1 00:00:01,840 --> 00:00:06,080 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:10,840 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and 3 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 1: get and he. 4 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:18,079 Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty. 5 00:00:23,079 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 3: Newly released drone video shows Palestinian militants pretending to be 6 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 3: workers from the World's Central Kitchen. They travel in two cars, 7 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:34,839 Speaker 3: one marked with the flag of the Humanitarian Organization before 8 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 3: they're hit by IDF airstrikes. 9 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:40,400 Speaker 4: Uck in real time, we're able to verify that vehicle 10 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 4: was not connected to the organization in any way, which 11 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:46,600 Speaker 4: means those heres were using that as a disguise for 12 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:49,160 Speaker 4: their terror activity inside Gaza. 13 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 3: Israeli airstrikes targeted multiple areas of the enclave over the 14 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 3: past twenty four hours, killing dozens of Palestinian civilians. 15 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 5: Okay, So in spite of that, it's absolutely documented, undeniable 16 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:08,959 Speaker 5: that Hamas guys were masquerading as food relief guys. NPR 17 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:12,040 Speaker 5: considers it completely impossible that they would impersonate journalists, or 18 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:14,959 Speaker 5: at least that's what they're saying in this sence, and 19 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:17,800 Speaker 5: those views are supported practically to a person by the 20 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:20,640 Speaker 5: American left and a lot of the left in a 21 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 5: lot of the Western world. 22 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:23,399 Speaker 2: What the hell is going on. 23 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:27,440 Speaker 5: To quote Eli Lake, who's a brilliant writer in the West, 24 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:29,960 Speaker 5: the politics of the Gaza War feature a strange marriage 25 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 5: between political Islam and the twenty first century Western left, 26 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:38,679 Speaker 5: for instance, the Democratic Socialists of America. This is Mumdani's 27 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 5: crew simultaneously support making New York a national hub for 28 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 5: transgender medicine and want to globalize the Intofada. 29 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:50,279 Speaker 6: Yeah, that is a good point. 30 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 5: It supp it supports the bleeding edge of social progressive 31 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 5: values while throwing its full support behind the fanatic fascists 32 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 5: who film their mass murder Jews and proudly posted the 33 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 5: videos to Telegram. And Lake in an absolutely fabulous piece 34 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 5: that will post I think you might get paywalled, but 35 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 5: maybe not, talks about how the what's called the red 36 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 5: Green alliance among people who think about this sort of thing, 37 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 5: how it came up, and it really came up, and 38 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:22,360 Speaker 5: yes he was red, and who's green here? Reds is 39 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 5: and communists in green, the color of Hamas and radical 40 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 5: Islam and various thank you for asking for the clarification 41 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:30,799 Speaker 5: to hit for the room. 42 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 2: Anyway. 43 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 5: A lot of this arose during Iran's Islamic Revolution nineteen 44 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:38,680 Speaker 5: seventy eight and seventy nine, and he goes into and 45 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 5: it's so interesting the details of how Ayatola Komeni, who 46 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 5: is in exile in France, started giving all sorts of 47 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:54,600 Speaker 5: really carefully controlled interviews to American and European media outlets, 48 00:02:55,520 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 5: and how they're on this pr campaign to convince the 49 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 5: West that he's a reasonable fellow. In fact, he's really 50 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:09,680 Speaker 5: for democracy, and Lake is writing. Anybody who spent ten 51 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 5: minutes looking into Komaney knew that he was a hardcore 52 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 5: is Lomist monster. You didn't even have to try to 53 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 5: figure it out. But the left of American journalism, in 54 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 5: Western journalism, and some folks like in the Carter administration 55 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 5: became completely convinced and touted in the face of all 56 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 5: of this that no, he was actually a really good guy. 57 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 5: Richard Falk, a Princeton professor of international law who met 58 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 5: with Gomany during his exile outside of Paris. Andrew Young, 59 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 5: Jimmy Carter's ambassador to the United Nations, told reporters that 60 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:54,960 Speaker 5: the Iotola will eventually be regarded as a saint like 61 00:03:55,000 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 5: this folk, the Princeton professor. And because people were saying 62 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 5: there are some on the right who said, look, this 63 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 5: guy's a reactionary and a terrorist, and he said, to 64 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 5: suppose that Iotola Coomania is disassembling seems almost beyond belief. 65 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 5: His political style is to express his real views defiantly 66 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:18,239 Speaker 5: and without apology, regardless of consequences. 67 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. 68 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 5: Thus the depiction of him as a fanatical reactionary and 69 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 5: the bearer of crude prejudices seem certainly and happily false. 70 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:29,560 Speaker 5: I know. Is also encouraging is that as entourage of 71 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:34,120 Speaker 5: close advisors is uniformly and composed of moderate progressive individuals. 72 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 6: I know you and Eli Lake are about to explain 73 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 6: to me why. But is it just as simple as 74 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 6: the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and my 75 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 6: enemy is mean the United States? So somebody who doesn't 76 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:46,239 Speaker 6: like us is good. 77 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:46,719 Speaker 2: To I like. 78 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:49,719 Speaker 5: Right, There's more to it than that, but yeah, the 79 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 5: very short version of it is essentially, wait a minute, 80 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 5: you want to overthrow Western civilization. I want to overthrow 81 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 5: Western civilization. 82 00:04:59,200 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 2: You want to. 83 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:03,279 Speaker 5: Impose Islamism, but I want to impose Marxism. Well, I 84 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 5: tell you what, how about we work together and then 85 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:11,839 Speaker 5: when the civilization's overthrown, will peacefully cooperate and divide the spoils. Then, 86 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 5: of course, like in every revolution, they kill each other 87 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 5: as fast as they can. But there's one more factor. 