WEBVTT - He Juggles Eggs 0:00:01.870 --> 0:00:05.740 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the 0:00:05.750 --> 0:00:10.780 George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong 0:00:10.860 --> 0:00:17.270 and Getty. And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:23.260 --> 0:00:26.600 He can't condemn Hamas. He can't condemn the Muslim Brotherhood. 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:29.120 He says his home is Egypt. This is all starting 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:29.460 at my home. 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:33.180 We are going to move along. We can continue this 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:34.559 conversation in the second half of the show. 0:00:34.580 --> 0:00:35.940 He doesn't want a home in Florida. He took it 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:37.400 off the market. I don't know for why, but he 0:00:37.420 --> 0:00:39.500 just took it off his home in the United Arab Emirates. 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:43.600 We're done. Staying in the Middle East. Congressman Rogers, you pledge. 0:00:44.620 --> 0:00:48.000 So that poor moderator in Michigan last night trying to 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:50.740 deal with El-Sayed and Mike Rogers who are really getting 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:53.620 into it. Man, that is a no-win situation. If you've 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:55.360 got two candidates that are going to go at it 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:57.480 like that and just speak whenever they want, I mean, 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:00.920 I don't know what you'd do. I think probably the 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.940 best thing to do is just... Well, in the words 0:01:03.980 --> 0:01:06.050 of Anderson Cooper, let them spum. That's what I say. 0:01:07.180 --> 0:01:09.240 If you've got a bunch of people on stage, you 0:01:09.380 --> 0:01:14.970 kind of have to because... But if there's only two people, 0:01:15.030 --> 0:01:16.610 I think you can let them come off as. 0:01:20.340 --> 0:01:22.130 Way too much of a bully and didn't let the 0:01:22.170 --> 0:01:26.730 other one speak? Or just let them scrub? Unless you're 0:01:26.750 --> 0:01:28.870 going to put a shock collar on them or a 0:01:28.950 --> 0:01:30.910 compliance belt, I don't know what you're going to do. 0:01:30.930 --> 0:01:32.700 You're going to do your best and let them come 0:01:32.780 --> 0:01:35.120 off to the voters the way they come off. I'm 0:01:35.220 --> 0:01:38.400 less concerned about the niceties of debating than I am 0:01:38.459 --> 0:01:41.000 about an Islamist takeover of the United States. 0:01:41.020 --> 0:01:41.460 I'm not too concerned. 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:46.060 Wow. I'm not concerned about the niceties of debating, trying 0:01:46.100 --> 0:01:48.360 to understand what they're saying. And when they're talking over 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:50.300 each other, I don't even know what they're saying. 0:01:50.820 --> 0:01:54.440 I thought, I honestly got, Hanson is batting, pinch hitting 0:01:54.460 --> 0:01:57.550 for Michelangelo today, who's off celebrating his anniversary, which is lovely. 0:01:58.010 --> 0:02:01.850 I thought you were playing two audio sources at once, Hanson. 0:02:02.550 --> 0:02:04.530 I know. Isn't that what it sounds like? Yeah. 0:02:04.670 --> 0:02:04.850 Yeah. 0:02:05.030 --> 0:02:07.110 And that was the debate people were watching in Michigan 0:02:07.130 --> 0:02:08.910 to try to figure out who to vote for. Like 0:02:08.930 --> 0:02:11.049 he didn't turn that on already knowing who you're going 0:02:11.070 --> 0:02:13.209 to vote for. I wonder, I don't know much about 0:02:13.270 --> 0:02:15.070 either of these candidates. I'm going to turn on the 0:02:15.110 --> 0:02:17.440 debate and listen to them have a good, solid discussion 0:02:17.500 --> 0:02:19.620 about this and decide which person I'm for. 0:02:20.180 --> 0:02:23.340 Again, and this time I don't think I'm arguing unfairly. 