56.320 My son and I were talking about this in the 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:58.600 car just the other day, like how this has made 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:02.240 a comeback. My dad explained to me when I was 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:04.240 like six years old why it doesn't work, and I 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:06.920 never doubted it once because it made perfect sense to me. 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:10.560 If everybody gets equal stuff, nobody's gonna try. Okay, it 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:12.880 makes sense. That was the end of the conversation. That's 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:14.480 all I needed to hear because it. 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:18.280 The rest is just detailed. That makes perfect sense. Yeah, 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:20.080 and it just all you gotta do is look around you. 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:22.280 Oh my god. 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:25.160 But collectivism or whatever you want to call it, Marxism 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:28.680 or whatever it's it's it's coming back. Obviously I was 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.840 on one of your fancy pants twitter feeds with smart 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:36.120 people explaining where Rousseau came in on this whole conversation 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:41.360 a good eighty years before Marx did his writing. Rosseau 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:45.160 invented a lot of this stuff, the great French philosopher. 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:49.800 Every premise of contemporary progressive ideology traces directly back to 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:52.440 one man who had never met a noble savage that 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:55.440 was his term, never raised a child, and never lived 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:57.160 according to a single principle. 0:02:56.760 --> 0:03:00.280 He preached, just like all of these other people, Marx, so. 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:06.080 Platner, all these people, all these people who like socialism, 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:09.120 never had a job, never raised kids, usually never like 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:13.680 lived any of the real life. It's amazing anyway. Rousseau's 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:18.679 foundational claim a man is naturally good and civilization corrupts him, 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:22.000 which sounds compassionate, but it's a most dangerous idea and 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.639 the history of Western political thought, because if a man 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:30.000 is naturally good, than every failure, every crime, every inequality 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:36.360 is caused by the system, not by the individual responsibility. Evaporates, 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:39.560 the oppressor is always external, the victim is always pure. 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:43.960 This is the complete architecture of wokeism in one sentence, 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:45.960 and it was written in seventeen fifty five. 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:48.840 That's an excellent point. Yeah, that's good. 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:52.360 I disliked Rousseau since I first read him in college, 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:55.400 but it hadn't occurred to me that, Yeah, that's like the. 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:59.480 DNA of it. Yeah, it really is anyway. 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:03.480 So Jonah Goldberg of The Dispatch took a break, thank god, 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:06.720 in my mind, from everything Trump and got back to 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:10.920 one of his greatest things he's ever written about is 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:14.480 the free market and capitalism versus socialism and all that 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:16.440 sort of stuff. He's written many books over the years, 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:19.480 works for the Dispatch now, and he went on several 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:21.880 screeds over the last couple of weeks with all these 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:27.600 candidates winning as part of calling themselves democratic socialists and 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:31.600 beating out the mainstream democrats. I'll read a little bit 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:33.600 from this because I thought it was good. We hear 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:37.240 a lot about how democratic socialism isn't Communism has no 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:41.159 similarities to communism, and people who suggest it does are ignorant. 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:46.600 Mccarthyites are both mainstream media pundits, academics and democratic politicians 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:50.520 insists that that Democratic Socialism of the DSA, that's the 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:54.680 actual party, Democrat Socialists of America, that's where Mundami came from. Right, 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:59.240 has nothing to do with communism or revolutionary or violent 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:03.560 communist struggles. Jenal Goldberg writes, I have no problem conceding 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.800 the definitions of democratic socialism and communism are very different, 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:10.360 and that there are sincere democratic socialists who aren't communists. 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:14.039 Mlka Junior wasn't a communist. The founder of the DSA, 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:19.159 Michael Harrington wasn't a communist either. But it's worth noting 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:23.080 that within the Democratic Socialist Party there are a bunch 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:26.080 of affiliated caucuses. They call them because they have different 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:29.600 branches within their party that they call caucuses, and many 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:34.240 of the caucuses are a validly and openly communist, and 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.839 nobody in the DSA ever asked to explain them away. 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:42.839 For instance, the Liberation Caucus is a self described Marxist 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:45.200 Leninist Maoist caucus. 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:47.440 This isn't quotes. This is from their website. 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:52.279 Marxist Leninist MAOIs Caucus and Democratic Socialists of America. It 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:54.960 defended the murder of the two Jews outside the Capitol 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:58.120 back in twenty twenty five. DSA was forced to condemn 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:01.760 the shooting, but did not condemn the Liberation Caucus. In 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:07.200 their own party, the Liberation Caucus has a dedicated common 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:10.040 Misconceptions about Maoism page. 