WEBVTT - Call Me A Fascist! Go Ahead! 0:00:02.000 --> 0:00:06.280 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:10.959 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:24.320 Getty and he Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:27.280 Hey there, it's a good Friday. What does that mean? 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:30.840 It means a lot, even if you're not. 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:34.320 What you would call is yourself a Christian? 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:36.479 If even if you don't like identify as a Christian, 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:40.240 it means a lot because it has been the dominant 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:45.680 influencer of Western culture for two thousand years. And we 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:47.240 can talk about that coming up a little bit later. 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:50.879 I learned this from Tom Holland in his book Dominion, 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:53.840 but super super interesting, So I hope he can stick 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:55.080 around even if you're not religious. 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:58.440 For me, it was a real slapping my forehead and saying, 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:02.080 oh my gosh, how have I not recognize this moment 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:04.600 in hearing some of this just terrific. I hope you 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:05.280 can stay tuned. 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:08.320 But first, before we move forward, we must look back 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:10.679 fondly at the week that was. It's cowl clips of 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:13.760 the week. 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:15.959 Yes, where we are? 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:16.760 Yes? 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:17.560 Who's there? 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:18.280 No king? 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:30.160 Do it? Is there any decision in particular you disagree with? 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:31.319 Yes? 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:31.720 Well? 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:40.120 Okay, so I would start with, I've given our boys dolls. 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:44.920 We're recognizing what it is to ultimately deconstruct all these 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:46.839 gender roles and ultimately be human. 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:54.240 Here, Sean, you know, forgive me. This is embarrassing. 0:01:55.240 --> 0:02:00.240 We are systematically dismantling the regime's ability to threaten America. 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:04.680 The blood warning from Iran. Any American troops invading would 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:05.960 be set on fire. 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:10.120 We're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:10.959 where they belong. 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.640 President Trump doesn't bluff and he does not back down. 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:18.560 You can ask Kamanian about that. Go through the strait 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:23.800 and just take it, protect it. This is not aw war. 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:28.640 We will not be drawn into the conflict. Docthors Jackson, 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:31.320 notwithstanding you know you had sort of an idiot ag 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:34.360 and coming along on this, I wouldn't say that because 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:38.440 we have cases in front of the court. So Joe, 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:44.480 well put and lift off. The crew of Artemis two 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:45.840 now bound for the Moon. 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:49.680 You'll go deeper into space than any human has ever 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:50.400 gone before. 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:52.440 Well, going back. 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:53.400 To the second Moon. 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:57.360 That's why new questions about Tiger Woods's future. 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:01.320 After the fifteen time major champion was arrested, he was 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:06.280 sweating profusely. His movements were lesargic and slow. Mister Woods, 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:07.880 did you hang out down here with us? 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:08.120 Please? 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:17.200 Yeah? I was stalking the president. Well speak. Do you 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:19.360 know I have a fear of German sausages. I always 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:28.560 fear the worst. It's clips of the good stuff in there. 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:32.560 So did you know? I did not know until just 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:37.600 two minutes ago when I read this The Civil Rights 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:42.320 movement protested heavily the moon landing in June of nineteen 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:42.960 sixty nine. 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:46.320 Oh yeah, I did not know this. Yeah, I can 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:50.680 picture Eldridge Cleaver was it leading a big protest in 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:52.000 uh Houston. 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:54.920 I think this is after Martin Luther King Junior had 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:56.760 died if you know your history, because he was killed 0:03:56.760 --> 0:04:01.640 in April fourth. Tomorrow's the anniversary nineteen six. This is 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:04.839 nineteen sixty nine, June when we landed men on the moon. 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:09.000 But Ralph Abernathy, who's one of the closest advisors in 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:12.160 right hand men to Martin Luther King Jr. Led a 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:16.679 protest with about five hundred mostly African American protesters about 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:18.839 how we're spending all this money on going to the 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:19.920 moon while people are still. 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.400 Hungry, et cetera, et cetera. Yeah, I wonder if that's 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:24.960 what I'm picturing. Yeah, the money should be spent in 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:26.120 the cities, not on the moon. 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:35.320 Yeah, and there's a number of problems with that. There 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:38.680 will always be hungry people. So if you're going to 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:40.680 go with that sort of logic, he can't ever do 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:43.560 anything as long as anybody's hungry. All of these various 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:46.320 programs that you want to throw money at to try 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:49.120 to eliminate hunger seems to have only increased it in 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:51.640 certain segments of society or made. 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:53.960 Things trained as graft. Yeah. 