88 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:18,600 Speaker 2: You got jihad in my queer studies. 89 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:20,279 Speaker 6: You got queer studies in my jihad. 90 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:24,360 Speaker 2: Two great tastes. It tastes great together. Oh that's beautiful anyway. 91 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:30,280 Speaker 5: So this brings us to the connection between something I 92 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:33,600 Speaker 5: have been harping about for a very long time, as 93 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:37,040 Speaker 5: has James Lindsay and other folks. If there is one 94 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:41,280 Speaker 5: Western progressive who illuminates the emergence of the Red Green Alliance, 95 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:45,599 Speaker 5: it is the French philosopher Michelle foucaut Well. I've mentioned 96 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 5: several times in nineteen seventy eight fou Co was absolutely 97 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:52,760 Speaker 5: the peak of his influence. He was the postmodernist who 98 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:57,719 Speaker 5: is revolutionizing universities with his withering critique of the Western 99 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 5: Enlightenment and values that under in modern liberalism. Fuko is 100 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 5: literally anti Enlightenment, and he is the father of all 101 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 5: critical theory. Okay, And I think people have a tendency 102 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 5: to think, all right, Getty and Lindsay are paranoid or whatever, 103 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:21,880 Speaker 5: or their conspiracy theorists. I had a friend in high 104 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 5: school who was Indian. His parents had emigrated from India 105 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:33,560 Speaker 5: and they were Hindus, and in visiting his house and 106 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 5: hanging out with his family, so it became clear to 107 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:41,239 Speaker 5: me that there were figures in Hinduism that were known 108 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:45,719 Speaker 5: and revered to billions of people around the world, who 109 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:46,919 Speaker 5: I'd never heard of. 110 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 2: I would suggest to you my friends, and you are 111 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:50,719 Speaker 2: my friends. 112 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 5: Fuk is that for the Neomarxists, for those who would 113 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 5: overthrow West civilization, he is a godhead to them. 114 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 2: And you don't know his name, but trust me what 115 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:05,600 Speaker 2: I tell you. 116 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 5: It's incredibly important that you understand. So this guy was 117 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 5: incredibly influential in the universities in the seventies, and in 118 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 5: nineteen seventy eight he was commissioned by two Italian newspapers 119 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:18,160 Speaker 5: to report on the Iranian Revolution. And like one of 120 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:22,119 Speaker 5: those you know Left East you know Time magazine guys 121 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 5: who were visiting the Soviet Union in one of their 122 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 5: Potempkin villages back in the forties, say or fifties, he 123 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 5: couldn't stop gut gushing about how great the Itola was 124 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:36,320 Speaker 5: and he was going to get rid of the oppression 125 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 5: of Western politics and Zabadabadu. So and this gets a 126 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 5: little complicated, but I'll get to the simple part. Fuco 127 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 5: was a major intellectual influence on the late Columbia University 128 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:54,840 Speaker 5: of professor Edward Sayd's Orientalism now a postcolonial ism study Bible, 129 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:59,320 Speaker 5: which critiqued how Western imperial writers made Arabs, Muslims, and 130 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 5: Easterners objects in their narratives and impose their own agenda 131 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:08,640 Speaker 5: on their histories. Here is the great postmodernist celebrating Ayatola 132 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 5: Komane overthrowing the Western government, even though Komane would would 133 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 5: execute Fuco and his company the first chance they got. 134 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:19,800 Speaker 2: But that was the birthplace of it. 135 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 5: And until you understand that postmodernism thing, you don't get 136 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 5: critical theory. You don't understand what DEI is and what 137 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:34,840 Speaker 5: it's trying to accomplish. You don't understand queer theory, radical 138 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 5: gender theory. All the confused adolescent girls getting their healthy 139 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:43,719 Speaker 5: breasts removed because they're momentarily confused by you know, adolescents 140 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:45,560 Speaker 5: and puberty and the rest of it. This is all 141 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:48,160 Speaker 5: straight back to Fuco and critical theory. 142 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 6: Clearly, this theory is true in that it is. 143 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 2: Happening. 144 00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:59,360 Speaker 6: I still don't get how you're not argued out of 145 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 6: that position very quickly. If somebody says to you, you 146 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:07,040 Speaker 6: realize if you're in Iran, they would they would murder 147 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 6: you immediately. Oh yes, So I guess I'd better pick 148 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 6: a different group to work with. 149 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 5: I mean, right, a different philosophy. Here's the thing, and 150 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 5: these people are smart. I mean they're insane, but they're smart. 151 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:24,480 Speaker 5: They convince you completely of their premise that Western society 152 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:30,000 Speaker 5: what was that phrase, uh, have made all other people 153 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 5: objects in their narratives and impose their own agenda on 154 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:38,319 Speaker 5: their histories. The key philosophy of critical theory is that 155 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:42,439 Speaker 5: there is no objective truth there don't even seek it, 156 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:47,680 Speaker 5: it doesn't exist. All there is is narratives, and narratives 157 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 5: come from your culture, and since Western culture is dominant, 158 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:57,520 Speaker 5: it has created a narrative that says the Iyatola Komene 159 00:09:57,559 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 5: is a monster, but that's just because they're threatened by him, 160 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:05,680 Speaker 5: so they're racists, they're othering him. And once you have 161 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:09,280 Speaker 5: that down to your bones, then you can't be argued 162 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:12,079 Speaker 5: off of it on the basis of me saying they 163 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 5: torture and then kill anybody who's gay or transgender because 164 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:21,800 Speaker 5: I'm a Westerner trying to lie to them using my narrative. 165 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:25,720 Speaker 2: So they don't. 166 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 6: Believe that Jihadis would murder gay people, or they think 167 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 6: Jahadis only murdered gay people because of the position we've 168 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:34,439 Speaker 6: put them in. 169 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:38,480 Speaker 5: Uh yeah, indirectly, Yeah, the first part, one hundred percent. 