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:13.320 Wow Isn't that amazing? Wow? 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:16.719 Mao, who killed more people than maybe any human in 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:20.040 the history of the planet, certainly is in the running 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:24.120 tens of millions. The Liberation Caucus recommended reading list does 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:28.440 not include any titles promoting Swedish style social democracy, which 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:30.800 is what your socialists are always talking about. Don't we 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:32.359 much want to do what Sweden does? 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:35.400 It's most Caitlin Collins on CNN is always trying to 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:37.040 tell you that the DSA is. 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:42.440 For instance, Right Goldberg writes, it's mostly a dog's breakfast 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:46.279 of Marxist Leninism, Black national and of of course Maoist doctrine. 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:48.200 And he has the links if you actually want to 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:52.000 read about it. The Marxist Unity Group is another DSA 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:55.200 faction that is officially in its party and not being 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:58.200 you know, booted out or anything among it. Seven points 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:01.440 of Unity is fight the Constitution, in which they openly 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:05.120 say we want socialists to fight and overthrow the constitution. 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:07.320 The Red Star Caucus. 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:10.800 Yet another group explains that it's a Marxist Leninist caucus 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:14.480 in the DSA. Our primary goal all this is int quote, 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:17.440 our primary goal, the goal which informs all of our 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:21.800 organizing work, is to aboblish abolished capitalism and ultimately to 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:22.960 achieve communism. 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:25.280 It's on their web page. 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:29.520 Red Star conceives of itself as an ideological center in 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:33.480 the DSA. Then there's the Communist Caucus, which rejects the 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:36.640 notion that power can simply be taken via the ballot box. 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:40.480 It rejects mere reform. Is incrementalism, not a solution. They 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:43.800 insist that the DSA has a great potential promoting and 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:49.480 unifying working class struggles, but they need to come at 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:51.920 it much harder. We believe there are many avenues that 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:55.800 feed into the democratic road to socialism. Our vision pushes 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:59.800 further than social democracy and leaves behind authoritarian visions of 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:05.520 socialism and the dust bin of history. Okay, so Jonah 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:08.680 Goldberg ends with this. I have looked in vain to 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:13.040 find evidence that any major media outlet has asked DSA 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:17.320 candidates to repudiate these caucuses by name or even meaningfully 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:21.040 engage with the fact that they are fully recognized caucuses 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:25.760 and factions within their party. Nobody's having to speak for 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:30.720 that at all. And he goes on to say, we 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:33.440 can only go too far with the guilt by association arguments. 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:36.600 But the simpler fact is that they are literally associated 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:39.679 with these groups. They may not be members of these groups, 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:42.640 they may even privately oppose them or work to minimize 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:45.040 their influence within the party, but they are still a 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:48.280 part of an organization that does not reject them. Maoists 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:52.440 and communists are in their tent. If a Republican candidate 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:56.040 was a member of some broad front that had openly 0:08:56.240 --> 0:09:00.440 Nazi and fascist organizations committed to overthrowing the count institution 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:02.680 within it, I don't think we would hear a lot 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:06.760 of well, actually, conservatism and fascism are very different things 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:10.840 the way we hear Actually, democratic socialism and communism are 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:14.880 not the same thing, right right. I thought that was 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:18.840 really good and everybody should know that, and the mainstream media, yes, 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:22.640 should make these DSA members who have won I don't 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:25.560 know how many different primaries recently, including the one in 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:29.720 Colorado and then that guy that's leading currently for the 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:35.760 Senate nominee in Michigan. Make them openly say disavow those 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:37.079 other parts of their group. 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:41.079 Yeah, they'd lie about it, but they at least need 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:42.680 to be asked about it. I wonder if we all 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:44.920 need to take a sacred vow. If you encounter any 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:48.360 member of the mainstream media, ask them, why don't members 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:52.080 of the DSA ever get asked about the openly communist 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:56.760 members of the DSA, About the Maoists in the DSA, 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.920 the people whose whole goal, according to their own website 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:05.040 is to overthrow capitalism or constitution? Right? Yeah, yeah, why 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:08.040 don't you ever ask them that? I would love to 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:11.319 hear that question come from every man, woman and child 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:15.000 with a conscience in America until it gets the job done. 