WEBVTT - The Future Doesn't Want My Brain... The Present Barely Does 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:11.360 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, Armstrong and Gatty. 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:12.520 Enough he. 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:17.279 Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:25.800 I'll start, as we often do here at the Department 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:28.600 of War, with the bottom line up front for the 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:33.159 world to hear and the press to actually admit that 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.919 the United States is decimating the radical Iranian regimes military 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:40.800 in a way the world has never seen before. Never 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:45.839 before has a modern capable military which Iran used to 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:51.440 have been so quickly destroyed and made combat ineffective, devastated. 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:54.000 We said it would not be a fair fight, and 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:54.920 it has not been. 0:00:55.960 --> 0:01:00.960 That is all true. However, it doesn't really have anything 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:02.720 to do with the issue of the day. Was just 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:06.319 the whole strait of Hormuze situation. Anyway, We'll get to 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:09.760 that in the second. This is getting a lot of attention. 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:13.240 As Pete hegsit. The Secretary of War describes the current 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:14.040 Supreme Leader. 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:18.240 We know the new so called not so Supreme Leader 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:23.720 is wounded and likely disfigured. He put out of statement yesterday, 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:27.920 a weak one actually, but there was no voice and 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:28.800 there was no video. 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:33.080 It was a written statement. He called for unity. 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:36.720 Apparently, killing tens of thousands of protesters is his kind 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:40.720 of unity. Iran has plenty of cameras and plenty of 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:45.119 voice recorders. Why a written statement. I think you know why? 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:50.520 His father dead. He's scared, he's injured, he's on the run, 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:52.000 and he lacks legitimacy. 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:56.640 It's a mess for them who's in charge. Iran may 0:01:56.680 --> 0:02:00.640 not even know we blew off his beer. I told 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:09.440 you disfigured beardless. So I think that's baiting the guy. Hmm, like, 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:15.399 show your face before we get into the substance of it. 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:18.320 Does Pete hags Eth not sound to you like a 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:21.200 guy who's ready to fight you right now? 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:22.360 Yeah? He does sound like that. 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:25.079 I mean like if a reporter took a run at him, 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:27.359 there wouldn't be that half second of oh my god, 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:27.960 what's happening. 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:31.120 No, he'd be cocked and ready. Let No, he'd be thinking, 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:34.200 finally I wanted to fight somebody, That's right. That's why 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:37.359 the Colin Jost portrayal of him is that way. When 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:42.120 they comes out all right, listen up, dip whats Yeah. 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:50.760 I love virtually everything he says, though, Yeah, I think so. Uh. 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:53.800 The strikes of the substance, the straight of horror mooze situation. 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:56.320 He was asked about that. All the chatter now is 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:59.040 did you prepare for this properly? And he was asked 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:00.800 that and answered, yeah, right. 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.480 Here, yeh sugar, you have said that the US midal 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:07.400 jay is essentially aerial superiority, naval supiority over Iran. 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:11.239 Yet we're not escorting ships in the Strait of wour Youth. 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:12.280 Why how did you not. 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:12.679 Plan for this? 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:19.840 We plan for it, We recognize it because ultimately we 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:21.640 want to do it sequentially in a way that makes 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:23.840 the most sense for what we want to achieve and 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:27.280 ensure that we're sending the right signals to the world 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:29.320 when we do so. So when Chris Wright speaks or 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:32.120 we speak, it's based on a full assessment of what 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:34.920 we're up against, what we want to say to the world, 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:37.240 how that we want them to see and understand the conflict. 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.560 So go ahead, well, I was going to say. 