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:56.120 And then you also have I saw this yesterday somebody 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:59.159 who's making this sort of argument for present day with 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.560 the NASA launch of Artemis two and all that that, 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:05.679 with the we spend twenty billion dollars in our space program, 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:09.080 and somebody wisely pointed out, yeah, but we spend and 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:12.240 I forget what the number was, three quarters of a 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:16.119 trillion dollars on various aid programs. 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:18.640 In the United States. I mean it's not even close. 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:20.840 I mean it's a drop in the bucket where we're 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:25.400 spending on NAT's complained compared to for his tax transfers 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:27.240 to try to help out people who don't have enough 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:27.960 of this or that. 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:32.599 But a lot of people would hear that argument say wow, yeah, yeah, 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:37.360 So it's actually both the false choice uh uh fallacy 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:39.960 and it's just the mathing right. Yeah. 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:42.359 The tweet, and I don't remember who, was from some lefty, 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:47.200 well known lefty. The tweet was billions for the space 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:48.839 program and pennies. 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:49.120 For the hungry. 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:52.120 And the response by somebody who knows the numbers was 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.839 or twenty billion for space program in like three quarters 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:57.120 of a trillion. 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:57.280 For the hungry. 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:01.320 But you know, you do you yeah, But that sort 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:02.040 of thing works. 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:05.560 It works all the time on a lot of people. 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:09.080 That's why democracy doesn't work. It's it never worked. It 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:16.839 can't work. We need to restrict voting to landed white wow, 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:21.520 and every other color, males and females, anybody with a job, 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:25.400 anybody who pays taxes. You gotta pay more in taxes 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:28.240 than you get out of it to be allowed to vote. 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:34.039 I'll be a fascist. Go ahead, I'm a fascist. Well, goose, 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:35.200 step right on out of here. 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:40.880 We had a little clip in there of Gavin Newsom's 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:44.360 wife talking about how she reads to her kids. If 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:46.240 you didn't hear that, we did it earlier in the show. 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:48.520 It's really really insufferable. Good lord. 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.880 Yeah, that whole point of view. 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:59.480 Changes the male protagonist to female, so her children realize 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:05.120 that girls can do things too, because it's the Middle 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:07.600 Ages or even nineteen fifty. 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:11.120 What are you talking about, She's a reading person, Tom 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:14.000 Sawyer to her kids? Does she make it, Tina Sawyer, 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:17.280 so that they know that girls can also make rafts 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:19.320 and travel around with former slaves. 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.240 Do friends into painting their fence? Yeah, go ahead and 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:24.000 play the clip, Michael. I have a comment. 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:28.080 What I've done with both my daughters and my sons 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:30.240 is if I'm reading a book and the protagonist is 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:32.400 a male, I just change the heat to as she 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:36.200 and it just normalizes for my sons. In particularly, it's 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:37.280 not even I don't even just do it. 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:37.720 For my girls. 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:39.240 I do it for my sons because I want them 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.880 to see that women can be the center of a story, 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:46.880 that women matter, that women are interesting. 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:51.760 Because there are never books, TV shows, movies. 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:54.680 Anything where women in real life where women are the 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:56.520 center of the story just never happens. 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:00.360 Right, What are you talking about, you crazy person? Two 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:04.440 things I never bring up, like family or children of 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:08.400 politicians unless they make them fair game. It's like the 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:13.320 rules a cross examination in a courtroom. I fear for 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:17.440 those boys, and I hope they are okay to be 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:23.600 constantly hammered with the message that I mean. The unspoken 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:27.240 message is, I'm not going to tell you about boys 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:30.960 who are heroic or do things, or are adventurous, because 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:34.000 it's much more important that you learn this. There's an 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:36.199 unspoken message there. Well, so I give you a couple 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:37.880 of paragraphs about but I'll bet you can guess what 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:38.080 I'm mean. 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:42.440 She's doing to her kids what she believes the world 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:46.240 is doing to women but hasn't been for like centuries. 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:49.320 Right, right, And then my second thought about it, and 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:52.120 I think I said this on just a segment that 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:56.440 only goes out to around the radio ranch locally. Her 0:08:56.679 --> 0:09:01.520 deal is, I believe, Number one, she's got that progressive self, 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:06.400 a grandizing look how enlightened I am thing twenty four 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:09.400 to seven she's That's what she gets up in the 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:13.040 morning to do, is to make herself look enlightened. And secondly, 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:16.400 because she operates in the rarefied air of the very 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:20.400 very wealthy Napa Valley types and the rarefied air of 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:25.640 the very very powerful Sacramento political class, she has no 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:29.320 idea what normal people think or do or how we live. 