170 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 5: And or we have so dominated them and crushed their 171 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 5: spirits and oppressed them that they're acting out in ways 172 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:50,200 Speaker 5: that they won't anymore when the enlightenment comes, when the 173 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:53,800 Speaker 5: Marxist revolution comes. I mean like excusing the crimes of 174 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:58,320 Speaker 5: October seventh. You saw that directly. Look, they're under oppression. 175 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 5: What do you expect them to do? Yeah, and I 176 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:03,960 Speaker 5: don't believe they raped and killed babies. No, they they 177 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 5: just fought back against the oppressor self solution. 178 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 6: That's a scary thing to be up against. There's way 179 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 6: too many people to believe it. 180 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 5: Oh, and they're in our schools, folks, our elementary schools, 181 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:17,319 Speaker 5: our high schools, and our colleges and our grad schools. 182 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 5: That is one of the dominant philosophies, if not the 183 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:23,800 Speaker 5: dominant philosophy, in our educational complex, which is why I'm 184 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 5: always saying it's the most important problem that faces America, 185 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:33,679 Speaker 5: bigger than China. It's the center Street jihadism, well, post Marxism, 186 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 5: but cultural Marxism, postmodernism, neo Marxism. 187 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:39,839 Speaker 2: Whatever you want to call it. 188 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 6: It's interesting because back then, when Mitt Romney was running 189 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:46,240 Speaker 6: for president and after nine to eleven, jihadism did seem 190 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:48,280 Speaker 6: like the biggest problem in the world. And it's a problem, 191 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:52,480 Speaker 6: no doubt. But I'm more worried about neo Marxism in 192 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:54,880 Speaker 6: the foothold it's got in the United States and Western 193 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:57,319 Speaker 6: culture than I am about ji Hotism. 194 00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 5: By a log right right, Yeah, my final word, and folks, 195 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:03,600 Speaker 5: I apologize in advance. I'm gonna use a bad letter 196 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:07,439 Speaker 5: here if you think I don't know that seems kind 197 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:12,760 Speaker 5: of paranoid. These efing people wrote efing books. 198 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:16,040 Speaker 2: Their efing names are on the e fing. 199 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:20,959 Speaker 5: Spines, and they e fing describe precisely what they're efing 200 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 5: going to do, and they're doing it precisely as they 201 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:28,479 Speaker 5: e fing described. 202 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 2: End up, scrip. 203 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:38,960 Speaker 5: Crubling societies are brought down by their own decadence. 204 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:42,840 Speaker 6: If you're interested in this stuff, man, go to YouTube 205 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:46,400 Speaker 6: and just type in James Lindsay he's got some unbelievable 206 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:49,199 Speaker 6: YouTube videos about this that are so damn interesting, and 207 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:50,080 Speaker 6: a great place. 208 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 5: To start is for the hundredth time his book with 209 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:53,679 Speaker 5: Helen pluckrowse Cynical Theories. 210 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:54,720 Speaker 2: It's it's great. 211 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:58,439 Speaker 6: So you want a completely different gear here, please, Donald 212 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 6: Donald Trump, just announce the Kennedy Senator Honors for the year, 213 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:05,040 Speaker 6: the various celebrities that they are going to be honoring, 214 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:10,960 Speaker 6: and the list is like you'd expect, and we'll have 215 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 6: that when we come back. 216 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:16,559 Speaker 2: Art together. 217 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 7: Celebrating one of the most revered singers of the American 218 00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:30,480 Speaker 7: disco era, Gloria Gainer, best known for her chart topping 219 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:33,840 Speaker 7: nineteen seventy eight hit I Will Survive. 220 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:35,720 Speaker 2: There you go. 221 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:41,559 Speaker 6: So Donald Trump laying out the list of the Kennedy 222 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:48,480 Speaker 6: Center honorees. And I'm not laughing joking because of the 223 00:13:48,559 --> 00:13:52,320 Speaker 6: people Trump picked. Really, I mean, I hate the whole thing. 224 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:55,320 Speaker 6: I've always hated the whole thing, and it's always been 225 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:58,360 Speaker 6: run by soup. I learned from the book what was 226 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:04,839 Speaker 6: that book about How We Armed Big? Likeli Wi War, 227 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:09,880 Speaker 6: Charlie Wilson's War. Learn from Charlie Wilson's War, How Big 228 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 6: a Perk? Being part of The Kennedy Center thing is 229 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:17,000 Speaker 6: in Washington, d C. If you're a congress person or whatever, 230 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:20,000 Speaker 6: you can get all kinds of stuff trading for you 231 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:21,840 Speaker 6: get a seat there. I mean, it's like one of 232 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:23,960 Speaker 6: the most prestigious things you can have. And it's always 233 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:26,880 Speaker 6: been run by the progressives, and it's always been progressive 234 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 6: stars and musicians that get to goet comedians and get 235 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:32,040 Speaker 6: go up there and give their speech about how great 236 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 6: Clinton is and how awful Reagan is or whatever. It's 237 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 6: always been that way. I've always hated it. 238 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 2: So now Trump has taking it over. 239 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:42,280 Speaker 6: The elite of entertainment has gone nuts about how awful 240 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 6: that is. So they hate the fact that he's gonna 241 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:46,840 Speaker 6: do his crowd now. But he did his crowd and 242 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:50,680 Speaker 6: he came unannounced. The annual Kennedy Center honors today include 243 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:54,000 Speaker 6: Sylvester Stallone we loved him and Rambo didn't We in 244 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:57,120 Speaker 6: the crowd cheers and stuff like that, and then he 245 00:14:57,200 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 6: mentions Gloria Gaynor and I Will Survive, which apparently is 246 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:02,480 Speaker 6: song that he plays all the time at mar A Lago. 247 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:05,160 Speaker 6: You know, when he's djaying and he's got the iPad 248 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:08,400 Speaker 6: and he plays music for everybody YMCA and I will 249 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 6: survive her is two go tos. I know that guaranteed 250 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:12,280 Speaker 6: a dance floor packer. 