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:44.000 Kim Strassel wrote a brilliant column for The Journal this morning, 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:49.440 Trump's energy triumph, and he writes, she writes, the democratic 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:53.360 media complex, which we just heard right there, seems determined 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:56.160 to get everything wrong. About Iran, though few efforts compare 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:58.320 with this week's work to tag the Trump administration with 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:02.480 the global energy crisis. Not only is this uninformed and overdone, 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:06.480 the sudden concern over energy security comes about three years 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:10.400 too late. And she points out that Trump and his 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:13.000 drill baby drilling, and we gotta be self reliant and 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:18.720 have domestic production. Fredy, oh, yeah, that is absolutely made 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:21.839 this situation. I can't put a percentage on it, but 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:24.680 much much, much less damaging than it could have been. 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:28.320 And to hear the Democratic media saying we've got to 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:29.359 have oil flowing. 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:33.360 It's so important that oil flows, and Trump's not doing 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:37.880 a good enough job, I mean, is just hilarious. But 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.640 I thought this was really interesting for Mark Alpern's newsletter 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:43.080 today because he has sources in the White House that are, 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:45.719 you know, in favor of this action and close to 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:48.720 the president. So here's what he writes. In its initial days, 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:50.880 the public story of the conflict with Iran was one 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:53.960 of force momentum success. The briefing stress to what had 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:56.640 been hit, what had been degraded, what had been decapitated, 0:04:56.720 --> 0:05:01.280 Naval assets, damaged, command and control, disrupted, missile capacity, diminish 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:04.360 villains eliminated on paper and in early headlines, it looked 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:07.479 like a campaign moving with confidence and purpose. But in 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:11.080 the last few days, based on my reporting and conversations 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:14.760 with people in and around the administration, including some who 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:18.119 support the mission, I have developed real doubts about where 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:22.000 this thing stands. He said. Let me be careful here, 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:24.159 because this is the kind of subject where people hear 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:26.679 what they want to hear. I'm not saying the original 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:29.640 objective is foolish. I'm not saying the mission cannot still succeed. 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:32.800 I'm certainly not saying that to question the execution of 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.160 a war effort is somehow to root against the United 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:37.800 States or its military. That is not serious thinking. It 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:41.360 is not patriotic thinking either. He goes on to talk 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:45.440 about Walter Cronkite famously, you know, questioning the war at Vietnam, 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:48.760 and Lyndon Johnson, President at the time, saying if I've 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:52.599 lost Walter Krunkite, have lost America, and Mark Helprin says, 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:55.720 I am not Walter Cronkite. But right now, the biggest 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.840 problem is not abstract. It has a named the Strait 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:03.160 of Hormuze. If the United States and allies cannot reopen 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:05.720 that waterway to commercial shipping, then much else about the 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:11.159 effort becomes secondary, maybe at least somewhat useless. Doubts have 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:16.280 grown over whether or not they had prepared properly, or 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:18.880 that they have a plan to deal with this. The 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:24.000 pre war cogitation is that thinking fancy words for thinking fancy. 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:27.280 The pre war cogitation by Team Trump about the Strait 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:29.440 and how to keep it open seems at best to 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:32.320 have been insufficiently planned for, and a failure to open 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:34.599 the Strait in a fortnight or so that'd be two weeks, 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:37.600 many analysts and sources say, could lead to world oil 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:40.039 prices rising to two hundred dollars a barrel, which would 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:45.800 likely create catastrophic consequences worldwide. I like a lot of 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:49.280 what he said. One more thing and then they go 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:53.480 perfect deleted. The question being asked now, including by allies 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:57.360 of the administration inside the Beltway, is how the United 0:06:57.400 --> 0:06:59.719 States could enter a conflict of this magnitude without a 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:04.000 more fully developed answer on two obvious fronts, hormus and drones. 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:12.560 Hm yew the drones thing? Is there on earth a 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:15.840 satisfying answer to that question? I have no idea that's the. 