1 00:00:01,880 --> 00:00:06,200 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:11,400 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, Armstrong and Getty 3 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:17,279 Speaker 1: and no He Armstrong and Eddy. 4 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 2: President Trump is threatening new military strikes against the Ron Tom, 5 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 2: calling on the regime to negotiate a deal to end 6 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 2: its nuclear program in warning quote, time is running out. 7 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 2: The Iranians have been publicly trying to de escalate the 8 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:41,159 Speaker 2: threat of war, meeting with US partners in the region. 9 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 1: Man, anybody's guess as to how serious Trump is about 10 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:50,199 Speaker 1: attacking Iran. But there's a fairly major development yesterday that 11 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 1: I'm not sure everybody caught. It's in this story. 12 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 3: The White House is getting some boar from abroad, the 13 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 3: European Union sanctioning fifteen Iranian officials for their role in 14 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 3: protest crackdowns. The US also now branding Iran's Revolutionary Guard 15 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 3: a terrorist organization. 16 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:10,480 Speaker 1: Those who operate through terror must be treated as terrorists. 17 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 3: Both the US and Iran are such a conduct military 18 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:16,319 Speaker 3: exercises in the region in the next few days, a 19 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 3: possible warm up of. 20 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 1: Things to come. Yeah, that didn't get enough attention. I 21 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 1: don't think everybody understood why I didn't understand it until 22 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:25,120 Speaker 1: I read about it. But we have been trying to 23 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:30,040 Speaker 1: get all of our European friends to designate the Revolutionary 24 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:33,040 Speaker 1: Guard a terrorist organization for years. We did a long 25 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:35,960 Speaker 1: time ago, but France was the big hole about and 26 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 1: yesterday Macron agreed to sign on to Yeah, the Revolutionary 27 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 1: Guard is a terrorist organization, which is an indication that 28 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:47,120 Speaker 1: they're either on board slash maybe even going to be 29 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 1: helpful in a big attack on Iran, or at least 30 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 1: we'll be willing to help us out if it turns 31 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:54,560 Speaker 1: into a full on war. But that was a major 32 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 1: move because they've been holding out against that for a 33 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 1: long time. Yeah, looking back to the whole dom, Francus, 34 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 1: the fact that Europe is making cooperative noises with the 35 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 1: US is notable. It's definitely interesting, isn't it, Kevin. It's 36 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 1: interesting why France and others weren't willing to call the 37 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 1: Revolutionary Guard to terrorist organization before. I do not know, 38 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 1: because they've pulled off many, many terrorist attacks all around 39 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 1: the Middle East and killed many US service people in 40 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 1: other European countries. But you know, you know, the way 41 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 1: the Euros are Yeah, yeah, actually, yeah, that's it. They 42 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 1: try to passive their way out of things and try 43 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:38,399 Speaker 1: to be persuasive and think there's surely we can avoid war. 44 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 1: I didn't know this till I was listened to a 45 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 1: podcast yesterday, or I never fully understood it. I guess 46 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: the Revolutionary Guard was put in place by the Iatola, 47 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 1: the first iotola after the revolution, to keep an eye 48 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:51,679 Speaker 1: on the army. It's like, you know, who will watch 49 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 1: the watchers referenced earlier, He put together his own private 50 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 1: army to keep an eye on the other army so 51 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 1: that they that they don't go after him. And that's 52 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 1: why he Dictators a stressful business. It's a surprise they 53 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 1: live so long. And that's why you got such the 54 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 1: weird who's in charge thing always going on or who's 55 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:12,680 Speaker 1: making the decisions? Because I'm sure the army thinks, yeah, 56 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 1: we're really in charge. Behind the scenes, I'm sure the 57 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 1: Revolutionary Guard thinks yeah yeah, or are you we are? 58 00:03:17,639 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 1: And the i Tota thinks I'm in charge. I don't 59 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 1: know what you guys are talking about now. I realized 60 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 1: that a couple of weeks after Trump UH roiled the 61 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:28,040 Speaker 1: world by hinting darkly that we might invade Greenland, which 62 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 1: I tried to assure you was not going to happen. 63 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 1: That was several years ago. Right, there was no week, 64 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 1: my last week, no one. They're also tired. Uh. It's 65 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 1: worth noting that Trump said quite unequivocally that if the 66 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 1: Iranian regime kills those protesters, they're going to get a hurt. 67 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:51,960 Speaker 1: And it could well be he said, I said it. 68 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 1: I'm not going to be I'm not going to be 69 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 1: the guy who makes hollow threats. They're going to get 70 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 1: a whacking. Whether in diplomacy or parenthood. Never threaten a 71 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 1: sanction you're not prepared to deliver. Never, never make a 72 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 1: rule you're not prepared to enforce. Yeah, So I was listened. 73 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 1: I took in a bunch of information on this yesterday 74 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:16,680 Speaker 1: as listened to one of my favorite podcasts. I think 75 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 1: I agreed with their take in that the usual well 76 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 1: what comes next people, what's the next day? That's what's 77 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:28,359 Speaker 1: always left. What's the chances the day after is worse 78 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 1: than what we've had the last fifty years. I think 79 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 1: it's pretty low. Yeah, yeah, right, Yeah. The current well, 80 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 1: the status quo is pretty solid. I mean because with 81 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:46,480 Speaker 1: the racket, it's persistent for fifty years with a racker, 82 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:49,800 Speaker 1: I wouldn't have said that, Like what comes after Sadam Hussein? 83 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 1: Is it going to be better or worse? It could 84 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:55,480 Speaker 1: be worse, Saidam, saying, you know, it was mostly leaving 85 00:04:55,560 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 1: us alone wasn't our problem. But the Iran has been 86 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 1: our problem for a very very long time, right right, Yeah, 87 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 1: So yeah, it will create opportunity if we can weaken 88 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 1: that regime. But anyway, I just think, you know, you 89 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 1: certainly don't want to start a major war just because 90 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:16,360 Speaker 1: you know, I said I'd whack them, so I got 91 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 1: a whack them. So all right, let's mobilize for ten 92 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:21,680 Speaker 1: million men. No, but I think Trump feels like he 93 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:27,520 Speaker 1: has to carry out some sanction against Iran, specifically some 94 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:30,240 Speaker 1: active islands. According to the reporting, lots of different places 95 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:32,800 Speaker 1: New York Times, CNN, others, they say sources within the 96 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:35,839 Speaker 1: White House say that taking out the leadership is fully 97 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 1: on the table. That's what they're discussion discussing this week. Now, 98 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 1: what that would look like. Do we have, like we 99 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:47,840 Speaker 1: had down in Venezuela, some sort of mole right next 100 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:50,279 Speaker 1: to Maduro that could tell you where he is any 101 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:51,920 Speaker 1: minute of the day. Do we have something like that 102 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:56,119 Speaker 1: with the Iyatola, like his beard barber, his beard dier 103 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 1: is there he goes with the great beard. His beard 104 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:03,479 Speaker 1: trimmer is you know, working for the CIA. Who knows 105 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 1: what we're gonna unleash. And then we got some of 106 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 1: those electronic pulses and you know they're back to the beards. 107 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:14,679 Speaker 1: All their beards fall off. Oh boy, like a whole 108 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:18,360 Speaker 1: beard Tangent's a bit of a distraction. But yeah, I 109 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 1: think it's it's virtually certain that we have contacts within 110 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:27,720 Speaker 1: the Republican Guard and we're saying to them, look, it's 111 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:29,360 Speaker 1: possible this is going to happen. I'm not going to 112 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 1: give you much because we don't want you to have 113 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 1: much information, but this could happen. I want you to 114 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:36,360 Speaker 1: noodle through what you would do, okay, and here's one 115 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: suggestion for what you might do. You declare a temporary 116 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 1: military something or other, and then we start talking about 117 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:47,360 Speaker 1: elections and rights for the people and maybe some nice 118 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 1: trade deals. Y'all like to get rich. I mean that's 119 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 1: the IRGC's got ideologue, certainly, but they're also a giant 120 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:56,720 Speaker 1: for profit corporation. Tell them, look, everybody's gonna get rich. 121 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 1: Here because that's that's Trump's pitch to everybody. One of 122 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 1: the problems is things can go wrong in military endeavors. 123 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:07,320 Speaker 1: We get so used to winning in the United States 124 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 1: with our military endeavors that we just expected to always go, 125 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 1: you know, practically perfectly, with no loss of life and 126 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:19,160 Speaker 1: the objective of achieved like Maduro. We expect that so much. 127 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 1: It's like our standard. Our past failed. The pass is 128 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 1: the line is very, very high. But you could have 129 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 1: a like when Carter tried to get the hostages out 130 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 1: of iran complete debacle. Helicopters crash and flying and people dying, 131 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 1: and you don't accomplish anything. And I mean things like 132 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 1: that could happen. You know, I actually disagree with your premise. 133 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 1: I think after Vietnam and Afghanistan and Iraq, most Americans 134 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 1: have the opposite attitude. We don't want to get involved 135 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:48,160 Speaker 1: in military anything because it ends up ugly and expensive 136 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 1: and too many people die and nothing gets coming. I 137 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 1: think that's different. The result, the political result is not 138 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:56,680 Speaker 1: what we want, but the operation. It's not like our 139 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 1: marines were running into each other in Fallujah and our 140 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 1: tanks were falling apart, you know, the operation itself, and 141 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 1: the operation itself could go bad. You know, our missiles 142 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 1: could hit the wrong things, or planes could get shot 143 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,120 Speaker 1: down or whatever, and the reaction of the public would 144 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 1: be really, really bad. Yeah. Probably, it doesn't always work out. 145 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 1: Probably will, I think us versus Iran? I like our chances. Yeah, 146 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:27,120 Speaker 1: although again, they have thousands of missiles of significant power 147 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 1: that could rain down upon our bases and our friends 148 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:33,680 Speaker 1: and our interships. Less likely according to my clients, don't 149 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:37,000 Speaker 1: you assume they would go full cornered rat, willing to 150 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:40,760 Speaker 1: try anything because they're gonna die. There's no reason to 151 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 1: worry about, you know, awaking the sleeping giant or whatever. 152 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 1: The giant is awake and bounding on you. I think 153 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:49,280 Speaker 1: the most likely scenario is that the leadership has their 154 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:53,080 Speaker 1: bags packed and have an escape plan like hair trigger 155 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 1: ready to go. They're set to go to Davis, California 156 00:08:55,679 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 1: or someplace safe, right, yeah, some communist enclave that hates America, 157 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:04,600 Speaker 1: but maybe Berkeley. It's it's unclear. My intelligence is fuzzy. 158 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:08,360 Speaker 1: But anyway, so they will order their underlings fight to 159 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 1: the death. We're off to the air, right right, like 160 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:14,440 Speaker 1: that guy in Afghanistan did, and just like in the 161 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:17,320 Speaker 1: case of when the shaw left, surrender you saying through 162 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:22,720 Speaker 1: the speakerphone, you fight hard, see you right, you know, 163 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 1: to get back to her. When the shaw left, the 164 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:29,079 Speaker 1: army is like, yeah, no, no, the cats away, the 165 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:34,920 Speaker 1: mice are not gonna play fight to the death, thank you. Wow. 166 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:42,479 Speaker 1: But what's what's the likelihood of a good, fairly tidy outcome, 167 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:45,520 Speaker 1: And keep in mind and like the tidiest of outcomes, 168 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:49,680 Speaker 1: twenty five thousand Iranians die, because that's how countries shake 169 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 1: off one regime and move on to the other. Hell 170 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 1: of a lot of people die always, but don't what's 171 00:09:55,920 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 1: the chance of that sort of tidy outcome? I don't 172 00:09:58,080 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 1: know one. And don't you feel like we've got a 173 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:03,120 Speaker 1: standard of especially coming out of the Venezuela thing of 174 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 1: like next to no loss of life for our side, whereas, yeah, 175 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 1: we won our last game thirty five to nothing. Yeah, 176 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:13,560 Speaker 1: Whereas in reality, you know, in warfare, if you you know, 177 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:16,720 Speaker 1: if twenty five thousand of them die and two thousand 178 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 1: of you die, that's a huge victory. But I'm not 179 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:21,760 Speaker 1: sure we have the stomach for that sort of thing, 180 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 1: if that ever occurred, right, I hope it doesn't I 181 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:30,000 Speaker 1: really hope it doesn't. Yeah, two thousand would be extraordinary, 182 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:35,280 Speaker 1: but who knows. We got some really mockable Gavin Newsome 183 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:37,760 Speaker 1: stuff for you. If you haven't heard it, it would 184 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:41,080 Speaker 1: appear that it was indeed MSNBC that was altering that 185 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:44,000 Speaker 1: picture of the dead nurse in Minneapolis to make him 186 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 1: much more handsome, and a really mocking CNN or MSNBC 187 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 1: at this point is you know, it's it's like making 188 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 1: fun of the New York Jets. I mean, they're they're 189 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:58,720 Speaker 1: already terrible and weak and nobody cares. So we should 190 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 1: talk more about that later. Also, I want to get 191 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:03,560 Speaker 1: to those guidelines for drinking that the government almost released 192 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:06,720 Speaker 1: but didn't, but now they've come out like really pairing 193 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:08,240 Speaker 1: back on what they think he ought to drink, and 194 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:10,800 Speaker 1: which I say, mind your own business. Who ask you? 195 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 1: What do you my grandma? So is that your job 196 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:18,960 Speaker 1: count my drinks? Huh? I'm going to do a couple 197 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:21,200 Speaker 1: of lines of blow to you know, get ready for 198 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 1: this news So I don't know if that's a good idea. Anyway, 199 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:26,200 Speaker 1: the mockable Gavin Newsom stuffed and the other stuff on 200 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:33,400 Speaker 1: the way we caught on too, and I hope everybody 201 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:36,200 Speaker 1: catches on too. Throughout the process of Gavin Newsom trying 202 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 1: to become president. When he has hit with a a 203 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:45,560 Speaker 1: touchy question of controversial issue, he does such the worst 204 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:48,880 Speaker 1: job of a non answer. He's done it several times already, 205 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:52,080 Speaker 1: like in hilarious forms. It's a perfect example of how 206 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:55,720 Speaker 1: state level chops are not running for president chops because 207 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:58,320 Speaker 1: he's gotten away with it in the one party state 208 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:02,319 Speaker 1: of Calunicornea. And I've said for ages, cal Unicornea politicians 209 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:04,959 Speaker 1: think they can win national office, but they can't because 210 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:08,800 Speaker 1: they're so lazy. Having worked in a one party state, 211 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:11,920 Speaker 1: they've never actually played a game against opposition. Do you 212 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 1: think transgendered children should have operations? Well, you know, I'm there, 213 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:18,360 Speaker 1: but the grace of God, I mean I believe it, 214 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:24,080 Speaker 1: right what now? No? No, no, anyway, So Gaby's been 215 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 1: doing the rounds trying to raise his profile, doing various 216 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:32,600 Speaker 1: podcasts and such. Here he is, uh with R. J R. 217 00:12:32,679 --> 00:12:37,760 Speaker 4: Jackson, I will not vote for a candidate that takes 218 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:40,640 Speaker 4: one dollar from APA. It's interested, I mean, it's it's interesting. 219 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:44,200 Speaker 4: I haven't thought about APAC and it's interesting. You're like 220 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:46,800 Speaker 4: the first to bring up a pack in years, which 221 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:47,560 Speaker 4: is interesting. 222 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:48,760 Speaker 1: Why did I say that? 223 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:52,960 Speaker 4: Not relevant to the my day to day life? Okay, 224 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:55,560 Speaker 4: which is just interesting. Listen, it's interesting you say that 225 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:58,959 Speaker 4: jpack perhaps more but apac less and less. 226 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 1: Okay, first, which is this interesting? What's interesting about it? That? 227 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:05,079 Speaker 4: It's just interesting as you bring up a pack that 228 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:08,800 Speaker 4: it hasn't been part of I'm just reflecting quite openly 229 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:10,839 Speaker 4: and honestly hasn't been part of the day to day. 230 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:14,480 Speaker 1: So yeah, we've confirmed eight interestings in thirty six seconds, 231 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:17,320 Speaker 1: a rate of one interesting every four seconds, roughly, so 232 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:19,719 Speaker 1: we probably interesting, probably should have set up, like you know, 233 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:21,400 Speaker 1: that a pack in case you don't know, as an 234 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:25,200 Speaker 1: Israeli lobby group. That lobby's on behalf of Israel and 235 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 1: apparently in the Democratic Party at least for some voters, 236 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:30,600 Speaker 1: it's a no go. If you took a dollar from them, 237 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 1: there's no way I could vote for you. That's how 238 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:36,360 Speaker 1: much the seller colonialists of the pressers, that's how much 239 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:39,960 Speaker 1: I hate Israel. But his response is not, yes, I 240 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:41,920 Speaker 1: took some money, but that doesn't mean I don't have 241 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:44,520 Speaker 1: the best interest of America or it wasn't. No, I 242 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:47,640 Speaker 1: haven't taken a dollar was that's interesting. It's interesting that 243 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:52,240 Speaker 1: you bring that up, and interesting, it's just interesting because 244 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:53,800 Speaker 1: it's not part of my day to day life. It's 245 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:56,240 Speaker 1: interesting that you bring that. What kind of an answer 246 00:13:56,360 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 1: is that? And you're right about the state level child, 247 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:02,680 Speaker 1: because he thinks that will work. You think that that's 248 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:05,040 Speaker 1: not going to like be chum in the water when 249 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:08,079 Speaker 1: you're running for president and like your next stop in 250 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:12,520 Speaker 1: New Hampshire, there's going to be fifty people screaming at 251 00:14:12,559 --> 00:14:16,840 Speaker 1: you to answer that question because you obviously dodged it. Right. 252 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:20,440 Speaker 1: He's just not good at the dodge, which is just interesting. 253 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:24,160 Speaker 1: And he's certainly got not good at Sincere. He's good 254 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 1: interesting and Sincere yeah yeah. And then this this next clip, 255 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:32,040 Speaker 1: I think, you know, I hate to give it away, 256 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:36,360 Speaker 1: but it illustrates the obsession in some quarters of the 257 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 1: Democratic partisan party, certainly the left of the center folks 258 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:43,360 Speaker 1: with Israel these days, and how it's a reverse litmus test. 259 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 1: You've either got to condemn Israel or you're not welcome. 260 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:49,600 Speaker 5: This has become a big conversation and someone like myself 261 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 5: and I think at this point a broad majority of 262 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 5: Democrats are saying we don't want candidates who are taking 263 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:57,120 Speaker 5: money from APAX. We don't want candidates who are beholding 264 00:14:57,120 --> 00:15:00,120 Speaker 5: to the Israel lobby. When you look at what you 265 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 5: were able to accomplish with the groundswell of support financially 266 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:06,600 Speaker 5: from people who said, I want to back this, I 267 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 5: want to back fighters, I want to back people who 268 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 5: are independent of an establishment. How do you think about 269 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 5: a pack now, and maybe someone like Seth Moulton who said, 270 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:16,880 Speaker 5: I want to return this money, I'm not taking it anymore. 271 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 5: How do you think that a pack should be involved 272 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 5: or shouldn't be involved. 273 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 1: I've never been involved in me. 274 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 4: I've never received a dollar from them in my entire 275 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 4: political career, so that's sort of absolute. So I've had 276 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 4: an opinion on that going back decades now. I don't 277 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 4: take tobacco money, oil money. I've never taken eight pack money. 278 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 4: I mean, there's there's certain absolutes that are the lines 279 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 4: that have been drawn for decades for me, and those 280 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:40,120 Speaker 4: will continue and to the extent they need to evolve 281 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 4: because of the devolution of certain interests, and we're experiencing 282 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:45,760 Speaker 4: that in real time along the lines of what we've 283 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:49,520 Speaker 4: been talking. Perhaps that will even grow. But the small 284 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 4: dollar is become just the lifeblood for me. 285 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:59,320 Speaker 1: Unless he's dumb, which he's not. He either has taken 286 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:02,960 Speaker 1: money and lied, or he didn't know if he'd taken money, 287 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 1: because otherwise, why wouldn't even that first one answered the question? 288 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:07,960 Speaker 1: If he's never taken any money, that's what the guy 289 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:09,920 Speaker 1: was wanting to know. I will not vote for anybody 290 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:12,080 Speaker 1: who's taken a single dollar from a pack? Have you? 291 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 1: And he said, well, that's interesting, that's interesting, just interesting 292 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:17,400 Speaker 1: that you bring it up. I mean, why wouldn't you say, no, 293 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 1: I've never taken a dollar if that's the case. And 294 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:25,840 Speaker 1: he's just a half asked attempt to address the Israel issue, 295 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 1: you know, in a larger sense. And you'd think a 296 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:33,000 Speaker 1: politician searching for the presidency would be ready to say, look, 297 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 1: they've been an ally for a long time and I 298 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:36,720 Speaker 1: found a lot of the things that happened in Gaza 299 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:39,520 Speaker 1: to be highly, highly troubling and excess and blah blah blah. 300 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:41,680 Speaker 1: How do you not have that ready? You just keeping 301 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:44,400 Speaker 1: interesting over and over until you hope people get bored 302 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:46,600 Speaker 1: and forget what you're talking about. So there's two parts 303 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 1: of that story. Gavin not doing a great job with 304 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:53,080 Speaker 1: controversial issues, and at least a couple of podcasters who 305 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:56,360 Speaker 1: are a no go on any money, any relationship with 306 00:16:56,440 --> 00:17:01,680 Speaker 1: Israel whatsoever, well any hillmony, the hilarious notion of we 307 00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:05,399 Speaker 1: want candidates who are rejecting the establishment you have like 308 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:10,560 Speaker 1: the government and media and education and Wall Street, and 309 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:16,440 Speaker 1: you're okay, sure you are armstrong and geeddy. 310 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 6: Polar bears have long been a symbol of climate change. 311 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:22,520 Speaker 6: They're health projected to suffer in a world of less 312 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:25,240 Speaker 6: ice and fewer chances for bears to hunt seals. But 313 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:28,439 Speaker 6: there's a twist in that story. Polar bears in the 314 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:31,959 Speaker 6: Norwegian Arctic have actually gotten fatter and healthier, according to 315 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:34,320 Speaker 6: a new study, turning away from the shrinking ice to 316 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:38,119 Speaker 6: hunt reindeer and walwrus on land instead. Experts say the 317 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:40,919 Speaker 6: bears are still in trouble long term, but hey, the 318 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:42,240 Speaker 6: experts have been wrong before. 319 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:48,880 Speaker 1: The polar bears are fatter because of climate change. That's 320 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:57,680 Speaker 1: not what al Gore told us. Who's fatter himself? Capable 321 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:00,280 Speaker 1: parallel there. I don't know if he's eating reindeer or what, 322 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:05,399 Speaker 1: but he's better. We got a bunch of stuff to 323 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:07,520 Speaker 1: tell you that I just saw the breaking news earlier today. 324 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:10,760 Speaker 1: I forgot to mention that Trump and his sons are 325 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:15,240 Speaker 1: suing the Department of Treasury for ten billion dollars or 326 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:17,080 Speaker 1: something like that. It's one of your typical Donald Trump 327 00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:18,960 Speaker 1: lawsuits where you go way over the top of the amount. 328 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:24,480 Speaker 1: But the point is about them releasing his tax returns 329 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:26,280 Speaker 1: back in the day, Remember when they leaked out all 330 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:28,679 Speaker 1: of his tax returns and claiming all this sort of damage. 331 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:32,480 Speaker 1: But that was outrageous that that happened, Absolutely outrageous, and 332 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:34,239 Speaker 1: one guy did go to jail for five years. But 333 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:38,560 Speaker 1: I guarantee you there were many people at multiple levels 334 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:42,280 Speaker 1: involved on making sure Donald Trump's tax returns got released 335 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:44,960 Speaker 1: and they had no problem with it. I suspect it 336 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:53,040 Speaker 1: very very uncool. Anyway, it got some attention last year, yeah, 337 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:57,360 Speaker 1: twenty five, when the FDA put out their guidance for 338 00:18:57,520 --> 00:19:02,760 Speaker 1: drinking under rf J, and they just said, what was 339 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:07,440 Speaker 1: the word they used, limit your drinking. They got rid 340 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:10,040 Speaker 1: of the old like how many drinks per day you 341 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:11,800 Speaker 1: should have as a man or a woman, and just 342 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:14,960 Speaker 1: went with limit your drinking. For some who knows why, 343 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:18,080 Speaker 1: and for some reason, some officials speaking to the New 344 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:25,160 Speaker 1: York Times on conditions of anonymously because they feared reprisals. 345 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:32,440 Speaker 1: All right, dietary guideline reprisals, what are they gonna do? Yes, yes, anyway, 346 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:34,600 Speaker 1: A couple of people who are involved in the process 347 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:37,320 Speaker 1: of figuring out how much you ought to drink anonymously 348 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 1: told The New York Times that they were going to 349 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:42,440 Speaker 1: recommend a cap for men be one drink per day, 350 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:46,600 Speaker 1: one drink per day for men, because of all the 351 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:49,520 Speaker 1: dangers associated with drinking. But somebody talked about of that, 352 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:51,080 Speaker 1: I guess, and they just went with limit your drinking. 353 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:52,520 Speaker 1: But that's what they wanted to say, which would have 354 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:55,640 Speaker 1: been far less than we've ever had in the past. Well, 355 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:58,520 Speaker 1: cut in half what was the previous guideline, which is 356 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:01,640 Speaker 1: two for fellers and one for else half is quite 357 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:05,000 Speaker 1: a bit, to the extent that you should pay attention 358 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:06,800 Speaker 1: to the people that told you to eat margine and 359 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:10,679 Speaker 1: stand six feet apart. You know, well, Ryan, well in 360 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:13,200 Speaker 1: that going from two to one means after my first drink, 361 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:15,280 Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, why don't we pour another one? 362 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:18,960 Speaker 1: The CDC's in no way, son, you put that's the 363 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:22,280 Speaker 1: second drinks, the really pleasurable one. You suppose out they're 364 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:25,040 Speaker 1: both fine. Really, do you suppose Budweiser and the wine 365 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:27,320 Speaker 1: industry or whoever got to him said oh hey easy, 366 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:30,399 Speaker 1: whoa hey, knock it off. But it's entirely possible. You know, 367 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:32,520 Speaker 1: I helped pay for your library when you leave office 368 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:36,080 Speaker 1: or something. Oh yeah, I wouldn't be the least bit 369 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:39,600 Speaker 1: surprised how many people follow those freaking guidelines anyway. That's 370 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:42,439 Speaker 1: what it is always amazing to me, especially at this 371 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:45,439 Speaker 1: point after all their swings and missus, who's facing their 372 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 1: life on that? I mean, there are all kinds of 373 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:54,199 Speaker 1: doctors and independent health and medical organizations with their ideas 374 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:56,119 Speaker 1: of what you should and shouldn't do. Who's listening to 375 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:59,679 Speaker 1: the damned government on this stuff? Well? And what what 376 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:02,120 Speaker 1: was is there was some product we had an example 377 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:06,159 Speaker 1: of a safety warning on it that I can't remember, 378 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:08,560 Speaker 1: is like, do not stick your hand in this meat slicer. 379 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:13,959 Speaker 1: And if you if you need that warning, you're too 380 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 1: stupid to comprehend that warning. It's it's a paradox or 381 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:22,439 Speaker 1: a vicious circle or something. I don't know exactly, But 382 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:28,439 Speaker 1: if you don't know that it's more healthy to drink 383 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:37,280 Speaker 1: less already, who are you? I mean, you're not informed 384 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:41,840 Speaker 1: enough or intelligent enough probably to comprehend the warning. Right, Yeah, 385 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:44,399 Speaker 1: that is kind of interesting. I back when I drank, 386 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:46,879 Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think anybody ever took a drink, 387 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,879 Speaker 1: just like nobody eats a piece of chocolate cake thinking 388 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:53,199 Speaker 1: this is good for me. No, it's just it's it's 389 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:56,000 Speaker 1: it's not good for me, but in a minor way. 390 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 1: And and you know, and I'm gonna do it anyway 391 00:21:58,359 --> 00:21:59,960 Speaker 1: because life is short. I mean that's the way I 392 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:02,080 Speaker 1: do it. Excessively. It's going to have a real health 393 00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:03,879 Speaker 1: impact on me. But if I don't, all be so. 394 00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 1: And that's why every ice cream cone eating at Baskin 395 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:09,680 Speaker 1: Robbins is consumed. Nobody thinks that it's good for them. 396 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:15,000 Speaker 1: But you like a second chaste a slice of chocolate cake, Darling, No, No, 397 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:18,680 Speaker 1: a second one is above the CDC's guidelines for cake. 398 00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:20,959 Speaker 1: It's not that I'm full, It's not that I know 399 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,200 Speaker 1: if I gorge a quarter of a cake it's sitting 400 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:25,720 Speaker 1: I'm going to get fat. It's that the CDC has 401 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:30,000 Speaker 1: warned me. You know, I think we at the risk 402 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:33,160 Speaker 1: of turning this serious. It may may be a sign 403 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:37,359 Speaker 1: of what we've observed for a very long time we 404 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:42,080 Speaker 1: are an increasingly passive people who wait to be told 405 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:45,320 Speaker 1: what to do and what to think, as opposed to, 406 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:47,440 Speaker 1: you know, or a nation of sheep, as opposed to 407 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:50,639 Speaker 1: a nation of you know, the eagles and fat and 408 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:55,440 Speaker 1: polar bears, for instance. Yeah, anyway, enough animal metaphors, moving man. 409 00:22:55,520 --> 00:23:02,520 Speaker 1: One drink ain't much though, any much. Hard to even 410 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:04,560 Speaker 1: wonder why you would drink it all if you're gonna 411 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 1: have one drink to me, you know there are situation. Sure, Yeah, 412 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 1: it's fine, it's nice, it's good for other people. I 413 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:16,840 Speaker 1: think you should do that. I was so proud of 414 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:18,919 Speaker 1: myself last night, Judy and I went out for a 415 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:23,240 Speaker 1: nice dinner. We split a nice bottle of wine. It 416 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:26,720 Speaker 1: was six thirty reservation, so it's fairly early in the evening. 417 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:30,359 Speaker 1: I came home and I said, do not have any more? 418 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:32,800 Speaker 1: And I didn't. I sipped water. It's very proud of myself. 419 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:34,680 Speaker 1: A bottle of wine. We split a bottle wine. You 420 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:39,320 Speaker 1: each have two glasses, is that right? Roughly? Wow? Completely 421 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,880 Speaker 1: ignoring government regulations. Oh, I know, I could barely choke 422 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:45,040 Speaker 1: that second one down, knowing that I was defying the 423 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:51,040 Speaker 1: federal government. It was hard to enjoy. So speaking of 424 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:52,760 Speaker 1: living your life, this is the sort of thing that 425 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:54,679 Speaker 1: annoys the crap out of me. But I will just 426 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:57,840 Speaker 1: mention it to you. Is this the end of gentle 427 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:02,520 Speaker 1: child rearing? The rise of fo parenting? You know? A 428 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:05,239 Speaker 1: half round and find out? You know, I saw an 429 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:09,760 Speaker 1: interesting comedy thing the other day, the Hispanic guy that's 430 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:11,920 Speaker 1: on Saturday Night Live. God, what's his name? I can't 431 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,320 Speaker 1: come up with it off the top of my head. Marcello. Yeah, 432 00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:17,879 Speaker 1: and he's hilarious. He is very, very funny, in a 433 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:20,200 Speaker 1: great addition to that show. But he's I saw from 434 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:23,159 Speaker 1: his stand up routine. He said, if I'm in a 435 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,600 Speaker 1: grocery store or someplace like that, and I hear a 436 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:30,400 Speaker 1: kid say, I'm not doing that, and I hate you. 437 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,680 Speaker 1: I know what race they are, and I thought, that's 438 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:37,359 Speaker 1: pretty interesting. It ain't a black it ain't a black mom, 439 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:41,680 Speaker 1: it ain't a Hispanic mom. It's a white mom. Oh boy, 440 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,680 Speaker 1: that's pretty interesting, isn't it. All Right? 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M So 465 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:02,680 Speaker 1: we'll we'll come back to that in a moment or two. 466 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:06,640 Speaker 1: Whether child or adult, this is bad behavior. A Central 467 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:11,640 Speaker 1: Florida man has been caught in quote a sexual performance 468 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:16,280 Speaker 1: with a vacuum fifty one year old man. He was 469 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:20,520 Speaker 1: doing this in the front yard of someone's home. Wow, 470 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:24,439 Speaker 1: get a room, yeah for your vacuum in you you know, 471 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:28,560 Speaker 1: if you're a vacuum blanker, that's one level of crazy, 472 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:35,000 Speaker 1: you know, but public exhibitionist vacuum right right right. It's 473 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:38,040 Speaker 1: just not enough to in the privacy your own home, 474 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,879 Speaker 1: you know, make sweet love to your your home appliances. 475 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:42,600 Speaker 1: You got to do it in public. So kind of like, 476 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:44,800 Speaker 1: you know, are you into blondes or brunettes? Is he 477 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:49,040 Speaker 1: a hoover or eureka? What is this thing? What's the 478 00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:53,800 Speaker 1: expensive kind that they sell? The dice? Yeah, he's kind 479 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:55,720 Speaker 1: of sore. Oh I hit on a Dyson once. She 480 00:26:55,760 --> 00:27:01,680 Speaker 1: wouldn't have me. What So what are the mechanics of this? 481 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:08,320 Speaker 1: Is that the the whole Mercifully they don't get into 482 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,280 Speaker 1: the specifics here because I I can't answer your idiotically 483 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:15,439 Speaker 1: because I feel like the thing you roll along the 484 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 1: floor with the bristles of the turning thing. 485 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:17,960 Speaker 3: It's just. 486 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:25,879 Speaker 1: I'm figuring hose situation. It's almost yeah, I think we 487 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:35,880 Speaker 1: can assume that for those hard to reach places. God, 488 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:40,359 Speaker 1: I would think though, you'd think this if you're a 489 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:43,159 Speaker 1: really weird weirdo, you think, well, this might work. This 490 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:46,640 Speaker 1: is orifice like and uh, but you flip that thing 491 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:48,919 Speaker 1: off and on. As soon as you flipped that thing on, 492 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 1: you think this was a horrible mistake. I have made 493 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:58,879 Speaker 1: a terrible decision here. But this guy can't reach the button. 494 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:02,320 Speaker 1: If he was either practiced in the art of vacuum 495 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:06,399 Speaker 1: love or had like a multiple speed vacuum or something, 496 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:08,560 Speaker 1: you flip it on and think I have made a 497 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:13,080 Speaker 1: horrible mistake. This was a terrible decision. I don't know 498 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:14,720 Speaker 1: what I was thinking. Why didn't I think this through? 499 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:18,639 Speaker 1: Once again, raise your kids to not have sex with 500 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:23,560 Speaker 1: household appliances of any kind. Speaking of parenting, stay tuned, lenders, vacuums, 501 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:26,480 Speaker 1: you name it. Really, really, I can't think of anything. 502 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,000 Speaker 1: Are a good idea? Okay, that's on the ways to 503 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:36,040 Speaker 1: hear me. Mayor of Chicago said, what we're seeing here 504 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:38,560 Speaker 1: with the Trump crowd is people who are unwilling to 505 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:42,320 Speaker 1: accept the results of the Civil War, which is a 506 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,160 Speaker 1: hell of an interesting thing to say. Maybe we'll get 507 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:48,600 Speaker 1: to that next hour, our civil war. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, 508 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:53,120 Speaker 1: yeah yeah. That's an interesting take from America's stupidest mayor, 509 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:58,080 Speaker 1: Brandon Johnson. Stay tuned. So I rolled my eyes when 510 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,720 Speaker 1: I saw this article. You know, everybody was hearing about 511 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:04,280 Speaker 1: gentle parenting there for a while, and we'll talk about 512 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:07,160 Speaker 1: in a second. But now there's another trend. Of course, 513 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:10,920 Speaker 1: because everything's a trend, they're calling it faffo parenting. F 514 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:14,920 Speaker 1: around and find out, oh my god, everything's not a trend. 515 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,800 Speaker 1: And several hot videos include a mother throwing her daughter's 516 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:20,840 Speaker 1: eepad out of the window in the car because she's 517 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,120 Speaker 1: misbehaving on the way to school. And I don't know 518 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:25,880 Speaker 1: if that was Streves the tablet with a crack screen. 519 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:28,280 Speaker 1: I you could take it away from them. You don't 520 00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:31,240 Speaker 1: need to destroy the expensive product, but that's your choice. 521 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:33,880 Speaker 1: In another video, when a small child announces he's going 522 00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:36,160 Speaker 1: to leave home, his mother says, seea shuts the front 523 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:38,680 Speaker 1: door behind him and turns off the outside light, then 524 00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:40,800 Speaker 1: opens the door to him screaming and pounding to be 525 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:45,760 Speaker 1: let back in. That's a classic. Yeah, I remember that 526 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,000 Speaker 1: from Andy Griffith Show. When Opie wanted to run away, 527 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:52,719 Speaker 1: he said, okay, see yah. A backlash against gentle parenting 528 00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:55,040 Speaker 1: has been brewing for some time. You could watch Instagram 529 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:57,960 Speaker 1: all day with people taking blah blah blah making fun 530 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:01,800 Speaker 1: of it. Parenting has become very intense. You know. I 531 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:04,880 Speaker 1: would suggest something, as somebody whos raised three kids, number one, 532 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,800 Speaker 1: go with the time honored wisdom. Don't go with a 533 00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:12,520 Speaker 1: freaking trend, you idiots, and don't don't steer too much 534 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:19,440 Speaker 1: into them. Go with the ancient, tried and true and 535 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:24,560 Speaker 1: understand that it's much like batting in baseball. If you 536 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:27,360 Speaker 1: got a pretty good batting average, that's a really good 537 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,880 Speaker 1: batting average. You're not supposed to be one hundred percent 538 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:34,120 Speaker 1: effective as a parent. It's impossible. Yeah, i'd say so, 539 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:36,920 Speaker 1: don't look for a new trend. Just you know, as 540 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:40,080 Speaker 1: I've said a thousand times, never threaten a sanction you 541 00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:44,320 Speaker 1: are not prepared to deliver, and never failed to deliver 542 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:49,240 Speaker 1: a sanction. You have threatened, and you run your house 543 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:51,240 Speaker 1: the way you want to run your house. We are 544 00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:56,720 Speaker 1: our philosophy was very few rules enforced with one hundred 545 00:30:56,720 --> 00:31:01,040 Speaker 1: percent consistency. But wouldn't you say, in general your senses 546 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:06,400 Speaker 1: that parenting has gotten too gentle? Yes, in a lot 547 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:09,800 Speaker 1: of ways. It's it's also become more difficult with the 548 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:13,040 Speaker 1: rise of the Internet and all of its evils, and 549 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:16,440 Speaker 1: I mean evils with a capital E. But I remember 550 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:18,280 Speaker 1: when my when my kid was in uh it was 551 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:21,000 Speaker 1: like preschool is like four year olds. I told this 552 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,120 Speaker 1: story at the time. There was one kid that was 553 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,440 Speaker 1: running around. This was like the end of the day, 554 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:27,760 Speaker 1: and my parents were all standing there and we're watching 555 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:29,840 Speaker 1: our kids, you know, at the end of their playing 556 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,040 Speaker 1: in the sand with their toys and trucks stuff like that. 557 00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:36,200 Speaker 1: There's this one kid running around shoving everybody, just shoving 558 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,520 Speaker 1: them really hard. And the kids were hating it, obviously, 559 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:41,280 Speaker 1: And and I had just walked up and I was 560 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:42,840 Speaker 1: watching that. I was looking around, and the other parents 561 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:44,680 Speaker 1: were just kind of like looking the other way, pretending 562 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:46,720 Speaker 1: it wasn't happening. I was like, hey, knock it off, 563 00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:50,440 Speaker 1: what are you doing? And nobody else said a word. 564 00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:52,520 Speaker 1: I was like, what Are we just gonna stand here 565 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:55,000 Speaker 1: and watch this kid walk around and shove the other kids? 566 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,400 Speaker 1: What are we doing? Unbelievable? Yeah, So don't get me 567 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:01,000 Speaker 1: starting on gentle parenting because I wanted to pivot to 568 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:03,600 Speaker 1: this heaty do you have a comment? We got a 569 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:05,160 Speaker 1: buddy now there, here's she's nesting. 570 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:11,840 Speaker 7: I'm I'm certainly hardcore against the gentle parenting because I 571 00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:14,320 Speaker 7: baby sat a kid one time and the mother let 572 00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:17,640 Speaker 7: me know, so we use gentle parenting, which she. 573 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:18,720 Speaker 1: Actually used that term. 574 00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:21,240 Speaker 7: Yeah, she told me that, and that child was a 575 00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:22,240 Speaker 7: demon from hell. 576 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 1: Shocking. Yeah. Yeah. So there's a great piece I came 577 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:31,040 Speaker 1: across in the free press. Have hung on to it 578 00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:32,480 Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks and we don't have really 579 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:36,080 Speaker 1: time to get more than past the surface. But the 580 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,920 Speaker 1: title is the Secret to Parenting, Do less of it? 581 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:46,240 Speaker 1: And it goes into the modern hyper focus on children 582 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:50,080 Speaker 1: and how stressed parents say they are because they are 583 00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,960 Speaker 1: trying to do everything for the child. And I read 584 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,520 Speaker 1: this was my favorite part of it. Uh, parents, and 585 00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,040 Speaker 1: we know, because we're both parents are selsday right, are 586 00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:02,200 Speaker 1: bombarded with extra even emotionally charged messaging. Have you seen 587 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:04,840 Speaker 1: the tsunami of articles on how to prepare your kid 588 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:08,960 Speaker 1: for daylight savings time. No, I must have missed those 589 00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:12,040 Speaker 1: Oh my lord, you don't run in those circles or 590 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,160 Speaker 1: you run at the edge of Oh my god, or 591 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:18,320 Speaker 1: how to prepare your how to prepare yourself for the masks, 592 00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:21,200 Speaker 1: or your kids for the masks they may have encountered 593 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:24,720 Speaker 1: on Halloween. It's like preparing them for the invasion of Normandy. 594 00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:27,520 Speaker 1: The natural conclusion for many is if if their child 595 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:31,440 Speaker 1: is having any sort of difficulty, they should seek professional advice. 596 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,280 Speaker 1: My poor son, he just went off to school as 597 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:37,680 Speaker 1: a fifteen year old. I've never once prepared him for 598 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:40,640 Speaker 1: a time change. I no wonder he struggled in life. 599 00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:45,120 Speaker 1: I never laid the groundwork for moving the clock one hour. 600 00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:48,840 Speaker 1: The first commonly held fallacies that more is more. This 601 00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,680 Speaker 1: is the false idea that more parenting equals better parenting. 602 00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:53,840 Speaker 1: It's a myth that has led to a radical shift 603 00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,520 Speaker 1: in how parents spend their time, and they go into 604 00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:59,720 Speaker 1: the statistics. The second is that a parent's primary goal 605 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:03,520 Speaker 1: to be protecting their child, specifically that they should protect 606 00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:07,400 Speaker 1: them from the four d's discomfort, disappointment, distress, and a 607 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:11,160 Speaker 1: bit of danger. And we could break that down and 608 00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:13,480 Speaker 1: discuss it at length. And then the third and potentially 609 00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:17,080 Speaker 1: most crazy making fallacy, and this underlies a lot of 610 00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:19,120 Speaker 1: the gentle parenting and a lot of the other lunacy, 611 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:22,040 Speaker 1: is that I'm sorry that sounded judgmental, wasn't didn't it? 612 00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:26,520 Speaker 1: The most crazy making fallacy is that misbehavior and children 613 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:31,640 Speaker 1: is driven by underlying sadness, anxiety, or anger, which then 614 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:35,120 Speaker 1: becomes the job of the parent and often highly paid therapists. Yeah, 615 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:37,880 Speaker 1: to uncover and fix. That's what therapists tell you all 616 00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,760 Speaker 1: the time. Any sort of acting out of any kind 617 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,520 Speaker 1: is there's a reason they did that, and we need 618 00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:46,680 Speaker 1: to get to the psychological root of that. Like you know, 619 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,719 Speaker 1: I don't know, I did, you did? Everybody did things 620 00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:52,520 Speaker 1: in their kid it was some underlying thing. It was 621 00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:59,080 Speaker 1: testing boundaries or lack of you know, impulse control, or 622 00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:02,800 Speaker 1: all the things to get exactly. Yeah. For thousands of years, 623 00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,839 Speaker 1: parents have generally viewed misbehavior for what it typically is, 624 00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:09,840 Speaker 1: kids testing the waters, blowing off steam, and being kids. 625 00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:14,760 Speaker 1: But with the popularization of attachment parenting, are you familiar 626 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:18,759 Speaker 1: with this? I'm I'm familiar with that. Oh boy, I'd 627 00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:21,319 Speaker 1: see I time I hadn't done it, but I've heard 628 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:24,840 Speaker 1: it from therapist. Yes. Yeah, an intensive parenting style that 629 00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,480 Speaker 1: emphasizes physical touch and a very high degree of emotional 630 00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:31,360 Speaker 1: responsiveness and gentle parenting which is meant to prioritize empathy, respect, 631 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,400 Speaker 1: and validation, but it's so prone to reinforcing defiance and 632 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,880 Speaker 1: disrespect is to be counterproductive For most a generation, parents 633 00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:40,719 Speaker 1: have been misled to view misbehavior as a veiled but 634 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:45,839 Speaker 1: vital message from their child's inner psyche. You know why 635 00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:49,120 Speaker 1: I misbehaved. I remember it rather distinctly. It's because there 636 00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:50,840 Speaker 1: is stuff that I thought would be really fun to 637 00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:52,520 Speaker 1: do that I wasn't supposed to do. So I want 638 00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:59,239 Speaker 1: ahead and did it anyway because my impulse has told 639 00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:02,399 Speaker 1: me to do it. I have thoughts on this, We're 640 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:04,400 Speaker 1: gonna have to get to those later. There's much to 641 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:06,919 Speaker 1: talk about. We've got two more hours. If you miss 642 00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:09,000 Speaker 1: a segment orn hour, you can get our podcast Armstrong 643 00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:11,080 Speaker 1: and Getty on demand. You subscribe and it'll just show 644 00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:13,720 Speaker 1: up in your feed automatically. Won't that be fun this weekend? 645 00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,080 Speaker 1: And that'll statisfire in her child? 646 00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:20,360 Speaker 7: There you go, Armstrong and Getty