251 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, scary. 252 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 6: He also went with British actor Michael Crawford, who I 253 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:19,640 Speaker 6: didn't recognize, but that is a guy who was in 254 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 6: the Phantom of the Opera and Trump really really liked 255 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 6: that musical. 256 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:24,920 Speaker 2: So there you go. 257 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:28,160 Speaker 6: And country music star George Strait will be all honored 258 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 6: this year. Uh, how much time we got left? 259 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 2: Michael got about a minute thirty? 260 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:35,680 Speaker 6: Here, minute thirty. We better get to it quick. This 261 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:37,840 Speaker 6: is brand new hot off the press. Is Trump saying 262 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:40,520 Speaker 6: something to read the whole Putin hymn summit. 263 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:43,000 Speaker 2: I want to hear this in the back. Yeah, places, 264 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 2: that's the president. 265 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:47,080 Speaker 3: How were your calls this morning with European leaders? And 266 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:50,480 Speaker 3: was it your call not to invite President Zelenski to 267 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 3: your meeting with Putin? 268 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:54,560 Speaker 2: No, just the opposite. No, No, we had a very 269 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:55,040 Speaker 2: good call. 270 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:57,840 Speaker 8: He was on the call, President Zelenski was on the call. 271 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:01,680 Speaker 8: I would rate it at ten, you know, very very friendly. 272 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:05,400 Speaker 8: I know the leaders because I was at NATO, as 273 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:08,080 Speaker 8: you know, I took it from two percent to five percent. 274 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:10,920 Speaker 8: Two percent that wasn't paid five percent that is paid, 275 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:15,280 Speaker 8: which is trillions of dollars in defense capability. 276 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 2: Uh No, it was always going to be. I was 277 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:20,320 Speaker 2: going to meet with President Putin. 278 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:23,560 Speaker 8: And then after that, I'm going to call the leaders 279 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:27,040 Speaker 8: and Presidents Lensky, I'm going to call Presidents Zolenski, and 280 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:30,200 Speaker 8: then I'll call, probably in that order, the leaders. There's 281 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:31,600 Speaker 8: a very good chance that we're going to have a 282 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:34,080 Speaker 8: second meeting, which will be more productive than the. 283 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:35,600 Speaker 7: First, because the first is I'm going. 284 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:38,120 Speaker 8: To find out where we are and what we're doing. 285 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:45,840 Speaker 5: Hmm. Don't feel like I gained a lot from that, 286 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 5: other than he's got more or less planned a second 287 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:50,240 Speaker 5: meeting with Putin. 288 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:55,560 Speaker 6: And uh and he in Europe's involved, and Zelensky's involved, 289 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 6: and he called it a ten and he didn't he 290 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 6: called him President Zelenski and didn't have anything negative all 291 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 6: didn't even hint anything negative. 292 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:04,800 Speaker 2: So I'm happy with that. Yeah. 293 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:08,560 Speaker 5: Yeah, But I mean, if they've already agreed on essentially 294 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:12,199 Speaker 5: a second meeting, the fear of it stringing along and 295 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 5: stringing along as I mean, it's it's almost a certainty, 296 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:15,199 Speaker 5: isn't it. 297 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:17,720 Speaker 2: I guarantee? Yeah, secret to happiness. 298 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:18,960 Speaker 5: Next arrong and. 299 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:24,280 Speaker 2: Moments of anxiety, of loneliness. 300 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 9: So many people who suffer from different experiences of depression 301 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:33,879 Speaker 9: or sadness, they can discover that the love of God 302 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:38,119 Speaker 9: is truly healing, that it brings hope. 303 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:42,399 Speaker 5: That's your Chicago pope right there. Well he's the pope 304 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:44,960 Speaker 5: of everything everywhere, but he's from Chicago. 305 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:48,520 Speaker 2: That's Pope Leo. If you need him talking about happiness speaking, 306 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:50,720 Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't recognize his voice. 307 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:54,840 Speaker 5: Okay, speaking of which, there are trio of stories that 308 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:56,600 Speaker 5: we really don't have time for because we're going to 309 00:17:56,680 --> 00:17:59,800 Speaker 5: do something related. But we'll get to him eventually. Alarming 310 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:03,679 Speaker 5: new study find smartphones are ruining our brains at unprecedented speed, 311 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:07,720 Speaker 5: and it specifically has to do with young people graded 312 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:14,520 Speaker 5: on a variety of psychological factors. And it's miserable. In fact, 313 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:17,800 Speaker 5: you need that catastrophic? Do you need that to know that? 314 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:18,600 Speaker 2: I don't know. 315 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:22,320 Speaker 5: I don't, but it is striking, how striking it is? 316 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:27,400 Speaker 5: Then this story, when did all these people become therapists? 317 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:31,840 Speaker 5: As AI threatens creative careers, writers, actors, and musicians are 318 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:37,560 Speaker 5: pivoting to pursue masters in psychology and social work, and 319 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:40,480 Speaker 5: it's actually not that nutty. A lot of like writers 320 00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 5: are saying, you know, I've spent my entire career trying 321 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:46,080 Speaker 5: to understand human psychology and write convincing characters, and what 322 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:47,440 Speaker 5: would people do in this situation? 323 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:49,320 Speaker 2: So they're all becoming counselors. 324 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:53,919 Speaker 6: They're no a therapist who kind of got into it 325 00:18:55,960 --> 00:19:00,159 Speaker 6: late iss in life. End's making lots of money, are 326 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:03,360 Speaker 6: clients than they can handle. I don't know if that's 327 00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:05,920 Speaker 6: going to last through chat GPT because we've talked about 328 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:08,280 Speaker 6: what a great therapist it seems to be. But you know, 329 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:12,000 Speaker 6: since since since COVID, there's there's more demand than supply 330 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:15,200 Speaker 6: in the therapy world. Yeah, yeah, I just I worry 331 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:17,240 Speaker 6: these poor bastards are going to get their degree in 332 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:20,520 Speaker 6: you know, social work and psychology and whatever in chat GPT. 333 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:23,199 Speaker 6: You know, AI is going to replace therapists. But anyway, 334 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:24,040 Speaker 6: I wish them well. 335 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:27,160 Speaker 5: And then finally the third story, we're not actually going 336 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:33,240 Speaker 5: to get to the fabulous Abigail Shreier, who is fabulous, 337 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:39,639 Speaker 5: is talking about the now wide spread like Illinois is 338 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:44,000 Speaker 5: just signed into law their their child mule aiding Governor JB. 339 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:47,800 Speaker 5: Pritzker signed in law mandatory annual mental health screenings for 340 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:52,720 Speaker 5: all public school children in third through twelfth grades. And 341 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:57,240 Speaker 5: the title of our article is stop asking if stop asking. 