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:19.040 Great military challenge of our time. That seems a little unfair, 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:24.040 the Hormuz thing. Maybe they didn't really have a plan, 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.120 or maybe it's just going to take a while to 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:32.000 execute the plan. But I know this, most thinkers didn't 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:36.040 think the Iranians would mine the Strait of Hormuz or 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:39.360 Straits of Hormuz if you prefer, because it's so critical 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:42.920 to their own oil exporting they wouldn't want to make 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:47.080 that a war zone. But now that they have, I 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:50.640 guess the US is thinking about taking that carg Island, 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:54.560 which is enormously important to their oil industry and exports 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:59.000 and everything else and revenue, because we've got to get 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:02.920 a hold of that and shut that down now, right. Yeah, Yeah, 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:06.200 it's a hell of a problem the. 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:08.280 Whole they didn't have a plan. They didn't have a plan. 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:11.720 We're in the middle of a war. It may be 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:16.120 just and look, I know always in favor of the 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:19.200 Trump administration guy, but it seems to me the time 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:21.680 for that analysis is maybe down the road. Well, if 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:23.480 we have to do now is a question, Well, if 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:27.240 this reporting is true, is reporting is people inside the 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:32.280 White House who are supporting of this mission are saying, 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:35.440 did we not have a plan for this? Oh? Boy, 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:39.120 so that's what he's reporting, right, Okay, fair enough. So 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:45.720 I wonder just to end here, no matter how supportive 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:48.320 you are of the president, President Trump, no matter how 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:50.360 legitimate you believe the aims of this conflict to be, 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:53.120 there is reason for concern, not panic, not despair, but 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:56.680 concern based on what people are saying inside the White House. 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:00.240 The more I think about it, if you were to 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:06.440 pre launching the attack to list just like three threats 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:09.960 or levers that Aron has closing the strace, so horror 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:11.840 moves would be on that list of three, you wouldn't 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:13.240 have to go five deep or ten deep. 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:16.120 It's right there at the time, possible that they completely 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.839 thought of it and thought, ah, we just got to 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:22.480 hope we hit them so hard that they can't cause problems. 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.960 I guess either way. I mean, you still might come 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:29.360 down to either way. Tomorrow at two o'clock, the Supreme 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:31.920 Leader and forty of his cabinet are going to be 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.240 up above ground, and we know exactly where we either 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:37.439 hit him or we don't. Excellent reminder. Yeah, and it 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.240 might just be that. But this looks like a stick, 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:42.920 but a problem. This looks like a problem, like a 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:46.240 real problem. How we get that open back up again? 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:49.719 The other factor that may well be at work here, 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:51.400 And I don't know if Halpern's been talking about this 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:55.280 at all, but is uh. I still don't think Trump, 0:09:55.720 --> 0:10:01.720 maybe until recently, gets religious fanaticism. He thought the usual 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:06.559 levers applied in the usual ways violence, you know, such sanctions, whatever, 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:10.960 would get the usual results that he's gotten from, say Venezuela. 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:14.120 He thinks everyone's a businessman. Yeah, yeah, that's a good 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:17.120 way to put it. I don't think he gets that. 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:20.480 No, No, they will watch their entire country and every 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:24.760 person in it burn a fiery death before. 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:27.040 They give into the Great Satan. And they themselves are 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:30.160 willing to die, which because then they'll be at Allah's 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:31.880 side with all the virgins, which I don't think he 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:33.560 can wrap his head around either. 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:37.520 So many virgens. He got to like learn all their names. 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:39.720 I mean that just seems respectful. 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:45.920 Anybody around, anybody here with a little experience, huh, Yeah, 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:49.480 can just say, have you know, like how about forty 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:54.320 virgins and thirty two galzu who know what they're doing? 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.680 Forty five year olds have been around the block, Come 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:58.199 on here, got the skills? 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:03.520 Yeah, anyway, I'm not a. 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:09.760 Scholar. You're not a scholar. I'm not an expert on 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:13.240 the Koran. No hi karama. These are weird times. 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:17.920 Well well, well, on a lighter note, Bigfoot is rampaging 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:20.839 across Ohio. I've been digging into those details. 