WEBVTT - The Dog Must Be Walked! 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.720 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty arm Strong 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:25.280 and Jatkati and no he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:30.800 A dog in Ireland, apparently annoyed by the weight, jumped 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:33.720 in the driver's seat and just kept laying on the 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:36.680 horn with some moral support, it seems, from another furry 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:39.839 friend in the back. No word tonight on whether the 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:41.240 owners came running. 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:43.839 So the dog just kept hitting orn. Hey, come on, 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:44.879 I got things to do. 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:50.159 It was Irish dogs and legendarily impatient Jack is drivers, Yes. 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:52.680 That was a cute little white dog putting his entire 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:54.240 his entire body into it. 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:59.080 And the soft headed newsguy Tony Dakoppel, who I like, 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:02.639 claimed it's because the dog was impatient with traffic. 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:06.760 Oh, Tony, he wanted to get to the bar. 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:12.000 Lawless Irish dogs, which brings us to an absolutely great, 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:15.000 insightful piece that I'm not sure has made me happy 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:20.200 or said by Chris Arnade about America's public disorder. He says, 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:24.119 America's public disorder is a choice. America's hands off approach 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:28.759 to mental illness and addiction is failing everyone and as 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:30.920 he points out in the piece, he's a writer who's 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:34.520 traveled and lived all over the world, including fairly recently. 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:38.080 And he starts this article. He's on the one of 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:42.199 the subway lines to O'Hare Airport in Chicagoland. A couple 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:46.640 of guys smoking joints, sitting in a nest of filthy bags. 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:49.279 There was a woman whose eyes were dilated in blank. 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:52.800 There is also a man barking into the void, shirtless, 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:57.000 washing himself with a flower tortilla. Ah the old tortilla 0:01:57.040 --> 0:02:01.280 path which would disintegrate littering the subway floor before he 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:02.320 took out another. 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:07.520 And began the same process. Huh, good for the skin. 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:11.320 I wonder how fresh you smell after you have bathed 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:12.519 with a tortilla. 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:17.359 Tortilla smell good anyway, Chris writes, it didn't shock me 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:20.120 or anyone else around me. He talks about the Chicago 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:22.720 Metro Lion is just infested with that sort of thing. 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:28.240 Double the assault rate over any other major system in 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:28.840 the country. 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.040 Brandon Johnson's Chicago no coincidence. 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:33.440 Of course, you got to keep an eye on that 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:35.120 kind of person out of the corner of your eye, 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:37.360 just to make sure they don't, for instance, slit your 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:39.520 throat from behind, like we all saw on a video 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:40.160 not long. 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:43.520 Ago, right exactly, because those people have been turned loose 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:45.800 over and over again by progressive DA's. But that's a 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.960 kind of a different topic. Well, I guess it's not anyway. 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:52.560 But he points out that he's witnessed similar scenes, maybe 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:56.720 not as bad or frequent as Chicago, in Duluth, Indianapolis, 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:03.440 El Paso, New York, Jacksonville, LA, Phoenix downtown Starbucks, no bathrooms, 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:06.240 all closed, blah blah blah, that's my heat. 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:07.160 Oh yeah. 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:11.080 He contrasts it with Seoul, South Korea, where he currently is, 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:13.920 where the train from the airport is spotless. So's the 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:16.480 ten mile River Park where I walk each day, which, 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:19.800 given that large parts of it are shadowy spaces beneath roadways, 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:22.560 is especially impressive. In the US, it would be made 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:25.400 of makeshift homes, of tents, cardboard and tarps, reeking of 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:28.720 the smell of urine and feces. The free to use 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:31.280 JIM equipment along its length probably couldn't exist for fear 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:35.040 of it being vandalized, et cetera. And he writes, after 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.440 spending ten years traveling around the US. I've spent five 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:40.200 years traveling the world, flying to different cities, walking around 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:43.040 them for days at a time, a city in China, 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:47.120 Alice Springs, Australia, Bangkok, Buenos Aires, Brussels. It's taught me 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:50.040 a great deal about the US. Chief among these lessons 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:51.720 is how much public disorder. 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:52.320 We have come to accept. 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:55.160 We are the world's richest country, yet our buses parking 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:58.320 lots in city streets. I would add, parks are filthy, 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:02.960 chaotic and threatening, anti social behavior common in almost every community, 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:07.040 regardless of size. A society simply should not be this way. 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:09.240 It doesn't have to be this way. 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:13.200 Regardless of size, and regardless of how wealthy the neighborhood is. 