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:34.360 She's guessing she's heard things about how the unwashed masses 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:38.520 behave and what they think the poor bigoted, you know, 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:42.240 racist woman hating scum. I mean, it's like she took 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:45.000 her kids on that zoo trip to the Red States 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:48.959 so they could see Hayden racism and bigotry. It's like, sweetheart, 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:52.040 I've lived in the Red States. I love. It's fine. 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:58.160 It's not what you're picturing from your mountaintop in Healsburg. Well, 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:00.320 and then she's got another clip, is her She gives 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:02.760 her boys dolls so that they can learn about nurturing 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:06.760 and whatever. And so apparently that's her, never having had 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:08.880 the experience a lot of us have where if you 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:12.520 let like some boys and girls run wild in a 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:15.360 room full of toys, the girls pick up the dolls 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.960 and the boys pick up the dump trucks. Almost entirely, 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:22.920 they just do. We got to deconstruct gender roles. Jack 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:26.720 not a social construct. Nobody told the little my son 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:30.680 when he was three, only pick up the bulldozers. Boys 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:34.439 don't nurture children, all right, now, go get the bulldozer 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:36.520 and the oppostion to the girls pick up the doll. 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:39.280 Girls only take care of babies. 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:41.680 No, they just naturally do that because there is a 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:44.400 difference between the genders and were designed a certain way 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:45.200 by evolution. 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:47.720 And I threw in, go ahead and play with the doll, 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:50.480 because you'll never be at the center of any adventure 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:53.800 or story. I made sure my girls do that. 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:59.240 Oh my god, I've given our boys dolls. Even if 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:03.160 they tear that off, I've given them dolls to learn 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:06.560 that care and caregiving is not just an activity that's 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:10.040 reserved for women, but that it's also an activity that 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:12.880 is a responsibility of men. 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:17.560 Yeah, she is a dedicated adherent to postmodernism critical theory. 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:20.520 She's not nearly as smart as she thinks she is. 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:26.120 Or you are so wildly lacking an insight, dear, you 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:29.880 live in a world that the world you imagine is 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:32.360 nothing like the world that actually exists. 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:34.280 That's a great question. 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:37.240 Well, it was a statement. 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:41.880 So, as Mark Cowperan's always pointing out, there is no 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:44.640 scrutiny like running for president scrutiny. I mean, you can 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.360 be governor, you can do all kinds senator, you can 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:49.800 do all kinds of things. And people are like looking 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:52.559 for the appo. But it's nothing even close to like 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:54.400 when you're in it for president. There's going to be 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:58.360 stuff that she has said on camera, on video, tweeted out, 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:00.920 written about over her ear. It's going to come out 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.440 if he actually makes it to presidential GANDID that he 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:06.480 is really going to struggle to deal with. I mean, 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:10.120 because this is this is fifty year old her. What 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:12.120 was twenty five year old her. 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:15.800 Saying, honestly, it's imp it's possible that it was none 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:18.720 of this crap because she hadn't been indoctrinated into critical 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:20.760 station point. She might have been a normal person when 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:24.280 she was twenty five. That's possible. Yeah. Wow, Okay, we 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:25.440 got a lot more on the way. Stay here. 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:32.640 I needed a place in NYC to nap, so I 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.600 looked up on Reddit where to napp and it was 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:39.120 like all these things being like there's one secret room 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:42.079 in this library that if you go at these hours, 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:45.360 the guards aren't there. Until I read the best idea ever, 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:48.079 which I did. I went to the movie theater, paid 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:51.679 fifteen dollars for a ticket and slept in the recliner 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:54.320 seats during the movie, popped in my earbuds, put on 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:56.320 my beanie and I had one of the best naps 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:56.959 of my life. 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:57.719 That is a. 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:01.280 Great idea, a reddit that lets you know all the 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:03.800 good places you could nap. It reminds me of the 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:08.240 Seinfeld episode where they were quizzing each other, like George 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:12.120 Costanzo could tell you the closest public restroom, give me 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:16.640 a spot, you know, twenty third and ninth, the Barnes 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:19.200 and Noble bookstore. You know, just where people go to 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.640 a public restroom. There need to be you know, Reddit 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:22.280 things like that. 