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:23.120 And seems legit to me, and I want to get 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:26.199 to this later because there are some interesting philosophical discussions 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:29.400 that have around it. If they actually have figured out 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:32.880 how to freeze brains and then thaw them back out, 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:42.439 what does that flipping mean going forward? Horrifying zombie apocalypse? 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:48.160 I think, or certainly, you know, preserving your your brain 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:52.360 for a future where maybe they could put it in 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:56.080 a body that the future doesn't want my brain. The 0:11:56.120 --> 0:12:04.199 present hardly does. There's always that. Okay, we got lots 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:06.520 on the way. Stay here. 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:13.760 Benito Mussolini's granddaughter will compete on Celebrity Big Brother in Italy. 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:18.680 Is the weirdest combo of Dictator's descendant reality competition since 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:20.840 Survivor was won by Brenda Hitler. 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:31.720 Obvious punchline. So but okay, the word is crepo preservation. 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:34.520 I guess that's the official term. For freezing a brain 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:37.040 and bringing it back alive, and it's never been possible 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:41.160 till now, and that when you freeze a brain it 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:44.880 destroys the cells and you can't thought out and have 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:46.760 it still work. But they figured out a way to 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:50.600 freeze the cells in such a way that it doesn't 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:54.560 destroy them. And they sliced up brain tissue from mice 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:58.080 and have frozen them for a week or so and 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:00.520 then thought them back out. The freezing and the throwing 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.920 have to be very careful and still gotten a brain 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:08.000 activity that could happen. So they haven't done it with 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:10.839 a full brain yet. But that's well, Covin said, where 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:17.320 am I? What's happening to me? Same day, different cheese? 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:17.520 You know? 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:20.880 Yeah, how about the length of time because you can 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:21.720 get freezer burn. 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:26.040 But obviously this opens the door if they can perfect 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:30.840 this to all kinds of wonders where someone could have 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:34.600 a terrible disease, freeze the brain, get to the point 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:37.000 that we can cure the disease, and then you know, 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:39.880 you reanimate your brain. But we'd have you'd have to 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.439 put in a body though in that case, because we 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:46.640 still haven't perfected the brain transplant. So what good does 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:48.640 it do to to bring it? To freeze a brain 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:52.959 outside of a body, bring it back alive? And now 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:56.120 you're what a guy who lives in a jar? According 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:59.079 to the fifties sci fi movies, Yes, yeah, and you 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:01.920 can speak and stuff like that. You can speak I 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.720 don't know, and command people to kill, as I recall 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:06.599 from some movie I watched as a kid, boy that 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.839 gets into some serious thinking about human nature. If I 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:13.240 am h I don't want to I don't want to 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:16.000 make this dark. But like if I if i'm if 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:19.840 I lose the ability to do anything, speak or move 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:21.880 my body at all, and I'm just a brain? Do 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:24.000 I want to live like that? Well, that's what you'd 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:25.080 be in a jar. 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:28.280 Could I like to do crossword puzzles and stuff like that? 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:32.560 Surely elon musk and you're gonna do crossword puzzles all day, 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:34.600 every day for the rest of eternity. Well, it's just 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:37.480 a forsss for the rest of eternity. I mean, you'd 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:41.400 have like one man, right, it'd just be a long later. Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:44.240 I'd watched TV. I'd watched golf. I think boy, I 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:45.760 watched it. I wish I could play golf, but I 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:47.120 don't have a body. I keep forgetting. 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:52.000 I'd watch TV. I don't know. I would read books. 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.280 I just don't know if there's any point of being 0:14:55.440 --> 0:15:01.160 just a brain. How are you going to hold these books? 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:05.280 You don't need to go to the library get the book. Well, 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:10.920 that's right. I have no eyeballs, you surely well, and 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:13.360 I have no ears. Wait a minute, Wait a minute, 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:15.360 wait a minute. Well that's what I'm saying. Unless they 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:18.960 perfect all those other things, who would just want consciousness, 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:25.000 can't see here, feel do anything. But I'm alive. No, No, 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:28.280 that's that's a horrifying nightmare. Yes, it is a horrifying nightmare. 