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:18.280 In some cases, right right, yeah, in Japan's there. Much 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.679 of europe cities are walkable because they are dense, people 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:24.880 live close together. But also public transportation tends to be fantastic. 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:28.320 And this is not his main point, but I thought 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:30.840 it was interesting and having just spent a week and 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:32.919 a half in London and just loving it. In spite 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:39.320 of Britain's growing insanity and Islamisation, it's still a wonderful city. 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:41.600 But he points out that these cities are defined by 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:44.520 something called mixed use zoning, where you might have an 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.120 apartment on the third floor, an office on the second, 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:50.400 and a bar on the first. And American tourists often 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:52.640 admire the vibrancy of these cities, which can't happen here 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:55.679 because there's a fine line between vibrant streets and squalid ones, 0:04:55.839 --> 0:05:00.479 and that line is public trust. And he talked people 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:02.680 moving out of cities why we can't have nice things 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:06.240 in our cities. He mentions a couple of examples that 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:11.479 are nearly hilarious, like La Sembrita, the laughably expensive La 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.800 bus stop that was supposed to provide shade and security 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:18.440 lighting but ended up just being a single pole. It 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:21.200 exists if you build a nice it exists. Because if 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:22.920 you build a nice bus stop in the US, it 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:26.120 immediately gets broken or turned into a shelter for the destitute. 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:28.320 So the response, over time is to stop building them. 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:30.800 I've seen this in almost every American city I've visited. 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.400 Then he goes into the all the restrooms, the decent 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:36.480 public restrooms, which are available all over the world. 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:40.720 It's been my complaint for a long time. First hit 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:43.880 me when my kids got of the age where they Dad, 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:46.240 I need to go to the bathroom. It was about 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:49.640 the same time as the we really let this explode. 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:53.320 There are big parts of California where there just are 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:54.920 no public bathrooms. 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:58.159 There just aren't any for miles and miles and miles. 0:05:58.560 --> 0:05:59.920 The businesses. 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:04.160 Don't have them if they're required by law, they claim 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:06.200 they're out of order. They put signs on them so 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:08.400 they don't have to deal with the junkies going in 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:10.880 there and washing themselves. And so there just aren't any 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:11.680 public bathrooms. 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:14.640 Why would you allow society to break down like that? 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:17.920 It's insane, right right, And we'll get to his kind 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:21.320 of philosophical answer to that question. It's a big one, 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:24.279 But I love this aspect of the piece he wrote. 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.240 Here's a tweet from a woman by the name of Danielle. 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:29.440 My husband was on a crowded train yesterday when a 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:31.880 homeless woman got on, pulled down her pants, and peed 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:34.120 all over the train in front of everyone. He hasn't 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.440 stopped talking about it for the past twenty four plus hours. 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:38.720 It was the single most traumatizing thing this happened to 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:39.599 him in New York City. 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:42.560 Yeah, and then. 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:45.479 Here's the interesting part this post brought out a lot 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:48.360 of absurd arguments. People defended the subway year and Eater 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:50.680 by noting that stations have no public restrooms. 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:52.520 This misses the point entirely. 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:55.120 We don't have public bathrooms because the same people who 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:58.240 piss on trains would trash them within days. He writes, 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:01.200 someone peeing on the subway is not of sound mind. 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:03.880 It's a sign of distress that should cause an intervention 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:06.359 that results in them being institutionalized for a period of 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:10.640 time until they regain sanity and stability. For someone actively psychotic, 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:13.840 this means civil commitment to a psychiatric hospital for violent 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:17.960 individuals refusing treatment, secure prison facilities with mandatory programs for 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:21.280 a severe addiction of medical detox, and residential treatment without 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:24.480 the ability to walk away. These people should not be 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:26.679 allowed to do whatever they want because they cannot control 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:28.320 themselves enough to have that freedom. 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:32.000 Somebody should have said, hey, you're not supposed to pee 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:32.800 on the train. 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:36.600 Right, right, And then he gets into some of the 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:42.800 other Bizarrow arguments that institutionalizing those people is cruel, as 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:44.840 if it is empathetic to allow someone to suffer on 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:47.760 the streets, tortured by their inner demons, covered in filth, 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.320 high as a kite. This argument is so backward and 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:53.000 immoral that I cannot believe that the activists and politicians 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:55.280 to make it have spent any time around these people. 