WEBVTT - This Is Who We Are Now!!! 0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:06.360 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:11.079 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, Armstrong and 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:17.840 Getti and no he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:27.520 And finally no, everybody has to start getting a little 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:30.720 more excited for America's birthday. Come on, our big two 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:33.680 point fifty is coming up. It's on July fourth for 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:38.360 the kids in our public school. And I think that's 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:39.400 a pretty big. 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:42.320 Deal a joke. 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:45.600 I get it, and I get why people laugh, but 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:47.720 it angers me. Since I got two kids in school. 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:50.960 It angers me and just reminded me this is not 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:53.559 a school thing. But my son was watching I think 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:57.960 it was Netflix. They got a bunch of biography documentaries 0:00:57.960 --> 0:00:58.800 on about. 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:02.920 Various big names. 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:06.360 Throughout our history, and Henry started watching the Teddy Roosevelt 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:07.480 one and he came to he so I had to 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:07.920 turn it off. 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:09.160 He said, all they do is talk about what a 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:09.920 racist he was. 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:13.560 Just, you know, just the way everything is now, everybody 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.039 from the past in America, let us explain to you 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:19.479 why they were actually terrible and why what America doing 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:20.280 this was terrible? 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:25.160 Right right, Which is a deliberate tactic, but it's also 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:29.440 that horrible egotism of presidentism where you pick out an 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:32.800 Abraham Lincoln and explain how you're so much better than 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:36.160 Lincoln was because you have modern attitudes. It's just so 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:40.600 self serving and it's you know, Orwellian trying to pervert 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:42.360 your history so you don't know who you are as 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.960 a people anymore. So Bill Maher was talking about patriotism 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:48.120 and the two hundred well specifically the two hundred and 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:51.080 fiftieth birthday of the country, and we're going to play 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:53.040 some of that. I was struck, and we talked about 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:56.960 this last week that back in two thousand and one, 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:00.600 pre nine to eleven, by the way, nearly of Americans 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:04.240 were extremely are very proud of their country, just under 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:08.960 ninety percent, and in twenty seventeen it was seventy five percent. 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:14.720 And now overall it is fifty six percent, and it's 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:21.840 ninety percent of Republicans and just under thirty percent of Democrats. 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:26.679 I was in the twenties for Democrats, twenty nine yeap 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:31.560 of all ages. Yeah, correct, wow, and Democrats. Democrats are 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:35.200 a much younger cohort in general than Republicans. But yeah, 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:37.360 and I would argue, and I'll keep this brief and 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:40.240 then we'll get back to Bill Maher. As I often say, 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:43.960 kids learn what they're taught, and they've been taught by 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:48.080 their entire by the school system, their entire lives for 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:50.920 the reasons we've talked about, that they should be ashamed 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:54.480 of being Americans, they should be ashamed of their privilege, 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:57.560 and that it's a bad country. It's the most racist 0:02:57.639 --> 0:02:59.799 country on earth. They actually were saying that during the 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:00.920 War Woke Apocalypse. 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:03.919 Well, and if you don't feel that way among your 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:05.359 young hip crowd. 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:08.799 You're kind of an idiot, kind of yeah, you're really 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:13.600 really a poultroon right. So I was glad to hear 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:15.320 Bill Maher talking about this the other night. 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:20.200 Every election year, Democrats seem to remember patriotism for about 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:22.639 an hour at their convention when they're trying to win 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:26.600 back swing voters. The whole message of Kamala's speech in 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:28.000 twenty twenty four was. 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:29.200 Take back the flag. 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:33.760 That's why she talked about America like a pageant contestant. 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:41.360 The greatest privilege on earth, the privilege and pride of 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:45.120 being an American. Hard to believe she lost. 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:51.040 Huh, Well, you can't take back the flag in an hour. 