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:32.440 It limits you, that's the understatement in the air. That 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:37.560 is the subtle joke of the day, Michael Ashelo's subtle 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:40.040 comment of the day. It limits you. 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:47.360 Well, for those who are fans of science, I find 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:48.760 this super super interesting. 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:52.760 The problem. And they've always talked about this as various 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.080 rich people or ballplayers or whatever, we're gonna get their 0:15:55.120 --> 0:16:00.920 heads frozen. That when you freeze tissue, crystals form. 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:05.200 Yeah, And as the water freezes, the crystals expand, they 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:08.960 puncture membranes disrupt the intricate network of neurons ultimately destroy 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:11.520 the connections that make the brain what the brain is. 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:15.760 But this team of neurologists in Germany circumiting the problem 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:18.840 by using a technique known as vitrification, which cools tissue 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:22.560 so rapidly that it prevents ice crystals from forming at all. 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.440 Instead of crystallizing, the liquid inside and around the cells 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:29.160 transform into an amorphous glass like state, preserving the tissue 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:31.680 structure with all molecular motion effectively halted. 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:33.760 I think I read the whole article, though I don't 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:36.480 think it ever got to the next step that we've 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:38.960 just been discussing. Okay, So even if you can take 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:41.600 a brain, freeze it, and thought back out and it 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.800 still functions, you got a long way to go before 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.560 you've accomplished anything. In my mind, you've got to be 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:49.760 able to put one thousand miles. We gotta start. You 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:50.880 gotta put it in a body. 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:54.160 Well, right, But there's no point in doing the other 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:56.360 stuff until you can figure out you can preserve a brain. 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:58.520 So this is the first step, an important first step. 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.960 I need eyes and on something that I can't imagine. Yeah, yeah, 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.880 but anybody's brain's been formed, frozen in the past. Ted Williams, 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:09.200 the baseball player Frozen's brain Walt Disney that they didn't 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:10.640 freeze it in the right way, so they're out of luck. 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:13.280 They're just frozen brains that won't ever work. So yeah, 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:17.719 they're all messed up, too bad, Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:22.600 After several delays, the US Space Agency NASA has set 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:25.560 new dates for the launch of its Artemis two Moon mission. 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:29.800 Liftoff is now set for April first, with six alternate dates. 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:33.080 It will be the first crude lunar trip since the 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:37.439 Apollo missions fifty years ago. The ten day crude mission 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:41.160 would loop around the Moon. The rocket has had problems 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:43.680 with various fuel leaks, but on Thursday, officials finished a 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:48.040 two day flight readiness review, an evaluation of whether the spacecraft, rocket, 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:51.080 and ground systems are prepared for launch. 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:54.359 That's exciting. I heard. 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:57.640 I think it was on ABC that NASA somebody said 0:17:57.640 --> 0:17:59.880 there's about a one in thirty chants of crew loss. 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.040 I'm on that crew. I'm thinking, whoa, whoa, what wait? 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:05.760 What wow? 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:09.760 And can we call it a mission without a mission 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:12.119 with crew instead of a crude mission? 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:13.639 Because I hear crude mission. 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:15.320 I think there's gonna be a lot of swearing and 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:18.960 breaking wind or something like that, the crude mission to 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:21.159 the Moon, or if we're gonna paint graffiti on it, 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:28.200 or it's a hand hewn wooden spaceship exactly right, right, 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:32.840 So this didn't get near as much attention as I 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:37.720 think it should have. Pew did a giant worldwide poll 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:43.000 with tens of thousands of people asked in surveys a 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:48.240 variety of questions, and one particular thing stood out. America 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:52.560 uniquely among countries in the world, and by a lot, 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:59.480 don't trust or have good feelings about they're fellow citizens. 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.639 A majority of Americans said people in their country have 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:04.000 bad morals and ethics. 