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Look You Here, Look You Here. Even though Towalla sharp hated the movie,
Despicable Me four came in at number one again and had a very very
respectable forty four million dollars or so, even added twenty one theaters. So
even though Twala didn't like the movie, the movie is doing well in theaters
now. Movie houses probably appreciate that, but as far as quality of the
movie releases, not so much. Long legs. You probably heard Mark Ronner
explain how that was a surprising number two with twenty two zero point four million.
I still don't know what that movie's about. Don't know if I'll go
to see it. Oh you should see It's It's good. It's it kind
of starts you off in kind of silence of the Lamb's territory and then gets
weirder. Well worth seeing. And it was only projected to make up to
fifteen million dollars over the weekend, and it really blew that out. Inside
Out came in at number three with nineteen million. Its hall is now up
to five hundred and seventy one million. Domestically. That is another bona fide
hit. It is globally one point three four billion, number one movie of
the year so far, very very surprising. I don't think even Pixar expected
that movie to do that. Well, usually you have some level of diminishing
return for a sequel. Oh no, they expected this one to go gangbusters
one point four billion gang busters. The early reports they said that this was
going to be the first billion dollar film of the year. Well, it
was true to form in that regard. I have a quick question. I
had the opportunity to see a screening of the new movie Twisters, which is
you yeah, which is not? It's not a sequel per se to the
nineteen ninety sixth movie Twister with Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton, but it is,
they say, a continuation of the overarching story. It's a succession of
that story, but it's not connected in any way. There are no characters
shared, there are no updates on anyone. There are some homages in it.
I saw it. It was okay. The stars Glenn Powell and someone
else I never heard of, can't remember her name, but you know,
it was okay. There was some decent cgi and some tense moments. I
did appreciate how they made the movie as if the tornadoes plural were definitely monstrous,
villainous, they were characters in the movie. I just didn't buy the
story. If you saw the original, you know, Helen Hunt scarred by
the loss and memory of her father, so she's doing this in memory of
him to get more information about how and why tornado's form. This movie the
protagonist she scarred because she lost friends while in college studying tornadoes, trying to
get more information about how and why they form, and the whole movie is
about her trying to get more information. Say it with me, how and
why Tornado's form. It seems like everything that Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton did
in nineteen ninety six meant nothing. Nothing. I thought the whole point of
the device that they created Dorothy Dorothy one, two and three, it didn't.
It didn't because clearly what they're working with now, with this updated technology,
it didn't know much more. I don't know what to say. It's
almost like the first movie didn't happen at all in the larger telling of the
Twisters universe. But there is supposed to be you know, this is this
is a Twisters universe. It's within the same world. You know. They
even have the ho watch it's not a big secret. It's in the trailer.
Then O watch to the Red Truck. They have almost an identical red
truck. It's just old and beat up. Now that's the main truck in
this movie. Okay, yeah, it was. Okay, I just threw
that in it because I'm trying to figure out when it comes out. I
think it comes out tomorrow, so there's a lot of anticipation for that.
I loved Twister the original, so it was it was sledding uphill for me.
Glenn Powell, it's a fine actor. It's just the movie itself.
They should have called it, I don't know, tornadoes or something like that.
It's just don't call it something else. Don't try to connect it.
They had the same even font as the original movie, so they're trying to
let you know it's a continuation of the storyline, but it's not a continuation
of the storyline. Boy, look at the perks. You get an advance
screening in the Twister movie. You're on the no no, no, boy,
you don't know twall and nin We used to go to a lot of
screenings a lot because we had more time. Now, if you're doing a
show between seven and ten Monday through Friday, look, I get lot.