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.760 If the rest of the time you treat patriotism as 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.160 something vaguely embarrassing. 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:02.200 Vaguely embarrassing, I would say specific contemptibly embarrassing. 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:05.200 Yeah, if some if you're I can picture certain picturing 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:08.240 certain specific people, But if they are like standing around 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:11.000 having a drink or whatever, and somebody said something up 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:14.120 with America ish, it would be vaguely embarrassing. It would 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:17.159 be kind of uncomfortable with that person, uncomfortable for them 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:18.880 that they said this sort of thing. 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:22.760 Out loud, right, Yeah, yeah, indeed, Yeah, he goes on. 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.839 I remember from nineteen seventy six. Oh yes, I remember. 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.719 I was twenty and I wore a Bison tennial T 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:34.120 shirt that whole summer. Inflation was around six percent, mortgage 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:37.520 rates were almost nine There was actually a thing called 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:41.760 the misery index. The average person earned far less than 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:44.679 they do today. They had a smaller house and watched 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:47.560 a tiny TV that had three channels, mostly I love 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:52.680 Lucy reruns. The closest thing we had to euphoria was 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:53.600 Three's company. 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:55.360 Our AI was cliff Notes. 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:01.599 Women had just won the to get a credit card 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:04.920 without their husband signing off on it, and there were 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:07.920 no women on the Supreme Court and only nineteen in Congress. 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:10.280 Do you think filling up your tank is a headache? 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:13.440 Now? Back then, being online. 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:17.760 Meant you were waiting for gas. 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:21.600 We ran all those. That's a week or so ago. 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:25.320 Somebody pointing out how much worse the situation was for 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:28.200 the average American in nineteen seventy six than it is now. 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:32.040 Yet we were more fond of our country, right, yeah, 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:35.720 almost universally final clip. 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:42.360 La had smag days, buildings had asbestos, radio had disco duck. 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:46.360 Things were bad, man so bad. 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:48.680 I was forced to sell everyone drugs just to cheer 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:57.600 them up. And yet, and yet it didn't stop us 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:00.839 from making nineteen seventy six one big p. Did he 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:05.200 freak off for America? Because ask Joe Biden, you only 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:15.840 turn two hundred once, so so come on, it's the 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:19.919 fourth go let this year's fourth because another excuse for 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:23.160 partisans soaking. Let it be an excuse to be really 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:24.919 hungover on the fifth. 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:29.880 I think it's interesting that he is willing to say 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:35.080 or notices that the Democratic Party is not patriotic. It's 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:38.479 almost hard to imagine not being in favor of the 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:42.120 country you live in. I can't quite wrap my head 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:44.839 around that. He can be very unhappy with a current 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:51.360 administration or various policies, But you really, you're not patriotic. 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:55.120 How often has that ever happened anywhere on Earth in 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:58.000 the history of the planet, Where people aren't patriotic about 0:06:58.000 --> 0:06:58.920 the country they live in. 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:05.120 And failed miserable countries, it's pretty common there. Even then 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:07.360 there's a certain national right. So do you just said 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:11.240 something there? So in failed miserable countries it's come to 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:15.280 not be patriotic. How about in successful will continue to 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:19.240 be successful countries? Does that happen? Oh? Yeah, well it's 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:22.680 happening now in ours because those who want to overthrow 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:26.720 the system have gotten hold of education, so they've convinced 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:29.680 a couple of generations of kids. This is a failed 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:34.360 and miserable country in spite of all the evidence. It's 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:38.120 really it's rough. Rich Lowry was writing about this, and 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:41.560 he says, even if you have contempt for the party 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:44.080 in power, and this, you know, the whole let's not 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:47.360 make this about Trump, for God's sake, is true on 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:49.200 both sides of the aisle, and we'll get to that later. 