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:27.680 That's awesome. Yeah, that is I take a quick nap. Hey, 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:29.760 this is apropos nothing. I wanted to squeeze it in. 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:32.520 I mentioned it hours ago, but Mike and Missouri formerly 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:34.920 Arkansas wrote, it's a really interesting note. We were talking 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:38.360 about the Duggers and how that thing kind of fell 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:41.080 apart and their problems in child molest station. 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:43.960 Set that briefly because I'm not sure I even remember. 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:49.040 Weren't they held up as something great by everybody for a. 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:52.800 While reality show? That yeah, tons of the reality show, though. 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:54.960 I think they became famous pre reality show because they 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:57.720 had like, what eighteen kids or something. Obviously that gets 0:13:57.720 --> 0:13:59.240 a lot of attention. And they're supposed to be this 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:01.920 just fantastic family that cared so much about this and that. 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:03.920 Then there's reality ship. But then we found out there 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:05.760 was a pretty ugly underbelly. 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:09.040 Is that what happened? Yeah, Yeah, there's some some sickness 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:13.079 definitely going on, including dad. I believe it was. But anyway, 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:17.400 let me just read some of this. I have many 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:19.960 thoughts on the Dugger news since I knew both the 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:23.640 Duggers and Caldwell families, the ones involved in the latest scandal. 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:25.800 I'd been to both of their churches homes and was 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:29.520 part of the same cultish homeschool group with my kids. 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:31.880 Right and my family never Yeah, that was part of 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:34.200 the angle of lifting it up in the beginning was 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:36.480 it was homeschool, very religious. 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.280 And then he says he obviously has no sympathy for 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:41.120 some of the bad things that were done, but he 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:43.160 has a lot of sympathy for the family in general 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:45.720 when it comes to the weirdness of fame and media 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:50.040 twisting and exploit exploitation of it. And most of them 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:55.680 are actually doing quite well, he says, But they're doing 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:57.560 far better than I think could be expected based on 0:14:57.600 --> 0:14:59.960 the weirdness of fame they received as a large family 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:02.520 that was selected for a show that made them rock 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:07.000 stars overnight to homeschoolers, and objects of hate and scorn 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.600 to a lot of the population. Just the small amount 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:12.840 of tension attention I got from being a Dugger adjacent 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:15.360 freaked me out a bit. We rented a home from 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:17.360 them that was on the show often that Josh and 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:20.400 Anna previously lived in, had randos pretend to run out 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:22.880 of gas, come to my door regularly hoping to meet 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:25.600 a Dugger, or stand out in the street taking pictures 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:29.360 of my kids playing in the yard, even people becoming 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:32.680 our friends to fish for Dugger info, elite to gossip 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:35.560 sites about the Duggers. I finally moved us from that 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:37.600 house when pictures of my kids were on an anti 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:42.880 Dugger website where psychos make threats all the time. You know, 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:47.120 I wrote back to Mike. Actually, I said, it's really 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:49.760 interesting and troubling. Fame is a curse. 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:54.680 The fact that so many people seek it is well dumb, yeah, 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:58.000 or just they don't think about it or don't get it. 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:03.320 Fame is a her that goes along with being successful 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:06.360 at a visible job. I will I will put that 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:12.640 as my my sentence to be engraved in granite. Why 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:15.920 do so many people want to be famous? It's just 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:21.680 a wanting too much of one level of Maslow's hierarchy 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:25.000 of needs, the like belongingness or yeah, they want to 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:26.880 be celebrated, they want to be admired. 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:31.080 Yeah exactly, Yeah, yep, they just and it's not dumb. 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:34.400 That was a bad choice at words. They haven't reckoned 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:38.680 with her, haven't heard about the really weird side of fame. 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:42.080 And there's a lot of it, not just that stuff, 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:45.640 but any Hollywood star, any you know, sports star would 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:50.920 tell you, I'm never sure if I'm actually friends with somebody, 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:53.840 or they just want to drop my name or they 0:16:53.880 --> 0:17:00.640 want something from me, you know. Among among other problems, it's. 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:04.359 Good Friday, maybe the most important day in the history 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:05.560 of Western civilization. 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:09.880 Whether you're religious or not. Talk about that coming up stair, 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:12.919 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:18.119 You are Christian, whether you know it or not. Actually 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:22.159 you're Christian, even if you're Muslim or Jewish, even if 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:25.760 you're an atheist. According to Tom Holland, who wrote the 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.280 book Dominion, and he is a historian, and we talked 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:32.920 about this fair amount a couple months ago he himself, 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:35.520 I don't believe is I'm pretty sure he's not a 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:36.680 believer himself. 