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:57.240 They need help, and if they don't accept it, then 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:59.200 they must be forced to get help. 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.480 Then go ahead. 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:05.120 Henry and I were eating at a restaurant yesterday and 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:07.600 there was a guy and Henry said, there's a drug 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:09.520 addict across the street. And there's a guy over on 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:11.280 the corner who had been there for quite some time, 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:15.000 spinning around, itching himself, you know, you know, the look, 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:18.640 yelling at the top of his lungs. And I thought, 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:22.160 why can't we get enough momentum between the We need 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:24.400 to help these people. It's a tragedy for them. I'm 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:26.520 not that person. I wish I was, but I'm not. 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:30.320 I'm the law in order. I paid for this effing sidewalk. 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:32.680 I should be able to walk down the sidewalk without 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:35.120 having to worry about that guy. So I would think, 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:37.400 between the law and order crowd like me and the 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:41.080 it's a tragedy that blah blah blah blah that's happened 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:44.000 to him, that we could come up with a get 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:47.040 them off the street plan get him into a facility. 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:50.199 Now, yeah, you're right, and I think it may happen 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.760 at some point. And clearly this is going to stretch 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:55.560 into the next segment because there's so much good stuff here. 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.960 For instance, and Jack, this will remind you of some 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:01.520 of the progressive view run into at city council meetings, 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.520 or all of us that run into. Others responded the post, 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:08.480 Oh my god, please don't do that. Others responded to 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:11.439 the post about the subway urinator by claiming, well, that 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:14.040 experience is simply the price of living in a big city, 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:19.280 and Chris Arnaide writes, that's not true. The rest of 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:22.679 the world doesn't tolerate the amount of antisocial behavior we 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:25.199 do in the US. If someonere to piss on someone 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:27.280 were to piss on the subway, almost anywhere else in 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:29.560 the world, they would be removed from society for a 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:30.480 period of time. 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:33.560 Well, that's funny, I always say. 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:36.440 Between that, you know, and everything being locked up at 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:38.080 the drug store you have to get a key to 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:41.440 get your toothbrush. We're only, you know, a few years 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:44.000 away from nobody remembering that it didn't used to be 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:47.800 that way, right, So they will just think, well, it's 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:49.680 just the price you pay to you know, live in 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:51.640 a society. Everything has to be locked up. 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We let people who aren't 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:12.360 mentally competent continue to engage in self destructive and abundant 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:15.440 behavior without removing them, which consequently ruins it for everyone 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:17.800 else except those wealthy enough to build their own private 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:22.000 islands of comfort. And then he writes, gratifyingly, I've been 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:24.679 very careful up to now not to use the word homeless, 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:28.720 because it's become an overly broad category that covers families 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:32.360 and motels with Section eight vouchers, people sleeping on friends 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:34.920 couches until they get back on their feet, mothers with 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.559 children in long term shelters, and then those who live 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:39.080 in tents, under bridges. 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.000 Or sleep in soiled sleeping bags. 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:44.719 The bums and junkies that we are always referring to 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:48.080 on the show. Here the term homeless is used by 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:51.240 those who would siphon taxpayer funds to hand out to 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:57.320 their cronies because they know that term the publicity stunt 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:01.360 is the bums and junkies. You think the money's going 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:05.040 to help get rid of that blight, but they use 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:08.240 the term that includes the poor families trying to get 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:11.160 back on their feet. Right, That's how the scam works. 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:13.880 That's why I always get agitated when people refer to 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:15.920 the bums and junkies as the homeless, because it's a 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:19.080 specific strategy they use to rip off tax payers. 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:21.680 Well, I don't even like the term homeless. It's unhoused. 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:23.599 Oh my god. 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:24.200 Uh. 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:26.680 And then he points out the vast majority don't cause 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:31.040 any problems with all at all. It's the stubbornly intransigent 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:34.000 minority who have options but turn them down for a 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:39.040 variety of reasons. Metal demons, drugs, something simply out of preference. 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:41.720 All right, what's going on? And how do we fix 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:44.000 it that? After a short. 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.920 Build more jails. That's how you fix it. That's part 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:48.840 of it. Uh. 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:51.040 We'd be interested in your comment on this text line 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:53.360 four KFTC. 0:12:53.480 --> 0:13:00.000 Good stuff on the way. Can you have a mirror 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:02.840 of a burger on your restaurant? Is that a sign 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:06.520 or art? I lost? 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:10.240 These questions cost one town eight hundred thousand dollars fighting 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:13.319 the restaurant that put a burger mural on their restaurant. 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:15.800 I'm going to be in that town later today, and 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:18.439 stay tuned. Pacific Legal Foundation is fighting the fight. 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:20.280 We'll tell that story later, Beautiful. 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.520 I do enjoy a good burger, So if you are 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:26.599 just tuning in via the airwaves, I strongly suggest to 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:29.640 you grab the Armstrong and Getty on demand podcast and 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:32.280 listen to the previous segment in which you're digging deep 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:33.880 into a piece by a fellow bind the name of 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:38.160 Chris Arnade about how bums and junkies and filth and 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:43.640 crime on the streets is practically uniquely American. Nobody else 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.840 puts up with it, and we didn't used to, And 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:48.840 just a couple of quick notes before we get to 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:53.160 his real conclusion, and he talks about, well, gosh, let's 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:55.599 just jump to it. Beneath all the discussion is the 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:57.520 additional question of why we in the US have so 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:01.439 many mentally unstable people, Why are so many addicted to drugs, 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:04.520 Why so many people have grown comfortable with shocking behavior. 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.400 He says, I walked twelve miles through Soul yesterday and 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:10.439 I saw zero destitute people, certainly no homeless. I did 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:12.440 see the same group of drunk men I always see 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:16.199 playing cards near the river because Koreans drink an immense amount. 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:19.400 But as far as daytime drunks go, their behavior was exemplary. 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:21.400 When they had to urinate, they walked the two hundred 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:23.920 yards to the public bathroom, which they left as clean 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:26.080 as when they came. When they wanted to throw away 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:28.160 their empty bottles, they collected them and walked them to 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:30.800 the trash can, even putting the appropriate ones into the 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:34.280 recycling bin. Almost no Korean, even the drunks, would ever 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:35.960 think of peeing on the metro, even if they thought 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:38.720 they could get away with it. And yes, they're legal consequences. 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:40.920 But then he gets to the key. But culture does 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:43.000 most of the work. Shoreans are raised to be good 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.920 citizens and not break rules with public shame as enforcement, 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:50.800 so laws nearly rarely need enforcement. And then he gets 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:54.920 into fairly briefly, the US has a different model that 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:59.440 emphasizes individuality over the communal, with our culture focused not 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:01.560 on being a good, good citizen first, but on finding 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:04.000 our true self and exploring that and hopefully making a 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:06.560 lot of money along the way. Koreans are citizens, we 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:10.400 are entrepreneurs. It's one of our greatest strengths. But I 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:12.800 would summarize the rest of his argument, but it's gone 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:13.840 way too far. 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:16.440 We've always been that way, though, and we weren't cheering 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:16.800 on the. 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:19.360 Buses exactly exactly right. 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.520 And you know, we've actually been talking about this for 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:23.760 a couple of decades now. 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:28.920 And and I think gen xers, which we barely are, 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:34.000 not a boomer, not a boomer x er. I'm the 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:35.960 lastic Oh. 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:40.440 My god, okay, like a boomer, that's right, Okay, So 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:44.960 but anyway, I think we are uniquely positioned in a 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:50.120 way because we grew up in a distinctly post World 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:54.960 War two. Your duty to the country, your family, and 0:15:55.000 --> 0:16:00.040 your community trumped any individual desire you might have. That 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:03.000 was born of the necessity of the conflicts of the 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:05.160 twentieth century and the and the Cold War and the 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:05.680 rest of it. 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.560 You can do your own thing within limits. 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:12.000 You will not betray the trust of your family or 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:15.120 your town, et cetera. And then we saw that morph 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:21.600 into a much more affluent, not threatened. Reality of everything's great, 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:27.080 so you can do whatever you want. Duty sounds you know, suffocating, 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:30.200 And it has something to do with why so few 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:32.160 people are having children and families now. 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:34.480 But which is the chicken? Which is the egg? I 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:34.960 couldn't tell you. 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:39.240 Uh, let me, let me finish it, Jet and then Jack, 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:41.040 if you have anything you want to throw in. Obviously 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:46.680 have had it that some people need strict social guidelines. 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:48.680 We have a far larger number of people prone to 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:52.720 antisocial tendencies and mental illness. Some people need strict social guidelines. 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.480 We don't have them. If our elevated levels of addiction 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:58.760 and mental illness are consequences of our culture of individuality, 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:00.880 as I believe they are, the we have a moral 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:04.720 responsibility to take sufferers off the street and care for them. 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:07.520 The just thing to do for all of our society 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:12.040 is to enforce norms in public spaces. We can have 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:15.879 nice things, we just have to decide we deserve them. 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:22.040 We must enforce norms in public spaces. It's good for everyone. 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:25.320 Yeah, it's nice that you look at it. That guard 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:27.520 looks at it from the compassion side of it. Again, 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:29.520 I look at it from law and order side of it. 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:30.760 You can end up in the same spot. 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:31.000 Though. 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:33.600 That guy over there who's nuts out of his mind, 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:36.159 he needs to be institutionalized. I want to do it 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:39.520 because it makes my life better. Right that other guys right, 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:42.400 because he's kind and compassionate. Fine, whatever, as long as 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:44.560 the guy gets off the street and in some sort 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:45.200 of institution. 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:49.360 The one perverse view that's not supportable is the one 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:51.159 that wins the day in blue states, and that it 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:55.040 is compassionate to let somebody mentally ill die on the 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:58.840 streets or kill themselves with drugs on the streets, or back. 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:01.840 To my side of it, it's okay to let taxpayers 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:04.680 who are following the rules have to live with this 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:09.160 s Yeah, those arguments are lunacy and they should never 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:09.640 have won. 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:12.800 The day we got our roll impack. I'm not hopeful, 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:15.760 get hopeful, armstrong and getty. 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:20.040 And there's a lot of bad faith negotiation and a 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:23.560 lot of bad faith, you know, propaganda going on. I 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:26.480 think this comes from a legitimate misunderstanding. I think the 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:30.840 Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon, and it just didn't. 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:33.639 We never made that promise, we never indicated that was 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:35.639 going to be the case. What we said is that 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:38.440 the ceasefire would be focused on Iran and the ceasefire 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:41.080 would be focused on America's allies, both Israel and the 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:42.080 golf Air of States. 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:46.360 So JD says it was just an honest misunderstanding. They 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:50.640 thought the ceasefire included Israel not firing. 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:56.399 On uh Hesbalah. I don't know what to believe. 0:18:57.480 --> 0:18:59.880 And part of the mess might be, as we kept 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:03.560 talking about yesterday, there are different groups speaking out of Iran, 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:06.800 and there were some groups. There might be one group 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:09.840 that made that agreement said yeah, that's fine, and then 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:11.760 another group that said, no, that ain't fine, And we're 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:13.120 the ones that are going to put out of press 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:16.919 release and add this to that, looking at the flip 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:19.000 side of what JD was saying, what we have to 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:22.560 say to Iran is that, oh, no, your proxies that 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:26.720 have been sowing terror and death and Sharia law all 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:29.639 over the region and killing all of our soldiers and 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:30.159 the rest of it. 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:32.480 No, no, no, no, We're going to squash the hell 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:35.080 out of them. It's got nothing to do with this ceasefire. 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:39.199 The IRGC and the Mullahs or whoever's in charge are 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:40.560 almost certainly going to say. 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:41.680 Oh, I can't agree to that. 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:43.920 I'm not going to agree to that because I don't 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:45.600 think you have the balls to wipe us out. 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:46.199 Pardon me. 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:50.760 We're into day two of the ceasefire. Using my finger quotes, 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:53.920 here's Ian panel of ABC News on where things are 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:54.919 day two. 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:58.360 The sea fire is already looking shaky, the Ranian regime 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:01.679 claiming that the temporary agreement to whole hostilities has already 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:06.119 been violated, in particular by escalating Israeli attacks against Iranian 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:10.440