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:52.400 But even if you have contempt for the party in power, 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:56.480 there's the country's founding, it's constitutional system, it's stupendous wealth, 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:59.480 it's great heroes, it's victories in two world wars, it's 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:04.080 natural beauty, it's endlessly interesting, fair minded and inventive people 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:07.480 to feel proud of. Many Democrats are unmoved by these things, 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:11.520 or consider them sources of embarrassment. The founding tainted by racism, 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:16.320 the constitutional system an antiquated obstacle to progress, the economy 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:20.440 rigged by in four billionaires are heroes, feet of clay 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:24.280 or worse. And the keyword here is systemic is in 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:27.920 systemic racism, which suggests that racism is not a product 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:32.280 of historical circumstance, but endemic to the American project itself, 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:34.120 probably irredeemable. 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:37.720 Well, that's all internal, domestic stuff. How about the view 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:40.120 you're taught about our role in the world. 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:40.760 We make the. 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:45.760 World worse and cause wars and make it more violent, 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:51.680 not make it less. Yeah, I'm very cynical about this, 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:53.720 like incredibly cynical about this. 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.600 I don't think it'll turn around. I think that. 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:04.160 Growing pause, aggressive, happy cultures have a lifespan to them, 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:07.360 and for some of it, for whatever reason, they just 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:09.400 they have a lifespan to them, and. 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:10.439 We've turned into. 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:19.280 Spoiled, entitled trust fund country that is going to complain 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:21.960 about our amazing lot in life until. 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:25.520 We've destroyed it. Yeah, I think that is part of it. 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:29.320 It's the whole cycle of strong tough times and strong people, etc. 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:32.199 That we all know. The Other half of it is, though, 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:35.040 as I said, we allowed the far left to get 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:39.000 hold of our education system, and you think the battle 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:43.080 is probably lost. Maybe I just can't admit it. I'm 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:46.439 reminded of certain tragic circumstances where an infection got out 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:49.240 of control in the patient turned septic and died, sometimes 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:54.160 at a healthy young age. I've got to admit, if 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:56.160 somebody put a gun to my head and made me 0:09:56.240 --> 0:10:02.080 bet in some weird compulsory casino, I would bet that 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:06.280 we can't save the patient. I hope I'm wrong. I 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:08.920 pray i'm wrong. I work, I get up in the 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:13.560 morning trying to make myself wrong that the infection of 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:17.080 our education system, thereby the hearts and minds of our children, 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:20.120 it's too late to solve. I hope I'm wrong. 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:23.240 Well, we used to think a cataclism could turn it around. 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:25.959 The pandemic was a cataclysm and it made it worse. 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:32.920 Yeah. Yeah, but this is yes because it's fundamentally different 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:36.280 than it ever was before. That supports my theory. Before 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:39.400 we were a family that but bickered like crazy. We 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:42.480 were a couple of brothers that fought a lot, but 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:45.840 if by God, somebody threatened our sister or threatened our family, 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:49.679 we would band together and be absolutely inseparable. That was 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:53.920 the United States for a couple of centuries. But now, 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:57.240 because kids have been taught to hate their country, if 0:10:57.240 --> 0:11:01.360 a threat comes, they divide to their camps. They're no 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:03.680 longer part of the family. They're ashamed of the family. 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:05.600 That's the difference. 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:08.880 I think nine to eleven happened George Bush went to 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:11.880 ninety some percent approval rating. Would that happen with any 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:13.720 president of either party at this point? 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:21.520 I don't think so. Not a chance unless they transcended party. 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:26.560 And this too shall pass the incredibly divided Trumpian era. 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:29.600 But what happens next, I don't know. Because of the 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.120 factor of the kids, like I've been talking about, I 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:35.760 could see a Marco Rubio or a Rama Manual or 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:39.160 somebody like that doing the right things in the right 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:41.480 way and rallying the country and it being a lot 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:43.760 better than it's been lately, but it won't be like 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:47.400 it was. I don't think until we get control of 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:50.760 the education system again and get the infection out of 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:55.920 our bloodstream. So you got some pot, Yes, I am 0:11:55.960 --> 0:12:01.960 calling for detention camps, very cush, very maane, perhaps prison 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:06.640 islands for gen z oh. I got a thing about how. 