I get invites to screenings from Amazon, but they're all started away six o'clock,
starting to get step and I'm like, no, can't go. So
that will probably be number one this week, this coming week. But let
me get back to the chart. Coming in at number four this week is
a quiet place Day one. It's still hanging tough as a total of one
hundred and fifteen million domestically and two hundred and twenty million worldwide. But see
this is another example of diminishing returns. I think that's the lowest of the
three movies total gross, if I'm not mistaken. Number five, fly Me
to the Moon. I think that underperformed. It came in with nine million,
and this is a debut week. That's domestic, and it had nine
million international, so eighteen million worldwide. I didn't really care. I didn't
want to see that movie because I've seen the movie Capricorn one, so at
best, it's a pale imitation of Capricorn one. If you know the storyline,
Oh, you can't beat Capricorn one. Capricorn One with better special effects
could have been a classic movie. I think it is a classic movie regardless
of the present. I think it's a cult classic. I think it's a
cult classic. It could have been a straight up classic if it had today's
production sensibilities available to it. Well, yeah, and you and I were
talking about outlined a couple of breaks ago, same director Peter Hyams. He
ranked out some wonderfully entertaining stuff for a couple of decades around the eighties and
seventies. Bad Boys Ride or Die at number six, coming in at number
seven, It's Horizon American Saga Chapter one coming in a number eightist Maxine Triple
X number nine, Sound of Hope, the Story of Possum Trot. And
I'm hearing like a lot of good reviews on that. That what I'm not
going to see him? Try? Well, would you rather see Indian two,
which came in at number two with one I guess I'm saying, I
have no idea what's happening. It came in at number ten. I don't
like that. And did you know they re released The Lion King. It
brought in a million dollars this week? Yeah, that's just cheap. That's
just a cheap play. That's just like free money. It's like, let's
just throw it back in theaters this summertime. Yeah, somebody will go see
it. Now, see the Horizon movie that did so bad that they've canceled
Horizon too. Well, they didn't cancel it, they postponed it. I
thought they they postponed a damn nearing. Definitely. No. I thought that
they weren't going to try to release the next one in theaters, so it
was supposed to go direct to streaming. Well, the last that I read
was that they wanted to give this first one more of a chance to be
seen by people, and so they pushed off the second one. They want
people to see this on streaming on max on. I won't. I really
want to see it, and I feel bad that I didn't go and see
it in the theater, But now that I know it's going to be hidden
streaming soon, I'm not going to. It's hard for me to watch long,
dull movies. It was. It took me like three different sittings to
watch Doom Part two. I still haven't bothered because the first one was such
a snoozer. It's kind of like the second part of that Zack Snyder abomination
that's on Netflix. Why would I put myself through a part two if the
first one sucks. I'm telling you part two. I don't care what Tawalla
says. He's wrong. It's worse than part one. And that took me
like five sittings, no exaggeration, short, every hour counts. I couldn't
get through it. It was so bad. Yeah, it was streaming bad.
Your Horizon movie. They say it's pulled from theaters, so it's not
coming out August, and at this time the film remains unclear when it will
ever come out. Well, that's too bad. I love Westerns, and
I'm kind of I'm ambivalent about Costner, but I think he knows how to
make a decent movie. Yeah, I think he does. It's just that
me personally, I don't like long, slow plotting movies. Not not any
of the Lord of the Rings movies, none of them. I just there's
a lot of walking and talking. I don't need three hours of that.
That's honestly part of what's kept me from seeing it in the theater, because
you got to spend like a half a day just to see this movie.
And as we get older, I get crankier and crankier about movies that are
over two hours, Like you couldn't do this in two hours or ninety minutes?
Really well, not only that, I got to go to the bathroom.
You know it's three hours. Yeah, I forgot to mention your prostate.
I'm sorry. Thank you. At least I care about my prostate even
if you don't know. We all do. Thank you. That wasn't funny.
It wasn't a joke. It's a statement of fact. I'm gonna start
making most prostate or regular feature of my weekly reviews. No, no,
it was making an appearance. It's not going to stay. It's not going
to be a regular feature. Well, it'll be subtext in all of them,
whether or not you pick up on it. Later with mo Kelly,
we're going to talk about Atari Summer Camp when we come back KFI AE six
forty Like everywhere in the iHeartRadio app you're listening to Later with mo Kelly on
demand from KFI AM six forty Atari. We all know it's one of the
world's most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers in the world. They announced
earlier that there is open enrollment for Atari Summer Camp, which is an eight
week online celebration of retro gaming and everything nineteen eighties. And that's just perfect
for someone who's gen X like me, and anyone can join during the camp
season by signing up at Atari dot com. And I have to ask this
question, Elmer, you were born in the late twentieth century ninety two?
Do you have any memory of an Atari console? I never owned one,
but like I know of them, Mark, he knows of them. He's
never laid his hand on an Atari console. Wow. There are partner events
and virtual field trips which will be announced with the course of the four two
week sessions. They also include special activations Coinbase, Nifty Island, roller Coaster,
Tycoon, and more. Participants will log into a personalized Atari club page
and gain access to a camp portal model after an Atari st desktop that is
hosted by an AI Camp director, Old Meeting. New programming will take place
in Discord, social media, and several immersive partner platforms. If you're on
the net, you know what all that means. There's going to be a
mix of virtual and IRL in real life. Activities will be revealed over the
eight week camp including high score competitions, scavenger hunts, creative projects, trivia,
and special apparel and accessory drops. Let me just ask you this.
Can you really call it a summer camp? If it's eight weeks long,
that sounds like a semester, That sounds like a chore. I don't want
to do anything for eight weeks. Nah, you're not a gamer, though,
that's true. That's true. I haven't been a gamer since I played
an Atari. I never had an Atari, but I played Atario with my
friend across the street. I had in a television. Yeah, Elver's making
me feel ancient here. I actually had in my swinging Bachelor Pat and Seattle
a Donkey Kong cocktail machine. I can't go wrong. No, I feel
like two hundred years old now though well it was only like fifty years ago,
so yeah, that was fresh for all of us. But my son
would have been into this, like when he was younger, he would probably
wanted to attend some rather than going to an actual camp. As much as
he's into gaming, he would have loved something like this. And as you
know, the Atari Summer Camp is inspired by the Atari operated computer camps from
aspiring programmers that ran in the nineteen eighties, the camps blended a comprehensive computer
education and programming curriculum with a more additional camp experience including social activities, sports,
swimming, music, and arts. So it's not just programming and playing
games. There's a there's a degree of physicality with it. There's a full
uh. The Atari Club is an expression of Atari's history, it's present,
and its future. It's a nexus for connecting with fans and partners and together
exploring Atari and collaborating on future projects. And here's another example. We talked
about this before. Usually the company which has the first success doesn't have the
lasting success. When you think about a home gaming console, Atari was it.
It was the first one, and it was huge, and then it
disappeared. Don't forget Pond Well, but that was a game. When I'm
talking about a console where you had cartridges and cassettes in the way that changed
the way that we had We left the physical arcade and could play versions of
arcade games at home. Oh my god, it was like we were living
in the future. Are you kidding? It was the best of times and
the best of times. There was no downside to it at all, even
though the graphics were prehistoric. They were two dimensional basic blocks and bricks,
but it made the most out of it. Also, Donkey Kong was really
hard. Pac Man I found you could get some expertise and make a quarter
go for a while. Oh yeah, but I mean the stand up vertical
arcade games. There was no replacing them, but you still could have that
fun playing games and versions of them at home. Like you had a missile
command in the arcade and you had a missile command on Atari. Oh those
are also hard missile command. To give you a breakdown, Well, I
hated some of those games because no matter what you were going to lose,
it was just a matter of time. You always be an Asteroids. Whatever
you were gonna lose, you're only gonna get but so High Galaga, you
were gonna lose. That was my frustrating There was like you never got to
a boss level where you won the game. Twenty six hundred did that though.
The twenty six hundred when when it started getting more and more advanced,
that is what what kept us out of the arcade is when the game stepped
up and the graphics started looking good. That is when it was next Level
fifty fifty two hundred yes, yes, that that's when it was like,
okay, Pitfall and right, you know dig Doug all the drag and dragons
like stuff like that was like, that's next level for us. Dig Doug
also pretty hard. In fact, I'll admit this as a fully grown adult,
I went on a dig Dug thing like last year, and I wouldn't
quit until I reached a certain score. That game is not easy, but
a Cubert. I hated Cubert. Cubert is tough too and irritating. I
liked Defender, especially on Atari and in the Arcade and also Zaxxon. Oh
you may not remember Zaxon. You play that. It was like a three
dimensional game where you're trying to fly, almost like to these Tetris type openings.
It was really hard, but there was a reasonable version of it on
Atari, and yeah, it was great. It was great back then.
There's no way that kids today would look at that. It's like you actually
spent time play because it was ridiculously prehistoric. But yeah, and it's weird
because for as much as I played computer games back then, I don't have
any desire to do them now. My computer games are other things now.
I like doing other things with my time. I feel like I'm wasting time
just playing games. I have no games on my phone zero. I just
don't play games now. I don't mind like stat games that are kind of
running in the background, like fantasy football, those types of things, I
don't have to devote a lot of time and it can just kind of do
its own thing. But to sit there and be a captive audience to a
game for three or four hours at a time, no, can't do it.
Well, that's what happens. I'll get wrapped up in a game and
I'll lose a couple of days, four days days, yes, And at
the end of that, I'll think, what do I retain of this?
What is this worth? It's not like reading a great book or seeing a
couple of great movies. It's just kind of done when it's done right.
And I never developed that gene in adulthood, Like I never got into the
whole Xbox Sony PlayStation, none of that. And the games are tremendous.
They are wowsers as far as the capabilities and functionality, and I could admire
them, but I have no desire to play them none. Well, I
still play those first and third person shooters but at a certain point they're all
the same. See, and I never got into the shooters never. I
like the games like Wizardry, the role playing games. You'd have attributes and
you could put together teams of people. But that was it. Those are
the games that appealed to me and that grew out of the I would say,
the beginning computer revolution and BBS bulletin board systems, not the cartridge games
of the of the Atari years. So you don't have a console at home.
I hadn't. I had in television. But now you don't know now,
Mark, you're a gamer. Now you game currently right now, not
as much as I used to. I only have a PS four. I
don't have a five. There you go, there it is. I only
have a four, not a five. I don't have the latest console nothing,
all right, I don't have the time for a PS anything, PS
prostage for you, right, Okay, fair enough? Call back? Okay
if you open your mouth any wider when you do that, your teeth are
gonna fall right out. Come on, no, so they you can't be
goaded into a rim shot. What the hell is wrong with you? Him?
Scold you like that, he's not your boss. Just later, with
Mokelly. Can if I answer sported with love everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
And we have a NASA update. They're investing in our rocket that could get
humans to Mars and back in two months, two months, be home in
time for dinner. You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI
AM six forty. Growing up as a kid, I loved space exploration,
the idea of it. I was a Space Shuttle kid. I was too
young to remember the Apollo missions. I got to see all of the Space
Shuttle missions and the development of the Space Shuttle. But we didn't go anywhere.
We didn't go to the Moon, we didn't go to Mars, we
didn't go anywhere cool. We just kind of launched, you know, rotated
the Earth a few times, and then we came back and landed. I
wanted us to explore, explore farther out into the reaches of space space.
But the but the difficulty was that we did not technologically have the propulsion available
to do it. To get to Mars would mean an extended trip in which
astronauts would be exposed to ungodly amounts of radiation, and it probably would be
a one way trip. It would take too long to get to Mars and
unlikely that they would be able to get astronauts back. So up until now
it's been a fool's errand in that regard more imagination than anything. And if
we could ever develop the propulsion side and get astronauts to and from Mars quicker
than Mars becomes more of a likely destination. Now there is the pulsed plasma
rocket, which in theory could propel a ship up to one hundred thousand miles
per hour. NASA has invested seven hundred and twenty five thousand dollars, which
is a paltry sum, but they've invested about three quarters of a million dollars
in a new rocket system that, if it does as advertise, could solve
one of the major obstacles in regard to sending humans to Mars, just trying
to shorten the travel time. Currently, a round trip to Mars would take
almost two years, a year there and a year back. All that radiation
exposure in between, there's not enough shielding. All that radiation in between most
likely would kill you just on the way there. There's solar radiation, there's
cosmic radiation, there's the harmful effects of zero gravity, the isolation being in
that small tube or whatever it is for a year each way, and then
there's just the i would say, the harsh elements of the Mars atmosphere.
It's least likely, it's very unlikely that astronauts would survive the journey, much
less survive Mars because space radiation is the biggest threat astronauts who spend just six
months in space I'm saying in space low orbit, not actually traveling anywhere,
but just low orbit, they are exposed to roughly the same amount of radiation
as one thousand chest X rays one thousand just sitting up on the space station.
It's almost like if you go to the International Space Station and spend a
good six months there, you have more than quadrupled your risk for cancer or
nervous system damage, bone loss, heart disease. And that's just a short
list of staying in space. Because when you're in space, you don't have
the benefit of the protection of our atmosphere, which usually blocks out most of
the cosmic in space radiation. In space, you're just out there and you're
just just sucking it all in. But if you get to Mars, quicker,
less time, there's less exposure to that radiation instead of the two year
journey. But about this new technology, it would be another twenty years before
this technology could be fully developed, tested and actually put into use. Twenty
years, so that makes Mark Ronner about eighty seven by the time this is
actually a real thing. If I can hear you in here, oh,
I'm sorry, just making sure that you're listening. Well. This new propulsion,
theorized propulsion system. It uses pulses of superheated plasma to generate tremendous levels
of thrust and it's currently in phase two of development and it's funded by a
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program. The Phase two study is scheduled to begin this
month and is focused on optimizing the engine design, performing proof of concept experiments,
and designing a PPR powered shield shit a spaceship for human missions to Mars.
And this will probably be something for Elma's children or grandchildren, not for
you of me. Mark, Well, but who doesn't like tremendous levels of
thrust? Though, honestly, Elbert, no, that's just a double ententent.
That's not like intimidate. You don't have to do that I would say
this most technology is beyond our years. I think the next major advancement in
thrust is probably beyond our lifetimes. We're not going to reach interstellar light speed
anytime soon. That way, at your age, you're never going to have
an advancement in thrust. No, there we go. Goodness, gracious,
it's about time. Yes, well, they're they're estimating if everything were to
work as theorized, this spacecraft carrying four people or six people could travel roughly
one hundred thousand miles per hour, and the PPR rocket would have to slow
down significantly to enter orbit. So that's the thing, you know, when
you have one hundred thousand miles an hour in speed, you have to develop
some sort of space break to slow down. Yeah, physics don't work the
way you see them in Star Wars. No, not at all. It's
not like you can just slow down and break and hit that curve like they
do in Star Wars. You can't have a dog fight. You don't hear
your stuff. No, you don't hear stuff. You don't hear the lasers
in the shooting and explosions, none of that. The Star Wars has never
really been big on actual science oh, Star Wars is fantasy. Star Trek
is science fiction. Yeah, the closest thing I would say to science as
far as movies go. And two thousand and one Interstellar was pretty good.
I'm not so sure I agreed with the whole bookcase thing, but the ending
was. It was great until they got to the third act. Put it
that way. Yeah, character motivations, none of it made sense. Way,
mate, You're gonna leave your daughter that you were trying the whole movie
to get back to, who's get old and getting ready to die, to
chase after this chick who's on the other side of the galaxy, who doesn't
even like you, who's obsessed about some other astronaut who died on said rock
on the other side of the galaxy. And you can just take a spaceship
on a joy ride. Just pick one, just pick one, and just
take one from the hangar and go, and gonna leave all the new family
members that you never met. In other words, your daughter, her children,
her grandchildren, great great grandchildren. They had all of a conversation of
four minutes, and he was out chasing some ass. You didn't see Neil
Armstrong doing that, not at all. And he was a real American hero,
not Matthew McConaughey, He's a fake American hero. It's Later with Mo
Kelly. We'll check you in with George Norri Coast Coast AM. In just
a moment k IF I Am six forty. We are live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app k IF I Am six forty. It is Later with Mo Kelly,
Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Coming up in just a few moments
will be Coast to Coast AM with George Norri, who joins me right now
on the line. Good evening, sir, What a weekend. Mo huh.
That's one way to describe it. It's one thing to experience things in
real time, but it's it's like the world is speeding up in a way
which I can can't even comprehend. In our lifetime, we have been through
so much stuff, haven't we. It seems like history moved at a snail's
pace in comparison. Anyway. On the show tonight, after our News of
the day, which we will cover the big story of course, we're going
to talk about forbidden archaeology. Then later on a little walk on the Paranormal
side on Coast to coast. All right, I'll be sure to be tuning
in on the way home, sir. Thanks Mom, And before we get
out of here, just want to remind you if there's anything that you missed
a part of tonight's show. Let's say you want to pick up your horoscope
and didn't hear it, or you want to hear my thoughts about the Trump
assassination attempt. You didn't hear me obviously on Saturday or Sunday, and you're
curious what I thought about it. You can check that out on the podcast.
It was the full first hour of the show where I laid out where
I was, what I thought in the moment, what we've learned since the
larger debate about rhetoric and political violence, what path we're on now, what
the future may hold. I address all of that. I talked about how
what may look like as the eventual winner of the presidential race right now?
If you look at history, it could go either way. Sometimes we get
a little ahead of ourselves. Twenty sixteen was a perfect example. Nineteen sixty
eight was another example. And I draw those parallels if you want to check
that out. That's all in the podcast. That Tall Sharp producer of the
program is putting together right now, and as I was just talking to George
Norri talking about the incredible times that we're living in. I'm a student of
history. I love history. I love looking at the present through the lens
of history. What comparisons can be made, what parallels are there, what
can we learn from previous events which were similar to what we're appearencing right now.
And even though there are some parallels, nineteen sixty eight is obvious parallel,
there's really nothing like the times we're in at this moment, and we
probably won't have the right words to explain it or the perspective to best understand
it for another twenty thirty years. You usually have to go way down the
road and look back to best understand what is happening in this moment. I'm
sure similar words were said in nineteen sixty eight, given the unrest in the
country, given the assassinations, the riots, the political acrimony. From what
I understand, it took a good twenty years or so well into the nineteen
eighties to best understand how much tumult was going on in nineteen sixty eight.
And mind you, that's after the Civil rights struggles of the Voting Rights Act
and the Civil Rights Act. That's after the Human miss crisis. I tell
you America was a mess in the nineteen sixties, but you can make an
apt comparison to America in the twenty twenties as far as the amount of dysfunction
that we are dealing with on a daily basis, the inability to seemingly get
the easy stuff right when it comes to elections or basic getting along. Everything
is a congressional inquiry. Everything is a fight on Capitol Hill. Nothing is
easy. We have a dispute about everything from Christmas to Starbucks, to children's
entertainment to education. We can't agree on anything, and I'm quite sure people
will say it was because of the Democrats. So some people will say because
of the Republicans. I'll let you all fight that out. Honestly, I'm
tired and really, really tired of what America is right now. And I
was talking to a younger person who was asking, like, what I thought
about this, Because if you're not over the age of twenty twenty five,
you have no reference point, you have no perspective. What you're going through
now is normality. This is what you expect this is what you know.
This is all you know. You know what's happening on Capitol Hill. You
expect that that gridlock, that's what it is, that's always what is going
to be. And I remember a time it wasn't like that. In the
nineteen eighties. You may have had Ronald Reagan as president, but you also
had Tip O'Neil as a Speaker of the House, and somehow, some way,
they managed to get things done, they managed to move the country forward.
And those days seem so long ago. I don't know if we'll ever
get back to that. But I was speaking to a young person and trying
to tell them that what's happening right now is not always like it used to
be, and I don't know if we'll ever get back to that point.
I don't know what you think of this moment, mark, but they're oftentimes
when I'm very dissuaded and pessimistic about whether will successfully navigate this moment without decapitate,
to capitate decapitating ourselves in the process. Yeah, I can't say I'm
exactly becoming more of an optimist as we go through these things. But you
mentioned wanting to keep an eye on history and I'm totally on the same page
as you when it comes to that, and as much of a grotesque cesspool
of disinformation that Twitter is, I pick close attention to historian Twitter. Yes,
some historians I follow. Kevin Cruz isn't on there anymore, but he's
terrific, and he's probably not on there because it's turned into such a sesspool.
Timothy Snyder is another good one to follow. But just look at history
and Twitter, and they have It's not opinion. These are experts who know
history and will tell you what we're going through now, what it was embols,
and you know the degree to which you should be alarmed what people have
done in the past. It's very instructive to me. Well, let me
put it this way. And I know you are acting in a news capacity,
so I know you choose your words very wisely. I don't have to
choose them wisely. I always say history doesn't necessarily repeat itself, but it
damn sure rhymes. There are some real reminiscent moments, rhetoric occurrences which are
happening right now, and you only best appreciate that when you have the historical
foundation to recognize it. If you haven't studied it, then you're not going
to recognize it. It's not going to seem eerily similar unless you know to
what it's similar to. That's exactly right. Ruth ben Giott is another one
too, and she's yeah, she's a good one, an expert on totalitarianism
authoritarian governments. And I just you know, it takes somebody pretty talented to
make history come alive for you. And I was lucky enough to have a
couple of professors shout out to Leroy Ashby here who really were good at stringing
things together and making you understand the significance of how A ultimately led to Z.
And this is a good time to study that stuff, to read that
stuff. And boyd, when stuff is happening at the intensity and speed that
things are happening now, it hardly seems like homework. It seems like you're
arming yourself to prepare to understand what we're going through in this moment. Yeah,
And it's never about today. It's never about what happened today, what
happened yesterday. There's a progression. There is a series of events which led
up to a certain moment or a certain politician or a certain occurrence, like
going back to the assassination tempt on President Trump, it wasn't just what happened
on Saturday. There was a lot of stuff which led up to it.
And I'm not talking about in the conspiracy sense. I'm not talking about in
the shooter's life. I'm talking about the totality of society. You know,
the violence that we see perpetrated on Saturday is not new. And if we're
going to talk about violent rhetoric, we have to talk about gun violence in
America. We have to talk about all these things which are happening simultaneous to
what happened on Saturday. And although we don't want Saturday to ever happen again,
it probably will happen again because we fully embrace violence and violent rhetoric in
America, and we don't have that conversation. We're too busy talking about condemning
the Democrats for what they said on Tuesday and not talking about what has been
said for the past two years, the past four years, and the things
which have happened that you were okay with. But since it didn't happen to
your preferred candidate or your preferred party, then it's no big deal. Like
I said in the first segment, a lot of folks were laughing at Paul
Pelosi getting hit with a hammer. Don't think I forgot, And those same
people are saying today, oh my gosh, we need to tone down the
rhetoric. Rhetoric, really really. There are a lot of self appointed hall
monitors that I've seen, and I've been doing as much reading, watching,
listening as I possibly can, and they almost convey that it's impolite to bring
up things that we know in the recent passage. Yes, don't ever let
anyone tell you to do that, ever, because the opposite is true.
Right now, we need to be mindful of what's gone before, and you
just can't have an honest discussion about this stuff unless you bring everything into it.
Well, but see, the thing is, you're presupposing that people want
to have an honest discussion. I don't think so. I think people want
to be politically right, small r in the moment so they can win an
argument on Twitter, on social media, not actually getting to the heart of
the matter. If you're only worried about political violence since Saturday, I can't
take you seriously. No, it's a form of gas lighting, intimidation,
bullying. You've got to put it into the big picture. And anybody who
tells you now is not a good time to talk about x Y or z
or politicized x Y or Z. Those aren't serious people. You shouldn't listen
to them, not at all. But you can listen to us. There
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