342 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:58,480 Speaker 2: Kids if they're depressed. 343 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:03,920 Speaker 5: Swiss children are wildly suggestible asking repeatedly if they're mentally ill. 344 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:08,200 Speaker 6: She might just decide she is right because I had 345 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:10,240 Speaker 6: I don't think i'd ever even heard of the concept 346 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:12,040 Speaker 6: of depressed when I was in third grade, but if 347 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 6: you explained it to me, I might have decided, huh, 348 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:20,600 Speaker 6: maybe I'm depressed. I had never thought about it before. 349 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:22,160 Speaker 6: But if I was told we're going to do mental 350 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 6: health screening on your son, I'd say, no, you ain't. 351 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:27,480 Speaker 6: I'd like to know a lot more about this before 352 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:29,720 Speaker 6: you do this is what is this going to look like? 353 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:31,240 Speaker 2: Yeah? 354 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:34,520 Speaker 5: Abigail who has written a couple of really important books, 355 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:37,760 Speaker 5: including just last year she published a book called Bad Therapy, 356 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:41,560 Speaker 5: an investigation into the surgeon adolescent mental health diagnoses and 357 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:43,280 Speaker 5: psychiatric prescription drug use. 358 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:46,320 Speaker 2: Anyway, because I yeah, go ahead, my kneed Jeric. 359 00:20:46,359 --> 00:20:48,640 Speaker 6: It might like with my local school system. Is if 360 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:51,639 Speaker 6: I heard they're gonna do mental health screening testing on 361 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:54,080 Speaker 6: your son, I would think, Okay, They're gonna sit him 362 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:57,560 Speaker 6: down and say do you ever sometimes. 363 00:20:57,119 --> 00:21:01,080 Speaker 2: Feel like a girl? Are you sure you don't? Have 364 00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:02,359 Speaker 2: you ever? Just have you ever? 365 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 6: Do you like musicals? Or have you ever played with dolls? 366 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:07,119 Speaker 6: You can be honest here. Hmm. 367 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:09,240 Speaker 2: Interesting, So do you I mean, do. 368 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:11,719 Speaker 5: You know your gender is different than you know? How 369 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:15,280 Speaker 5: sex the doctors guessed at right, right. So anyway, there's 370 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 5: plenty to get into there, and we will absolutely. But 371 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:21,080 Speaker 5: the point is, I think we're all kind of a 372 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 5: lot of people are searching for for what we used 373 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:30,280 Speaker 5: to have or had more. Anyway, I mentioned Arthur Brooks 374 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:33,560 Speaker 5: yesterday did an interview with Brett Bear on Special Report 375 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 5: a couple of days ago talking about his new book, 376 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 5: which is all about the actual pillars of happiness. Let's 377 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:42,159 Speaker 5: start with thirty one here, Michael, and we'll pick and 378 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:42,920 Speaker 5: choose a few more. 379 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:45,080 Speaker 8: Or what are the things that we need to think 380 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:46,880 Speaker 8: about well, happiness front. 381 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:49,520 Speaker 10: Well, to begin with ordinary citizens around the country. They 382 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:51,840 Speaker 10: want to be good citizens, they want to pay attention, 383 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:54,080 Speaker 10: they want to know what's going on. I admire that, 384 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:55,639 Speaker 10: but the truth of the matter is that if you 385 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:59,080 Speaker 10: watch too much politics, they're not there to make you happy. 386 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:01,600 Speaker 10: On the contrary, there to actually win you over and 387 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:03,919 Speaker 10: the way that they do that is through fear and anger. 388 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:06,720 Speaker 10: That's what politicians do. So people have to be very 389 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:08,680 Speaker 10: careful how much are that they're looking at. This is 390 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 10: a bad influence, This is walking through a bad media 391 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:12,560 Speaker 10: neighborhood sometimes, so. 392 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 2: A little goes a whole, It goes a pretty long way. 393 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:17,760 Speaker 10: Maybe fifteen minutes in the morning and special report at night, 394 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:18,639 Speaker 10: and that that should be. 395 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:20,560 Speaker 2: A pretty well for the little ad there. 396 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,600 Speaker 5: So one might say, dudes, you talk a lot of 397 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:27,000 Speaker 5: politics on your show. Well, that's one of the reasons 398 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:31,160 Speaker 5: that we try very hard to our ideas to help 399 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:34,920 Speaker 5: you understand what's going on and help ourselves understand what's 400 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:38,879 Speaker 5: actually happening in the world, as opposed to the you know, 401 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:42,280 Speaker 5: the rhetoric politicians whose interest is just whipping you up 402 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 5: and making you money. So I feel like we kind 403 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:47,680 Speaker 5: of are trying to do the opposite of that. Anyway, 404 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:52,640 Speaker 5: mister Brooks goes on, this is the key right here. 405 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:53,120 Speaker 2: Thirty two. 406 00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:55,920 Speaker 10: The happiest people do four things every day. They pay 407 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:59,520 Speaker 10: attention to their faith or life philosophy. They pay attention 408 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:03,120 Speaker 10: to their family, They cultivate their friendships, and they try 409 00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:05,560 Speaker 10: to serve other people through their work, faith, family friends, 410 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:07,760 Speaker 10: and serving other people through your work. Those are the 411 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,359 Speaker 10: Those are the happiness pillars. That's the happiness four oh 412 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 10: one K plan. 413 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 5: He didn't mention many hundreds of thousands of followers online. 