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:16.320 That was news to me. 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:19.480 I didn't know that the DSA was full of people 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:24.320 that hardcore openly. I assumed they had hardcore people like that, 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.959 but not openly that hardcore and getting away with it. 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:31.720 We're a maoist organization. Here are the myths about mao 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:33.400 is your website? 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:38.480 Oh Trump was at all effective in talking about this stuff, 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:43.240 or or somebody could step out and take the lead 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:46.800 on this. Just somebody with a platform big enough that 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.280 folks wake up to it. There are plenty of folks 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:54.240 on the conservative side of things who aren't fully aware 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:54.640 of what the. 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:56.320 DSA is, and it's troubling. 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:58.360 Well, I was gonnaware that those groups were in there 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:01.840 as open as open as they are about their goals. 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:02.680 I didn't know. 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.600 I knew there were openly communists that were at the 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:07.360 heart of the movement, but I didn't know they had 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:11.800 like separate factions of different sorts of communism and were 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:18.280 recognized caucuses within the party and accepted, yeah, and accepted 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:20.400 you couldn't. 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:25.920 Be like part of the Republican Party obviously, and or 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:30.120 run against mainstream Republicans and win and no, I'm a Nazi. 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:33.680 I'm we're part of the Nazi Party. We believe in 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:37.040 national socialism and the eradication of well, the Jews thing. 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:39.160 You might have to be a Democrat. Then at that 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:40.439 point you couldn't be a Republican. 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:43.200 And then, as we were discussing earlier, the fact that 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:46.439 the Democratic Socialists say openly, oh, we're here to supplant 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:49.680 the Democratic Party. We're going to shove their leadership out 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.240 and take over the party in the name of socialism. 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:56.319 Can you imagine the Republican parties saying the Nazis they 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:58.360 keep saying they're going to take over the party, but 0:11:58.400 --> 0:11:59.559 we need them for our coalition. 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:00.680 Sick. 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:02.760 The thing I would like to know is how big 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:05.360 these various groups are. How many people are in them? 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:09.040 Is it tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of millions? 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:12.600 I'd like to know, are they big enough and wily 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:16.000 enough and brutal enough to take over the politics? 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:17.199 Though? Of places? 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:19.800 The answer is yeah, clearly, Like in New York and 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:23.920 in Colorado and everywhere else they're running winning elections. Bernie Sanders, 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:26.520 Graham Plattner, who you know, he's gone, but his ill 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:30.720 will remain. So they're effective. Never mind the numbers, although 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:34.120 I'm curious about the numbers. Two How effective are they? 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:36.000 Very? Is the answer? 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:39.280 The takeaway in Jonah's point, I think really was none 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:41.760 of these candidates that say they are members of the 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:44.960 DSA should get away with being on face the nation 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:49.679 talking to Margaret Brennan without her making them disavow those 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:54.160 other factions. Yeah, or even how can you be a 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:59.079 member of a party that has avowed Maoists and communists 0:12:59.080 --> 0:12:59.320 in it? 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:01.560 How can you even be in the party, let alone 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:03.640 do some album. Maoists. 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:08.080 Yeah, here are the myths about MAO What. 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:14.160 Wow, it's crazy. These are crazy ass times, man, crazy 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.600 as I think any weird fast. 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:18.439 I'd say, you're right, elon more on the waist there, 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:20.560 Armstrong and. 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:28.400 Getty, and we would like to invest tremendously in the 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:32.120 United States as opposed to charging a fee. And I 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:34.319 like that actually, because I don't think anybody should be 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.200 able to charge your fee for the UH, for the 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:41.600 straight or for any other straight relationship in terms of 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:44.319 other sections of the world. I don't think anybody should 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:47.400 be really in that position. But we were doing it 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:50.880 as a reimbursement. The Gulf States are going to invest 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:54.720 a tremendous amount of money into the United States, and 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:57.439 that was very satisfactory to me. I think it's actually 0:13:57.520 --> 0:13:58.040 much better. 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:01.040 Okay, so let's explain what's going on. 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:03.440 Trump, off the top of his head, came up with 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:05.760 the idea of a twenty percent fee for ships to 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:09.240 go through the Strait yesterday. Then he realized, oh, I 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:12.280 didn't realize. The Secretary Marco Rubio said that would be horrible. 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:14.920 Just like three weeks ago, and everybody explained to him 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:16.960 how it would be horrible and undoable and all kinds 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:19.240 of different stuff. So he's backed off of that within 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:23.360 twenty four hours. And now it's country's investing in the 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:27.600 United States and they'll promise to and they may or 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:30.600 may not, and you'll never know because I would even 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:31.360 keep track of that. 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:31.760 Anyway. 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:37.680 I'm picturing the cabinet going from probably in the early days, saying, 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:42.160 Sweet Mother of God, he said, what to now. It's 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:45.160 like a playing a board game. President said, we're going 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:51.280 to be a confiscating all the airliners on Earth. Oh okay, 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:54.160 why don't we explain that we're actually in favor of 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:57.040 free air travel and we just wanted to ensure that 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:00.200 pollution's held under control. Okay, great, yeah, I'll put that 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:00.480 that out. 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:04.040 Oh it's just ridiculous. A couple of World Cup notes. Yes, 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:05.240 watch on the soccer. 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:10.640 The greatest rivalry in sports on Earth, England v Argentina. 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:15.200 Brief history they're playing to me, they've only played five 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:20.600 games over one hundred and fifty years. Here's the five games. 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:24.160 A match so violent it prompted the invention of the 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:29.040 red card. Oh really, Yeah, that's England Argentina a goal 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:32.160 so controversial it became known as the hand of God. 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:35.200 That's when Maradonna punched the ball into the net for 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:38.920 the winning goal for the World Cup, back before there 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:42.560 were replays. Oh ref missed. It looked like a hitter 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.360 from his angle. Oh okay, even though it was clearly 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:48.320 punched it in with his hand. A goal so sublime 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:51.520 it became known as the goal of the Century. Allegations 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:55.920 of vile racism endless chance about the Falkland Islands. That's 0:15:56.040 --> 0:16:00.000 a little uncomfortable. They fought a war, Margaret Thatcher, anybody 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:02.080 falk On Islands are part of Argentina. I couldn't have 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:03.640 told you that for a million dollars. 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:04.960 Yeah, I fought a war over it. 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:08.000 The ejection of soccer icon David Beckham and an effigy 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:13.400 of a player hanged outside London pub. Uh yeah, yeah, 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:20.000 just it's both countries are crazy about the about the rivalry. 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:23.920 I didn't know Beckham, who played for England, got kicked out. 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:26.440 Of one of their matches. Wow. 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:31.200 And if you're kind of a casual Ish fan, you've 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:34.640 probably at least heard of Lionel Messi, considered maybe the 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.400 greatest player of all time and he plays for Argentina currently. 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:39.400 He's an old man now, but he'll be playing tomorrow. 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:42.680 When the two sides met at London's Wembley Stadium in 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:45.920 nineteen seventy nineteen sixty six, tempers freight so quickly that 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:49.160 Argentina captain Antonio Rattin was sent off. 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:50.920 After a series of vicious fouls. 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:53.520 He refused to leave the pitch for eight minutes before 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:55.880 ultimately taking a seat on the red carpet that had 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:58.080 been exclusively reserved for the Queen. 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:00.440 Wow. 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:03.440 I didn't even get into the referee as a jew 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:07.720 and he fixed the game controversy. Wow, that's emerged in 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:10.000 the wake of Argentina Egypt. 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:11.960 I didn't know that. 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:14.320 More on that to come. I carry and a bunch 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:15.920 of other stuff. If you miss you get the podcast 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:18.080 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:20.920 The Governor of New York. 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:27.800 Just signed whatever he assigned as governor, banning data center's 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:31.560 existence in the state. First nation statewide ban of these 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:32.639 AI data centers. 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:39.000 That's wild. Ah, yeah, that's is that a thing? 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:43.000 I don't know if that's even legal. And then my 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:45.480 other breaking news. Trump is one of the wackiest people 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:49.520 who've ever lived. Certainly the most powerful wacky person ever lived. 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:51.840 There will no longer be a twenty percent toll on 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:54.440 the straight of horn moves. Less than twenty four hours 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:57.840 after he imposed a twenty percent toll and sent the 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:01.040 markets going in everybody talking and articles. 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:03.480 Written here and there. Well, you got to write your 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:04.320 articles fast. 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:08.679 Yeah, I'll take care of that tomorrow, boss, No, no, 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:15.440 right today. Boy, So I found this discouragingly believable. The 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:18.960 match in the World Cup between Argentina and Egypt was 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:20.120 one for the ages. 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:22.240 I've got it on the dvr. I haven't watched. I'll 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:23.200 watched the second half. 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:26.600 Probably that's Argentina Egypt, and then the next one. Who 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:29.240 did they beat the most recently? That was really good too. 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:30.520 They fell behind early. 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:31.640 Yeah. 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:35.280 Yeah, anyway about the Egypt though, you gotta watch that 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:36.080 last ten minutes. 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:36.760 It's incredible. 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:39.600 Okay, we'll do the thrillerund The field was also a 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:42.199 prelude to something much bigger and much darker. Within an 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:45.040 hours of the final whistle, and anti Semitic conspiracy theory 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:48.399 was born. The idea began galloping across the Internet that 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:52.760 a cabal including Benjamin Netanya, who the Masade Lionel Messi, 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:58.280 Argentine President Xavier Milat and the FIFA had conspired to 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:01.480 rig the game for the Argentine team. Now, Jack, there 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:06.400 was evidence, I'm just asking questions, all right. The evidence 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:09.280 consisted of nothing more than photos of Messi posing with 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:12.399 Israeli officials and praying at the Western Wall more than 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:15.040 a decade ago, plus a few pictures of Milay with 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:19.080 Net and Yahoo. Even among the conspiratorially minded, this was 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:23.080 pretty thin stuff, right, It's Ashley Rinsberg. I assume Messi 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:26.199 is Catholic or he's not Jewish? 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:26.399 Are he? 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:27.479 Uh? 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:28.240 Right? Right? 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:31.240 But what the theory lacked was a FIFA component, something 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:34.000 that would link the nebulous Israel Argentina connection of the 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:36.439 game itself. So just like that one was invented, a 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:40.720 baseless claim that the game's referee, Francois Lexeitier la Texier, 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:45.400 was a Jewish or all the signs of a classic 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:48.840 digital influence operation, but subtly different, just a handful of 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:52.800 edits on Wikipedia, leverage structure and chronic vulnerabilities in our 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:55.640 information ecosystem to fabricate truth. 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:56.640 In broad daylight. 0:19:57.040 --> 0:19:59.800 This guy's not Jewish at all, But the Internet believed 0:19:59.840 --> 0:20:02.520 he us for a while, and this conspiracy theory went wild, 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:07.800 always the freaking Jews. I am so sorry my Jewish friends. Anyway, 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:12.440 it was bunk, which brings us to utterly soulless, evil 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:14.760 grifter and prayer on the weak minded. 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:16.280 At candae Ollens, you. 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:18.440 Can spend a billion dollars in influencers because this is 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:22.639 all becoming increasingly inexplicable. You are asking me to be 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:25.160 an idiot, actually, and I cannot do that for you. 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:30.920 Someone once commented beneath this show that if the situations 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:36.120 were reversed and there were this many verifiable lies that 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:40.000 Charlie told regarding the murder or assassination of his wife, 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:44.320 Charlie would be in prison awaiting trial. And I actually 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:47.520 agree with that assessment. We are way beyond coincidence. This 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:50.520 is now a full blown conspiracy. 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:52.359 So that's our grift now. 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:55.720 And she's making lots and lots of money, and it's 0:20:55.760 --> 0:21:00.320 absolutely evil, mining gold from the corpse of her quote 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:03.879 unquote friend and his grieving widow and little children with 0:21:04.000 --> 0:21:09.959 her bizarre ass theories. I found this super interesting. Michael 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:16.280 Schermer wrote a book about conspiracy theories, cleverly titled Where 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:21.560 is it else there's something like conspiracy, Oh, conspiracy. Why 0:21:21.600 --> 0:21:24.439 the rational believe the irrational in twenty twenty two, I 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:26.320 don't think I bought that. I think I will though, 0:21:27.560 --> 0:21:31.280 And he starts with the Charlie kirk thing and how 0:21:31.400 --> 0:21:36.600 in the preliminary hearings about the evidentiary hearings for Tyler Robinson, 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:42.639 the guy who shot Charlie kirk In's throat, and also 0:21:42.720 --> 0:21:48.359 actually the evidence is overwhelming. For example, he confessed to 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:54.359 the crime by text to his transgender room mate, both 0:21:54.960 --> 0:21:58.560 by text and then in person. His own parents recognized 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:01.280 him from released images that the rifle he used match 0:22:01.359 --> 0:22:04.280 that of his grandfather. Robinson's DNA was found on the 0:22:04.359 --> 0:22:07.480 rifles trigger, a spent cartridge casing, two on spent cartridges, 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:10.439 and the talel used to wrap the rifle. Surveillance footage 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:13.399 showed Robinson jumping down from the rooftop where the federal 0:22:13.400 --> 0:22:16.359