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:27.139 You've fallen into the trap of thinking most voters know 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:33.750 anything about anything. Huge numbers of voters, significant chunks of them, 0:02:34.190 --> 0:02:38.180 maybe a third, don't know anything about Rogers or El-Sayed 0:02:38.190 --> 0:02:38.470 at this point. 0:02:38.500 --> 0:02:41.859 Even in this race? Yes. Even in this race in Michigan, 0:02:41.900 --> 0:02:44.139 you think they don't know El-Sayed? Wake up and smell 0:02:44.180 --> 0:02:48.160 the ignorance. You don't think they know if El-Sayed's, you know, 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:53.350 what he is? That's something. Then you shouldn't vote. Can 0:02:53.389 --> 0:02:57.350 I say? Oh, I agree with that wholeheartedly. Okay, so 0:02:57.370 --> 0:03:02.829 they were. So Rogers was claiming, and I didn't look 0:03:02.870 --> 0:03:06.190 up whether this is true or not, that El-Sayed owns 0:03:06.230 --> 0:03:07.650 a home in Egypt. And I don't know if that's 0:03:07.690 --> 0:03:10.210 a deal breaker or not. And then so El-Sayed's getting 0:03:10.250 --> 0:03:12.510 into Mike Rogers' homes and all of his sort of 0:03:12.550 --> 0:03:14.889 stuff in this clip. All right, 30 seconds. We're going 0:03:14.910 --> 0:03:16.650 to move on after this. 30 seconds. 0:03:16.850 --> 0:03:20.109 How does a guy who's had less than four years 0:03:20.150 --> 0:03:23.090 of work experience, who, by the way, on the campaign 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:27.160 trail said he had 10. own a luxury property in 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:30.440 the United Arab Emirates. He's worth a million bucks. Somebody 0:03:30.490 --> 0:03:32.950 has to tell me how this math works. A, his 0:03:33.030 --> 0:03:36.570 facts are wrong, those are lies. But he is consistently 0:03:38.010 --> 0:03:39.650 not telling the truth. Well, let me just say it, 0:03:39.650 --> 0:03:42.800 he's lying. So he lied about being a physician. He 0:03:42.860 --> 0:03:45.620 lied now about being an Egyptian citizen or not being 0:03:45.660 --> 0:03:46.520 an Egyptian citizen. 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:48.040 I can't figure out what he is today. 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:52.560 But this impact, what he's trying to tell you, where 0:03:52.580 --> 0:03:54.280 he wants you to be, that's a con man. 0:03:58.890 --> 0:04:00.450 So what am I supposed to do when I watch 0:04:00.490 --> 0:04:03.330 these debates? Well, sorry, I can't get to bed. I'm 0:04:03.350 --> 0:04:05.510 going to be up for several hours doing research on 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:09.460 what's true or not of what these people said for 0:04:09.500 --> 0:04:13.160 the next several hours. Yeah. Yeah, I guess. 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:15.880 He does own properties and a couple of properties in 0:04:15.900 --> 0:04:16.380 the Middle East. 0:04:17.060 --> 0:04:17.580 I've got the. 0:04:19.860 --> 0:04:21.900 I got the main point for you from the whole thing, 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:24.060 from the wide world of news I was reading this morning. 0:04:24.190 --> 0:04:26.290 We'll get to that after some more clips. Just run 0:04:26.350 --> 0:04:30.869 through these. We'll comment after each one of them. Hanson, 0:04:30.890 --> 0:04:32.130 starting with 91. 0:04:32.130 --> 0:04:34.550 What my friend here just wants to do, as he's 0:04:34.589 --> 0:04:37.610 kind of like a glitchy AI chatbot, is say the 0:04:37.650 --> 0:04:39.770 same thing over and over and over again. 0:04:39.810 --> 0:04:40.750 But let me tell you this. 0:04:41.870 --> 0:04:45.240 He has taken money from groups associated and support the 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:48.820 Muslim Brotherhood. He has taken money from individuals on his 0:04:48.900 --> 0:04:54.950 campaign who openly support Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda. He's taken 0:04:55.010 --> 0:04:57.370 money from the George Soros family. What we found out 0:04:57.450 --> 0:04:59.750 is that this thing goes way back. Apparently they paid 0:04:59.790 --> 0:05:01.300 for his education in Colombia. 0:05:02.089 --> 0:05:04.589 Now they're paying for his campaign. By the way, that's 0:05:04.630 --> 0:05:06.270 a billionaire, last I checked. What degree did I get 0:05:06.310 --> 0:05:06.550 at Columbia? 0:05:06.570 --> 0:05:07.940 We're out of time. I'm going to give you a 0:05:07.950 --> 0:05:08.880 30-second reload. 0:05:08.900 --> 0:05:11.300 What degree did I get at Columbia? I get interviewed 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:12.300 by him, not by you. 0:05:15.390 --> 0:05:19.030 So one of the problems that everyone has in the 0:05:19.070 --> 0:05:21.350 modern world, unless you sit down and watch the debate 0:05:21.410 --> 0:05:22.530 like a friend of mine did, and I'm going to 0:05:22.550 --> 0:05:24.969 read his text here in a second, is my algorithm 0:05:25.089 --> 0:05:28.969 fed me all stuff that looked favorable to Mike Rogers. 0:05:29.170 --> 0:05:31.210 And I thought, OK, I know what's going on here. 0:05:31.570 --> 0:05:36.010 And then I tried to seek out other clips, which 0:05:36.230 --> 0:05:37.950 it was easy to find him on like MS Now 0:05:37.990 --> 0:05:41.590 and places like that. But God dang it. The biggest 0:05:41.630 --> 0:05:44.630 problem we got maybe in all of media is you 0:05:44.650 --> 0:05:47.630 can't flip off your algorithm. Hey, I don't want you 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:50.620 to just give me clips that back what I already 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.240 think to make me feel good. All right. I want 0:05:53.260 --> 0:05:55.420 to see what actually happened. And that's hard to do. 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:58.060 It's really hard to do because it wasn't all Mike 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:00.810 Rogers getting in zingers on El Sayed is not the 0:06:00.830 --> 0:06:02.289 way it worked. But anyway, so I asked a friend 0:06:02.310 --> 0:06:03.849 of mine, he said, hey, are you watching the debate? 0:06:04.410 --> 0:06:05.770 I said, what is it? I said, no. What is 0:06:05.810 --> 0:06:09.580 your takeaway? He said, my takeaway is we're effed. I 0:06:09.660 --> 0:06:12.600 tend to be more critical of conservative candidates' performance because 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:15.760 he is a conservative. Rogers started off fumbling a little 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:17.839 and had a cringy, he's not a physician kind of 0:06:17.900 --> 0:06:22.200 doctor moment. Syed's slick, but I'm afraid that the left 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:24.620 is going to overlook his obvious terrorist ties and sympathies. 0:06:24.940 --> 0:06:27.790 Syed is good on the economy and really good at 0:06:27.850 --> 0:06:30.890 dodging his anti-Israel pro-Hamas stance by saying, I want to 0:06:30.910 --> 0:06:33.830 support our schools. And what have foreign wars gotten us? 0:06:33.910 --> 0:06:36.330 Always turning it back to things that are very popular 0:06:36.370 --> 0:06:37.770 with like mainstream people. 0:06:38.330 --> 0:06:41.070 Right, that's why he's so dangerous. But yeah, he's campaigned 0:06:41.180 --> 0:06:44.420 over and over and over again with various imams and 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:48.040 activists who support Hamas and Hezbollah and the Muslim Brotherhood 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:51.800 and accepted money from organizations that also give money to 0:06:51.860 --> 0:06:56.400 those organizations. Really, to me, that's the only issue that matters. 0:06:57.580 --> 0:07:03.360 And it's an enormous history-changing issue. So I agree with 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:06.100 you on the stuff about algorithms and all, but I'm 0:07:06.140 --> 0:07:09.580 less here as a political analyst assessing who did better 0:07:09.620 --> 0:07:13.260 in the debate and more and calling Al-Sayed for that. 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:16.620 It's the only thing that matters to me. Here's a 0:07:16.620 --> 0:07:18.820 little more on the whole doctor, are you a doctor 0:07:18.850 --> 0:07:19.310 or not thing. 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:21.770 As a doctor, I understand exactly what's happening. 0:07:21.790 --> 0:07:22.190 Not a physician. 0:07:22.210 --> 0:07:23.230 He says I like to say the same thing. Not 0:07:23.250 --> 0:07:23.790 a physician. 0:07:23.870 --> 0:07:25.150 He says I like to say the same thing. He's 0:07:25.210 --> 0:07:27.290 done the same thing over and over and over again. 0:07:27.310 --> 0:07:29.150 You know what that is? Vote to keep your prescription 0:07:29.190 --> 0:07:33.510 drug prices heightened. 19 times, a million dollars alone from 0:07:33.550 --> 0:07:36.430 Big Pharma, another million dollars from the health insurance corporations. 0:07:36.490 --> 0:07:38.590 Of course, he is touting their talking points. 0:07:38.970 --> 0:07:40.510 This is a guy who has not been serious about 0:07:40.530 --> 0:07:42.710 providing people healthcare his entire career. 0:07:42.740 --> 0:07:43.300 What he has been. 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:46.480 Serious about is making sure that he can monetize his 0:07:46.540 --> 0:07:48.780 time in public office, $ 14 million, two. 0:07:48.660 --> 0:07:50.540 Yachts, a McMansion in Florida. 0:07:50.900 --> 0:07:52.800 So at the end of the day, I'm a doctor, 0:07:52.820 --> 0:07:53.700 I want people to have healthcare. 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.080 At what point is a boat a yacht? Do we 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:02.660 have a working definition of yacht? If you can sleep 0:08:02.740 --> 0:08:03.700 on it, it's a yacht. 0:08:03.740 --> 0:08:06.500 So many of these people running have houses in Florida. 0:08:06.550 --> 0:08:09.470 Is that because of the whole tax situation there? The 0:08:09.550 --> 0:08:17.090 Republican in Kansas who might lose because he lives in Florida. Yeah, maybe. Plus, 0:08:17.150 --> 0:08:19.370 you know, nice real estate. It's warm in the wintertime. 0:08:21.530 --> 0:08:23.310 There's one more that I want to get before I 0:08:23.330 --> 0:08:25.650 get to some analysis that I think that's really important. 0:08:28.710 --> 0:08:30.620 Maybe this just because it keeps coming up and this 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:33.400 is the point of the analysis. Ninety three. So else 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:35.200 I had to set this up. He has been asked 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:38.819 now five times in different settings, including in the debate 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:42.469 multiple times. Who is a bigger threat to the United States, 0:08:42.670 --> 0:08:44.929 Israel or Iran? And he won't answer it. 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.540 So this sort of like hypothetical, who's a bigger threat 0:08:48.580 --> 0:08:49.900 is a dumb question, sorry. 0:08:50.380 --> 0:08:53.640 Dr. El-Sayed, we got the part that you thought it 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.939 was dumb, but we didn't understand or kind of get 0:08:57.020 --> 0:09:00.260 to that answer. So I'm gonna ask you again tonight, 0:09:00.300 --> 0:09:01.560 who do you think is a bigger threat to the 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.579 United States, Israel or Iran? You have 60 seconds. 0:09:04.620 --> 0:09:06.300 And again, Rick, I'm just gonna say that that's a 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:11.030 ridiculous hypothetical, because here's what's happening right now. Our ostensible 0:09:11.090 --> 0:09:14.590 ally in Israel has lobbied us to go to war 0:09:15.330 --> 0:09:19.310 with Iran. We have watched as Iran has responded by 0:09:19.410 --> 0:09:22.250 bombing all kinds of countries in the Middle East and 0:09:22.270 --> 0:09:26.729 then choking off the world's energy supply. So this is 0:09:26.790 --> 0:09:28.910 a situation in which I don't think we should be apart. 0:09:29.370 --> 0:09:31.450 I don't want to be pushed into war by Israel. 0:09:31.890 --> 0:09:37.229 So here's Mark Halperin's analysis of that whole thing, because 0:09:37.250 --> 0:09:40.329 it started before the debate. When El-Sayed was asked, who's 0:09:40.350 --> 0:09:42.860 a bigger threat, Iran or Israel? And that's just a 0:09:43.220 --> 0:09:49.180 dumb hypothetical. Halpern's analysis is, someone who, and Halpern bends 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:52.520 over backwards to be fair, like really goes the extra 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:55.770 mile to not be a partisan. Someone who won't say 0:09:55.929 --> 0:09:58.600 if Iran or Israel is a greater threat to United 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:02.020 States security is a not someone who should be in 0:10:02.059 --> 0:10:05.179 the United States Senate. That's a heck of a thing 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:10.089 to say as a nonpartisan journalist. I agree. Yeah. And 0:10:10.330 --> 0:10:13.590 be someone who is in sync with a lot of 0:10:13.650 --> 0:10:16.150 America right now. No one should be in denial about 0:10:16.309 --> 0:10:19.450 either one of those facts. Yeah, I would agree. That 0:10:19.710 --> 0:10:23.370 is a highly troubling situation. Somebody who won't say that 0:10:23.410 --> 0:10:29.530 is so insane. That you're unwilling to say, obviously, Iran, 0:10:29.590 --> 0:10:31.150 Iran's one of the biggest threats to the United States 0:10:31.210 --> 0:10:34.050 on planet Earth and have been for a half a century. 0:10:34.330 --> 0:10:37.809 They're the number one sponsor of terror in the world. 0:10:39.429 --> 0:10:42.430 Of course, crazy to develop nuclear weapons, et cetera, et cetera. 0:10:42.550 --> 0:10:44.600 Death to America. The constant chanting. 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:44.800 Yes. 0:10:45.750 --> 0:10:50.250 Yeah, well, that's because al-Sayed's on Iran's side, constantly pivoting 0:10:50.330 --> 0:10:52.050 to the high prices and stuff. 0:10:52.100 --> 0:10:55.160 Again, really, really smart politics, really capable. That's why he's 0:10:55.179 --> 0:11:00.280 so dangerous. I can't believe that he doesn't, he won't 0:11:00.420 --> 0:11:07.140 even for the debate say something along the lines of 0:11:07.179 --> 0:11:09.479 Iran has been an exporter of terror or something like that, 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:12.800 hoping that his supporters know he's got to say it 0:11:12.900 --> 0:11:17.470 or something. He won't even go that far. Right. Yeah. 0:11:17.809 --> 0:11:21.370 But that second part is also troubling because he knows 0:11:21.650 --> 0:11:24.450 there's lots of people in this country, lots of young 0:11:24.490 --> 0:11:30.790 people especially, who agree. It's not clear that Iran's a 0:11:30.790 --> 0:11:32.490 bigger threat than the United States and Israel. No way. 0:11:32.530 --> 0:11:34.270 In fact, Israel's a bigger threat. 0:11:34.290 --> 0:11:37.080 Partly because the Trump administration has done such a miserably 0:11:37.130 --> 0:11:39.980 incompetent job of messaging about the conflict and the need 0:11:40.010 --> 0:11:40.270 for it. 0:11:40.820 --> 0:11:42.580 Man, we are in a weird spot where those two 0:11:42.620 --> 0:11:47.320 things are true. For a U.S. Senate race? If he 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:50.120 gets elected, and I just don't think this gets said 0:11:50.179 --> 0:11:54.260 enough in enough places, he will be by far the 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:57.540 most extreme person we've had in the U.S. Senate maybe ever, 0:11:58.070 --> 0:12:03.870 certainly since the beginning of the 20th century. Yeah, miles 0:12:03.929 --> 0:12:06.150 and miles. Hey, I want to hear 92, Hanson. Can 0:12:06.190 --> 0:12:09.020 you dial that one up? Yesterday was October 7th. 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:12.640 This is why you should get absolutely angry. He could 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:17.490 not bring himself to even acknowledge the pain, the terrorism, 0:12:17.710 --> 0:12:21.670 the rape, the murders, cutting off of women's breasts, putting 0:12:21.770 --> 0:12:25.130 children in ovens. and killing them in front of their families, 0:12:25.630 --> 0:12:27.010 could not even muster. 0:12:27.170 --> 0:12:29.240 So I've condemned that. And he could not even muster. 0:12:29.260 --> 0:12:31.059 I've condemned that, but I didn't turn it into political 0:12:31.100 --> 0:12:31.960 theater like you just did. 0:12:31.980 --> 0:12:33.940 He did not. All right, let me tell you this. 0:12:34.179 --> 0:12:35.199 I just need to respond. 0:12:35.220 --> 0:12:35.760 No, no, no. 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:37.940 He's interrupted me for about half of my time. 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.439 So I'm so sorry, but I'm not somebody who tries 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:42.740 to make political theater out of other people's pains. 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:46.450 Your whole campaign is political theater. And you turned it 0:12:46.490 --> 0:12:49.969 into political theater. I'm sorry. Including putting on a white jacket. Gentlemen, gentlemen. 0:12:51.170 --> 0:12:52.929 Al Sayed is on the side of Moss. 0:12:53.210 --> 0:12:56.230 He may have thought they made some sort of strategic error, 0:12:56.270 --> 0:12:57.240 but no, he's on their side. 0:12:57.250 --> 0:13:01.520 And he may be right in thinking that if I 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:04.540 just keep bringing it back to grocery prices and gas prices, 0:13:05.140 --> 0:13:07.170 enough people who are like, I don't know anything about 0:13:07.190 --> 0:13:08.770 the Middle East. I don't even know what you're talking about. 0:13:09.010 --> 0:13:11.950 But man, gas is expensive. We'll get him over the top. 0:13:13.290 --> 0:13:16.510 And get America one step closer to an English-language version 0:13:16.570 --> 0:13:19.230 of Submission, the great French novel. 0:13:19.530 --> 0:13:22.150 Holy crap! Any thoughts on any of that? Text line 415-295-KFTC. 0:13:22.170 --> 0:13:32.120 Armstrong and Getty. And finally, I heard that Starbucks is 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:34.179 exploring a takeover of Chipotle. 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:34.760 Ooh. 0:13:35.470 --> 0:13:38.230 Yep. Customers said they can't wait for the E. coli latte. Yeah, 0:13:38.250 --> 0:13:42.810 we have a great show. Give it up for the Roots. 0:13:42.830 --> 0:13:43.000 The E. 0:13:42.990 --> 0:13:43.830 Coli latte. 0:13:43.870 --> 0:13:47.790 That's not fair to Chipotle. We're going to talk public executions, 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.439 pro or con, coming up in a little bit. Yesterday 0:13:51.500 --> 0:13:53.780 on the One More Thing podcast, we got into something 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:56.260 that I just became aware of fairly recently. I saw 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:58.080 it at a football game a couple of weeks ago, 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:02.110 high school football game. I heard a mom talking about, yeah, 0:14:02.170 --> 0:14:04.250 I'm busy making a sign for my son because he's 0:14:04.270 --> 0:14:06.910 going to ask a girl to the homecoming dance and 0:14:07.050 --> 0:14:09.500 make a sign. I just pretended I knew what she 0:14:09.510 --> 0:14:11.660 was talking about because I had no idea. And yeah, 0:14:11.980 --> 0:14:14.240 so that's the way you do it now. You have 0:14:14.300 --> 0:14:17.500 to have a big giant sign that you show up 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:19.340 and everybody knows you're going to do it. And everybody 0:14:19.380 --> 0:14:22.710 has their phones out, including both parents. And you have 0:14:22.790 --> 0:14:25.270 a video of them showing up with a sign and 0:14:25.350 --> 0:14:26.950 flowers to say you want to go to dance. And 0:14:26.970 --> 0:14:28.970 that way you can post it on Instagram. We got 0:14:29.010 --> 0:14:33.700 this text. Listening to your one more thing, homecoming posters 0:14:33.750 --> 0:14:37.520 and proposals things, what a nightmare. My 17-year-old introverted daughter 0:14:38.100 --> 0:14:39.800 would have gone to the dance with a boy who 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:41.860 wanted to go with her, but she didn't want the 0:14:41.940 --> 0:14:45.130 sign or the public asking. He was pressured to do it. 0:14:45.220 --> 0:14:47.800 She got embarrassed and said no, and now the group 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:50.900 of friends is going without her because she's not part 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:55.560 of a couple, and the pictures would look uneven if 0:14:55.660 --> 0:15:00.410 she went with them without a date. So that's nice. 0:15:03.210 --> 0:15:05.210 And this is for Joe. This is from the fabulous 0:15:05.350 --> 0:15:11.090 I'm Just Diane, who responded to this all saying, promposals. Yes, Joe, 0:15:11.130 --> 0:15:13.730 there's a cute name for it. They're called promposals. 0:15:14.570 --> 0:15:16.910 I better grip my head hard with both hands to 0:15:16.950 --> 0:15:18.010 keep it from exploding. 0:15:19.490 --> 0:15:21.630 It became a thing in the 2010s, which is also 0:15:21.670 --> 0:15:24.850 when Instagram started. Disney made a movie called Prom in 0:15:24.850 --> 0:15:29.460 2011 that heavily featured promposals. Promposals can be found all 0:15:29.500 --> 0:15:33.280 over Instagram, TikTok, giving those who peaked in high school 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:37.370 something to look back on, I guess she said. Oh, my. 0:15:37.510 --> 0:15:42.970 Dryly withering as always, Diana. Yeah, I made my thoughts 0:15:43.030 --> 0:15:47.990 clear on the podcast. I think turning an intense private 0:15:48.090 --> 0:15:50.890 moment into a public spectacle for public. 0:15:50.610 --> 0:15:53.990 Approval is a mistake. It's always a mistake. It's rough 0:15:54.050 --> 0:15:55.630 all the way around. I mean, because once it becomes 0:15:55.710 --> 0:15:59.430 a thing, then the girl might be like, well, can 0:15:59.530 --> 0:16:02.100 I say yes to a guy who just asks me 0:16:02.180 --> 0:16:04.960 and doesn't do the sign flowers thing, the promposal thing? 0:16:05.500 --> 0:16:07.500 Does he really care? Does that make me look like 0:16:07.540 --> 0:16:10.250 a lame-o? I would have. I mean, I didn't ask 0:16:10.310 --> 0:16:13.600 anybody out anyway in high school, but I definitely wouldn't 0:16:13.620 --> 0:16:16.740 have if it required a sign and doing it around 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:20.480 everybody with cameras out to get her yes or no. 0:16:21.020 --> 0:16:25.520 Not a chance. So, you know, once again, it's extroverts 0:16:25.580 --> 0:16:28.990 rule the world. They make all the rules because they're 0:16:29.030 --> 0:16:31.570 fine with it. If you're not an extrovert, though, you're like, 0:16:31.910 --> 0:16:34.750 how do I participate? Right, right. 0:16:35.290 --> 0:16:39.510 And then you go off to college like Cornell. And 0:16:39.570 --> 0:16:41.130 things take a dark turn. 0:16:41.210 --> 0:16:41.930 Wow! 0:16:41.950 --> 0:16:45.950 That was an excuse to get this anonymous email on. 0:16:46.510 --> 0:16:48.670 One aspect of the Cornell so-called gang rape is that 0:16:48.710 --> 0:16:51.890 the fact that the men who were not rapists when 0:16:51.910 --> 0:16:54.930 the sex happened because it was consensual only became rapists 0:16:54.980 --> 0:16:56.680 when she changed her mind about what happened. 0:16:56.940 --> 0:16:58.480 They are retroactive rapists. 0:16:58.660 --> 0:17:00.240 It's the only crime I know of where the alleged 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:02.480 offender can change from innocent to guilty at any time 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:04.480 due to a change in the mental state of another person. 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.400 For your science-minded listeners with a twisted sense of humor, 0:17:07.700 --> 0:17:09.629 they are Schrodinger's Rapists. 0:17:10.430 --> 0:17:15.690 Wow. Speaking of dryly hilarious. That's really good about a 0:17:15.730 --> 0:17:19.200 horrifying topic. That's really good. Well played, friend. Well played. 0:17:19.780 --> 0:17:20.879 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:22.660 --> 0:17:26.710 A firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik 0:17:26.730 --> 0:17:30.810 Hassan will be live streamed. This comes after War Secretary 0:17:30.850 --> 0:17:34.700 Pete Hegseth said the execution would be public. Secretary Hegseth 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:38.040 says it will take place at Fort Hood on December 3rd. 0:17:38.859 --> 0:17:42.090 Hassan was convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 0:17:42.090 --> 0:17:46.030 others in a shooting at the military base in 2009. Monday, 0:17:46.070 --> 0:17:49.780 a Pentagon spokesman said President Trump had approved the execution. 