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:07.480 Only country whereas a majority and if you want to 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:14.560 compare it to other countries, for instance, in other countries 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:18.159 such as Canada, ninety two percent of Canadians feel that 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:20.720 the other people they live with have good morals and ethics. 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:24.399 Ninety two percent say it's good. In America, it's fifty 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:27.840 three percent bad. In Mexico, eighty three percent of people 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:30.199 in Mexico thinking o other people in this country are good. 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:33.680 People in Britain eighty two percent. In Germany three quarters 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:38.119 Israel seventy percent. We are the only country that is 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:42.480 upside down and by a lot. What the hell is 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:46.560 that all about? Boy howdy? I mean, part of it 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:51.840 is diversity, because if you don't have a shared set 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:56.240 of what is good morals, you don't have a shared 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:59.000 answer to that question, then how in the world would 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:01.440 you say, well, he has completely different morals than me, 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:03.520 but he appears to stick to them. No, that's not 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:06.240 the way people function. I don't know if that theory 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:08.480 that's part of it. I don't know if that theory 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:12.080 fits in with this or not. The view in the 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:15.720 United States is influenced by partisan divides. Sixty percent of 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:20.280 Democrats and Democratic leaning independence rated fellow Americans morals is 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:25.919 bad compared to forty six percent of Republican and Republican leaners. Okay, 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:30.119 so it's too high among Republicans, but it's significantly higher 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:32.920 among Democrats to think the rest of their country is 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:37.680 immoral and lacks ethics. Oh my gosh. That's probably the 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:41.760 primary explainer, although I'm sticking to my immigration thing too. 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:43.000 Is a part explanation. 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:45.800 It's what we've been talking about a fair amount lately, 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:53.960 which is conservatives think most lefties are misguided. 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:55.720 They're just wrong. 0:20:55.800 --> 0:20:57.560 Their policies aren't as good as they think they are, 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:02.359 whereas the left thinks conservatives are evil baby eating monsters. 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:07.520 That's got to be a significant factor. I'm reminded of 0:21:07.600 --> 0:21:09.480 this great quote. Who said this? I should have jotted 0:21:09.520 --> 0:21:11.840 down who said it? I think it was Matt Tayibi. 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:16.800 Political disagreement is increasingly treated as a serious moral offense 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:20.240 rather than a simple difference of opinion. When you see 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:22.840 the world that way, punishing someone for holding different views 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:23.840 becomes a moral good. 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:29.520 Political polarization among the strongest anywhere in the world. In 0:21:29.560 --> 0:21:32.600 the United States, over seventy percent of Americans say conflicts 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:35.719 between political parties are strong or very strong. They are correct. 0:21:35.840 --> 0:21:38.600 I would be with that seventy percent, But that is 0:21:39.280 --> 0:21:43.040 we are an outlier in terms of that also, which 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:45.680 probably fits in with the other number pretty well. Shouldn't 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:48.400 it be a cause for concern that we stand out 0:21:48.720 --> 0:21:52.880 in so many ways in America? We are exceptional America 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:56.320 also in the fact that we think the people we 0:21:56.400 --> 0:22:01.159 live with suck. I mean, and like Canada, practically nobody 0:22:01.200 --> 0:22:04.440 thinks they're fellow Canadians. The suck the same way to 0:22:04.480 --> 0:22:06.760 all these other countries. That's a problem, and then one 0:22:06.800 --> 0:22:10.240 more thing to throw in, very low trust in government. 0:22:10.600 --> 0:22:15.000 The US also stands out for extremely low institutional trust 0:22:15.320 --> 0:22:18.360 compared to other countries. Only twenty two percent of Americans 0:22:18.400 --> 0:22:20.280 say they trust the federal government most of the time. 0:22:20.320 --> 0:22:24.600 Are always I don't think I do. I'm in the majority. 0:22:25.480 --> 0:22:28.800 But by the way, it's nine percent of Democrats in 0:22:28.840 --> 0:22:31.760 twenty six percent of Republicans. I assume if you did 0:22:31.840 --> 0:22:35.040 this pull during Joe Biden's presidency, those numbers would flip. 0:22:37.160 --> 0:22:41.119 This is dramatically lower historically than numbers for instance, in 0:22:41.200 --> 0:22:45.119 the fifties and sixties, eighty percent of people trusted their 0:22:45.200 --> 0:22:48.600 government most or most of the time. Are always eighty percent. 0:22:49.600 --> 0:22:52.080 Now that was probably misplaced, but a number of twenty 0:22:52.119 --> 0:22:53.680 two percent is incredibly low. 0:22:54.880 --> 0:22:57.040 I think it's all a measure of how far left 0:22:57.200 --> 0:23:00.879 the left has swung in this country. The bulk of 0:23:00.960 --> 0:23:03.760 the left, you know, the pig in the python. If 0:23:03.800 --> 0:23:07.920 you're looking at a chart of political beliefs, it's just 0:23:08.320 --> 0:23:11.280 the parties or the two philosophies used to. 0:23:11.280 --> 0:23:12.280 Be so close. 0:23:12.320 --> 0:23:15.000 There was so much overlap, and a few things over 0:23:15.040 --> 0:23:16.560 here on the right, a few things over there on 0:23:16.640 --> 0:23:19.720 the left that was not overlap. But now the bulk 0:23:19.880 --> 0:23:22.120 of certainly the energy and the Democratic Party is way 0:23:22.200 --> 0:23:26.639