414 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:20,520 Speaker 6: I'm rock solid on one and two. I think four 415 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:25,600 Speaker 6: z practically zero one three. So you know, so seventy 416 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:26,080 Speaker 6: five percent? 417 00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:26,439 Speaker 5: What is that? 418 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:27,040 Speaker 6: A C minus? 419 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:32,680 Speaker 5: You know what? Yeah, you're past. So once again, it's 420 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:36,400 Speaker 5: a family friends. 421 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:37,960 Speaker 6: Faith was the first one. 422 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:41,880 Speaker 2: Faith, that's right, and then other people. That's right, sir. 423 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:44,800 Speaker 5: And then he talks about how when people engage in 424 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:50,159 Speaker 5: online bitter snark, they actually get less happy, and it 425 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:52,320 Speaker 5: describes in the book how they did these studies. 426 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:53,760 Speaker 2: That doesn't surprise me a bit either. 427 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:56,600 Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not like you dance around, touchdown dance, I 428 00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:59,080 Speaker 5: got him. Yeah, this is great. I'm really having fun. No, 429 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:00,720 Speaker 5: you just consume with anger. 430 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,720 Speaker 6: I've heard this before, but I heard it again yesterday, 431 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:07,520 Speaker 6: this meme of sorry, honey, I'll beat to bed in 432 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:09,600 Speaker 6: a minute. Somebody just said something on the internet that 433 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:10,520 Speaker 6: wasn't true and I have. 434 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:16,080 Speaker 2: To fix it. Yeah, right, Well, thanks for happiness. 435 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:20,680 Speaker 5: And then they talk a little bit about how exercise 436 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:23,600 Speaker 5: is really good. It resets your brain in a way 437 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 5: that's incredibly powerful. 438 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:27,560 Speaker 2: Anybody who does it knows that that's the case. 439 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 5: That's the best thing I can do, speaking for myself, 440 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:32,560 Speaker 5: if I'm really in a foul frame of mind, is 441 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 5: just to just to get my blood flow in my 442 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:38,640 Speaker 5: heart pumping anyway. But then he gets well, thirty five 443 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:40,800 Speaker 5: takes care of itself. Michael Roland, do you. 444 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:43,720 Speaker 6: Think we're getting more happy as a culture or less 445 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:44,240 Speaker 6: less so? 446 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 10: And that's really pretty alarming. I've been looking at data 447 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:48,520 Speaker 10: going all the way back to nineteen ninety and we 448 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:51,520 Speaker 10: find kind of things tiken down. Remember faith, family, friends, 449 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:53,760 Speaker 10: in work, or the happiness habits, and all four of 450 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:56,720 Speaker 10: those things have been in decline over the past thirty years. 451 00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 10: Then there's been these storms as well, these kind of 452 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:01,720 Speaker 10: hurricanes have happy In two thousand and eight, two thousand 453 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:04,880 Speaker 10: and nine, when everybody got smartphones and they got social 454 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:08,080 Speaker 10: media apps on their phone, terrible for happiness. What happened 455 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:11,360 Speaker 10: with polarization were being encouraged to hate our neighbors because 456 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:12,360 Speaker 10: they don't vote like us. 457 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:13,639 Speaker 2: Awful and last, but not. 458 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:15,560 Speaker 10: At least, of course, was our response as a nation 459 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:20,040 Speaker 10: to the coronavirus epidemic, locking everybody down, more loneliness, more depression. 460 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:21,879 Speaker 10: Those things have been real bad for our happiness. 461 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:30,119 Speaker 5: Putting aside the constitutional horror of the COVID shutdowns, the 462 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:36,920 Speaker 5: crime against the assault on people's souls, particularly children, We've 463 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:40,440 Speaker 5: talked about it plenty here, it is cruelly under discussed 464 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:43,560 Speaker 5: in society. I think there's a huge mass of people 465 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:47,200 Speaker 5: who they don't understand the damage they did, and they 466 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:50,280 Speaker 5: feel that they did the right thing and that they're heroes. 467 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:55,520 Speaker 6: I hate you people. If you feel like you're a 468 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:57,720 Speaker 6: hero for that, then I hate you with a deep, 469 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 6: deep hatred that will keep me from being happy. 470 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:05,359 Speaker 5: Yeah, you see it. Still people talking about how you 471 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:09,800 Speaker 5: know anybody who was the least a bit hesitant over 472 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:12,959 Speaker 5: the COVID vaccine, or anybody who didn't think young soldiers 473 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:15,480 Speaker 5: need to get it, or anybody who wanted to open schools. 474 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:19,040 Speaker 5: The most powerful teachers' unions in the nation are pitching 475 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:22,439 Speaker 5: the idea that they are heroes for keeping the kids 476 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:23,680 Speaker 5: at home alone. 477 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:28,280 Speaker 6: I traveled quite a bit during COVID, and I said 478 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:34,800 Speaker 6: that in a certain setting one day and a person said, 479 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:38,919 Speaker 6: oh my god, you traveled during COVID. You concerned about 480 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:40,480 Speaker 6: spreading the disease all over. 481 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:42,280 Speaker 2: I'm just like, no, they had. 482 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:45,640 Speaker 6: I flew for practically nothing, and the hotels. 483 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:48,280 Speaker 2: Were like giving the rooms away. It was awesome, right. 484 00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:53,439 Speaker 5: It's several times a week I run across some person, 485 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:58,719 Speaker 5: whether they're you know, progressive Ninnis or somebody you know 486 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,439 Speaker 5: of a more reasonable of you. But they're talking about 487 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:06,320 Speaker 5: how life changed so completely and fundamentally during COVID. And 488 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,160 Speaker 5: if I'd had kids in public school at that point, 489 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,800 Speaker 5: that would have absolutely been true. But for me, in 490 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:15,240 Speaker 5: a very conservative county of California, of all places, life 491 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 5: changed very very little. We had barbecues, folks, we had 492 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:25,119 Speaker 5: get togethers with friends, we went drinking, we got together 493 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:25,919 Speaker 5: after golf. 494 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:28,880 Speaker 2: There were very very few. 495 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:33,760 Speaker 5: Changes to our lives, and nobody got sick disproportionately or 496 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 5: died those who were weak and vulnerable. 