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:37.639 So you don't need to. 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:41.119 As Christopher Hitchens used to say, you read some of 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:43.720 these books and they sneak Jesus in through the back door, 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:45.560 like they make all those arguments, and all of a 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:50.000 suddenly they gotcha. Now you're stuck believing Jesus as a savior. 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:54.439 That's not what Tom Holland is up to. He's just 0:17:54.480 --> 0:18:00.080 making the point that the crucifixion of Jesus is so 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:02.600 important to Western society and the way that we look 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:05.360 at the world that we all really are. The main 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:09.240 dominating philosophy of Western society is Christian, and it is 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:12.160 a Christian philosophy. So that's what happened on this This 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:15.320 is Good Friday. So in case you're for some reason 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:17.960 not raised in a way that you would know this. 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:21.600 This is the day historically that Jesus was crucified. Then 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:26.520 he discovered in an empty tomb Sunday three days from now, 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:27.359 that's Easter Sunday. 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:30.760 That's the way that works. Then appeared to his followers. 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:36.240 Yeah, so what does Tom Holland mean by that? What 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:43.240 was the big philosophy thing there and he started or 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:46.400 these videos started making the round. This is after AOC 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:49.159 she was over there in Germany at whatever conference thing 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:51.560 they had going on there, and she mocked the idea 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:54.960 of Western civilization being a thing. And then there's somebody 0:18:54.960 --> 0:19:00.320 else that made a similar comment or whatever, and the pushback, Yeah, 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:04.720 there is something called Western civilization. And Tom Holland had 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:07.840 written this book Dominion, about specifically how it comes out 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:12.000 of the Crucifixion. He makes the argument that the cross 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:15.800 is the most powerful symbol probably in the history of 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:18.400 the world, for the amount of time that is had 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:25.640 endured and had a meaning, and that previous two Jesus 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:30.520 and the whole story of the Crucifixion, mankind had a 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:35.840 very brute the strong. 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:36.600 What is that saying? 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:38.879 You're always using the strong do what they can, the 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:42.240 week do to what they muster. Essentially, Yeah, strong do 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:44.120 whatever they want and the week do what they will. 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:44.480 Yes. 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:47.200 And everybody was perfectly okay with that. They just thought 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:49.520 that that was everybody's lot in life. That's the way 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:50.040 it should be. 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:52.080 I always. 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:56.399 Remember, because I was confused by this saying from Bin Lawden. 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:59.200 After nine to eleven there was this thing that went 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:02.640 around with Ben lat and talking about how when two 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:06.520 people see, when people see two horses fighting, they root 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:09.880 for the strong horse when they see one horse is winning. 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:12.320 And I always thought, no, I don't, and I don't 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:13.280 think most people do. 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:18.680 That is the Western philosophy, in that we tend to. 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:26.560 If we see somebody strong brutalizing somebody weak, we're horrified 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:27.000 by it. 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:31.200 That is a new way to look at the world. 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:35.239 Coming out of the Crucifixion of Jesus two thousand some 0:20:35.359 --> 0:20:40.800 years ago, in that the Crucifixion, crucifying people was a 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:42.680 way for the Roman state, and this sort of thing 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:45.960 had existed forever and still exists some places in the world, 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:49.439 showing we're in charge. 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:50.600 We the Romans are in charge. 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:52.720 We make the rules, and this will what will happen 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:55.240 to you if you disobey the rules. And so they 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:58.360 would crucify people, which it was a horribly painful way 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:00.000 to die, and they would. 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:02.800 You were torturing them to death right of course, many 0:21:02.840 --> 0:21:03.399 hours here. 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:06.280 And they would do it in public and leave those 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:08.680 crosses hanging up on the outskirts of all the towns. 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:10.720 So everybody, no, this is what happens if you crosses, 0:21:11.600 --> 0:21:15.800 and for whatever reason I guess, I guess just human nature. 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:18.800 People were kind of well, you know, he had it coming. 0:21:19.160 --> 0:21:21.600 He was a thief, or he was in a you know, 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:25.120 whatever the crime was, you went against the Romans. Tom 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:27.159 Holland in his book he uses the example all the 0:21:27.200 --> 0:21:32.879 time of Caesar went up north into Europe, slaughtered a 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:36.679 million people and came back a hero for having done that. 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:40.280 Who would think in them, you know, in the Western 0:21:40.280 --> 0:21:43.520 civilization modern era hold that up as a great thing 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:46.520 because you had a more powerful army, you went and 0:21:46.600 --> 0:21:50.680 slaughtered a million innocent people. Right, nobody would have hold 0:21:50.760 --> 0:21:54.760 that up, but that was that was the belief system 0:21:55.920 --> 0:21:58.879 of again, of human nature. You know, see kids and 0:21:58.880 --> 0:22:03.119 what bullies will do if somebody doesn't intervene, they'll just 0:22:03.280 --> 0:22:06.520