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:52.820 Has Major Hassan made any final requests, reached out to 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:54.180 the president, anything like that to your knowledge? 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:55.080 Don't care. 0:17:55.100 --> 0:18:00.170 We'll see him on December 3rd. That was Pete Hegseth there. 0:18:02.780 --> 0:18:06.000 I don't know if you care about the company you keep. Currently, 0:18:06.180 --> 0:18:09.939 the only other two countries that do public executions, besides 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:15.870 the United States soon, Iran and Afghanistan. Over the last 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:20.869 half century, the only countries that have done public executions 0:18:20.970 --> 0:18:26.370 are Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Somalia, and Yemen. 0:18:27.130 --> 0:18:28.290 I don't see your point. 0:18:28.310 --> 0:18:29.050 Ha ha ha! 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:36.270 One reason I can laugh about this is Mark Alpern writes, 0:18:36.290 --> 0:18:37.869 he said, there's no way this is going to happen. 0:18:38.310 --> 0:18:40.650 Cooler heads will prevail and it will not happen. So 0:18:40.690 --> 0:18:40.970 I don't know. 0:18:40.990 --> 0:18:43.890 May I respond on behalf of all of us who 0:18:43.970 --> 0:18:46.730 think this guy needs to be executed immediately and are 0:18:46.770 --> 0:18:50.930 at least semi-comfortable with a public execution? Your little list 0:18:50.990 --> 0:18:54.790 of our bedfellows there. My official response is, oof. 0:18:57.510 --> 0:19:00.850 No, you know, yesterday we talked about capital punishment, and I'm, 0:19:01.590 --> 0:19:06.330 on the whole, a no on capital punishment. But not hardcore. 0:19:07.690 --> 0:19:12.609 It doesn't bother me that these scumbags, with all their appeals, 0:19:12.650 --> 0:19:17.880 get killed. This one, 100% yes. Because he's a combatant 0:19:18.020 --> 0:19:22.590 in a war. Among other things. I mean, so 100% yes, 0:19:22.790 --> 0:19:23.970 executing this dude. 0:19:24.170 --> 0:19:26.449 This one's not even a question. Well, and a United 0:19:26.510 --> 0:19:30.379 States officer in the military had sworn an oath and 0:19:30.420 --> 0:19:31.100 did what he did. 0:19:31.180 --> 0:19:33.960 Yeah, up against the wall. Military code of justice handles 0:19:33.980 --> 0:19:38.160 this just fine. Why are we doing it public? Hegzeth 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:41.659 says it's to send a message that there's consequences for 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:44.330 this sort of thing. Yes, indeed. 0:19:44.350 --> 0:19:45.129 Yeah. 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:49.630 I actually don't think that, because it's been a question 0:19:49.670 --> 0:19:52.300 we discussed. this yesterday also is the death penalty a 0:19:52.340 --> 0:19:54.840 deterrence and people been arguing that forever and then people 0:19:54.859 --> 0:19:57.750 bring out statistics that back up their argument that may 0:19:57.790 --> 0:20:00.590 or may not be accurate all the time on is 0:20:00.630 --> 0:20:03.530 the death penalty deterrence i guarantee it's not a deterrence 0:20:03.570 --> 0:20:05.310 for jihadists that i know. 0:20:05.170 --> 0:20:09.830 Well it's an incentive Yeah, yeah. Look, Halpern's right, and 0:20:10.030 --> 0:20:12.250 you're right, and I am right in what I'm about 0:20:12.270 --> 0:20:15.210 to say. They say in coaching it's easier to slow 0:20:15.230 --> 0:20:17.570 them down than speed them up. Well, that's the Pete 0:20:17.590 --> 0:20:23.710 Hegzeth situation. And by golly, I appreciate his zest for justice, 0:20:23.790 --> 0:20:28.750 his lack of patience with Giottis, and his being very, 0:20:28.930 --> 0:20:31.889 very angry, because I've heard him talk about this, at 0:20:31.930 --> 0:20:35.970