497 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:38,080 Speaker 2: Some lost people they loved. 498 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:40,399 Speaker 5: And I don't mean to minimize that grief in the least, 499 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:44,159 Speaker 5: but all of that was misplaced and it's terrible, and 500 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:47,040 Speaker 5: if we ever have another pandemic, that's the last thing 501 00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:50,680 Speaker 5: we should do. And I'm not bragging or anything, or 502 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:54,520 Speaker 5: look how brave I am. No, I'm saying everybody needs 503 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:58,880 Speaker 5: to understand the Well, part of it was just stubbornness, 504 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:01,439 Speaker 5: and I will not let people do that to me 505 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:04,080 Speaker 5: if I don't want them to anyway. Worried about it, 506 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,360 Speaker 5: Well yeah, well yeah, I mean it all goes into 507 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:09,919 Speaker 5: the same thing. That's how you formed the belief that 508 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:14,640 Speaker 5: that was wrong, but in a weird way. I think 509 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,520 Speaker 5: people need to be unhappier about what happened to them 510 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:23,680 Speaker 5: to then, because you know, one other factor of happiness 511 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:25,480 Speaker 5: that you hear about a lot from you know the 512 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:30,240 Speaker 5: learned is that if you have some sense of self determination, 513 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:38,480 Speaker 5: that gives people satisfaction. And I think empowering people to say, 514 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 5: what was done to you during COVID was awful. They 515 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,959 Speaker 5: convinced you and authority figures that it was for your 516 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,360 Speaker 5: own good, but what they did to you was terrible. 517 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:51,200 Speaker 5: Now go forward in your life knowing that and with 518 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:53,720 Speaker 5: the courage to stand up for yourself. 519 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:55,560 Speaker 2: I think that's empowering to people. 520 00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:59,520 Speaker 6: I flew into San Diego a couple of times, like 521 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,760 Speaker 6: eighty bucks a ticket, stayed at the Hilton and the 522 00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:06,400 Speaker 6: Gas Lamp for I think seventy five dollars a room. 523 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:10,880 Speaker 2: It was awesome Yeah, compare reason prices, folks. You'll get 524 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,320 Speaker 2: his point in an empty airplane. Oh god, it was 525 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:13,760 Speaker 2: so great. 526 00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:19,000 Speaker 6: Yeah, no traffic, Bring back COVID, Bring back COVID except 527 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:19,280 Speaker 6: for the. 528 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:21,400 Speaker 2: School part and the freaking masks. 529 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:26,160 Speaker 6: Yeah, oh yeah, we'll finish strong next. 530 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:31,160 Speaker 11: I'm a big believer in love. Will she actually get 531 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:34,680 Speaker 11: engaged to the famous chiefs tight end mister Calsey At 532 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,120 Speaker 11: this particular point, the betting markets say there's only a 533 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,440 Speaker 11: twenty six percent chance that it happens this year. 534 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:47,000 Speaker 6: That's an analyst on CNN for some reason, giving the 535 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:52,400 Speaker 6: betting odds of whether Taylor Swift Mayors marries her football 536 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:56,080 Speaker 6: player boyfriend. You go back a few years and it's 537 00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:59,760 Speaker 6: hard to imagine why CNN would have an analyst. 538 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:08,920 Speaker 5: Okay, well, although the Taylor Swift getting engaged to Travis 539 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:13,440 Speaker 5: Kelsey Benning analyst did put the number at twenty six percent, 540 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:17,480 Speaker 5: which seems low to me, Jack, which seems oddly specific, 541 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:23,080 Speaker 5: not around a quarter twenty six, Almost as if they're 542 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:28,840 Speaker 5: trying to make horse s seem like science, right, exactly exactly, 543 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:33,000 Speaker 5: like they plugged in all these different sicker circumstances into 544 00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:36,520 Speaker 5: a formula an algorithm and came up with twenty five 545 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:36,960 Speaker 5: point eight. 546 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:38,760 Speaker 2: Well, round it to twenty six percent. 547 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:44,480 Speaker 5: We had our Taylor Swift supercomputer run five thousand simulations 548 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 5: to predict whether right. 549 00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:50,440 Speaker 6: In some simulations, Travis Kelcey has a season ending injury. 550 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:53,480 Speaker 6: In some simulations, the Chiefs win the Super Bowl. In 551 00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:56,680 Speaker 6: some simulations, Taylor Swift loses her voice or gets fat. 552 00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:01,600 Speaker 5: Oh wow, see you've got That's why science is involved 553 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:03,000 Speaker 5: in supercomputers. 554 00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:05,520 Speaker 2: You need to take all of that into consideration. 555 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,880 Speaker 5: It's not as simple as she's hot, he's hot there young, 556 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:14,400 Speaker 5: Yeah bet they no, No, didn't get to this today. 557 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 6: AI robs my students of the ability to think. This 558 00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,480 Speaker 6: is this college professor who says. 559 00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:23,040 Speaker 2: Students have told her. 560 00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:27,400 Speaker 6: That they feel like their ability to write or think 561 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:33,080 Speaker 6: has diminished since they started using AI. Well, well, I'll 562 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:34,920 Speaker 6: take their word for it. I can't believe it happened 563 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:38,040 Speaker 6: that fast, although I wouldn't have believed that my ability 564 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:41,320 Speaker 6: to read long form books would have been damaged as 565 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:45,000 Speaker 6: quickly as it has been by smartphones. 566 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:51,840 Speaker 5: Yeah, I just I'm a firm believer in the the 567 00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:55,200 Speaker 5: The muscles of the intellect have to be exercised or 568 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,880 Speaker 5: they go slack. Yeah, like probably not a great metamorid 569 00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:01,160 Speaker 5: if I was a smarter guy, have a better metaphor 570 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:01,400 Speaker 5: for you. 571 00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:02,200 Speaker 2: But you know what I mean. 572 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:06,080 Speaker 6: Yeah, your muscles go atrophy super fast if you don't 573 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:09,600 Speaker 6: use them. See the astronauts. I mean, like ridiculously fast. 574 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:12,960 Speaker 6: And I'm sure obviously our brain does to a certain 575 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,000 Speaker 6: extence or parts of our brain. 576 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,160 Speaker 2: With the whole paying attention to reading thing. It's troubling. 