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:11.080 The young crowd is so tired of they're burnt out 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:14.600 at work. If you're already burnt out and you're twenty three, 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:16.520 life is going to be long. 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:20.400 That is so funny. I can't even summon up a laugh. 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:24.840 It's like so funny, it's horrifying. I got the stats 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:26.520 on that. I think I might have a. 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:30.240 Reason why they might be right, or where they might 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:31.160 actually be feeling that. 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:33.360 I think so anyway, lots of stuff on the way, 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:36.280 stay here, bart hey, Yeddi. 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:45.760 A family is searching for answers after a Tesla crashed, 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:50.000 killing seventy six year old grandmother Martha Avila. Her daughter, 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:53.000 Jennifer Barber, was in the backyard when authorities say a 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:57.079 Tesla Model three was speeding before veering off the road, 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:01.320 slamming into the family's home in Katie Tech, where Avila 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:04.559 was inside. The forty four year old driver Michael Butler, 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:08.880 allegedly told deputies he was using his car's automated driving system. 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:13.120 Now investigators are working to determine if that technology played 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:13.520 a role. 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:17.559 Was having this conversation with someone over the weekend? Go 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:24.960 interesting to watch the rollout of this. Every time a 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:31.120 self driving car makes a mistake makes national news. People 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:35.840 human beings make mistakes thousands of times across this country 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:39.319 every single day, including fatal ones, right, that don't make 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:40.080 any news. 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:42.520 Yeah, I was thinking about that as I listened to it. 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:46.360 The you know, you spend your life trying to figure 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:50.320 out humanity and by the time you do, you die. Uh. 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:54.800 But yeah, here's a new technology that's unquestionably great. But wait, 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:58.040 it caused a problem. And everybody's like, really, what what 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.240 happened with this new technology? Right? 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:04.440 And I am I'm really concerned. I think this will happen. 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:06.720 We're gonna have the right to drive taken away from us. 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:08.520 I do think this will happen at some point, and 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:12.440 the argument will be these things are safer. They don't 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:14.640 even need to mandate it. No insurance company will give 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:17.320 you insurance I'm not gonna let you pilot this with 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:21.080 your hands and wreck the be much more likely to 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:22.600 wreck the car, and we have to pay for it 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:25.880 as an insurance company. When in a you know, self 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:29.080 driving car, my risk goes way way down. So that's 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:32.680 what will happen over time, but for right now anyway, 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:43.000 we react to the rare somebody getting hurt by. 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:41.480 A computer. 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.040 Much more than we react to human beings, and there 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:48.880 is some psychological weirdness there. If my kid got run 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:55.840 over by a self driving car, it would somehow be 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:59.400 like worse than if a person made a mistaken I'm 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:03.600 not sure, or seem more unfair, not worse where you know, 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:05.960 I don't know how it could be worse, but more 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:09.320 unfair somehow, or more preventable somehow, or something. 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:12.120 I don't even know what I'm trying here. The person 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:15.520 making human error is part of the world we live 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:18.520 in and always has been. You just accept it as 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:21.640 being human. But a company introducing a technology that goes 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:25.840 sideways and kills somebody that's rectifiable, Maybe that's it. Ellen. 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:30.560 I've grandfathered in the chance that a idiot twenty five 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:33.240 year old driving way too fast in our neighborhood might 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:36.320 run over a kid, right, but a self driving car. 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.600 Nobody was ever predicting robots killing someone. 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:42.120 Or, as you pointed out many times, a middle aged 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:45.280 soccer mom in a minivan driving way too fast and 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:46.080 all the time. 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:49.840 I don't know, but I don't know where this is going. 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:53.360 I don't know if states will allow the self driving 0:15:53.400 --> 0:16:00.320 cars like fully autonomous vehicles for those of a stone, 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:05.080 I don't know when that will happen. Insurance companies are 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:07.400 still allowing you to drive, then when they turn out 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:07.880 to be safer. 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:10.440 This, this is all going to happen fairly soon. I 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:16.040 think I could see you could self ensure for collision 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:19.680 and damage to the other vehicle. I mean, if you 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:24.760 have enough money, you can, but liability insurance if without 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:26.720 the you know, you know how insurance works. You have 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:31.080 a huge pool of people and you dilute risk in essence, 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:32.920 you spread it out so you pay a fraction of 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:35.080 it because only small percentage of people ever need to 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:39.080 make a claim. But if they do what you've suggested, 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:42.240 they'll do and I think you're right, Yeah, you will 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:44.640 have to like have your own ability to pay off 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:47.240 any liability claim, which could run into millions of dollars. 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:52.280 So driving by driving yourself could become the province of 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:54.960 the very very rich and nobody else unless you're a 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:59.320 law breaker. I could see that easily. I think it. 0:16:59.480 --> 0:16:59.840 I think. 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.240 I don't know how many decades this will take, but 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:04.800 it'll be really frowned upon the idea of a human 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:08.000 being piloting a two ton vehicle down the street. 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:11.800 That's crazy. Thoughts on fatherhood coming up, stay with us, 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:13.240 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:16.440 I forgot I keep forgetting the look up ones the 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:19.040 next time the United States plays soccer. We kicked the 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:22.199 ass of Australia on Friday, and I've looked this up 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:24.080 like three times and I can't remember it because I 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:25.760 don't care, so damn it. 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:31.399 You care enough to look but not enough to remember. Anyway, 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:34.159 I'll figure that out. While you're speaking of sports. I 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:36.720 love this. Then we'll get into the substance of the segment. 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:41.840 But the Babylon B, which rarely disappoints, MLB rebrands to 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:46.880 MLBTQ plus in an effort to better reflect the league's values. 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:50.240 Major League Baseball announced that it had officially rebranded from 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:53.760 MLB to MLBTQ plus on the yiels of a controversy 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:57.960 over players writing Bible versus on their league mandated Pride uniforms. 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:00.359 Commissioner Rob Manfred felt it was time to make the 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:04.360 league stance on gender and sexuality crystal clear. Quote. This 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:07.560 is who we are now. Nothing is more critical to 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:10.560 the mission of Major League Baseball than gay stuff. This 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:13.240 rebranding reflects the core purpose of our league, which is 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:15.480 to talk about who is having sex with whom. We're 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:17.959 not here to just throw a ball around or collect hit, 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:20.439 saves and wins. This isn't about some game. This is 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:27.320 about sexual deviancy. Wow, this isn't about some game. This 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:33.040 is about sexual deviancy. According to league sources, several players 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:35.520 push back against the change, asking if they could instead 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:38.800 just play baseball. Quote. I'd like to just throw the ball, 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:42.560 said one pitcher, on condition of anonymity. You know, like baseball, 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:45.160 try to throw strikes and get people out and all that. 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:48.080 I'm just not quite making the connection between this game 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:52.560 and gay stuff and publishing time. Manford announced further plans 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:54.880 for the league to promote tolerance by banning all Christians 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:58.639 from playing. That's pretty good, right, that's really fun soccer. 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:01.760 The world's most popular sport are So I'm told so 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:05.439 in Australia to nothing. We're in first place in the 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:08.600 group D standings by a lot and we take on 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:11.359 you got to play everybody in your group. So we 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:14.200 beat Paraguay, We beat Australia. The only other team left 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:17.639 in our group is Turkey and we play them on Thursday. 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:20.639 They have zero points so far because they have accomplished 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:22.520 nothing in their first two games. 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:27.080 Boy, we are gonna smoke Turkey. Huh oh, let's see, 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:30.040 or we're gonna what a deep fright, We're gonna deep fraight. No, 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:33.840 that's not a thing and ring their next Yeah, there 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:37.399 you go winner, love it. And I'm sorry when do 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:44.080 we play? Have you forgotten already? I don't have five 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:50.600 minutes because I don't care. Turkey Thursday, Turkey Thursday. That's right, 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:54.199 yeah exactly, That's how I'll remember. Thank you. So I 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:56.560 thought this was wonderful. None of this is anything we 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:59.879 haven't talked about. But Alex Berenson wrote a piece for 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:04.119 the Free presses that fathers are not mothers. And he 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:07.200 writes about and we have decried this for the longest time, 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:14.439 the stereotyping of fathers in the last fifty years or so. 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:18.560 Maybe he says it starts practically at birth. He remembers 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:23.960 reading The Berenstein Bears for his kids, and in every book, 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:27.880 hard working, practical Mama ran the house, she cooked clean, 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:30.879 took care of the cubs, pot bellied, and titled dopey 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:34.560 Papa got in the way. He was surprised at how 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:36.840 unsubtle the message was, and it shouldn't have been. The 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:41.600 idea that father knows best is long gone, and for decades, 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:45.840 if not generations, the media hystereotyped fathers is goofy, hapless 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:48.159 fools who depend on their superhero wives to pay the 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:50.280 bills and take care of their kids. When did they 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:51.280 write Berenstein Bears? 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:53.360 Because I actually had this conversation over the weekend as 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:56.040 we're trying to nail down When did the turn happen? 0:20:56.880 --> 0:21:01.479 Where all the sitcoms TV shows portrayed Ad as a 0:21:02.640 --> 0:21:06.800 just really more in the way than helpful. Did the 0:21:06.880 --> 0:21:10.680 family tried to succeed despite Dad being in the way 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:13.639 all the time? Early nineties sometime because you know, you 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:16.880 had a Huxtable in the eighties with the Cosby Show. 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:21.160 Somewhere in the nineties, the dad became mostly a detriment 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:25.400 to the family. Thank god Mom can overcome his idiocy 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:29.840 and sloth and everything to make the family work. 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:33.240 The baron state bears actually started in nineteen sixty two 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:36.879 and stretched on for years and years after that. I 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:41.000 think that's when it became when you're talking about like 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:44.360 omni present, and I was thinking about this very thing 0:21:44.480 --> 0:21:53.680 having read that paragraph back in the actual really male dominated, 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:58.160 paternalistic culture of the earlier part of the century and everything. 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:02.879 The idea of scure that was a way, you know, 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:07.480 humor does this. It questions power, and it suggests changes 0:22:07.560 --> 0:22:10.000 that might be good. And it was fine during the 0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:14.000 father Knows Best era or whatever to poke a little 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:17.400 fun at dads and their foibles. But then it passed 0:22:17.400 --> 0:22:21.159 some sort of weird tipping point where it became not 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:25.800 a challenge to authority but like punching down in the 0:22:25.840 --> 0:22:29.919 way that a lot of progressivism is that men are 0:22:30.040 --> 0:22:35.000 stupid and toxic and must be kept down, and fathers 0:22:35.119 --> 0:22:38.280 must be mocked at all costs, because to let up 0:22:38.320 --> 0:22:42.720 on that beating would be to embrace the patriarchy. I 0:22:42.760 --> 0:22:46.400 guess it's like, you know, you still see all these 0:22:46.440 --> 0:22:49.920 programs for women in college and trying to get women 0:22:49.960 --> 0:22:53.080 to college and women in law and stuff like that, 0:22:53.160 --> 0:22:58.040 and like women dominate undergrad and grad school and law schools. 0:22:58.920 --> 0:23:01.840 And it's like, all right, when do you stop punching 0:23:03.040 --> 0:23:06.240 or when do you just admit it? Something different? And 0:23:06.320 --> 0:23:09.520 I think that happened with dads anyway. He points out 0:23:09.600 --> 0:23:14.840 that meanwhile, feminist academics crank out research claiming father's coast 0:23:14.920 --> 0:23:18.080 and married households where both parents work, they don't do 0:23:18.119 --> 0:23:21.880 any of the child caring or housework or blah blah blah, 0:23:22.119 --> 0:23:25.960 And he points out he knows lots of folks middle 0:23:26.200 --> 0:23:30.000 upper middle class, suburban urban families. He knows, he said, 0:23:30.240 --> 0:23:36.399 nobody confront is conforms to that stereotype. He doesn't know 0:23:36.520 --> 0:23:39.639 anybody who died. I don't much less everybody. Oh no, 0:23:39.760 --> 0:23:43.360 I know, not at all. Me neither. I don't even 0:23:43.400 --> 0:23:51.000 think I've met that down Nope. Yeah, anyway, he says, 0:23:51.400 --> 0:23:54.960 in all the families he knows, childcare is split mostly equally. 0:23:55.080 --> 0:23:57.640 Sometimes when the fathers are the primary wage journers, they 0:23:57.640 --> 0:24:00.800 get a break a little bit. Same split in reverse, though, 0:24:00.800 --> 0:24:02.640 when the women of the house make more, et cetera, 0:24:02.680 --> 0:24:05.399