577 00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:21,960 Speaker 6: And then the most interesting thing that happened to me 578 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:23,960 Speaker 6: yesterday probably has got to be the Groc story that 579 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,000 Speaker 6: I've already told of driving in my Tesla is on 580 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,640 Speaker 6: my way to a meeting, and I was thinking about 581 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,480 Speaker 6: this meeting, and I thought, just for fun, since Groc 582 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,680 Speaker 6: is now in the Tesla screen, I just said, hey, Groc, 583 00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:37,160 Speaker 6: I'm going to this meeting, and I got a blah 584 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:40,360 Speaker 6: blah blah, laid out the scenario, and Groc said, in 585 00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:42,600 Speaker 6: her voice, well, here's what you should do. Why don't 586 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:44,200 Speaker 6: you blah blah blah, And if they react this way, 587 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:44,880 Speaker 6: you could say that. 588 00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:47,760 Speaker 2: Do you want any other suggestions? I said nah? And 589 00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:52,400 Speaker 2: she said, cool, you got this? Why not? What the 590 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:53,440 Speaker 2: hell just happened? 591 00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:54,320 Speaker 9: Yah? 592 00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:56,680 Speaker 2: What the hell just happened. 593 00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:59,880 Speaker 5: But as we discussed early in the show chat, GP 594 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:03,040 Speaker 5: just put out is their edition number five, whatever they 595 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:07,640 Speaker 5: call it, and they're getting real blowback from users because 596 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,880 Speaker 5: it's dropped some of that. Not only am I human, 597 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:14,040 Speaker 5: I'm your buddy and I believe in you stuff. People 598 00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:18,320 Speaker 5: liked it better when it was doing that. Maybe some 599 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:19,400 Speaker 5: people need the. 600 00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:22,080 Speaker 2: Kind of. 601 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:28,800 Speaker 6: Football coach cheerleader thing in their life for some reason. 602 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:29,960 Speaker 2: I don't need. 603 00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:36,080 Speaker 6: A computer program to say, great, you got this to me. 604 00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:38,920 Speaker 6: That's just freaking weird. 605 00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:44,000 Speaker 5: Right well, and I will think, wow, that's interesting. That 606 00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:48,400 Speaker 5: provoked emotional response in me. That's a machine. How odd. 607 00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:50,560 Speaker 5: But I think a lot of people just go, I 608 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:58,560 Speaker 5: feel good. 609 00:33:55,440 --> 00:34:01,440 Speaker 2: I'm strong, I'm strong. 610 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:07,360 Speaker 5: I'm strong. 611 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:10,520 Speaker 6: Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty. 612 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:12,680 Speaker 5: Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the 613 00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:14,160 Speaker 5: crew to wrap up the show for the day. There 614 00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:16,359 Speaker 5: he is pressing the buttons, Michael Angelo. Michael, what's your 615 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:16,879 Speaker 5: final thought? 616 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,240 Speaker 4: Okay, I'm gonna make this prediction, mark my words. 617 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:20,440 Speaker 2: I think this is gonna happen. 618 00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:25,360 Speaker 11: Trump lets putin invade Vancouver and he gives up Ukraine. 619 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:26,480 Speaker 2: What do you think? 620 00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:30,920 Speaker 5: Wow, it's Vancouver isn't technically ours, But that's a hell 621 00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:33,279 Speaker 5: of a deal. That's what makes it such a trumpy deal, 622 00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:35,640 Speaker 5: Katie Green or a Steam Newswoman. 623 00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:37,320 Speaker 2: As a final thought, Katie. 624 00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,839 Speaker 6: Talking about COVID brought back the memory of a well 625 00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:43,440 Speaker 6: now past friend who read me the Riot Act for 626 00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:46,759 Speaker 6: flying to see my parents during that bizarre time. 627 00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:50,240 Speaker 5: Oh really, yeah, and I'm alive. 628 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:50,799 Speaker 2: I made it. 629 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:54,400 Speaker 5: Who you gotta let grandma die alone? Otherwise you're a 630 00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:56,120 Speaker 5: bad person, I swear to God. 631 00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,800 Speaker 6: Anyway, Jack final thought, do I have the guts to 632 00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:02,839 Speaker 6: try driving down the road to my testla and say, hey, 633 00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:06,719 Speaker 6: groc had a rough day at work, My kids are ungrateful. 634 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:08,759 Speaker 6: I think I'm gonna just drive my car into the 635 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:09,840 Speaker 6: next cemental buttment? 636 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:14,839 Speaker 5: Oh now, reacts, No, Hey, I hear you, brother, Let's 637 00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:15,160 Speaker 5: do this. 638 00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:17,359 Speaker 2: You got this. 639 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:22,520 Speaker 5: Just certifize considerably more cheery. I was wandering around in 640 00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:28,879 Speaker 5: our our remodel area yesterday at home and was admiring the. 641 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:30,960 Speaker 2: Work of the carpenter's court. 642 00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:34,719 Speaker 5: Building, the roof, and so much more goes into it 643 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:39,080 Speaker 5: than I'd realized. And it's the skill is and and 644 00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:43,840 Speaker 5: care is amazing. So I salute ye who builds stuff. 645 00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:47,000 Speaker 2: I really admire you. Armstrong and Getty. 646 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,120 Speaker 6: Wrap up another grueling four hour workday. 647 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,719 Speaker 5: So many people think, so little time. Good Armstrong and 648 00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:53,480 Speaker 5: Getdy dot com. A lot of great clicks there the 649 00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:55,640 Speaker 5: hot LANs Katie's Corner. Drop us a note mail bag 650 00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:57,200 Speaker 5: at Armstrong and Getty dot com. Pick up a T 651 00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:59,320 Speaker 5: shirt or a hoodie while you're there. It'll be chilly 652 00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:00,520 Speaker 5: soon enough cool. 653 00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:04,920 Speaker 6: We will see you tomorrow. God bless America. 654 00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:09,160 Speaker 2: I'm Strong and Getty. There were so many great moments. 655 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:18,520 Speaker 6: On today's Armstrong and Getty Show, but perhaps none as 656 00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:19,920 Speaker 6: great as this man. 657 00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:24,359 Speaker 2: Sound like it's hearing day. We need your walt Man 658 00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:27,080 Speaker 2: and you over there. We need your mutton. 659 00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:29,879 Speaker 5: Yes, yes, slaughter me take my maid. 660 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,600 Speaker 2: I have no will of my own bath. Bye bye, 661 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:34,480 Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty